" 20 by 20 inches is the highest SAR resolution allowed for commercial sale by U.S. regulations, though even sharper shots can be sold to U.S. government customers, Capella Space representatives said. Capella Space plans to keep building the constellation with satellites that feature "new bells and whistles," Banazadeh said. "For our next-generation satellites, we're aiming for 25-centimeter [10 inches] resolution." " Keep in mind, once they get a fix on you, your movements, family, friends, shopping, fuck buddies, vacations, jobs, activism, are all tracked realtime 24x7 recorded and stored forever on IBM 580TB tapes in Bluffdale sized tape silos and AI query centers. The integration singularity is here, and it doesn't give a single shit about your freedom. Quite the contrary, it exists to enslave and fuck you over, steal from you, prevent, chill, and gatekeep your every move. And you dumbshits let it happen. Now you're screwed. Haha.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 4:50 AM grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
https://internationalman.com/articles/you-will-own-nothing-and-you-will-be-h...
It's great that this lists hitler's regime's intentional trends. Things we want to counter. I note it intertwines forthright efforts with power-grabs in the modern decades, though, and might call it propaganda because it blames one polarized political side. Just a communication issue. It has a quote where hitler describes always lying in a way that people seem to learn to do to survive on the streets when nobody helps them. https://summit.news/2020/12/09/canadian-health-ministry-exploring-immunity-p...
I started changing the subject but wasn't sure what to change it to. On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:17 PM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 4:50 AM grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
https://internationalman.com/articles/you-will-own-nothing-and-you-will-be-h...
It's great that this lists hitler's regime's intentional trends. Things we want to counter. I note it intertwines forthright efforts with power-grabs in the modern decades, though, and might call it propaganda because it blames one polarized political side. Just a communication issue. It has a quote where hitler describes always lying in a way that people seem to learn to do to survive on the streets when nobody helps them.
The issue I have with the points is that they are ineffective alone for a fight. They need active countering. We all need to take responsibility for what is needed; to me it seems fighting for the right for private property simply moves the struggle from direct control to economic control. We need to build and maintain the libraries and infrastructure so that the government doesn't. We need to raise our communities' children and those of our neighbors so that the government doesn't. We need to put on mass entertainment so that the government doesn't. Etc etc etc.
We need to
Not doing that has caused problems. People can own nothing and be happy, if that's what you want, and everyone else leaves your community alone. Hardly could it be done under the above linked governments that seek to own everything and dole out your happy. Nor hardly beside people that won't leave you alone. Enclaves of ownership and non-ownership could probably coexist and interoperate so long as they don't physically cross with arms over the river NAP between them. No one but entropy knows which form would survive longer. Look to biology, it's full of non forms lacking sentience, and this rock is full already. Good luck.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 7:16 PM grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
We need to
Not doing that has caused problems.
People can own nothing and be happy, if that's what you want, and everyone else leaves your community alone. Hardly could it be done under the above linked governments that seek to own everything and dole out your happy. Nor hardly beside people that won't leave you alone. Enclaves of ownership and non-ownership could probably coexist and interoperate so long as they don't physically cross with arms over the river NAP between them. No one but entropy knows which form would survive longer. Look to biology, it's full of non forms lacking sentience, and this rock is full already. Good luck.
Sounds like we agree and it is very hard to talk about it. We keep talking about small things we disagree about instead. Anyway, ownership and non-ownership are basically the same thing: people NEED to be able to live by personal agreements they make with their neighbors and families. We can't have huge organisations forcing clothes off of or on to our backs.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:49 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:39:32 -0500 Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> wrote:
I am being forced to post to this list.
forced by whom?
It's just a bunch of brainwashing trauma from years ago. I was forced to learn to cover things up, and I'm trying to log some stuff to a blockchain, so I keep freaking out and getting really intense distraction obsessions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw Boston Dynamics - Dancing Bots - Do You Love Me Will, rather than love their new bot overlords and minders, many people might prefer to shoot them on sight.
From robot factories, to mind control factories...
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/12/27/are-we-really-going-to-build-b... https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/12/28/are-we-really-going-to-build-b... https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/12/29/are-we-really-going-to-build-b... ... first to techno social drone spy supremacy wins. Lest perhaps say 2027 arrive quickly, you're fucked, eh?
https://kobi5.com/news/oregon-robot-could-change-package-delivery-as-we-know... https://www.agilityrobotics.com/ Why bother hunting deer and boar, when you can shoot these fuckers and harvest their innards to feed your guerrilla-tech resistance projects. Meet "Digit," A Humanoid Robot Testing Package Delivery From Curb To Doorstep The virus pandemic has accelerated the push by some companies to develop driverless automobiles for deliveries. But there's a common problem developing among many of these robot-delivery vehicles. How do packages go from the delivery vehicle to the customer's doorstep? Some have proposed drones, while others, such as Oregon-based Agility robotics, have proposed a bi-pedal robot deployed from the rear of a robot-delivery van that will walk the package to a customer's doorstep without the risk of face-to-face interaction. Agility intends to solve not the last-mile delivery problem but the last-foot delivery issues from robot-van to customer's doorstep. The goal of the robot, dubbed "Digit," is to reach complicated areas where traditional robots would have issues traversing, such as stairs, tight spaces, and other complex terrains. Agility Robotics founder Jonathan Hurst told local news station KOBI that Digit "can lift a 40-pound package." He said, "the robot catches itself when it falls and reorient to get back up." Hurst outlined the most significant problem in last-mile deliveries: "Once you've got an autonomous vehicle that does a lot of it on the road. But now you're stuck at the curb, right? And in order to really provide that service that people want, you need to then get from the curb to the doorstep. And that's where we solve this problem." Agility has sold two prototype robots to Ford Motor Company, who experimented with the bi-pedal robot launched from the rear of an autonomous delivery van to take a package from the vehicle to the customer's doorstep. "So many jobs that are basically robot jobs, they're the dull, dirty, dangerous kinds of things that are injury prone and incredibly repetitive," Hurst said. "That's how you can then really increase the value of the jobs that the people get to do." KOBI interviews Hurst and gets a first-hand view of the robot. While autonomous delivery vehicles and Digit could one day lower last-mile delivery costs for companies - the combination of the two may result in a surge of technological unemployment. ... and to be frank, Digit is creepier than Boston Dynamics' Spot.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-keep-secret-list-of-kids-with-bad-g... https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sher... https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20412738-ilp_manual012918 https://mises.org/wire/2021-welcome-post-persuasion-america https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/12/31/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-a-f... https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/11/29/silent-obedient-consent/ https://tomluongo.me/2020/12/30/lesson-2020-whats-point-pointing-hypocrisy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/conference-of-states-partie... https://www.theepochtimes.com/ibm-3m-pepsico-among-leading-us-firms-that-hou... https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-soros/russia-bans-george-soros-founda... https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/travel%20map%20dec%2030.jpg https://summit.news/2020/12/31/nhs-requires-recently-retired-doctors-to-have... https://wirepoints.org/chicago-teachers-union-big-shot-says-unsafe-to-teach-... https://www.theepochtimes.com/2-minnesota-lawmakers-say-states-covid-19-deat... https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-year-in-covid-messaging-11609537367 https://www.westernjournal.com/dr-fauci-predicts-covid-vaccines-may-mandator...
https://summit.news/2021/01/28/tony-blair-inevitable-global-vaccine-passport... " Tony Blair: "Inevitable" Global Vaccine Passports Should Be Implemented Now Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Former British Prime Minster Tony Blair has said that the British government should take advantage of the fact that it is to preside over the G7 this year to implement a global vaccine passport system. Blair’s globalist institute issued a report urging the UK government to “place the creation of a global Covid-19 travel pass as a key item” on the G7 agenda. In an interview with the Telegraph, the Iraq war architect himself stated that vaccine passports are “inevitable” and that British government needs to “take the initiative” using its “fortuitous” G7 presidency, and implement a “critical first step” toward global adoption of the scheme. Blair argued that without a global standard on vaccine passports, there could be two problems. “One is that everyone just does their own thing, which is much more chaotic and difficult to manage. Or secondly, there’s a set of rules in place that you may not be that happy with,” Blair said. What a horrible prospect, sovereign nations ‘doing their own thing’! Blair added that an international vaccine passport scheme is essential to “re-connect” the globe. “It’s better to have common rules and a common verification system, so that people know what your disease status is and know it with some validation,” he said. “It’s going to be a new world altogether,” Blair proclaimed, adding “The sooner we grasp that and start to put in place the decisions [needed for a] deep impact over the coming years the better.” Blair also praised Joe Biden for “completely [understanding] that you need global coordination.” Blair has been pushing for vaccine passports ever since the pandemic began. Last April he declared that the situation is going to lead to “dramatically increased technological surveillance,” and suggested that “under the right conditions, this is a price worth paying.” Blair is correct that the push toward COVID passports has become a juggernaut that now appears unstoppable. Everyday there are new reports of countries, airlines, and businesses declaring their intention to implement some form of vaccine passport system. He is also correct that at the moment it appears to be somewhat uncoordinated and disparate, rather than any kind of standardised plan. However, the EU is debating a standardised scheme, and airlines seem to be falling into line behind the IATA Travel Pass ‘digital passport’ which shows passengers’ proof of Covid-19 tests and other entry requirements when flying. "
https://www.sott.net/article/447484-The-New-Domestic-War-on-Terror-is-Coming https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is " The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter. Glenn Greenwald Jan 19 2021 National Guard Troops walk down the stairs towards the Capitol Visitors Center on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. The opposite is true: it is intensifying. We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named “Green Zone,” vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of “sedition,” “treason,” and “terrorism” against members of Congress and citizens. This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of “incitement to violence.” It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one’s fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance. Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology. Liberals have spent so many years now in a tight alliance with neocons and the CIA that they are making the 2002 version of John Ashcroft look like the President of the (old-school) ACLU. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security website, touting a trademarked phrase licensed to it in 2010 by the City of New York, urging citizens to report “suspicious activity” to the FBI and other security state agencies The more honest proponents of this new domestic War on Terror are explicitly admitting that they want to model it on the first one. A New York Times reporter noted on Monday that a “former intelligence official on PBS NewsHour” said “that the US should think about a ‘9/11 Commission’ for domestic extremism and consider applying some of the lessons from the fight against Al Qaeda here at home.” More amazingly, Gen. Stanley McChrystal — for years head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and the commander of the war in Afghanistan — explicitly compared that war to this new one, speaking to Yahoo News: I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America….I think we’re much further along in this radicalization process, and facing a much deeper problem as a country, than most Americans realize.” Anyone who, despite all this, still harbors lingering doubts that the Capitol riot is and will be the neoliberal 9/11, and that a new War on Terror is being implemented in its name, need only watch the two short video clips below, which will clear their doubts for good. It is like being catapulted by an unholy time machine back to Paul Wolfowitz’s 2002 messaging lab. The first video, flagged by Tom Elliott, is from Monday morning’s Morning Joe program on MSNBC (the show that arguably did more to help Donald Trump become the GOP nominee than any other). It features Jeremy Bash — one of the seemingly countless employees of TV news networks who previously worked in Obama’s CIA and Pentagon — demanding that, in response to the Capitol riot, “we reset our entire intelligence approach,” including “look[ing] at greater surveillance of them,” adding: “the FBI is going to have to run confidential sources.” See if you detect any differences between what CIA operatives and neocons were saying in 2002 when demanding the Patriot Act and greater FBI and NSA surveillance and what this CIA-official-turned-NBC-News-analyst is saying here: The second video features the amazing declaration from former Facebook security official Alex Stamos, talking to the very concerned CNN host Brian Stelter, about the need for social media companies to use the same tactics against U.S. citizens that they used to remove ISIS from the internet — “in collaboration with law enforcement” — and that those tactics should be directly aimed at what he calls extremist “conservative influencers.” “Press freedoms are being abused by these actors,” the former Facebook executive proclaimed. Stamos noted how generous he and his comrades have been up until now: “We have given a lot of leeway — both in the traditional media and in social media — to people with a very broad range of views.” But no more. Now is the time to “get us all back in the same consensual reality.” In a moment of unintended candor, Stamos noted the real problem: “there are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than people on daytime CNN” — and it’s time for CNN and other mainstream outlets to seize the monopoly on information dissemination to which they are divinely entitled by taking away the platforms of those whom people actually want to watch and listen to: (If still not convinced, and if you can endure it, you can also watch MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski literally screaming that one needed remedy to the Capitol riot is that the Biden administration must “shutdown” Facebook. Shutdown Facebook). Calls for a War on Terror sequel — a domestic version complete with surveillance and censorship — are not confined to ratings-deprived cable hosts and ghouls from the security state. The Wall Street Journal reports that “Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.” Meanwhile, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) — not just one of the most dishonest members of Congress but also one of the most militaristic and authoritarian — has had a bill proposed since 2019 to simply amend the existing foreign anti-terrorism bill to allow the U.S. Government to invoke exactly the same powers at home against “domestic terrorists.” Why would such new terrorism laws be needed in a country that already imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the world as the result of a very aggressive set of criminal laws? What acts should be criminalized by new “domestic terrorism” laws that are not already deemed criminal? They never say, almost certainly because — just as was true of the first set of new War on Terror laws — their real aim is to criminalize that which should not be criminalized: speech, association, protests, opposition to the new ruling coalition. US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flanked by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) (R) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) The answer to this question — what needs to be criminalized that is not already a crime? — scarcely seems to matter. Media and political elites have placed as many Americans as they can — and it is a lot — into full-blown fear and panic mode, and when that happens, people are willing to acquiesce to anything claimed necessary to stop that threat, as the first War on Terror, still going strong twenty years later, decisively proved. An entire book could — and probably should — be written on why all of this is so concerning. For the moment, two points are vital to emphasize. First, much of the alarmism and fear-mongering is being driven by a deliberate distortion of what it means for speech to “incite violence.” The bastardizing of this phrase was the basis for President Trump’s rushed impeachment last week. It is also what is driving calls for dozens of members of Congress to be expelled and even prosecuted on “sedition” charges for having objected to the Electoral College certification, and is also at the heart of the spate of censorship actions already undertaken and further repressive measures being urged. This phrase — “inciting violence” — was also what drove many of the worst War on Terror abuses. I spent years reporting on how numerous young American Muslims were prosecuted under new, draconian anti-terrorism laws for uploading anti-U.S.-foreign-policy YouTube videos or giving rousing anti-American speeches deemed to “incite violence” and thus provide “material support” to terrorist groups — the exact theory which Rep. Schiff is seeking to import into the new domestic War on Terror. It is vital to ask what it means for speech to constitute “incitement to violence” to the point that it can be banned or criminalized. The expression of any political viewpoint, especially one passionately expressed, has the potential to “incite” someone else to get so riled up that they engage in violence. Share If you rail against the threats to free speech posed by Silicon Valley monopolies, someone hearing you may get so filled with rage that they decide to bomb an Amazon warehouse or a Facebook office. If you write a blistering screed accusing pro-life activists of endangering the lives of women by forcing them back into unsafe back-alley abortions, or if you argue that abortion is murder, you may very well inspire someone to engage in violence against a pro-life group or an abortion clinic. If you start a protest movement to object to the injustice of Wall Street bailouts — whether you call it “Occupy Wall Street” or the Tea Party — you may cause someone to go hunt down Goldman Sachs or Citibank executives who they believe are destroying the economic future of millions of people. If you claim that George W. Bush stole the 2000 and/or 2004 elections — as many Democrats, including members of Congress, did — you may inspire civic unrest or violence against Bush and his supporters. The same is true if you claim the 2016 or 2020 elections were fraudulent or illegitimate. If you rage against the racist brutality of the police, people may go burn down buildings in protest — or murder randomly selected police officers whom they have become convinced are agents of a racist genocidal state. The Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer and hard-core Democratic partisan, James Hodgkinson, who went to a softball field in June, 2017 to murder Republican Congress members — and almost succeeded in fatally shooting Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) — had spent months listening to radical Sanders supporters and participating in Facebook groups with names like “Terminate the Republican Party” and “Trump is a Traitor.” Hodgkinson had heard over and over that Republicans were not merely misguided but were “traitors” and grave threats to the Republic. As CNN reported, “his favorite television shows were listed as ‘Real Time with Bill Maher;’ ‘The Rachel Maddow Show;’ ‘Democracy Now!’ and other left-leaning programs.” All of the political rhetoric to which he was exposed — from the pro-Sanders Facebook groups, MSNBC and left-leaning shows — undoubtedly played a major role in triggering his violent assault and decision to murder pro-Trump Republican Congress members. Despite the potential of all of those views to motivate others to commit violence in their name — potential that has sometimes been realized — none of the people expressing those views, no matter how passionately, can be validly characterized as “inciting violence” either legally or ethically. That is because all of that speech is protected, legitimate speech. None of it advocates violence. None of it urges others to commit violence in its name. The fact that it may “inspire” or “motivate” some mentally unwell person or a genuine fanatic to commit violence does not make the person espousing those views and engaging in that non-violent speech guilty of “inciting violence” in any meaningful sense. To illustrate this point, I have often cited the crucial and brilliantly reasoned Supreme Court free speech ruling in Claiborne v. NAACP. In the 1960s and 1970s, the State of Mississippi tried to hold local NAACP leaders liable on the ground that their fiery speeches urging a boycott of white-owned stores “incited” their followers to burn down stores and violently attack patrons who did not honor the protest. The state’s argument was that the NAACP leaders knew that they were metaphorically pouring gasoline on a fire with their inflammatory rhetoric to rile up and angry crowds. But the Supreme Court rejected that argument, explaining that free speech will die if people are held responsible not for their own violent acts but for those committed by others who heard them speak and were motivated to commit crimes in the name of that cause (emphasis added): Civil liability may not be imposed merely because an individual belonged to a group, some members of which committed acts of violence. . . . [A]ny such theory fails for the simple reason that there is no evidence — apart from the speeches themselves -- that [the NAACP leader sued by the State] authorized, ratified, or directly threatened acts of violence. . . . . To impose liability without a finding that the NAACP authorized — either actually or apparently — or ratified unlawful conduct would impermissibly burden the rights of political association that are protected by the First Amendment. . . . While the State legitimately may impose damages for the consequences of violent conduct, it may not award compensation for the consequences of nonviolent, protected activity. Only those losses proximately caused by unlawful conduct may be recovered. The First Amendment similarly restricts the ability of the State to impose liability on an individual solely because of his association with another. The Claiborne court relied upon the iconic First Amendment ruling in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which overturned the criminal conviction of a KKK leader who had publicly advocated the possibility of violence against politicians. Even explicitly advocating the need or justifiability of violence for political ends is protected speech, ruled the court. They carved out a very narrow exception: “where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action” — meaning someone is explicitly urging an already assembled mob to specific violence with the expectation that they will do so more or less immediately (such as standing outside someone’s home and telling the gathered mob: it’s time to burn it down). It goes without saying that First Amendment jurisprudence on “incitement” governs what a state can do when punishing or restricting speech, not what a Congress can do in impeaching a president or expelling its own members, and certainly not social media companies seeking to ban people from their platforms. But that does not make these principles of how to understand “incitement to violence” irrelevant when applied to other contexts. Indeed, the central reasoning of these cases is vital to preserve everywhere: that if speech is classified as “incitement to violence” despite not explicitly advocating violence, it will sweep up any political speech which those wielding this term wish it to encompass. No political speech will be safe from this term when interpreted and applied so broadly and carelessly. And that is directly relevant to the second point. Continuing to process Washington debates of this sort primarily through the prism of “Democrat v. Republican” or even “left v. right” is a sure ticket to the destruction of core rights. There are times when powers of repression and censorship are aimed more at the left and times when they are aimed more at the right, but it is neither inherently a left-wing nor a right-wing tactic. It is a ruling class tactic, and it will be deployed against anyone perceived to be a dissident to ruling class interests and orthodoxies no matter where on the ideological spectrum they reside. The last several months of politician-and-journalist-demanded Silicon Valley censorship has targeted the right, but prior to that and simultaneously it has often targeted those perceived as on the left. The government has frequently declared right-wing domestic groups “terrorists,” while in the 1960s and 1970s it was left-wing groups devoted to anti-war activism which bore that designation. In 2011, British police designated the London version of Occupy Wall Street a “terrorist” group. In the 1980s, the African National Congress was so designated. “Terrorism” is an amorphous term that was created, and will always be used, to outlaw formidable dissent no matter its source or ideology. If you identify as a conservative and continue to believe that your prime enemies are ordinary leftists, or you identify as a leftist and believe your prime enemies are Republican citizens, you will fall perfectly into the trap set for you. Namely, you will ignore your real enemies, the ones who actually wield power at your expense: ruling class elites, who really do not care about “right v. left” and most definitely do not care about “Republican v. Democrat” — as evidenced by the fact that they fund both parties — but instead care only about one thing: stability, or preservation of the prevailing neoliberal order. Unlike so many ordinary citizens addicted to trivial partisan warfare, these ruling class elites know who their real enemies are: anyone who steps outside the limits and rules of the game they have crafted and who seeks to disrupt the system that preserves their prerogatives and status. The one who put this best was probably Barack Obama when he was president, when he observed — correctly — that the perceived warfare between establishment Democratic and Republican elites was mostly theater, and on the question of what they actually believe, they’re both “fighting inside the 40 yard line” together: A standard Goldman Sachs banker or Silicon Valley executive has far more in common, and is far more comfortable, with Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan than they do with the ordinary American citizen. Except when it means a mildly disruptive presence — like Trump — they barely care whether Democrats or Republicans rule various organs of government, or whether people who call themselves “liberals” or “conservatives” ascend to power. Some left-wing members of Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) have said they oppose a new domestic terrorism law, but Democrats will have no trouble forming a majority by partnering with their neocon GOP allies like Liz Cheney to get it done, as they did earlier this year to stop the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and Germany. Neoliberalism and imperialism do not care about the pseudo-fights between the two parties or the cable TV bickering of the day. They do not like the far left or the far right. They do not like extremism of any kind. They do not support Communism and they do not support neo-Nazism or some fascist revolution. They care only about one thing: disempowering and crushing anyone who dissents from and threatens their hegemony. They care about stopping dissidents. All the weapons they build and institutions they assemble — the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA, oligarchical power — exist for that sole and exclusive purpose, to fortify their power by rewarding those who accede to their pieties and crushing those who do not. No matter your views on the threat posed by international Islamic radicalism, huge excesses were committed in the name of stopping it — or, more accurately, the fears it generated were exploited to empower and entrench existing financial and political elites. The Authorization to Use Military Force — responsible for twenty-years-and-counting of war — was approved by the House three days after the 9/11 attack with just one dissenting vote. The Patriot Act — which radically expanded government surveillance powers — was enacted a mere six weeks after that attack, based on the promise that it would be temporary and “sunset” in four years. Like the wars spawned by 9/11, it is still in full force, virtually never debated any longer and predictably expanded far beyond how it was originally depicted. The first War on Terror ended up being wielded primarily on foreign soil but it has increasingly been imported onto domestic soil against Americans. This New War on Terror — one that is domestic in name from the start and carries the explicit purpose of fighting “extremists” and “domestic terrorists” among American citizens on U.S. soil — presents the whole slew of historically familiar dangers when governments, exploiting media-generated fear and dangers, arm themselves with the power to control information, debate, opinion, activism and protests. That a new War on Terror is coming is not a question of speculation and it is not in doubt. Those who now wield power are saying it explicitly. The only thing that is in doubt is how much opposition they will encounter from those who value basic civic rights more than the fears of one another being deliberately cultivated within us. "
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There still remains the problem that everybody may not be on board with the progressive changes that Biden’s Administration plans to push through. This, of course, is wholly unacceptable. Disagreement has become an extremely sensitive issue lately; it was once thought that debate was an essential component to a strong and healthy democracy, however, we are now told that it is extremely dangerous, in fact, it may soon be categorised as a form of domestic terrorism. As early as mid-Nov 2020, Biden was already discussing the need to pass further laws against domestic terrorism. This is interesting since under the 2001 Patriot Act (which was meant to be a temporary enforcement in reaction to 9/11, however, is still in place 19 years later), domestic terrorism is already defined as; “activities that (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. or of any state; (B) appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.” So, the question begs, what else needs to be added to the Patriot Act, which was recognised at the time of its enforcement as something that should only be temporary since it was understood that it infringed upon civil liberties? Come to think of it, why is the Patriot Act still in place, which allows for the indefinite continuation of human rights violations such as warrantless wiretapping; illegal torture, kidnapping, and detention; mass surveillance; government secrecy; Real ID; no-fly list; political spying; abuse of material witness statutes; and attacks on academic freedom? As Glenn Greenwald wrote in his formidable paper The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming, “what needs to be criminalized that is not already a crime?”, keeping in mind that as of June 2020, the United States has the highest prisoner rate in the world, followed by El Salvador, Turkmenistan, Thailand and Palau. Well, the answer is apparently simple and as always for our own good. We have come to a point in time where the enemy is not some radicalized ideology, it is not some foreign despot, it is not even the threat of war (whether it be economic, cyber or nuclear), but rather it is ourselves. We, the people, are the new enemies of the State. You may protest “Not I! I am a model citizen! I pay my taxes on time, I am never late or call in sick for work, I make sure to be up-to-date with the newest ‘woke’ revelations and I don’t engage with anything outside of the mainstream matrix during my free-time.” People such as yourself think, that when the Biden Administration is calling for tougher laws against domestic terrorism, that it is obviously meant for the ‘other guy,’ those uneducated bigots who are screaming at the top of their lungs “Treason!” and inciting what we are told to be forms of ‘insurrection,’ all in the name of the archaic ideas of ‘patriotism’ and the ‘U.S. Constitution.’ You, unlike so many others, have no problem recognising that the U.S. Constitution is actually part of the problem, that by the standards used today, the U.S. Constitution is itself responsible for ‘inciting violence’ and thus guilty of domestic terrorism, and thus needs to be revoked. But you see… that’s just not good enough. Though you are well on your way to becoming a model citizen in the 21st century, you still have a little ways to go. It is for this reason that a guide to 21st century Newspeak has been recently released to make sure that well-intentioned citizens like yourself are fully informed of what is required of you in terms of appropriate behaviour, as well as appropriate thoughts, and though this will take a little more time, appropriate instincts. 21st Century Newspeak The first alteration that will need to take place is freedom of thought. It has been shown through peer-review studies that individual thoughts are susceptible to forming erroneous beliefs and can lead to dangerous behaviours such as refusal to integrate into a community standard. Once an individual refuses to integrate into its designated community, it is only a matter of time before this individual shows opposition and even antagonism towards said community. Thus failure to integrate is one of the first signs that an individual is on the path to becoming a domestic terrorist. Because the individual mind is flawed, it can no longer be trusted to be the standard of its own judgement of what is right and wrong. It is for this reason that we are introducing groupthink. This concept is not new, however, the difference is from now on the individual’s environment will only be allowed to reciprocate the values of groupthink, and all other thoughts outside of groupthink are to be banned and punishable under the new laws. Even if thoughts outside of groupthink appear as harmless to the collective, they are not, for any thought that is not groupthink threatens to lead to a different outcome than that intended by groupthink and thus is a threat to the security of the collective. In order to ensure commitment to groupthink, it will be mandatory that every individual engage in at least 2 minutes of Hate every hour throughout the day, every day. This can be achieved either by watching 2 minutes of Hate news, or by engaging in a public 2 minutes of Hate with a colleague, a friend or family member via social media. It is imperative that an individual watch the 15 minute morning and evening “What to Hate” news provided by the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue), in order to be the most up-to-date with what are the ongoing and new subjects of Hate, and what were previous subjects of Hate which are no longer deemed to be subjects of Hate. It is most important that an individual never refer to a former subject of Hate as such. Any present subject of Hate must be seen as having always been a subject of Hate and any former subject of Hate must be seen as having never been a subject of Hate. This may appear as an impossible task, but we assure you it is entirely possible with the use of doublethink, which many of you have already been practising. Doublethink requires that one be both conscious and unconscious of the fact that they are telling deliberate lies while genuinely believing them; to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies. This makes up a part of our new Party slogan: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. Those who excel the most in doublethink will receive the highest stations within our newly organised community, as safe-guards against the renegade, the domestic terrorist. Another alteration that will need to occur is how we think and refer to the past and the future. With the newly enforced groupthink, the present is what groupthink dictates it to be, which is subject to change, however, must be regarded as having always been. The past is what the present dictates it to be, if it were not, it could challenge the basis for the present. Thus to preserve the present, the past must serve the present, only justifying why we Hate what we presently Hate and why we Love what we presently Love and can do nothing to contradict these Party lines. There will be permitted no records of an alternative past, there will be no way to prove that the past was ever different from what the present dictates it to be, the only threat to this narrative is the record of the individual mind, and once this ceases to be there will only be the Minitrue record as the recorder of past Truth. In effect, the model citizen will perceive the past as dead and the future as unimaginable. The future is unimaginable because it is impossible to think of an alternative to the present, in fact, the mere act of thinking of an alternative to the present is considered a challenge to the status quo of the present, and thus is a challenge to groupthink, and thus is a form of domestic terrorism, which we will call from now on thoughtcrime. Thoughtcrime is essentially any thought pertaining to memory, judgement of right and wrong, thoughts of an alternative reality, and self-reflection, which are now all deemed forms of thoughtcrime. If an individual is to engage in any of these sorts of thoughts, it is only a matter of time before they will come into conflict with groupthink and the Party line, thus private thoughts are banned and punished under the new laws. It may seem an impossible task at first not to engage in private thoughts, but again, we assure you it is entirely possible using crimestop. Crimestop is the practice of not grasping analogies, failing to perceive logical errors, misunderstanding the simplest arguments, of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop is essentially, protective stupidity. It is imperative that one practice crimestop during any interaction with another individual, however, it is also imperative that one practice crimestop within their own inner-dialogue, such that even from your own conscience you will be protected from committing a thoughtcrime. Newspeak will also help dissuade from thoughtcrime. Newspeak is to be the new acceptable vocabulary, anything that references words outside of the most-up-to-date edition of the Newspeak dictionary will be considered Oldspeak and something to be construed as counter to groupthink. It is understood that by reducing the vocabulary to revolve around a few words such as good; which for example can be used as plusgood, doubleplusgood, ungood etc, it will serve to narrow the range of thought an individual is capable of, and thus reduce the capability of committing a thoughtcrime. How wonderful! That in the future we will be unable to commit crime for we will be incapable of its thought! This makes up another part of our new Party slogan: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. In terms of the new laws, in effect, nothing will change. Unacceptable behaviours and thoughts will not be designated as illegal per se; one reason for this is because we do not plan on having any public trials. Anyone who is in violation of conduct will simply be removed either temporarily into a “re-education facility” or will be vaporised. Any subject that has been vaporised will be removed from the collective memory records and can never be referred to as having ever existed. The reason why no public trials will be held from now on is because, as we have seen, dissent is infectious. Thus, holding public trials risk further encouragement towards dissent. It is for this reason that dissenters must be removed swiftly and quietly in the middle of the night. Such disappearances will occur relatively regularly and will eventually become the new normal, however, it will not be traumatic for the collective. The subject will simply cease to exist as if it were all just a dream, the structure of our daily routine unaffected. In order to ensure utmost compliance, the collective will be employing the use of children spies, this has already been occurring abroad, and proves to be very effective. Purges and vaporizations will be a necessary part of the government mechanics and will become the new normal. We have already discussed the necessity for vaporizations, as for the necessity of purges, it is because the community will be built so as to remain in stasis, however, this can only be accomplished through artificial means, for it is not natural that a thing remain the same but rather that it either improves or deteriorates. However, in order for the Party to maintain absolute control, there can be no change to the present except for that chosen by the Party, thus any change is a challenge to the Party. In order to facilitate an artificial environment of no change, resources must artificially be kept low, and purges need to occur so that this environment of scarcity is tightly controlled and maintained. In order for us to achieve this, our economy will have to go through stagnation, we will need to decrease the amount of land used for cultivation, we will no longer add capital equipment needed for industrial growth and great blocks of the population will be prevented from working and will be kept half alive by State charity. The wheels of industry cannot be allowed to turn so as to increase the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed, and in practice the only way of achieving this is by continuous warfare. War will continue under the Old Cold War doctrine. War will always be present, and yet will never be seen by the majority of our citizens, the reason for this being that war will not be about a real threat to security nor about real conquests but rather will be about maintaining the present status quo by exhausting the surplus of consumable goods, while also helping to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. However, real war will be purely an internal affair, the war waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, with the object of the war as to keep the structure of society intact and unchanging. A peace that is truly permanent under this new ideology is no different than an invisible permanent war. For peace in our new era will equate to stability through no change. This makes up our first Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE. Conclusion All of these means are necessary if we are to realise that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism, and that oligarchy is the only means to achieving peace, freedom and strength for the collective. However, we are still very far from this ideal and there is much that threatens its becoming, namely, the masses, or what we call the proles. So long as the masses believe that they are entitled to freedom of thought, our endeavours cannot succeed. The individual must voluntarily relinquish this. It cannot be taken from them no matter the degree of control and no matter the threat of physical harm. An individual’s mind is theirs and cannot be taken, instead, the individual must be led to believe that it is in their best interest to relinquish their mind. Let us do our best then to convince the individual that they are no longer fit to use their mind and let us pray that we are successful, for if we fail, our entire system of control fails with it. “You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity…Reality exists only in the human mind, nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.” – O’Brien in George Orwell’s “1984” "
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/03/the-consent-of-the-governed/ The Consent Of The Governed Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, In Holland Sunday, a protest demonstration against government Covid policies provoked a emergency order from that same government against thousands of people gathering in a place to … protest. The police and government had only “allowed” 200 demonstrators. So the government “allowed” a protest against itself, but demanded the right to determine where, how, and with how many people it could take place. But that’s not really a protest, is it? The police deployed dogs, horses and water cannons to disperse the crowd. In Greece, a video appeared last Sunday of a policeman severely beating a man. Protests against that have occurred daily since. The prime minister spoke out against the protests, not the policeman. That made people even angrier. And then he proposed a “police reform” law. Yeah. And everybody lived happily ever after. But under heavy restrictions. In the UK, a peaceful vigil for a woman kidnapped and murdered -by a policeman!- was broken up by police Saturday because there was “no permission” given for it. Several women were handcuffed and dragged across the pavement. Meanwhile, the government is introducing a “police reform” law (they’re popular these days!) that would impose conditions even on one-person protests. And protesters can’t make noise. And so much police will be deployed that it may become too costly to “allow” the protest. In Canberra, capital of Australia, 10s of 1000s protested because of a rape scandal inside government buildings. Good thing the restrictions were recently eased, or the same government that’s so busy trying to hide the scandal would have not “allowed” the protest. It’s perfectly safe to call this extremism. It all takes place against the background of one year of failed Covid measures and restrictions. Though of course governments will always claim the pandemic would have been much worse without them. But after a year, what right do they still have to impose restrictions? What right did they ever have in the first place to tell people they cannot travel, assemble, see their family or go to work? And how has that right, if they ever had it, changed after a year-long “emergency”? I’ve talked about legal issues before, but I still don’t see them discussed. I see no supreme courts testing laws or calling governments back. People in democracies are told they have basic and inalienable rights. But not anymore. Joe Biden talked about how Americans could, if they were good and obedient, maybe invite a few friends over for the Fourth of July. How many inalienable rights does that trample on in one go? “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” Where did these governments all go wrong? Well, here: And here: They’re not benign public servants, they’re drug pushers -in this case vaccines- with armies and bodyguards. They protect corporations and institutions, not the rights of their people. They’re not democrats, they’re authoritarians. We are ruled by ideologies, not principles. The only rights we have are those that they “allow” us to have. There are no basic or inalienable rights left. Our politicians represent, and serve, long established parties and systems that have ruled for at least decades, in a symbiosis with corporations. If there’s one lesson to learn from the sordid never-ending Covid episode it must be that: your human rights are just a thin veneer that serves to make your reality look nice and shiny, but may be scraped off at any moment. What does that say about our forefathers and -mothers who fought, and died, in order to provide us with inalienable rights? Do we really owe those people less than we owe our current ruling classes? I read yesterday that the health minister of Jordan has resigned because 6 Covid patients died due to a failing oxygen supply in a hospital. I think that’s the first time I’ve seen a politician being held to account for Covid failure. And even he is probably just a scapegoat. I’ve seen a few reports on the damage the lockdowns and other measures do to children’s minds. They mostly talk about schools being closed, as if schools are every child’s happy place. Of course not. Children simply need other children, so they can find their place in the world, it has nothing to do with a school. But this goes far beyond children, untold millions of adults also will come away with mental traumas. People need people. We have a few questions we should ask ourselves. History teaches us that rights being taken away are awfully hard to regain. That the Constitution talks about the Consent of the Governed also means that the governed were considered to be able to make proper, just decisions about their own lives, and had the right to do that, without goverment intervention. But you are not.
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Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be obsolete or irrelevant. We deserve that freedom, but the window to achieve it narrows a little more each day. If we don’t act now, with great urgency, it may very well close for good.” - Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps. With every new smart piece of smart technology we acquire, every new app we download, every new photo or post we share online, we are making it that much easier for the government and its corporate partners to identify, track and eventually round us up. Saint or sinner, it doesn’t matter because we’re all being swept up into a massive digital data dragnet that does not distinguish between those who are innocent of wrongdoing, suspects, or criminals. This is what it means to live in a suspect society. The government’s efforts to round up those who took part in the Capitol riots shows exactly how vulnerable we all are to the menace of a surveillance state that aspires to a God-like awareness of our lives. Relying on selfies, social media posts, location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing, government agents are compiling a massive data trove on anyone and everyone who may have been anywhere in the vicinity of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The amount of digital information is staggering: 15,000 hours of surveillance and body-worn camera footage; 1,600 electronic devices; 270,000 digital media tips; at least 140,000 photos and videos; and about 100,000 location pings for thousands of smartphones. And that’s just what we know. More than 300 individuals from 40 states have already been charged and another 280 arrested in connection with the events of January 6. As many as 500 others are still being hunted by government agents. Also included in this data roundup are individuals who may have had nothing to do with the riots but whose cell phone location data identified them as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Forget about being innocent until proven guilty. In a suspect society such as ours, the burden of proof has been flipped: now, you start off guilty and have to prove your innocence. For instance, you didn’t even have to be involved in the Capitol riots to qualify for a visit from the FBI: investigators have reportedly been tracking—and questioning—anyone whose cell phones connected to wi-fi or pinged cell phone towers near the Capitol. One man, who had gone out for a walk with his daughters only to end up stranded near the Capitol crowds, actually had FBI agents show up at his door days later. Using Google Maps, agents were able to pinpoint exactly where they were standing and for how long. All of the many creepy, calculating, invasive investigative and surveillance tools the government has acquired over the years are on full display right now in the FBI’s ongoing efforts to bring the rioters to “justice.” FBI agents are matching photos with drivers’ license pictures; tracking movements by way of license plate toll readers; and zooming in on physical identifying marks such as moles, scars and tattoos, as well as brands, logos and symbols on clothing and backpacks. They’re poring over hours of security and body camera footage; scouring social media posts; triangulating data from cellphone towers and WiFi signals; layering facial recognition software on top of that; and then cross-referencing footage with public social media posts. It’s not just the FBI on the hunt, however. They’ve enlisted the help of volunteer posses of private citizens, such as Deep State Dogs, to collaborate on the grunt work. As Dinah Voyles Pulver reports, once Deep State Dogs locates a person and confirms their identity, they put a package together with the person’s name, address, phone number and several images and send it to the FBI. According to USA Today, the FBI is relying on the American public and volunteer cybersleuths to help bolster its cases. This takes See Something, Say Something snitching programs to a whole new level. The lesson to be learned: Big Brother, Big Sister and all of their friends are watching you. They see your every move: what you read, how much you spend, where you go, with whom you interact, when you wake up in the morning, what you’re watching on television and reading on the internet. Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line. Simply liking or sharing this article on Facebook, retweeting it on Twitter, or merely reading it or any other articles related to government wrongdoing, surveillance, police misconduct or civil liberties might be enough to get you categorized as a particular kind of person with particular kinds of interests that reflect a particular kind of mindset that might just lead you to engage in a particular kinds of activities and, therefore, puts you in the crosshairs of a government investigation as a potential troublemaker a.k.a. domestic extremist. Chances are, as the Washington Post reports, you have already been assigned a color-coded threat score—green, yellow or red—so police are forewarned about your potential inclination to be a troublemaker depending on whether you’ve had a career in the military, posted a comment perceived as threatening on Facebook, suffer from a particular medical condition, or know someone who knows someone who might have committed a crime. In other words, you might already be flagged as potentially anti-government in a government database somewhere—Main Core, for example—that identifies and tracks individuals who aren’t inclined to march in lockstep to the police state’s dictates. The government has the know-how. It took days, if not hours or minutes, for the FBI to begin the process of identifying, tracking and rounding up those suspected of being part of the Capitol riots. Imagine how quickly government agents could target and round up any segment of society they wanted to based on the digital trails and digital footprints we leave behind. Of course, the government has been hard at work for years acquiring these totalitarian powers. Long before the January 6 riots, the FBI was busily amassing the surveillance tools necessary to monitor social media posts, track and identify individuals using cell phone signals and facial recognition technology, and round up “suspects” who may be of interest to the government for one reason or another. As The Intercept reported, the FBI, CIA, NSA and other government agencies have increasingly invested in corporate surveillance technologies that can mine constitutionally protected speech on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in order to identify potential extremists and predict who might engage in future acts of anti-government behavior. All it needs is the data, which more than 90% of young adults and 65% of American adults are happy to provide. When the government sees all and knows all and has an abundance of laws to render even the most seemingly upstanding citizen a criminal and lawbreaker, then the old adage that you’ve got nothing to worry about if you’ve got nothing to hide no longer applies. As for the Fourth Amendment and its prohibitions on warrantless searches and invasions of privacy without probable cause, those safeguards have been rendered all but useless by legislative end-runs, judicial justifications, and corporate collusions. We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers. Consider that on any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, social media posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere. For example, police have been using Stingray devices mounted on their cruisers to intercept cell phone calls and text messages without court-issued search warrants. Doppler radar devices, which can detect human breathing and movement within a home, are already being employed by the police to deliver arrest warrants. License plate readers, yet another law enforcement spying device made possible through funding by the Department of Homeland Security, can record up to 1800 license plates per minute. Moreover, these surveillance cameras can also photograph those inside a moving car. Reports indicate that the Drug Enforcement Administration has been using the cameras in conjunction with facial recognition software to build a “vehicle surveillance database” of the nation’s cars, drivers and passengers. Sidewalk and “public space” cameras, sold to gullible communities as a sure-fire means of fighting crime, is yet another DHS program that is blanketing small and large towns alike with government-funded and monitored surveillance cameras. It’s all part of a public-private partnership that gives government officials access to all manner of surveillance cameras, on sidewalks, on buildings, on buses, even those installed on private property. Couple these surveillance cameras with facial recognition and behavior-sensing technology and you have the makings of “pre-crime” cameras, which scan your mannerisms, compare you to pre-set parameters for “normal” behavior, and alert the police if you trigger any computerized alarms as being “suspicious.” State and federal law enforcement agencies are pushing to expand their biometric and DNA databases by requiring that anyone accused of a misdemeanor have their DNA collected and catalogued. However, technology is already available that allows the government to collect biometrics such as fingerprints from a distance, without a person’s cooperation or knowledge. One system can actually scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away. Developers are hard at work on a radar gun that can actually show if you or someone in your car is texting. Another technology being developed, dubbed a “textalyzer” device, would allow police to determine whether someone was driving while distracted. Refusing to submit one’s phone to testing could result in a suspended or revoked driver’s license. It’s a sure bet that anything the government welcomes (and funds) too enthusiastically is bound to be a Trojan horse full of nasty, invasive surprises. Case in point: police body cameras. Hailed as the easy fix solution to police abuses, these body cameras—made possible by funding from the Department of Justice—turn police officers into roving surveillance cameras. Of course, if you try to request access to that footage, you’ll find yourself being led a merry and costly chase through miles of red tape, bureaucratic footmen and unhelpful courts. The “internet of things” refers to the growing number of “smart” appliances and electronic devices now connected to the internet and capable of interacting with each other and being controlled remotely. These range from thermostats and coffee makers to cars and TVs. Of course, there’s a price to pay for such easy control and access. That price amounts to relinquishing ultimate control of and access to your home to the government and its corporate partners. For example, while Samsung’s Smart TVs are capable of “listening” to what you say, thereby allowing users to control the TV using voice commands, it also records everything you say and relays it to a third party, e.g., the government. Then again, the government doesn’t really need to spy on you using your smart TV when the FBI can remotely activate the microphone on your cellphone and record your conversations. The FBI can also do the same thing to laptop computers without the owner knowing any better. Drones, which are taking to the skies en masse, are the converging point for all of the weapons and technology already available to law enforcement agencies. In fact, drones can listen in on your phone calls, see through the walls of your home, scan your biometrics, photograph you and track your movements, and even corral you with sophisticated weaponry. All of these technologies add up to a society in which there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence, especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home. These digital trails are everywhere. As investigative journalists Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson explain, “This data—collected by smartphone apps and then fed into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem … provided an intimate record of people whether they were visiting drug treatment centers, strip clubs, casinos, abortion clinics or places of worship.” In such a surveillance ecosystem, we’re all suspects and databits to be tracked, catalogued and targeted. As Warzel and Thompson warn: “To think that the information will be used against individuals only if they’ve broken the law is naïve; such data is collected and remains vulnerable to use and abuse whether people gather in support of an insurrection or they justly protest police violence… This collection will only grow more sophisticated… It gets easier by the day… it does not discriminate. It harvests from the phones of MAGA rioters, police officers, lawmakers and passers-by. There is no evidence, from the past or current day, that the power this data collection offers will be used only to good ends. There is no evidence that if we allow it to continue to happen, the country will be safer or fairer.” As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this is the creepy, calculating yet diabolical genius of the American police state: the very technology we hailed as revolutionary and liberating has become our prison, jailer, probation officer, Big Brother and Father Knows Best all rolled into one. There is no gray area any longer.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/march/22/want-a-... Want A Job? Get A Shot! Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because their four-year-old autistic son was not wearing a mask. The family was removed from the plane even though the boy’s doctor had decided the boy should be exempted from mask mandates because the boy panics and engages in behavior that could pose a danger to himself when wearing a mask. Besides, four-year-olds do not present much risk of spreading or contracting coronavirus. Even if masks did prevent infections among adults, there would be no reason to force children to wear masks. Mask mandates have as much to do with healthcare as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screenings have to do with stopping terrorism. Masks and TSA screenings are “security theater” done to reassure those frightened by government and media propaganda regarding coronavirus and terrorism that the government is protecting them. Covid oppression will worsen if vaccine passports become more widely required. Vaccine passports are digital or physical proof a person has taken a coronavirus vaccine. New York is already requiring that individuals produce digital proof of taking a coronavirus vaccine before being admitted to sporting events. Imagine if the zealous enforcers of mask mandates had the power to deny you access to public places because you have not “gotten your shot.” Even worse, what if a potential employer had to ensure you were “properly” vaccinated before hiring you? This could come to pass if proponents of mandatory E-Verify have their way. E-Verify requires employers to submit personal identifying information — such as a social security numbers and biometric data — to a government database to ensure job applicants have federal permission to hold jobs. Currently, E-Verify is only used to assure a job applicant is a citizen or legal resident. However, its use could be expanded to advancing other purposes, such as ensuring a potential new hire has taken all the recommended vaccines. E-Verify could even be used to check if a job applicant has ever expressed, or associated with someone who has expressed, “hate speech,” “conspiracy theories,” or “Russian disinformation,” which is code for facts embarrassing to the political class. Many employers will be reluctant to hire such an employee for fear their businesses will become the next targets of “cancel culture.” Those who doubt this should consider how many businesses have folded under pressure from the cultural Marxists and fired someone for expressing an “unapproved” thought. Politicians and bureaucrats have used overblown fear of coronavirus to justify the largest infringement of individual liberty in modern times. Covid tyranny has been aided by many Americans who are not just willing to sacrifice their liberty for phony security, but who help government take away liberty from their fellow citizens. The good news is that, as it becomes increasingly clear that there was no need to shut down the economy, throw millions out of work, subject children to the fraud of “virtual” learning, and force everyone to wear a mask, more people are turning against the politicians and “experts” behind the lockdowns and mandates. Hopefully, these Americans will realize that, in addition to coronavirus lockdowns and mandates, the entire welfare-warfare-fiat money system is built on a foundation of lies.
https://alt-market.us/gaslighting-how-leftist-psychopaths-demonize-and-demor... Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, We have all heard this time honored cautionary mantra: “All governments lie”. It’s not a theory, it is a fact that history has proven time after time. I would only expand on the rule and say this: All governments, all corporations, all corporate media, all think tanks, and all corporate funded activist groups lie. There is a reason why public trust is at all time lows for the majority of these organizations, and it’s not because they are managed by good and honest people. If you operate on the assumption that these groups are lying to you most of the time then you will find yourself on the right side of history. That said, there are questions we need to ask ourselves if we ever hope to change the world for the better and remove these liars from power: Why do they lie? Why has this become a rule to live by? And, how are they able to lie and get away with it so often? Well, it’s not because power corrupts. That cliché might be true to a point, but I think it’s a way for people to dismiss the bigger problem because they are afraid to address the ugly truth. The reality is, power does not necessarily corrupt; it’s that the corrupt seek out power. Governments and other mainstream institutions always lie because psychopathic liars always infiltrate and overrun them. We have very few checks in place to prevent this, and very little is understood about psychopaths in the general public. To understand destructive institutions is to understand the character traits and methods of the psychopaths that run them. Psychopaths are not very complicated people nor are they all that intelligent, but they often succeed because they are relentless in their pursuits. The common signs of psychopathy include a complete lack of empathy, the obsessive desire for dominance, the use of physical or psychological violence to gain control over others, a narcissistic need to feel superior to everyone else and a habit of playing the victim while victimizing others. A common assumption about psychopaths is that they are incapable of working in a group or organizing for mutual gain. This is simply nonsense. In reality, numerous studies have shown that psychopaths are adept at finding their own kind in a crowd and even working together as a pack of predators. Some modern examples would be organized crime, cartels, sex traffickers, online scamming groups and religious cults. Almost all psychopaths are inherent cowards; they will rarely pick on anyone their own size unless they have large numbers. The worst case scenario is fully realized organized psychopathy; the advent of a totalitarian culture in which psychopathic behavior is rewarded and defended by those in authority or influence, while honesty, morality and liberty are punished. Over the course of generations, psychopaths have used different groups and ideologies to gain control over the public, but today organized psychopaths have chosen the cult of socialism, social justice, fake environmentalism and leftist ideology as their vehicles. Essentially, we are dealing with a modernized version of communism. And if we examine the habits of current leftist and globalist “movements” we will see a lot of similarities to historic communism, not to mention numerous psychopathic behaviors. The use of “Gaslighting” as a weapon is a classic mainstay of psychopaths and by extension communist regimes, and it is visible EVERYWHERE in politics and the media right now. It’s perhaps ironic that I am publishing this article on April Fools Day, because gaslighting is very much a kind of trick, a con game. And, in order to control people, it helps to humiliate them and make them doubt their own conceptions of reality. The basic definition of gaslighting is the manipulation of a person by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. In other words, making a sane person believe they might be insane. This, however, is not an adequate explanation of gaslighting. It’s not only about questions of sanity, it is also about questions of principle and morality. The communist Soviet Union was notorious for gaslighting the public with propaganda that suggested anyone who defied the will of the state and who demanded freedom was “mentally ill”. The Cheka secret police and the KGB had special hospitals set aside for political dissidents called “Psikhushkas”. People of any prominence who were critical of the status quo were immediately disappeared and sent to these facilities after being accused of mental instability. In Maoist China, especially during the Cultural Revolution, Mao targeted impressionable and gullible Chinese youth, brainwashing them into believing there was “institutional imperialism” hiding within every facet of Chinese society. The stability of communism in China was under question at the time, and Mao knew a rebellion was possible. So, instead of immediately cracking down with the military, he encouraged Chinese academics and youths to “rebel” and “bring down the secret imperialists”. He redirected social discontent and aimed it at a non-existent ghost so that a rebellion would never rise up against him and the politburo. Young and dumb Chinese activists thought they were rebelling when they were actually serving the interests of government elites. Gaslighting in China was pervasive. Any person that held the most remote belief in freedom, free markets, business, private property or anyone that had any objections to the crimes of the communists was forced to undergo a trial, a kangaroo court called a “struggle session”. During a struggle session, a dissident was sometimes apprehended, or sometimes shamed and compelled to stand before a large crowd of true believers in the communist faith. The crowd would browbeat them with accusations of criminality and immorality, trying to convince them of the evil of their ways. If the dissident bowed and submitted to the collective, begging forgiveness, then they might be allowed to live, but they had to BELIEVE that they had sinned. They had to fully adopt the communist ideology and plead for absolution. Many victims that underwent such struggle sessions continued to believe they were criminals for the rest of their lives. They believed they were terrible people, even though they had no idea why they were punished in the first place. Gaslighting is a powerful device for subjugation because it makes good people who love freedom think they are evil people that need to be restrained. It is also a way for a corrupt system to maintain control of the general population because it normalizes psychopathic behavior and suppresses moral conscience by convincing people that morality is “relative” or a “matter of perspective”, and that some abusive and destructive behavior is “necessary” in order to achieve a better world. If you can discombobulate a population into questioning their own morality, or if you can convince then to question their own sanity, then you can prevent them from ever rebelling against you. These are the tried and true methods of psychopaths. If you ever wonder why abused spouses or family members stay with and even defend their abusers, it is because psychopaths use gaslighting to disarm their victims. If you are crazy or subconsciously treacherous, then maybe you aren’t being abused at all. Maybe, you are being saved from yourself, and maybe society is being protected from you? And, if you lash out and defend yourself against the abuser, now you are truly a horrible human being. You just attacked your “protector”. You are now a danger to society. You are now a terrorist. The only way to avoid being labeled a terrorist or a madman is to quietly accept the abuse. I see this control tactic all over the world, and it is becoming rather prevalent here in the US. The capitol building protest is a perfect example. Millions of law abiding Americans have been abused and oppressed by the establishment through lockdowns and censorship, while groups of leftists like BLM and Antifa are allowed to run rampant across the country looting and burning as they go. Conservative Americans reacted with a protest after the election, seeing that such abuses were likely to be aided in the near future by the federal government under Joe Biden. They raided the capitol building, without armaments, to make a point. Then, they peacefully left. Afterwards, the media bombarded us for months with the narrative that the capitol protest was actually an “insurrection” and an act of domestic terrorism. So, BLM gets to loot and burn their way through dozens of American cities and it’s called peaceful protesting. Conservatives protest at a single building and bust through the doors, and it’s considered an act of war. This is gaslighting. Under pandemic mandates a vast portion of the US has been shut down and hundreds of thousands of small businesses have been lost. The fear mongering in the media over the coronavirus has been egregious and ridiculous. Hundreds of thousands of people die every year in America from communicable diseases. Now, suddenly, we are supposed to abandon all of our constitutional rights because of covid? Anyone who has disagreed with these measures has been called a “conspiracy theorist” and a danger to others. The science is on our side, and always has been. Every element of the pandemic has been exaggerated and overblown. Every statistic supports our skepticism of the government’s response, as I outlined in my recent article ‘The Real Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Will Defy Covid Mandates And Vaccines’. But, when we cite these facts, we are told by the establishment that we are “lunatics” and “idiots”. Of course, now we know that the death rate of Covid-19 according to scientific studies is a paltry 0.26% outside of nursing homes. We also know that lockdowns were completely useless in controlling the spread of the virus, as states with the harshest mandates ended up with the highest infections rates. And, finally, we know that masks are also useless in controlling the spread of the disease according to scientific studies and common sense observation. Rather than admitting that lockdowns are pointless, that the masks do nothing and that it is silly to take an experimental mRNA vaccine for a virus that is a non-threat to 99.7% of the population, establishment hacks continue to double down on their propaganda when it comes to covid. The media continues to attack anyone that points out the REAL science as “conspiracy theorists”. This is gaslighting. And finally, we can’t really have a discussion about gaslighting without mentioning the social justice agenda. The phrase “white supremacy” is being repeated by corporate journalists and politicians until they are blue in the face. And more specifically, conservatives are being called out as the “biggest terrorist threat” to the US in decades because of our supposed white supremacist tendencies. The latest “spike” in Asian hate crimes is the new excuse for this propaganda campaign. Set aside the fact that millions of conservatives are black and brown, not white. Set aside the fact that the majority of the hate crimes targeting Asians the past couple years were actually perpetrated by black assailants (as I noted in last week’s article), and one of them is even a known BLM activist. Also set aside the fact that around 50% of all violent crime in the US is caused by black perpetrators according to the FBI. Somehow, all of this anarchy is the fault of white people in general and conservatives in particular. The race baiting used by leftists the past several years is a prime example of gaslighting – Telling people they are responsible for evils they had nothing to do with and that are completely unrelated to them, then demanding they declare submission and loyalty to an ideology that seeks to enslave them as a means to wash away sins they were never guilty of. If totalitarian control of the population is to be established in the US and the west, we have to be tricked into thinking our values of freedom, truth and meritocracy are somehow inherently evil. We have to be tricked into thinking we are insane for wanting liberty. To be clear, there only three ways that the brainwashing and gaslighting of free people will stop: 1) We submit and embrace the false narrative as if it is true and give in to psychological slavery. 2) We separate completely from leftist totalitarians and organized psychopaths and go our own way. 3) We remove the psychopaths from the picture and rebuild without their influence. Until one of these three things happens, like all psychopaths, leftists and globalists will continue trying to wear us down. This is what they do. They have seen it work in the past and they are single minded in their objectives.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/march/30/the... A Step-By-Step Look At How COVID Passport Propaganda Works Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYMgwN-oII Fareed Zakaria and Arthur Caplan Conspire as textbook apologists to Brainwash and Control you With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you can expect to see in the propaganda push was provided several weeks ago in a CNN interview. In the first week of March, host Fareed Zakaria and his guest Arthur Caplan provided at CNN a textbook example of how to present vaccine passport propaganda to the American people. Let’s look at some of the major elements of the propaganda template as demonstrated by Zakaria and Caplan. 1) Include some short expression that the idea of vaccine passports can be troubling, but make sure to only bring this up superficially. This is accomplished in the CNN segment by starting with a clip from a short scene from the movie Casablanca. In the clip, a policeman asks to see a man’s "papers," the man says he does not have them, and the policeman responds, "in that case we’ll have to ask you to come along." Not shown is the remainder of the scene in which the accosted man, after presenting apparently expired papers, attempts to flee only to be gunned down. Not showing the full scene demonstrates the care demanded in the propaganda to not allow any depiction of potential dire consequences from imposing vaccine passports. 2) Frame the imposing of a vaccine passport mandate as something that is both inevitable and threatens only minimal, if any, harm. Zakaria accomplishes this task with the first sentence he utters to begin the media segment. Zakaria states: "From Casablanca to today, a demand to produce personal documents can be uncomfortable, but, post-pandemic, it’s something we’ll all likely have to get more and more comfortable with." Masterfully, Zakaria, in addition to minimizing the problems with passports as just causing discomfort, asserts that even that discomfort with time will disappear, suggesting objecting to vaccine passports is just an irrational or silly reaction. 3) Bring on a guest who, despite his description making him sound like someone who would be looking out for the interests of people concerned about vaccine passports, pretty much says that vaccine passports are the best thing since sliced bread. In the CNN interview the guest performing this role is Arthur Caplan, who Zakaria introduces as a "medical ethicist" and "professor at NYU." A medical ethicist will surely provide some warning about dangers from vaccine passports, right? Yes, in many cases. But, Caplan is not that sort of medical ethicists. He is the one picked to be interviewed in a media segment designed to promote acceptance of vaccine passports. 4) Reiterate that vaccine passports are inevitable, and that people should support them. Zakaria hits the nail on the head with this, presenting this first question to his guest: "So explain why you think, basically, that this is the future and we should be comfortable with it." Here's my "vaccine passport" pic.twitter.com/W7jQetW719 — Rep. Jeff Duncan (@RepJeffDuncan) March 31, 2021 5) Declare that vaccine passports must be imposed on the American people because of coronavirus. Caplan accomplishes this task in his first words in the media segment. He states: "Well, I’m sure that the future holds vaccine passports for us, partly to protect against the spread of Covid." Of course, as coronavirus has turned out not to be a major danger to most people, imposing a vaccine passport mandate to counter it makes no more sense than doing it to counter any other of many diseases. But, this is not a topic to be brought up when selling people on vaccine passports. Fearmongering, no matter how ridiculously unjustified, is the name of the game. This is the fraudulent message people are encouraged to act on without much critical thought: Coronavirus is gonna kill us all unless we take the shots and show our papers! 6) Say that mandating vaccine passports is really no big deal because of some other supposedly very similar restriction to which some people are already subjected. Caplan states: "And, you know, it’s not a new idea, we have it for yellow fever; there are about more than a dozen countries that say you can’t come in if you haven’t been vaccinated against yellow fever, and many others require you to show proof of vaccination if you transit through those countries." Are the yellow fever-related requirements justified? Caplan does not say more than that, because these somewhat similar restrictions exist someplace, the mandating of vaccine passports in America is fine. That’s medical ethicist reasoning? Anyway, the yellow fever stuff, because most Americans have no experience with or knowledge of it, is a fine example for the propaganda. Few watchers of the segment will have any basis for questioning the current practice that is used to justify the new desired mandate. One big difference, though, jumps out on further consideration. Caplan explains that the yellow fever requirements apply for just coming to several countries. In contrast, Zakaria early in the interview says the vaccine passports that will, he claims, inevitably be imposed on Americans will be required for people "to get on an airplane, to go to a concert, or to go back to work." The vaccine passport mandate is, thus, much more troublesome for most Americans than yellow-fever-related requirements for entry into a few countries that most Americans never visit. But, the point is to quickly present the example as if it provides conclusive support no matter how far that representation is from the truth. 7) Dismiss as insignificant people’s concerns about being required, in order to go about their daily activities, to present a vaccine passport and to take a vaccine, or, really, an experimental coronavirus vaccine that is not even a vaccine under the normal meaning of the term. Assert instead that the only danger to freedom could be something theoretical that could be additionally required in the future. Here is how Zakaria puts it in a question to Caplan: "What about the concerns that many people have about privacy, about the privacy of their health data, that, you know, is there a slippery slope here — 'OK, I’m comfortable telling you whether or not I have Covid, but does that mean it becomes OK to ask about other things?'" Of course, many people are justifiably wary of being pressured to take the shots and then having their mandated vaccine passport used to track them as they go about their daily activities. That is why this media segment and others like it are being presented, after all. 8) Dismiss any concern that vaccine passports can in fact harm freedom. Instead, describe people as benefiting from and gaining freedom by their being mandated to take experimental coronavirus vaccines and present vaccination passports in order to go about their daily activities. Oh yeah, and keep quiet about all the mass surveillance facilitated by a vaccine passport program, the vaccinations-based caste system resulting from the mandate that will make people who do not take the shots suffer, and how the vaccine passport program can be expanded to advance many additional types of control over people. Here is how Caplan puts it: "With a Covid certification, you’re going to gain freedom, you’re going to gain mobility, and I’m going to suggest that you’re probably going to be able to get certain jobs." Talk about turning things on their head. The mandate really means that people who do not comply will be barred from the mobility they already have and fired from their jobs. Freedom is supported by rejecting the mandate, not by supporting it. 9) Insist that the vaccine passport mandate is fine because it will be applied equally to all people. This is something Zakaria and Caplan spend a long time talking about in the CNN segment. Come on guys, something bad does not become good because it is applied to the maximum number of people, irrespective of their race, sex, or whatever. We are dealing with a mandate here, not giving everyone a serving of his favorite dessert. 10) Declare that a vaccine passport mandate helps encourage people to take the shots. (Unlike the other nine elements of the vaccine passport mandate propaganda template, this one is likely true. Threats can yield compliance. Still, the threats could deter some people from taking the experimental coronavirus vaccine shots. It sure makes you wonder about shots’ supposed safety when an extreme, and unprecedented, act of force is employed to ensure people take the shots.) States Caplan in the interview: "It also gives you an incentive to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Some people are not sure still whether they want to do the vaccine, but if you promise them more mobility, more ability to get a job, more ability to get travel, that’s a very powerful incentive to actually achieve fuller vaccination." What Caplan is really talking about is coercion. He is saying that people who would otherwise refuse taking the shots will be forced to do so by the vaccine passport mandate severely restricting their activities and even depriving them of the ability to earn an income so long as they do not give in to the demand they take the shots. All this authoritarianism is dressed up in deceptive language. "Vaccine hesitancy" is substituted for "vaccine refusal" to disguise that the vaccine passport mandate is about stopping people from exercising free choice. "Incentive" is substituted for "coercive technique." Watch Zakaria and Caplan’s interview here: Hopefully, many people will see through the deception and be able to prevent the implementation of the vaccine passport mandate Zakaria, Caplan, and others are promoting in the media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NPpO4gbeU The result of letting freedom die https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/joseph-mercola/covid-19-mrna-shots-are-l... http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2020/december/... https://www.targetliberty.com/2021/03/white-house-developing-vaccine-passpor... https://twitter.com/RepJeffDuncan/status/1377243991213801473
Snotty hecklers and annoying protestors to be imprisoned... https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1375283617341968385 https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2839/publications UK wants more powers to charge protesters The UK wants to update public order laws to create a new crime of “Intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance.” According to Part 3, Section 59, anyone who “obstructs the public or a section of the public in the exercise or enjoyment of a right” can be charged if anyone in their vicinity “suffers serious distress, serious annoyance, serious inconvenience or serious loss of amenity.” And what is the punishment for causing “serious annoyance” or “inconvenience”? Ten years in prison The rule also applies if a perpetrator puts someone at risk of suffering annoyance, inconvenience, or “disease.” Ignore a Covid lockdown rule, potentially exposing others to disease? Ten years in prison. This bill is so broad that you could face ten years in prison for walking too slowly on the sidewalk. This insane proposal would allow the government to arrest and imprison just about anyone it wants. https://summit.news/2021/04/01/students-at-florida-high-school-warned-they-w... https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race...
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1378525494929469440 https://twitter.com/LucasOrion1/status/1378571931616690176 "We're So Stupid Following Our Politicians" - Charles Barkley Unleashes One Minute Of Truth On America "I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power." Furthermore, he described what he believes to be the thinking behind the divide-and-conquer strategy: “Hey, let’s make these people not like each other. We don’t live in their neighborhoods, we all got money, let’s make the whites and blacks not like each other, let’s make rich people and poor people not like each other, let’s scramble the middle class.” https://twitter.com/LucasOrion1/status/1378571931616690176 love to see someone ask Charles to explain exactly which D politicians are trying to make white people and black people hate each other, which ones are using racial dog-whistles or racist tactics like voter suppression/accusations of fraud to divide and demean. Global enslavement plan... "We are working with G20 nations to agree to a global minimum corporate tax rate that can stop the race to the bottom." "Together we can use a global minimum tax to make sure the global economy thrives based on a more level playing field in the taxation of multinational corporations, and spurs innovation, growth, and prosperity," Janet Yellen said in her prepared remarks. https://mises.org/wire/mind-viruses-creating-social-justice-warriors The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad. Regnery, 2020 The central focus of this book is to explore another set of pathogens that are as dangerous [as biological parasites] to the human condition: parasitic pathogens of the human mind. These are composed of thought patterns, belief systems, attitudes, and mindsets that parasitize one’s ability to think properly and accurately. Once these mind viruses take hold of one’s neuronal circuitry, the afflicted victim loses the ability to use reason, logic, and science to navigate the world. Instead, one sinks into an abyss of infinite lunacy best defined by a dogged and proud departure from reality, common sense, and truth. Given that they are so wrong, how do the ideologues defend their idea pathogens? Under totalitarian regimes, the solution is direct. You criminalize if not violently suppress (or kill) any dissenting voices. The “social justice warriors” have met their match in Gaad Saad, and readers will benefit from the many stimulating ideas in The Parasitic Mind.
Critique and expose politicians... get boots... lol... https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/09/anti-war-activist-police-aoc-video/ https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1380284999807590400 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1380537752601698311 https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1379883635743059971 https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/aoc-blasted-for-exaggerating-capitol-riot-expe... (where original tweet?) Anti-War Activist Visited By Police After Posting Embarrassing AOC Video Authored by Max Blumenthal via The GrayZone.com, An anti-war activist said he was visited by California Highway Patrol officers after posting video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bumbling comments on Israel-Palestine. The action, which AOC denies triggering, was initiated by a call to US Capitol Police. As he waited for a food delivery at his home in Los Angeles on April 8, Ryan Wentz, an anti-war activist and producer for the online viral program, Soapbox, heard two men calling his name from over his front gate. When he approached, he realized they were not delivery drivers, but police officers flashing badges of the California Highway Patrol. The cops informed Wentz that they had received a call from the Capitol Police, the federal law enforcement agency tasked with protecting the US Congress, about a tweet he had sent that allegedly threatened Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Wentz told The Grayzone, "The officers said, 'We got a warning about a sitting member of Congress. And it was because of your tweet, which tagged them in it. And then they just wouldn’t back down from this accusation that I threatened to kill her.'" (2/X) I assume this is the tweet they are talking about, where I lightly criticized @AOC for a disappointing answer in response to a question about Palestine/Israel. https://t.co/vNfGcctgsR — Human Rights Watch Watcher (@queeralamode) April 8, 2021 The California Highway Patrol indicated on Twitter that it had acted on a call from Capitol Police. Update: A spokesperson for AOC has denied to Intercept reporter Ryan Grim that their office reported Wentz’s post, and has "asked Capitol Police to look into what happened here." The police visit Wentz received may be part of a wider trend of post-January 6 police intervention in social media criticism of members of Congress. Though AOC’s office has denied falsely informing Capitol Police of an online threat by Wentz, the Democratic congresswoman has in the past asked her supporters to report critics to social media censors. The CHP often assists in investigations at the request of allied agencies. Please contact the U.S. Capitol Police for additional information. — CHP Headquarters (@CHP_HQ) April 9, 2021 No basis to assume AOC is responsible for this without evidence, but regardless, this is a very serious incident if the Capitol Police are dispatching armed police officers to citizens' homes in response to non-violent criticisms of a politician's statements. It's repressive. https://t.co/rVm8WJiQwA — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 9, 2021 Whoever called the police on Wentz furnished law enforcement with a patently false allegation, as he has never threatened violence against any member of Congress. In the tweet that triggered the police action, Wentz merely posted video of AOC delivering a vapid and embarrassingly convoluted answer to a question about resolving the crisis in Israel-Palestine. Describing her answer as "incredibly underwhelming," he let the congresswoman’s cringeworthy commentary speak for itself. Asked by Michael S. Miller of the New York Jewish Community Relations Council about actions that could be taken to support movements towards peace between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians, AOC responded as follows: Earlier just now you and I were talking about the what and the how. And I think that when we talk about peace, centering people’s humanity, protecting people’s rights – it’s not just about the what and the end goal which actually gets a lot of focus, but I actually think it’s much more about the how, and the way we are coming together, and how we interpret that what, and how we act in, you know, the actions we take to get to that what. So what this really is about is a question more than anything else about process. And we really need to make sure that we are valuing a process where all parties are respected and have, you know, a lot of equal opportunity to really make sure we are negotiating in good faith, etcetera. That being said, you know, I think there’s just this one central issue of settlements, because if the what – if the what has been decided on as two state, then the action of settlements, it’s not the how to get to that what. And so, you know, I think that’s a central thing that, you know, we center. And that we value Jewish and rather, we value Israeli, uh, uh, uh, we value the safety and human rights of Israelis, we value the safety and human rights of Palestinians, in that process that is similar, and that is on equal footing. And so all of that is extremely important in that process. The video that Wentz tweeted of AOC’s long-winded dodge of a fundamental question about resolving the Israeli occupation of Palestine prompted a flood of online mockery and contempt, mostly from leftist Twitter users. Many derided AOC as a careerist who had abandoned progressive causes like Palestinian liberation in order to curry favor with Democratic Party power brokers, while others ridiculed her meaningless word salad. I'm incredibly impressed with @AOC's Obama-like ability to fill large amounts of time with words while saying absolutely nothing. I challenge anyone to tell me what she just said. https://t.co/hIkWTNR5Rp — Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 7, 2021 Within hours of the online pile-on, someone reported Wentz to the Capitol Police for tweeting the video that embarrassed AOC. Because Wentz does not provide any information about his personal identity in his public Twitter profile, the social media giant appeared to have provided his private details to federal law enforcement. "Another weird thing is usually I would get a report [from Twitter]," Wentz said, "because I’ve gotten my tweets reported before. But I didn’t get any notification about this." AOC’s staff has previously appealed to social media censors to suppress online criticism. On February 4, 2021, her campaign sent a mass email to supporters asking them to "scan your social media to find posts with misleading information" about the congresswoman, and "use the built-in report feature to flag them for moderators." Team AOC issued its appeal for supporters to police social media in response to right-wing mockery of a dramatic livestream in which AOC suggested that the mob which stormed the Capitol building on January 6 nearly assassinated her. "I just hear these yells of 'WHERE IS SHE? WHERE IS SHE?'" she recounted in the livestream. "This was the moment where I thought everything was over. I thought I was going to die." However, the source of the yells which had terrified AOC turned out to be a Capitol Police officer who had been dispatched to protect her. Further, the congresswoman’s office was located in the Cannon House Office Building, which had not been penetrated by any rioters on January 6. Right-wing activists and other political foes of AOC exploited these points to launch a viral hashtag likening the congresswoman to Jussie Smollet, the actor who faked an attack on himself. After attempting to challenge her critics directly, AOC delegated her staff to dispatch its army of supporters to report critics en masse to Twitter and Facebook censors. Weeks earlier, online podcaster Jimmy Dore had initiated a "Force The Vote" campaign to pressure AOC and fellow members of the progressive congressional "Squad" to withhold their votes for Rep. Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House until Pelosi agreed to bring a bill for Medicare for All to the floor for a vote. In response to incendiary criticism from Dore for her refusal to buck centrist party leadership, AOC declared, "That’s not tone, that’s violence." RT: briebriejoy “15 million people have lost their employer-based health care in the middle of a global pandemic, and barely half of House Democrats support Medicare for All even though 88% of their constituents do. That’s violence.” #ForceTheVote https://t.co/fSD8qwsINJ — Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) January 2, 2021 According to Wentz, the police officers that visited him asked if he had any violent intent behind his tweet, then left. "If this was like a purely intimidation thing," he reflected, "then I guess it did its job. It’s not comforting to be on the receiving end of that. But at the same time, they’re not going to shut the left up." Wentz’s disturbing encounter with law enforcement appears to be part of an emerging trend. On the same date law enforcement visited him, a Twitter user posted photos of alleged federal agents on their front lawn and claimed, "FBI just came by my house for a tweet to Ted Cruz." FBI just came by my house for a tweet to Ted Cruz. pic.twitter.com/cbwouoz4GC — the1312ronin (@theoneronin1312) April 8, 2021
'That's Not Orwellian, THIS Is Orwellian': Aussies Mulling ID For Access To Facebook, Twitter, Tinder https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/government-considering-10... https://twitter.com/dangolding/status/1377776091734155265 https://twitter.com/PRGuy17/status/1377805128154062848 https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/committees/reportrep/024577/to... The Australian government is mulling a proposal which would require citizens to provide at least two forms of identification if they want to use social media, under the guise of 'battling online bullying and more easily report users to authorities. Under the guise of preventing online bullying, the Morrison government's plan would require '100 points of identification' in order to use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram - and online dating platforms such as Tinder, according to news.com.au. To satisfy the '100 points' requirement, citizens would need to combine 'Category 1' methods of identification (birth certificate, passport, citizenship papers) with 'Category 2' ID (Valid government-issued license, public employee photo ID, doctor's note). More via news.com.au: The recommendation, which has been raised before, is one of 88 recommendations from a parliamentary committee report looking at family, domestic and sexual violence. “In order to open or maintain an existing social media account, customers should be required by law to identify themselves to a platform using 100 points of identification, in the same way as a person must provide identification for a mobile phone account, or to buy a mobile SIM card,” the report suggests. It goes on to say that social media platforms “must provide those identifying details when requested by the eSafety Commissioner, law enforcement or as directed by the court”. In other news, Australia has an eSafety Commissioner. Well, the government’s in crisis, time to roll the distraction generator dice: 🎲 Citizens must provide 🎲 100 points of ID 🎲 So we can solve social media abuse? — Dan Golding (@dangolding) April 2, 2021 As the report notes, the ID requirement would mean social media giants have even more information on their users. Normal people, as expected, are expressing disbelief over the new proposal: “Are we turning into North Korea? This is Orwellian,” one user wrote on Twitter after reading the recommendation. “I’m a social media manager and I honestly don’t get enough out of social media to justify giving them access to my ID,” another wrote. Emily van der Nagal is a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne. She wrote her PhD thesis on the value of social media anonymity and pseudonymity and said of the recommendation: “Don’t do this.” “Hello, it’s me, a social media researcher who has argued time and time again that it’s not a good idea to force people to submit ID to use social media,” she wrote on Twitter. “It won’t solve harassment; it will only further harm already vulnerable groups. Don’t do this.” #SovietScott trending as Australians respond to radical authoritarian measures proposed by the Morrison Government to limit access to social media. pic.twitter.com/1HX0Jt4oDj — PRGuy (@PRGuy17) April 2, 2021
https://summit.news/2021/04/19/china-launches-new-app-allowing-citizens-to-r... https://reclaimthenet.org/china-unveils-new-app-that-allows-citizens-to-repo... How many more you sheeple going to keep bending over... China Launches New App Allowing Citizens To Report Others For Expressing "Mistaken Opinions" Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, China’s Communist government has launched a new app that encourages citizens to report dissidents for expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet. The new platform will target anyone who criticizes the dictatorship’s ruling CCP, disputes the official version of the country’s history or engages in “misinformation.” The new website and app was proudly unveiled by China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), with authorities calling on users to play an “active role” in helping to identify “malicious people distorting facts and confusing” others. “For a while now, some people with ulterior motives…have spread historically nihilistic false statements online, maliciously distorting, slandering and denying Party, national and military history in an attempt to confuse people’s thinking,” the announcement said. “We hope that most internet users will play an active role in supervising society…and enthusiastically report harmful information.” As Didi Rankovic notes, “It’s also unsurprising because it comes ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CPP), when messages and narratives will have to be kept particularly “clean.” China already operates an onerous social credit score system that bans people from using transportation and engaging in other basic functions of society if they commit minor infractions like jaywalking or buying too much junk food. Given that social media mobs in the west, routinely aided by journalists, already conduct witch hunts that lead to people being socially ostracized, deplatformed and left unemployed for expressing “mistaken opinions,” are we really that better off than Chinese dissidents?
https://consentfactory.org/2021/04/21/the-covidian-cult-part-ii/ The Covidian Cult Exposed: Six Conditions Of Mind Control Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological movement. Developments over the last six months have borne out the accuracy of that analogy. “instead of the cult existing as an island within the dominant culture, the cult has become the dominant culture, and those of us who have not joined the cult have become the isolated islands within it?” To understand this, one needs to understand how cults control the minds of their members, because totalitarian ideological movements operate more or less the same way, just on a much larger, societal scale. 1. Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how she or he is being changed a step at a time. Potential new members are led, step by step, through a behavioral-change program without being aware of the final agenda or full content of the group. 2. Control the person’s social and/or physical environment; especially control the person’s time. 3. Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person. 4. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments and experiences in such a way as to inhibit behavior that reflects the person’s former social identity. 5. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning the group’s ideology or belief system and group-approved behaviors. Good behavior, demonstrating an understanding and acceptance of the group’s beliefs, and compliance are rewarded, while questioning, expressing doubts or criticizing are met with disapproval, redress and possible rejection. If one expresses a question, they are made to feel that there is something inherently wrong with them to be questioning. 6. Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that permits no feedback and refuses to be modified except by leadership approval or executive order. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders must have verbal ways of never losing. https://summit.news/2021/04/20/teacher-war-on-pubs-is-about-silencing-dissen... https://lockdownsceptics.org/the-war-on-pubs-is-being-waged-by-puritans-agai... Is The UK's "War On Pubs" About Silencing Dissent? Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A university teacher has published a fascinating article in which he argues that the shut down of pubs in the United Kingdom is about silencing dissent. The article by Sean Walsh, which was carried by LockdownSkeptics, questions why pubs are still semi-closed while other “non-essential retail” stores are allowed to fully open despite the fact that the entire hospitality industry was responsible for just 3 per cent of total COVID infections last year. “It’s tempting to conclude that the SAGE types are not worried that pubs are possible vectors of transmission, but that they are concerned that hospitality venues are potential theatres of dissent,” writes Walsh. He also notes that health bureaucrats seem to be intent on the British public remaining joyless as part of some demented puritanical drive to oversee the “crude sanitisation of our understanding of the human soul.” Walsh accurately identifies the pub not just as a place of fun and frivolity, but an organizing forum where populist sentiment takes shape. “It is in the pub that people can whisper conspiracy against a Government narrative. And conspiracies always require that the like-minded are allowed to gather. It is over a drink that the millionaire and the pauper can come together and compare notes,” he writes. “(Boris) Johnson is currently offering us a sinister inversion of what a pub is, one in which you are tracked, traced, audited, judged, and humiliated. The “road map”, in this industry at least, is one that leads you not into “normal” but into a “Twin Peaks” version of it,” adds Walsh. He concludes by arguing that if the government was trying to build a police state, one of the first things it would do is to “stamp on the enjoyment of the great unwashed and confiscate all mechanisms of dissent.” “The Government’s war on pubs is ticking both those boxes,” writes Walsh. One has to question whether government efforts to punish pubs while allowing throngs of crowds to gather outside retail outlets goes deeper than health considerations given the minimal contribution bars and restaurants had to the spread of the virus. Could the war on pubs have also been a deliberate attempt to prevent people from coming together to pierce the monopoly control the media wielded over the entire lockdown narrative? As we highlighted yesterday, many pub landlords are infuriated with the attack on their livelihoods, leading in one case to an owner kicking out Labour leader Keir Starmer after a heated confrontation about his party’s support for lockdown.
https://mises.org/wire/12-myths-fueling-government-overreach-times-crisis 12 Myths Fueling Government Overreach In Times Of Crisis Authored by Robert Higgs via The Mises Institute, Congress and the president have adopted many critically important policies in great haste during brief periods of perceived national emergency. During the first “hundred days” of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in the spring of 1933, for example, the government abandoned the gold standard, enacted a system of wide-ranging controls, taxes, and subsidies in agriculture, and set in motion a plan to cartelize the nation’s manufacturing industries. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act was enacted in a rush even though no member of Congress had read it in its entirety. Since September 2008, the government and the Federal Reserve System have implemented a rapid-fire series of bailouts, loans, “stimulus” spending programs and partial or complete takeover of big banks and other large firms, acting at each step in great haste. Any government policymaking on an important matter entails serious risks, but crisis policymaking stands apart from the more deliberate process in which new legislation is usually enacted or new regulatory measures are usually put into effect. Because formal institutional changes—however hastily they might have been made—have a strong tendency to become entrenched, remaining in effect for many years and sometimes for many decades, crisis policymaking has played an important part in generating long-term growth of government through a ratchet effect in which “temporary” emergency measures have expanded the government’s size, scope, or power. It therefore behooves us to recognize the typical presumptions that give crisis policymaking its potency. The twelve propositions given here express some of the ideas that are advanced or assumed again and again in connection with episodes of quick, fear-driven policymaking—events whose long-term consequences are often counterproductive. 1. Nothing like the present situation has ever happened before. If the existing crisis were seen as simply the latest incident in a series of similar crises, policy makers and the public would be more inclined to relax, appreciating that such rough seas have been navigated successfully in the past and will be navigated successfully on this occasion, too. Fears would be relieved. Exaggerated doomsday scenarios would be dismissed as overwrought and implausible. Such relaxation, however, would ill serve the sponsors of extraordinary government measures, regardless of their motives for seeking adoption of these measures. Fear is a great motivator, so the proponents of expanded government action have an incentive to represent the current situation as unprecedented and therefore as uniquely menacing unless the government intervenes forcefully to save the day. 2. Unless the government intervenes, the situation will get worse and worse. Crisis always presents some sort of worsening of something: the economy’s output has fallen; prices have risen greatly; the country has been attacked by foreigners. If such untoward developments were seen as having occurred in a one-off manner, then people might be content to stick with the institutional status quo. If, however, people project the recent changes forward, imagining that adverse events will continue to occur and possibly to gather strength as they continue, then they will object to a “do nothing” response, reasoning that “something must be done” lest the course of events eventuate in an utterly ruinous situation. To speed a huge, complex, “anti-terrorism” bill through Congress in 2001, George W. Bush invoked the specter of another terrorist attack. Barack Obama, Invoking the specter of economic collapse, rushed through Congress early in 2009 the huge Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act before any legislator had digested it. In a February 5, 2009, op-ed in the Washington Post, he wrote, “If nothing is done … our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.”1 At a February 9 press conference, he said “[A] failure to act will only deepen this crisis,” and “could turn a crisis into a catastrophe.” 3. Today is all-important; we must act immediately. In his first inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared, “This nation asks for action, and action now.” He then proceeded directly to speak of the most terrifying problem of the day, mass unemployment. "Our greatest primary task is the put people to work … It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our national resources." In any event, "The people want direct, vigorous action." Similarly, not long after taking office, Barack Obama similarly declared, not long after taking office, “The situation is getting worse. We have to act and act now to break the momentum of this recession.” “Doing nothing is not an option,” he said in Elkhart, Indiana on February 9. “The situation we face could not be more serious,” and “we can’t afford to wait.” In the February 5 op-ed, listing a series of objectives he claimed the pending legislation would achieve, he began four successive paragraphs with the words “now is the time to…”6 4. Government officials know or can quickly discover how to remedy the problem. All government policies adopted to meet a crisis presume that the government knows how to effect the rescue it seeks. The government officials may sometimes admit, as in the early new deal, that is does not know exactly how to proceed, yet it maintains that “doing something” is better than doing nothing. Roosevelt maintained that the government ought to try something and, if that measure failed, then try something else. Thus, ignorant flailing about— on the assumption that “doing something” has no costs, adverse effects, or untoward long-term consequences—has been touted as a virtue, and indeed many members of the public, no more expert than the government itself have agreed that the government must “try something.” 5. We may safely rely on the establishment and on its insiders for expertise in this crisis. As a common first step in reacting to a crisis, the government often assembles a council of experts or some such group of wise men and women. These experts are invariable drawn from the government itself and from groups with whom the government maintains cozy relations. The experts frequently include those who had responsibility for carrying out the government policies that contributed to the occurrence of the crisis in the first place. Thus, no matter how ill fated monetary policy may have been, the government will call on the secretary of the Treasury and the head of the Federal Reserve System to decide, perhaps along with others, what should be done next. In this constructed circle, the range of possible future actions the government might take is almost always no wider than the range of actions taken in the past. Hence, the “experts” are subject to repeating the same errors time and again. 6. We may trust the government to act responsibly and effectively on the basis of the expertise they command. The public looks to government officials and their assembled “wise men” to act in the public interest and to organize their actions in an effective manner. If the policy makers lack the requisite knowledge, then such trust is bound to be misplaced, because no matter how responsibly the policy makers may try to be, they simply don’t know what they are doing. If they do have the requisite expertise, however, they may still fail to act on it because of their political, ideological, or personal interests and connections. The public tends to think of crises as akin to mechanical problems—the car’s engine is not running; policy makers need to give it a “jump start.” Crises, however, are rarely so simple. More often, they involve far-reaching relationships among many individuals, groups, and nations, and the lack of productive coordination that the crisis represents can seldom be restored by simple policy actions such as “the government ought to double its spending and rely on borrowed funds to cover its budget deficit. Complex political, social, and economic breakdowns rarely take a form subject to easy treatment activist policymakers (though many of them can take care of themselves if only policymakers stand aside from them.) 7. The clear benefits of quick government action may be assumed to outweigh its costs and its actual or potential negative consequences. Crisis decision making is not characterized by careful attempts to justify actions on a benefit-cost basis. If the situation is dire, policy makers and many members of the public simply assume that a policy with positive net benefits may be adopted. Little basis exists for this assumption. Even in a crisis, the government may take many actions whose costs and risks greatly outweigh any benefit they may bring. The potential is great for focuses on benefits that are immediate and visible while disregarding costs that are delayed and less easily perceived. Thus, policymakers are likely to plunge almost blindly ahead where more calculating angels fear to tread. 8. Fact finding, deliberation, study, and debate are too time-consuming and must be forgone in favor of immediate action. In April 1932, a year before the momentous explosion of New Deal measures after Roosevelt took office, Felix Frankfurter complained in a letter to Walter Lippmann that “one measure after another has been … hurriedly concocted…. They have been denominated emergency efforts, and any plea for deliberation, for detailed discussion, for exploration of alternatives has been regarded as obstructive or doctrinaire or both.” The events of the spring 1933 congressional session raised all of these attributes by an order of magnitude. President Obama likewise recently declared that enough debate had occurred on the massive “stimulus” package even though it had been rushed through both houses of Congress, neither of which had paused to hold hearings on it. “We can’t posture and bicker. Endless delay and paralysis in Washington in the face of this crisis will only bring deepening disaster.” 9. Existing structures and incumbent firms must be preserved; new structures and firms are unthinkable. Existing office holders, bureaucrats, firm managers, and owners have a decisive political advantage over possible alternative occupants of their positions (“new entrants”). Hence, the overriding theme in any crisis is that current politicians and capitalists must be preserved—propped up, bailed out, subsidized, whatever it takes to save them and their present organizations. In truth, however, the best way to deal with some crises is by getting rid of the persons and organizations that helped to bring them on. Bankruptcy, for examples, is not the end of the world, but simply the end of existing stockholders. If a company still possesses valuable assets, they will be transferred to new and presumably more competent managers. 10. If a policy is not getting the results its proponents promised, more money should be poured into it until it finally “works.” This presumption receives application to government policies in general, not simply to crisis policies in particular, but it gains force during a national emergency, when getting results as regarded as especially imperative. By the time Barack Obama became president, the U.S. Treasury and the Fed had made commitments for trillions of dollars in loans, capital infusions, loan guarantees, and other purposes. Yet, the economy continued to sink. The president and his senior advisers did not conclude that these measures had failed, but only that they had been too timid. Thus, President Obama told reporters that after Japan’s bust in the early 1990s, the Japanese government “did not act boldly or swiftly enough,” even though it spent trillions of dollars on construction projects. Likewise, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner concluded from his study of the Japanese stagnations that “spending must come in quick, massive doses, and be continued until recovery takes firm root.” 11. We must not be deterred by the accumulation of public debt; there is no practical limit to the amount the government may safely borrow. Political office holders prefer to finance their spending by borrowing rather than taxing, if possible. That way, the public does not feel so dispossessed and therefore is less inclined to oppose the spending programs. In a national emergency, the office holders’ preference for deficit finance comes ever more boldly to the fore, and throughout history governments have tended to borrow heavily to pay for major wars. With the dawning of the Age of Keynes, deficit financing during recessions acquired an ostensible intellectual rationale, magnifying whatever inclinations the politicians already possessed. At present, the public debt is rising at an unprecedented rate, yet few people raise serious objections to the government’s spending program on this ground. Virtually everyone who matters politically is content to rely on what I call “vulgar Keynesianism”—or at least pretend to do so. 12. The occasion demands that policymakers put aside partisan or strictly political maneuvering and act entirely in the general public interest, and we can expect them to do act accordingly. After Woodrow Wilson had sought and gained a congressional declaration of war in 1917, he declared that “politics is adjourned.” By this expression, he sought to convey the idea that he would henceforth abstain from the usual partisan maneuvering and devote himself to prosecution of the war in the most effective way and that, he hoped, others would do the same. Whether his announcement of the adjournment was sincere or merely attempt to point those who disagreed with his war policies as partisan obstructionists, we do not know. We do know, however, that partisan political actions did not cease on either side. In a similar way, President Obama recently declared, “We are in one of those periods in American history where we don’t have Republicans or Democratic problems, we have American problems. My commitment as the incoming president is going to be to reach out across the aisle to both chambers to listen and not just talk, to not just try to dictate but try to create a partnership … [W]e’re … not going to get bogged down by old-style politics on either side.” A month later he reiterated this idea, denouncing “the same old partisan gridlock that stands in the way of action while our economy continues to slide.” And promising “We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship.” Even as he made this declaration, however, partisan maneuvering continued as usual on both sides in Congress. Politics cannot be put aside. Politics is what politicians and political interest groups do. Partisanship is inevitable as political actors who seek conflicting ends struggle for maximum control of the government. End it.
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/religious-professionals-draft/ https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/new-chinese-decree-... All religions that force upon those who don't force... are invalid. The same applies to Government... New Chinese Decree Forces Religious Leaders To Actively Support Communist Party China has rolled out with a new policy which requires all religious leaders in the country to show open support to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The new decree goes into effect May 1 and orders all religious heads, including Christian pastors and bishops, to "follow the lead of and support the Communist Party." While Chinese state interference in religious affairs of citizens is far from anything new, this particular decree appears far reaching and is also aimed at rooting out "foreign" influence, with significant legal repercussions that are threatened. Government-approved Catholic Mass in Beijing, via VOA According to an unofficial translation of Article 3 of the decree: "Religious professionals shall love the motherland, support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, support the socialist system, abide by the Constitution, laws, regulations, and rules; practice the Core Socialist Values, uphold the principle of religious independence and self-management, persist in our nation's direction of the sinification of religion, and preserve national unity, ethnic unity, religious harmony, and social stability." The full decree entitled "Measures on the Management of Religious Professionals" also purports to define "rights" of "religious professionals" - or rather their extreme limitations under the law. It also requires religious clerics to resist the infiltration of foreign forces through religion. Violators of the new decree will also be subject to criminal charges and other sanctions, which is a strengthening of older policies. Instead of just state-controlled practices, there's now more legal basis for criminalizing religion that's been "unapproved". Critics are already pointing out it constitutes a further severe crackdown on freedom of religion and worship. One large 'house church' leader in Beijing commented to US-funded VOA News, "This decree goes against our religious beliefs, and the separation of politics and religion." The representative said additionally, "There will be a further narrowing of religious freedom and more severe crackdowns on believers." ‘They Think The 21st Century Will Be The Chinese Communist Century:’ Report Shows China’s Crackdown On Religious Freedom https://t.co/FGJ20dZKLK — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 22, 2021 It also further tightens oversight of official government-sanctioned Catholic communities in the country. Below is the relevant section from the document... Catholic bishops are to be approved and consecrated by the Bishops Conference of Catholic Church in China. The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and Bishops Conference of Catholic Church in China shall complete a form for recording Catholic bishops within 20 days of consecrating them, send it to the State Bureau of Religious Affairs for filing, and submit the following materials: Copies of the bishop's household registration booklet and resident identity card. An explanation of the circumstances by which the provincial, autonomous region, or directly governed municipality religious group democratically selected that bishop; The approval documents from the Bishops Conference of Catholic Church in China; An explanation of their consecration by the bishop that presided over it. According to VOA, the new decree is related to a recent push to force various religious communities into integrating official CCP propaganda and history into their religious teaching curriculum: "The issuance of the decree coincides with a push by the government-controlled national religious associations of Protestantism, Catholicism, Taoism, Buddhism and Islam to require all believers to study topics such as the histories of the CCP, the People’s Republic of China and socialism to mark the 100th anniversary of the CCP in July."
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought To You By COVID-19 “A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.” - Philip K. 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For good or bad, COVID-19 has changed the way we navigate the world. It is also redrawing the boundaries of our world (and our freedoms) and altering the playing field faster than we can keep up. Owing in large part to the U.S. government’s deep-seated and, in many cases, top-secret alliances with foreign nations and global corporations, it has become increasingly obvious that we have entered into a new world order—a global world order—made up of international government agencies and corporations. This powerful international cabal, let’s call it the Global Deep State, is just as real as the corporatized, militarized, industrialized American Deep State, and it poses just as great a threat to our rights as individuals under the U.S. Constitution, if not greater. We’ve been inching closer to this global world order for the past several decades, but COVID-19, which has seen governmental and corporate interests become even more closely intertwined, has shifted this transformation into high gear. Fascism has become a global menace. It remains unclear whether the American Deep State (“a national-security apparatus that holds sway even over the elected leaders notionally in charge of it”) answers to the Global Deep State, or whether the Global Deep State merely empowers the American Deep State. However, there is no denying the extent to which they are intricately and symbiotically enmeshed and interlocked. Consider the extent to which our lives and liberties are impacted by this international convergence of governmental and profit-driven corporate interests in the surveillance state, the military industrial complex, the private prison industry, the intelligence sector, the security sector, the technology sector, the telecommunications sector, the transportation sector, the pharmaceutical industry and, most recently, by the pharmaceutical-health sector. All of these sectors are dominated by mega-corporations operating on a global scale and working through government channels to increase their profit margins. The profit-driven policies of these global corporate giants influence everything from legislative policies to economics to environmental issues to medical care Global Disease The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled us into a whole new global frontier. Those hoping to navigate this interconnected and highly technological world of contact tracing, vaccine passports and digital passes will find themselves grappling with issues that touch on deep-seated moral, political, religious and personal questions for which there may be no clear-cut answers. We are about to find our ability to access, engage and move about in the world dependent on which camp we fall into: those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who have not. “It is the latest status symbol. Flash it at the people, and you can get access to concerts, sports arenas or long-forbidden restaurant tables. Some day, it may even help you cross a border without having to quarantine,” writes Heather Murphy for the New York Times. “The new platinum card of the Covid age is the vaccine certificate.” This is what M.I.T. professor Ramesh Raskar refers to as the new “currency for health,” an apt moniker given the potentially lucrative role that Big Business (Big Pharma and Big Tech, especially) will play in establishing this pay-to-play marketplace. The airline industry has been working on a Travel Pass. IBM is developing a Digital Health Pass. And the U.S. government has been all-too-happy to allow the corporate sector to take the lead. Global Surveillance Spearheaded by the National Security Agency (NSA), which has shown itself to care little for constitutional limits or privacy, the surveillance state has come to dominate our government and our lives. Yet the government does not operate alone. It cannot. It requires an accomplice. Thus, the increasingly complex security needs of our massive federal government, especially in the areas of defense, surveillance and data management, have been met within the corporate sector, which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental bureaucracy. Take AT&T, for instance. Through its vast telecommunications network that crisscrosses the globe, AT&T provides the U.S. government with the complex infrastructure it needs for its mass surveillance programs. According to The Intercept: “The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s ‘extreme willingness to help.’ It is a collaboration that dates back decades. Little known, however, is that its scope is not restricted to AT&T’s customers. According to the NSA’s documents, it values AT&T not only because it ‘has access to information that transits the nation,’ but also because it maintains unique relationships with other phone and internet providers. The NSA exploits these relationships for surveillance purposes, commandeering AT&T’s massive infrastructure and using it as a platform to covertly tap into communications processed by other companies.” Now magnify what the U.S. government is doing through AT&T on a global scale, and you have the “14 Eyes Program,” also referred to as the “SIGINT Seniors.” This global spy agency is made up of members from around the world (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, India and all British Overseas Territories). Surveillance is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to these global alliances, however. Global War Profiteering War has become a huge money-making venture, and America, with its vast military empire and its incestuous relationship with a host of international defense contractors, is one of its biggest buyers and sellers. The American military-industrial complex has erected an empire unsurpassed in history in its breadth and scope, one dedicated to conducting perpetual warfare throughout the earth. For example, while erecting a security surveillance state in the U.S., the military-industrial complex has perpetuated a worldwide military empire with American troops stationed in 177 countries (over 70% of the countries worldwide). Although the federal government obscures so much about its defense spending that accurate figures are difficult to procure, we do know that since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $1.8 trillion in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (that’s $8.3 million per hour). That doesn’t include wars and military exercises waged around the globe, which are expected to push the total bill upwards of $12 trillion by 2053. The illicit merger of the global armaments industry and the Pentagon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us against more than 50 years ago has come to represent perhaps the greatest threat to the nation’s fragile infrastructure today. America’s expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $15 billion a month (or $20 million an hour)—and that’s just what the government spends on foreign wars. That does not include the cost of maintaining and staffing the 1000-plus U.S. military bases spread around the globe. Incredibly, although the U.S. constitutes only 5% of the world's population, America boasts almost 50% of the world's total military expenditure, spending more on the military than the next 19 biggest spending nations combined. In fact, the Pentagon spends more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. There’s a good reason why “bloated,” “corrupt” and “inefficient” are among the words most commonly applied to the government, especially the Department of Defense and its contractors. Price gouging has become an accepted form of corruption within the American military empire. It’s not just the American economy that is being gouged, unfortunately. Driven by a greedy defense sector, the American homeland has been transformed into a battlefield with militarized police and weapons better suited to a war zone. President Biden, marching in lockstep with his predecessors, has continued to expand America’s military empire abroad and domestically in a clear bid to pander to the powerful money interests (military, corporate and security) that run the Deep State and hold the government in its clutches. Global Policing Glance at pictures of international police forces and you will have a hard time distinguishing between American police and those belonging to other nations. There’s a reason they all look alike, garbed in the militarized, weaponized uniform of a standing army. There’s a reason why they act alike, too, and speak a common language of force: they belong to a global police force. For example, Israel—one of America’s closest international allies and one of the primary yearly recipients of more than $3 billion in U.S. foreign military aid—has been at the forefront of a little-publicized exchange program aimed at training American police to act as occupying forces in their communities. As The Intercept sums it up, American police are “essentially taking lessons from agencies that enforce military rule rather than civil law.” This idea of global policing is reinforced by the Strong Cities Network program, which trains local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as address intolerance within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal. The cities included in the global network include New York City, Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Paris, London, Montreal, Beirut and Oslo. The objective is to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc. In other words, police—acting as extensions of the United Nations—will identify, monitor and deter individuals who exhibit, express or engage in anything that could be construed as extremist. Of course, the concern with the government’s anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist. Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American “extremists” will carry out their objectives—to identify and deter potential extremists—in concert with fusion centers (of which there are 78 nationwide, with partners in the private sector and globally), data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics (in which life experiences alter one’s genetic makeup). This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it’s been a long time coming. Are you starting to get the picture now? On almost every front, whether it’s the war on drugs, or the sale of weapons, or regulating immigration, or establishing prisons, or advancing technology, or fighting a pandemic, if there is a profit to be made and power to be amassed, you can bet that the government and its global partners have already struck a deal that puts the American people on the losing end of the bargain. We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward trajectory now, and things are moving fast. The “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has perished. In its place is a shadow government—a corporatized, militarized, entrenched global bureaucracy—that is fully operational and running the country. Given the trajectory and dramatic expansion, globalization and merger of governmental and corporate powers, we’re not going to recognize this country 20 years from now. It’s taken less than a generation for our freedoms to be eroded and the Global Deep State’s structure to be erected, expanded and entrenched. Mark my words: the U.S. government will not save us from the chains of the Global Deep State. Now there are those who will tell you that any mention of a New World Order government—a power elite conspiring to rule the world—is the stuff of conspiracy theories. I am not one of those skeptics. I wholeheartedly believe that one should always mistrust those in power, take alarm at the first encroachment on one’s liberties, and establish powerful constitutional checks against government mischief and abuse. I can also attest to the fact that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have studied enough of this country’s history—and world history—to know that governments (the U.S. government being no exception) are at times indistinguishable from the evil they claim to be fighting, whether that evil takes the form of terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity. And I have lived long enough to see many so-called conspiracy theories turn into cold, hard fact. Remember, people used to scoff at the notion of a Deep State (a.k.a. Shadow Government). They used to doubt that fascism could ever take hold in America, and sneer at any suggestion that the United States was starting to resemble Nazi Germany in the years leading up to Hitler’s rise to power. As I detail in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we’re beginning to know better, aren’t we?
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Hey you stupid sheeple, wake the fuck up to what's happening and how your freedom is getting fucked away by design into oblivion... you like that don't you. https://mises.org/wire/dystopian-future-which-almost-no-one-owns-car The Dystopian Future In Which Almost No One Owns A Car Authored by Zachary Yost via The Mises Institute, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/03/coronavirus-stay-home-... https://www.engadget.com/2020-02-07-tesla-model-s-fsd-issues.html https://forums.tesla.com/discussion/35532/as-you-know-tesla-has-the-ability-... By this point readers are more than familiar with the previously unthinkable infringements on our traditional rights and liberties due to “health and safety” lockdowns that the state has inflicted upon us over the last year. While thankfully more and more restrictions are being lifted, it is important not to forget the period of veritable universal house arrest that was enacted in many states, in which even the freedom to go for a drive was denied to us. It unfortunately seems inevitable that we will face such scenarios again when a convenient excuse comes along, though I fear that the next time will be even worse thanks to the advent of self-driving cars. Self-driving cars seem like a truly amazing advancement in human technology. As someone who is not particularly fond of driving, I once followed their development with great interest and hopeful anticipation. However, the advent of lockdowns as an acceptable government policy has shown just a taste of the kind of dangers that would come with their widespread adoption. While they would liberate us from many of the dangers of the road and free up time in which to work or enjoy ourselves on a ride, the price of this liberation is actually an unprecedented level of government control. Some advocates of self-driving cars argue that their adoption would mean that very few people would actually own a vehicle anymore, and that instead everyone would basically Uber everywhere. Oftentimes such predictions are espoused by people who lament how evil American prosperity is and cringe at the thought of our car culture’s carbon footprint. It is not difficult to see how this could go very wrong. Can you imagine how much worse government lockdowns would have been at their height last year if the state merely needed to apply pressure to Uber-like ride services to cease general operation to stop people from moving? Ride services would almost certainly be forced to require government-issued documents in order to book a ride in such a scenario, leaving the vast majority of the population completely stranded and unable to go anywhere. Fortunately, there are many reasons to believe that without massive government intervention America is not likely to willingly let go of its deeply ingrained car culture in favor of ubiquitous Ubering. However, even if people do own their self-driving cars, the danger remains. Tesla is a case in point. Unlike a “traditional” car that drives off the lot and disappears into the traffic, Tesla cars are perpetually connected to the internet and Tesla itself. As the pioneer in self-driving cars, it seems likely that other manufacturers will also build around Tesla’s concept, which is itself similar to numerous other “smart appliance” trends in everything from house lighting to fridges, ovens, and washing machines. While this connectivity has great uses, such as allowing repairs to be completed remotely, the danger is obvious. Customers have complained about having features of their Tesla being removed without their notice or authorization, prompting one reporter to remark that “if someone buys a used car with cruise control, there isn't an expectation that the manufacturer will then arrive and ask to remove it,” yet something similar has already happened. Similarly, Tesla collects vast amounts of data from its cars, which is no doubt useful and needed for continuing to improve the system and work out kinks, but it is dangerously naïve to believe that such data would remain outside the reach of the government if it wanted it. Finally, the same danger with universal Ubering still remains. Tesla or any self-driving car that would naturally require some level of internet connection can be remotely shut down. As cool as Tesla may seem, the odds are very slim that it would defy a state order to render its fleet inoperable in the name of “public safety” or any other excuse the government may come up with. Think back to the hysteria of last spring. You are kidding yourself if you believe that people like Governor Whitmer of Michigan wouldn’t have ordered all cars rendered inoperable until “essential workers” were granted permission to drive if such a thing had been within her power. The picture becomes even more bleak if one thinks of the nefarious uses such control could be used for beyond “public health” lockdowns. What if our current cancel culture craziness were to continue into a death spiral that resulted in something akin to the Chinese social credit system? Such a thing seems unthinkable—“this is America,” after all. But if in 2019 we had been visited by a time traveler who told us that in a year Americans would be forbidden from leaving their homes or going to church and that businesses would be forced to close en masse, we likely would have thought such a person was crazy. Yet here we are. It is easy to see all the benefits that would come with self-driving cars, but at the end of the day the potential for dramatically increased government control and abuse is horrifying to contemplate.
3D printed opensource HERF rifle development teams are now forming in cypherspace to fill the growing needs of a free people for pest control devices... https://summit.news/2021/06/07/malaysian-police-use-heat-drones-to-check-tem... https://summit.news/2020/08/18/melbourne-authorities-to-use-surveillance-dro... https://summit.news/2020/03/26/uk-police-force-slammed-for-spying-on-dog-wal... Malaysian police are using drones which can check temperatures from as high as 20 meters above ground in the latest example of coronavirus population control. The drones alert authorities if someone has a high temperature reading by emitting a red light, according to Bernama, Malaysia’s state news agency. “Malaysian police have previously warned they will use drones to enforce earlier travel restrictions, with officers in some areas also stating they would carry out surprise home visits to ensure people were following rules,” reports the Guardian. There have been numerous previous examples of authorities deploying surveillance drone technology to enforce COVID-19 rules. Authorities in Spain have used surveillance drones to make sure people who visit beaches are complying with social distancing regulations. In Brussels, Belgium, police used drones fitted with loudspeakers to bark orders to people to “stay at home.” Police drones are being used in Brussels to warn the public that lockdown is in force, and that social distancing regulations must be adhered to. For the latest updates on #coronavirus, click here: https://t.co/nINriV0Bo4 pic.twitter.com/M3JNMNJhCH — Sky News (@SkyNews) March 23, 2020 In Australia, more expensive drones were used to catch people not wearing masks while also scanning for vehicles that were parked more than 5km from their owner’s home. Police are preparing to launch their aerial arsenal as part of a crackdown on COVID rule breakers. High powered drones will be used to find people not wearing masks, and cars too far from home. https://t.co/5zYfOfohG3 @tdolling #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/Yy84UBTH0V — 7NEWS Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) August 17, 2020 In the UK, authorities were blasted for using surveillance drones to keep tabs on dog walkers in remote areas to check if they were hiking too far from home. Despite posts yesterday highlighting issues of people still visiting the #PeakDistrict despite government guidance, the message is still not getting through. @DerPolDroneUnit have been out at beauty spots across the county, and this footage was captured at #CurbarEdge last night. pic.twitter.com/soxWvMl0ls — Derbyshire Police (@DerbysPolice) March 26, 2020
You Know It's Bad When A North Korea Defector Says That US Similarities To NK Are "Insane" https://www.theorganicprepper.com/north-korean-defector-us-similarities-insa... https://www.nknews.org/2016/07/propaganda-starts-early-north-koreas-cruel-an... https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts We interrupt your regularly scheduled brainwashing for a dose of reality for a brave young woman who defected from North Korea in a brutal journey so she could be free. Eventually, she made it to the US to attend an Ivy League American school. Yeonmi Park has seen firsthand where the United States is headed….and it’s straight to North Korea if we don’t make changes soon. Propaganda in North Korea Anyone who saw the movie “The Interview” recognized that under the farce there was a lot of truth. Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who will not allow citizens to access the internet or learn anything about critical thinking. The propaganda in North Korea is rampant – both anti-American and pro-North Korea. For example, there’s a long-running cartoon shown to schoolchildren called “A Squirrel and Hedgehog.” Yet we should not forget that films and cartoons in North Korea send an ideological message. Usually it is very simple: all the army, the party, and the people follow the unsurpassed leaders of Mount Paektu in their march from victory to victory against the mortal enemies of the Korean people willing that the wicked American imperialists, the evil Japanese claimants of territory, and their south Korean puppets suffer defeat-after-defeat, bringing ever closer the day when they will be erased from the face of the planet. The least ideological material on North Korean TV happens to be children’s cartoon series, the most well-known which is called “A Squirrel and Hedgehog”. The story is quite simple. There is a community of good animals who live on Flower Hill, but they are attacked by an evil Weasel Legion. The Flower Hill animals respond by sending a brave squirrel named Goldie agent to infiltrate the Legion. Goldie becomes close to the evil overlord – the Weasel General – yet soon sabotages his plans, helping his allies from Flower Hill. And when the Weasel Legion is defeated in episode 26, a new enemy rises: a Jackal Legion… …The morality presented in the series is utterly black and white alike those usually in North Korean fiction. Goldie and the other Flower Hill animals are smart, noble, witty and ready to self-sacrifice. Weasels, jackals and their allies, on the other hand, are mean and treacherous cowards, longing to betray everyone they see… …Finally, and this is perhaps the saddest part of all, “A Squirrel and a Hedgehog” is actually a cruel cartoon. Here I am not merely talking about the Jackal General, who suffers a nervous breakdown in almost every episode. The cruelty is actually more associated with Goldie and his allies, who constantly call their enemies “bastards” and “scum,” using violence against a defeated enemy on a regular basis… …Outside of North Korea, most cartoons and films about wars talk about a show of compassion towards the defeated enemy and civilians, in which when the hero is forced to kill, it is not an easy thing. In North Korea, however, the mentality seems to be “We are right. The enemy is not. Kill the enemy and make him suffer.” (source) In North Korea, there is no internet, all media is state-run, and there’s only one television channel. Only one point of view is allowed to exist. From the time they start school, children in North Korea are inundated with propaganda to the point that they’re completely brainwashed. Sound familiar? Back to Yeonmi Park’s interview Yeonmi, now 27, escaped from North Korea with her mother when she was 13 years old. The journey was treacherous. She and her mother were sold to sex traffickers, then rescued by missionaries, they walked across the Gobi Desert to reach freedom. Eventually, they reached safe haven in South Korea. She wrote about her fight to live free in her 2015 memoir, In Order to Live. We’ve talked here before about a Marxist agenda in the US education system and Park agrees. When she transferred to Columbia University, she says she was deeply disturbed by what she saw. “I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think,” Park said in an interview with Fox News. “I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.” Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness. Yeonmi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school… …It only got worse from there as Yeonmi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent to the sort she had grown up with. (source) Yeonmi was baffled by what American students considered oppression. “Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like,” said Yeonmi, who by the age of 13 had witnessed people drop dead of starvation right before her eyes. “These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they’ve experienced. They don’t know how hard it is to be free,” she admonished… ….”The people here are just dying to give their rights and power to the government. That is what scares me the most.” (source) This is something we’ve witnessed to a shocking degree during the Covid pandemic, which has been used as an opportunity to change the world forever. People have given up their livelihoods, their lives, their very freedom to walk their dogs. The United States of America was not what she expected. Yeonmi had always dreamed of coming to the United States. Having come to America with high hopes and expectations, Yeonmi expressed her disappointment. “You guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend,” she said. She thought she was going to come here and learn to think critically. She accused American higher education institutions of stripping people’s ability to think critically. “In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving,” she recalled. “He’s the fattest guy – how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said ‘Look at him, he’s the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?’ Because I never learned how to think critically.” “That is what is happening in America,” she continued. “People see things but they’ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.” (source) Critical thinking is indeed becoming a lost art, particularly as anyone thinking outside the status quo gets “canceled” or “defunded.” Our country is rapidly turning into the kind of place in which only one opinion can be held. To hold a different viewpoint is practically criminalized. The worst part is that people here have chosen their path. Yeonmi is watching America go down a totalitarian path. Witnessing the depth of American’s ignorance up close has made Yeonmi question everything about humanity. “North Koreans, we don’t have Internet, we don’t have access to any of these great thinkers, we don’t know anything. But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it.” (source) We’re seeing changes though, that take us further and further toward that kind of world. Alternative news sites are shut down in a wave of virtual book-burning. Social media purges any dissenting point of view. TikTok brainwashes young people in 15-60 second intervals. University professors promote violence against those who think differently. Have things gone too far? Is it fixable? Yeonmi questions where our country goes at this point. “Where are we going from here?” she wondered. “There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it’s complete chaos.” “I guess that’s what they want, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise.” (source) There’s a playbook, we wrote it, and it’s being used to turn our once-proud nation into a parody of itself. Our very education is brainwashing students into hating our country and being ashamed of our race if we’re white. Social media inspires paroxysms of self-induced guilt over the possibility one may have accidentally micro-aggressed or not been 100% inclusive to everyone on the planet, thinking ahead of any potential handicap or mental illness that might have caused someone discomfort. Americans have become offended over practically everything and the butthurt is real. Some of it would be funny if it wasn’t so damned tragic. Critical thinking is frowned upon, canceled, and defunded. Why? Because we’re being set up for a communist takeover and the brainwashed masses will applaud. With jazz hands, of course, so they don’t “trigger” those who are bothered by loud noises. And definitely no memos will be sent announcing the changes using “frightening” all-caps. https://www.theepochtimes.com/maos-cultural-revolution-has-arrived-in-americ... "The Woke Revolution, like the Cultural Revolution, is predicated on Marxist ideology." “Their desire is not to heal but to divide, not to placate but to inflame, not to dampen but to burn.”
CLIMATE LOCKDOWN: All Travel Must Be On Foot, and you must wear belch and fart recycling masks along the way. Is A "Climate Lockdown" On The Horizon? https://off-guardian.org/2021/06/10/is-a-climate-lockdown-on-the-horizon/ https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/23/climate-is-the-new-covid/ https://www.wbcsd.org/Overview/Panorama/Articles/Avoiding-a-climate-lockdown https://www.wbcsd.org/Overview/Our-members/Members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Syndicate https://www.project-syndicate.org/about https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/end-destruction-of-nature-... https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/coronavirus-and-climate-chan... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMDa3hwUEc https://www.statista.com/chart/25001/g7-money-spent-on-fossil-fuels-and-gree... If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won’t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they’ll be rebranded as “climate lockdowns”, and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public’s head. At least, according to an article written by an employee of the WHO, and published by a mega-coporate think-tank. Let’s dive right in. THE REPORT’S AUTHOR AND BACKERS The report, titled “Avoiding a climate lockdown”, was written by Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics at University College London, and head of something called the Council on the Economics of Health for All, a division of the World Health Organization. It was first published in October 2020 by Project Syndicate, a non-profit media organization that is (predictably) funded through grants from the Open society Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many, many others. After that, it was picked up and republished by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), which describes itself as “a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.”. The WBCSD’s membership is essentially every major company in the world, including Chevron, BP, Bayer, Walmart, Google and Microsoft. Over 200 members totalling well over 8 TRILLION dollars in annual revenue. In short: an economist who works for the WHO has written a report concerning “climate lockdowns”, which has been published by both a Gates+Soros backed NGO AND a group representing almost every bank, oil company and tech giant on the planet. Whatever it says, it clearly has the approval of the people who run the world. WHAT DOES IT SAY? The text of the report itself is actually quite craftily constructed. It doesn’t outright argue for climate lockdowns, but instead discusses ways “we” can prevent them. As COVID-19 spread […] governments introduced lockdowns in order to prevent a public-health emergency from spinning out of control. In the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again – this time to tackle a climate emergency […] To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently. This cleverly creates a veneer of arguing against them, whilst actually pushing the a priori assumptions that any so-called “climate lockdowns” would a) be necessary and b) be effective. Neither of which has ever been established. Another thing the report assumes is some kind of causal link between the environment and the “pandemic”: COVID-19 is itself a consequence of environmental degradation I wrote an article, back in April, exploring the media’s persistent attempts to link the Covid19 “pandemic” with climate change. Everybody from the Guardian to the Harvard School of Public Health is taking the same position – “The root cause of pandemics [is] the destruction of nature”: The razing of forests and hunting of wildlife is increasingly bringing animals and the microbes they harbour into contact with people and livestock. There is never any scientific evidence cited to support this position. Rather, it is a fact-free scare-line used to try and force a mental connection in the public, between visceral self-preservation (fear of disease) and concern for the environment. It is as transparent as it is weak. “CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS” So, what exactly is a “climate lockdown”? And what would it entail? The author is pretty clear: Under a “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. There you have it. A “climate lockdown” means no more red meat, the government setting limits on how and when people use their private vehicles and further (unspecified) “extreme energy-saving measures”. It would likely include previously suggested bans on air travel, too. All in all, it is potentially far more strict than the “public health policy” we’ve all endured for the last year. As for forcing fossil fuel companies to stop drilling, that is drenched in the sort of ignorance of practicality that only exists in the academic world. Supposing we can switch to entirely rely on renewables for energy, we still wouldn’t be able to stop drilling for fossil fuels. Oil isn’t just used as fuel, it’s also needed to lubricate engines and manufacture chemicals and plastics. Plastics used in the manufacture of wind turbines and solar panels, for example. Coal isn’t just needed for power stations, but also to make steel. Steel which is vital to pretty much everything humans do in the modern world. It reminds me of a Victoria Wood sketch from the 1980s, where an upper-middle class woman remarks, upon meeting a coal miner, “I suppose we don’t really need coal, now we’ve got electricity.” A lot of post-fossil utopian ideas are sold this way, to people who are comfortably removed from the way the world actually works. This mirrors the supposed “recovery” the environment experienced during lockdown, a mythic creation selling a silver lining of house arrest to people who think that because they’re having their annual budget meetings over Zoom, somehow China stopped manufacturing 900 million tonnes of steel a year, and the US military doesn’t produce more pollution than 140 different countries combined. The question, really, is why would an NGO backed by – among others – Shell, BP and Chevron, possibly want to suggest a ban on drilling for fossil fuel? But that’s a discussion for another time. AVOIDING A “CLIMATE LOCKDOWN” So, the “climate lockdown” is a mix of dystopian social control, and impractical nonsense likely designed to sell an agenda. But don’t worry, we don’t have to do this. There is a way to avoid these extreme measures, the author says so: To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently […] Addressing this triple crisis requires reorienting corporate governance, finance, policy, and energy systems toward a green economic transformation […] Far more is needed to achieve a green and sustainable recovery […] we want to transform the future of work, transit, and energy use. “Overhaul”? “reorienting”? “transformation”? Seems like we’re looking at a new-built society. A “reset”, if you will, and given the desired scope, you could even call it a “great reset”, I suppose. Except, of course, the Great Reset is just a wild “conspiracy theory”. The elite doesn’t want a Great Reset, even if they keep saying they do… …they just want a massive wholesale “transformation” of our social, financial, governmental and energy sectors. They want you to own nothing and be happy. Or else. Because that’s the oddest thing about this particular article, whereas most fear-porn public programming at least attempts subtlety, there is very definitely an overtly threatening tone to this piece [emphasis added]: we are approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions […] One way or the other, radical change is inevitable; our task is to ensure that we achieve the change we want – while we still have the choice. The whole article is not an argument, so much as an ultimatum. A gun held to the public’s collective head. “Obviously we don’t want to lock you up inside your homes, force you to eat processed soy cubes and take away your cars,” they’re telling us, “but we might have to, if you don’t take our advice.” Will there be “climate lockdowns” in the future? I wouldn’t be surprised. But right now – rather than being seriously mooted – they are fulfilling a different role. A frightening hypothetical – A threat used to bully the public into accepting the hardline globalist reforms that make up the “great reset”.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/16/from-packed-stree... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/06/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democr... China's "Virus Control" Measures In Hong Kong: No Easing Lengthy Quarantine For Fully Vaccinated Execs Hong Kong has within a mere couple years gone from packed streets to silence - as The Guardian has observed following the national security law and mainland China crackdown going deep into effect, given also the arrests and exiling of young protest leaders. One UK-based photojournalist laments that "With no protests left to photograph, it seemed a good idea to take a break... But it was with a heavy heart that I watched the situation continue to deteriorate from afar." And then the streets grew eerily calm after a couple years of mass protest and unrest: "In January 2021, the authorities arrested dozens of activists under the national security law. In one fell swoop, it was as if the entire cast of characters in the story of Hong Kong’s democratic movement – one I had been covering for years – were arrested, in jail, or in exile." Remember when the Chinese Communist Party was facing the largest existential threat to its existence in HK? Pro-democracy protests in HK were out of control when…POOF everyone was gone from the streets as the virus was released. #GoodTiming #China #Wuhan https://t.co/GUQT3Tg14I — 🇺🇸Kyle Bass🇺🇸 (@Jkylebass) June 16, 2021 Some are now seeing the inexplicable reversal as yet another tool of primarily political control. Hong Kong devolving into economic monoculture https://t.co/rVekVkeB6g pic.twitter.com/MOWbppTh8E — Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) June 8, 2021
You Know It's Bad When A North Korea Defector Says That US Similarities To NK Are "Insane" https://www.theorganicprepper.com/north-korean-defector-us-similarities-insa... https://www.nknews.org/2016/07/propaganda-starts-early-north-koreas-cruel-an... https://amzn.to/3gkJ4Tk https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts We interrupt your regularly scheduled brainwashing for a dose of reality for a brave young woman who defected from North Korea in a brutal journey so she could be free. Eventually, she made it to the US to attend an Ivy League American school. Yeonmi Park has seen firsthand where the United States is headed….and it’s straight to North Korea if we don’t make changes soon. Propaganda in North Korea Anyone who saw the movie “The Interview” recognized that under the farce there was a lot of truth. Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who will not allow citizens to access the internet or learn anything about critical thinking. The propaganda in North Korea is rampant – both anti-American and pro-North Korea. For example, there’s a long-running cartoon shown to schoolchildren called “A Squirrel and Hedgehog.” Yet we should not forget that films and cartoons in North Korea send an ideological message. Usually it is very simple: all the army, the party, and the people follow the unsurpassed leaders of Mount Paektu in their march from victory to victory against the mortal enemies of the Korean people willing that the wicked American imperialists, the evil Japanese claimants of territory, and their south Korean puppets suffer defeat-after-defeat, bringing ever closer the day when they will be erased from the face of the planet. The least ideological material on North Korean TV happens to be children’s cartoon series, the most well-known which is called “A Squirrel and Hedgehog”. The story is quite simple. There is a community of good animals who live on Flower Hill, but they are attacked by an evil Weasel Legion. The Flower Hill animals respond by sending a brave squirrel named Goldie agent to infiltrate the Legion. Goldie becomes close to the evil overlord – the Weasel General – yet soon sabotages his plans, helping his allies from Flower Hill. And when the Weasel Legion is defeated in episode 26, a new enemy rises: a Jackal Legion… …The morality presented in the series is utterly black and white alike those usually in North Korean fiction. Goldie and the other Flower Hill animals are smart, noble, witty and ready to self-sacrifice. Weasels, jackals and their allies, on the other hand, are mean and treacherous cowards, longing to betray everyone they see… …Finally, and this is perhaps the saddest part of all, “A Squirrel and a Hedgehog” is actually a cruel cartoon. Here I am not merely talking about the Jackal General, who suffers a nervous breakdown in almost every episode. The cruelty is actually more associated with Goldie and his allies, who constantly call their enemies “bastards” and “scum,” using violence against a defeated enemy on a regular basis… …Outside of North Korea, most cartoons and films about wars talk about a show of compassion towards the defeated enemy and civilians, in which when the hero is forced to kill, it is not an easy thing. In North Korea, however, the mentality seems to be “We are right. The enemy is not. Kill the enemy and make him suffer.” (source) In North Korea, there is no internet, all media is state-run, and there’s only one television channel. Only one point of view is allowed to exist. From the time they start school, children in North Korea are inundated with propaganda to the point that they’re completely brainwashed. Sound familiar? Back to Yeonmi Park’s interview Yeonmi, now 27, escaped from North Korea with her mother when she was 13 years old. The journey was treacherous. She and her mother were sold to sex traffickers, then rescued by missionaries, they walked across the Gobi Desert to reach freedom. Eventually, they reached safe haven in South Korea. She wrote about her fight to live free in her 2015 memoir, In Order to Live. We’ve talked here before about a Marxist agenda in the US education system and Park agrees. When she transferred to Columbia University, she says she was deeply disturbed by what she saw. “I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think,” Park said in an interview with Fox News. “I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.” Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness. Yeonmi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school… …It only got worse from there as Yeonmi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent to the sort she had grown up with. (source) Yeonmi was baffled by what American students considered oppression. “Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like,” said Yeonmi, who by the age of 13 had witnessed people drop dead of starvation right before her eyes. “These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they’ve experienced. They don’t know how hard it is to be free,” she admonished… ….”The people here are just dying to give their rights and power to the government. That is what scares me the most.” (source) This is something we’ve witnessed to a shocking degree during the Covid pandemic, which has been used as an opportunity to change the world forever. People have given up their livelihoods, their lives, their very freedom to walk their dogs. The United States of America was not what she expected. Yeonmi had always dreamed of coming to the United States. Having come to America with high hopes and expectations, Yeonmi expressed her disappointment. “You guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend,” she said. She thought she was going to come here and learn to think critically. She accused American higher education institutions of stripping people’s ability to think critically. “In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving,” she recalled. “He’s the fattest guy – how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said ‘Look at him, he’s the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?’ Because I never learned how to think critically.” “That is what is happening in America,” she continued. “People see things but they’ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.” (source) Critical thinking is indeed becoming a lost art, particularly as anyone thinking outside the status quo gets “canceled” or “defunded.” Our country is rapidly turning into the kind of place in which only one opinion can be held. To hold a different viewpoint is practically criminalized. The worst part is that people here have chosen their path. Yeonmi is watching America go down a totalitarian path. Witnessing the depth of American’s ignorance up close has made Yeonmi question everything about humanity. “North Koreans, we don’t have Internet, we don’t have access to any of these great thinkers, we don’t know anything. But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it.” (source) We’re seeing changes though, that take us further and further toward that kind of world. Alternative news sites are shut down in a wave of virtual book-burning. Social media purges any dissenting point of view. TikTok brainwashes young people in 15-60 second intervals. University professors promote violence against those who think differently. Have things gone too far? Is it fixable? Yeonmi questions where our country goes at this point. “Where are we going from here?” she wondered. “There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it’s complete chaos.” “I guess that’s what they want, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise.” (source) There’s a playbook, we wrote it, and it’s being used to turn our once-proud nation into a parody of itself. Our very education is brainwashing students into hating our country and being ashamed of our race if we’re white. Social media inspires paroxysms of self-induced guilt over the possibility one may have accidentally micro-aggressed or not been 100% inclusive to everyone on the planet, thinking ahead of any potential handicap or mental illness that might have caused someone discomfort. Americans have become offended over practically everything and the butthurt is real. Some of it would be funny if it wasn’t so damned tragic. Critical thinking is frowned upon, canceled, and defunded. Why? Because we’re being set up for a communist takeover and the brainwashed masses will applaud. With jazz hands, of course, so they don’t “trigger” those who are bothered by loud noises. And definitely no memos will be sent announcing the changes using “frightening” all-caps.
https://mises.org/wire/why-so-many-americans-reject-legal-due-process-age-co... Americans love taking it up the ass, fuck me harder they say, we love it so much! Why So Many Americans Reject Legal Due Process In The Age Of COVID https://mises.org/power-market/covid-panic-new-war-human-rights https://mises.org/profile/bertrand-de-jouvenel The policy response to the covid panic of 2020 in the United States was one of the most widespread direct attacks on fundamental human rights in decades. Overnight—and without any deliberation, debate, or checks and balances—millions of Americans were denied their basic rights to seek employment, to freely assemble, and to engage in religious practices. Business and churches were closed, and countless Americans were ordered to stay in their homes and abandon their sources of income. This was all done with no legal process other than the issuance of edicts from a tiny handful of politicians, usually executives such as state governors and city mayors. Those who pressed for lockdowns and the effective confiscation of property—for that's what a forced business closure actually is—denied that any sort of due process or “checks and balances” were necessary. Rather, the lockdown advocates insisted that the public instead embrace unreservedly the “recommendations” of experts in government offices, who insisted that coerced lockdowns and business closures were the only reasonable response to the assumed threat of covid-19. Were one to suggest in mixed company that businesses ought to be afforded a hearing before being forcibly closed—or that an individual ought to receive some sort of due process before being deemed a “nonessential” worker—this was likely to elicit scoffing and contempt. There’s no room for due process anymore, the official narrative tells us. This new turn toward obedience to expert-fueled executive power didn’t appear from nowhere. Rather it is, in part, a manifestation of a long ideological process that has gradually replaced respect for legal checks and balances and due process with a deference to scientific experts. These experts, it is alleged, must not be subject to the slow and inefficient process of legal constraints on state power. This process is explained in a 1963 essay by French political scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel titled “The Political Consequences of the Rise of Science.”1 De Jouvenel’s basic premise is this: with the rise of liberalism in the West—what some call classical liberalism—greater care was taken to erect legal obstacles that slowed or prevented state action against individuals. This was done to ensure due process was afforded to ordinary people. This position became especially widespread and respected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as many gained a greater mistrust of government institutions and their agents. The idea was that political institutions could not seize life, liberty, or property from a person unless the state was first subjected to a reliable and stable legal process. But this due process was slow, and was backward looking in the sense that it had been built up on legal foundations of avoiding past abuses by regimes. In a certain sense, it is conservative by nature. De Jouvenel writes: Precedent is the most ancient basis of law, and the safest…. Judicial procedure is the sole remnant of the old idea of “the right way,” and therefore an islet of stable procedure in a sea of shifting processes. The most revered experts under this way of thinking were the legal experts or—to use de Jouvenel’s preferred term—the jurists, who ensured that legal process was respected so as to ensure the maintenance of legal rights. But by the twentieth century, this respect for the jurists had begun to be replaced by deference to other experts, especially to scientific experts and policy experts, who promised to be able to manage and direct society toward specific outcomes. Moreover, the public’s growing faith in technology as a means of fine-tuning society began to challenge the now seemingly old-fashioned ideas of due process and stable procedure. Consequently, de Jouvenel writes, Now the judgment has been reversed: those who operate traditionally [i.e., the jurists who demanded respect for the old legal processes] are a drag upon progress. Outcomes, rather than the legal process, become the driving motivation for policy. The model for society at this point shifts from a courtroom or parliament to a laboratory. Progress comes to be defined as the adoption of lightning-fast scientific efficiency: Social organization [under the new experts] becomes a matter for systems engineering, and specific decisions become problems of operations research…. Unwittingly and indirectly, the scientist undermines the juristic order…. Our expectation of and enthusiasm for progress are in contradiction with fidelity to “the ways of our fathers.” But the “ways of our father,” so dear to ancient moralists, have always served as a significant basis for jurists. So let’s look at how this has played out during the covid crisis. That “science” was more important than due process in the minds of a great many Americans became immediately obvious for anyone who tried to stick up for “due process” during the spring of 2020. Rather, policy became guided by the idea that experts will tell us the proper goals of government policy, and then governments were expected to impose the coercive measures necessary to achieve those goals. This process was seemingly efficient and progressive: the experts wanted X and Y, so it was expected that the state would use its police powers to force everyone to do X and Y. The end. Political debate, legislative process, and adherence to legal processes, on the other hand, became mere impediments to accomplishing these important “scientific” goals. The means through which this was to be accomplished was also explained by de Jouvenel, who noted that in the old liberal ideal of legal process, the legislature was to take the lead, with the executive acting merely to carry out the legislators’ wishes. This was the old Lockean model. But it failed to last. Rather, in a regime that defers to scientific expertise, executive power has the upper hand, and the old Lockean model is turned on its head: Science is a contributory influence to the dissolution of a juristic order. In the political realm, it is blatantly clear now that ”the executive” is nothing like what Locke imagined: he saw it as a power subordinate to the legislative, and as “seeing to” the execution of the laws. This implied that a decision of the executive should look back to the laws in force, whereas we are well aware that that such decisions in fact look forward to the results to be hoped from them. In this new model, only the executive is well suited to conform to the demands of the new model of expertise. The executive can act fast, with minimal deliberation, and with attention paid more to outcome than to process. Growing executive power is a natural fit for a society geared toward deference for technocratic experts. By this way of thinking, it’s best to just move forward and let the legislatures and courts catch up later. And this what we have seen over the past eighteen months. Experts and executives take the political lead with a variety of orders and edicts, and it’s up to the courts and the legislatures to follow the lead of “decisive” action taken in the name of science. Thus, only many months after the fact can those who oppose the executive’s preferred policies hope to regain some semblance of legal rights and due process through the courts or legislative action. By then, of course, grave damage might have already been done to human rights and economic institutions. And experience suggests that legal rights, once abolished, are exceptionally difficult to regain months or years later. The public is likely to tolerate this, however, because the new model of scientific expertise has been so successful among so much of the public. In this new way of thinking, it is important to “do something” and to “trust the experts” and to disregard legal limits on executive power. To demand otherwise is to be “against science.”
Good old fashioned Statist Political Religious Indoctrination, exceedingly present in the schools in your city too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FxfR3lg6Q Your children worship the State China Introduces "Xi Jinping Thought" Into School Curriculum For All Age Groups https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-jinping-thought-school-curric... While Beijing is busy dismantling its crony capitalism socialism with Chinese characteristics socio-economic system, as it unveils new crackdowns, rules and quasi nationalizations against its most successful private (but not for long) industries every day, China is also putting the communist propaganda into overdrive and is set to educate its youth on the version of “Marxist belief” espoused by its president by infusing “Xi Jinping Thought” into the national curriculum, its ministry of education announced last week. Already enshrined in China’s Constitution in 2018, “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era” will be taught to thousands of students starting from primary school level up into university, the Independent reports. Aimed at indoctrinating Marxist beliefs at a young age as well as loyalty to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, the introduction of “Xi Jinping Thought” in textbooks - similar to what the USSR did - will help strengthen the “resolve to listen to and follow the party”, the state-run Global Times reported, citing an official statement. It will also help teenagers gain confidence in the “path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics”, it said. And with China announcing overnight it would limit children to playing online games for just 3 hours a week, think of just how much more effective China's communist propaganda will be now in brainwashing its youth. The national curriculum will be revised to accommodate the 14-point ideological text and will span basic, vocational and higher education in school. It will also be integrated into various subjects, the report said, quoting a member of the National Textbook Committee. At the earliest stage, primary schools will be tasked with helping children cultivate a love for their country, the Communist Party and socialism, the report said. In middle schools, the focus will be on a combination of perceptual experience and knowledge study which will help students shape basic political judgments and opinions, all wrapped by the overarching intellectual prerogatives of communism, or at least "communism" where a handful of party oligarchs are worth billions and everyone else is an aspiring debt slave. Then at the college level, students will learn about theoretical thinking - by this we can only assume students will "learn" how to reverse engineer western scientific achievements. The 14-point “Xi Jinping Thought” says that the Chinese Communist Party leadership should be ensured over “all forms of work in China”, the party should take a people-centric approach for the public interest, it should govern China with the rule of law and practise socialist core values like Marxism and communism among others. It also says that the Xi Jinping-led party should have “absolute leadership” over the armed forces, and espouses an unerring belief in the One China principle what it comes to the country’s borders. The above represents the latest move to cement the Communist Party’s position generally and Xi’s in particular. Which is fitting for a country which three years quietly became a dictatorship: The 68-year-old Xi abolished presidential term limits in 2018, extending his rule indefinitely.
Fight Back! Australia Could Force Citizens To Report Their Location On-Demand Via Government Tracking App https://summit.news/2021/09/02/australia-could-force-citizens-to-report-thei... https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1433463433236815878 https://summit.news/2021/08/13/authorities-wont-hesitate-to-go-door-to-door-... The government of South Australia is running a trial for a system that could eventually force citizens to take a photo of themselves via a government app to report their location on demand within 15 minutes of authorities requesting it, or face a police investigation. Yes, really. The revelation was highlighted in an Atlantic piece by Conor Friedersdorf which questions whether Australia can still call itself a liberal democracy in light of the crippling restrictions it has placed on its own population. With no end in sight for the lifting of the country’s brutal lockdown, Aussies could face even more invasive state intrusion into their private lives under the justification of stopping the spread of the virus. The South Australian government is preparing to roll out an app that “will contact people at random asking them to provide proof of their location within 15 minutes,” according to reports. If people refuse to report their location or are unable to do so, police are then dispatched to hunt them down. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” said Premier Steven Marshall. This is barely much different from literally fitting people with electronic ankle bracelets that track their every movement like prisoners under home arrest, a policy that was actually considered by Australian authorities earlier this year. No matter your views of COVID, what's happening in Australia is alarming, extreme and dangerous. https://t.co/Ep7fOqiHUJ — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 2, 2021 “No matter your views of COVID, what’s happening in Australia is alarming, extreme and dangerous,” remarked journalist Glenn Greenwald. As we have exhaustively highlighted, Australia has enforced one of the most draconian lockdowns in the world in an effort to pursue a disastrous ‘zero COVID’ strategy. Last month, the Premier of Victoria asserted that authorities “won’t hesitate” to go “door-to-door” to carry out mandatory COVID tests on Australians. Aussies were also ordered not to talk to each other, even while wearing masks, while people who merely post anti-lockdown information online could also face fines of up to $11,000 dollars under an absurdly authoritarian new law.
When are you ever going to learn? You see, it's very simple, you didn't fight back since decades, so now all us GovCorp are fucking you even more... Federal Use Of Facial Recognition Technology Expanding: GAO Report https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-e... https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-526 https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-518.pdf https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4635 https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/fac... A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) survey shows that at least 10 federal agencies have plans to expand their use of facial recognition technology over the next two years—a prospect that alarms privacy advocates who worry about a lack of oversight. The GAO released the results of a survey of 24 federal agencies, finding that 18 of them use facial recognition technology. Fourteen of those agencies use the tech for routine activity, such as unlocking agency-issued smartphones, while six reported using facial recognition software for criminal investigations and five others use the technology for surveillance, the Aug. 24 report found. “For example, [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] reported that it used an FRT system (AnyVision) to monitor its facilities by searching live camera feeds in real-time for individuals on watchlists or suspected of criminal activity, which reduces the need for security guards to memorize these individuals’ faces,” the GAO said. “This system automatically alerts personnel when an individual on a watchlist is present.” According to the GAO, at least 10 government agencies plan to expand their use of facial recognition technology through 2023. To do so, many agencies are turning to the private sector. For example, “[the] U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations reported it began an operational pilot using Clearview AI in June 2020, which supports the agency’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigations,” the GAO said. “The agency reported it already collects facial images with mobile devices to search national databases and plans to enhance searches by accessing Clearview AI’s large repository of facial images from open sources to search for matches.” The GAO’s Aug. 24 report follows June research that focused specifically on law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology. The GAO’s June report revealed the vast troves of data held by federal law enforcement, including 836 million images held by the Department of Homeland Security alone. The June report also revealed the lack of oversight regarding facial recognition technology. According to the report, 13 of the 20 federal law enforcement agencies that use the technology didn’t know what systems they use. “For example, when we requested information from one of the agencies about its use of non-federal systems, agency officials told us they had to poll field division personnel because the information was not maintained by the agency,” the report said. “These agency officials also told us that the field division personnel had to work from their memory about their past use of non-federal systems and that they could not ensure we were provided comprehensive information about the agency’s use of non-federal systems.” The lack of oversight of the government’s use of surveillance technology is an issue that has drawn the attention of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. Democrats have largely focused on the racial disparities in the accuracy of facial recognition, while some Republicans have expressed concerns about domestic surveillance. Michigan resident Robert Williams, a Black man who was wrongly arrested in January after Detroit police incorrectly identified him as a felon based on shoddy facial recognition technology, testified about such problems at a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing. “Why is law enforcement even allowed to use such technology when it obviously doesn’t work?” Williams said to lawmakers July 13. “I get angry when I hear companies, politicians, and police talk about how this technology isn’t dangerous or flawed or say that they only use it as an investigative tool. “If any of that was true, I wouldn’t have been arrested.” Williams said he supports the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which would halt the use of facial recognition technology by federal agencies until that use was authorized by Congress. However, little action has been taken on the measure—though Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) reintroduced the legislation in June. With inaction on the federal level, states and localities have taken to curbing the use of facial recognition technology. The state of Washington enacted a law in March 2020 that requires government agencies to obtain a warrant to run facial recognition scans. Local jurisdictions such as Oakland, San Francisco, and King County, Washington, have also banned government use of the technology. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) support such efforts, arguing that the expansion of facial recognition technology must be halted until lawmakers can enact safeguards. Others have cautioned against banning useful technology in the zeal to protect privacy. “Critics miss the fact that the benefits of law enforcement use of facial recognition are well-proven—they are used today to help solve crimes, identify victims, and find witnesses—and most of the concerns about the technology remain hypothetical,” the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a largely pro-tech industry think tank, stated. “In fact, critics of the technology almost always make a ‘slippery slope’ argument about the potential threat of expanding police surveillance, rather than pointing to specific instances of harm. Banning the technology now would do more harm than good.”
Quantitative Brainwashing https://internationalman.com/articles/quantitative-brainwashing/ https://internationalman.com/the-most-dangerous-event-of-the-21st-century/ We’re all familiar with the term, “quantitative easing.” It’s described as meaning, “A monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.” Well, that sounds reasonable… even beneficial. But, unfortunately, that’s not really the whole story. When QE was implemented, the purchasing power was weak and both government and personal debt had become so great that further borrowing would not solve the problem; it would only postpone it and, in the end, exacerbate it. Effectively, QE is not a solution to an economic problem, it’s a bonus of epic proportions, given to banks by governments, at the expense of the taxpayer. But, of course, we shouldn’t be surprised that governments have passed off a massive redistribution of wealth from the taxpayer to their pals in the banking sector with such clever terms. Governments of today have become extremely adept at creating euphemisms for their misdeeds in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the populace. At this point, we cannot turn on the daily news without being fed a full meal of carefully-worded mumbo jumbo, designed to further overwhelm whatever small voices of truth may be out there. Let’s put this in perspective for a moment. For millennia, political leaders have been in the practice of altering, confusing and even obliterating the truth, when possible. And it’s probably safe to say that, for as long as there have been media, there have been political leaders doing their best to control them. During times of war, political leaders have serially restricted the media from simply telling the truth. During the American civil war, President Lincoln shut down some 300 newspapers and arrested some 14,000 journalists who had the audacity to contradict his statements to the public. As extreme as that may sound, this practice has been more the rule in history than the exception. In most countries, in most eras, some publications go against the official story line and may very well pay a price for doing so. But, other publications go along with the official story line to a greater or lesser degree and are often rewarded for doing so. It should come as no surprise, then, that media outlets often come to report the news in a less than accurate manner. Mark Twain is claimed to have said, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” Quite so. Still, only fifty years ago, much of the then “Free World” enjoyed a relatively objective Press. Even on television, reporters such as Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, etc. presented the news in a bland manner. It wasn’t very exciting, but at least it was relatively balanced and, to this day, most people who were around then still have no idea as to whether reporters like Walter Cronkite were liberal or conservative. Although he was a committed Democrat, he never allowed that to significantly colour his reporting. But today, we have a very different corporate structure as regards the media. The same six corporations hold the controlling interest of over 80% of the media. And those same corporations also own a controlling interest in the military industrial complex, Wall Street, the major banks, Big Pharma, etc. What we’re witnessing today is media having been transformed into something more akin to a three-ring circus than journalism of old. This is no accident. The present travesty that is the 21st century media, is journalism in name only. So, why should this be so? Well, as it happens, people tend not to like governments dominating their lives – simple as that. And yet, the primary objective of any government is to increase its size and power as rapidly as the populace will tolerate it. The only reason that they rarely do this quickly, is that they can’t get away with it. Like boiling a frog, it takes time to lull the populace into submission, bit by bit. Once having had enough time to do so, there comes a point at which the government becomes woefully top-heavy, as well as unworkably autocratic. At such times, all that’s necessary to make people rebel is an economic crisis. Such is the case in much of the world today – the EU, the US, Canada, etc.. Even in their arrogance, the powers that be have to be aware that they’re right at the tipping point. An economic crisis would almost certainly push the situation over the edge. When truth threatens to undermine machinations for self-aggrandizement, individuals tend to obfuscate in order to delay the inevitable fallout. Governments are no different. So it was that, in 1999, the largest banks entered into a massive lending scam that would most certainly collapse within a decade. However, before putting the scam in place, they arranged for a “bailout” by the government, which would effectively pass the bill to the taxpayer, while the banks themselves simply increased their own wealth massively. Of course, QE, as massive as it was, was a mere Band-Aid solution. All those involved (big business and the government) understood that it would hang like a sword of Damocles over the economy until it inevitably came crashing down – a fate far worse than if QE had never been implemented. And so, for those entities to have invested into the domination of the media was, in fact, essential. Had they not done so, it’s entirely likely that, with a free press, the man on the street would, by now, have figured out that he’d been hoodwinked. Thus do we see the journalistic equivalent of Quantitative Brainwashing, in which the inevitable realization is delayed for as long as possible. And, in order to make sure that the public do not figure out what’s been done to them, the news reporting becomes Orwellian in its endless repetition of a false narrative. It is, however, true that, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Eventually, the Band-Aid peels back to reveal an infection that’s far beyond what had been generally perceived. It then falls away in layers, as increasing numbers of people become aware that they’ve been scammed – that the media is entirely corrupt and that the media’s owners – big business - have, with the enthusiastic compliance of the government, robbed them on a wholesale basis. Historically, that’s when the jig is up. What happens then is a matter of historic record.
Political Power Grab Propaganda 101: Invoke Doom, use the words "We" and "Must" a lot, Cry, say you're Scared, Invoke Dead Family, etc... on National TV... https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1376557200433410050 https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1376558407990251520 “I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom," Walensky said, appearing to hold back tears. "We do not have the luxury of inaction. For the health of our country, we must work together now to prevent a fourth surge." CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky goes off script with an emotional plea to the public about an “impending doom” following rise in COVID cases: “Right now, I’m scared.” pic.twitter.com/UKjrRhr7He — The Recount (@therecount) March 29, 2021 "Right now, I'm scared," Walesky exclaimed. “I’m speaking today not necessarily as your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer," In a stunningly emotional outburst during this morning's COVID-19 Response press conference, new CDC Director Rochelle Walensky went "off-script" (though if one watches here eyes it appears she is very much reading a script) to warn the public about her "impending doom" following a rise in COVID cases and hospitalizations. Out trots the Saviour.... Of course, Fauci knows why: "I think the reason we’re seeing this plateauing and the increase that I hope doesn’t turn into a surge is because we are really doing things prematurely right now with regard to opening up." "We’re essentially pleading with people even though we have an urge particularly with the warm weather to just cut loose," NIAID director Anthony Fauci said. Then... the Debunking hits them... Saturday, Texas’ seven-day Covid positivity rate reached an all-time low of 5.27%, while hospitalisations fell to their lowest level since October, according to the latest state data. The state recorded 2,292 new coronavirus cases, about 500 fewer on average from last week, and 107 new deaths. The number of people hospitalised with coronavirus, meanwhile, dipped to 3,308. In other words, lifting the mask mandate and re-opening the state did not lead to the health catastrophe predicted by all the 'experts', in fact the opposite happened. "Does the Biden administration really need to fearmonger about COVID to such a degree to distract from the border crisis?"
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NV7FVX4Kzc0/ James Giordano, West Point 2018: "The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future" "Dr. James Giordano, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program and Scholar-in-Residence in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University, speaks to cadets and faculty about how advancements in neuroscience and neurotechnology will impact the future of war. This event was hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point." Mirrored from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N02SK9yd60s https://www.bitchute.com/video/IbDuBhBKkOCK/ Alan Watt - Psychology of Coercion https://www.bitchute.com/video/qrKj63fBm51C/ Aaron Russo - Globalist Agenda https://www.bitchute.com/video/hFHRNGX1Z7M5/ Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick https://www.bitchute.com/video/sCViwvcoLk4/ Alan Watt - Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order https://www.bitchute.com/video/9kNjP7ZOVrk2/ Alan Watt - How Behavioral Scientists Terrify and Manipulate the Public during the Plandemic http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/DonationsAccepted.html Alan Watt https://www.bitchute.com/video/4TkFmmdmk50/ Industrial Society and Its Future (Unabomber Manifesto) by Ted Kaczynski (Full Audiobook) https://www.bitchute.com/video/KlcE9CjI9qbI/ 1984 Becoming A Reality
They Are Creating The Biggest Witch Hunt In American History http://endoftheamericandream.com/they-are-creating-the-biggest-witch-hunt-in... http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/there-is-no-turning-back-after-this http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/a-federal-employee-just-announced-o... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-many-americans-will-buck-biden-s... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/post-abc-poll-coronavirus/2021/09/04... https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/americans-biden-economy-coronavirus/... Prior to this pandemic, if you wanted to weed out all of the “troublemakers”, “independent thinkers” and “non-conformists” from our society, how would you have done it? I suppose that sending everyone a questionnaire asking them what they believe would be one way to do it, but of course a lot of people would give false answers and many others would simply ignore the questionnaire. Social media profiles contain a wealth of information, but many “non-conformists” are not even on social media and digging through all of that data would take an extraordinary amount of time, money and energy. Up until just recently, there just hasn’t been an easy and efficient way to identify those that are not eager servants of the system. But now the COVID vaccines have changed everything. These injections are the perfect litmus test, because “troublemakers”, “independent thinkers” and “non-conformists” are pretty much the only ones that are refusing the shots at this point. This makes it exceptionally easy to divide American citizens into two categories, and it also gives authorities a perfect excuse to push all of those “troublemakers”, “independent thinkers” and “non-conformists” to the fringes of society. As I discussed yesterday, I was literally sick to my stomach as I pondered the implications of Biden’s tyrannical new decrees. Originally, Biden and other Democratic leaders were against any sort of vaccine mandates, but now I think that they have realized that mandates are a tool that they can use to fundamentally reshape our society. If you don’t understand where I am going with this, just keep reading, because it will become extremely clear by the end of this article. Biden’s new decrees cover almost every major institution in our society. Just think about it. Any “major institution” is almost certainly going to be employing more than 100 people, and all such organizations are covered by Biden’s mandates. In addition to businesses of various sizes, we are also talking about colleges, schools, churches, non-profits, political entities, sports teams and charitable organizations. Millions of Americans that are employed by such institutions could be forced to leave their positions if they refuse to comply with what Biden is demanding. And the rules that the Biden administration is coming up with will require the institutions to be the enforcers of these draconian new measures. Your bosses will be forced to make sure that you are submitting to the new rules, because if not they could be hit with massive fines. In my last article I used the word “sickening” to describe what Biden is trying to do to all of us, but the truth is that word is not nearly strong enough. What we are facing is a complete and total national nightmare, and it isn’t going to end any time soon. Biden’s new mandates are even stricter for employees of the federal government. Previously, employees of the federal government were at least given the option to undergo regular testing if they didn’t want to be vaccinated, but now that option is being taken away. So now millions of federal employees will have to choose between their principles and their careers. And considering the fact that so many of these people are barely providing for their families right now, a lot of really heartbreaking choices are going to have to be made. Earlier today, I posted a video from a woman that works for the U.S. Treasury Department. After all these years, she publicly announced on social media that she is going to leave her job because of Biden’s new mandates. And countless others will follow her out the door. Biden’s new decrees will also force nearly everyone in the entire healthcare industry to either get vaccinated or give up their careers. What a horribly cruel thing to do. Biden is essentially putting a gun to the heads of these people. So many of them spent an enormous amount of time, energy and money to get their educations, and now Biden is telling them that they have to sacrifice everything that they have worked for if they will not comply with his demands. As I pointed out yesterday, healthcare workers won’t just be forced out of their current jobs. Because virtually every health care provider in the entire country accepts Medicaid and Medicare, those that refuse to comply will essentially be banned from the entire industry. At a time when a shortage of qualified workers is causing chaos throughout our economy, Biden’s tyrannical orders could force millions of Americans to suddenly lose their jobs. This is an incredibly foolish thing to do, and it could have very serious ramifications in the years ahead. Sadly, it won’t just be a few people quitting their jobs. A poll that was just conducted discovered that 72 percent of unvaccinated Americans said that they would quit their current jobs rather than be vaccinated… Many making this argument have cited a Washington Post-ABC News poll released over the weekend. It showed that just 18 percent unvaccinated people whose employers don’t currently have mandates said they would likely get vaccinated if their employer required it. About 7 in 10 (72 percent) said that, if they couldn’t get a medical or religious exemption, they would probably quit rather than submit to the requirement. I don’t know what is going on behind the scenes, but it is my opinion that Kamala Harris has had a lot of influence in the recent decisions that Biden has been making. She has always had authoritarian tendencies, and if she ever becomes president that will truly be a catastrophic scenario. Needless to say, Biden’s new mandates are going to cause great anxiety for millions upon millions of people, and a recent CNN poll found that the mood of the country was already heading in a very negative direction… The new poll finds 69% of Americans say things in the country today are going badly, below the pandemic-era high of 77% reached in January just before President Joe Biden took office but well above the 60% who felt that way in a March CNN poll. And 62% say that economic conditions in the US are poor, up from 45% in April and nearly as high as the pandemic-era peak of 65% reached in May 2020. My hope is that Republican governors will fight Biden’s new decrees with everything that they have got. Because the truth is that this is one of the most critical moments in U.S. history. Our most basic liberties and freedoms are under full assault, and we really are descending into full-blown tyranny. If Biden’s new mandates are not overturned by the courts, millions of Americans that love liberty and freedom could be forced from their jobs. It would truly be a witch hunt of unprecedented size and scope, and it would represent the greatest purge of “troublemakers”, “independent thinkers” and “non-conformists” that any of us have ever witnessed.
McMaken: Biden's Vaccine Mandates Are All About Power https://mises.org/wire/bidens-vaccine-mandates-its-about-power https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/30/1022867219/... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9923879/Diabetes-surges-American-... Last week, the Biden administration announced sweeping new mandates. The new mandates require that all employers with more than one hundred workers require workers to be vaccinated or to test for the virus weekly. The mandates also require covid vaccinations for the 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid. Moreover, vaccines are mandated for all employees of the federal government’s executive branch, and for all contractors who do business with the federal government. There is no option to test out in these cases. The new mandates extend an earlier mandate from this summer which required vaccinations for nursing home staff to other healthcare settings, including hospitals, home health agencies, and dialysis centers. Employees who don’t conform face termination. Employers who don’t play ball face the wrath of federal regulators. Clearly, this represents yet another dangerous frontier in using a perceived or real crisis to justify an immense expansion in state power and state control over the population. The Vaccinated Still Spread the Disease The reasons given for the mandate continue to shift. Some supporters of vaccine mandates continue to claim that the continued spread of covid-19 ought to be blamed on the unvaccinated. Yet the facts do not support this position. We know that the vaccinated spread the disease freely, even if the vaccinated do not suffer the effects of the disease to the same extent as the unvaccinated. The infected vaccinated even carry a viral load similar to the unvaccinated. In fact, health officials so freely admit that the vaccinated spread the disease, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends mask mandates for the vaccinated. Some other advocates of mandates, recognizing the incoherence of the “stop the spread” position, instead have reverted to the same rationale behind the old “flatten the curve” slogan of 2020. In this case, it is asserted that the unvaccinated are more likely to need hospitalization and thus are using up “too many” beds in intensive care units. That is, it’s no longer about stopping the spread of the disease, but about limiting use of medical resources. The Return of “Flatten the Curve” As with the old “flatten the curve” claims, this raises the question of why only covid patients are the target of federal mandates and public shaming. If failure to get vaccinated constitutes an “unhealthy choice” that must be punished with threats of losing one’s job, why are other unhealthy choices ignored? Hospital beds are frequently filled with patients who overdose on drugs, chain smoke, or allow themselves to become morbidly obese. In fact, type 2 diabetes—which is entirely preventable—increased by 95 percent from 2001 to 2017, especially among the young. If one mentions the unhealthy choices that sent these patients to intensive care, one is likely to be accused of “fat shaming” or blaming the victim. On the other hand, singling out vaccine-hesitant Americans for financial ruin should they refuse the vaccine is greeted with cheers and applause. Abandoning Limits on Government Power These arguments in favor of mandates, of course, are all premised on the idea that the federal government should be unrestrained in its ability to impose “solutions” to various perceived or real crises. The question of legal authority for such acts seems almost academic at this point. It has become abundantly clear that the federal government—and especially the executive branch—regards legal and constitutional limits on federal power as mere inconveniences to be ignored. Debates over constitutionality are now, for the most part, a relic of an earlier age. Just as the Trump administration invented a new federal power to regulate evictions at rental properties—with little political opposition—the Biden administration’s vaccine dictates for all private employers of a certain size are remarkable in their scope and unprecedented nature. The notion that a single person—a president—can regulate, with a stroke of a pen, the terms of employment for countless private sector employers is striking, even in this era of nearly untrammeled federal power. Using Federal Spending to Get Compliance Moreover, thanks to the growth of government spending and subsidies—such as Medicare and Medicaid—which now extend into so many American institutions nationwide, the federal government doesn’t even need to directly force compliance. The federal government can simply say, “If you want our money, do what we say.” After decades of conditioning America’s institutions to become addicted to federal money, this method becomes easier every year. The exercise of so much direct federal power over 330 million Americans ought to be alarming. Yet for many Americans—likely around half of them—it will not be alarming at all. Notions of due process, natural rights, and decentralized state power are nearly without meaning to this portion of the population. The Triumph of the Technocracy Rather, the vaccine mandates represent merely the latest example of how the ruling class and much of the public supports a utilitarian technocratic state unrestrained by old classical liberal limitations on state power. In the minds of countless Americans, second thoughts about granting governments vast new powers is an old-fashioned and contemptible habit. What matters now is granting kind-hearted government agents the prerogatives to “do something.” The groundwork for all this has been laid for decades in universities, public elementary schools, and in the media. The advent of “covid policy,” with its lockdowns and vaccine mandates, is simply the latest manifestation in the tradition of the PATRIOT Act and the War on Drugs. This thinking has been embraced by both Left and Right, as both sides have sought federal action for their pet projects. Yet the danger of the current “war on covid” is that it is nearly inescapable for the population as a whole. The intrusiveness of these policies—combined with the repugnance of a policy designed to force medication on millions of Americans—place them at a level above other government “wars” in the name of safety or “public health.” Those who can resist mandates must do so. Even today, some avenues remain through the federal courts. And in recent years, state governments have shown an increasing willingness to openly oppose federal acts. But until Americans begin to deny the moral permissiveness of “federal mandates” altogether, little progress will be made. As Ludwig von Mises repeatedly pointed out, only the power of ideas is sufficient to provide real limits on state power.
World Bank Abandons 'Doing Business' Report After Probe Finds IMF Boss Cheated China's Ranking Higher Bloomberg reports that International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva was cited by the World Bank in the probe.... “The changes to China’s data in Doing Business 2018 appear to be the product of two distinct types of pressure applied by bank leadership on the Doing Business team,” the World Bank said in a report Thursday. The bank cited “pressure applied by CEO Georgieva and her advisor, Mr. Djankov, to make specific changes to China’s data points in an effort to increase its ranking at precisely the same time the country was expected to play a key role in the bank’s capital increase campaign.” Georgieva served as chief executive officer of the World Bank prior to moving to head the IMF. How does she keep her job after this? is there any institution left that is not corrupt? and one more question: is every elite in China's pocket? Multiple Federal Reserve Board Members investigated... On social media, users mocked the news as potentially damning for the central bank's credibility, since even the appearance of potential corruption is enough to destroy trust in a public institution, even if Powell & Co. continue to deny that their finances have now sway over policy. None of them have placed their money in blind trusts, which are considered the gold standard for dispelling conflicts of interest.
Does the UN have a functional Dept of Sanity, or is the AI warning talk just more propaganda... Not "may pose threat" but "has, does, and will continue to harm"... UN Warns Artificial Intelligence May Pose "Negative, Even Catastrophic" Threat To Human Rights https://www.theepochtimes.com/un-warns-artificial-intelligence-may-pose-nega... The United Nations has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may pose a “negative, even catastrophic” threat to human rights and called for AI applications that are not used in compliance with human rights to be banned. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Sept. 15 urged members states to put a temporary ban on the sale and use of AI until the potential risks it poses have been addressed and adequate safeguards put in place to ensure the technology will not be abused. “We cannot afford to continue playing catch-up regarding AI—allowing its use with limited or no boundaries or oversight and dealing with the almost inevitable human rights consequences after the fact,” Bachelet said in a statement. “The power of AI to serve people is undeniable, but so is AI’s ability to feed human rights violations at an enormous scale with virtually no visibility. Action is needed now to put human rights guardrails on the use of AI, for the good of all of us,” the human rights chief added. Her remarks come shortly after her office published a report that analyzes how AI affects people’s right to privacy, as well as a string of other rights regarding health, education, freedom of movement, and freedom of expression, among others. The document includes an assessment of profiling, automated decision-making, and other machine-learning technologies. While the report notes that AI can be used for good use, and can help “societies overcome some of the great challenges of our times,” its use as a forecasting and profiling tool can drastically impact “rights to privacy, to a fair trial, to freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention and the right to life.” According to the report, numerous states and businesses often fail to carry out due diligence while rushing to incorporate AI applications, and in some cases, this has resulted in dangerous blunders, with some people reportedly being mistreated and even arrested due to flawed facial recognition software. Meanwhile, facial recognition has the potential to allow for unlimited tracking of individuals, which may well lead to an array of issues surrounding discrimination and data protection. An AI robot (L) by CloudMinds is seen during the Mobile World Conference in Shanghai on June 27, 2018. (-/AFP/Getty Images) As many AI systems rely on large data sets, further issues surrounding how this data is stored in the long-term also poses a risk, and there is potential for such data to be exploited in the future, which could post significant national security risks. “The complexity of the data environment, algorithms and models underlying the development and operation of AI systems, as well as intentional secrecy of government and private actors are factors undermining meaningful ways for the public to understand the effects of AI systems on human rights and society,” the report states. Visitors look at an AI smart city system by iFLY at the 2018 International Intelligent Transportation Industry Expo in Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province in December 2018. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Tim Engelhardt, a human rights officer in the Rule of Law and Democracy Section, warned that the situation is “dire” and that it has only become worse over the years as some countries and businesses adopt AI applications while failing to research the multiple potential risks associated with the technology. While he welcomes the EU’s agreement to “strengthen the rules on control,” he noted that a solution to the myriad of issues surrounding AI won’t be coming in the next year and that the first steps to resolve these issue need to be taken now or “many people in the world will pay a high price.” “The higher the risk for human rights, the stricter the legal requirements for the use of AI technology should be,” Bachelet added. The report and Bachelet’s comments come following July’s revelations that spyware, known as Pegasus, was used to hack the smartphones of thousands of people around the world, including journalists, government officials, and human rights activists. The phone of France’s finance minister Bruno Le Maire was just one of many being investigated amid the hack via the spyware, which was developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. NSO Group issued a statement to multiple outlets that did not address the allegations, but said that the company will “continue to provide intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world with life-saving technologies to fight terror and crime.” Speaking at the Council of Europe hearing on the implications stemming from the Pegasus spyware controversy, Bachelet said the revelations came as no surprise, given the “unprecedented level of surveillance across the globe by state and private actors.”
Catastrophic" Threat To Human Rights
Personal Tracking Devices Moving Toward A "Dangerous" New Era https://www.androidauthority.com/tracking-devices-2746349/ Tracking devices can sometimes be useful: you can attach one to your phone or wallet and know where it is at all times, for example. But the Bluetooth and ultra-wideband (UWB) tracking devices are moving towards a "dangerous new era", according to a new writeup by Android Authority. The devices are getting so small, prominent and widely available that risks of both stalking and general surveillance using them can no longer be ignored, the piece argues. It calls stalking the "biggest and most obvious threat". It can happen when a tracker, usually a thin tile-like piece of plastic, gets slipped into someone's bag, vehicle or clothing, tracking them everywhere they go. One such instance of stalking took place in 2018 when a woman in Houston said she found a Tile planted inside the console of her car, which her ex was using to follow her. The ex was charged with a misdemeanor as a result. Even overaggressive parents could take advantage of the trackers, the article argues: "An abusive husband could use trackers to follow their spouse to a shelter or the police. An overprotective mother could prevent their child from going anywhere but home or school." Surveillance is another way trackers can be abused. Android Authority writes: The more items a person tracks through first- or third-party apps, the more comprehensive surveillance can theoretically become. Let’s say you have a tracker on your backpack or laptop. If your phone and the tracker leave for a specific place every morning, it’s not hard to guess that the origin is your home, and the destination is an office or worksite. Placing another tracker on a TV remote immediately confirms your home location, and if you’re monitoring headphones or a personal electric vehicle, hackers can pick out some of your favorite haunts, like parks or the gym. Hacking into a phone could even allow an attacker to figure out where in a building devices are kept, or where a specific person sits and sleeps, the report says: "In the wrong hands, this data could be used to plan burglaries or even murders." Tracking apps could eventually even become the target of ransomware attackers, the piece suggests. And, with everything from shoes to cars in the future moving toward being trackable, you may not even know when or how you're being watched. Finally, the idea of government intrusion using such apps and trackers also becomes an obvious cautionary point. "More trackers translate into more data points for surveillance and suppressing dissent," the piece concludes.
Your Speech and Protests Shall Be Banned, and You will be Sent to the Re-Education Camps... DHS Touts Counter-Domestic Extremism Plan; Rights Groups Cite Threats To Civil Liberties https://www.theepochtimes.com/dhs-touts-counter-domestic-extremism-plan-but-... https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/UnclassSummaryofDVEAsse... https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/05/11/dhs-creates-new-center-prevention-progra... https://papersplease.org/wp/2021/05/14/more-dhs-pre-crime-policing-but-still... https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/community-investment... https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/2021_06_DHS_Target... https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/media/investigativ... https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/20-years-after-9-11-fusion-ce... Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is touting a raft of new programs aimed to combat domestic extremism—many of which are raising red flags among interest groups across the political spectrum. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on terror threats to the United States in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on Sept. 21, 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images) The new DHS plans follow a March intelligence community report that deems white supremacy and violent domestic extremism as the most dangerous terror threat to the homeland. Mayorkas made similar statements at a Sept. 21 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on counterterrorism. “Today, U.S.-based lone actors and small groups, including homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremists—who are inspired by a broad range of ideological motivations—pose the most significant and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country,” he said. These “broad range of ideological motivations” include “racial bias, perceived government overreach, conspiracy theories promoting violence, and false narratives about unsubstantiated fraud in the 2020 presidential election,” He didn’t elaborate on what he meant by “perceived government overreach” or “conspiracy theories promoting violence.” He did, however, assure lawmakers that his department is working hard to combat these perceived threats. One of the major programs touted by Mayorkas is the newly branded DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), formerly known as the Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention. In conjunction with that, the DHS is in the midst of a $77 million grant program aimed to provide state and local institutions with tools to counter extremism. The DHS first announced CP3 in May along with a new dedicated domestic terrorism branch within the Department’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A). Mayorkas told the Homeland Security panel that CP3 is helping expand the department’s ability to prevent terrorism and targeted violence “through the development of local prevention frameworks.” “Through CP3, we are leveraging community-based partnerships and evidence-based tools to address early-risk factors and ensure individuals receive help before they radicalize to violence,” he said. However, Mayorkas didn’t offer details about other elements of CP3—elements that various interest groups say pose a threat to liberty. Among the details that weren’t discussed are what CP3 says on its own site—that it “leverages behavioral threat assessment and management tools, and addresses early-risk factors that can lead to radicalization to violence.” According to human rights activist Ed Hasbrouck, consultant to the nonprofit Identity Project, this mission amounts to a pre-crime program. “CP3’s attempts to predict future crimes are to be based on behavioral patterns— i.e., profiling—and on encouraging members of the public to inform on their families, friends, and classmates,” Hasbrouck wrote when CP3 was first announced. “The problem, of course, is that the law does not permit prosecution based solely on patterns of lawful behavior,” he wrote. “With good reason: ‘precrime’ prediction is a figment of the imagination of the creators of a dystopian fantasy movie, ‘Minority Report.’” The Brennan Center for Justice has expressed similar concerns. Far from a conservative group, the Brennan Center agrees with the DHS and FBI that domestic extremism is a rising threat. “Over the past five years, from Charlottesville to Pittsburgh to El Paso, attacks by people who reject our multiracial democracy have shaken our country to its core and sparked conversation about how best to address far-right violence,” the group stated in a June report. “The Trump administration, which stoked the flames of white supremacy, ended with the ransacking of the U.S. Capitol as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.” But the Brennan Center said CP3 and the Biden administration’s overall approach to countering domestic extremism—enhanced surveillance, profiling, and the like—are the same draconian tactics government used against Muslims post-9/11. “At a time when jurisdictions around the country are considering how to reduce law enforcement involvement in mental health and social issues, CP3 prevention activities take the opposite approach. They create structures to bring a broad range of concerns about mental health and socioeconomic conditions to the attention of law enforcement as indicators of criminality without normal safeguards,” the Brennan Center stated in its June 69-page report on the issue. Not only are the DHS-Biden plans a threat to civil liberties; they’re also proven to be ineffective, the Brennan Center said. The Brennan Center report paid particular focus to DHS “fusion centers”—law enforcement compounds scattered throughout the United States that seek to integrate federal, state, and local intelligence. The goal of fusion centers is to create partnerships between varying agencies and the private sector to share intelligence on threats to public safety so law enforcement has the whole picture and can “connect the dots.” Citing congressional reports from 2012, the Brennan Center stated that these fusion centers have proven to be ineffective. Those reports found that the DHS spent $289 million to $1.4 billion in public funds to support state and local fusion centers since 2003, with little results to show. “Instead of looking for terrorist threats, fusion centers were monitoring lawful political and religious activity. That year, the Virginia Fusion Center described a Muslim get-out-the-vote campaign as ‘subversive,’” the Brennan Center stated in its June report. “In 2009, the North Central Texas Fusion Center identified lobbying by Muslim groups as a possible threat.” Seemingly little has improved since then. Earlier in September, NBC News revealed an investigation into fusion centers. The report starts with an anecdote of Mike Sena, the president of the National Fusion Center Association, bragging that the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) helped stop a mall shooting attack in Santa Clara. NBC News found that Sena was apparently stretching the extent to which his fusion center helped. “We don’t have any information showing that NCRIC was involved,” said Steven Aponte, a San Jose Police Department spokesperson. The Brennan Center stated in its June report that the Biden administration is inappropriately involving law enforcement in social problems and should focus on “community investment, not criminalization.” “Communities around the United States should not need to sign up for a counterterrorism program to get resources for their schools, universities, places of worship, or social institutions,” the Brennan Center stated. “Government commitments should directly address these as social problems rather than treat those experiencing them as potential violent criminals, and should wall off programs addressing social ills from law enforcement across levels of government.”
Astonishing Tyranny Keeps Growing https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/australias-astonishing-tyranny-keeps-gro... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/cia-goes-full-woke-in-new-recruiting-cam... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/leaving-tire-marks-on-the-road-is-now-a-... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/delta-variant-throws-the-world-back-into... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/uk-to-issue-vaccine-passports-to-people-... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/australian-town-executes-rescue-dogs-bec... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/zip-a-dee-doo-dah-not-inclusive-enough-f... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/when-government-incompetence-and-overrea... In the early summer of 1798, an Irish stone mason named Philip Cunningham reached his breaking point. Cunningham was sick and tired of English rule in Ireland. And along with 50,000 of his fellow Irishmen, Cunningham picked up a weapon and started in uprising against Great Britain. Their rebellion was a complete disaster; the rebels hoped that the British army was too weak to resist after their defeat in the American Revolution. But within a few short months the British had regained tight control of Ireland. Naturally their first order of business was to round up all the remaining rebels— and Cunningham was among them. His punishment was being shipped off to a British penal colony in the south Pacific, in a place that was generally known at the time as “New Holland”. Today we call it Australia. Cunningham wasn’t one to accept his fate easily. Even while en route to Australia, he and other prisoners briefly managed to take over the ship… though British marines eventually regained control and gave Cunningham 100 lashes. But Cunningham still wasn’t finished. A few years later in March of 1804, he led about 300 Australian prisoners in yet another rebellion against their British jailers. That rebellion was so severe that the British governor was forced to declare martial law— the first, but certainly not the last time in Australia’s history this would happen. It’s ironic that, each year, ‘Australia Day’ is celebrated on January 26, which commemorates the day that the British Navy first sailed into Sydney Cove, hoisted their flag, and declared the land their penal colony. So Australia Day does not celebrate the birth of a nation so much as the ribbon-cutting of a giant prison. Clearly in 2021, Australia has simply been returning to its roots as the world’s largest prison. You know the story by now— “two weeks to control the spread” of COVID-19 became “indefinite dictatorship and total suspension of basic human rights.” Over the course of the last 18 months, Australia’s state and federal governments have: Banned citizens from leaving the country without permission. Banned citizens from entering the country, with threat of five years in prison. Banned citizens and residents from crossing state borders. Banned citizens and residents from traveling further than 5k from home without permission. Ironically, an Australian government website lays out citizens’ “right to freedom of movement” and says that this very basic human right “cannot be made dependent on establishing a purpose or reason for leaving.” But Australia doesn’t have to follow its own rules, nor care about the human rights of all the little people, because it’s an emergency. In the name of COVID Australian police and government officials have also: Tracked a large fast food order to a party to fine guests $26,000 for an unauthorized gathering. Deployed the military to enforce lockdowns. Deployed helicopters to threaten young healthy men playing soccer. Told people not to talk to their neighbors. Executed several dogs to prevent rescue workers from coming to the town. Arrested a pregnant mom in front of her kids for posting about an anti-lockdown rally on social media. Refused to grant a travel exception to a three year old boy visiting his grandparents separated from his parents for months, because of a surprise border closure. Caused a newborn infant to die because the mother was denied permission to travel across state borders for medical care. It is also now illegal to plan, publicize, or participate in protests. The right to peaceably assemble and hold public protests against unjust government actions is enshrined in the Western legal tradition. But for organizing protests against the Australian government’s tyranny, Anthony Khallouf has been sentenced to several months in prison. His “crimes” include not complying with COVID decrees, and “encouraging the commission of crimes”— that is, sharing information about the time and location of protests. He is a political prisoner, like many of his forebears. But at least Philip Cunningham was imprisoned because he engaged in actual violence. Khallouf, on the other hand, was found guilty of… illegally crossing Australian state borders. That hasn’t stopped the protests however. Thousands of Australian construction workers, for example, protested because they refuse to be coerced into vaccination against their will. They actually were peaceful protestors. For real. They literally sang the national anthem. Yet police pepper sprayed them and fired rubber bullets into the crowd of thousands (which included children). Perhaps even more diabolical is that the government restricted the media from showing footage of the event as it was happening, and restricted airspace to prevent media helicopters from filming. That didn’t stop people on the ground from recording it with their phones. In one exchange, a protestor filmed a police officer agreeing, “I’m just as over this fucking [lockdown] as you are,” but, “we get paid to do this [fire on peaceful protestors] mate…” I’m just doing my job. I’m just following orders. Other police were caught on video going door-to-door to ask residents if they planned to attend, or knew of any planned protests. They asked one homeowner if he is on any social media platforms, but declined to tell him why they targeted that particular address. What’s really crazy is that this authoritarianism goes beyond COVID hysteria. Australia’s parliament has passed a new bill eradicating Australians’ right to digital privacy. It’s called “Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021.” It gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) sweeping new powers to not just surveil Australian citizens online, but also take over and run their online accounts, lock the actual user out of the account, and add or delete data. The police never have to notify a person that their account has been hacked by the government. What they are calling “warrants” actually do not always require an actual court or judge to sign off. An “emergency authorisation,” allows police to bypass the courts entirely. And why should anyone be concerned about that? It’s not like the Australian government has ever abused its emergency powers before… The right to travel, the right to protest, the right to privacy, the right to due process, the right to leave your home and earn a living— these are basic human rights that are now gone in Australia. It should be obvious by now to every citizen of any Western nation that never-ending “emergency powers” can easily snowball into a full-blown dictatorship. There is no reason it couldn’t happen to other formerly free nations as well. And that means, more than ever before, it’s time to think about a Plan B.
Military Leaders Saw Pandemic As Unique Opportunity To Test Propaganda On Canadians: Report https://nationalpost.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pa... A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghan war... Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes. The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau. Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau PHOTO BY ADRIAN WYLD /The Canadian Press But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report. The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that “information operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept.” A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by this newspaper using the Access to Information law. The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for “shaping” and “exploiting” information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic. A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario. Data was also compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings and BLM leaders. Senior military officers claimed that information was needed to ensure the success of Operation Laser, the Canadian Forces mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID-19 and to aid in the distribution of vaccines in some northern communities. BLM organizers have questioned why military officials gathered information on their initiative, pointing out they followed pandemic rules and did not hold any gatherings outside LTC homes. Then chief of the defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance shut down the CJOC propaganda initiative after a number of his advisers questioned the legality and ethics behind the plan. Vance then brought in Gosselin to examine how CJOC was able to develop and launch the propaganda operation without approval. Gosselin’s investigation discovered the plan wasn’t simply the idea of “passionate” military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was “clearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.” Those in the command saw the pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test out such techniques on Canadians. The views put forth by Rear Adm. Brian Santarpia, then CJOC’s chief of staff, summed up the command’s attitude, Gosselin noted in his report. “This is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,” the rear admiral stated. The command saw the military’s pandemic response “as an opportunity to monitor and collect public information in order to enhance awareness for better command decision making,” Gosselin determined. Gosselin also pointed out CJOC staff had a “palpable dismissive attitude” toward the advice and concerns raised by other military leaders. The directive for the propaganda plan was issued by CJOC on April 8, 2020, but it took until May 2 of that year before Vance’s order to shut it down took effect. Gosselin recommended a comprehensive review of Canadian Forces information operations policies and directives, particularly those that may impact any activities for domestic missions. There is an ongoing debate inside national defence headquarters in Ottawa about the use of information operations techniques. Some public affairs officers, intelligence specialists and senior planners want to expand the scope of such methods in Canada to allow them to better control and shape government information that the public receives. Others inside headquarters worry that such operations could lead to abuses, including having military staff intentionally mislead the Canadian public or taking measures to target opposition MPs or those who criticize government or military policy. Military propaganda training and initiatives within Canada over the last year have proved to be controversial. The Canadian Forces had to launch an investigation after a September 2020 incident when military information operations staff forged a letter from the Nova Scotia government warning about wolves on the loose in a particular region of the province. The letter was inadvertently distributed to residents, prompting panicked calls to Nova Scotia officials who were unaware the military was behind the deception. The investigation determined the reservists conducting the operation lacked formal training and policies governing the use of propaganda techniques were not well understood by the soldiers. Yet another review centred on the Canadian Forces public affairs branch and its activities. Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts. The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians. Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defence analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability. The Canadian Forces also spent more than $1 million to train public affairs officers on behaviour modification techniques of the same sort used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company implicated in a 2016 data-mining scandal to help Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election campaign. The initiative to change military public affairs strategy was abruptly shut down in November after this newspaper revealed details about the plan. A military investigation determined what the Canadian Forces public affairs leadership was doing was “incompatible with Government of Canada Communications Policy (and the) mission and principles of Public Affairs.” None of the public affairs leadership was disciplined for their actions. Several months ago, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and DND deputy minister Jody Thomas acknowledged in an internal document that the various propaganda initiatives had gotten out of control. “Errors conducted during domestic operations and training, and sometimes insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution,” noted a June 9, 2021, message signed by Eyre and Thomas. “This included the conduct of IO (Information Operations) on a domestic operation without explicit CDS/DM direction or authority to do so, as well as the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at monitoring the activities of Canadians.”
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Below is my column in USA Today on the recent call by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) for Amazon to steer readers to “true” books on climate change. It is the latest example of Democrat’s embracing a type of corporate governance model to carry out tasks barred to the government under the Constitution. Companies are now being asked to protect us from our own dangerous interests and inquiries. An array of enlightened algorithms will now watch over citizens to help them make good choices and read “true” things. Here is the column: Two centuries ago, rulers sought to convince subjects that they should embrace the notion of “enlightened despotism,” living without rights under the beneficent watch of overlords. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II summed up the idea with the maxim “everything for the people, nothing by the people.” Today, we seem to be living in an age of enlightened corporate despotism, where social media and technology companies watch over what we read and what we discuss to protect us from ourselves. That corporate governance model was on display this month when Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called on Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to use algorithms to steer readers away from books that spew “misinformation.” Enlightened algorithms are already responsible for large-scale censorship across social media platforms that reach global audiences. They “stand the wall” as sentinels against dangerous ideas. Warren argued that people were not listening to the enlightened views of herself and leading experts. Instead, they were reading views of vaccine skeptics by searching Amazon and finding books, including “falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and cures, including those written by the most prominent spreaders of misinformation.” Warren blamed Amazon for failing to limit searches or choices: “This pattern and practice of misbehavior suggests that Amazon is either unwilling or unable to modify its business practices to prevent the spread of falsehoods or the sale of inappropriate products.” In her letter, Warren gave the company 14 days to change its algorithms to throttle and obstruct efforts to read opposing views. What was most striking about this incident is that Warren was eager for others to see her efforts to promote a form of censorship. Once considered unAmerican and authoritarian, censorship has become a rallying cry from the left. Indeed, a new poll shows roughly half of the public supports not just corporate censorship but government censorship of anything deemed “misinformation.” In one critical hearing, tech CEOs appeared before the Senate to discuss censorship programs. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, but then pledged to censor more people in defense of “electoral integrity.” Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, however, was not happy. He was upset not by the promised censorship but that it was not broad enough. He noted that it was hard to define the problem of “misleading information,” but the companies had to impose a sweeping system to combat the “harm” of misinformation on climate change as well as other areas. “The pandemic and misinformation about COVID-19, manipulated media also cause harm,” Coons said. “But I’d urge you to reconsider that because helping to disseminate climate denialism, in my view, further facilitates and accelerates one of the greatest existential threats to our world.” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal also warned that he and his colleagues would not tolerate any “backsliding or retrenching” by “failing to take action against dangerous disinformation.” He demanded “the same kind of robust content modification” from the companies – the new Orwellian term for censorship. Others have sought even more “robust” action. For years, Democratic leaders, including President Joe Biden, have called for corporate censorship on a variety of subjects. Last year, Democratic Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney of California wrote a letter to cable carriers like AT&T to ask why they are still allowing people to watch FOX News. (For the record, I appear as a FOX legal analyst). The members stressed that “not all TV news sources are the same” and called the companies to account for their role in allowing such “dissemination.” Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Max Boot also wrote that cable providers should “step in and kick FOX News off.” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof insisted that “cable providers should be asked why they distribute channels that peddle lies.” CNN’s media expert Brian Stelter has called for censorship as “a harm reduction model.” Twitter, Facebook, and other companies have responded enthusiastically in banning those who question the official view of vaccines, climate change, elections or other subjects. Calling for companies to protect us from ourselves is the ultimate in enlightened despotism. It is ironic that Warren has denounced the use of “racist” algorithms in biometric technology like facial recognition. She objects to the error rate in such algorithms but has few such concerns when other algorithms are used to curtail free speech. The embrace of corporate censorship reflects a change in attitude of many toward free speech. Once the very defining right of our constitutional system, it is now more often portrayed as an existential threat to that system. Speech is now “harmful” and allowing the expression of unpopular opinions is treated as an act of an accomplice. Once free speech is defined as harmful or violent, the algorithms can take it from there. At the urging of our leaders companies like Amazon can censor “everything for the people, nothing by the people.” We can then live under the enlightened despotism of governing algorithms that protect us from our dangerous curiosities.
Fucked more everyday, yet the masses still do not rise up... 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As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.” - Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche To Archetype We’re being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors. This government of Peeping Toms is watching everything we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend. Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it is all being recorded, stored, and catalogued, and will be used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government’s choosing. This far-reaching surveillance has paved the way for an omnipresent, militarized fourth branch of government—the Surveillance State—that came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum. Indeed, long before the National Security Agency (NSA) became the agency we loved to hate, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration were carrying out their own secret mass surveillance on an unsuspecting populace. Even agencies not traditionally associated with the intelligence community are part of the government’s growing network of snitches and spies. Just about every branch of the government—from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between—now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American people. For instance, the U.S. Postal Service, which has been photographing the exterior of every piece of paper mail for the past 20 years, is also spying on Americans’ texts, emails and social media posts. Headed up by the Postal Service’s law enforcement division, the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) is reportedly using facial recognition technology, combined with fake online identities, to ferret out potential troublemakers with “inflammatory” posts. The agency claims the online surveillance, which falls outside its conventional job scope of processing and delivering paper mail, is necessary to help postal workers avoid “potentially volatile situations.” Then there are the fusion and counterterrorism centers that gather all of the data from the smaller government spies—the police, public health officials, transportation, etc.—and make it accessible for all those in power. And that doesn’t even begin to touch on the complicity of the corporate sector, which buys and sells us from cradle to grave, until we have no more data left to mine. It’s not just what we say, where we go and what we buy that is being tracked. We’re being surveilled right down to our genes, thanks to a potent combination of hardware, software and data collection that scans our biometrics—our faces, irises, voices, genetics, even our gait—runs them through computer programs that can break the data down into unique “identifiers,” and then offers them up to the government and its corporate allies for their respective uses. All of those internet-connected gadgets we just have to have (Forbes refers to them as “(data) pipelines to our intimate bodily processes”)—the smart watches that can monitor our blood pressure and the smart phones that let us pay for purchases with our fingerprints and iris scans—are setting us up for a brave new world where there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. For instance, imagine what the government could do (and is likely already doing) with voiceprint technology, which has been likened to a fingerprint. Described as “the next frontline in the battle against overweening public surveillance,” the collection of voiceprints is a booming industry for governments and businesses alike. As The Guardian reports, “voice biometrics could be used to pinpoint the location of individuals.” We are now the unwitting victims of an interconnected, tightly woven, technologically evolving web of real-time, warrantless, wall-to-wall mass surveillance that makes the spy programs spawned by the USA Patriot Act look like child’s play. Fusion centers. See Something, Say Something. Red flag laws. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch tip lines. Biometric scanners. Pre-crime. DNA databases. Data mining. Precognitive technology. Contact tracing apps. These are all part and parcel of the widening surveillance dragnet that the government has used and abused in order to extend its reach and its power. The COVID-19 pandemic has succeeded in acclimating us even further to being monitored, tracked and reported for so-called deviant or undesirable behavior. Consequently, we now live in a society in which a person can be accused of any number of crimes without knowing what exactly he has done. He might be apprehended in the middle of the night by a roving band of SWAT police. He might find himself on a no-fly list, unable to travel for reasons undisclosed. He might have his phones or internet tapped based upon a secret order handed down by a secret court, with no recourse to discover why he was targeted. This Kafkaesque nightmare has become America’s reality. Despite the fact that its data snooping has been shown to be ineffective at detecting, let alone stopping, any actual terror attacks, the government continues to operate its domestic spying programs largely in secret, carrying out warrantless mass surveillance on hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone calls, emails, text messages and the like. The question of how to deal with government agencies and programs that operate outside of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitution forces us to contend with a deeply unsatisfactory and dubious political “solution” to a problem that operates beyond the reach of voters and politicians: how do you hold accountable a government that lies, cheats, steals, sidesteps the law, and then absolves itself of wrongdoing? Certainly, the history and growth of the NSA tracks with the government’s insatiable hunger for ever-great powers. Since its official start in 1952, when President Harry S. Truman issued a secret executive order establishing the NSA as the hub of the government’s foreign intelligence activities, the agency—nicknamed “No Such Agency”—has operated covertly, unaccountable to Congress all the while using taxpayer dollars to fund its secret operations. It was only when the agency ballooned to 90,000 employees in 1969, making it the largest intelligence agency in the world with a significant footprint outside Washington, DC, that it became more difficult to deny its existence. In the aftermath of Watergate in 1975, the Senate held meetings under the Church Committee in order to determine exactly what sorts of illicit activities the American intelligence apparatus was engaged in under the direction of President Nixon, and how future violations of the law could be stopped. It was the first time the NSA was exposed to public scrutiny since its creation. The investigation revealed a sophisticated operation whose surveillance programs paid little heed to such things as the Constitution. For instance, under Project SHAMROCK, the NSA spied on telegrams to and from the U.S., as well as the correspondence of American citizens. Moreover, as the Saturday Evening Post reports, “Under Project MINARET, the NSA monitored the communications of civil rights leaders and opponents of the Vietnam War, including targets such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohammed Ali, Jane Fonda, and two active U.S. Senators. The NSA had launched this program in 1967 to monitor suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, but successive presidents used it to track all manner of political dissidents.” Senator Frank Church (D-Ida.), who served as the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence that investigated the NSA, understood only too well the dangers inherent in allowing the government to overstep its authority in the name of national security. Church recognized that such surveillance powers “at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.” Noting that the NSA could enable a dictator “to impose total tyranny” upon an utterly defenseless American public, Church declared that he did not “want to see this country ever go across the bridge” of constitutional protection, congressional oversight and popular demand for privacy. He avowed that “we,” implicating both Congress and its constituency in this duty, “must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return. The result was the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the creation of the FISA Court, which was supposed to oversee and correct how intelligence information is collected and collated. The law requires that the NSA get clearance from the FISA Court, a secret surveillance court, before it can carry out surveillance on American citizens. Fast forward to the present day, and the so-called solution to the problem of government entities engaging in unjustified and illegal surveillance—the FISA Court—has unwittingly become the enabler of such activities, rubberstamping almost every warrant request submitted to it. The 9/11 attacks served as a watershed moment in our nation’s history, ushering in an era in which immoral and/or illegal government activities such as surveillance, torture, strip searches, SWAT team raids are sanctioned as part of the quest to keep us “safe.” In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush secretly authorized the NSA to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans’ phone calls and emails. That wireless wiretap program was reportedly ended in 2007 after the New York Times reported on it, to mass indignation. Nothing changed under Barack Obama. In fact, the violations worsened, with the NSA authorized to secretly collect internet and telephone data on millions of Americans, as well as on foreign governments. It was only after whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 that the American people fully understood the extent to which they had been betrayed once again. Even so, nothing really changed. Since then, presidents, politicians, and court rulings have come and gone, but none of them have done much to put an end to the government’s “technotyranny.” At every turn, we have been handicapped in our quest for transparency, accountability and a representative democracy by an establishment culture of secrecy: secret agencies, secret experiments, secret military bases, secret surveillance, secret budgets, and secret court rulings, all of which exist beyond our reach, operate outside our knowledge, and do not answer to “we the people.” Yet the surveillance sector is merely one small part of a shadowy permanent government comprised of unelected bureaucrats who march in lockstep with profit-driven corporations that actually runs Washington, DC, and works to keep us under close watch and, thus, under control. For example, Google openly works with the NSA, Amazon has built a massive $600 million intelligence database for the CIA, and the telecommunications industry is making a fat profit by spying on us for the government. Most recently, the Biden Administration indicated it may be open to working with non-governmental firms in order to warrantlessly monitor citizens online. This would be nothing new, however. Vast quantities of the government’s digital surveillance is already being outsourced to private companies, who are far less restrained in how they harvest and share our personal data. In this way, Corporate America is making a hefty profit by aiding and abetting the government in its militarized domestic surveillance efforts. Cue the dawning of what The Nation refers to as “the rise of a new class in America: the cyberintelligence ruling class. These are the people—often referred to as ‘intelligence professionals’—who do the actual analytical and targeting work of the NSA and other agencies in America’s secret government. Over the last [20] years, thousands of former high-ranking intelligence officials and operatives have left their government posts and taken up senior positions at military contractors, consultancies, law firms, and private-equity firms. In their new jobs, they replicate what they did in government—often for the same agencies they left. But this time, their mission is strictly for-profit.” The snitch culture has further empowered the Surveillance State. As Ezra Marcus writes for the New York Times, “Throughout the past year, American society responded to political upheaval and biological peril by turning to an age-old tactic for keeping rule breakers in check: tattling.” This new era of snitch surveillance is the lovechild of the government’s post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” programs combined with the self-righteousness of a politically correct, technologically-wired age. Marcus continues: “Technology, and our abiding love of it, is crucial to our current moment of social surveillance. Snitching isn’t just a byproduct of nosiness or fear; it’s a technological feature built into the digital architecture of the pandemic era — specifically when it comes to software designed for remote work and Covid-tracing… Contact tracing apps … have started to be adapted for other uses, including criminal probes by the Singaporean government. If that seems distinctly worrying, it might be useful to remember that the world’s most powerful technology companies, whose products you are likely using to read this story, already use a business model of mass surveillance, collecting and selling user information to advertisers at an unfathomable scale. Our cellphones track us everywhere, and our locations are bought and sold by data brokers at incredible, intimate detail. Facial recognition software used by law enforcement trawls Instagram selfies. Facebook harvests the biometric data of its users. The whole ecosystem, more or less, runs on snitching.” As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, what we are dealing with today is not just a beast that has outgrown its chains but a beast that will not be restrained.
The Empire Of Lies Breaks Down: Ugly Truths The Deep State Wants To Keep Hidden https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047258467/thomas-jefferson-statue-removal-ne... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-qualified-immunity-pol... https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-compensation-laws... https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/train-riders-held-phones-woman-raped-pol... https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20an... https://rare.us/story/7-ways-republicans-and-democrats-are-exactly-the-same/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-politici... https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/ https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-1373_83i7.pdf https://www.standard.net/Guest-Commentary/2015/01/07/Limits-on-freedom-to-us... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/hannah-arendt-adolf-ei... https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099... https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Blair-Diaries-Battlefield-Dead/dp/1954968027/ “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” - Albert Einstein America is breaking down. This breakdown - triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, racism, classism, fascism, fear-mongering, political correctness, cultural sanitation, virtue signaling, a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing government corruption and brutality, a growing economic divide that has much of the population struggling to get by, and militarization and militainment (the selling of war and violence as entertainment) - is manifesting itself in madness, mayhem and an utter disregard for the very principles and liberties that have kept us out of the clutches of totalitarianism for so long. In New York City, for example, a 200-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson holding the Declaration of Independence will be removed from the City Council’s chambers where it has presided since 1915. Despite Jefferson’s many significant accomplishments, without which we might not have the rights we do today, he will be banished for having been, like many of his day, a slaveowner. Curiously, that same brutal expectation of infallibility has yet to be applied to many other politically correct yet equally imperfect and fallible role models of the day. In Washington, DC, a tribunal of nine men and women spoke with one voice to affirm that the government and its henchmen can literally get away with murder and not be held accountable for their wrongdoing. The Supreme Court’s latest rulings are yet another painful lesson in compliance, a reminder that in the American police state, “we the people” are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to ‘serve and protect.” All across the country, from California to Connecticut and every point in between, men and women who have worked faithfully and diligently at their jobs for years are being terminated for daring to believe that they have a right to bodily integrity; that they should not be forced, against their conscience or better judgment, to choose between individual liberty and economic survival; and that they—and not the government, or the FDA, or the CDC, or the Corporate State—have dominion over their bodies. Conveniently enough, this COVID-19 pandemic has created yet another double standard in how “we the people” navigate this country: while “we the middling classes” are subjected to vaccine mandates and denied even the right to be skeptical about the origins of the COVID virus, let alone the efficacy of the so-called cure, the government, corporations and pharmaceutical companies have been shielded from liability with blanket immunity laws that ensure we are little more than guinea pigs for their questionable experiments. And then in Pennsylvania, a man traveling on a commuter train harassed, assaulted and then raped a woman over the course of 40 minutes and more than two dozen train stops while fellow travelers, watching and filming the attack, did nothing. Not a single witness called 911. Not a single bystander intervened to help the woman. Despite the fact that the man was outnumbered and could have been overwhelmed by those on the train, no collective effort was made to ward off the attack. Only when it was too late, when the damage had been done and the train had pulled into its last stop, did police show up to intervene. There is an allegory here for what is happening to our country and its citizens, who have also been waylaid by a madman (the Deep State), stripped of their safety nets (their rights undermined and eroded), and savaged out in the open by a fiend (the American Police State and its many operatives—the courts, the legislatures and their various armies) that is devoid of humanity while those not in the immediate crosshairs watch safely from a distance without making a move to help. This is madness, yet there is a method to this madness. This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises. Remember, authoritarian regimes begin with incremental steps: overcriminalization, surveillance of innocent citizens, imprisonment for nonviolent—victimless—crimes, etc. Bit by bit, the citizenry finds its freedoms being curtailed and undermined for the sake of national security. And slowly the populace begins to submit. No one speaks up for those being targeted. No one resists these minor acts of oppression. No one recognizes the indoctrination into tyranny for what it is. Historically this failure to speak truth to power has resulted in whole populations being conditioned to tolerate unspoken cruelty toward their fellow human beings, a bystander syndrome in which people remain silent and disengaged—mere onlookers—in the face of abject horrors and injustice. Time has insulated us from the violence perpetrated by past regimes in their pursuit of power: the crucifixion and slaughter of innocents by the Romans, the torture of the Inquisition, the atrocities of the Nazis, the butchery of the Fascists, the bloodshed by the Communists, and the cold-blooded war machines run by the military industrial complex. We can disassociate from such violence. We can convince ourselves that we are somehow different from the victims of government abuse. We can continue to spout empty political rhetoric about how great America is, despite the evidence to the contrary. We can avoid responsibility for holding the government accountable. We can zip our lips and bind our hands and shut our eyes. In other words, we can continue to exist in a state of denial. Yet there is no denying the ugly, hard truths that become more evident with every passing day. The government is not our friend. Nor does it work for “we the people.” Our so-called government representatives do not actually represent us, the citizenry. We are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests whose main interest is in perpetuating power and control. Republicans and Democrats like to act as if there’s a huge difference between them and their policies. However, they are not sworn enemies so much as they are partners in crime, united in a common goal, which is to maintain the status quo. The lesser of two evils is still evil. Some years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is virtually no difference between psychopaths and politicians. More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, the U.S. government has become a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us The government knows exactly which buttons to push in order to manipulate the populace and gain the public’s cooperation and compliance. If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it. America’s shadow government—which is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes right now and operates beyond the reach of the Constitution with no real accountability to the citizenry—is the real reason why “we the people” have no control over our government. You no longer have to be poor, black or guilty to be treated like a criminal in America. All that is required is that you belong to the suspect class—that is, the citizenry—of the American police state. As a de facto member of this so-called criminal class, every U.S. citizen is now guilty until proven innocent. “We the people” are no longer shielded by the rule of law. By gradually whittling away at our freedoms—free speech, assembly, due process, privacy, etc.—the government has, in effect, liberated itself from its contractual agreement to respect our constitutional rights while resetting the calendar back to a time when we had no Bill of Rights to protect us from the long arm of the government. Private property means nothing if the government can take your home, car or money under the flimsiest of pretexts, whether it be asset forfeiture schemes, eminent domain or overdue property taxes. Likewise, private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family. We now find ourselves caught in the crosshairs of a showdown between the rights of the individual and the so-called “emergency” state, and “we the people” are losing. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize our property without a warrant, or search and detain us without probable cause—amount to nothing when the government and its agents are allowed to disregard those prohibitions on government overreach at will. If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. Forced vaccinations, forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials. Finally, freedom is never free. There is always a price—always a sacrifice—that must be made in order to safeguard one’s freedoms. We cannot remain silent in the face of the government’s ongoing overreaches, power grabs, and crimes against humanity. Evil disguised as bureaucracy is still evil. Indeed, this is what Hannah Arendt referred to as the banality of evil. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, such evil happens when bureaucrats (governmental and corporate) unquestioningly carry out orders that are immoral and inhumane; obey immoral instructions unthinkingly; march in lockstep with tyrants; mindlessly perpetuate acts of terror and inhumanity; and justify it all as just “doing one’s job.” Such evil prevails when good men and women do nothing. By doing nothing, by remaining silent, by being bystanders to injustice, hate and wrongdoing, good people become as guilty as the perpetrator. There’s a term for this phenomenon where people stand by, watch and do nothing—even when there is no risk to their safety—while some horrific act takes place (someone is mugged or raped or bullied or left to die): it’s called the bystander effect. It works the same whether you’re talking about kids watching bullies torment a fellow student on a playground, bystanders watching someone dying on a sidewalk, passengers on a train filming a fellow traveler be raped without intervening to help, or citizens remaining silent in the face of government atrocities. We need to stop being silent bystanders. It’s time to stand up for truth—for justice—for freedom—not just for ourselves but for all humanity. Tomorrow may be too late.
New China Law Will Punish Parents For Children's 'Bad Behavior' https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/china/china-punish-parents-intl-hnk/index.htm... https://nypost.com/2021/10/18/china-considers-punishing-parents-for-children... https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effeminate-men-tv-offici... China has drafted a law that would punish the parents of children who exhibit "very bad behavior" - which would be one of the first laws of its kind anywhere in the modern world. A spokesman for the Legislative Affairs Commission of China's parliament, which is often dubbed in the West a "rubber-stamp" institution for the dictates of Communist party leadership, said "There are many reasons for adolescents to misbehave, and the lack of or inappropriate family education is the major cause." It comes amid a broader initiative by President Xi and party leaders to stamp out what they've dubbed the false "spiritual opium" of Western culture, in reference to everything from internet gaming, to worship of Hollywood celebrities, to pop music, also to things deemed effeminate. Image via Quartz The blanket youth cultural reform initiative centered on "anti-addiction" has already resulted in severe restrictions placed on online video gaming for people under 18-years of age. A decree passed in early September grabbed world headlines and drew outrage from West-based human rights groups. Currently children are only legally allowed to participate in online gaming from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Additionally video games and other popular media content that don't promote "correct values" are being banned. As for the newly proposed legislation that can effectively deem a parent a "criminal" for their child's actions, it will reportedly include language that encourages parents to allow children to rest and play and appropriate times, likely in an effort to promote 'well-roundedness' in youth education. According to further media commentary on the controversial law: They’re also expected to instill children with a sense to "respect the elderly and care for the young," according to a draft version of the bill, which is the latest attempt by China to address how its young citizens behave at home, according to Reuters. It's as yet unclear, however, the actual punishments that could be handed out to parents if their child is caught misbehaving. It also remains uncertain just how certain actions of children will be interpreted. Likely the law will initially apply to the recent dictates surrounding the video game bans and restrictions, as well as consumption of Western pop culture. Likely it'll initially give authorities more tools to go after parents caught encouraging activities that go against what are dubbed "correct values".
Newman: "Deep State Cannot Stop Unprecedented Awakening" https://rumble.com/embed/vl7nyx https://usawatchdog.com/donations/ https://libertysentinel.org/ Award winning journalist Alex Newman says, “The Deep State globalists cannot stop the “unprecedented awakening going on in America.” Newman, who wrote the popular book called “Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes,” explains, “Everybody knows that the press is lying..." " Nobody believes the press anymore. ‘Let’s go Brandon.’ Everybody knows this is absolutely absurd. The point is not to make people believe these absurdities anymore. The point now is to demoralize people and to really silence us. That’s what’s going on with sicking the FBI and DOJ on parents complaining about hate being taught to their children, and that’s what’s going on with the propaganda... They want to silence us. They want to intimidate us. They want to bully us, and they want to terrorize us into staying quite... AG Garland said all these parents are intimidating and harassing school boards. What could be more intimidating than sicking one of the world’s most powerful law enforcement agency on parents expressing their concern? I can’t think of more things that would be more intimidating than that. So, the irony is off the charts, but the goal here is to silence people into submission.” Newman says the threats and bullying are backfiring and is not working in the least. There is good news, and Newman explains, “They trot out these people to demoralize us and to scare us and make us think that everything is over. Just keep your head down and comply, but it’s not working. It is absolutely not working. We have an awakening going on in this country... there’s an awakening that is happening here that is unprecedented in the modern history of this country. It is such good news, but now we are in a race against time. They are trying to collapse the supply chain and trying to implode everything before enough people wake up and do something about it.” Newman points out that since 2016, the Deep State has been losing the narrative and losing badly. Newman explains, “The entire propaganda machine was non-stop bombarding Americans with anti-Trump propaganda, and Americans went to the polls. Even with all the voter fraud in 2016, Trump still won in an Electoral College landslide. That’s how much they have lost control of the narrative. They thought by shadow banning us and rigging their algorithms, people should not come across our information. That failed, and that’s why they had to ban you. This is why they had to ban thousands of top content creators that were making huge amounts of money for them. They have lost total control of the narrative, and they are left with what can they blow up and what can they do to scare us? What can they do to make us think we are all alone, and that’s exactly what we are seeing right now, and it is crystal clear. I think everybody should be able to see this at this point.” In closing, Newman points out how weak the Deep State really is and says, “Their entire narrative is based on lies, deception, trickery and intrigue..." " When you examine it closely, it all falls apart. It’s true with the clot shots. It’s true with the mandates. It’s true with the schools. It’s true with the courts, and it’s true with everything that they are doing. They have to rely on lies. The Bible says the devil is the father of lies.” Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with award winning journalist Alex Newman, founder of LibertySentinel.org and author of the recent popular book “Deep State.” (10/16/21) (There is much more in the 38 min. video interview.) To Donate to USAWatchdog.com Click Here
Why 'Davos Man' Is The Scourge Of The Earth https://insidesources.com/why-davos-man-is-the-scourge-of-the-earth/ In ten seconds, tell me who Davos Man would pick if they had to choose a side: The United States, or China? My money is on them picking China. And here’s why. It became clear to me in January 2017. Xi Jinping was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His invite was an overt backlash against new President Donald Trump. Xi was rolled out as the hero of globalization, juxtaposed against a democratically elected guy from Queens who would later call himself “Tariff Man”. Klaus Schwab, Forum founder and Davos Man No. 1 interviewed Henry Kissinger at the time, the man who helped open China to the world. Kissinger said, “What President Xi has done is put forward a concept of international order in the economic field that will have to be the subject of conversation and the substance of the creation of an evolving system.” Make no mistake about it, his was not a criticism. It was a carefully worded praise. The only real problem Davos Man has with China’s Communist Party (CCP) is that it doesn’t allow for Pride Month. Everything else, they’re cool with: The CCP’s anti-chaos, centralized control system is a winner. The reason they have failed to successfully sell this to Americans and parts of Europe is because the CCP is the face of centralization. Davos Man is pushing back, however. They are “wokefying” the CCP model for us – promoting all sorts of “justice” to get people on board. Greta Thunberg is the climate herald of Davos. She is all over their website. For those new to the Davos Universe, it all starts with the World Economic Forum, a networking event of corporate executives, presidents, and the philanthropy class that fund most of the ideas we live with today. Regular attendees have long been referred to as Davos Man. The influential ones are Eurocrats: one-part aristocrat; one-part bureaucrat. Both are enamored by power and are enmeshed. These are the “cool kids” in the global high school cafeteria. Over the last year, they have been behind every idea that has driven us nuts. Lockdowns and vaccine passports? That’s supported by the Davos crowd. The World Economic Forum’s North American subsidiary is based in New York City and San Francisco. Both cities were first to impose vaccine requirements for business. Davos promotes a startup called COVID Pass. They want to make biometric IDs, unhackable by blood. That’s right, blood. Xi Jinping called for biometric passes to allow for freedom of movement in the pandemic his country caused. That the Forum supports it says enough. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is a Davos Man. Fink recently got called out on CNBC’s Squawk Box for his hypocrisy on China regarding climate change. I understand Fink. He wants to be in China now that BlackRock doesn’t need to partner with a Chinese money manager. It’s a huge wealth management market. BlackRock can recommend Chinese wind and solar and electric car stocks for the locals. All will be forgiven. Davos is full of contradictions. Their manifesto advocates for a level, competitive playing field (while praising China). It advocates against human rights abuse in our supply chains. That takes us to Davos Man’s favorite media company – Disney. Bob Iger, Disney CEO, is part of the Davos Universe and Disney is an example of those contradictions. It filmed live-action Mulan in Xinjiang, home to thousands of Muslims living in captivity. Of all the places in China to pick, how stupid can you be to pick Xinjiang? Western Europe’s most popular luminaries are captured by Davos Man. Germany won’t let you do anything without COVID passes. People are protesting in France and Italy over non-immunizing COVID vaccine requirements. Davos Man’s talking heads don’t care. They don’t like democracy. Democracy brings Brexit. Democracy brings trade wars. We say the CCP is our problem. Without the money flow from multinationals in the Davos Universe, the CCP is a paper tiger. Their latest hypersonic missile? We helped fund that. Vanguard and BlackRock were investors in Chinese military companies until President Biden banned them from doing so as of August 2. Advocates for centralized control live the Davos mindset. We can get behind justice and sustainability. But not with these guys in control we can’t. They’re not a reliable voice of a free people. They are, instead, the new scourge of the earth.
COVID Propaganda Roundup: The Planned Supply Line Demolition (It’s the Feature, Not the Bug) https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/covid-propaganda-rou... https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2019706118 https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speech/keynote-speech-delivered-hrh-prince-... https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab/dp/2940631123 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/04/15/go-there-covid-spreads-dp-archi... https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/05/business/shipping-coronavirus-impact/inde... https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/how-covid-19-closures-kill-small-business... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJTnkzl3K64 https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/dear-sean-hannity-ca... The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class. “We have an incredible opportunity to create entirely new sustainable industries, products, services and supply chains,” said His Highness the (unelected) Prince of Wales in the inaugural Great Reset speech to the World Economic Forum back in January 2020. Back then, all signs pointed to this “novel coronavirus” being just another in the SARS lineage – an obscure emergent viral pathogen that would dominate the headlines for two or three 24-hour news cycles and then flame out somewhere in Asia. Unbeknownst to the rabble in the lower socioeconomic strata, the World Economic Forum had already set the multinational wheels of economic revolution in motion. The corporate-state media would have you believe that the Great Reset is just a reaction to the pandemic. Klaus Schwab, in his Nostradamus-like prescience, somehow managed to write an entire book between January and July 2020, before anyone in the public knew anything substantial about the virus, detailing how COVID-19 would be used to “reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.” This is a lie. On the contrary, the social engineers had meticulously planned the Great Reset going back decades but – just like the American neocons needed 9/11 to invade a decade and a half before – the multinational elite of Davos, WEF, and UN needed a precipitating event that could afford the public consent they needed to institute drastic change. Justifying a lockdown of the internationalized economy (the source of the current supply chain crisis) would have been impossible without the handy excuse of a global pandemic. Through an orchestrated media fearmongering campaign, they had the ammunition they needed to obliterate the public’s psychological defenses. CNN, Feb 20, 2020 As far back as Feb. 2020, the supply chain destruction – caused by the intentional decision to lockdown commerce, not the coronavirus itself — was already evident. Corrective action could have mitigated the damage, at the very least. The social engineers pressed forward full-steam ahead anyway – because global economic collapse was the feature, not the bug. So far from an unforeseen byproduct of well-intentioned public health measures, the near-total supply line collapse is just another domino in a global game that serves a very particular agenda (not yours). To “reimagine” something entirely new implies the destruction of the old — so destruction is what you get. International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Warns of ‘System Collapse’ Via ICS Press Release: “We are witnessing unprecedented disruptions and global delays and shortages on essential goods including electronics, food, fuel and medical supplies. Consumer demand is rising and the delays look set to worsen ahead of Christmas and continue into 2022…” Gallup Poll: 60% of US Adults Now Unable to Get Products They Need Via Gallup: “Sixty percent of U.S. adults say they have been unable to get a product they wanted in the past two months because of shortages, and 57% have experienced significant delays in receiving a product they ordered.” Multinational Corporate Chains Charter Private Vessels to Move Product Via Banking Rates: “The cost to lease a ship is $1 million to $2 million per month, plus operating costs. Renting the containers can add on several hundred dollars and the biggest retailers are using between 500 and 1,500 containers per month… The companies chartering ships now have more flexibility and can avoid congested ports.” The capacity to contract with private shippers is convenient for Walmart, Target, and the other off-shore, multinational corporate behemoths, but American small businesses typically don’t have an extra $1 million in cash to splurge on these leases, or the scale to make it worthwhile. What will happen to them, then? They’ll get a one-way ticket to “Great Reset” Oblivion. National Academies of Sciences: Lockdowns Produced No Public Health Benefit The biggest travesty of all is that none of this economic punishment produced any of the promised public health benefit. Via National Academies of Sciences: “Previous studies have claimed that shelter-in-place orders saved thousands of lives, but we reassess these analyses and show that they are not reliable. We find that shelter-in-place orders had no detectable health benefits.“ World Economic Forum: ‘We Must Prepare For an Angrier World’ Where is all of this headed? The calculus goes like this: Forced economic shutdowns will wreck national economies Economic hardship will lead to (even more) political anger Un-hip to the international crime syndicate headed by the WEF, UN, and WHO, citizens will blame their national/local-level leaders Local/national governments will become unstable The political ground will be fertilized for international-level intervention to “correct” the problem created by internationally-led economic lockdowns of the global supply chain Political sovereignty of the various nation-states will be further undermined and the internationalized political regime – the so-called “New World Order” – will gain traction ¡Understand that none of this happened by accident! The Big Lie: In the corporate media, the narrative goes: “golly gee, no one could have predicted that the supply lines would collapse and drag the economy into the gutter, pushing tens of millions worldwide into starvation and collapsing the entire globalized economy with interdependent supply lines that depend on international shipping across national borders.” The Truth: the WHO, the UN, et al. are arsonists, COVID fear is the gasoline, the lockdowns are the blaze, and the First World is the building on fire. *A note on the multinational corporate angle: The Fortune 500, in the aggregate, spend billions upon untold billions on market research and forecasting. To believe that none of them foresaw the fallout of lockdowns would be naïve. They did portend the future and consented. Along with the multinational governing bodies like the UN, the multinational mega-corporations are the vehicle of the global corporate technocracy, not – as Americanized libertarian ideology claims — its antidote. The good news on this front is that the Right in the West – the only hope at this point of non-futile resistance – has appeared to awaken in the past year and a half. The very tiny proportion of the GOP that is not fully compromised by the corporate state — like Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, et al. — have taken baby steps towards acknowledging the global, tyrannical ambitions of the corporate state publicly but they must step harder on the gas. The time for half-measures is past.
Deleted UK Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves To "Conform" https://summit.news/2021/10/22/deleted-government-report-celebrates-how-publ... https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/10/22/report-corona-shows-public-have-... https://summit.news/2021/05/17/report-government-scientific-advisors-admit-t... A deleted government report exploring how to make the public alter its behavior to accept the new ‘green economy’ reveals how COVID-19 restrictions have created a population with a “deep set reverence” for authority and a “powerful tendency to conform.” The report was inadvertently published by the British government before being hastily pulled down, but numerous journalists were able to retrieve its contents. The document explored how to weaponize behavioral psychology to ‘nudge’ the public into supporting measures and adopting behavior without them explicitly knowing they’re being manipulated. The investigation found that the same techniques the government used to force people into accepting lockdown could be used to make them change their lifestyles in the name of preventing climate change. Under the heading “principles for successful behaviour,” the paper noted; “Government statements, actions and laws powerfully shape perceptions of normative and acceptable behaviour. For instance, even with public criticism being high, many still perceived government approval as the yardstick for safe behaviour during COVID-19 ‘we’re allowed to do this now [so must be safe]…’. This reveals, for many, a deep set reverence for legitimate government authority, regardless of one’s personal political views.” While PR stunts such as having officials vaccinated live on television worked to convince people of the narrative, elite hypocrisy (public officials violating lockdown rules) was found to cause significant damage to public trust. “Perceived hypocrisy can do a lot to undermine efforts to build public engagement and support. This was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic when prominent authority figures broke guidelines, leading to measurable reductions in public compliance as well as shifting attitudes.” “Green politics has similar deep-seated reputational issues with elite hypocrisy,” notes Breitbart. “A common feature of climate change summits has been high-profile attendees arriving by private or government jet, a disconnect between word and deed that seems unlikely to vanish in the near term.” The paper concluded that people can be rather easily “nudged” into changing their behavior in response to government announcements and “have a powerful tendency to conform.” The investigation also found that even if enforced changes to lifestyle are not wanted by the public, most tend to fall in line with the new status quo rather quickly anyway. The report was prepared by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a quasi-government body that was part of the effort to use “totalitarian” and “unethical” methods of instilling fear into the population as a means of scaring them into complying with lockdown rules. A related group, the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours team, warned at the start of the first lockdown that a “substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened [by Covid-19].” “The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging,” the group added, leading to numerous lurid propaganda campaigns that exaggerated the threat of COVID to bully the public into total submission. In summary, the public is largely unthinking, compliant and docile and can be made to go along with just about anything so long as they’re bombarded with the right propaganda. Wonderful.
Billionaire non-citizens from outside your contries now buying up your local media and dropping orgs to propagandize and indoctrinate you out of freedom and into their globalist regime where you'll be as non-free as all the SocCom's before. If they really gave a shit, they'd just pay you and leave you alone, but no, instead it's about creating entrenching new SocCom system largesse over you. They're also buying all your houses and farmland, look it up, because you know... central planning always works, even better at the global level, lol. Anything calling themselves "GoodInfo", and to be fair "TruthSocial", are obviously going to be very far from it. Billionaires To Fund "Anti-Disinformation" Media Companies To "Restore Social Trust" https://www.theepochtimes.com/billionaires-reid-hoffman-george-soros-back-pu... Billionaires Reid Hoffman and George Soros are backing a public benefit corporation that will provide funding to new media companies aimed at tackling disinformation online and restoring social trust. Good Information Inc. launched on Tuesday and is being led by former Democratic strategist Tara McGowan who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM, which was backed by LinkedIn founder Hoffman. Others contributing to the multi-million seed effort include investors Ken and Jen Duda, and Incite Ventures. In a press release on Oct. 26, Good Information Inc said its aim is to “restore social trust” and “strengthen democracy” by “investing in solutions that counter disinformation and increase the flow of good information online.” “America is currently in the throes of a disinformation epidemic that is threatening public health, social trust, and democracy around the world. Good Information Inc. believes there is un-met audience demand for fact-based information, especially in local markets that have lost many of their legacy local news sources in recent years, and among audiences that are being left behind by evolving media business models,” the corporation said in a statement. Good Information Inc. will be investing in media outlets that provide customers with trusted and fact-based information, as well as local community news, particularly in markets where there are little to no local news outlets reaching online communities. The company said that an “increasingly decentralized media environment, anti-democracy forces, and networks of bad actors” have resulted in “dangerous consequences,” noting that 96 million Americans believe the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, while 89 million Americans believe voter fraud is a major problem. Trump has maintained that there was “massive voter fraud” in the 2020 elections. “Good information that upholds the truth, common sense, and shared values of a society is the lifeblood of democracy, and orchestrated disinformation—fueled and amplified by bias-driven algorithms—is its greatest threat. The disinformation crisis we are facing in America today is increasing polarization and eroding our trust in each other, which is having a corrosive effect on our democracy, jeopardizing public health, and destabilizing our economy,” founder and CEO McGowan said in a statement. “This is no longer a political dispute about the truth, but the direct result of unregulated business models that are putting whole communities around the world at risk, and putting democracy around the world in peril.” McGowan’s former progressive non-profit, ACRONYM, ran one of the biggest digital campaigns—costing $100 million—aimed at convincing millions of Americans to vote against Donald Trump in the 2020 elections, Fast Company reports. One of the companies ACRONYM invested in, called Shadow, produced the vote tabulation app used in the Iowa caucuses and contributed to the delayed reporting of the results following a string of technical issues. McGowan later apologized for the incident, telling Axios that the Shadow team, “made an enormous mistake that has dire consequences in this election and so we want to own that.” As its first major investment, Good Information Inc. has officially acquired Courier Newsroom, a civic media company composed of eight state-based news outlets. Pat Kreitlow, who co-founded Courier’s Wisconsin news outlet UpNorthNews, said in a statement that the company is “extremely happy to be the first investment of Good Information’s portfolio.” “We are seeing unparalleled threats to our country’s democracy and a free press today—threats so grave that the long-running fight against misinformation seems almost quaint as we confront outright disinformation from people preying upon Americans fears and anxieties to push their own agenda or profit margins,” Kreitlow said.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/28/is-climate-alarmism-an-establishment-... Is Climate Alarmism An Establishment Attempt To Restore Social Control? Over the years, I’ve noticed pretty much every establishment attempt to push a climate agenda is accompanied by a call for people to unite. What if fear of change, of loss of control, and a desire for social unity and predictability are the real driving force behind the climate push? Does the UK need a referendum on climate change pledges? Critics say net-zero target has been imposed by ‘elites’ without electoral mandate 27 OCT 2021 A large proportion of the British public are in favour of a referendum on the government’s net-zero proposals, according to a new poll by YouGov. ... The Tony Blair Institute’s Tim Lord rejected the idea that “elites” are behind the drive for climate action. He said “there is irony in this – as it is the poorest who will be most severely affected by unconstrained climate change”. Lord agreed that the net-zero target was introduced in the summer of 2019 with minimal debate in the Commons and no mention of the plan in the 2017 election – but it was included in the Conservative manifesto ahead of the December 2019 election. While delivering net zero is a “complex task” that “cannot be achieved without public support for both the overall goal, and the policies required to get there”, this “cannot mean everyone supports every measure”, he said. Consent must be drawn from a broad base and “net zero has to be based around a politics of unity, not division”. ... Read more: https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/954591/does-the-uk-need-a-referendum-... Here’s another call for unity; Pope Francis praises youth activists in fight to tackle climate change “It is said that you are the future, but in these matters, you are the present. You are those who are making the future today, in the present,” the pontiff said. ... The pope said solutions to climate change, including sustainable development and production, must be built on unity and a shared sense of responsibility. “There must be harmony between people, men and women, and the environment,” he said. “We are not enemies. We are not indifferent. We are part of this cosmic harmony.” ... Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/pope-francis-praises-youth-activ... China wants unity too; China releases white paper on climate change response Updated 18:47, 27-Oct-2021 China on Wednesday released a white paper on the country’s policies and measures for responding to climate change. China has set a goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. ... The white paper states that climate change is a cause shared by all of humanity. Faced with unprecedented challenges in global climate governance, the international community needs to respond with unprecedented ambition and action. We need to act with a sense of responsibility and unity, take proactive measures, and work together to pursue harmony between humanity and nature. ... Read more: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-27/China-releases-white-paper-on-climate-... Unity, unity, UNITY. Plenty more examples where they came from. When you think about it, a child could see through the nonsensical claims of climate alarmists. If slightly warmer temperatures are so terrible, why aren’t slightly warmer places already suffering all the problems alarmists say will happen? But climate alarmism, as a potential source of social unity, is far too valuable allow it to be defeated by mere logic. What has caused this sudden upsurge in fear amongst global elites, that they are losing control? I believe the trigger for this panic amongst the global elites was the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet State, right up until the very end, seemed all powerful, enormous, an unstoppable juggernaut with its terrifying state security apparatus and apparently complete control of communication. But the Soviets failed to adapt to the information revolution. ... “Truth is good,” goes an old Russian proverb that Shane quotes, “but happiness is better.” The earliest stirrings of free thought were nurtured on the radio broadcasts of Voice of America and the crude, self-published books and tape recordings of the Samizdatand Magnitizdat movements. By the end, of course, it was CNN and cellular phones that finally defeated the Soviet Union. “The exploding arsenal of electronics–cellular telephones, fax machines, VCRs, satellite dishes, computers with modems–demonstrated a trend for technology to become more compact, portable, versatile and inexpensive,” Shane explains. “As such, the new machines seemed to be weapons the citizen could wield against the state as readily as the state could use them on the citizen.” As Shane points out, the phrase “information revolution” takes on an entirely new meaning in this context. And he helps us understand how stirring but also how bizarre it must have been for a Soviet citizen to turn on his television set and see the top brass of the KGB on a call-in show: “Tonight they will be answering the questions,” the host announced. ... Read more: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-11-ls-56160-story.html China has survived more successfully than the Soviets, because they had more money. Deng Xiaoping’s capitalist economic reforms in the 1980s gave the CCP the financial resources they needed to buy monitoring equipment and expertise, which made them more able to keep up with the information revolution. But even the Chinese are struggling to contain the free flow of information which is undermining state control of public narratives. Global freedom initiatives have provided systems like the TOR Project, which are used by Chinese citizens who want to sneak past the Great Chinese Firewall, so they can keep track of what is really going on in the world. If global elites cannot control communication technology, the next best thing is to try to dominate the conversation, through a fear campaign and a call for global unity. The focus point for that push for global unity didn’t have to be climate change, but I believe they chose climate alarmism because it was convenient and available, and already had a significant following at the time the elites took an interest. Mikhail Gorbachev, after he lost his old job as the last dictator of the Soviet Union, spent a lot of time in the early 90s supporting United Nations climate initiatives. The desire by elites to cling on to control, in my opinion, is why climate alarmism has survived repeated embarrassing predictive failures. Normally when a scientific theory produces a disastrous series of wrong predictions, the theory withers and dies. But in my opinion global elites are keeping climate alarmism on life support, with vast infusions of taxpayer’s cash for compliant researchers, and en entire renewable energy industry which only exists because the governments of the world keep diverting taxpayer’s cash to pay the bills. So long as a significant portion of the population believes in the climate crisis, this powerful source of social unity is too useful for spooked global elites to surrender. The elite desire to hold back the information revolution at any price does nothing good for ordinary people. Frightening kids with false climate doomsday narratives might buy the elites a little time, by helping the elites to retain their grip on power in the face of the technology driven growth of free speech and open communication, but the kids who accept the climate lies endure tremendous personal suffering.
The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political Battleground https://ammo.com/articles/history-of-private-schools-public-schools-american... “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” Adolf Hitler Public schools are so ubiquitous and ingrained in American culture that one could easily be forgiven for thinking that we, as a nation, have always had them. However, public schools are a relatively recent invention. Federal funding for public schools is a recent anomaly, dating back to the days of President Jimmy Carter. His successor, President Ronald Reagan, famously tried to dismantle the Department of Education to no avail. Public schools being an arm of the state are indoctrination centers. This becomes increasingly true as basic skills such as the old “three Rs” of “reading, writing and ‘rithmatic” are jettisoned in favor of climate change, critical race theory and gender ideology – all of which are now part and parcel of a public education in the United States. As if this weren’t troubling enough, public schools are largely funded by property taxes on housing. These taxes, which are paid generally on a bi-annual basis, are confiscated from people whose children do not even attend public schools. What’s more, these taxes require people to effectively pay rent on owned property under penalty of losing their homes. We do not have to look far for an alternative to the world of public schools. Throughout most of American history, education has been the purview of parents, the church, and other private institutions. The rise of public education in the United States is a story of violence and coercion that is largely hidden from the public record. After reading this, you will never view public schools in the same light ever again. Table of Contents Public vs. Private vs. Vouchers: How It All Works The Pre-History of Public Schools in the United States Private Schools: A Refuge from Statism A Brief History of the Department of Education How Federal Education Funds Are Allocated How Public Schools Indoctrinate Freedom of Education: In the United States and Abroad Public vs. Private vs. Vouchers: How It All Works Before we get into the meat of the matter, it is worth explaining some things about public education, private education, the voucher system, and how each of these works. Related Podcast Or listen on your favorite app: 5.7 million students are enrolled in private schools, approximately 10 percent of all students in the K-12 system. Between the year 1991 and 2015, the proportion of non-religious schools in the United States has grown greatly, from 14.8 percent to 21.8 percent. Catholic schools are still the leader, but their market share has declined significantly from 53 percent to 38.8 percent. In 2016, 1.69 million children were homeschooled, making up 3.3 percent of all children of school age. This is an explosive growth from the year 1990, when only 250,000 children were educated at home. As of December 2016, there were 14 states with traditional school voucher programs. Other private market alternatives to school vouchers include tax credits and education savings accounts. When these are added into the picture, there are 27 states with some kind of educational choice program. All told, 10 states provide vouchers for children to attend private schools as of 2019. Vouchers are either coupons directly paid to private schools or tax credits that reimburse parents at tax time. President Donald Trump has said that he wants to distribute $20 million in federal education dollars as block grants to states that would take the form of school vouchers. The Pre-History of Public Schools in the United States The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political BattlegroundUnsurprisingly, public education in the United States was primarily a regional phenomenon in the earliest days. New England was known as one of the first places with public schools. However, these were not “public” in the sense that we think of public schools today. First of all, the schools were not compulsory. While Massachusetts and other New England states did have compulsory education laws, these did not mandate the use of the public schools nor any other education method for that matter. They only required what was called “proper education,” which in many cases might not have included basic literacy. In the South, tutors were the most common means of education for the planter class. During the colonial period, it was not uncommon for such upper-crust Southerners to send their children overseas to England and Scotland for their education at a boarding school. For the most part, where people received formal education, it ended at eighth grade. Secondary education was not commonplace for the majority of Americans until the mid-20th century. According to A Cyclopedia of Education (4 vol. 1911), every state had some kind of publicly funded elementary school education by the year 1870. Teaching was not a profession most sought out. It was mostly work for single women who lived in the school district. The primary qualification was knowing how to make the most out of the limited tax resources available to the schoolmaster. With the development of two-year normal schools (career academies for unmarried middle-class women), teaching became increasingly professional. There were now specified training academies for teachers. According to Jurgen Herbst in The Once and Future School: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of American Secondary Education, most public school teachers in Northern states had degrees from normal schools by the year 1900. The important thing to note is that prior to the establishment of compulsory education in the United States, there was greater freedom for parents to determine how best to educate their children than probably anywhere else in history. Teachers were not required to have certificates. Licensing boards did not exist, nor did regulatory bodies. Even in the early days of public education, there was much more freedom, even for those who attended public schools. The entire curriculum, as well as the person teaching it, were under the control of the local school board, not federal or colonial bureaucrats. Part of this flowed from the Puritan/Calvinist ethic. There was no central authority when it came to determining the meaning of The Bible. Nor was there any central authority for education, for many of the same reasons. Upon the establishment of the United States, only one American city had a public education system, and it was not a “system” in any sense we would recognize today. First, it was not compulsory. Primary education was largely left to the private “dames schools.” Literacy was required to enter grammar school at the age of seven. What’s more, the trend was toward more private schools. Most people throughout the commonwealth preferred private schools, with the exception of Boston and it’s Boston Latin, which was widely respected as an elite education institution and feeder to Harvard University (which was founded in part with a public grant). In 1818, Boston began its push to shutter the popular private schools and force the state’s children into compulsory, publicly funded schools. There was too much juvenile delinquency, and this was linked to a lack of compulsory education. A committee appointed a subcommittee (of course) and a survey of the state’s educational system was carried out. Here’s what it found: The eight public schools in Boston had 2,360 pupils. The 150 private schools shared over 4,000 pupils between them. Of children between the ages of four and seven, 283 children did not attend school. Of children over the age of seven, 243 attended no school. A couple of extrapolations spring out from this. First of all, over 90 percent of Boston’s children were in some kind of school. What’s more, the private schools offered a much lower student-to-teacher ratio on average than the publicly funded schools. Finally, charity schools existed to cover the needs of pupils whose families could not afford either private or public schools, which, at that time, collected tuition fees in the same manner public universities and college do today. The solution was not to provide subsidies for the children whose parents could not afford the public and private schools which already existed. Instead, Massachusetts embarked on the radical enterprise of forcing every child into the public school system – every child, that is, other than those who could afford to go to the elite private academies that were de rigueur for the bluebloods of Boston. Screaming children were literally ripped from the arms of their parents and sent off to public schools. As if this were not horrifying and totalitarian enough, the new public schools of Massachusetts largely disseminated the Unitarian religious philosophy which had ousted Calvinism from Harvard in 1805. Further, they looked to the Prussian school system – centralized, with truant officers, grades and uniform curriculum – as their model for what public education ought to look like. Thus, in 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate compulsory education of children in primary school. New York became the second state in 1853. By 1918, all American children were required to go to school at least through eighth grade. Private Schools: A Refuge from Statism The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political BattlegroundNot everyone sent their children to the new public schools. However, it became increasingly more difficult to open private schools. Where once there were no regulations, now there were a host of regulations designed to make private education of children difficult and public education easy. An extreme example of this is when German-language schools were shuttered in the propaganda lead up to the United States’ entry into the First World War. At this time, Germans were the largest minority in the United States. What’s more, German was used as a lingua franca for members of both the Jewish and Austro-Hungarian diaspora living in the United States. Thus, many in the United States took part in public and private German-language schools. In a real-life example of what a nationalization of education in the United States would look like, all of the German language schools were shuttered, state by state. This targeted not just German-language schools, but also German literature, German citizens’ associations and even the instruction of German in schools. In 1916, the number of students studying German was 25 percent. Five years later in 1921, a scant one percent of all schools taught German at all. Many of the German-language schools were independent of the public school systems. At the outbreak of World War I, they were painted as a sort of Third Column for the German Empire. When they were shut down, they did not recover and an entire way of life went away with them – the rich German culture, which had existed in the United States since colonial times. There is a more recent example of the government shutting down schools. After integration, there were a number of so-called “segregation academies” set up by parents who did not care for the quality of the newly integrated schools. Their existence was invalidated through both statute and court rulings, culminating in Runyon v. McCrary (1976), the Supreme Court decision mandating that private schools could not discriminate on the basis of race. Previously, activists had used the courts to remove the tax exempt status of schools using such criteria for admission. None of this requires a moral defense of the positive value of segregation. It is simply to point out that, much like the shuttering of German language schools and so-called “segregation academies,” the shuttering of private schools will likely come with a heavy dollop of political witch hunt attached to it. View how the media began pillorying Second Lady Karen Pence as somehow bigoted and backward for teaching art at a private Christian school – quickly pivoting to targeting Covington Catholic’s students for the crime of smirking while white. A movement against private schools and homeschooling in the United States will likely be coordinated by the government along with the corporate media, which acts as a sort of de facto official propaganda service. A Brief History of the Department of Education The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political BattlegroundThe state’s mechanism for school takeovers is already in place – the Department of Education (DoE), created in a fairly transparent quid pro quo between then Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Walter Mondale and the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. This was the first endorsement it had ever given for a presidential candidate, support that they renewed in 1980, when Carter ran for re-election against anti-DoE candidate and future President Ronald Reagan. One of Ronald Reagan’s most public and high-profile failures was his inability to destroy the DoE. There was very little enthusiasm for the creation of the Department of Education. However, there was virtually none – other than Reagan and his Secretary of Education appointee Terrel H. Bell – whose sole mission was to dismantle the Department and replace it with something more like the National Science Foundation. Roughly 35 years later, the budget for the entire Department of Education stood at $70.7 billion in 2016. This did not include an additional $75 billion in pre-K education over the course of 10 years. This is mostly spent on pushing a far-left agenda. The Mises Institute has thoroughly documented the 35 years of leftist bias at the DoE. Much of the civics curriculum is dedicated to a denunciation of America’s Founding Fathers, and a focus on slavery, racism and colonialism. The United States Constitution is not a core part of the curriculum. Great works of American literature are routinely barred in the public schools, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, and The Great Gatsby. It’s worth briefly noting that the National Education Association is the largest union in the country and wields an enormous amount of power when it comes to education policy in the United States. After all, they got a cabinet-level department created. They have been effectively able to prevent merit pay for teachers – credentials count more than performance when calculating pay. In many states, union membership is effectively mandatory, in as much as teachers are bound by collective bargaining agreements. Between 2004 and 2016, political donations by teachers unions grew from $4.3 million to $32 million. 94 percent of all contributions, going back to 1990, went to Democrats. How Federal Education Funds Are Allocated As one might expect, the entire process for allocating funds to schools is Byzantine and difficult to understand. All told, states and local schools aren’t really relying on federal funds to get kids educated – most of the money for public schools comes from pernicious property taxes, whereby the government effectively requires you to pay rent on property that you already own. Approximately 10 percent of state education budgets come from the federal government. Funds aren’t allocated in any systematic way. They’re allocated on the basis of State Education Agencies (SEAs) filing what are basically grant requests from the federal government, based on anticipated “needs.” Some income formulas are used in this process, but they do not represent the whole of how funds are allocated. The SEAs allocate their funds largely on the basis of income, to what are called Local Education Agencies (LEAs). These agencies then allocate funds using no less than four different formulas based on income and census reports. The final result is that money is allocated for schools in a manner that favors the least well performing. This is very much in keeping with the radical, left-wing, redistributionist agenda of the teachers unions. In the American public education system, there is simply no mechanism in place that encourages excellence. There is only a system which rewards mediocrity – the ability to pass a standardized test that, it’s assumed, “everyone,” from the smallest town in rural Mississippi to the ritziest neighborhood in Manhattan, ought to be able to pass at the same rates. Some states allocate need based on a “per-pupil cost.” Perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, the highest figure can be found in our nation’s capital: the District of Columbia gets $19,000 a head for its public school students. Some businesses exist to help school districts navigate this difficult process to get the biggest share of federal funds possible. This is now the prerequisite to getting into college – passing the standardized test. It’s worth noting that the largest expenditure of federal funds on education is the Pell Grant, which has devalued a college education significantly while driving soaring tuition fees. How Public Schools Indoctrinate Beyond all their other problems, public schools are also a mechanism for indoctrinating children in far-left, anti-Christian and anti-American ideologies. While it’s often clear how this works in higher education, with its coterie of Marxist professors, it is less clear how it works in primary and secondary education. Indeed, many parents who are otherwise skeptical about the role of the government in their lives might not know that even the humble public elementary school is where the far-left indoctrination begins. There is no shortage of extreme examples of this. For instance, four states currently require “LGBT history” to be taught. You can easily find curricula for teaching transgender ideology in elementary schools online. Elementary schools have likewise begun teaching young children about “white privilege” ideology. While all of these examples are extreme, they are worthy of note. California, because of its size, often determines what is taught in classrooms all across the nation, because textbooks must sell there. What’s more, what is taught in public schools in San Francisco and New York today will almost certainly be taught in your town in just a few short years thanks to the sheer “demand” (if we can even call it that) created by the captive public school markets in these areas. However, there is a more important issue of the role that public schools play in indoctrinating children more generally than any one specific and extreme example. It is necessary to pull back a bit from the individual examples of our children being indoctrinated in values hostile to our own and be critical of the role that public schools play in indoctrinating children more generally. First, we should talk about what we mean by “indoctrination.” This does not simply mean “teaching children things we do not like.” We mean imparting ideological information as knowledge without any regard for critical thinking skills. It is the latter part of this that is the most important: That critical thinking skills are not taught, but an agenda. The lack of thought is key: Young people are given a world view by another rather than working it out through their own reason using available facts. The alternative to this is not introducing conservative or libertarian texts. This will only deepen the public education system’s role as a propaganda outlet and will mean more political football with public schools. What’s more, there is no reason to believe – that is, there is no evidence – that public schools can be anything more than indoctrination centers for the prevailing ideology of the time. No less an authority than John Stuart Mill opposed state education on these grounds. We should note that it is not necessary to prove that all or even most teachers are actively pursuing a certain agenda. We must only note that the left-wing agenda has powerful proponents within the teachers union and the Department of Education. We must also stress that the problem is one much greater than simply your children or another’s being indoctrinated with a hostile ideology. The problem is a social one that leads to entire generations not only vehemently opposed to Christianity, America and freedom, but also entirely bereft of the critical thinking and formal logic skills necessary to “think” their way out of the box. To see the real-world consequences of this for society at large, one need only turn on the news. We are reaping the results of ideological indoctrination sown for the better part of the last 50 years. Freedom of Education: In the United States and Abroad The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political BattlegroundThe United States enjoys a great degree of freedom of education when compared to other countries. This is particularly true in Continental Europe, where homeschooling is either extremely difficult, highly regulated, or completely verboten. In many cases, where private schools flourish and homeschooling is allowed, there are public resources available for those who choose to educate their children outside of the state-sponsored school system. While this might seem like another government handout, the reality is quite a bit more nuanced. Tax victims – which is the proper name for what is commonly labeled the more misleading “taxpayer” – have a prior claim on the resources extorted from them through the method of so-called “property taxes.” That they would make some effort to reclaim this money, which is extorted specifically for the purpose of statist indoctrination, is not untoward, nor is it any extortion on their part. As long as public schools exist and property taxes are used to pay for them, those who pay such taxes have a right to access the funds, even if it is through tertiary channels such as vouchers and grants. Indeed, the usual suspects (teachers unions and educational authoritarians) oppose vouchers for private schools and homeschooling. Such programs, while they might take the form of a government grant or subsidy, break up the state school monopoly and contribute to a larger educational marketplace. As they are earmarked specifically for private market schools (or exiting the market entirely through homeschooling), they are, in fact, a superior form of educational freedom to charter schools, which simply provide a greater choice of schools under state fiat. The United Nations is, unsurprisingly, not a supporter of either private schools or homeschooling. The rights of parents to educate their own children, whether at home or in a private education institution, is limited by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Law professor David M. Smolin has written on this subject. The rationale is that children have a “right” to education, one that can only be provided by an allegedly impartial state. Their parents, goes the argument, could potentially interfere in the education of their own children. Fortunately, the United States is not a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. And it is, of course, worth noting that homeschoolers typically exceed their government school counterparts in virtually all respects. In fourth and eighth grade reading and math, Catholic schools significantly outperformed public schools for both proficient and advanced students. A Cato Institute report stated that private schools out-performed public schools with regard to graduation rates, college matriculation, future income and parent satisfaction. This is not surprising, as homeschooled children and privately educated children exist in a bona fide marketplace of ideas. The publicly funded government schools show barely any divergence in terms of what they teach. This is increasingly true thanks to programs like “No Child Left Behind” and Common Core, both of which mandate a very narrow set of ideas and concepts to be taught in public schools. Whether or not to educate one’s children in the government school monopoly is a choice every family must make. But, as with any important decision, parents should take into account the totality of the facts. The history of public education in the United States is one of coercion, extortion, and indoctrination. Beyond such ideological objections to the government school monopoly, private schools tend to be safer, less violent, and better performing than their government alternatives. After all, who is going to choose to spend money on a school where their children are subject to violence, poor education standards, and constant grooming for the police state in the form of what are now ubiquitous active shooter drills. As the Cato Institute points out, there are 30 years of consistent evidence that private schools, beyond simply providing a better learning environment through safety and greater alignment with parent values, also provide a higher quality of education. Even though not every family can afford a private education, private schools and homeschooling should be considered as a serious alternative. Evaluate the cost and benefits of homeschooling from the perspective of a loss of income. Find private grants and scholarships, in addition to the vouchers you might be eligible for. The point is to think flexibly about it and see if this is indeed an option for your family. 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Plans Of A Technocratic Elite: 'The Great Reset' Is Not A Conspiracy Theory https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-vi-plans-technocratic-elite In previous installments, I introduced the Great Reset idea and treated it in terms of its economic and ideological components. In this installment, I will discuss what the Great Reset entails in terms of governance and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR), closing with remarks about the overall Great Reset project and its implications. According to Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the 4-IR follows the first, second, and third Industrial Revolutions—the mechanical, electrical, and digital, respectively. The 4-IR builds on the digital revolution, but Schwab sees the 4-IR as an exponential takeoff and convergence of existing and emerging fields, including Big Data; artificial intelligence; machine learning; quantum computing; and genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. The consequence is the merging of the physical, digital, and biological worlds. The blurring of these categories ultimately challenges the very ontologies by which we understand ourselves and the world, including “what it means to be human.” The specific applications that make up the 4-R are too numerous and sundry to treat in full, but they include a ubiquitous internet, the internet of things, the internet of bodies, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and more. While Schwab and the WEF promote a particular vision for the 4-IR, the developments he announces are not his brainchildren, and there is nothing original about his formulations. Transhumanists and Singularitarians (or prophets of the technological singularity), such as Ray Kurzweil and many others, forecasted these and more revolutionary developments, .long before Schwab heralded them. The significance of Schwab and the WEF’s take on the new technological revolution is the attempt to harness it to a particular end, presumably “a fairer, greener future.” But if existing 4-IR developments are any indication of the future, then Schwab’s enthusiasm is misplaced, and the 4-IR is misrepresented. These developments already include internet algorithms that feed users prescribed news and advertisements and downrank or exclude banned content; algorithms that censor social media content and consign “dangerous” individuals and organizations to digital gulags; apps that track and trace covid suspects and report violators to the police; robot police with QR code scanners to identify and round up dissenters; and smart cities where everyone is a digital entity to be monitored, surveilled, and recorded, while data on their every move is collected, collated, stored, and attached to a digital identity and social credit score. That is, 4-IR technologies subject human beings to a technological management that makes the earlier surveillance by the National Security Agency look like child’s play. Schwab lauds future developments that will connect brains directly to the cloud, enabling the “data mining” of thought and memory, a technological mastery over experience that threatens individual autonomy and undermines any semblance of free will. The 4-IR accelerates the merging of humans and machines, resulting in a world in which all information, including genetic information, is shared and every action, thought, and unconscious motivation is known, predicted, and possibly even precluded. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World comes to mind. Yet Schwab touts brain-cloud interfaces as enhancements, as vast improvements over standard human intelligence, thus lending them an appeal not at all imaginable for soma. Many positive developments may come from the 4-IR, but unless it is taken out of the hands of the corporate-socialist technocrats, it will constitute a virtual prison. Under the Great Reset governance model, states and favored corporations form “public-private partnerships” in control of governance. The configuration yields a corporate-state hybrid largely unaccountable to the constituents of national governments. The cozy relationship between multinational corporations and governments has even aroused the scorn of a few left-leaning critics. They note that the governance model of the WEF represents at least the partial privatization of the UN’s Agenda 2030, with the WEF bringing corporate partners, money, and supposed expertise on the 4-IR to the table. And the WEF’s governance model extends well beyond the UN, affecting the constitution and behavior of governments worldwide. This usurpation has led political scientist Ivan Wecke to call the WEF’s governmental redesign of the world system “a corporate takeover of global governance.” This is true, but the obverse is also the case. The WEF model also represents the governmentalization of private industry. Under Schwab’s “stakeholder capitalism” and the multistakeholder governance model, governance is not only increasingly privatized, but also and more importantly, corporations are deputized as major additions to governments and intergovernmental bodies. The state is thereby extended, enhanced, and augmented by the addition of enormous corporate assets. These include funding directed at “sustainable development” to the exclusion of the noncompliant, as well as the use of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and 5G to monitor and control citizens. In the case of the covid vaccine regime, the state grants Big Pharma monopoly protection and indemnity from liability in exchange for a vehicle by which to expand its powers of coercion. As such, corporate stakeholders become what I have called “governmentalities”—otherwise “private” organizations wielded as state apparatuses, with no obligation to answer to pesky constituents. Since these corporations are multinational, the state essentially becomes global, whether or not a “one-world government” is ever formalized. In Google Archipelago, I argued that leftist authoritarianism is the political ideology and modus operandi of what I call Big Digital, and that Big Digital is the leading edge of an emerging world system. Big Digital is the communications, ideological, and technological arm of an emerging corporate socialism. The Great Reset is the name that has since been given to the project of establishing this world system. Just as Klaus Schwab and the WEF hoped, the covid crisis has accelerated the development of the Great Reset’s corporate-socialist statism. Developments advancing the Great Reset agenda include the Federal Reserve’s unrestrained printing of money, the subsequent inflation, the increasing taxation on everything imaginable, the increased dependence on the state, the supply chain crisis, the restrictions and job losses due to vaccine mandates, and the prospect of personal carbon allowances. Altogether, these and other such policies constitute a coordinated attack on the majority. Ironically, they also represent the “fairness” aspect of the Great Reset—if we properly understand fairness to mean leveling the economic status of the "average American" with those in less “privileged” regions. And this is one of the functions of woke ideology - to make the majority in developed countries feel unworthy of their “privileged” lifestyles and consumption patterns, which the elite are in the process of resetting to a reduced and static new normal. Over the past twenty-one months, the response to the covid-19 scourge has consolidated the monopolistic corporations’ grip on the economy on top, while advancing “actually-existing socialism” below. In partnership with Big Tech, Big Pharma, the legacy media, national and international health agencies, and compliant populations, hitherto “democratic” Western states are increasingly being transformed into totalitarian regimes modeled after China, seemingly overnight. I need not provide a litany of the tyranny and abuses. You can read about them on alternative news sites—until you can no longer read about them even there. The Great Reset, then, is not merely a conspiracy theory; it is an open, avowed, and planned project, and it is well underway. But because capitalism with Chinese characteristics, or corporate-socialist statism, lacks free markets and depends on the absence of free will and individual liberty, it is, ironically, “unsustainable,” and doomed to fail. The question is just how much suffering and distortion will be endured until it does. 1. Michael Rectenwald, “What Is the Great Reset? Part I: Reduced Expectations and Bio-techno-feudalism,” Mises Wire, December 11, 2020, https://mises.org/wire/what-great-reset-part-i-reduced-expectations-and-bio-.... 2. Michael Rectenwald, “The Great Reset, Part II: Corporate Socialism,” Mises Wire, December 31, 2020, https://mises.org/library/great-reset-part-ii-corporate-socialism; Rectenwald, “The Great Reset, Part III: “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics,” Mises Wire, December 28, 2020, https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-iii-capitalism-chinese-characteristi...; Rectenwald, “The Great Reset, Part IV: ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ vs. ‘Neoliberalism,’” Mises Wire, January 26, 2021, https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-iv-stakeholder-capitalism-vs-neolibe.... 3. Michael Rectenwald, “The Great Reset, Part V: Woke Ideology.” Mises Wire, February 23, 2021, https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-v-woke-ideology. 4. Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (New York: Crown Business, 2016), pp. 6–8, Kindle. 5. Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, vii. 6. Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (London: Duckworth, 2006). 7. Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret, COVID-19: The Great Reset (Geneva: Forum Publishing, 2020), p. 57, Kindle. 8. Ivan Wecke, “Conspiracy Theories aside, There Is Something Fishy about the Great Reset,” openDemocracy, August 16, 2021, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/conspiracy-theories-aside-there-.... 9. Michael Rectenwald, “The Google Election,” Mises Wire, November 10, 2020, https://mises.org/wire/google-election. 10. Francesco Fuso Nerini, Tina Fawcett, Yael Parag, and Paul Ekins, “Personal Carbon Allowances Revisited,” Nature Sustainability (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00756-w. 11. Michael Rectenwald, “The Great Reset, Part V: Woke Ideology.” Mises Wire, February 23, 2021, https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-v-woke-ideology. 12. Lori R. Price contributed the second half of this statement in conversation. 13. Michael Rectenwald, “The Great Reset, Part III: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics,” Mises Wire, December 28, 2020, https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-iii-capitalism-chinese-characteristi....
Plans Of A Technocratic Elite: 'The Great Reset' Is Not A Conspiracy Theory
YouTube Hides "Dislikes" Following Mass Downvoting Of Biden Administration Videos https://summit.news/2021/11/10/youtube-hides-dislikes-following-mass-downvot... https://summit.news/2021/01/22/the-most-popular-president-in-u-s-history-isn... https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773299/youtube-dislike-button-hide-pub... https://twitter.com/FRANK_SINATRA7/status/1458481838033416197 https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1458492588332359691 https://twitter.com/RealRyanAshe/status/1458481330883375109 https://twitter.com/ianpiepenbrock/status/1458481630016942085 https://twitter.com/ThatIndianGuy/status/1458483319440609285 YouTube has announced it will hide ‘dislikes’ from videos to curb “creator harassment,” with critics pointing out that this is merely a way of removing the huge amount of downvotes on videos posted by the Biden administration. “YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today,” reports The Verge. “The company says the change is to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks or harassment, and to promote “respectful interactions between viewers and creators.” The dislike button will still be there, but it’ll be for private feedback, rather than public shaming.” Quite how viewer feedback in the form of a thumbs down icon represents “harassment” is anyone’s guess, but the immediate response to the announcement from many was that the Google-owned company was merely moving to protect the Biden White House from ridicule. “Is this the reason?” asked one respondent, highlighting how Biden speeches and White House press briefings receive massive dislike ratios, sometimes at a rate of ten to one. Is this the reason? pic.twitter.com/BSaM92k9Vl — 🙂FRANK SINATRA (@FRANK_SINATRA7) November 10, 2021 Gee, I wonder why they're about to hide dislikes. It's a total mystery. pic.twitter.com/tCEwDDVdBY — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 10, 2021 “This is for the White House account you KNOW that right?” commented another. This is for the White House account you KNOW that right? — Ryan Ashe (@RealRyanAshe) November 10, 2021 “The video department of the Ministry of Truth doing its part for the greater good,” added another. The video department of the Ministry of Truth doing its part for the greater good. — Ian (@ianpiepenbrock) November 10, 2021 Another respondent pointed out the massive dislike ratio received by the Fauci propaganda movie. Wonder why 🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/5qcqdpZHYK — ₿hargav (@ThatIndianGuy) November 10, 2021 With the recent popularity of the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ meme, this seems like another transparent attempt to protect the plunging popularity of Biden, whose approval rating just fell to a record low. As we previously highlighted, despite being “the most popular president in U.S. history” after his *totally not unusual* vote record, Joe Biden didn’t fare too well on YouTube in the days after his inauguration, where every single video posted to the official White House channel received massive downvote ratios. Thanks to YouTube, those ratios will never be a problem again.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:36 AM, grarpamp<grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote: > Plans Of A Technocratic Elite: 'The Great Reset' Is Not A Conspiracy Theory YouTube Hides "Dislikes" Following Mass Downvoting Of Biden Administration Videos https://summit.news/2021/11/10/youtube-hides-dislikes-following-mass-downvot... “YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today,” reports The Verge. “The company says the change is to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks or harassment, and to promote “respectful interactions between viewers and creators.” The dislike button will still be there, but it’ll be for private feedback, rather than public shaming.” ----------------------Jim Bell's Comment:Clearly an example of hopeless bias on the part of Facebook's managementAs I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other. But clearly the people running Facebook want to be able to suppress the 'wrong' communication, even if it is as simple and basic as counted downvoted.If my AP idea was functioning, those people running Facebook would not dare do anything of this sort.
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:22:38 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
As I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other.
LMAO. You live in la-la-land or what. Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other
where did you get such infinitely idiotic idea from.
On 2021-11-11, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
As I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other.
LMAO. You live in la-la-land or what.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
Isn't that the very definition of people communicating with each other? I mean, that's how we tend to do it. Malevolent gossip, and whatnot. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:52:38 +0200 (EET) Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi> wrote:
On 2021-11-11, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
As I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other.
LMAO. You live in la-la-land or what.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
Isn't that the very definition of people communicating with each other?
No, that is the very definition of spying and the proof that the aim of fukerberg criminal activity is to spy on people, feed them propaganda and RESTRICT communication. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-ab... 'experiment' LMAO.
I mean, that's how we tend to do it. Malevolent gossip, and whatnot.
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:22:38 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
As I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other.
LMAO. You live in la-la-land or what. Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other
where did you get such infinitely idiotic idea from. just in case, Jim thinks I'm making this shit up https://www.gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fuc...
https://www.google.com.tr/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549.amp
As I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to “magonise”, mafia trafficking
https://www.google.com.tr/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549.ampAçık Per, Kas 11, 2021 23:22, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> yazdı:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:36 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
Plans Of A Technocratic Elite: 'The Great Reset' Is Not A Conspiracy Theory
YouTube Hides "Dislikes" Following Mass Downvoting Of Biden Administration Videos
https://summit.news/2021/11/10/youtube-hides-dislikes-following-mass-downvot...
“YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today,” reports The Verge.
“The company says the change is to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks or harassment, and to promote “respectful interactions between viewers and creators.” The dislike button will still be there, but it’ll be for private feedback, rather than public shaming.”
---------------------- Jim Bell's Comment: Clearly an example of hopeless bias on the part of Facebook's management As I understood it, Facebook was initiated to help people to communicate with each other. But clearly the people running Facebook want to be able to suppress the 'wrong' communication, even if it is as simple and basic as counted downvoted. If my AP idea was functioning, those people running Facebook would not dare do anything of this sort.
Plans Of A Technocratic Elite: 'The Great Reset' Is Not A Conspiracy Theory
YouTube Hides "Dislikes" Following Mass Downvoting Of Biden Administration Videos
https://summit.news/2021/11/10/youtube-hides-dislikes-following-mass-downvot...
Lack of dissent helps reinforce erroneous and even dangerously wrong opinion... https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
Mass Social Control "Certainly On My Mind" - NY Gov. Jokes About Banning Zoom To Get Workers Back In Offices New York Governor Kathy Hochul joked with ABC7 New York that she wouldn't sanction Zoom to get people back to work in Manhattan as the latest employment survey found less than a third of workers are back in the office. "...short of banning Zoom, which I'm not going to do - but it's certainly something on my mind as we want people back downtown," Hochul joked with reporters. The scary part of which is that, as many have become increasingly aware of in the last two years, when a Democratic leader says they won't do something... it usually means, at some point, they will (remember "two weeks to flatten the curve", vaccine passports are a conspiracy theory, etc...). Why Wokeism Is A Religion https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-wokeism-is-a-religion Introducing the Taxonomy of Woke Religion Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States has failed to take action on racism, climate change, and transphobia. Others have pointed to the war on drugs, the criminalization of homelessness, and mass incarceration as evidence that little has changed in the U.S. over the last 30 years. And yet, on each of those issues, the U.S. has made significant progress. Police killings of African Americans in our 58 largest cities declined from 217 per year in the 1970s to 157 per year in the 2010s. Between 2011 and 2020, carbon emissions declined 14 percent in the U.S., more than in any other nation, while just 300 people died from natural disasters, a more than 90 percent decline over the past century. Public acceptance of trans people is higher than ever. The total US prison and jail population peaked in 2008 and has declined significantly ever since. Just 4 percent of state prisoners, who are 87 percent of the total prison population, are in for nonviolent drug possession; just 14 percent are in for any nonviolent drug offense. And many large cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle have effectively decriminalized public camping by homeless people. Progressives respond that these gains obscure broad inequalities, and are under threat. Black Americans are killed at between two to three times the rate of white Americans, according to a Washington Post analysis of police killings between 2015 and 2020. Carbon emissions are once again rising as the U.S. emerges from the covid pandemic, and scientists believe global warming is contributing to extreme weather events. In 2020, Human Rights Campaign found that at least 44 transgender and non-gender conforming people were killed, which is the most since it started tracking fatalities in 2013, and already that number has reached 45 this year. Drug prohibition remains in effect, homeless people are still being arrested, and the U.S. continues to have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. But those numbers, too, obscure important realities. There are no racial differences in police killings when accounting for whether or not the suspect was armed or a threat (“justified” vs “unjustified” shooting). While carbon emissions will rise in 2021 there is every reason to believe they will continue to decline in the future, so long as natural gas continues to replace coal, and nuclear plants continue operating. While climate change may be contributing to extreme weather events, neither the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change nor another other scientific body predicts it will outpace rising resilience to cause an increase in deaths from natural disasters. Researchers do not know if trans people are being killed disproportionately in comparison to cis-gender people, if trans homicides are rising, or if trans people are being killed for being trans, rather than for some other reason. Twenty-six states have decriminalized marijuana, and California and Oregon have decriminalized and legalized, respectively, the possession of all drugs. Progressive District Attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other major cities have scaled back prosecutions against people for breaking many laws related to homelessness including public camping, public drug use, and theft. And yet many Americans would be surprised to learn any of the above information; some would reject it outright as false. Consider that, despite the decline in police killings of African Americans, the share of the public which said police violence is a serious or extremely serious problem rose from 32 to 45 percent between 2015 and 2020. Despite the decline in carbon emissions, 47 percent of the public agreed with the statement, “Carbon emissions have risen in the United States over the last 10 years,” and just 16 percent disagreed. Meanwhile, 46 percent of Americans agree with the statement, “Deaths from natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change” and just 16 percent disagreed, despite the absence of any scientific scenario supporting such fears. And despite the lack of good evidence, mainstream news media widely reported that the killing of trans people is on the rise. The gulf between reality and perception is alarming for reasons that go beyond the importance of having an informed electorate for a healthy liberal democracy. Distrust of the police appears to have contributed to the nearly 30% rise in homicides after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests last year, both by embolding criminals and causing a pull-back of police. A growing body of research finds that news media coverage of climate change is contributing to rising levels of anxiety and depression among children. And there is good reason to fear that misinformation about the killing of trans and non-gender conforming individuals contributes to anxiety and depression among trans and gender dysphoric youth. Social Media, NGOs, and the Death of God Why is that? Why does there exist such a massive divide between perception and reality on so many important issues? Part of the reason appears to stem from the rise of social media and corresponding changes to news media over the last decade. Social media fuels rising and unwarranted certainty, dogmatism, and intolerance of viewpoint diversity and disconfirmatory information. Social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram reward users for sharing information popular with peers, particularly extreme views, and punish users for expressing unpopular, more moderate, and less emotional opinions. This cycle is self-reinforcing. Audiences seek out views that reinforce their own. Experts seek conclusions, and journalists write stories, which affirm the predispositions of their audiences. It may be for these reasons that much of the news media have failed to inform their audiences that there are no racial differences in police killings, that emissions are declining, and that claims of rising trans killings are unscientific. Another reason may be due to the influence of well-funded advocacy organizations to shape public perceptions, particularly in combination with social media. Organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign, and Drug Policy Alliance have misled journalists, policymakers, and the public, about police killings, drug policy, and trans killings, often by simply leaving out crucial contextual information. The same has been true for climate activists, including those operating as experts and journalists, who withhold information about declining deaths from natural disasters, the cost of disasters relative to GDP growth, and declining U.S. emissions. But neither of these explanations fully captures the religious quality of so much of the progressive discourse on issues relating to race, climate, trans, crime, drugs, homelessness, and the related issue of mental illness. A growing number of liberal, heterodoxical, and conservative thinkers alike use the word “woke” to describe the religiosity of so many progressive causes today. In his new book, Woke Racism, Columbia University linguist John McWhorter argues that Wokeism should, literally, be considered a religion. As evidence for his argument McWhorter points to commonly held myths, like the debunked claim that the American War of Independence was fought to maintain slavery, or that racial disparities in educational performance are due to racist teachers. He points to Woke religious fervor in seeking to censor, fire, and otherwise punish heretics for holding taboo views. And McWhorter suggests that, because Wokeism meets specific psychological and spiritual needs for meaning, belonging, and status, pointing out its supernatural elements is likely to have little impact among the Woke. But just because an ideology is dogmatic and self-righteous does not necessarily make it a religion, and so it is fair to ask whether Wokeism is anything more than a new belief system. There is no obviously mythological or supernatural element to Woke ideology, and its adherents rarely, if ever, justify their statements with reference to a god, or higher power. But a deeper look at Wokeism does, indeed, reveal a whole series of mythological and supernatural beliefs, including the idea that white people today are responsible for the racist actions of white people in the past; that climate change risks making humans extinct; and that a person can change their sex by simply identifying as the opposite sex. Woke Religion: A Taxonomy While reading McWhorter’s new book, I was surprised to discover many similarities between woke racism and apocalyptic environmentalism, which in Apocalypse Never I describe as a religion. Each offers an original sin as the cause of present-day evils (e.g., slavery, the industrial revolution). Each has guilty devils (e.g., white people, “climate deniers,” etc.) sacred victims (e.g., black people, poor islanders, etc.) and what McWhorter calls “The Elect,” or people self-appointed to crusade against evil (e.g., BLM activists, Greta Thunberg, etc.). And each have a set of taboos (e.g., saying “All lives matter,” criticizing renewables, etc.) and purifying rituals (e.g., kneeling/apologizing, buying carbon offsets, etc). I also saw parallels between woke racism, apocalyptic environmentalism, and victimology, which in San Fransicko I describe as a religion complete with the metaphysical (essentialist) view that people can be categorized as victims or oppressors, by nature of their identity or experience. I reached out to a new friend, Peter Boghossian, a philosopher who recently resigned his post at Portland State University in response to Wokeist repression, and other experts in different Woke movements, and together we constructed a Woke Religion Taxonomy (below). It includes seven issue areas (Racism, Climate Change, Trans, Crime, Mental Illness, Drugs, and Homelessness) covered by Woke Racism, Apocalypse Never, San Fransicko, Peter’s research, and the writings of other critics of Wokeism. And it cuts across ten religious categories (Original Sin, Guilty Devils, Myths, Sacred Victims, The Elect, Supernatural Beliefs, Taboo Facts, Taboo Speech, Purifying Rituals, Purifying Speech). We were surprised by how straightforward it was to fill in each category, and by the fascinating similarities and differences between them. We decided to publish the Woke Religion Taxonomy because it was helpful to our own understanding of Wokeism as a religion, and we felt it might help others. The Taxonomy identifies common myths and supernatural beliefs and helps explain why so many people continue to hold them, despite overwhelming evidence that they are false. We are under no illusion that the Taxonomy will reduce the power that Wokeism holds over true believers. But we also believe it will help orient those who are confused by its irrationalism, and are seeking an accessible overview. Finally, we are publishing it because we recognize that we might be wrong, either about matters of fact or classification, and hope it will encourage a healthy discussion and debate. As such, we have published it with the caveat that it is “Version 1.0” with the expectation that we will revise it in the future. Both Peter and I would like to stress that we have published the Taxonomy in service of the liberal and democratic project of social and environmental progress, which we believe to be under threat from Wokeism. We believe the U.S. is well-positioned to reduce police killings, crime, and carbon emissions; protect the lives and the mental health of trans, non-gender conforming, and cis-gender people; and better treat of the mentally ill and drug addicted. But doing so will require that Wokeism weaken its grip over the American psyche. As Peter writes, “bigotry and racial discrimination are real and they have no place in society. Yes, there is ongoing racism. Yes, there is ongoing homophobia. Yes, there is ongoing hatred of trans people. These are morally abhorrent and we all need to work together to bring about their end. The woke religion, however, is not the way to stop these moral horrors. It is making our shared problems more difficult to solve.” Click image for huge legible version.
“We are here to guide public opinion, not to discuss it.” https://www.sovereignman.com/international-diversification-strategies/we-are... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-wealth-tax-is-coming-33781/ https://www.wfp.org/publications/annual-performance-report-2020 In the year 1804, only a few months before he proclaimed himself Emperor of France, 35-year old Napoleon Bonaparte stood before the State Council to discuss war with Great Britain. By then Napoleon had already become the most powerful person in France; he had led the Coup d’etat against the previous government in 1799, rigged the approval of the new French Constitution, and fixed his own election to become ‘First Consul’. And as First Consul of France, Napoleon was essentially a dictator… and one who lusted for conflict. Napoleon had actually threatened to invade Britain when he first came to power in 1799; plus he had spent the last several years deliberately provoking the British by diminishing their influence on the European continent. Britain finally took the bait and declared war on France in 1803 as a way to preemptively safeguard their own security; they weren’t willing to sit by and wait for Napoleon to invade. Napoleon was ready. But he was smart enough to know that he couldn’t do it alone– he would need support. And that meant having the people on his side. Napoleon had famously little regard for politicians, bureaucrats, clergy, and merchants. But he understood very well that it was the peasants who had risen up against the monarchy in 1789, plunging France into a decade of chaos and revolution. So, standing in front of the State Council in 1804, Napoleon made his case for war… and selling it to the public. As he told the members of the council quite bluntly, “We are here to guide public opinion, not to discuss it.” Napoleon was a master of censorship and propaganda. And throughout his career he meticulously oversaw every detail of what was communicated to the people. He commissioned music, theater, and artwork that portrayed him exactly as he wanted to be seen– powerful, heroic, victorious, and unstoppable. He tightly controlled the press and dictated what they were allowed and not allowed to say. (The number of newspapers in France actually fell from several dozen in 1799 when he became First Consul, to just four by 1814.) And he completely made up whatever facts he saw fit, especially as they related to his military campaigns. For example, Napoleon routinely issued ‘military bulletins’ which grossly exaggerated the number of enemies killed and captured, and downplayed France’s own casualties. It is from these dispatches that the phrase, “lie like a bulletin” entered the French lexicon. Yet his propaganda was so widely circulated across Europe that whatever he said became true simply because it was repeated so many times. It’s funny that the media still works this way today. For example, CNN recently ran headlines stating, “2% of Elon Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity organization.” The article’s sole source of information is the director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), who wants billions of dollars more for his organization. He was the sole source of this “news” which CNN presented to the public. Elon Musk replied on Twitter: “If WFP can describe… exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.” Of course the WFP could do no such thing, because in 2020, it raised $8.4 billion… yet somehow didn’t manage to solve world hunger. But nobody at CNN bothered to ask any questions or do any independent analysis to come up with this conclusion on their own. That’s because they have a clear, anti-capitalist agenda. Like Napoleon, they’re only interested in guiding public opinion, not providing objective information. And I’m sure it’s just a wild coincidence that they ran this story right when a proposed wealth tax is floating around Washington DC, i.e. the sort of tax that would take more money from people like Elon, and hand it over to bungling bureaucrats. The WFP is actually a great example of why more taxes are a bad idea. Despite having a budget of $8.4 billion PER YEAR, they can’t make a dent in global hunger. In fact the problem is getting much worse. According to the WFP’s own statistics, the number of undernourished people grew from 650 million in 2019, to 768 million in 2020. It also turns out nearly half of the WFP’s annual budget is spent on cushy salaries, travel, and expensive ‘consultants’. Only about $4.5 billion goes to actual food purchases, or to cash transfers that are supposed to go towards food purchases. But here’s the thing– poor countries tend to be run by corrupt dictators. And those corrupt dictators find ways to plunder the system. They steal the cash and sell off the food, keeping the money for themselves while people continue starving. Even here where I live in Puerto Rico, a number of corrupt politicians notoriously stole emergency funds and humanitarian supplies after 2017’s Hurricane Maria. This sort of theft even happens in the US. So of course it’s going to happen in impoverished countries. Duh. Yet the WFP seems oblivious to this reality. In fact the organization’s most recent annual report contains a glowing assessment of its own performance, despite obviously worsening hunger. The report is honestly hilarious as they consistently rate themselves as ‘green’, i.e. the highest possible rating, regarding their strategic priorities and management. It is truly an orgy of self-love. They’re clearly not interested in getting better; they already think they’re doing a great job NOT fixing global hunger. In fact, worsening global hunger is a GOOD thing for the WFP; it ensures that their budget will keep growing. And it means that organizations like CNN will continue to pushing out anti-capitalist propaganda to guide public opinion in favor of high tax policies.
Think Carefully About Accepting The Concept Of Vaccine Passports https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/27/think-carefully-about-a... https://rumble.com/vpfm4g-this-pivotal-moment-vaccine-passports.-17-minutes.... https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/10/freedom-day-you-have-a-barcode-on-your-... As the architects of the Build Back Better society assist you in creating easier ways to show your vaccinated and compliant status, perhaps it is prudent to pause and think about the discussions that take place behind the opaque glass doors. Right now, as you are reading this, under the guise of enhancing your safety, the U.S. federal government is in discussions with multinational corporations and employers of citizens to create a more efficient process for you to register your vaccine compliance. You may know their conversation under the terminology of a COVID passport. The current goal is to make a system for you to show your authorized work status; which, as you know, is based on your obedience to a mandated vaccine. Rumble Video Warning – View HERE Beta tests are being conducted in various nations, each with different perspectives and constitutional limitations based on pesky archaic rules and laws that govern freedom. For the western, or for lack of a better word ‘democratic‘ outlook, Australia is leading the way with their technological system of vaccination check points and registered state/national vaccination status tied to your registration identification. The checkpoints are essentially gateways where QR codes are being scanned from the cell phones of the compliant vaccinated citizen. Yes comrades, there’s an App for that. Currently the vaccine status scans are registered by happy compliance workers, greeters at the entry to the business or venue. Indeed, the WalMart greeter has a new gadget to scan your phone prior to allowing you custody of a shopping cart. In restaurants, the host or hostess has a similar compliance scanner to check you in prior to seating or reservation confirmation. It’s simple and fun. You pull up your QR code on your cell phone (aka portable transponder and registration device), using the registration App, and your phone is scanned delivering a green check response to confirm your correct vaccination status and authorized entry. The Australian government, at both a federal and state level, is working closely with Big Tech companies (thirsting for the national contract) to evaluate the best universal process that can be deployed nationwide. As noted by all six Premiers in the states down under, hardware (scanners) and software (registration) systems are all being tested to find the most comprehensive/convenient portable units to settle upon. Meanwhile in the U.S., cities like Los Angeles and New York await the beta test conclusion before deploying their own version of the same process. In Europe, they are also testing their vaccine checkpoint and registration processes known as the EU “Green Pass.” The “Green Pass” is a similar technological system that gives a vaccinated and registered citizen access to all the venues and locations previously locked down while the COVID-19 virus was being mitigated. What would have been called a “vast right-wing conspiracy theory” 24 months ago, is now a COVID passport process well underway. As with all things in our rapid technological era, you do not have to squint to see the horizon and accept that eventually this process will automate, and there will be a gadget or scanning gateway automatically granting you access without a person needing to stand there and scan each cell phone QR code individually. The automated process just makes sense. You are well aware your cell phone already transmits an electronic beacon enabling your Uber or Lyft driver access to your location at the push of a touchscreen button, another convenient App on your phone. So, why wouldn’t the gateways just accept this same recognizable transmission as registration of your vaccine compliant arrival at the coffee shop? The automated version is far easier and way more cool than having to reach into your pocket or purse and pulling up that pesky QR code on the screen. Smiles everyone, the partnership between Big Tech and Big Government is always there to make your transit more streamline and seamless. Heck, you won’t even notice the electronic receiver mounted at the entry. Give it a few weeks and you won’t remember the reason you were laughing at Alex Jones any more than you remember why you are taking off your shoes at the airport. However, as this process is created, it is worth considering that you are being quietly changed from an individual person to a product. Some are starting to worry in the beta test: […] “you must become an object with attributes sitting in a database. Instead of roaming around anonymously making all sorts of transactions without the government’s knowledge, Australians find themselves passing through ‘gates’. … All product-based systems have these gates to control the flow of stock and weed out errors. It is how computers see things. The more gates, the more clarity. You are updating the government like a parcel pings Australia Post on its way to a customer. If a fault is found, automatic alerts are issued and you are stopped from proceeding. In New South Wales, this comes in the form of a big red ‘X’ on the myGov vaccine passport app (if you managed to link your Medicare account without smashing the phone to bits). Gate-keeping systems have been adapted from retail and transformed into human-based crowd solutions to micromanage millions of lives with the same ruthless efficiency as barcodes tracking stock. There is no nuance or humanity in this soulless digital age. Barcodes are binary. Good – bad. Citizen or dissident. Even if you have all the required government attributes to pass through the gates – two vaccines, six boosters, and a lifelong subscription to Microsoft – something could go wrong. If your data fails the scan, you’ll slip into digital purgatory and become an error message. (read more) It could be problematic if your status fails to register correctly, or if the system identifies some form of non-compliance that will block you from entry. Then again, that’s what beta tests are for, working out all these techno bugs and stuff. Not to worry…. move along…. Then again… “For those in the privileged class allowed to shop, take note of Covid signs which encourage cashless transactions under the guise of ‘health’. Messaging around cards being ‘safer’ will increase until the Treasury tries to remove cash entirely, almost certainly with public approval.” Wait, now we are squinting at that familar image on the horizon because we know those who control things have been talking about a cashless society for quite a while. We also know that data is considered a major commodity all by itself. Why do you think every system you encounter in the modern era requires your phone number even when you are not registering for anything. It, meaning you, us, are all getting linked into this modern registration system that is defining our status. We also know that system operators buy and sell our registered status amid various retail and technology systems. Yeah, that opaque shadow is getting a little clearer now. Perhaps you attempt to purchase dog food and get denied entry into Pet Smart because you didn’t renew the car registration. Or perhaps you are blocked from entry because you forgot to change the oil on the leased vehicle you drive and Toyota has this weird agreement with some retail consortium. You head to the oil change place that conveniently pops up in the citizen compliance App –it’s only two blocks away– they clear the alert after they do the oil and you are gateway compliant again. Missed your booster shot? We’re sorry citizen, your bank account is frozen until your compliance is restored… please proceed to the nearest vaccination office as displayed conveniently on your cell phone screen to open access to all further gates (checkpoints)…. tap to continue…
As predicted by every fine Orwellian... Fight Back! A Microchip Containing Your Vaccine Passport Information Can Now Be Embedded In Your Hand http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/a-microchip-containing-your-vaccine... https://summit.news/2021/11/30/unvaccinated-austrians-face-prison-time-huge-... https://twitter.com/SikhForTruth/status/1465327182826332163 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099HNN8CJ https://www.rt.com/usa/541660-fauci-living-with-covid-virus/ http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/i-think-were-going-to-have-an-annua... https://www.lifenews.com/2021/11/30/federal-judge-blocks-biden-vaccine-manda... https://www.politico.eu/article/scholz-wants-mandatory-vaccination-for-germa... Things are starting to get really weird. What I am about to share with you sounds very strange, but it is all true. Before I get into it, let me ask you a question. If you could have a vaccine passport permanently embedded into your hand, would you do it? Amazingly, some people in Sweden are willingly doing this to themselves. They are putting microchips that contain their vaccine passport information into their hands, and they are raving about how convenient this is. You can actually watch a video of this being done to someone right here. The video is not in English, but you will be able to understand what is happening. Sweden: Get your vaccine passports in a chip in your hand or elsewhere under the skin. It is increasingly popular to insert an #IoB chip into the body with different types of data and now you can insert your covid certificates in the chip.https://t.co/woSzB6zeRC pic.twitter.com/6QWEYlgRlz — 'Sikh For Truth'. (@SikhForTruth) November 29, 2021 I was absolutely floored when I first watched that. Do they not understand where this could lead? Society is increasingly being divided into two classes of people, and the class of people that is willingly conforming is being granted many “privileges” that the other group is being denied. Many believe that this is “just a phase” and that things will eventually go back to normal. But the truth is that this is not “just a phase” at all. For a long time, health authorities were promising us that if we all did exactly what they asked that the pandemic would come to an end. Unfortunately, now they are openly admitting that COVID is going to be with us permanently… The White House’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, says it’s unlikely that the Covid-19 coronavirus will ever be wiped out, and insists the world is just going to have to start living with it. During an interview with CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, Fauci said he didn’t believe Covid-19 was ever going to entirely go away. He noted that the world had only ever eliminated one infection completely: smallpox. “We’re going to have to start living with Covid. I believe that’s the case because I don’t think we’re going to eradicate it,” Fauci told CBS. If we are “going to have to start living with COVID”, that means that all of the infrastructure that they are now putting in place will be with us from now on. That means that there isn’t going to be an end to the vaccine passports, the mandates or the injections. In fact, the CEO of Pfizer says that “we’re going to have an annual revaccination”… “I think we’re going to have an annual revaccination and that should be able to keep us really safe.” You are going to keep getting shots year after year after year in order to keep earning the “privileges” that you have been granted. How sick is that? They want to make their authoritarian measures a permanent part of our lives, and this is what our society is going to look like from now on unless we take a stand. The good news is that some courts here in the United States are starting to reject the mandates that Joe Biden tried to implement. On Monday, a federal court blocked Biden’s mandate for health care workers in 10 states, and on Tuesday a different court blocked that same mandate on a nationwide basis… A federal court has issued a nationwide injunction protecting health care workers across the country from Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate. Yesterday, in response to a multi-state lawsuit led by Missouri, a federal court barred the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states who are employed at federally-funded health care clinics. That means they doctors and nurses can’t be fired for refusing the COVID vaccine despite Biden’s federal mandate requiring them to get it. Today, a federal court in Louisiana expanded on that ruling and blocked the vaccine mandate nationwide. But just because they have a legal setback or two does not mean that they are going to stop trying. Over in Germany, it is being reported that incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to impose a vaccine mandate on every single German starting in February… Germany’s incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in favor of introducing mandatory coronavirus vaccination for all Germans as early as February, an official close to Scholz said. During a crisis meeting Tuesday between the outgoing government of Chancellor Angela Merkel and the premiers of the German federal states, Scholz “signaled his sympathy for such a regulation,” the official told POLITICO. Such a measure would have to be approved by the German Bundestag, the official said, adding that the mandatory vaccination could come “at the beginning of February.” Other major industrialized nations are considering similar measures. If I was living in Germany, I would leave. Of course the same thing could be said about Australia, New Zealand and a bunch of other countries that have gone in a deeply authoritarian direction. Once vaccines become mandatory for an entire population, vaccine passports will be absolutely necessary for anyone that still wants to live anything that even resembles a “normal life”. Whether it is on your phone, on a card that you show or actually embedded in your skin, you will need to take it with you wherever you go in case you are stopped by law enforcement authorities. Needless to say, all of this sounds eerily similar to what we witnessed back in the 1930s. The people that are doing this to us have taken their masks off and they are showing us who they really are. These are such dark times, and I have a feeling that they are about to get a whole lot darker.
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Plans Of A Technocratic Elite: 'The Great Reset' Is Not A Conspiracy
YouTube Hides "Dislikes" Following Mass Downvoting Of Biden Administration Videos
YouTube Co-Founder Slams Company's Removal Of 'Dislike' Button As "Stupid Move" https://summit.news/2021/11/16/youtube-creator-slams-companys-removal-of-dis... https://summit.news/2021/01/22/the-most-popular-president-in-u-s-history-isn... The co-founder of YouTube has labelled the company’s decision to remove the ‘dislike’ button as a “Stupid move.” Jawed Karim, who sold his stake in YouTube for $65 million in 2006, was the first person to ever upload a video to YouTube and he used that video to comment on the scrapping of the ‘thumb down’ button. In the description section of the video, "Me at the zoo", which shows the engineer visiting San Diego zoo 16 years ago, Karim edited in the comment “When every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is. Try again, YouTube.” YouTube announced it will hide ‘dislikes’ from videos, reasoning that it will curb “creator harassment,” yet critics pointed out that this is merely a way of removing the huge amount of downvotes on videos posted by the Biden administration. Gee, I wonder why they're about to hide dislikes. It's a total mystery. pic.twitter.com/tCEwDDVdBY — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 10, 2021 Is this the reason? pic.twitter.com/BSaM92k9Vl — 🙂FRANK SINATRA (@FRANK_SINATRA7) November 10, 2021 This is for the White House account you KNOW that right? — Ryan Ashe (@RealRyanAshe) November 10, 2021 The video department of the Ministry of Truth doing its part for the greater good. — Ian (@ianpiepenbrock) November 10, 2021 Another respondent pointed out the massive dislike ratio received by the Fauci propaganda movie. Wonder why 🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/5qcqdpZHYK — ₿hargav (@ThatIndianGuy) November 10, 2021 With the recent popularity of the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ meme, this seems like another transparent attempt to protect the plunging popularity of Biden, whose approval rating just fell to a record low. As we previously highlighted, despite being “the most popular president in U.S. history” after his *totally not unusual* vote record, Joe Biden didn’t fare too well on YouTube in the days after his inauguration, where every single video posted to the official White House channel received massive downvote ratios. Thanks to YouTube, those ratios will apparently never be a problem again. However, some have suggested that YouTube may be backflipping on the decision, with some dislikes that disappeared now reappearing on Monday. As News.au.com noted, the most hated video on the platform, YouTube’s own ‘rewind 2018’ video, had it’s awful ratio removed recently... ..., but then it reappeared...
History has already shown that, once all the well documented improper influence is subtracted out, Trump was the legit winner, like it or not. Prediction markets have not yet settled on degrees and types of future corrections and compensations the world will take. Countries having never forethought and provided for such cases, history will figure that out, and certainly not without volatility. Among the lies of 1984, lay truths. Victor Davis Hanson: History Will Grind Out The Truth https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/12/history_will_grind_out... “History will figure that out on its own.” That is what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recently replied to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In a heated congressional exchange, Fauci derided the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic was due to the leak of a dangerous virus, engineered in the Chinese Wuhan virology lab — and in part funded by U.S. health agencies, on the prompt of Fauci himself. Fauci offered arguments from authority by citing his own expertise, as well as that of “card-carrying” specialists. But in truth, there is little evidence that any animal species has been found infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or a close relative that causes COVID-19 or a similar illness. Many federal health experts increasingly believe the virus was manmade. A number argue that it was likely a product of gain-of-function research that was funded in part by a U.S. government grant. Others concede that Fauci and Dr. Peter Daszak — who was involved in gain-of-function research, often in cooperation with the Chinese — were not candid about the full extent of their ties to the Wuhan lab. But despite Chinese resistance to releasing pertinent data, history eventually will sort the truth out — as it does with most controversies of the moment. * * * Five years ago, the New York Times, the Washington Post, most of the mainstream media and the majority of the bipartisan Washington, D.C., political and government establishments insisted that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 election. In support of such conspiracy theories, they fixated on the so-called Steele dossier. It was a supposedly independent research effort detailing “proof” of Trump-Russian cooperation to rob Hillary Clinton of the election. That supposed evidence was the unspoken ground swell for a 22-month, $40 million special counsel investigation of Trump conducted by former FBI head Robert Mueller. For over 650 days, the country was consumed with “Russian collusion.” Cable news outlets, public television and radio pundits, along with high-ranking Democratic politicians, almost daily announced the impending end of the colluding Trump administration. They peddled rumors of Trump’s supposed obscene activity in Moscow. They spun tales of mysterious meetings between Trump’s family and Russian operatives, and of Trump surrogates’ supposed trips to meet with Russian colluding officials. Christopher Steele, the architect of the “dossier,” had not been to Russia in decades. He was a rank partisan in the pay of the Clinton campaign — and for a time the FBI itself. Five years later, history has almost sorted out the fable that the most powerful, wealthy and influential Americans in the nation once foisted upon the public. Special prosecutor John Durham seems to be slowly indicting the promulgators of the hoax. The earlier lengthy internal audit by Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited wrongdoing on the part of the Department of Justice and FBI. The Mueller investigation failed to find any proof of Russian-Trump collusion. The 2018 majority report of the House Intelligence Committee came to the same conclusion. The admission of false statements by former FBI interim director Andrew McCabe, along with the felonious altering of a court document by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, were other elements of the warped and unprofessional behavior of the FBI. Both Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey were unable to answer fundamental questions while under oath about the dossier and the role of its authors in spreading the collusion hoax. Mueller’s legal team and Comey himself habitually leaked rumors that fed the collusion hoax. History, however, is slowly sorting it out - despite the approved narrative of the well-connected who misled the country to pursue their own political agendas. * * * Someday historians of public health will unravel the full costs of locking down most of America in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are now near-taboo topics - the vigorous natural immunity offered from prior infection, and the terrible damage done by the quarantines - earn cancel culture damnation, employment suspension and media calumny. But soon they likely will become matter-of-factly accepted as truth. * * * The same will be said of the hysterical myths that surround the unfortunate January 6 riot at the Capitol. Five years from now history will show that there was no conspiracy, no pre-planned “insurrection” — as the FBI has already concluded. The late Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick was not murdered as was alleged. Those “armed” inside the Capitol did not carry — much less use — guns. The one violent death, that of Ashli Babbitt, was of an unarmed female who was lethally shot by an officer for attempting to enter through a broken window. The solitary confinement, indefinite incarceration and inhumane jail conditions accorded some of the accused will be shown contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America. In other words, history eventually will sort it all out. Or as the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”
Quinn: It's A 'Fourth Turning', What Did You Expect? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/09/20/its-a-fourth-turning-what-did-... https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/11/15/illegitimate-president/ https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/03/30/p-for-pandemic-populist-rage/ “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.” – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe “In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way. If foreign societies are also entering a Fourth Turning, this could accelerate the chain reaction. At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe I’ve been pondering this Fourth Turning in articles since its spectacular onset in September 2008, with the Wall Street/Federal Reserve initiated global financial implosion. The description above is apt, as this ongoing two-decade long storm gains intensity and our freedoms, liberties and rights are slowly extinguished as the electricity flickers and our modern civilization reverts to a more brutish state of antipathy among competing tribes, based on race, gender, class, party, geographic location, and now medical status. We are in the midst of a saecular winter that is guaranteed to become more violent and bitter, as the malevolent forces propelling this Crisis have decided to ramp up fear propaganda to implement their global reset, using authoritarian methods to compel the masses to comply. I’ve intellectually understood we would be faced with trials and tribulations that would threaten the continuation of our way of life and survival as a unified nation. The reality is proving to be far worse. The core elements of debt, civic decay, and global disorder are most certainly propelling this Crisis towards its bloody climax. I knew there was no way to sidestep or escape this Fourth Turning. But I didn’t expect a Deep State coup against a sitting president; a stolen presidential election through the collusion of the surveillance state, Big Tech, Big Media and billionaire oligarchs; a weaponized flu used as cover for an imploding financial system; an authoritarian global lockdown which has destroyed small businesses and impoverished the working class, while enriching mega-corporations and the elite ruling class; and now a Big Pharma experimental gene therapy disguised as a vaccine used to divide America into hostile tribes spewing hate online, with a strong possibility of violence because Biden and his handlers are attempting to provoke those refusing his vaccine mandate into committing acts of aggression. Those trapped in their self-induced stupor of normalcy bias, with an ample helping of cognitive dissonance, do not or will not see the coming storm as it wipes out all vestiges of their modern techno-consumption society. Supply chains are imploding as we speak., creating shortages, soaring prices, and possibly empty food shelves in the near future. I find it both fascinating and disturbing to observe the level of madness engulfing our world, as the sociopath class of mind manipulators and propaganda specialists use their well-honed psychological techniques to scare the masses into subservience and implement their diabolical Great Reset plan where we own nothing, they own everything, and our future is a boot stamping on our faces forever. They are using our willful ignorance, technological bread and circuses, inability to understand risk, and susceptibility to fear exploitation, to increase their power and control over governmental, financial, and societal levers. They want us under-educated and over-medicated. That is how they broaden their wealth, power and control. None of what has happened since the Fall of 2019 has occurred by accident or due to bad luck. It has been scripted, according to the plan agreed upon by the global elites (Gates, Soros, Schwab, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg) and implemented by corrupt politicians (Biden, Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer), captured bankers (Powell, Dimon), corporate shysters (Bezos, Musk), and of course the compliant fake news propaganda media (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Washington Post). When overnight repo rates began hitting 10% in September of 2019, Jerome Powell was ordered to start cutting rates and restart QE. The global elite were in danger of seeing a reduction in their ungodly level of wealth. In an amazing coincidence, Event 201 took place in October 2019, simulating a global pandemic, and run by Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum (Schwab), Johns Hopkins, and members of the MSM. It just so happened a bio-weapon lab in Wuhan, working on gain of function viruses, funded by Anthony Fauci, accidentally or purposely released a highly transmissible but relatively non-lethal (to anyone under 80 or not weighing 275 pounds) virus in November 2019. It appears the Chinese covered this up for at least two months, while allowing it to spread across the globe. The WHO, WEF, Fauci and the Trump hating media covered up the facts about China’s creation of this pandemic of fear. An over-hyped pandemic with a scary name and an unlimited marketing campaign was just what the doctor ordered to set the Build Back Better Great Reset plan in motion. It gave Powell and the Fed cover to unleash trillions in electronic money printing to sustain and enrich their Wall Street owners, billionaire oligarchs, and politicians spending trillions to prop up an economy they purposely shut down. It gave Democrat governors and mayors the cover to implement their “steal the election” plan through massive mail-in ballot fraud, because it was too dangerous to stand in line to vote, but not too dangerous to stand in line 50 deep at Costco, Wal-Mart, or Target. The mandatory lockdowns and mask mandates were tests to see how far they could push the masses before they pushed back. The oligarchs were delighted to observe millions of losers who had no meaning in their worthless earthly existence thus far, believe they were now brave noble heroes by cowering in their basements, ordering takeout from Taco Bell, watching Netflix, and putting on a face diaper in public, even though Fauci and every scientific study ever done proved masks are worthless against viruses. The campaign of fear, aided and abetted by Hollywood, the corporate media propaganda networks, the Big Tech social media censorship police, teachers’ unions, and tyrannical left-wing governors, worked to perfection as decades of government school socialization and indoctrination has created a nation of terrified sheep easily ruled by loathsome Machiavellian wolves. The arrogance and hubris of the malevolent globalist oligarchy has attained epic heights, as they successfully stole a presidential election and completed their four-year coup against Trump. They have flogged the January 6 unarmed selfie insurrection to death with their media lapdogs to keep the Trump forces on the defensive. They have installed a dementia ridden empty vessel Trojan horse as president, with a vacuous hateful kackling hyena as vice president, as a means to implement their master plan of destroying what remains of a once great nation. I wrote an article two weeks after Biden’s installation called Illegitimate President, laying out the case this was a coup by the Deep State and billionaire oligarchs, and still stand by ever word I wrote, as my worst fears have been exceeded during Biden’s first eight months in office. This Chinese controlled, child fondling, teleprompter reading, senile, divider in chief is not my president. I will never recognize him as my president. We are in the midst of a civil war, with only the bad guy’s waging battle against the Constitution, our freedoms, our liberties, and the societal norms which have formed the foundation of our country since 1776. Thus far, there has been little to no push back from the good guys. The outcome of this Fourth Turning hinges upon the willingness of a minority of like-minded, critical thinking, dissenting Americans to stand-up and stop these evil men from turning our country into tyrannical techno-gulag of oppression. The specific events that drive a Fourth Turning are never the same, as technology advances, empires rise and fall, and global interconnectedness increases. What doesn’t change is human nature, with all its downsides of greed, envy, hubris, murder, and hate. Throughout history sociopaths have risen to power, showing no empathy for their fellow man, seeking power and control over their people, attempting to conquer and destroy other countries, and prone to commit atrocities on a grand scale against their own citizens. This Fourth Turning is no different. It rhymes with aspects of our previous three Fourth Turnings, but has its own distinctive facets, not experienced before. The American Revolution Fourth Turning featured a tyrannical despot as the provocateur. The Civil War Fourth Turning saw a divided nation, with half the population going to war against the other half. The Great Depression/World War II Fourth Turning contained a global financial crisis, creation of the welfare state, authoritarian edicts from a dictator-like president and the bloodiest conflict in human history. Characteristics of all these Crisis periods can be seen during this Fourth Turning, as a global financial crisis triggered its onset, government bailouts and a vast expansion of the welfare state has taken place, and the president and politicians across the land have trashed the Constitution and assumed dictatorial powers over their subjects. Does a bloodier war await? Or will it be a technological war that destroys our modern world? The twist in this Fourth Turning has been the emergence of the Deep State, in collusion with Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Media, Wall Street, and the globalist billionaire cabal to strip the people of their rights while convincing a huge swath of willfully ignorant frightened sheep they are doing it for their own good. This is how evil wins. This is how a society devolves into tyranny and dictatorship. The immense level of unpayable debt underlies everything happening. The actions taken by central bankers at the behest of their Wall Street owners and captured politicians are an act of desperation to keep this debt pyramid scheme from imminent collapse, but virtually assures a far worse outcome of hyperinflation and depression. The decades of civic decay, initiated and encouraged by those pulling the levers behind the scenes, have hollowed out our society and created animosities which are now irreconcilable and fatal. It’s only a matter of time until the shooting begins. The global disorder seems contrived and planned as part of the globalist Great Reset scheme to create a new world order, where the plebs will own nothing, and the elites will run the show and reap the riches. In March 2020, at the outset of this plandemic, I was already skeptical, suspicious, and convinced the globalist oligarchy were using this virus as a means to implement their diabolical plan to reset the world in the method of their choosing. In my article at the end of March – P for Pandemic – I predicted a vaccine would be miraculously discovered and everyone would be forced to take it or be arrested. Little did I know Gates and Fauci already had a “vaccine” waiting in the wings, in collusion with their Big Pharma co-conspirators. It seems the plot from V for Vendetta has been playing out just as V stated during his speech to London. “Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance, and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.” – V speech to London Everything in this speech applies to our current state of affairs. Just replace the name Adam Sutler with any combination of Biden, Fauci, Gates or Schwab. But there is no super-hero in the wings ready to inspire the nation towards revolution against the dark forces who have taken the reins over our society. We have now entered one of the most dangerous periods in the country’s history. We have been continuously lied to by so called “experts”. Are they just incompetent or do they have another agenda? The rollout of the experimental gene altering therapies by Big Pharma was touted by Fauci, Biden, Walensky and their media mouthpieces as a miracle cure for Covid which would eradicate this virus and save the world. This was before the Orwellian doublespeak campaign of revisionist history was implemented with haste, due to the vaccine narrative collapsing under the weight of facts, data, doctors and journalists brave enough to speak out and warn the public. Most have been disappeared from social media by the Silicon Valley thought police. Prior to this scamdemic, the definition of a vaccine was well defined and unquestioned by the scientific community. A vaccine was designed to prevent a disease from occurring. The polio vaccine and smallpox vaccine didn’t lessen the symptoms of those diseases. They protected you from ever getting them. At minimum a vaccine provides immunity against the disease. As these mRNA “vaccines” have been jabbed into over 1 billion people on the planet, it seems they don’t make you immune from the virus, don’t protect you from getting the virus, don’t keep you from spreading the virus, and don’t even protect you from being hospitalized or dying from the virus. Even their latest re-definition of vaccine, changed by those controlling the narrative doesn’t apply. The fact these “vaccines” are a complete and utter failure, as new “cases” using the purposely faulty and FDA recalled PCR test surged to 170,000 per day in early September with 180 million Americans fully vaccinated versus 45,000 per day last September with ZERO Americans vaccinated, is not allowed to be spoken. Deaths “with Covid” are averaging 2,000 per day now versus 800 per day last September with no one vaccinated. How can this data not be interpreted as a complete failure of the vaccines? The data has proven, any effectiveness wanes after a few months. Boosters for eternity would certainly benefit Pfizer’s bottom line and keep Fauci on the left-wing Sunday propaganda outlets. But Twitter always has a blurb in the upper right corner under “What’s Happening” saying Covid Vaccines are Safe & Effective. I’ve also seen 5,000 TV commercials where famous athletes, pop singers, and Hollywood stars tell me the same thing. They wouldn’t lie, right? Twitter also has Experts Say Masks are Safe & Effective in Preventing Spread of Covid-19 at the top right every day. Lastly, Twitter and the MSM consistently post articles and commentary saying Ivermectin is Not Approved by the FDA for Treating Covid-19 and is only for cows and horses. We wouldn’t want to eat into the billions of Big Pharma profits by actually promoting a safe, effective, and cheap drug which has virtually eradicated Covid in India. It’s funny, but if you Google Israel covid cases versus India covid cases, you cannot find this graph. I guess proof the most vaxxed country in the world is experiencing the largest surge in cases in the world versus one of the least vaxxed countries in the world, who distributed mass quantities of ivermectin to its people, is experiencing no surge might be an inconvenient truth to the Covid vaccine narrative police. They do make it easy to distinguish their lies, misinformation, and propaganda from the truth. It is a scientific fact masks don’t work. A vaccine that doesn’t keep you from getting the virus is not effective. A vaccine that has caused at least 650,000 adverse reactions, 86,000 serious injuries and 14,000 deaths, according to the VAERS database, doesn’t sound “safe” to me. But what do I know? I’m one of those unvaxxed domestic terrorists Biden thinks should wear a yellow star and have my livelihood destroyed as punishment for my non-compliance with his demands. The potential long-term consequences of these gene therapies are completely unknown, but many renowned doctors (censored by Twitter & Facebook) worry ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) will wreak havoc in the not-too-distant future. Real fact checkers, not the current batch of Orwellian thought police, would conclude these vaccines are anything but safe and effective. If these vaccines are clearly not doing what they were advertised to do, and natural immunity is proving to be 20x as effective in fending off the Delta variant, why is Biden and Fauci doubling down with vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, forcing vaccinations on people who already have natural immunity, and shaming those who choose not to be lab rats in this Big Pharma experiment, where they have ZERO liability for injuries or deaths caused by their concoctions? One of the inventors of the mRNA therapies, who has been a thorn in the side of Fauci and his fellow Big Pharma whores, has similar questions and doubts about the true purpose and agenda behind these mandatory jabs. It should be clear to any open-minded critical thinking individual this has never been about your health, but about their insatiable appetite for power and control over how our society functions, who benefits, and who reaps the financial rewards. Always follow the money. Big Pharma generates a huge portion of advertising revenues for Big Media and the Medical Industrial complex of hospitals, doctors, and researchers. We are fighting a corporate fascist Deep State behemoth, aided, and abetted by Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Gates, Soros, and numerous other sociopaths in government, media, and the corporate world. Their chosen medium to compel obedience is fear. It has proven to be tremendously effective in herding the sheep towards the slaughterhouse. Imagine convincing tens of millions to quiver in fear, locked in their homes, wearing face diapers for months on end, and volunteering to be the research in a Big Pharma money making scheme over a virus with a 99.7% survival rate, that only kills the very old, very sick and very obese. A virus so scary most people don’t know they have it until they get a positive test result from a purposely flawed test. Now the fear has turned to loathing, as those who believed their patron saint of covid – Anthony Fauci – are embarrassed by the fact they were convinced to get jabbed under false pretenses and now look like fools for believing they would be protected from the dreaded Rona. A basic risk/benefit analysis tells the true story. Bertrand Russell captures the reaction of the vaxxed perfectly. “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” ― Bertrand Russell The herd was corralled by fear into believing the vaccines would protect them. At first, they virtue signaled their intellectual superiority and contributions to mankind by getting the jab. Only foolish stupid Trumpers would resist this miracle drug, even though it was Trump that allowed Big Pharma to skip about three years of trials to rush the vaccines to market. The covid vaxx cultists thought they could shame the immune system reliant into following them down the path of forlorn hope. Now that the vaccines have proven to be useless, dangerous, and possibly a way to cull the herd over time, the herd has turned their anger on the unvaxxed with a ferocity usually reserved for a DeSantis or Trump press conference. The vaxxed are angry because the unvaxxed are putting them at risk because their vaxx doesn’t work. Got it? And this anger is being stoked by Biden and his minions, as they attempt to create chaos, havoc, and violent upheaval in this country. The initial reaction to that last statement would be doubt and resistance to the thought of a sitting president and his handlers purposely trying to destroy the underpinnings of our nation. But, as proof human nature does not change, the inimitably observant, skeptical, and cynical about government writer, H.L. Mencken, couldn’t have described the forces at play any better than he did 95 years ago. “Yet behind the majority, often defectively concealed, there is always a sinister minority, eager only for its own advantage and willing to adopt any device, however outrageous, to get what it wants. We have a puppet in the White House, pulled by wires, but with dangerous weapons in its hands. Law Enforcement becomes a new state religion. A law is something that A wants and can hornswoggle B, C, D, E and F into giving him – by bribery, by lying, by bluff and bluster, by making faces. G and H are therefore bound to yield it respect – nay, to worship it. It is something sacred. To question it is to sin against the Holy Ghost.” – H.L. Mencken, 1926 There has always been a sinister minority operating in the shadows pulling the wires of whoever is in the White House. If they do not comply with the orders of those pulling those wires, they receive the JFK treatment. Trump’s non-compliance resulted in the Deep State coup which removed him from office. With an avalanche of extra-judicial executive orders, mandates, and un-Constitutional actions, Biden is doing the bidding of those who installed him to take down America. Those controlling Biden believe they are intellectually superior and must use psychological manipulation and Bernaysian propaganda techniques to achieve their goal of one world government in which they rule over us with an iron fist and technological surveillance. These sociopaths believe their evil means justify ends which benefit themselves. Freedom, liberty, free speech, choice about medical treatments, and the rights granted under the Constitution are antiquated notions in the minds of these maniacal tyrants. This Fourth Turning hinges on the coming conflict between this sinister minority and a thus far silent, but heavily armed majority. This is a revolution initiated by those at the top of the pecking order in a bold attempt to increase and consolidate their power, control, and wealth. This revolution will not bring prosperity to the people but is designed to benefit a brazen few who care not for the average American. This oligarch revolution heralds immense death and destruction, either through medicinal methods or violence in the streets. Widespread impoverishment of the masses is a certainty once the underpinnings of this financial system give way. If they succeed, the degeneration of our society into a dystopian nightmare is a distinct possibility. But here is where hope enters the picture. There are far more of us than them. They attempt to give the appearance of superiority and strength, but their hold over the levers of power is tenuous. Once a few brave dissenters begin to stand up and resist, the masses will hesitantly begin to follow. We are approaching a crucial point where we either bow down to the sinister minority or make our last stand. I have been trying to figure out the path of this Fourth Turning for the past thirteen years. What I do know is it keeps getting worse as time passes, with 2020 initiating the next leg down and 2021 devolving into a battle between the forces of oligarch evil and the majority of good people just trying to live their lives. I don’t know what happens next, but I do know the next few years will herald much pain, acrimony, bloodshed, and sacrifice on the part of many good people, if we are to retain any semblance of the nation we once celebrated. “The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning “History offers no guarantees. Obviously, things could go horribly wrong – the possibilities ranging from a nuclear exchange to incurable plagues, from terrorist anarchy to high-tech dictatorship. We should not assume that Providence will always exempt our nation from the irreversible tragedies that have overtaken so many others: not just temporary hardship, but debasement and total ruin. Losing in the next Fourth Turning could mean something incomparably worse. It could mean a lasting defeat from which our national innocence – perhaps even our nation – might never recover.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning Our goal should be to act in a way that would make the Founding Fathers, who initiated our first Fourth Turning, proud of our deeds and actions. The enemy currently holds the high ground, but we are the many. The storm has arrived, and our very survival hangs in the balance. I hope there are enough of us willing to sacrifice our lives for the restoration of the Republic, given to us by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and the rest of the Founders. Good luck and Godspeed.
Witch Hunt
Was 'Justice For J6 Rally' A Set-Up Or A Psy-Op? http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/september/20... https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/16/in-exclusive-interview-trump-calls-sept... https://www.theepochtimes.com/police-and-media-appear-to-outnumber-justice-f... https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1439314612638429185 https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1439318103410847745 https://twitter.com/Ovr4Tee/status/1439600532721737732 https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1439304917835993094 https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1439380053046009856 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/while_the_rally_for_january_6_p... https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/08/watch-the-capitol-police-open-the-doors... https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/fbi-tears-new-yorkers-life-into-shreds-devine/ https://djhjmedia.com/rich/why-are-federal-agencies-hiding-over-14000-hours-... https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/06/25/woman-arreste... https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-suspect-jan-6-riot-beaten-dc-jail-guards https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-missing-link-f... https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/who-is-john-sullivan-accused-provocateur-charg... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fbi-raids-home-of-netflix-actor-seen-in... https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1439612871068065794 A few dozen protesters showed up to last weekend’s “Justice for J6” rally in Washington DC, but that did not stop the authoritarian Washington Beltway establishment from spending millions to again turn the area into a fortress, complete with a militarized Capitol Hill Police force and an army of undercover FBI agents. The protesters were easily outnumbered by reporters desperate for another “insurrection” story and by police officers who looked like they were ready for military combat. Of the reported four people arrested at the event, one turned out to be an undercover FBI agent who was then escorted to “safety” by police after showing his badge. "Are you undercover?" the officers asked the masked man, who gave them a badge. I guess not anymore. pic.twitter.com/EBBx0e8Ucd — Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 18, 2021 As conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza Tweeted, the comedy of the event was that “there were so many undercover cops they were arresting each other by accident.” Earlier, former President Trump warned that the rally was a set-up by an FBI, Homeland Security Department, and Capitol Hill Police Department eager for more trophies in their war against “insurrectionists.” He advised people to avoid the event and it appears their advice was taken. They did not get their “Second Insurrection.” In fact, as we know from the FBI itself, they did not even get their First Insurrection. Though the Left elites continue to use that term, the FBI affirmed last month that there was no organized plan among the January 6th protesters to overturn the presidential election. The media’s non-stop hysterical reporting about the January 6th “insurrection” – repeated endlessly by Democratic Party politicians – did serve an important propaganda purpose: anyone with concerns about the way the 2020 presidential election was conducted was immediately demonized and silenced. But to me it seems a little too obvious that Biden backers and their allies in the deep state would hold a fake rally just to set-up more “insurrectionists” to be arrested. It’s possible that they believe conservatives and Trump supporters are dumb enough to walk into a trap – or perhaps another trap – but I find it unconvincing. “How do you do, fellow insurrectionists” pic.twitter.com/nR25zOYWdN — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) September 18, 2021 Instead, perhaps this rally was in reality a kind of psychological operation. After all, such an exercise would be a win-win for the planners. On one hand if a massive crowd showed up it would give new life to the now-discredited narrative that an attack on “our democracy” more serious than 9/11 (as President Biden laughably claimed) was operating just below the surface of society. Authoritarians must be able to point to “the enemy” to consolidate their power. On the other hand, if no one showed up, as it turns out happened, the real organizers could laugh and crow about how support has evaporated for the hundreds originally arrested after January 6th (many still held without bail, but none charged with “insurrection”). And also, they can claim that support for Donald Trump, who for some reason continues to mortally terrify them, has likewise disappeared. Maybe that’s just a crazy conspiracy theory, but then again anyone claiming just a few weeks ago that Biden would implement a vaccine mandate was also considered a crazy conspiracy theorist. This failed rally is a success for Team Biden on one front: very few would now dare to hold a rally calling attention to the shocking injustice that continues to stain the prosecution of so many January 6th protesters. But we must not let enemies of justice win. All liberty lovers must speak out for the unfairly persecuted. Even when it's politically risky. We must not be silent!
The Dangers Of Going Back To School After A Year Of COVID-19 Lockdowns https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.” - Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a summer’s hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied, out of harm’s way and out of trouble. Those were the good old days, before the COVID-19 pandemic introduced a whole new level of Nanny State authoritarianism to our daily lives, locking down communities, forcing kids out of the schoolroom and into virtual classrooms, leaving vast swaths of the work force dependent on government welfare, while pushing other segments into a work-from-home model, and generally subjecting us to an increasingly obnoxious level of intrusion by the government into our private lives. Now, after almost 18 months away from a physical classroom, students are heading back to school. Here’s what they can expect.
From the moment a child enters one of the nation’s 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates, they will be exposed to a steady diet of:
draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior, overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech, school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called “disorderly” students, standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking, politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them, and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement. Young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot. Nowadays, students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but the punishments have become far more severe, shifting from detention and visits to the principal’s office into misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms. Students have been suspended under school zero tolerance policies for bringing to school “look alike substances” such as oregano, breath mints, birth control pills and powdered sugar. Look-alike weapons (toy guns—even Lego-sized ones, hand-drawn pictures of guns, pencils twirled in a “threatening” manner, imaginary bows and arrows, fingers positioned like guns) can also land a student in hot water, in some cases getting them expelled from school or charged with a crime. Not even good deeds go unpunished. One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “liability” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend. A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy. And then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed. In South Carolina, where it’s against the law to “disturb” a school, more than a thousand students a year—some as young as 7 years old—“face criminal charges for not following directions, loitering, cursing, or the vague allegation of acting ‘obnoxiously.’ If charged as adults, they can be held in jail for up to 90 days.” These outrageous incidents are exactly what you’ll see more of now that in-person school is back in session, especially once you add COVID-19 mandates to the mix. Having police in the schools only adds to the danger. Thanks to a combination of media hype, political pandering and financial incentives, the use of armed police officers (a.k.a. school resource officers) to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting. Indeed, the growing presence of police in the nation’s schools is resulting in greater police “involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without involvement from law enforcement officers.” Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, these school resource officers (SRO) have become de facto wardens in elementary, middle and high schools, doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “criminals” in their midst with the help of tasers, pepper spray, batons and brute force. In the absence of school-appropriate guidelines, police are more and more “stepping in to deal with minor rulebreaking: sagging pants, disrespectful comments, brief physical skirmishes. What previously might have resulted in a detention or a visit to the principal’s office was replaced with excruciating pain and temporary blindness, often followed by a trip to the courthouse.” The horror stories are legion. One SRO was accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line. That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later, allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury. In Pennsylvania, a student was tasered after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away. When 13-year-old Kevens Jean Baptiste failed to follow a school bus driver’s direction to keep the bus windows closed (Kevens, who suffers from asthma, opened the window after a fellow student sprayed perfume, causing him to cough and wheeze), he was handcuffed by police, removed from the bus, and while still handcuffed, had his legs swept out from under him by an officer, causing him to crash to the ground. Young Alex Stone didn’t even make it past the first week of school before he became a victim of the police state. Directed by his teacher to do a creative writing assignment involving a series of fictional Facebook statuses, Stone wrote, “I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the business.” Despite the fact that dinosaurs are extinct, the status fabricated, and the South Carolina student was merely following orders, his teacher reported him to school administrators, who in turn called the police. What followed is par for the course in schools today: students were locked down in their classrooms while armed police searched the 16-year-old’s locker and bookbag, handcuffed him, charged him with disorderly conduct disturbing the school, arrested him, detained him, and then he was suspended from school. Not even the younger, elementary school-aged kids are being spared these “hardening” tactics. On any given day when school is in session, kids who “act up” in class are pinned facedown on the floor, locked in dark closets, tied up with straps, bungee cords and duct tape, handcuffed, leg shackled, tasered or otherwise restrained, immobilized or placed in solitary confinement in order to bring them under “control.” In almost every case, these undeniably harsh methods are used to punish kids—some as young as 4 and 5 years old—for simply failing to follow directions or throwing tantrums. Very rarely do the kids pose any credible danger to themselves or others. Unbelievably, these tactics are all legal, at least when employed by school officials or school resource officers in the nation’s public schools. This is what happens when you introduce police and police tactics into the schools. Paradoxically, by the time you add in the lockdowns and active shooter drills, instead of making the schools safer, school officials have succeeded in creating an environment in which children are so traumatized that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, anxiety, mistrust of adults in authority, as well as feelings of anger, depression, humiliation, despair and delusion. For example, a middle school in Washington State went on lockdown after a student brought a toy gun to class. A Boston high school went into lockdown for four hours after a bullet was discovered in a classroom. A North Carolina elementary school locked down and called in police after a fifth grader reported seeing an unfamiliar man in the school (it turned out to be a parent). Police officers at a Florida middle school carried out an active shooter drill in an effort to educate students about how to respond in the event of an actual shooting crisis. Two armed officers, guns loaded and drawn, burst into classrooms, terrorizing the students and placing the school into lockdown mode. These police state tactics have not made the schools any safer. The fallout has been what you’d expect, with the nation’s young people treated like hardened criminals: handcuffed, arrested, tasered, tackled and taught the painful lesson that the Constitution (especially the Fourth Amendment) doesn’t mean much in the American police state. Unfortunately, advocates for such harsh police tactics and weaponry like to trot out the line that school safety should be our first priority lest we find ourselves with another school shooting. What they will not tell you is that such shootings are rare. As one congressional report found, the schools are, generally speaking, safe places for children. There can be no avoiding the hands-on lessons being taught in the schools about the role of police in our lives, ranging from active shooter drills and school-wide lockdowns to incidents in which children engaging in typically childlike behavior are suspended (for shooting an imaginary “arrow” at a fellow classmate), handcuffed (for being disruptive at school), arrested (for throwing water balloons as part of a school prank), and even tasered (for not obeying instructions). Instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters—which one would hope would be the objective of the schools—government officials seem determined to churn out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply, fear and march in lockstep with the government’s dictates. So what’s the answer, not only for the here-and-now—the children growing up in these quasi-prisons—but for the future of this country? How do you convince a child who has been routinely handcuffed, shackled, tied down, locked up, and immobilized by government officials—all before he reaches the age of adulthood—that he has any rights at all, let alone the right to challenge wrongdoing, resist oppression and defend himself against injustice? Most of all, how do you persuade a fellow American that the government works for him when, for most of his young life, he has been incarcerated in an institution that teaches young people to be obedient and compliant citizens who don’t talk back, don’t question and don’t challenge authority? As we’ve seen with other issues, any significant reforms will have to start locally and trickle upwards. For starters, parents need to be vocal, visible and organized and demand that school officials 1) adopt a policy of positive reinforcement in dealing with behavior issues; 2) minimize the presence in the schools of police officers and cease involving them in student discipline; and 3) insist that all behavioral issues be addressed first and foremost with a child’s parents, before any other disciplinary tactics are attempted. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you want a nation of criminals, treat the citizenry like criminals. If you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners, run the schools like prisons. If, on the other hand, you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters, who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, then run the schools like freedom forums. Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation’s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state penitentiary. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84 https://www.abc2news.com/homepage-showcase/middle-school-students-busted-for... https://reason.com/archives/1998/01/01/brickbats https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR200904040... https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1576762/posts https://reason.com/blog/2014/12/29/the-top-10-zero-tolerance-follies-of-201 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-girl-shaves-head-for-pal-with-cancer-t... https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/20/student-punished-for-saying-bless... https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/south-carolina-student-was-arrested-d... https://time.com/4093517/south-carolina-school-police-ben-fields/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/police-kids-schools https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/police-school-resource-officers... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/birmingham-school-police-trial-... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/police-school-resource-officers... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/recipe-disaster-school-cops-are... https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Family-Plans-To-File-Complaint-Over-Boyn... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/20/teen-says-he-w... https://www.live5news.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-studen... https://www.propublica.org/article/schools-restraints-seclusions https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Seclusion%20and%20Restraints%20Fin... https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/us/in-age-of-school-shootings-lockdown-dr... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2014/11/14/i-thought-he-was-... https://spectator.org/is-there-really-an-epidemic-of-mass-shootings/ https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43126.pdf https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherf... https://www.today.com/news/video-emerges-boy-8-handcuffed-school-officer-fac... https://www.wbtw.com/story/22286425/nc-high-school-students-charged-in-water... https://wtvr.com/2015/04/16/elko-midle-student-taser/ https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099 https://www.amazon.com/dp/184467407X
Shiny Happy People, Have one Bad Day will Lose Your Job, and soon with rampant database sharing, your ability to ever get a new one... Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices https://petapixel.com/2021/06/17/canon-uses-ai-cameras-that-only-let-smiling... This may sound like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but Canon has rolled out new AI cameras that use "smile recognition" technology to ensure that only happy employees are allowed into its offices. From a report: Back in 2020, the China-based Canon subsidiary Canon Information Technology introduced an "intelligent IT solution" for corporate offices that includes 5 different functional modules, one of which is "smiley face access control. In addition, based on the corporate culture of 'moving and always being,' Canon has always advocated the concepts of 'laughing' and 'big health,' and hopes to bring happiness and health to everyone in the post-epidemic era," Canon wrote in a press release. "Therefore, in the [...] intelligent IT solution, a new experience of smile recognition is specially incorporated. It is hoped that smiles can let everyone relax and get healthy, so as to create a more pleasant working atmosphere and improve efficiency."
Dance to show you worship the control bots like good little citizens, dance you fuckers, post your happy dancing propaganda to social media some more... New Video Shows Boston Dynamics' Robo-Dog Dancing To A Whole New Beat https://consentfactory.org/2021/06/29/the-war-on-reality/ https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1408155047859560454 https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-cj-hopkins-critic https://consentfactory.org/2021/06/20/manufacturing-new-normal-reality/ https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-about-officer https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://verilymag.com/2019/01/dystopian-novels-book-roundup http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180507-why-orwells-1984-could-be-about-no... https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/15865462/minority-report-steven-spielberg... http://nation.time.com/2013/08/01/the-surveillance-society/ https://www.businessinsider.com/george-orwell-1984-what-came-true-2019-5 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/opinion/another-hit-to-the-fourth-amendme... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/1984-george-orwell/5906... George Orwell's 1984 Has Become A Blueprint For Our Dystopian Reality Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.” - George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. It’s been more than 70 years since Orwell—dying, beset by fever and bloody coughing fits, and driven to warn against the rise of a society in which rampant abuse of power and mass manipulation are the norm—depicted the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism in 1984. Who could have predicted that so many years after Orwell typed the final words to his dystopian novel, “He loved Big Brother,” we would come to love Big Brother. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!”—George Orwell 1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere. People are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes. The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.” We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by not only Orwell but also such fiction writers as Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”―George Orwell Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it, because they [are] distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing.” Much like Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the populace is now taught to “know their place and their duties, to understand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform, and to think so poorly of themselves that they will accept their assigned fate and not rebel or run away.” And in keeping with Philip K. Dick’s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police state—which became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s futuristic thriller Minority Report—we are now trapped in a world in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control. What once seemed futuristic no longer occupies the realm of science fiction. Incredibly, as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike—facial recognition, iris scanners, massive databases, behavior prediction software, and so on—are incorporated into a complex, interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements, predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior, the dystopian visions of past writers is fast becoming our reality. Our world is characterized by widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining, fusion centers, driverless cars, voice-controlled homes, facial recognition systems, cybugs and drones, and predictive policing (pre-crime) aimed at capturing would-be criminals before they can do any damage. Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Government agents listen in on our telephone calls and read our emails. Political correctness—a philosophy that discourages diversity—has become a guiding principle of modern society. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”―George Orwell The courts have shredded the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, SWAT teams battering down doors without search warrants and FBI agents acting as a secret police that investigate dissenting citizens are common occurrences in contemporary America. And bodily privacy and integrity have been utterly eviscerated by a prevailing view that Americans have no rights over what happens to their bodies during an encounter with government officials, who are allowed to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”―George Orwell, Animal Farm We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state. What many fail to realize is that the government is not operating alone. It cannot. The government requires an accomplice. Thus, the increasingly complex security needs of the massive federal government, especially in the areas of defense, surveillance and data management, have been met within the corporate sector, which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental overreach. In fact, Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother, and we are now ruled by the Corporate Elite whose tentacles have spread worldwide. The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. Spearheaded by the NSA, which has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy, the “security/industrial complex”—a marriage of government, military and corporate interests aimed at keeping Americans under constant surveillance—has come to dominate the government and our lives. Money, power, control. There is no shortage of motives fueling the convergence of mega-corporations and government. But who is paying the price? The American people, of course. Orwell understood what many Americans are still struggling to come to terms with: that there is no such thing as a government organized for the good of the people. Even the best intentions among those in government inevitably give way to the desire to maintain power and control over the citizenry at all costs. “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” ― George Orwell Even our ability to speak and think freely is being regulated. In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a. police states—where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used. In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind. Dystopian literature shows what happens when the populace is transformed into mindless automatons. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, reading is banned and books are burned in order to suppress dissenting ideas, while televised entertainment is used to anesthetize the populace and render them easily pacified, distracted and controlled. In Huxley’s Brave New World, serious literature, scientific thinking and experimentation are banned as subversive, while critical thinking is discouraged through the use of conditioning, social taboos and inferior education. Likewise, expressions of individuality, independence and morality are viewed as vulgar and abnormal. In my debut novel The Erik Blair Diaries, the dystopian future that George Orwell predicted for 1984 has finally arrived, 100 years late and ten times as brutal. In this post-apocalyptic world where everyone marches to the beat of the same drummer and words like “freedom” are taboo, Erik Blair—Orwell’s descendant and unwitting heir to his legacy—isn’t volunteering to be anyone’s hero. Unfortunately, life doesn’t always go according to plan. To save all that he loves, Orwell will have to travel between his future self and the past. And in Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother does away with all undesirable and unnecessary words and meanings, even going so far as to routinely rewrite history and punish “thoughtcrimes.” Orwell’s Big Brother relies on Newspeak to eliminate undesirable words, strip such words as remained of unorthodox meanings and make independent, non-government-approved thought altogether unnecessary. Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is “safe” and “accepted” by the majority is permitted). The power elite has made their intentions clear: they will pursue and prosecute any and all words, thoughts and expressions that challenge their authority. This is the final link in the police state chain. “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”—George Orwell Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry—mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all—we have nowhere left to go. We have, so to speak, gone from being a nation where privacy is king to one where nothing is safe from the prying eyes of government. “Big Brother is Watching You.”―George Orwell Wherever you go and whatever you do, you are now being watched, especially if you leave behind an electronic footprint. When you use your cell phone, you leave a record of when the call was placed, who you called, how long it lasted and even where you were at the time. When you use your ATM card, you leave a record of where and when you used the card. There is even a video camera at most locations equipped with facial recognition software. When you use a cell phone or drive a car enabled with GPS, you can be tracked by satellite. Such information is shared with government agents, including local police. And all of this once-private information about your consumer habits, your whereabouts and your activities is now being fed to the government. The government has nearly inexhaustible resources when it comes to tracking our movements, from electronic wiretapping devices, traffic cameras and biometrics to radio-frequency identification cards, satellites and Internet surveillance. In such a climate, everyone is a suspect. And you’re guilty until you can prove yourself innocent. To underscore this shift in how the government now views its citizens, the FBI uses its wide-ranging authority to investigate individuals or groups, regardless of whether they are suspected of criminal activity. “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” ― George Orwell Here’s what a lot of people fail to understand, however: it’s not just what you say or do that is being monitored, but how you think that is being tracked and targeted. We’ve already seen this play out on the state and federal level with hate crime legislation that cracks down on so-called “hateful” thoughts and expression, encourages self-censoring and reduces free debate on various subject matter. Say hello to the new Thought Police. Total Internet surveillance by the Corporate State, as omnipresent as God, is used by the government to predict and, more importantly, control the populace, and it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. For example, the NSA has been working on an artificial intelligence system designed to anticipate your every move. Aquaint (the acronym stands for Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence) has been designed to detect patterns and predict behavior. No information is sacred or spared. Everything from cell phone recordings and logs, to emails, to text messages, to personal information posted on social networking sites, to credit card statements, to library circulation records, to credit card histories, etc., is collected by the NSA and shared freely with its agents in crime: the CIA, FBI and DHS. What we are witnessing, in the so-called name of security and efficiency, is the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched (average Americans such as you and me) and the watchers (government bureaucrats, technicians and private corporations). Clearly, the age of privacy in America is at an end. So where does that leave us? We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers. This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis. It won’t be long before we find ourselves looking back on the past with longing, back to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted, buy what we wanted, think what we wanted without those thoughts, words and activities being tracked, processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google, sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA, and used against us by militarized police with their army of futuristic technologies. To be an individual today, to not conform, to have even a shred of privacy, and to live beyond the reach of the government’s roaming eyes and technological spies, one must not only be a rebel but rebel. Even when you rebel and take your stand, there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you. You are rendered an outlaw. Just look at what happened to Julian Assange. So how do you survive in the American surveillance state? We’re running out of options. Whether you’re dealing with fact or fiction, as I make clear in Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in my new novel The Erik Blair Diaries, we’ll soon have to choose between self-indulgence (the bread-and-circus distractions offered up by the news media, politicians, sports conglomerates, entertainment industry, etc.) and self-preservation in the form of renewed vigilance about threats to our freedoms and active engagement in self-governance.
Facebook want's its users to Rat Each Other Out to the Central Overlords and Spy Partners... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/tech/facebook-extremist-notification/ Some Facebook users in the United States are being served a prompt that asks if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist. Others are being notified that they may have been exposed to extremist content. It is all part of a test the social media company is running that stems from its Redirect Initiative, which aims to combat violent extremism, Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, told CNN. Screen shots of the alerts surfaced on social media Thursday. "This test is part of our larger work to assess ways to provide resources and support to people on Facebook who may have engaged with or were exposed to extremist content, or may know someone who is at risk," Stone said. "We are partnering with NGOs and academic experts in this space and hope to have more to share in the future," Stone added. One of the alerts, a screen grab of which made the rounds on social media Thursday, asks users, "Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?" "We care about preventing extremism on Facebook," explained that alert, according to a screen grab posted on social media. "Others in your situation have received confidential support."
I wonder what their definition of "extremist" is? Is it, 'somebody who disagrees with me!!!' On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:48:26 PM PDT, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote: Facebook want's its users to Rat Each Other Out to the Central Overlords and Spy Partners... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/tech/facebook-extremist-notification/ Some Facebook users in the United States are being served a prompt that asks if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist. Others are being notified that they may have been exposed to extremist content. It is all part of a test the social media company is running that stems from its Redirect Initiative, which aims to combat violent extremism, Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, told CNN. Screen shots of the alerts surfaced on social media Thursday. "This test is part of our larger work to assess ways to provide resources and support to people on Facebook who may have engaged with or were exposed to extremist content, or may know someone who is at risk," Stone said. "We are partnering with NGOs and academic experts in this space and hope to have more to share in the future," Stone added. One of the alerts, a screen grab of which made the rounds on social media Thursday, asks users, "Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?" "We care about preventing extremism on Facebook," explained that alert, according to a screen grab posted on social media. "Others in your situation have received confidential support."
the Central Overlords and Spy Partners...
Behold the new Authoritarian system, and its plans for you and freedom... Police To Target Americans For Their Ideological Beliefs And Behaviors https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2021/07/police-to-target-americans-for-the... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fact... https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-trumps-fourth-secretary-of-home... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trumps-homelan... https://extremism.gwu.edu/countering-domestic-terrorism-conversation-john-co... https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/domestic-terror... https://www.axios.com/hong-kong-pro-democracy-editor-arrested-collusion-b9a6... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3128836/hong-kong-prote... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/29/adviser-to-pentagon-counter-ex... https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-globenewswire/85eba3a5e241de231c59fb99cd... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/06/15/backgrou... Much has been written about President Joe Biden’s new Domestic Terror law, but nothing I have seen until now shows just how horrifying it is. To say that the White House uses the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) like political puppets to push their own agenda would be an understatement. The New Yorker chronicled four DHS secretaries who were forced to resign by October 2019, and a fifth who resigned this January. So when I heard about DHS counterterrorism chief John Cohen having a hard time containing his enthusiasm over Biden’s new domestic terrorism law in a GW Program on Extremism webinar I knew it couldn’t be good. Ricardo Vazquez Garcia, from Homeland Security Today describes what happened. Garcia does a great job of framing the Feds justification for creating a new War On Terror by targeting American citizens. “A lot of progress was made by the U.S. government in dealing with the threat posed by foreign terrorist organizations and in particular dealing with the way those organizations operated, the way they recruited individuals, the way they communicated, the way they developed plans, the way they saw to introduce operatives into the domestic environment, the way they sought to recruit people here domestically,” Cohen said. “I think it is safe to say that the U.S. created quite a robust counterterrorism capability. The challenge is the threat we face today is significantly different than the one we faced after Sept. 11,” DHS counterterrorism chief John Cohen said. As America closes in on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the Feds want the public to believe that unknown terrorist organizations are recruiting your neighbor[s] to become a domestic extremist. But it is not just any neighbor, this time it is far-right “extremists” or White supremacists and Trump supporters who they want to recruit. For years DHS officials have warned Americans of the dangers that lurk just outside their front doors or worse in the far-flung Middle East where extremists are plotting to bomb us, shoot us, or poison our water systems. The only difference to the terrorists that await Americans is that now they are allegedly targeting a person’s ideological beliefs. According to Cohen, “the most significant terrorist threat facing the U.S. today comes from individuals or lone offenders, and small groups of individuals who based on an ideological belief system, primarily an ideological belief system they self-connect with online activity, but they’ll go out and commit an act of violence on behalf of that belief or a combination of ideological beliefs, or a combination of ideological beliefs and personal grievances.” What does this mean for Americans? It means that the Feds can target individuals for expressing anti-government sentiments. “In many respects, this is a much more individualized threat, and what I mean by that is if you look at the lethal attacks that have occurred in the U.S. over the last several years, they have been conducted by individuals who spend incredible amounts of time online viewing extremist content, content about past violent attacks, they tend to be individuals who have shared behavioral health or environmental characteristics,” Cohen said. Targeting people for their ideological beliefs is horrifying in and of itself. Biden’s new domestic terror law will also give law enforcement the right to target people based on their behaviors. “What we mean by that, yes, the motive and ideological beliefs are important as part of the analytic process, but the threat tends to come from individuals who have a very superficial understanding of the ideological belief system they use as the validation for an act of violence, but they do have shared behavioral characteristics,” Cohen said. If any of this is beginning to sound like China, one only need look at Hong Kong to see the similarities. Speaking out in print against an authoritative regime is an arrestable offense, demonstrating against police brutality is an arrestable offense and so on. As a recent Brietbart article pointed out, there is no “official Pentagon definition of extremism.” So how can our government give more powers to law enforcement to surveil and arrest suspected “domestic extremists”? Mike Berry, the general counsel for First Liberty Institute, said he asked the Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) how it intended to define “extremism” and the answer he got was something to the effect of: “We’re still working on that, we’ll probably take the existing definition and expand it.” Berry said that response was “problematic.” When an organization that backed President Trump warns people about Biden’s new domestic terror law, it is time for all of us to take notice. Berry warned, “I just don’t know how you can reconcile the Constitution with trying to criminalize someone’s thoughts and beliefs.” And that is the crux of the problem. When DHS counterterrorism chief Cohen goes on record saying, “There have been several cases where individuals have not met the threshold for domestic terror yet they eventually go out and commit an act of violence”, they are admitting that this is another scam that the mass media is only too happy to perpetuate. When the Feds and the mass media started asking Americans to “enhance domestic terrorism reporting” by reporting family members and co-workers, you know law enforcement has become a mirror image of other authoritarian regimes. “Our goal is to enhance domestic terrorism analysis and improve information sharing throughout law enforcement at the federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial level, and where appropriate with private sector partners.” “This involves creating contexts in which those who are family members or friends or co-workers know that there are pathways and avenues to raise concerns and seek help for those who they have perceived to be radicalizing and potentially radicalizing towards violence,” the White House official said. Imagine if I used the same logic that the Feds and law enforcement use. It could go something like this: One day, I looked outside my window and saw my neighbor talking to a Black man and then I saw them talking to someone who appeared to be a Muslim but I couldn’t see the person’s face because it was covered with a hijab. Then I saw my neighbor putting anti-government and Black Lives Matter signs in their front yard; they even put up a Pride flag. The next day, my neighbor knocked on my front door asking me to sign a police reform petition. Little did I know that my wife and kids had already signed the petition. The next day when I went to work, I overheard my co-workers saying that they planned to march in a Black Lives Matter protest and asked me to sign a police brutality petition. So when I got off work I immediately called DHS’s new, “Be On The Lookout For Domestic Terrorists” hotline and filed reports on my neighbors, my family and co-workers, I even called my local police department and filed reports with the local Fusion Center. I did this to protect my Homeland, because you never really know about a person’s ideological beliefs and behaviors. (FYI, there is no domestic terrorism hotline, yet.) When did freedom of expression become a tool for law enforcement to identify family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers as potential extremists? Giving law enforcement more powers to target people based on made-up or junk science and unsound definitions of domestic terrorism has all the earmarks of an ever-expanding police state that began 11 years ago.
The Preamble to the US Constitution Contained 52 Words. Today’s US Code Is Over 104 Million Words.
WEF - You Will Own Nothing, and You WILL NOT Be Happy... Gizmodo, Slate, and Facebook endorse your disownership and subjugation... https://gizmodo.com/in-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets-1847176540 https://slate.com/technology/2016/10/will-technology-make-ownership-obsolete... https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/10153920524981479/ "By 2030, technology will have advanced to the point that even the idea of owning objects might be obsolete," argues a thought-provoking new piece by Gizmodo's consumer tech reporter: Back in 2016, the World Economic Forum released a Facebook video with eight predictions it had for the world in 2030. "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy," it says. "Whatever you want, you'll rent. And it'll be delivered by drone...." In some ways, not owning things is easier. You have fewer commitments, less responsibility, and the freedom to bail whenever you want. There are upsides to owning less. There's also a big problem... The reality is when you buy a device that requires proprietary software to run, you don't own it. The money you hand over is an entry fee, nothing more. When everything is a lease, you also agree to a life defined by someone else's terms... When hardware is merely a vessel for software and not a useful thing on its own, you don't really get to decide anything. A company will decide when to stop pushing vital updates. It might also decide what you do with the product after it's "dead...." The power has shifted so that companies set the parameters, and consumers have to make do with picking the lesser of several evils... You can trace much of this back to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which basically makes it illegal to circumvent "digital locks" that protect a company's proprietary software... One day in the future, if you buy a physical house, you will likely have to rent the software that operates it. You won't really have a say in the updates that get pushed out, or the features that get taken away. You'll have less of a say in when you renovate or upgrade, even if you want to continue using the house as is. You might not even have the right to do DIY repairs yourself. Just because you've bought a smart washing machine, doesn't mean you'll be allowed to repair it yourself if it breaks — or if you'll be allowed to pick which repair shop can fix it for you. You only have to look as far as John Deere, Apple, and General Motors. Each one of these companies has argued that people who bought their products weren't allowed to repair them unless they were from a pre-approved shop. The scary thing is that only sounds terrible if you have the mental energy to care about principles. Making decisions all the time is difficult, and it's easier when someone else limits the options you can choose from. It's not hard to turn a blind eye to a problem if, for the most part, your life is made a little simpler. Isn't that what every tech company says it's trying to do? Make your life a little simpler? Life is hard enough already, and living in a home that maintains itself so long as you hand over control — well, by 2030, who's to say that's not what we'll all want?
Leftists keep rolling out their ideology Snitch Programmes everywhere... combined with new Censorship and Propaganda regimes, Rat on Everyone... it's getting quite bizarre out there... https://summit.news/2021/07/23/cybersecurity-experts-encourage-system-of-rep... Cybersecurity Experts Encourage System Of Reporting Workers To Employers For "Online Abuse" A new initiative launched by cybersecurity experts encourages companies to create a system that makes it easier for people to be reported to their employers for “online abuse.” The new program is called Respect in Security and was created by Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson and Red Goat Cyber Security’s Lisa Forte. According to Forte, the current system, which is largely based on a combination of AI and human reviewers working for social media companies, is a “no man’s land” and not very effective. “The best solution we have, if the culprit is identifiable, is to approach their employer,” she argues. According to Ferguson, companies currently only deal with “abuse” that happens internally and are ill-equipped to monitor what their staff are saying online. Companies who sign up for the initiative are required to agree to seven principles and create a public reporting system that encourages employees to keep tabs on each other’s behavior. “If you know your organization has made that commitment, it may make you think twice about doing it,” Ferguson said. “We need to take action.” The pair appear to have failed to take into account that the primary means by which someone gets fired from their job over online behavior is via social media mobs who directly contact employers themselves. They routinely do so not because a person has engaged in actual “online abuse,” but because they have expressed a political opinion deemed to contradict woke orthodoxy. Of course, the term “online abuse” is completely vague and arbitrary and routinely abused by leftists who claim that words which they disagree with are “violence” and that them making themselves upset and playing the victim constitutes proof of “abuse.”
Leftists keep rolling out their ideology Snitch Programmes everywhere... combined with new Censorship and Propaganda regimes, Rat on Everyone...
Biden orders US Military to deploy global Snitch and Censor Programme... https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1419627174533926914 Commanding Major General of the @USArmy sent out a "Public Service Announcement" on Twitter ordering people to block and report others. https://twitter.com/PatDonahoeArmy/status/1419273338157948933 "Public Service Announcement. Block and report the trolls and the disinformation tinfoil hat team."
GovCorp USA has now adopted secret Social Credit Scoring and is fucking you over with it... Didn't cypherpunks promise they would enable the creation of land masses full of new freedom based utopian societies years ago? China's "Social Credit" System Has Arrived In America https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/chinas-social-credit-system-has-arrived-... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/a-man-cannot-get-pregnant-is-hate-speech... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/universal-studios-faces-lawsuit-over-the... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/et-tu-nasa-wokeness-goes-to-space-oh-and... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/governor-wants-kids-to-rat-out-their-par... https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/new-government-program-helps-you-snitch-... Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, As a journalist in China, Liu Hu was no stranger to punishment. For reporting on corruption among government officials, Hu was arrested, accused of “fabricating and spreading rumours,” and fined. But then one day in 2017 he suddenly found that he was unable to buy a plane ticket. The system just rejected him. He also found he couldn’t purchase certain train tickets. Then he discovered that he was unable to acquire a loan from any bank, and even forbidden from buying property at all. Eventually Liu Hu discovered his name on a government “List of Dishonest Persons Subject to Enforcement.” And there was no obvious way to appeal the designation, or have his name removed from the list. Hu was one of the early victims of the Chinese social credit system which blacklists citizens who are found to be untrustworthy— in the sole discretion of the Chinese government. Others on the list have been prevented from renting certain apartments, holding particular jobs. They’ve even,had their bank accounts frozen. Sometimes, all it took to become blacklisted was an accusation from a disgruntled business partner, or a social media post critical of the government. It’s almost like an official version of the Twitter mob’s habit of “canceling” people for wrong-think. The Twitter mob may be easy enough to ignore for most of us. But now it’s become more mainstream to purge US residents who have bad social credit. For example, PayPal has announced an inquisition in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League to research funding for extremism on its payment platform. “PayPal and ADL will focus on further uncovering and disrupting the financial pipelines that support extremist and hate movements. In addition to extremist and anti-government organizations, the initiative will focus on actors and networks spreading and profiting from all forms of hate and bigotry against any community.” They are extremely vague about what exactly they will consider extremist content. But we have some idea… The New York Times, for example, considers the word “freedom” to be an “anti-government slogan,” according to a recent article on the protests in Cuba. Twitter considered it hate speech and banned a Spanish politician for Tweeting, “a man cannot get pregnant.” If you protest lockdowns, you are an extremist putting lives in danger. If you burn down police stations and flip cars in the name of social justice, you are a mostly peaceful protester. And these days, anything from the “Ok” hand gesture to cheese is considered racist. PayPal is not going to keep this research to itself. It intends to be the tip of the social justice warrior’s spear: “The intelligence gathered through this research initiative will be shared broadly across the financial industry and with policymakers and law enforcement.” So the Big Banks will be able to use this same intelligence to blacklist “extremists” peddling “hate speech.” Just last month Wells Fargo closed the accounts of two different conservative activists, without explanation. In 2019, JP Morgan Chase did the same thing. And the CEO of the alternative social media website Gab had four banks in four weeks ban the company’s account, allegedly because the platform harbors “extremist content.” All of this looks eerily like a back door for a Chinese-style ‘social credit system’ in the United States. Vaccine passports are an obvious example. If certain people have their way, the unvaccinated will be unable to board an airplane and banned from restaurants. Some people even say the unvaccinated should lose their health insurance for making an unpopular personal health decision. During the pandemic, governments across the world set up reporting systems to rat out your neighbors for having family over for the holidays. Bad Citizen! Vermont’s governor even asked students to snitch on their own parents who might have invited extended family over for Thanksgiving 2020. And now the US government is leading the charge— with the help of the Big Tech companies, of course— by providing new, easy ways to report your ‘radical’ friends and family to the government. What exactly constitutes radical? Anything they don’t want you to do, or believe. This is the problem when just a handful of powerful centralized institutions controlling society. And it is the reason a solid Plan B gives you options to ensure that you’re not entirely reliant on one country’s government, one country’s banking system, or one country’s public health policies. I’m actually an optimist, and I have strong hope that humanity will overcome authoritarianism, as it always has before. But hope is not a course of action. Optimism is not a viable strategy. To truly become more secure from threats like America’s version of the Chinese social credit system, it’s important to give deliberate consideration to Plan B options that will put you in a position of strength.
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/theyre-normalizing-robot-police-by-calling... At this point we're essentially looking at a race to see if the oligarchic empire can manufacture the necessary environment to allow the use of robotic security forces to lock their power in place forever before the masses get fed up with the increasing inequalities and abuses of the status quo and decide to force a better system into existence.
http://thesaker.is/gaslighting-the-psychology-of-shaping-anothers-reality/ https://cynthiachung.substack.com/ Gaslighting: The Psychology Of Shaping Another's Reality “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” – Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” We are living in a world where the degree of disinformation and outright lying has reached such a state of affairs that, possibly for the first time ever, we see the majority of the western world starting to question their own and surrounding level of sanity. The increasing frenzied distrust in everything “authoritative” mixed with the desperate incredulity that “everybody couldn’t possibly be in on it!” is slowly rocking many back and forth into a tighter and tighter straight jacket. “Question everything” has become the new motto, but are we capable of answering those questions? Presently the answer is a resounding no. The social behaviourist sick joke of having made everyone obsessed with toilet paper of all things during the start of what was believed to be a time of crisis, is an example of how much control they have over that red button labelled “commence initiation of level 4 mass panic”. And can the people be blamed? After all, if we are being lied to, how can we possibly rally together and point the finger at the root of this tyranny, aren’t we at the point where it is everywhere? As Goebbels infamously stated, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State [under fascism].” And here we find ourselves today, at the brink of fascism. However, we have to first agree to forfeit our civil rights as a collective before fascism can completely dominate. That is, the big lie can only succeed if the majority fails to call it out, for if the majority were to recognise it for what it is, it would truly hold no power. The Battle for Your Mind “Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.” – William Sargant “Battle of the Mind” It had been commonly thought in the past, and not without basis, that tyranny could only exist on the condition that the people were kept illiterate and ignorant of their oppression. To recognise that one was “oppressed” meant they must first have an idea of what was “freedom”, and if one were allowed the “privilege” to learn how to read, this discovery was inevitable. If education of the masses could turn the majority of a population literate, it was thought that the higher ideas, the sort of “dangerous ideas” that Mustapha Mond for instance expresses in “The Brave New World”, would quickly organise the masses and revolution against their “controllers” would be inevitable. In other words, knowledge is freedom, and you cannot enslave those who learn how to “think”. However, it hasn’t exactly played out that way has it? The greater majority of us are free to read whatever we wish to, in terms of the once “forbidden books”, such as those listed by The Index Librorum Prohibitorum. We can read any of the writings that were banned in “The Brave New World”, notably the works of Shakespeare which were named as absolutely dangerous forms of “knowledge”. We are now very much free to “educate” ourselves on the very “ideas” that were recognised by tyrants of the past as the “antidote” to a life of slavery. And yet, today, the majority choose not to… It is recognised, albeit superficially, that who controls the past, controls the present and thereby the future. George Orwell’s book “1984”, hammers this as the essential feature that allows the Big Brother apparatus to maintain absolute control over fear, perception and loyalty to the Party cause, and yet despite its popularity, there still remains a lack of interest in actually informing oneself about the past. What does it matter anyway, if the past is controlled and rewritten to suit the present? As the Big Brother interrogator O’Brien states to Winston, “We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not? [And thus, are free to rewrite it as we choose…]” Of course, we are not in the same situation as Winston…we are much better off. We can study and learn about the “past” if we so desire, unfortunately, it is a choice that many take for granted. In fact, many are probably not fully aware that presently there is a battle waging for who will “control the past” in a manner that is closely resembling a form of “memory wipe”. * * * William Sargant was a British psychiatrist and, one could say, effectively the Father of “mind control” in the West, with connections to British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute, which would influence the CIA and American military via the program MK Ultra. Sargant was also an advisor for Ewen Cameron’s LSD “blank slate” work at McGill University, funded by the CIA. Sargant accounts for his reason in studying and using forms of “mind control” on his patients, which were primarily British soldiers that were sent back from the battlefield during WWII with various forms of “psychosis”, as the only way to rehabilitate extreme forms of PTSD. The other reason, was because the Soviets had apparently become “experts” in the field, and out of a need for national security, the British would thus in turn have to become experts as well…as a matter of self-defence of course. The work of Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, had succeeded in producing some disturbingly interesting insights into four primary forms of nervous systems in dogs, that were combinations of inhibitory and excitatory temperaments; “strong excitatory”, “balanced”, “passive” and “calm imperturbable”. Pavlov found that depending on the category of nervous system temperament the dog had, this in turn would dictate the form of “conditioning” that would work best to “reprogram behaviour”. The relevance to “human conditioning” was not lost on anyone. It was feared in the West, that such techniques would not only be used against their soldiers to invoke free-flowing uninhibited confessions to the enemy but that these soldiers could be sent back to their home countries, as zombified assassins and spies that could be set off with a simple code word. At least, these were the thriller stories and movies that were pumped into the population. How horrific indeed! That the enemy could apparently enter what was thought the only sacred ground to be our own…our very “minds”! However, for those who were actually leading the field in mind control research, such as William Sargant, it was understood that this was not exactly how mind control worked. For one thing, the issue of “free will” was getting in the way. No matter the length or degree of electro-shock, insulin “therapy”, tranquilizer cocktails, induced comas, sleep deprivation, starvation etc induced, it was discovered that if the subject had a “strong conviction” and “strong belief” in something, this could not be simply erased, it could not be written over with any arbitrary thing. Rather, the subject would have to have the illusion that their “conditioning” was in fact a “choice”. This was an extremely challenging task, and long term conversions (months to years) were rare. However, Sargant saw an opening. It was understood that one could not create a new individual from scratch, however, with the right conditioning that was meant to lead to a physical breakdown using abnormal stress (effectively a reboot of the nervous system), one could increase the “suggestibility” markedly in their subjects. Sargant wrote in his “Battle of the Mind”: “Pavlov’s clinical descriptions of the ‘experimental neuroses’ which he could induce in dogs proved, in fact, to have a close correspondence with those war-neuroses which we were investigating at the time.” In addition, Sargant found that a falsely implanted memory could help induce abnormal stress leading to emotional exhaustion and physical breakdown to invoke “suggestibility”. That is, one didn’t even need to have a “real stress” but an “imagined stress” would work just as effectively. Sargant goes on to state in his book: “It is not surprising that the ordinary person, in general, is much more easily indoctrinated than the abnormal…A person is considered ‘ordinary’ or ‘normal’ by the community simply because he accepts most of its social standards and behavioural patterns; which means, in fact, that he is susceptible to suggestion and has been persuaded to go with the majority on most ordinary or extraordinary occasions.” Sargant then goes over the phenomenon of the London Blitz, which was an eight month period of heavy bombing of London during WWII. During this period, in order to cope and stay “sane”, people rapidly became accustomed to the idea that their neighbours could be and were buried alive in bombed houses around them. The thought was “If I can’t do anything about it what use is it that I trouble myself over it?” The best “coping” was thus found to be those who accepted the new “environment” and just focused on “surviving”, and did not try to resist it. Sargant remarks that it is this “adaptability” to a changing environment which is part of the “survival” instinct and is very strong in the “healthy” and “normal” individual who can learn to cope and thus continues to be “functional” despite an ever changing environment. It was thus our deeply programmed “survival instinct” that was found to be the key to the suggestibility of our minds. That the best “survivors” made for the best “brain-washing” in a sense. Sargant quotes Hecker’s work, who was studying the dancing mania phenomenon that occurred during the Black Death, where Hecker observed that heightened suggestibility had the capability to cause a person to “embrace with equal force, reason and folly, good and evil, diminish the praise of virtue as well as the criminality of vice.” And that such a state of mind was likened to the first efforts of the infant mind “this instinct of imitation when it exists in its highest degree, is also united a loss of all power over the will, which occurs as soon as the impression on the senses has become firmly established, producing a condition like that of small animals when they are fascinated by the look of a serpent.” I wonder if Sargant imagined himself the serpent… Sargant does finally admit: “This does not mean that all persons can be genuinely indoctrinated by such means. Some will give only temporary submission to the demands made on them, and fight again when strength of body and mind returns. Others are saved by the supervention of madness. Or the will to resist may give way, but not the intellect itself.” But he comforts himself as a response to this stubborn resistance that “As mentioned in a previous context, the stake, the gallows, the firing squad, the prison, or the madhouse, are usually available for the failures.” How to Resist the Deconstruction of Your Mind “He whom the gods wish to destroy, they first of all drive mad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Masque of Pandora” For those who have not seen the 1944 psychological thriller “Gaslight” directed by George Cukor, I would highly recommend you do so since there is an invaluable lesson contained within, that is especially applicable to what I suspect many of us are experiencing nowadays. The story starts with a 14 year old Paula (played by Ingrid Bergman) who is being taken to Italy after her Aunt Alice Alquist, a famous opera singer and caretaker of Paula, is found murdered in her home in London. Paula is the one who found the body, and horror stricken is never her old self again. Her Aunt was the only family Paula had left in her life. The decision is made to send her away from London to Italy to continue her studies to become a world-renowned opera singer like her Aunt Alice. Years go by, Paula lives a very sheltered life and a heavy somberness is always present within her, she can never seem to feel any kind of happiness. During her singing studies she meets a mysterious man (her piano accompanist during her lessons) and falls deeply in love with him. However, she knows hardly anything about the man named Gregory. Paula agrees to marry Gregory after a two week romance and is quickly convinced to move back into her Aunt’s house in London that was left abandoned all these years. As soon as she enters the house, the haunting of the night of the murder revisits her and she is consumed with panic and fear. Gregory tries to calm her and talks about the house needing just a little bit of air and sun, and then Paula comes across a letter written to her Aunt from a Sergis Bauer which confirms that he was in contact with Alice just a few days before her murder. At this finding, Gregory becomes bizarrely agitated and grabs the letter from Paula. He quickly tries to justify his anger blaming the letter for upsetting her. Gregory then decides to lock all of her Aunt’s belongings in the attic, to apparently spare Paula any further anguish. It is at this point that Gregory starts to change his behaviour dramatically. Always under the pretext for “Paula’s sake”, everything that is considered “upsetting” to Paula must be removed from her presence. And thus quickly the house is turned into a form of prison. Paula is told it is for her best not to leave the house unaccompanied, not to have visitors and that self-isolation is the best remedy for her “anxieties” which are getting worst. Paula is never strictly forbidden at the beginning but rather is told that she should obey these restrictions for her own good. Before a walk, he gives as a gift a beautiful heirloom brooch that belonged to his mother. Because the pin needs replacing, he instructs Paula to keep it in her handbag, and then says rather out of context, “Don’t forget where you put it now Paula, I don’t want you losing it.” Paula remarks thinking the warning absurd, “Of course I won’t forget!” When they return from their walk, Gregory asks for the brooch, Paula searches in her handbag but it is not there. It continues on like this, with Gregory giving warnings and reminders, seemingly to help Paula with her “forgetfulness” and “anxieties”. Paula starts to question her own judgement and sanity as these events become more and more frequent. She has no one else to talk to but Gregory, who is the only witness to these apparent mishaps. It gets to a point where completely nonsensical behaviour is being attributed to Paula by Gregory. A painting is found missing on the wall one night. Gregory talks to Paula like she is a 5 year child and asks her to put it back. Paula insists she does not know who took it down. After her persistent passionate insistence that it was not her, she walks up the stairs almost like she were in a dream state and pulls the painting from behind a statue. Gregory asks why she lied, but Paula insists that she only thought to look there because that is where it was found the last two times this occurred. For weeks now, Paula thinks she has been seeing things, the gas lights of the house dimming for no reason, she also hears footsteps above her bedroom. No one else seems to take notice. Paula is also told by Gregory that he found out that her mother, who passed away when she was very young, had actually gone insane and died in an asylum. Despite Paula being reduced to a condition of an ongoing stupor, she decides one night to make a stand and regain control over her life. Paula is invited, by one of her Aunt Alice’s close friends Lady Dalroy, to attend a high society evening with musical performances. Recall that Paula’s life gravitated around music before her encounter with Gregory. Music was her life. Paula gets magnificently dressed up for the evening and on her way out tells Gregory that she is going to this event. Gregory tries to convince her that she is not well enough to attend such a social gathering, when Paula calmly insists that she is going and that this woman was a dear friend of her Aunt, Gregory answers that he refuses to accompany her (in those days that was a big deal). Paula accepts this and walks with a solid dignity, undeterred towards the horse carriage. In a very telling scene, Gregory is left momentarily by himself and panic stricken, his eyes bulging he snaps his cigar case shut and runs after Paula. He laughingly calls to her, “Paula, you did not think I was serious? I had no idea that this party meant so much to you. Wait, I will get ready.” As he is getting ready in front of the mirror, a devilish smirk appears. Paula and Gregory show up to Lady Dalroy’s house late, the pianist is in the middle of the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #8 in C minor. They quickly are escorted to two empty seats. Paula is immediately immersed in the piece, and Gregory can see his control is slipping. After only a few minutes, he goes to look at his pocket watch but it is not in his pocket. He whispers into Paula’s ear, “My watch is missing”. Immediately, Paula looks like she is going to be sick. Gregory takes her handbag and Paula looks in horror as he pulls out his pocket watch, insinuating that Paula had put it there. She immediately starts losing control and has a very public emotional breakdown. Gregory takes her away, as he remarks to Lady Dalroy that this is why he didn’t want Paula coming in the first place. When they arrive home, Paula has by now completely succumbed to the thought that she is indeed completely insane. Gregory says that it would be best if they go away somewhere for an indefinite period of time. We later find out that Gregory is intending on committing her to an asylum. Paula agrees to leave London with Gregory and leaves her fate entirely in his hands. In the case of Paula it is clear. She has been suspecting that Gregory has something to do with her “situation” but he has very artfully created an environment where Paula herself doubts whether this is a matter of unfathomable villainy or whether she is indeed going mad. It is rather because she is not mad that she doubts herself, because there is seemingly no reason for why Gregory would put so much time and energy into making it look like she were mad, or at least so it first appears. But what if the purpose to her believing in her madness was simply a matter of who is in control? Paula almost succeeds in gaining the upper-hand in this power-struggle, the evening she decided to go out on her own no matter what Gregory insisted was in her best interest. If she would have held her ground at Lady Dalroy’s house and simply replied, “I have no idea why your stupid watch ended up in my handbag and I could care less. Now stop interrupting this performance, you are making a scene!” Gregory’s spell would have been broken as simple as that. If he were to complain to others about the situation, they would also respond, “Who cares man, why are you so obsessed about your damn watch?” We find ourselves today in a very similar situation to Paula. And the voice of Gregory is represented by the narrative of false news and the apocalyptic social behaviourist programming in our forms of entertainment. The things most people voluntarily subject themselves to on a daily, if not hourly, basis. Socially conditioning them, like a pack of salivating Pavlovian dogs, to think it is just a matter of time before the world ends and with a ring of their master’s bell…be at each other’s throats. Paula ends up being saved in the end by a man named Joseph Cotten (a detective), who took notice and quickly discerned that something was amiss. In the end Gregory is arrested. It is revealed that Gregory is in fact Sergis Bauer. That he killed Alice Alquist and that he has returned to the scene of the crime after all these years in search for the famous jewels of the opera singer. The jewels were in fact rather worthless from the standpoint that they were too famous to be sold, however, Gregory never intended on selling these jewels but rather had become obsessed with the desire to merely possess them. That is, it is Gregory who has been entirely mad all this time. A Gregory is absolutely dangerous. He would have been the end of Paula if nothing had intervened. However, the power that Gregory held was conditional to the degree that Paula allowed it to control her. Paula’s extreme deconstruction was thus entirely dependent on her choice to let the voice of Gregory in. That is, a Gregory is only dangerous if we allow ourselves to sleep walk into the nightmare he has constructed for us. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.” – Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”
America's Famous and "Secure" Full Biometric Databases Are Now Being Used To Murder Innocent Civilians You Allowed The Mark Of The Beast To Be Put On You, Thus You Will Be The Next Victim Of Your Own Satanic Digital Creations! Taliban Captures US Military Biometric Devices Stranded Afghans Delete Social Media As Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment https://theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-taliban-military-biometrics/ https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/evading-misuse-biometric-data https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliba... https://www.amazon.com/First-Platoon-Modern-Identity-Dominance-ebook/dp/B08J... https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-ploy-to-establish-a-global-dna-database... https://www.unicc.org/news/2020/11/13/un-digital-id-a-building-block-for-un-... https://www.thekitchensync.tech/p/friday-brief-for-20-august-2021 https://tolonews.com/afghanistan/taliban-used-biometric-system-during-kunduz... https://reclaimthenet.org/afghans-race-to-delete-their-digital-footprint-as-... https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/steps-protect-your-online-identity... The Taliban's latest offensives have been nothing short of impressive, acquiring 600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles, and 200 aircraft, transforming the terrorist group into a rogue military power overnight. One military device Taliban forces have sized is the U.S. military's biometrics database that has sounded alarm bells with U.S. officials. Called the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE), it was seized last week during the Taliban's offensive, according to The Intercept, who spoke with current and former military officials. The sensitive data, now in Taliban hands, contains a biological database on the Afghan population. Some sensitive data include thousands of Afghan civilians who worked alongside U.S. Army Special Forces as interpreters. We noted Sunday that stranded Afghans, some of whom worked for the U.S. military, are quickly deleting their social media profiles and covering up their internet presence to protect their privacy from the Taliban. Taliban forces have been on a crusade to hunt and kill Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. Ever since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan two decades ago, thousands of Afghan interpreters have been hired. Since 2014, at least 300 of them and or family members have been killed. With the Taliban governing the country - many are fleeing for their lives, pleading with the U.S. military to rescue them. The acquisition of HIIDE could make the Taliban's hunt for Afghan interpreters even easier since their biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints are in the system. An Army Special Operations veteran, told The Intercept that Taliban computer gurus need additional computer processing to analyze HIIDE data but said Pakistan would gladly assist with this effort. "The Taliban doesn't have the gear to use the data but the ISI do," the former Special Operations official said, referring to Pakistan's spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence. Welton Chang, chief technology officer for Human Rights First, a former Army intelligence officer, said, "I don't think anyone ever thought about data privacy or what to do in the event the [HIIDE] system fell into the wrong hands." "Moving forward, the U.S. military and diplomatic apparatus should think carefully about whether to deploy these systems again in situations as tenuous as Afghanistan," Chang said. The security risks posed by the abandoned biometrics database are just one of the numerous consequences of a sloppy U.S. withdrawal by the Biden administration. A proper withdraw would've been to wipe the databases clean and destroy all devices. Stranded Afghans Delete Social Media As Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment Concerned that they could be targeted by Taliban online surveillance operations, U.S. Afghan allies are reportedly scrambling to delete their social media profiles in droves. Meanwhile, privacy advocates are raising the concern that the U.S. data program possibly inherited by the Taliban could lead to blowback threatening civil liberties in America. The New York-based group Human Rights First announced on Aug. 16 that Taliban fighters captured U.S. surveillance tools. These devices, known as Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE), were used by soldiers to scan the biometrics of Afghans to match fingerprints on improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and for other such forensic investigations. “We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in Afghanistan, including some left behind by coalition military forces,” the human rights group said. “This technology is likely to include access to a database with fingerprints and iris scans, and include facial recognition technology.” The Human Rights First advisory included multilingual guides for Afghan allies on protecting their digital identities. The warning corresponds with numerous reports of Afghans deleting their social media profiles in an attempt to protect their privacy from the Taliban. USAID reportedly circulated emails to its partners in Afghanistan to “remove photos and information that could make individuals or groups vulnerable.” Former U.S. Army prosecutor John Maher told The Epoch Times that this specific warning about the Taliban taking HIIDE equipment is probably overblown. Maher, who worked with the Afghan biometrics program during his time as program manager of the Justice Center in Parwan, said that HIIDE devices are password-protected. And after a soldier uses the device and uploads the data at the central database, protocol says to wipe the device clean, said Maher. “Even if [Taliban] can get into that device, they’ll get an unclassified list of their own people,” added Maher, who has also used Afghan biometric evidence in the successful—though controversial—campaign to have Donald Trump pardon a soldier convicted of killing civilians. On the wider issue of Taliban conducting surveillance operations to locate their enemies, Maher said he thinks they would have to be aided by more sophisticated governments such as China or Iran. “I’m skeptical that Taliban are that sophisticated,” said Maher, who also told The Epoch Times that he’s been helping Afghan allies leave the country via his U.S.-Afghan firm Misbah Maher Consultancy. While the HIIDE devices may not pose a risk to Afghans, Taliban fighters have previously used biometric systems to target their enemies. In 2016, for instance, they reportedly used a government database to check whether bus passengers were security force members, according to a 2016 TOLOnews report. American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Klon Kitchen said the security risks posed by the abandoned U.S. surveillance equipment is just one of the many consequences of a sloppy U.S. withdrawal. A proper withdrawal would have entailed deleting all digital files in U.S. facilities and servers in Afghanistan, destroying all computers and other physical equipment, and working with tech companies and social media platforms to protect Afghan identities, Klon said in his weekly newsletter. Meanwhile, the biometric information collected on tens of millions of Afghans remains on U.S. government databases, to potentially be used by the FBI, DHS, and other agencies for investigations, according to Maher. “It’s interagency data now,” he said. The DoD did not answer numerous Epoch Times inquiries about the status and security of the Afghan data, including whether any centralized databases remain in Afghanistan. Societal Implications More broadly, the DoD’s biometrics program has sparked discussion about the role such technology should play in society. “It’s nothing more complicated than fingerprint data, which is over 100 years old,” Maher said of the concerns about government biometrics collection. Proponents point to the crime-fighting benefits. Along with the countless cases solved by fingerprint collection, forensic experts have made breakthroughs on DNA analysis—helping law enforcers solve mysteries such as the “Golden State Killer” case. Proponents also say that collecting biometric data on citizens allows governments to establish digital identities—allowing people to more easily travel, open bank accounts, receive medical care, and access other social services. “Imagine a world where onboarding does not take five days but only four hours. Where to prove you are eligible to receive your UN pension it only takes two minutes from the smartphone in the palm of your hand, compared to two months using the old regular post,” says a United Nations website touting the UN Digital ID. “The UN Digital ID is the same underlying engine that will power all these and many other use cases.” However, civil liberties and privacy advocates have raised concerns about governments using biometrics for repression. In her book on the DoD’s biometrics project, “First Platoon,” author Annie Jacobsen compared the Afghan program to the Chinese Communist Party’s “Physicals for All” program foisted on the Uyghur Muslims there. “In addition to the DNA samples, the Physicals for All program netted biometrics on 36 million Uyghur Chinese—including iris scans, facial images, voice prints, and more,” Jacobsen wrote. “Human rights groups are right to call this out, but they have yet to acknowledge that this Physicals for All program is modelled directly after the Pentagon program in Afghanistan.” Jacobsen further argued that the Afghan program could come home to the United States in the form of contact tracing and vaccine passport technology. She pointed out that the same company that built software for the Afghan program, Palantir, is now working with the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) “to bring disparate data sets together and provide better visibility to HHS on the spread of COVID.” “The argument that what is happening in China—that is, the mandatory data-banking of a whole population’s biodata, including DNA—could never happen in America is an optimistic one,” she wrote. “The pandemic of 2020 has resulted in enthusiasm for government-led contact-tracing programs in the U.S., opening the door for military-grade programs to data-bank biodata of Americans. “Because disease lies at the center of this new threat, the reality that citizens’ DNA cell samples are of interest to the government is no longer science fiction.” Antiwar activist Scott Horton agreed with Jacobsen’s thesis, arguing that domestic blowback is the predictable consequence of overseas wars. “Just look at the Patriot Act: That was supposed to protect us from terrorists, and yet they use it all the time on everybody,” he said. This time, it’s conservatives who could be victims of the blowback as U.S. federal agencies ramp up their domestic surveillance activities, said Horton, the editorial director of antiwar.com and author of “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan.” “You know, the people who supported the war are now taking the brunt,” Horton told The Epoch Times. “It’s the war on terror come home. That’s what always happens.”
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India's AADHAR full biometric system... implemented, and now coming to surveill, rule over, and gatekeep your entire life worldwide. How does your enslavement feel? That is the digital future that cypherpunks have created, and it is here now, fucking you hard. Inside India’s Aadhaar, the World’s Largest Biometric ID System https://chrt.fm/track/52311E/rss.art19.com/episodes/d988777e-8681-4edb-ac4b-... Blockchain technology has accelerated conversations around decentralization, anonymity, agency and empowerment around the world. On this week’s “Money Reimagined,” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by two experts to discuss digital security and privacy, with a focus on India. Dr. Usha Ramanathan is a lawyer and human rights activist in India. She has worked since 2009 to critique and challenge India’s controversial digital identity program. Marta Belcher serves as general counsel of Protocol Labs, chair of the Filecoin Foundation and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Belcher recently testified on crypto before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Initiatives have been popping up around the globe, claiming to address social issues such as banking the unbanked, humanitarian data within refugee camps and identification programs to increase access to governmental programs. There is a romantic appeal to believing these initiatives are built upon a foundation of good intentions, but the reality is often far more complicated, with motivations like a simple money grab, user data collection, or surveillance coming into the mix. And regardless of intentions, these efforts often result in harmful consequences to the users they are engaging. India’s Aadhaar structure, a biometric, digital and physical identity system, is the world’s largest biometric ID system. It is highly centralized, and the data honeypot it presents has gotten the government of India in trouble more than once. An increasing number of systems, from the mundane like grocery shopping to the official like marriage registrations, require an Aadhaar number. And it’s not a perfect system. Individuals can and have been barred from receiving essentials because of technical snags in the registration process with Aadhaar. The system also brings up serious privacy concerns. While some choose to use blockchain technology for its ability to transact anonymously, others work towards establishing digital self-sovereign identity solutions. Where is the balancing point between anonymity and ease of use? Is the additional space anonymity provides around an individual essential to their rights in markets and society?
America's Famous and "Secure" Full Biometric Databases Are Now Being Used To Murder Innocent Civilians
You Allowed The Mark Of The Beast To Be Put On You, Thus You Will Be The Next Victim Of Your Own Satanic Digital Creations!
Is Beijing Weaponizing Your DNA? https://www.theepochtimes.com/is-beijing-weaponizing-your-dna_4134462.html https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/08/chinas-military-pursuing-biotech/15... https://fulgentgenetics.com/ https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/30/la-county-sheriffs-department-shuns-cov... https://fulgentgenetics.gcs-web.com/leadership/management https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-china-bgi-dna/ https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2021/03/23/will-genomics-become... https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/data-genetic-manipulation-race-speci... http://d/%E4%B8%8B%E8%BC%89/Fulgent,%20it%20would%20appear,%20is%20an%20agen... https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/the-great-us-china-biotechnology-and-artific... https://www.21stcentech.com/nations-world-turning-biology-bio-weapons/ Why is a US DNA-processing firm sharing Americans’ DNA with China? The answer is staggering... https://www.theepochtimes.com/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-w... If you’ve had a COVID-19 test, there’s a good possibility that the folks in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have your DNA. If so, they probably know more about your health and DNA vulnerabilities than you do. The implications of that are disturbing, to say the least. The company contracted to conduct the COVID-19 tests is Fulgent Genetics, a nationwide DNA sequencing and disease testing firm. According to the firm’s website, its stated mission is, “developing flexible and affordable genetic testing that improves the everyday lives of those around us.” Apparently, we are to believe that Fulgent Genetics is here to improve all of our lives. Deep Ties to China On Nov. 29, the Office of the Sheriff of Los Angeles County posted a letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. That letter stated that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department would not be participating in the COVID-19 testing with Fulgent Genetics. The letter explained that the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ (FBI) Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate had warned Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s office of the risk that DNA samples, from the COVID-19 tests that Fulgent Genetics was to provide, would “likely be shared with the Republic of China.” Villanueva also said at a press briefing that “Fulgent had strong ties with BGI, WuXP, and Huawei Technology, all of which are linked to the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the People’s Republic of China State Council and are under the control of the PRC.” Questions Abound Several questions come to mind. Who or what is the Fulgent Genetics corporation? Why would an American company wish to provide American DNA samples? Why on Earth would China even want DNA samples from Americans? For what purpose? How many American DNA samples do they have already? And most importantly, what does our DNA have to do with the FBI’s concern with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from China? The answers to these and other questions on the stuff of dystopian worst-case scenarios are discussed below. But first, some background on Fulgent Genetics. Who Is Fulgent Genetics? The firm was founded in 2011 by Ming Hsieh, chairman of the board of directors, president, and chief executive officer, and James Xie, chief operating officer. Hsieh has served as a trustee at Fudan University in China since 2011. Xie received his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Chongqing University in China in 1987. Perhaps not surprisingly, both men have deep ties to China. And apparently, Fulgent has been sharing Americans’ DNA from coast to coast with China. As noted in Villanueva’s statement, it’s not the only PLA proxy company engaged in harvesting Americans’ genetic material. There are others as well, and millions upon millions of people’s DNA from America and many other places in the world have been sent to China. This is where things get very dark in the weapons of mass destruction department. China wants to create a biowarfare WMD that targets your DNA. A New, Dark Era of Biowarfare Is Here Biowarfare isn’t a new thing; it has been used throughout history. In the 4th century B.C., Scythian archers infected their arrows by dipping them in decomposed bodies. In the 14th century, the Tartars catapulted plague-infected dead bodies into the lines of their enemies at the siege of Kaffa. And in World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army bombed Chinese cities with plague-laden fleas. But these “old school” forms of biowarfare are child’s play compared to the latest DNA-based bioweapons technology that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and genomics. We are entering a new and very risky era. Biowarfare and DNA Manipulation Just as AI and genomics enable DNA manipulation to help the human body fight all kinds of diseases, this same technology can also be used to create unique pathogens that only impact specific people. DNA-specific weapons can target a race, a gender, or even a family or individual with a specific DNA structure. This isn’t just a possibility—it’s a probability, if not already a reality. What’s more, at least in theory, there’s no blowback to DNA-specific bioweapons because they harm only people with specified DNA characteristics. China’s access to Americans’ DNA is unquestionably a national security concern. US Versus China in ‘Death Race 2035’ Some estimates say that the winner(s) of the bioweapon arms race will be determined by the year 2035. It may well be much sooner. In the race to create highly effective, targetable, and lethal biological weapons, the United States and China are neck and neck. Both nations have invested big money in AI and genomics. Each wants to take the lead in creating these super DNA-based bioweapons. Like all arms races, whichever nation develops the ability to launch a biological attack without fear of blowback will be in the power position. Not a happy picture, but it’s reality. But just being able to launch a deadly, highly targeted or even WMD bio attack isn’t enough. The survival of a nation also depends on its ability to defend against one. Like nuclear retaliation strategy (second strike capability) is meant to deter a first strike, a nation’s biowarfare retaliation ability may be a critical factor in deterring such attacks. Unfortunately, AI and genomics make creating potentially thousands of genetically-modified lethal pathogens easy. On the flip side, immunizing whole populations, or even a small number of people, against thousands of newly-created pathogens is impossible; at least at this moment. Biowarfare Technology Goes Viral Predictably, the rapid spread of information itself is a problem. The internet has made it impossible to contain most secrets. If a technology exists, for the right price, it will be made available to the bad guys. Or, in the case of the PLA and Chinese scientific community, it will be developed and—if current experience with the CCP virus is an indicator—deployed in full. This reality does not bode well for limiting the access and use of a new and dangerous bioweapons by China, or any other adversaries of the United States. If Fulgent and others are helping China develop DNA-targeted pathogens against Americans, there are no easy answers to such a threat, nor are there any good ones. But seizing all materials, data, and assets, and prosecuting such firms would be a start.
America's Famous and "Secure" Full Biometric Databases Are Now Being Used To Murder Innocent Civilians
You Allowed The Mark Of The Beast To Be Put On You, Thus You Will Be The Next Victim Of Your Own Satanic Digital Creations!
South Korea To Use Facial Recognition Cameras To Track COVID Cases, Ensure Mask Compliance https://summit.news/2021/12/13/south-korea-to-use-facial-recognition-cameras... https://www.rt.com/news/543032-south-korea-covid-facial-recognition/ https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1470355530220716045 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/skorea-test-ai-powered-facial-rec... Authorities in South Korea are set to use the country’s facial recognition camera network to track people with COVID in real time and ensure they are wearing face masks. The system will first be tested in Bucheon, on the outskirts of Seoul, in January before being extended to other areas of the country. The scheme uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition software linked to the city’s 10,820 security cameras “to track the movements of active cases and their close contacts, and to determine whether they wore a mask,” reports RT. One official said the system was needed to reduce the workload on the team tasked with tracking COVID cases in the city by relying on information such as records of card purchases and cellphone location data. “Using facial recognition technology will enable that analysis in an instant,” said Bucheon Mayor Jang Deog-cheon, adding that it reduces the burden on workers having to spend “hours analyzing a single [segment of] CCTV footage.” South Korea will soon roll out a pilot project to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and thousands of CCTV cameras to track the movement of people infected with the coronavirus, despite concerns about the invasion of privacy https://t.co/Q5YoDnyoF4 — Reuters (@Reuters) December 13, 2021 The system also eliminates the problem of citizens who get infected with COVID but “who aren’t always truthful about their activities and whereabouts,” reported Reuters. Park Dae-chul, a lawmaker from the main opposition People Power Party. called the plan a “neo-totalitarian idea.” “It is absolutely wrong to monitor and control the public via CCTV using taxpayers’ money and without the consent from the public,” said Park. China, India, Japan, Poland, Russia, and multiple US states are also exploring similar ways to keep track of the movements of people infected with COVID. Such technology is of course wide open to abuse, erases any kind of expectation of privacy and is something that George Orwell would have laughed off as inconceivable. And yet here we are.
America's Famous and "Secure" Full Biometric Databases Are Now Being Used To Murder Innocent Civilians
You Allowed The Mark Of The Beast To Be Put On You, Thus You Will Be The Next Victim Of Your Own Satanic Digital Creations!
Just as predicted... Notification and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces (INFORM) for Consumers Act. https://www.rila.org/focus-areas/asset-protection/retail-ceos-call-on-congre... Instead of suing all the Dem-Woke-Progs etc that called for and supported all the theft starting in 2020, they lobby for totalitarian 100% ID control of all marketplaces. Indeed you will not be able to buy sell or survive without their Mark of the Beast engraved on your forehead. Revolt Now!
US blacklists very same things US and its companies are rolling out against its own citizens and the world. US Blacklists Chinese Biotech Groups For DNA Collection Technology & Mass Surveillance https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-blacklist-more-chinese-tech-companies-ov... https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-blacklist-chinese-compani... https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1159278023973244929 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-snares-innocent-and-guilty-alike-to-build... The Biden administration on Thursday announced it has placed China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences along with 11 other institutes involved in biotechnology on an export blacklist for their involvement in assisting the Communist government's oppression and surveillance of its Muslim Uighur population. Among other things the companies' advanced technology is used for DNA collection as a key social control measure in the Xinjiang region, as part of efforts to use genetic technology to further mass surveillance capabilities. "These actions come in the broader context of the administration’s efforts to address the misuse of technology to surveil and in many cases…to exercise large scale repressive social control," a senior Biden administration official told The Wall Street Journal. Image: Associated Press Further the Treasury Department was cited as saying the "action highlights how private firms in China’s defense and surveillance technology sectors are actively cooperating with the government’s efforts to persecute ethnic minorities." Included in the blacklist of entities that US firms can no longer invest in are commercial drone-making giant DJI Technology Co. and government linked facial-recognition technology development companies. It follows on the heels of prior sanctions days ago, most notably against the large facial recognition company SenseTime. Additionally making the list are the facial recognition software start-up company Megvii, as well as Dawning Information Industry, which provides supercomputer-based cloud-computing services in Xinjiang. Commerce and Treasury's growing list of banned Chinese military-industrial complex companies will by the end of this week reach almost 70. In some notable instances the sanctions saw immediate effect: "SenseTime said this week it would postpone its $767 million initial public offering in Hong Kong, after reports the Chinese artificial intelligence company was being put on the US investment blacklist," according to reports. Years ago, The Wall Street Journal and others began investigating Beijing's attempts to build the world's largest ever DNA security database, which could ensnare the "innocent and guilty alike"... Police in Guangdong province take mouth swabs from bus passengers, prompting fears of a nationwide DNA collection program in #China, reports @RadioFreeAsia. https://t.co/RI3OKvMZG6 pic.twitter.com/FzHnFlsK2V — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 8, 2019 "The police collected a lot more names they could add to the world’s biggest DNA database, an essential part of China’s high-tech security blanket being unfurled across the country as Beijing seeks to better monitor its 1.4 billion citizens," one prior report said. "Nationwide, police have a goal of almost doubling China’s current DNA trove to 100 million records by 2020, according to a Wall Street Journal examination of documents from police departments across China. To get there, they need to gather almost as many records each year as are in the entire national database the U.S. has built over two decades."
7 Infrastructure Act Provisions Sure To Keep You Up At Night https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/12/15/7_infrastructure_act_p... the misleadingly titled Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is packed with a plethora of partisan surprises — some extreme, and some just plain bizarre. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684/text 5. New Travel Tax Pilot Program Section 13002 of the new law provides for the establishment of a pilot program to charge per-mile user fees for passenger cars and commercial trucks. This is a regressive, economy-crushing measure that will unfairly penalize working-class and poorer Americans. 6. Anti-Drunk Driving Technology Included in the bill is a provision mandating the development of new anti-drunk driving technology in cars that could be standardized and mandated for all new vehicles in the next few years. While we can all agree that drunk driving is bad, we can also probably all agree that mandating investment in new technology to turn every new car into a mechanical snitch is not worth the added cost to manufacturers, consumers, or taxpayers.
America's Famous and "Secure" Full Biometric Databases Are Now Being Used To Murder Innocent Civilians
You Allowed The Mark Of The Beast To Be Put On You, Thus You Will Be The Next Victim Of Your Own Satanic Digital Creations!
South Korea To Use Facial Recognition Cameras To Track COVID Cases, Ensure Mask Compliance
When you don't wake up and fight back, you get fucked. COVID Passport Microchip? Swedish Tech Start-Up Sees Another Conspiracy Theory Become Fact https://dsruptive.com/ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20211221-covid-19-in-sweden-a-vaccine-pass... http://www.prlog.org/12653576-three-square-market-microchips-employees-compa... https://twitter.com/nicedeepbreath/status/1473726678027407373 https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1473527682780565506 A rice-sized microchip produced and so far "successfully" tested by a Swedish tech company based out Stockholm's "Epicenter" start-up consortium, has brought what was only recently widely mocked as crazed conspiracy theory into the realm of another pandemic-era conspiracy fact. Or as Joe Rogan now likes to quip, the last two years has seen black-helicopters-Alex Jones proven right on "almost everything". Viral video published in multiple major outlets this week has featured the head of the chip implant technology developer partnering firm - DSruptive, Hannes Sjöblad, explaining how it works. "Right now it’s very convenient to have a COVID passport always accessible on your implant," he says in the video. Epicenter has long sought to produce useful "human-compatible tech". A Swedish company has come up with a microchip that can be inserted under the skin so that users can carry their Covid passports in their arm. pic.twitter.com/Vkl82q7dGR — AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 21, 2021 The technology was pursued and implemented in earnest after Sweden's government recently enacted new laws requiring citizens to produce vaccination proof on the spot in any gathering involving more than 100 people. According to France24, "Following that announcement, the number of people who got microchips inserted under their skin rose: around 6,000 people in Sweden have so far had a chip inserted in their hands." The eerie and dystopian demonstration video features an iPhone being scanned across a person's wrist to gain data confirming the person is fully vaccinated... all for "convenience". Its designers claim it will be easy to have the device removed if anyone wants to opt out and change their minds at any time. Presumably upon entering a concert, restaurant, gym, or public venue where vaccine mandates are in effect, security personnel could scan a phone or device to immediately see who is vaxxed or not. Sjöblad, who is also a self-described "biohacker" who has been biochipped, explains in the demo video, "For example if I go to the movies or go to a shopping center then people will be able to check my status, even if I don't have my phone." Meanwhile, Chinese Communist state-linked media has been among the first to express a keen interest in this "positive" technology... Beep boop beep: Your vaccination record has been verified 🤖 pic.twitter.com/dpAkSCudxf — South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) December 17, 2021 The underlying tech is based on Radio-Frequency Identification, or RFID communication, which sends signals via electromagnetic fields to identify electronically-stored information. It's already widely used for things like mobile payments and in many contactless credit cards - something which increased in use after the start of the pandemic, given much of the public's aversion to "touching things" in public as they go about their daily lives. Theoretically such a chip's data storage could eventually be expanded to hold a huge range of identifying information, which brings up age-old questions of privacy and ease of surveillance by outside parties or hostile entities. Over 30 years ago my decorator (a born again Christian)told me that the government would barcode us all. This is beginning to get spooky. Swedish company offers a Covid pass that gets under the skin https://t.co/2AAveY3MUv via @YahooFinanceUK — Nicky Lambert 💫 (@nicedeepbreath) December 22, 2021 For example, Fox News recalls that "Three Square Market, a Wisconsin-based technology company, became the first company in the U.S. to offer its employees similar free microchip implants in August 2017. The chip gives employees access to locked rooms and the ability to pay for food and drinks in the break room." And FOX featured the below photo of the implant being inserted into an employee's arm... The claim by Sjöblad emphasized in the video is that "They can never tell your location." The chip's developers are seeking to assure the public that your personal info can't be tracked or picked up unwittingly. See how quickly this ghoulish video, with slight modifications, originated from a Chinese Communist Party-owned outlet to re-surface out of a German outlet with no Chinese identifier on it. https://t.co/NzWZQi9pQW — J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) December 22, 2021 But clearly the fact that half the rollout "introduction" video must focus on the question of being able to secretly "track" individuals with the wrist implant without their consent seems a glaring enough admission that even its developers know what's surely coming next with the diffusion of such devices, and once this proverbial ball gets rolling. The CEO also wants to assure you that this will only be used "on a voluntary basis". Ah yes... trust us.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/w4rvhENnNzMY/ Propaganda Techniques 101 https://www.bitchute.com/video/IDNhgtdLXGCD/ Buy up all the slots for your narrative https://www.bitchute.com/video/hLFHhizXRdoa/ Saturate the airwaves https://www.bitchute.com/video/KtKyztgeg3mQ/ Threaten to drop funding "You're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations." ~Joe Biden, during CNN Town Hall Sponsored by Pfizer
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first-states-to-adopt... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59373965 "Apple was looking for "'sole control' over how states rolled out the feature"" Remember Apple plan to scan your phone. This ID just another way to enable Orwellian enablement, now that every store and GovCorp and car and place with a door and services are "just" a simple phone wand away from "access" aka: total digital spyveillance and shutdown of free humans.
Biden's Infrastructure Bill, Now Signed Into Law, Mandates "Vehicle Kill Switches" By 2026 https://www.yahoo.com/now/law-install-kill-switches-cars-170000930.html https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/biden-infrastructure-bill-vehicle-kill-s... https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/barr-bidens-infrastructure-bill-contains-... The rumors we first reported on back in December have turned out to be true: the United States federal government is apparently in the process of trying to force automakers to install kill switches in their vehicles that authorities can use to shut down any newer vehicle. The law comes as part of President Biden's infrastructure bill, which was recently signed into law, according to Yahoo. The government kill switch is - like all good thefts of civil liberties - being positioned as a "safety measure". The mandate needs to be put into effect by 2026, Muscle Cars & Trucks reported. We noted last month that former Rep. Bob Barr, writing for The Daily Caller, called the measure included in the bill "disturbingly short on details", but for the fact that the proposed device must “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.” Which, of course, is code for some kind of device that is constantly on and monitoring your vehicle - and will likely have the power to shut down your vehicle anytime it wants. "This is a privacy disaster in the making, and the fact that the provision made it through the Congress reveals — yet again — how little its members care about the privacy of their constituents," The Daily Caller wrote. It appears that in President Biden's future, not only will you not be in charge of your own personal health decisions, but you also won't be in charge of whether or not you can fire up your car, which you bought with your hard-earned money, to drive it somewhere, when you deem fit. That decision will now "rest in the hands of an algorithm", the report said. Similar monitoring and control devices have faced constitutional opposition, the report notes, "notably with the 5th Amendment’s right to not self-incriminate, and the 6th Amendment’s right to face one’s accuser." Barr concluded: "Unless this regulatory mandate is not quickly removed or defanged by way of an appropriations rider preventing its implementation, the freedom of the open road that individual car ownership brought to the American Dream, will be but another vague memory of an era no longer to be enjoyed by future generations."
Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope From Lockdowns To Concentration Camps https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.newsweek.com/utah-newspaper-pushes-national-guard-block-unvaccin... https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2022/01/17/europe-kicks-off-some-of-... https://thehill.com/policy/international/590701-austria-approves-europes-fir... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/21/global-fines-unvaccinated/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59864266 https://www.yahoo.com/now/video-chinese-covid-19-patients-003833211.html https://www.the-sun.com/news/4440705/china-quarantine-camps-toughest-lockdow... https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-camps https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/prisoners-of-the-camps https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/17/unvaccinated-covid-italy/ https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html https://www.ushmm.org/remember/international-holocaust-remembrance-day https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099... https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Blair-Diaries-Battlefield-Dead/dp/1954968027/ Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers.” - Rod Serling, Deaths-Head Revisited In the politically charged, polarizing tug-of-war that is the debate over COVID-19, we find ourselves buffeted by fear over a viral pandemic that continues to wreak havoc with lives and the economy, threats of vaccine mandates and financial penalties for noncompliance, and discord over how to legislate the public good without sacrificing individual liberty. The discord is getting more discordant by the day. Just recently, for instance, the Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board suggested that government officials should mandate mass vaccinations and deploy the National Guard “to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.” In other words, lock up the unvaccinated and use the military to determine who gets to be “free.” These tactics have been used before. This is why significant numbers of people are worried: because this is the slippery slope that starts with well-meaning intentions for the greater good and ends with tyrannical abuses no one should tolerate. For a glimpse at what the future might look like if such a policy were to be enforced, look beyond America’s borders. In Italy, the unvaccinated are banned from restaurants, bars and public transportation, and could face suspensions from work and monthly fines. Similarly, France will ban the unvaccinated from most public venues. In Austria, anyone who has not complied with the vaccine mandate could face fines up to $4100. Police will be authorized to carry out routine checks and demand proof of vaccination, with penalties of as much as $685 for failure to do so. In China, which has adopted a zero tolerance, “zero COVID” strategy, whole cities—some with populations in the tens of millions—are being forced into home lockdowns for weeks on end, resulting in mass shortages of food and household supplies. Reports have surfaced of residents “trading cigarettes for cabbage, dishwashing liquid for apples and sanitary pads for a small pile of vegetables. One resident traded a Nintendo Switch console for a packet of instant noodles and two steamed buns.” For those unfortunate enough to contract COVID-19, China has constructed “quarantine camps” throughout the country: massive complexes boasting thousands of small, metal boxes containing little more than a bed and a toilet. Detainees—including children, pregnant women and the elderly— were reportedly ordered to leave their homes in the middle of the night, transported to the quarantine camps in buses and held in isolation. If this last scenario sounds chillingly familiar, it should. Eighty years ago, another authoritarian regime established more than 44,000 quarantine camps for those perceived as “enemies of the state”: racially inferior, politically unacceptable or simply noncompliant. While the majority of those imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps, forced labor camps, incarceration sites and ghettos were Jews, there were also Polish nationals, gypsies, Russians, political dissidents, resistance fighters, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. Culturally, we have become so fixated on the mass murders of Jewish prisoners by the Nazis that we overlook the fact that the purpose of these concentration camps were initially intended to “incarcerate and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime.” As the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum explains: “Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were political prisoners—German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats—as well as Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of ‘asocial’ or socially deviant behavior. Many of these sites were called concentration camps. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.” How do you get from there to here, from Auschwitz concentration camps to COVID quarantine centers? Connect the dots. You don’t have to be unvaccinated or a conspiracy theorist or even anti-government to be worried about what lies ahead. You just have to recognize the truth in the warning: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is not about COVID-19. Nor is it about politics, populist movements, or any particular country. This is about what happens when good, generally decent people—distracted by manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring “us vs. them” camps—fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains. It’s about what happens when any government is empowered to adopt a comply-or-suffer-the-consequences mindset that is enforced through mandates, lockdowns, penalties, detention centers, martial law, and a disregard for the rights of the individual. The slippery slope begins in just this way, with propaganda campaigns about the public good being more important than individual liberty, and it ends with lockdowns and concentration camps. The danger signs are everywhere. Claudio Ronco, a 66-year-old Orthodox Jew and a specialist in 18th-century music, recognizes the signs. Because of his decision to remain unvaccinated, Ronco is trapped inside his house, unable to move about in public without a digital vaccination card. He can no longer board a plane, check into a hotel, eat at a restaurant or get a coffee at a bar. He has been ostracized by friends, shut out of public life, and will soon face monthly fines for insisting on his right to bodily integrity and individual freedom. For all intents and purposes, Ronco has become an undesirable in the eyes of the government, forced into isolation so he doesn’t risk contaminating the rest of the populace. This is the slippery slope: a government empowered to restrict movements, limit individual liberty, and isolate “undesirables” to prevent the spread of a disease is a government that has the power to lockdown a country, label whole segments of the population a danger to national security, and force those undesirables—a.k.a. extremists, dissidents, troublemakers, etc.—into isolation so they don’t contaminate the rest of the populace. The world has been down this road before, too. Others have ignored the warning signs. We cannot afford to do so. As historian Milton Mayer recounts in his seminal book on Hitler’s rise to power, They Thought They Were Free: “Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people‑—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the 'national enemies', without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.” The German people chose to ignore the truth and believe the lie. They were not oblivious to the horrors taking place around them. As historian Robert Gellately points out, “[A]nyone in Nazi Germany who wanted to find out about the Gestapo, the concentration camps, and the campaigns of discrimination and persecutions need only read the newspapers.” The warning signs were there, blinking incessantly like large neon signs. “Still,” Gellately writes, “the vast majority voted in favor of Nazism, and in spite of what they could read in the press and hear by word of mouth about the secret police, the concentration camps, official anti-Semitism, and so on. . . . [T]here is no getting away from the fact that at that moment, ‘the vast majority of the German people backed him.’” Half a century later, the wife of a prominent German historian, neither of whom were members of the Nazi party, opined: “[O]n the whole, everyone felt well. . . . And there were certainly eighty percent who lived productively and positively throughout the time. . . . We also had good years. We had wonderful years.” In other words, as long as their creature comforts remained undiminished, as long as their bank accounts remained flush, as long as they weren’t being locked up, locked down, discriminated against, persecuted, starved, beaten, shot, stripped, jailed or killed, life was good. Life is good in America, too, as long as you’re able to keep cocooning yourself in political fantasies that depict a world in which your party is always right and everyone else is wrong, while distracting yourself with bread-and-circus entertainment that bears no resemblance to reality. Indeed, life in America may be good for the privileged few who aren’t being locked up, locked down, discriminated against, persecuted, starved, beaten, shot, stripped, jailed or killed, but it’s getting worse by the day for the rest of us. Which brings me back to the present crisis: COVID-19 is not the Holocaust, and those who advocate vaccine mandates, lockdowns and quarantine camps are not Hitler, but this still has the makings of a slippery slope. The means do not justify the ends: we must find other ways of fighting a pandemic without resorting to mandates and lockdowns and concentration camps. To do otherwise is to lay the groundwork for another authoritarian monster to rise up and wreak havoc. If we do not want to repeat the past, then we must learn from past mistakes. January 27 marks Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a day for remembering those who died at the hands of Hitler’s henchmen and those who survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Yet remembering is not enough. We can do better. We must do better. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the world is teetering on the edge of authoritarian madness. All it will take is one solid push for tyranny to prevail.
CCP Builds "Southern Great Wall" To Seal Off Border And Stop COVID https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-fortifies-its-borders-with-a-southern-gre... AI 'Nanny' Being Created By Chinese Scientists To Grow Babies In Robot Wombs https://themindunleashed.com/2022/01/ai-nanny-being-created-by-chinese-scien... https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/robot-nanny-china-... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3165325/chinese-scientists-c... The discoveries were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Biomedical Engineering by Suzhou-based scientists. The AI nanny, according to the researchers, might aid in the growth of human kids in a “long-term embryo culture device.” This artificial womb is a big machine containing compartments for individual fetuses. The infants will be fed as they would be in a real womb if they are in the chamber, which will be filled with an optimized mix of “nutritious fluids.”
Olympics supposed to be about peace and freedom for all mankind... China appoints Military Agent as its official Olympic Torchbearer, demonstrates its anti-freedom models being adopted by your country... Activists Arrested For Planned Olympic Protest Just Before Opening Ceremony https://thehill.com/policy/international/592804-veteran-hong-kong-activist-a... https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-hong-kong-activist-arrested-45a11... Just before the Beijing Winter Olympics formally kicked off Friday with the opening ceremony, and as Presidents Xi and Putin held a meeting wherein they condemned US and Western interference, a well-known Hong Kong pro-independence activist was arrested over plans to protest the games. Others who allegedly coordinated with him were also detained. Veteran activist Koo Sze-yiu had been planning the protest to be held in front of the office representing China in Hong Kong at 10am, according to a media announcement he sent out with the bold-faced words "Coffin Winter Olympics". He invited the media to attend the protest, which was to correspond with the opening of the games in Beijing. "Don’t forget that human rights are being oppressed in Hong Kong!" - the media announcement emphasized. But HK police got to him before the demonstration could commence. As The Hill details, "Hong Kong authorities cited their controversial national security law to arrest him on Friday morning. Koo was identified by the South China Morning Post as the police would not name him." The controversial 'national security law' gives the pro-China HK government sweeping powers: "Police said the 75-year-old was arrested for suspicion of inciting subversion, with four others detained for questioning as well, according to the AP." Koo has previously been arrested for protest-related "crimes" - including for "flag desecration". He's often protested with Chinese flags placed upside down, and with pro-democracy writing on them. The AP details of prior similar protest efforts: Over 150 people have been arrested under Hong Kong’s national security law since it was implemented in June 2020. Before that, Koo took part in protests where he would help carry a mock coffin outside China’s Liaison Office in demonstrations held on the Chinese National Day of Oct. 1. Despite US government officials boycotting the games, the 2022 Winter Olympics marks a milestone in the games' history, with China now becoming the first country to ever host both the summer and winter games. China's Xi Jinping declares the #Olympics open at the #OpeningCeremony https://t.co/Ieb9vctmwY pic.twitter.com/qkh8vZXIQU — Reuters (@Reuters) February 4, 2022 The White House and State Department have meanwhile been warning US athletes to be careful about what they say, including in social media posts, which could trigger Chinese authorities to accuse individuals of breaking national laws.
'Black Mirror-Like' Robo-Dogs Patrol US Border, Searching For Illegals https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/02/01/feature-article-robot-... https://www.ghostrobotics.io/vision-60 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently adopted quadrupedal machines to patrol the border's harsh landscape, extreme temperatures, and dangerous obstacles to search for illegals. DHS' research and development team, the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), released a statement on Tuesday specifying the use of Ghost Robotics' robot dog 'Ghost Vision 60' by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on the southern border to test new surveillance methods. The robot dog's appearance is eerily similar to the rover dogs in the popular dystopian Netflix series "Black Mirror." "The southern border can be an inhospitable place for man and beast, and that is exactly why a machine may excel there," said S&T program manager, Brenda Long. "This S&T-led initiative focuses on Automated Ground Surveillance Vehicles, or what we call 'AGSVs.' Essentially, the AGSV program is all about…robot dogs." Ghost Vision 60 is a mid-sized high-endurance, agile, and durable all-weather ground drone that can navigate autonomously or be controlled manually on the border. The robot can be equipped with numerous payloads, including thermal and night vision cameras. The 100-pound robot dog could one day become mechanical reinforcements for border agents who are currently overwhelmed by a flood of illegal activity (thanks to Biden). The robots can traverse areas where border agents would generally stay clear for safety reasons.
Globalist propaganda mind control election influencers fade Sinn Fein via Irish State Media RTE... https://extra.ie/2022/02/15/news/irish-news/words-fail-me-rte-viewers-and-ma... "Words fail me" - opposition party leader stunned as Irish state funded broadcaster RTE airs bizzare anti-opposition special
Facist Supreme Court of Italy Confirms: All the worlds people are GovCorp slaves to be kept alive... https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-constitutional-court-blocks-righ...
@caitoz Proposal: Just Run All Western News Media Directly Out Of CIA Headquarters This way news reporters could eliminate the middleman and drop the undignified charade of presenting claims by western intelligence agencies as "scoops" picked up from "sources". https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/proposal-just-run-all-western-news
@caitoz Proposal: Just Run All Western News Media Directly Out Of CIA
Assault by power against freedom and human voluntary association self determination etc continues... The war on wrongthink is not about left or right. It’s about who rules: a sovereign people or the elites who deign to lord over us. America's Ruling Regime Doesn't Fear Disinformation... It Fears Truth https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/america-ruling-regime-disinforma... https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1492150917478633473 https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joe-rogan-musicians-threaten-rem... https://www.newsweek.com/2021-year-ruling-class-crackdown-dissent-opinion-16... https://twitter.com/bhweingarten/status/1481818151683829763 https://www.newsweek.com/biden-domestic-terror-strategy-codifies-woke-war-wr... https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/homeland-security-terrorist-disa... https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ivermectin-beats-meds-treating-o... https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/joe-rogan-robert-malone-intervie... https://deadline.com/2022/01/joe-biden-covid-omicron-variant-media-123491190... https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/psaki-big-tech-should-censor-more-misin... https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-surgeon-general-joe-rogan https://www.theepochtimes.com/public-health-establishments-covid-flip-flops-... https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/06/democrats-cling-to-j6-mania-because-the... https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/11/biden-administration-parents-who-oppose... https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-mandates-an-erosion-of-c... https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulleti... https://www.cisa.gov/mdm Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or protecting the truth — it’s about intimidating democratic opposition into silence and submission to an official narrative. In Joe Biden’s America, attempting to cancel Joe Rogan is just counter-terror policy. This is because our ruling class — in the name of “defending democracy” — classifies those who question the regime on any matter of consequence as a threat to the homeland, and pledges to pursue them accordingly. Our ruling elites have engaged in an overt war on wrongthink masquerading as a domestic counter-terror mission since at least Jan. 6, 2021. As part of this effort, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a speech-chilling National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin. It claims the U.S. is in a “heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information.” Here's concerning new language in Department of Homeland Security bulletin about domestic terrorism that could have potential ramifications for anyone questioning government institutions.https://t.co/JcJrfgUbn2 — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) February 11, 2022 Among the greatest contributors to the current “threat environment,” according to the bulletin, is the “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding … COVD-19.” It would appear the Biden administration considers the ivermectin-hocking, tequila-swigging, Bernie Sanders-supporting Rogan to be public enemy number one on this issue. Shortly after hosting dissenters from COVID orthodoxy including Drs. Peter McCullough and the then-recently deplatformed Robert Malone on his podcast, Rogan found himself the subject of a cancel campaign contrived by washed-up musicians, non-medical doctors and corporate media whose ratings he has crushed. But it wasn’t just these parties out for blood. No less than the president of the U.S, his press secretary and surgeon general contributed to the anti-Rogan jihad, calling for war on COVID “misinformation and disinformation.” This effort was, to put it mildly, disingenuous. We know how seriously to take the administration’s views on COVID “misinformation and disinformation” because by its own standards the White House, and its media mouthpieces, have been the most powerful and prolific purveyors of “misinformation.” The administration has flip-flopped on virtually every aspect of the coronavirus to positions that its social media adjuncts used to ban people over. It did so not because “the science” has changed, but because the politics have changed. Biden’s White House says its critics are dangerous — not to the public, but to its rule, as if that rule is equivalent to America or democracy itself, as Dr. Anthony Fauci is to science. As the DHS bulletin notes, the first key driver of the “heightened threat environment” is the “proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.” Never mind what those government institutions themselves have done to sow discord or undermine public trust, like, say, calling for Twitter and Facebook to censor people. It’s the critics, the dissenters — those with no monopoly on force or multi-trillion-dollar budgets — who are the real scourge. The bulletin lists as another potential threat “false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” — perpetuating the narrative of “insurrection” so central to the effort to persecute wrongthinkers, while eliding that Democrats‘ own election integrity-eroding measures destroyed confidence in the system. Previous Biden-era bulletins similarly focused on COVID-19 and election integrity, but the latest one — in a new twist — also claims that calls for violence have been tied to anger over “the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan nationals following the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.” So it’s not just questioning the merits of mask and vaccine mandates, or skepticism over the security of mass mail-in elections, but doubts about the wisdom of dropping unvetted refugees from a terror-dominated backwater into the middle of your town that could get you in trouble with the security state. This threat bulletin, like its no less disturbing predecessors, flows naturally from the Biden administration’s first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. That strategy calls for confronting long-term contributors to domestic terrorism, including: “… enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation … We will work toward finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to terrorist violence.” Linking speech that does not comport with regime orthodoxy to terror, and using that pretext to police thought — with an armed “Ministry of Truth” operating out of our national security and law enforcement apparatus — therefore manifestly is “counter-terror” policy Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or protecting the truth, but intimidating democratic opposition into silence and submission to an official narrative. The regime evidently believes it must maintain a monopoly over the American mind to maintain a monopoly on power. Joe Rogan threatened that power, and therefore constituted a danger. The threat was that he elicited insights from guests who challenged the regime’s credibility on all manner of issues related to COVID, and millions of people heard it. Trump and his allies likewise threatened that power, and therefore constituted a danger. They were — and continue to be — pursued like terrorists, as the House January 6 Committee wields the full force of the federal government to investigate them, surveil their communications and audit their dealings. Why? Trump and his allies called the regime a failure, stated undeniable truths that resonated with Americans to justify that view and supported policies aimed at rectifying said failures that would disempower the ruling elites. The most meek and unthreatening of January 6 defendants now face extreme, hyper-political prosecutions. They are being made an example of not because they ever posed a credible threat to the regime’s power, but as a signal to the millions of peaceful, patriotic Americans who might — through their collective speech, advocacy and voting. The same goes for the parents outraged over anti-scientific and detrimental COVID-19 policies, and overcritical race theory indoctrination in schools. The Department of Justice threatened to pursue them like jihadists — not because they are jihadists, but because parents awakened to the regime’s corrupt monopoly on the all-important institution of education could break that monopoly and end the careers of the politicians who support it. They must therefore be chilled. The war on wrongthink is not about left or right. It’s about who rules: a sovereign people or the elites who deign to lord over us. The ruling class — the “defenders of democracy” — sees citizens on the left and right opposed to its agenda and refuses to address their concerns peaceably. Instead, it calls them terror threats and pursues them using the full power of the public and like-minded private sectors. The ruling class does not fear misinformation and disinformation. It fears truth, particularly the truth about its own rot, corruption and incompetence, which calls into question its authority. This leaves us with a question: when everyone, from unorthodox presidents to curious podcasters to caring parents are deemed existential threats to the regime, how strong is the regime?
US insanity getting worse... https://beacononlinenews.com/2022/02/16/going-to-jail-now-youll-pay-5-per-da...
Canada Moves To Make Asset Freezing Under Emergencies Act Permanent https://summit.news/2022/02/21/canada-moves-to-make-asset-freezing-under-eme... https://summit.news/2022/02/18/trudeaus-prohibition-on-protests-exempts-refu... https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494852056145969155 Canada has moved to make the asset freezing part of its Emergencies Act, which was used to target supporters of the Freedom Convoy protests, a permanent fixture. Wow, who saw that one coming? In order to stop what the Trudeau regime referred to as “illegal blockades,” the government threatened to freeze the bank accounts of demonstrators and anyone who donated money to them. Under the Emergencies Act, bank are required to freeze accounts without a court order, while all crowdfunding platforms and payment providers are mandated to provide information to FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada). Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that many of the measures imposed ‘temporarily’ to deal with the protesters (after they had been suitably demonized as violent extremists) will now become permanent. Trudeau’s deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent. pic.twitter.com/g8JTCwzmqX — Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022 “We used all the tools that we had prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act and we determined we needed some additional tools,” Freeland announced “Some of those tools we will be putting forward measures to put those tools permanently in place. The authorities of FINTRAC, I believe, do need to be expanded to cover crowdsourcing platforms and payment platforms,” she added. Ronald Reagan has been proven right again. “Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.” Meanwhile, as we previously highlighted, such measures are likely to exclude protected classes (basically anyone who isn’t a native Canadian or white), with groups such as immigrants and refugees enjoying an exemption.
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Pols running mind control on Pols as usual... Russian Invasion Has Elevated "Treason"-Mania To Never-Before-Seen-Heights https://greenwald.substack.com/p/romneys-treason-smear-of-tulsi-gabbard Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images); Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, former Congresswoman from Hawaii (Wikipedia Creative Commons) The crime of "treason” is one of the gravest an American citizen can commit, if not the gravest. It is one of the few crimes other than murder for which execution is still a permissible punishment under both U.S. federal law and the laws of several states. The framers of the U.S. Constitution were so concerned about the temptation to abuse this term — by depicting political dissent as a criminalized betrayal of one's country — that they chose to define and limit how this crime could be applied by inserting this limiting paragraph into the Constitution itself; reflecting the gravity and temptation to abuse accusations of "treason,” it is the only crime they chose to define in the U.S. Constitution. Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution states: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Treason was the only crime to be explicitly defined and limited by the Founders because they sought “to guard against the historic use of treason prosecutions by repressive governments to silence otherwise legitimate political opposition.” In other words, the grave danger anticipated by the Founders was that "treason” would radically expand to include any criticisms of or opposition to official U.S. Government policy, activities they sought in the Bill of Rights to enshrine as an inviolable right of U.S. citizenship, not turn it into a capital crime. In a 2017 op-ed in The Washington Post, law professor Carlton Larson reviewed the increasing tendency to call other Americans "traitors” and explained: “Speaking against the government, undermining political opponents, supporting harmful policies or even placing the interests of another nation ahead of those of the United States are not acts of treason under the Constitution. Regarding the promiscuous use of the word by liberals against Trump, Professor Larson wrote: “An enemy is a nation or an organization with which the United States is in a declared or open war . Nations with whom we are formally at peace, such as Russia, are not enemies.” For that reason, even Americans actively helping the Soviet Union during the Cold War could not be accused of “treason” given that there was no declaration of war against the USSR. Using the most extreme hypothetical he could think of to illustrate the point, he explained: “Indeed, Trump could give the U.S. nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin or bug the Oval Office with a direct line to the Kremlin and it would not be treason, as a legal matter.” For that reason, treason has rarely been prosecuted in the U.S.: “according to the FBI, the U.S. government has successfully convicted fewer than 12 Americans for treason in the nation’s history.” While Americans who rebelled against the British crown were technically traitors, as were those who waged war against the union during the Civil War, prosecutions have been exceedingly rare. That means that through all the various wars the U.S. has fought from the 18th Century until now — the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War, the two World Wars of the 20th Century, the Cold War, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, the dirty wars in Central America, the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq, the War on Terror — the number of total treason prosecutions is less than a dozen. That is because Americans understood, based on constitutional constraints and Supreme Court law restricting its scope, that this crime is very difficult to charge and applies only in the narrowest of circumstances. That understanding is now gone. During the War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq, neocons routinely accused war opponents and skeptics of their “anti-terrorism” civil liberties assaults of being traitors. David Frum's stint as Bush White House speechwriter enshrined this "patriotism” attack as his and their speciality. Bush and Cheney's speeches, especially leading up to the invasion of Iraq, the 2002 midterms, and then the 2004 re-election campaign, inevitably featured innuendo if not explicit claims that Americans opposed to their war policies were against America and on the side of the terrorists: i.e., traitors. The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson produced a campaign ad for the 2002 Georgia Senate race morphing the face of the Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, into Osama bin Laden's. Upon leaving the White House, Frum continued to build his career on impugning the patriotism and loyalty of anyone — right, left, or in between — who opposed all the various wars he wanted to send other people's children to go fight and die in. But it was the Trump era that transformed treason accusations from a periodic transgression into the standard, reflexive way of criticizing Trump and his movement. Indeed, Frum now performs the same service as he did during the early Bush years at The Atlantic, CNN and MSNBC, where he is most beloved by Democrats for casting this same aspersion against any opponents of Democratic Party politicians. From the middle of the 2016 campaign to this very day, accusing one's political adversaries of being traitors to the U.S. — in the form of Russian agents — have become so common that Democrats now barely know any other insult to express. An entire generation has been trained to believe that “treason” is the crime of expressing views that undermine Democratic Party leaders, diverge from the U.S. security state, and/or dispute the consensus of the U.S. corporate press. The four-year CIA/media "scandal” that dominated the Trump years was nothing but one protracted, melodramatic treason accusation. The dominant narrative insisted that Trump and his allies were controlled by Moscow, subservient to the Kremlin, and were acting to promote Russian over American interests. That Trump was loyal not to the country that elected him but, instead, to an adversarial nation is something Democrats now believe as an article of faith. So trivialized and banalized were accusations of treason over the last six years that body language analysis became sufficient to allege it. When Trump and Putin met in Helsinki in July, 2018, journalists and politicians joined random DNC loyalists in citing Trump's purportedly submissive posture, tweeting the hashtag “TreasonSummit” over and over. The Washington Post tapped "body language experts” to announce in its headline: “In battle for nonverbal dominance at U.S.-Russia summit, Putin was the clear winner, experts say.” Former CIA Director John Brennan pronounced: “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” As Trump traveled to that summit, the most embittered political loser in world history, Hillary Clinton, tweeted: “Question for President Trump as he meets Putin: Do you know which team you play for?"; the next day, following their joint press conference, she proclaimed: “well, now we know.” Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you??? — John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 16, 2018 One of the former New York Times reporters hired by The Intercept in a needy attempt to vest the site with popularity among the corporate press, James Risen, rode the Helsinki media wave with a 2018 article headlined: “Is Trump a Traitor?” He of course answered it with innuendo designed to suggest an affirmative answer, and was duly rewarded with an appearance the next night on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show, where Risen and the host explored the same theme of treason. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “asked" in 2019: “What does Putin have on [Trump], politically, personally or financially?” Major magazine covers frequently showed the Kremlin (or what they mistook as the Kremlin) taking control of the White House. All of that carried over to the hysterical and ongoing exaggeration of January 6, which was not a mere riot but an insurrection, a "coup” attempt, incited and carried out by "traitors” to the United States. The Intercept, James Risen, Feb. 16, 2018; MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Feb. 17, 2018. Hillary Clinton's campaign relied on little else beyond accusing Trump and anyone else who opposed her of being a Kremlin asset. In 2020, Clinton decided to publicly claim, without a whiff of evidence, that then-Democratic-presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who volunteered to fight in the Iraq War which Clinton demanded and who is now a U.S. Army Reserves Lt. Colonel, was being "groomed by the Russians” to run as a third-party candidate (as usual, Clinton lied: upon dropping out of the Democratic primary, Gabbard immediately endorsed Joe Biden for president). (That someone is an American war veteran or current member of the U.S. military, like Lt. Col. Gabbard, does not and should not immunize them from criticism. That goes without saying. Members of the military are just as prone to error or other failings as anyone else. But — contrary to the current liberal understanding — there is an enormous difference between merely criticizing someone and accusing the person of being a traitor and/or a Russian agent. And it does seem advisable to expect that people who constantly cheer U.S. wars and demand that others besides themselves and their children go fight and die in them — such as Hillary and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) — at least think twice before accusing those who have volunteered to fight for their country in those wars of being guilty of treason or being an agent of a foreign power. Such caution — based on the recognition that "traitors” to the U.S. are unlikely to volunteer to risk their lives for the U.S. — doesn't seem like too much to ask.) As pervasive as “traitor” accusations were during the Trump presidency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has elevated this "treason” mania to never-before-seen heights. Everyone and anyone who questions or deviates in any way from the prevailing bipartisan consensus is accused of being a treasonous Russian agent based on the slightest infraction. The two public figures most vilified as traitors in the lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine were former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), now a U.S. Army Reserves Lt. Colonel, and Fox News host Tucker Carlson. In that pre-invasion vilification campaign, a preview was offered for how intolerant the climate would be for any questioning, no matter how rational or partial, and how casually the treason accusation would be weaponized against anyone who spoke off-key. Indeed, the comments of the former Congresswoman and the Fox cable host which triggered this avalanche of public accusations were stunningly benign. Gabbard's crime was that she echoed twenty years of statements by U.S. officials and scholars across the spectrum by arguing that NATO expansion up to the Russian borders, and particularly the prospect of membership for Ukraine, was genuinely threatening to Moscow; thus, she argued, the U.S. and NATO, in order to attempt to diplomatically avert a horrific war, should formalize its intent not to offer NATO membership to the country occupying the most sensitive and vulnerable part of the border with Russia. Carlson’s sin was also to express a view that many in Washington — including former presidents Obama and Trump — had long affirmed: namely, that while Ukraine is not a vital interest to the U.S., it is and always will be to Russia, and therefore there is no reason the U.S. should even consider involvement in a military confrontation between the two over that country. As The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg put it after extensively interviewing Obama in 2016 about his foreign policy "doctrine”: Obama's theory here is simple: Ukraine is a core Russian interest but not an American one, so Russia will always be able to maintain escalatory dominance there. . . . "The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do," [Obama] said. One need not agree with Gabbard's proposed pre-war diplomatic solution to see the utter madness of accusing her of being a traitor or Russian agent for advocating it (we will never know whether it would have worked, since Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeatedly rejected such a concession based on the apparently sacrosanct determination that the U.S. “will uphold the principle of NATO's open door" even if that "open door" is situated right on the most sensitive region of Russia's border, which was twice used in the 20th Century alone to attack them, costing them tens of millions of Russian lives). Nor must one agree with Carlson's view — that Ukraine and its borders are of insufficient strategic importance to the U.S. to warrant risking American treasure or lives (to say nothing of a potential nuclear war) to defend it — in order to find repugnant the notion that this is a "treasonous” thought to express. Yet each of them was repeatedly and vocally accused of treason and being a Kremlin apologist if not an outright asset merely for advocating such intrinsically rational perspectives, ones long deemed mainstream in Washington until about three weeks ago, when they instantly became taboo. This week featured perhaps the lowliest and sleaziest treason accusations yet. On Sunday night, Gabbard posted a two-minute video online in which she said something completely indisputable: “indisputable” in the sense that the U.S. Government itself admits it and nobody contests it. She did not say that there are bio weapons labs in Ukraine: either ones funded by the U.S. or anyone else. What she did say — in her characteristically clear and blunt manner — is that there are labs in Ukraine in which dangerous pathogens are being cultivated and stored, and that it is reckless in the extreme for the U.S. and/or Ukraine not to have secured or disposed of them when Russian troops were massed on the Ukrainian border, indicating the high possibility of an invasion that could result in these pathogens being accidentally released during war. Gabbard's warning is scarcely different from what U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said when testifying last Monday in the Senate, in response to Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) question of whether “Ukraine has biological or chemical weapons” (we examined Nuland's response here); what U.S. officials themselves claimed in response to questions about Nuland's comments; and what Reuters reported were the warnings from the World Health Organization about the dangers of Ukrainian labs. A separate Reuters article designed to debunk Russian accusations about bioweapons labs in Ukraine noted that Ukraine's "laboratories have received support from the United States, European Union and World Health Organization.” And as we documented in a video report broadcast this week, the distinction between a “bioweapons lab” and what Nuland described as Ukraine's “biological research facilities” is often mere semantics in U.S. jargon. The U.S. indisputably develops biological weapons (the 2001 attack using highly sophisticated weaponized anthrax strains came from a U.S. Army lab, according to the FBI, and the U.S. has funded the work of Chinese scientists to manipulate coronaviruses to make them more contagious and lethal), yet nonetheless insists they are not “biological weapons” because the motive in developing those weapons is to study, not deploy, them. Thus, if Ukraine's labs had weaponized biological pathogens but the U.S. believed they were developed for the purpose of studying rather than unleashing them, the U.S. would insist that there are no “biological weapons” in these labs even though they are identical to what one would manufacture with a more nefarious intention. Despite Gabbard's anodyne concerns, the response to her, as well as to Carlson for featuring guests (including me) to discuss this biolabs story, has been as dangerous as it is unhinged. On March 10, The Daily Beast posted a sensationalized tabloid tweet promoting its article about Gabbard that went mega-viral, designed to feed into the innuendo that Gabbard is a Kremlin agent. The tweet, retweeted by ten thousand people, screams: "EXCLUSIVE: Russian-American national Elena Branson was indicted this week for lobbying for pro-Kremlin policies while not registered as a foreign agent. She gave to one U.S. politician: Tulsi Gabbard.” One has to read to the fifth paragraph of the article to learn that “the combined total of those donations isn’t colossal by any means—a whopping $59.95.” To ensure that their smear of Gabbard as a likely Kremlin asset is not dissipated by this rather dispositive fact — that an American citizen whom Gabbard never met and does not know donated a trivial sum to her campaign —The Daily Beast quickly added that the donations, despite the paltry and laughable sum, "do raise questions about why an alleged Russian agent, tasked with currying favor with U.S. politicians, would zero in on Gabbard, and only Gabbard.” In the article's very first paragraph, the smear artists at this tabloid made their intentions clear: that this “new development this week is sure to reinforce the half-jokes that Gabbard is a 'Russian asset'; as it turns out, her campaign took money from one” (by “Russian asset," The Daily Beast mean an American citizen accused by the DOJ but not convicted, a vital distinction which all authoritarian state-media outlets like The Daily Beast no longer recognize). On Monday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) considerably escalated the attacks on Gabbard's patriotism. In a mega-viral tweet, the four-time-draft-dodging, son-of-a-rich-politician, investment-banker Republican — who skipped the Vietnam War after protesting in favor of it, opting instead to send other Americans to fight and die, and then justified the fact that all five of his sons avoided military service on the grounds that helping him get elected was their "service” — accused the life-long Army officer and Iraq War veteran of being a traitor: Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives. — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 13, 2022 Romney's endorsement of this “treason" accusation seemed to have given the green light to liberals to reveal their true authoritarian selves in all of their grotesque, naked darkness. On Monday, the hosts of ABC’s The View, led by Ana Navarro, demanded that Gabbard and Carlson be criminally investigated by the DOJ over their views about the war in Ukraine (on Twitter, Navarro reaffirmed her call for a criminal investigation of the pair, arguing that “persons engaged in domestic political or advocacy work on behalf of foreign principals” are engaged in a crime absent FARA disclosures: an odd view for someone whose career began by pressuring the U.S. Congress to fund and support Nicaragua's death squads used by the contras — of which her father was a member). The discredited-and-fired former FBI agent Peter Strzok suggested that the two were involved in some form of sinister “coordination.” The founding father of the current iteration of MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, went a step further and argued that the duo should be militarily detained and given a trial only if they are lucky and the U.S. decides to be generous. People across the spectrum, including the most banal liberal YouTube hosts, cheered Romney's deranged "treason” accusation against Gabbard. Romney's accusation that Lt. Col. Gabbard is guilty of treason is repugnant and false for numerous reasons. First, as the vehemently anti-Trump constitutional law site Just Security explained in 2017 as it became increasingly acceptable to call Trump a "traitor” over his alleged ties to Russia, the Constitution confines "treason” to aiding and abetting an actual, declared “enemy” of the U.S., a term which Russia — for reasoning that applied then and now — does not come close to meeting (emphasis added): Whatever one thinks of Russia, Vladimir Putin, or the current state of relations between it/them and the United States, we are not at war with Russia. Full stop. Russia is therefore not an “enemy” of the United States. Full stop. Collaborating with Russia is a serious allegation, and may violate other federal laws. But treason is something very special, unique, and specific under U.S. law–and, as my friend and UC-Davis Professor Carlton Larsen has long explained, for good reason. Let’s keep it that way. In an article the following day, responding to their disappointed critics who wanted desperately to call Trump a "traitor," that site's constitutional law scholar Steve Vladeck explained how narrow of a term “treason” is due to judicial rulings applying its scope. Among other things, a country cannot be deemed to be at “War” with the U.S. or an “enemy” of it absent a Congressional declaration of war against it, which — thankfully — does not exist for Russia: There is no international armed conflict between the United States and Russia, nor has Congress done anything to recognize one, so “war” is out….[A] statute enacted not long after the treason statute–the Alien Enemy Act of 1798–is much more specific about who alien “enemies” are, referring to “all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects” of a country against which the United States has “declared war.” This is an extremely narrow definition (we haven’t declared war since 1942), and does not even cover the opposing side in un-declared wars, such as Vietnam, the conflict against al Qaeda and its affiliates, and so on. But even assuming, for the sake of argument, that the treason statute is broader than the Alien Enemy Act, and that opposing forces under more limited use-of-force authorizations are indeed “enemies” for purposes of the treason statute (there are vanishingly few examples of such prosecutions), it still requires, at a minimum, the existence of an armed conflict under both domestic and international law–something noticeably lacking with regard to the United States and Russia. So it is impossible — legally and Constitutionally speaking — to be a "traitor” to the U.S. or be guilty of "treason” by helping Russia in any way, given that the U.S. is not at war with Russia and that country cannot be considered an “enemy” of the U.S. outside of the crazed confines of liberal cable networks and newspaper op-ed pages. But the more important reason why Romney's accusation is both ignorant and authoritarian is that expression of political views — which is all anyone can accuse Gabbard and Carlson of having done — cannot be criminalized at all, let alone deemed treasonous. There is simply no question that Gabbard's "guilty” opinions (the U.S. should have promised not to offer NATO membership to Ukraine and it is urgent that Ukraine's dangerous biological labs be secured) are constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment. That would be true even if her expressed views had not been long-standing mainstream opinion in the West for the last two decades. The same is obviously true of Carlon's argument that Ukrainian borders are not vital enough interests to the U.S. to warrant his country's involvement in that conflict. In other words, mainstream U.S. opinion-makers are now doing exactly what the founders most feared: abusing the concepts of "treason” and "traitor” to criminalize political dissent. As the Seventh Circuit explained in its 1986 ruling about treason and sedition: “[t]he reason for the restrictive definition is apparent from the historical backdrop of the treason clause. The framers of the Constitution were reluctant to facilitate such prosecutions because they were well aware of abuses, and they themselves were traitors in the eyes of England.” As two constitutional scholars, Paul Crane and Deborah Pearlstein explained (emphasis added): While the Constitution’s Framers shared the centuries-old view that all citizens owed a duty of loyalty to their home nation, they included the Treason Clause not so much to underscore the seriousness of such a betrayal, but to guard against the historic use of treason prosecutions by repressive governments to silence otherwise legitimate political opposition. Debate surrounding the Clause at the Constitutional Convention thus focused on ways to narrowly define the offense, and to protect against false or flimsy prosecutions. This danger of weaponizing “treason” accusations against dissenters is obviously heightened during wartime. The neocons’ propensity to hurl treason accusations at anyone opposing their wars is part of what made them so despised before they were re-branded as liberal heroes of the #Resistance. And most of the worst civil liberties crises in U.S. history arose from the desire to label war dissidents or those suspected of misplaced allegiances as “treasonous": the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, the 1917 Espionage Act and Woodrow Wilson's accompanying prosecutions of war opponents, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the grave excesses of the McCarthy witch hunts. But ever since Trump's election began to appear possible, accusing political opponents of being traitors became a staple of liberal discourse, and has greatly intensified in the wake of both 1/6 and now the war in Ukraine. One reason Romney's "treason” allegation against Gabbard attracted so much attention is because, as a wealthy scion of a political and financial dynasty, Romney is perceived (or at least expected) to be more sober and responsible than the standard cable news or op-ed #Resistance liberals, who call people “Russian agents” with greater frequency and ease than most people buy socks. Yet the fact that the 2012 GOP presidential nominee so recklessly, inaccurately and dangerously hurled this smear, this accusation of grave criminal wrongdoing, against Gabbard illustrates just how authoritarian and repressive the current climate has become. If there is any one overarching, defining hallmark of a tyrannical culture, it is the refusal to tolerate any dissent from or questioning of official government policy, and to criminalize such dissent by equating it with treason. Indeed, many of the same Americans who are doing exactly this love to flamboyantly express horror as Russia does the same against its own war opponents. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find any despot in history who does not weaponize accusations of “treason" against dissidents as a central instrument for control. That U.S. discourse has now descended completely to that level is barely debatable. Just look at the last forty-eight hours of treason accusations against Gabbard, to say nothing of the last six years of liberal anti-Trump mania, to see how acceptable and reflexive such behavior has become.
Public schools... nothing more than mind control political indoctrination centers... Corrupt Dem-owned National Media performs Mass Formation Psychoprogramming... Teachers' Union Teams Up With Steven Brill's NewsGuard To Flag "Misinformation" For Children https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/18/teachers-union-teams-up-with-steven-br... https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/joseph-vazquez/2021/12/13/stud... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/27/teachers-union-left-wing-news-... https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/17/two-years-later-the-new-york-times-adm... https://jonathanturley.org/2021/10/19/joe-biden-and-the-disappearing-elephan... https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/18/twitter-ceo-admits-censoring-hunter-bi... https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.house.gov/files/Eshoo-McNerney-TV-Misinf... https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/07/tech-trojan-horse-how-the-senate-is-po... Under the leadership of Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has long been criticized by conservatives for its support of far left policies and support for Democratic candidates. Nevertheless, as a union, it is entitled to be political and most unions favor the Democrats due to their pro-union policies. However, the concern over the AFT’s agenda become far greater when it announced that it would team up with NewsGuard to start to flag news sources deemed “misinformation.” NewsGuard is co-founded by Steve Brill who has been accused of bias against Republicans and conservatives. Conservative sites have previously tagged NewGuard as “heavily skewed” in favor of the left. The “misinformation” label has been used extensively by liberal media to kill stories like the Hunter Biden laptop stories as unreliable. Indeed, Brill is under fire for being one of the voices falsely claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely false Russian disinformation. His company will now put “traffic lights” on information for children on what sources they rely upon. The ratings of NewsGuard have long been criticized by conservative sites as favoring liberal sites like The Nation (with a 93 percent rating) over more conservative sites like Fox News (at 66 percent). The timing of the announcement could not be worse after the New York Times finally recognized that the Hunter Biden laptop story was legitimate and the controversial emails authentic. For two years, some of us have been hammered as spreading “Russian disinformation” and false allegations in raising concerns over the raw influence peddling by the Biden family. Steven Brill was one of those voices flagging the story as likely “disinformation.” Brill assured viewers on CNBC that this was likely all untrue: “My personal opinion is there’s a high likelihood this story is a hoax, maybe even a hoax perpetrated by the Russians again.” The media campaign to bury or block the story worked. The Biden family had long been accused of special dealing and influence peddling. The emails were potentially devastating with references to millions from foreign sources, including shady Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian interests while Joe Biden was Vice President. The media actively participated in shielding the Bidens from the scandal. In fairness to Brill, he opposed efforts to block the story and did not support moves like Twitter to bar references to the story before the election. (After Biden was elected, Twitter admitted it was a mistake by Democrats then demanded more censorship). I agree with him entirely that the solution is to allow readers to decide by comparing news sources. However, the interview had an interesting element. Brill’s objections to Twitter and FaceBook killing the story was that they are not qualified to make that decision on what, in his words, is likely a Russian “hoax.” That is what NewsGuard does in flagging unreliable sources. He is clearly referring to himself as one of those qualified to make that decision. Yet, he was entirely wrong. At the time, many of us were noting that Biden did not deny that this was his laptop, that it was seized by the FBI in an ongoing criminal investigation, and some recipients of the emails had confirmed their authenticity. Nevertheless, Brill still thought it was all a hoax. Weingarten has declared using Brill’s NewsGuard will be a “game changer” in preventing students from being “misled” by news sources. It may well be. It would allow the AFT and school districts to teach students to distrust certain news sources like Fox News, which is given a lower rating by NewsGuard. (For full disclosure, I appear on Fox as a legal analyst). Conservative and independent sites continue to bedevil many on the left. The laptop story shows how advocacy journalism is now the norm in many newsrooms. Viewers and readers were told by most media figures, including Brill, that the story was likely Russian propaganda and untrue. The unsupported hoax claim (which contradicted readily available authenticating evidence at the time) raises the specter of a type of de facto state media. The problem is that such an echo chamber is only fully successful if there is no alternative source of information. Yet, Fox and New York Post continued to cover the story as did some of us as columnists. The most extreme effort was a letter from Democratic members to pressure companies like AT&T to reconsider whether viewers should be allowed to watch Fox News and other networks. It does not matter that Fox News is the most popular news cable station and even has a greater percentage of Democratic viewers than CNN. The members insisted that “not all TV news sources are the same” and called on these companies to protect viewers from “dissemination” of false viewpoints. Other members have sought to create algorithmic interventions to steer people away from certain stories or books, including the current NUDGE Act being proposed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). The AFT is now seeking a much earlier intervention with children by getting Brill’s NewsGuard to rate reliable and unreliable sources of news. Weingarten has declared that, with Brill’s help, children and families will no longer be “drowning in an ocean of online dishonesty.” It is unlikely to be reassuring for many that the children instead will be swimming in a pool carefully maintained by the AFT and NewsGuard.
Globalist slavers are conspiring to end ability to buy oneself out of their slave trade and tax theft coffer puffing regimes... other rumblings seek to forcibly end ALL passport programs worldwide. Buy NOW! EU Seeks End To 'Golden Passport' Schemes, Urges Revoking Visas To Russians https://www.theepochtimes.com/eu-seeks-end-to-golden-passport-schemes-urges-... The European Commission has called for EU members to cease the practice of selling citizenship to investors and to suspend the sale of immigration visas to citizens of Russia and Belarus. On Monday, the European Commission issued a recommendation to member states of the European Union, urging these nations to limit access to such so-called “golden passport” programs to individuals connected with the Russian and Belarusian governments, in response to the former nation’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. “Some Russian or Belarusian nationals who are subject to sanctions or are significantly supporting the war in Ukraine might have acquired EU citizenship or privileged access to the EU, including to travel freely in the Schengen area, under these schemes,” the European Commission said. For years, the sale of EU visas has been a multi-billion dollar industry and a valuable source of income for the nations participating. However, this practice has been the bane of regulators in the European Parliament, many of whom consider such programs a security risk for the visa-free zone of the Schengen Area, which encompasses most the the EU. Presently, only three EU states have programs for the direct sale of passports: Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta, all of which have committed to ending such programs. However, golden visa schemes remain somewhat more widespread. Like golden passport programs, these schemes allow for investors to receive immigration benefits from significant investment in the country sponsoring them, with little or no expectation that they must reside in the country. The new push may be interpreted as the EU’s latest effort to undermine Putin’s grip on power by punishing the Russian oligarchs, many of whom enjoy time spent abroad in Western Europe with their lavish fortunes. Previously, European officials have targeted the Russian oligarchy with measures such as freezing Russian assets, impounding the private jets, and seizing the summer homes of the nation’s wealthiest expatriates. In so doing, policymakers hope to stir discontent among the keys to power in the Russian Federation, placing pressure on Putin to walk back the war in Ukraine. However, with the suspension of golden passport programs, there is an additional benefit: such a policy would close the door to potential security risks, as oligarchs sympathetic to Putin’s Russia could possibly use their security as citizens of European countries to undermine the EU. The European Commission urged members to review carefully Russian and Belarussian beneficiaries of such program, cautioning nations to withdraw the naturalization of any individual blacklisted by EU members or who “supports by any means the war in Ukraine or other related activities of the Russian government or Lukashenko regime breaching international law.” It said some Russians or Belarusians are among 877 individuals listed for asset freezes and travel bans imposed since 2014 who might have acquired EU citizenship and had access to the Schengen area.
Humilitainment: How To Control The Citizenry Through Reality TV Distractions This is mind-control in its most sinister form. The following suggestions will help you better understand the nature of TV news. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” - Professor Neil Postman Once again, the programming has changed. Like clockwork, the wall-to-wall news coverage of the latest crisis has shifted gears. We have gone from COVID-19 lockdowns to Trump-Biden election drama to the Russia-Ukraine crisis to the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings to Will Smith’s on-camera assault of comedian Chris Rock at the Academy Awards Ceremony. The distractions, distortions, and political theater just keep coming. The ongoing reality show that is life in the American police state feeds the citizenry’s voracious appetite for titillating, soap opera drama. Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population. This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today: as long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form. The more that is beamed at us, the more inclined we are to settle back in our comfy recliners and become passive viewers rather than active participants as unsettling, frightening events unfold. We don’t even have to change the channel when the subject matter becomes too monotonous. That’s taken care of for us by the programmers (the corporate media). “Living is easy with eyes closed,” observed John Lennon, and that’s exactly what reality TV that masquerades as American politics programs the citizenry to do: navigate the world with their eyes shut. As long as we’re viewers, we’ll never be doers. Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch—and I would posit that it’s all reality TV, entertainment news included—the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce. “We the people” are watching a lot of TV. On average, Americans spend five hours a day watching television. By the time we reach age 65, we’re watching more than 50 hours of television a week, and that number increases as we get older. And reality TV programming consistently captures the largest percentage of TV watchers every season by an almost 2-1 ratio. This doesn’t bode well for a citizenry able to sift through masterfully-produced propaganda in order to think critically about the issues of the day, whether it’s fake news peddled by government agencies or foreign entities. Those who watch reality shows tend to view what they see as the “norm.” Thus, those who watch shows characterized by lying, aggression and meanness not only come to see such behavior as acceptable and entertaining but also mimic the medium. This holds true whether the reality programming is about the antics of celebrities in the White House, in the board room, or in the bedroom. It’s a phenomenon called “humilitainment.” A term coined by media scholars Brad Waite and Sara Booker, “humilitainment” refers to the tendency for viewers to take pleasure in someone else’s humiliation, suffering and pain. “Humilitainment” largely explains not only why American TV watchers are so fixated on reality TV programming but how American citizens, largely insulated from what is really happening in the world around them by layers of technology, entertainment, and other distractions, are being programmed to accept the government’s brutality, surveillance and dehumanizing treatment as things happening to other people. The ramifications for the future of civic engagement, political discourse and self-government are incredibly depressing and demoralizing. This explains how we keep getting saddled with leaders in government who are clueless about the Constitution and out-of-touch with the needs of the people they were appointed to represent. This is also what happens when an entire nation—bombarded by reality TV programming, government propaganda and entertainment news—becomes systematically desensitized and acclimated to the trappings of a government that operates by fiat and speaks in a language of force. Ultimately, the reality shows, the entertainment news, the surveillance society, the militarized police, and the political spectacles have one common objective: to keep us divided, distracted, imprisoned, and incapable of taking an active role in the business of self-government. Look behind the political spectacles, the reality TV theatrics, the sleight-of-hand distractions and diversions, and the stomach-churning, nail-biting drama, and you will find there is a method to the madness. We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry. This is mind-control in its most sinister form. How do you change the way people think? You start by changing the words they use. In totalitarian regimes where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used. In countries where tyranny hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind. Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred—inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination, infantilism, the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite. As George Orwell recognized, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Orwell understood only too well the power of language to manipulate the masses. In Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother does away with all undesirable and unnecessary words and meanings, even going so far as to routinely rewrite history and punish “thoughtcrimes.” In this dystopian vision of the future, the Thought Police serve as the eyes and ears of Big Brother, while the Ministry of Peace deals with war and defense, the Ministry of Plenty deals with economic affairs (rationing and starvation), the Ministry of Love deals with law and order (torture and brainwashing), and the Ministry of Truth deals with news, entertainment, education and art (propaganda). The mottos of Oceania: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Orwell’s Big Brother relied on Newspeak to eliminate undesirable words, strip such words as remained of unorthodox meanings and make independent, non-government-approved thought altogether unnecessary. Where we stand now is at the juncture of Oldspeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is “safe” and “accepted” by the majority is permitted). Truth is often lost when we fail to distinguish between opinion and fact, and that is the danger we now face as a society. Anyone who relies exclusively on television/cable news hosts and political commentators for actual knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake. Unfortunately, since Americans have by and large become non-readers, television has become their prime source of so-called “news.” This reliance on TV news has given rise to such popular news personalities who draw in vast audiences that virtually hang on their every word. In our media age, these are the new powers-that-be. Yet while these personalities often dispense the news like preachers used to dispense religion, with power and certainty, they are little more than conduits for propaganda and advertisements delivered in the guise of entertainment and news. Given the preponderance of news-as-entertainment programming, it’s no wonder that viewers have largely lost the ability to think critically and analytically and differentiate between truth and propaganda, especially when delivered by way of fake news criers and politicians. While television news cannot—and should not—be completely avoided, the following suggestions will help you better understand the nature of TV news. 1. TV news is not what happened. Rather, it is what someone thinks is worth reporting. Although there are still some good TV journalists, the old art of investigative reporting has largely been lost. While viewers are often inclined to take what is reported by television “news” hosts at face value, it is your responsibility to judge and analyze what is reported. 2. TV news is entertainment. There is a reason why the programs you watch are called news “shows.” It’s a signal that the so-called news is being delivered as a form of entertainment. “In the case of most news shows,” write Neil Postman and Steve Powers in their insightful book, How to Watch TV News (1992), “the package includes attractive anchors, an exciting musical theme, comic relief, stories placed to hold the audience, the creation of the illusion of intimacy, and so on.” Of course, the point of all this glitz and glamour is to keep you glued to the set so that a product can be sold to you. (Even the TV news hosts get in on the action by peddling their own products, everything from their latest books to mugs and bathrobes.) Although the news items spoon-fed to you may have some value, they are primarily a commodity to gather an audience, which will in turn be sold to advertisers. 3. Never underestimate the power of commercials, especially to news audiences. In an average household, the television set is on over seven hours a day. Most people, believing themselves to be in control of their media consumption, are not really bothered by this. But TV is a two-way attack: it not only delivers programming to your home, it also delivers you (the consumer) to a sponsor. People who watch the news tend to be more attentive, educated and have more money to spend. They are, thus, a prime market for advertisers. And sponsors spend millions on well-produced commercials. Such commercials are often longer in length than most news stories and cost more to produce than the news stories themselves. Moreover, the content of many commercials, which often contradicts the messages of the news stories, cannot be ignored. Most commercials are aimed at prurient interests in advocating sex, overindulgence, drugs, etc., which has a demoralizing effect on viewers, especially children. 4. It is vitally important to learn about the economic and political interests of those who own the “corporate” media. There are few independent news sources anymore. The major news outlets are owned by corporate empires. 5. Pay special attention to the language of newscasts. Because film footage and other visual imagery are so engaging on TV news shows, viewers are apt to allow language—what the reporter is saying about the images—to go unexamined. A TV news host’s language frames the pictures, and, therefore, the meaning we derive from the picture is often determined by the host’s commentary. TV by its very nature manipulates viewers. One must never forget that every television minute has been edited. The viewer does not see the actual event but the edited form of the event. For example, presenting a one- to two-minute segment from a two-hour political speech and having a TV talk show host critique may be disingenuous, but such edited footage is a regular staple on news shows. Add to that the fact that the reporters editing the film have a subjective view—sometimes determined by their corporate bosses—that enters in. 6. Reduce by at least one-half the amount of TV news you watch. TV news generally consists of “bad” news—wars, torture, murders, scandals and so forth. It cannot possibly do you any harm to excuse yourself each week from much of the mayhem projected at you on the news. Do not form your concept of reality based on television. TV news, it must be remembered, does not reflect normal everyday life. Studies indicate that a heavy viewing of TV news makes people think the world is much more dangerous than it actually is. 7. One of the reasons many people are addicted to watching TV news is that they feel they must have an opinion on almost everything, which gives the illusion of participation in American life. But an “opinion” is all that we can gain from TV news because it only presents the most rudimentary and fragmented information on anything. Thus, on most issues we don’t really know much about what is actually going on. And, of course, we are expected to take what the TV news host says on an issue as gospel truth. But isn’t it better to think for yourself? Add to this that we need to realize that we often don’t have enough information from the “news” source to form a true opinion. How can that be done? Study a broad variety of sources, carefully analyze issues in order to be better informed, and question everything. The bottom line is simply this: Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, a populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all. It’s time to change the channel, tune out the reality TV show, and push back against the real menace of the police state. If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows more absurd by the minute.
https://twitter.com/Dknarfstudios/status/1509966159243788294 Security Expert Gavin de Becker just warned that people should question when the government is telling them to fear something. He noted that tyrannical governments have used the smear of “false news” to shut down dissent many times in the past: “King Charles in the 1600s banned coffee houses. Why? Because coffee houses were places where people gathered together and talked and they’d be a little amped up…he put out a proclamation. I’m quoting it here. Restrain the spreading of false news and licentious talking of matters of state and government…he does another proclamation saying the spreaders of false news or promoters of anything malicious against the state will be considered seditious.” The word dangerous is dangerous to government … I wonder why 🤔..#Gavin de Becker on #JoeRogan #government pic.twitter.com/Iz0PbNUVi7 — Uncle Louie (@Dknarfstudios) April 1, 2022
China models brainwash camps for use by new friends such as US prog censor prop regime... China's Legal System Steps Up Use Of Secret Detentions https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/china1216_web.pdf https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Michael-Caster/dp/0999370685/ref=sr_1_1?keywords... On the eve of Jan. 11, former lawyer and human rights defender Xie Yang was on a video call with Lyndon Li, a Chinese law student in England, when police suddenly appeared at his home, and the call ended abruptly. The news leaked out within a few days that Chinese authorities had taken Xie away—this was not the first time. Lawyer Xie Yang (center) and his client Xu Yan (right), wife of human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, try to meet with Yu outside the Xuzhou Intermediate Court in Xuzhou, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, on Oct. 31, 2019 Xie shot to fame after spending six months inside China’s system for secret jails or Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL). He described in detail to his lawyers the prolonged, severe physical and psychological torture he had experienced inside the system. As Xie’s testimony made headlines worldwide, China’s RSDL was not widely known until that point. Many other lawyers, alongside Xie, who were also placed into the RSDL system around the same time, have helped to slowly expose it as more victims came forth willing to speak about the reality behind those four letters. The Dual Rise of Xi Jinping and RSDL The RSDL system was put into place as Xi Jinping took power, and it has expanded in scope and size alongside the leader’s growing control over Chinese society. RSDL allows the police to take any target(s) off the street, place them inside solitary confinement at secret locations, hold them incommunicado, and deny their family or anyone else knowledge of their whereabouts. It is essentially legalized kidnapping, and the United Nations has stated as much, if in more diplomatic language. A drawing of an RSDL facility in southern Beijing by Antlem Around the time of the Winter Olympics in Beijing this year, court data (some of which are available online in a database hosted by China’s Supreme Court) revealed that RSDL remains extensively used. During the pandemic, against all odds, its use increased even more. The RSDL may now have claimed as many as 100,000 victims, the equivalent of 150 Guantanamo Bays. The first known victim, Zhu Chengzhi, was put in the RSDL on Jan. 4, 2013, within the first three days the system was first put into use. Zhu happens to be from the same province as Mao Zedong, a man to whom Xi is often compared. Zhu would later claim another distinction; in mid-2018, he became the first known victim to be placed into the system a second time. It wasn’t always like that. In the same year that Zhu became RSDL’s first victim, there were close to 1,000 victims nationwide. At the time, RSDL was primarily used in exceptional circumstances; for example, when an individual couldn’t be arrested due to illness or detention made it challenging to carry out an investigation. But gradually, the lack of oversight allowed the Chinese police to abuse the RSDL system. By the time the “709” crackdown started in 2015, a nationwide campaign that targeted human rights lawyers, the use of RSDL had grown significantly. A year or two later, sources showed that local police started using the system indiscriminately against those charged with minor and regular crimes. Lawyers and activists gather for a silent protest at the court of final appeal in Hong Kong for the fourth anniversary of the “709” crackdown on human rights lawyers across China on July 9, 2019 With RSDL, the Chinese police have expanded their power significantly and in a way that undermines more or less every basic rights one has come to expect. Those placed into RSDL cannot be held in detention centers, police stations, or anything deemed a “case-handling area.” Instead, police can use either custom-built facilities, for example, secret jails and renovated rooms in controlled facilities such as guest houses, training centers, etc. Once taken into RSDL, one simply disappears. To make matters worse, a victim can be held under the system for six months. Once inside the RSDL, the law states that individuals must be kept in solitary confinement and in facilities designed to protect them from self-harm. In short, suicide-padded, solitary confinement cells. A drawing of police raiding a victim’s home and taking him into RSDL by Antlem. This absolute power that RSDL affords police over its victims has not been lost on local police forces, who have taken up the use of RSDL with enthusiasm, which would explain its rapidly expanding deployment in recent years. How One Man’s Testimony Exposed the Realities of RSDL Xie’s testimony was the first detailed account of what goes on inside RSDL and revealed why it had become the preferred tool of the Chinese authorities. Why detain (bound by supervision and regulation) an individual when they can instead disappear (and act with impunity)? For Xie, it began like many other days. One morning, he had left to travel out of town to represent a group of farmers over a land dispute. A photo of Xie Yang in 2021. As one of the lawyers victimized during the “709″ crackdown, Xie was recently abducted by Chinese state security “There was nothing different about this time. Like before, he left for work,” his wife, Chen Guiqiu, told this author. Two days later, while he stayed at a hotel out of town, he was awoken before daybreak by a large group of both plain-clothed and uniformed officers who took him away. Within 24 hours, Xie was officially placed under RSDL, and authorities told him: “Your only right is to obey,” according to author Michael Caster. In reality, the police can do anything under RSDL, short of killing a person, as they have six months of total control over their victim. A doctor attending to those who disappeared under RSDL put it plainly once: “Don’t let them die. A dead person would create big problems. Someone who is only injured doesn’t matter,” according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Six months of torture would follow. Through it all, interrogations, which often occurred while the victim was shackled to a tiger chair, would happen frequently. At some point, Xie thought some 40 different people had interrogated him. He was deprived of sleep and spent up to 20 hours a day on the “dangling stool.” It is a small, narrow, high stool where the victim’s legs cannot reach the floor. Slowly, over hours, blood gets cut off from the legs, causing intense, crippling pain. This would be alternated with being kicked, kneed, punched, or hung from the ceiling and beaten unconscious. Death threats were common. According to Caster, one person, a middle-class, white-collar IT engineer, was threatened before even arriving at the custom-built RSDL facility in southern Beijing. He was told: “We are crossing the mountains. If you want to come back alive, you should think well about what you tell us.” Of course, not everyone suffers the same abuses. A young man from northeastern Dongbei—China’s rust belt—said he was stripped naked in his cold cell, with extra guards brought into the room, and then told to stand on one leg and sing the Chinese national anthem. Xie might have avoided the same fate as Zhu, who was taken into RSDL a second time, but that is precisely what happened to fellow lawyer Chang Weiping not long before the police took Xie away. Chang spent nearly half a year inside RSDL before being arrested; he is now awaiting trial. So far, no one knows what Chang has had to go through. Chinese rights lawyer Chang Weiping’s parents protest the torture of their son in front of the Gaoxin branch of the Baoji City Public Security Bureau, China, on Dec. 14, 2020 Raising Awareness of RSDL Many lawyers, journalists, non-governmental organization (NGO) workers, and others who work in sensitive fields and are often targeted by authorities were oblivious to the system for quite some time. Those who heard about RSDL often thought it was a mild form of detention, something less severe. When co-workers of Wang Quanzhang, another well-known rights lawyer, learned that he had been placed into RSDL instead of being arrested, they felt relief and thought it was a good sign. I was one of those colleagues with that very same thought. For better or worse, those days are long gone within China’s rights defense community. RSDL has become as feared a tool as they come. As what goes on inside leaks out, the community has been given a wake-up call. The worse the stories that leak out, the more RSDL terrifies the larger community. It has, in effect, become a tool of political terror. Wang Yu, a lawyer, didn’t know much about RSDL until she was held in a secret jail for six months. Her husband, Bao, a local activist, went through the same ordeal. But torture wasn’t enough to break them. Police went further and threatened to arrest the couple’s then-teenage son, Bao Mengmeng. He made headlines worldwide when he was captured by Chinese police inside Burma (commonly known as Myanmar), alongside two activists trying to smuggle him out of China after his parents had been disappeared. Those two activists were taken back to China and likely placed into RSDL, while Mengmeng spent about two years under police custody until 2018. The True Scope of China’s Use of Disappearances via RSDL In 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council condemned China’s RSDL system and called for its complete abolishment. However, until early 2020, there had been no attempts to figure out the extent to which the system was used. That changed with a small report, a data analysis from the NGO Safeguard Defenders, which showed how it is possible to track the use of the system—by using China’s public database on verdicts. Now, some two years later and after a new round of research from the database China Judgments Online, more information on the scope and scale of the system can be presented—and it is grim reading. As with any statistics in China, the data is flawed at best. In addition, thousands of verdicts mentioning RSDL use have been removed from the database, and more are disappearing almost every day as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to hide such information. Despite that, and using knowledge derived from detailed studies on how RSDL cases are published, or not published, even such studies carried out by pro-CCP legal scholars in China, one can get a strong idea of how the RSDL system has developed. (Courtesy of Peter Dahlin/Safeguard Defenders) As clearly indicated by the U.N. in its condemnation of the RSDL system, its use often constitutes enforced disappearances, as the location of the victim is kept secret. Torture is rampant, and in addition, using solitary confinement for prolonged periods for interrogation purposes is in itself an act of torture. This qualifies China’s use of RSDL as a crime against humanity on at least two points, if proven to be systematic or widespread, according to the aforementioned author Michael Caster, who is also an international law analyst and co-founder of Safeguard Defenders. Furthermore, the consistent year-by-year data available on RSDL use, Safeguard Defenders spokesperson Laura Harth says, shows beyond doubt that it is both systematic and widespread. For 2020, the last year for which more complete data exists, the RSDL system reached new heights, with some 15,000 new victims that year alone. For 2021, the figure remains high, at over 10,000, yet it may be too early to properly assess the data. By now, the system is likely to have seen anywhere from 85,000 to 115,000 victims. The real problem with the aforementioned data is that they only scratch the surface. Many of those named in this article did not go on trial and were released often “under bail.” Such cases simply won’t show up in the database or anywhere else. It is impossible to know how much of the iceberg we are seeing in the data above, but most likely a big part is underwater. RSDL Is Here to Stay, May Expand Beyond China’s Borders The growing awareness of the CCP’s use of “hostage diplomacy” has centered on RSDL. Just like families are denied knowledge of victims’ whereabouts, so are foreign governments when their citizens are placed into the system. Whether it is British Lee Bo who was kidnapped in Hong Kong, Swede Gui Minhai who was kidnapped in Thailand, Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, or American basketball player Jeff Harper, among others, they were all quickly placed into the RSDL system. With a more aggressive communist China—more willing to detain foreign citizens to get what it wants—every indicator points toward foreigners becoming a more common target for RSDL. Members of the pro-democracy Civic Party carry a portrait of Gui Minhai (L) and Lee Bo during a protest outside the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong Worse yet, according to Harth, is “the deafening silence from Western governments about the system and its rapid expansion. … The complete lack of any political cost imposed on the Chinese Communist Party for engaging in what is clearly yet another crime against humanity sends a clear-cut message to other authoritarian governments, especially in Southeast and Central Asia” and “who study China’s methods to silence dissent,” that may adopt similar “legalized” forms of disappearances. Even though disappearances never went away, since its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, it has become an anomaly and was used mostly on an ad-hoc basis, as it had become a crime, like torture, considered so heinous that even the worst dictatorships at least pretended to not engage in it. With China’s “legalization” of disappearances and normalizing it by expanding its use to mass scale, the international human rights system stands before yet another challenge: how to fight back against such normalization. “How many other countries can adopt similar systems until the norm is broken?” said Caster. “Will we see it spreading to other parts of the world, moving from authoritarian to authoritarian-leaning or ‘illiberal democracies'”? There is far more at stake here than “merely” the abusive treatment of Chinese human rights activists. With stronger pressure from the central government to maintain stability, lawyer Wang Quanzhang believes local governments are encouraged to use any means necessary, and RSDL is an easy, yet very powerful tool for just that purpose. It took a long time and ever-mounting criticism to get the CCP to abolish the reeducation through labor system. But it may take a lot more to get the CCP to abolish the RSDL system. Until then, RSDL will continue to expand. It will be used to destroy Chinese civil society and, sooner or later, start spreading beyond China’s own borders. * * * Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned.
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Perception Vs. Reality http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/perception-vs-reality/ If you only get your news from the mainstream media, you would be tempted to believe that global conditions are relatively stable right now. Yes, there is a war between Russia and Ukraine, but the mainstream media is assuring us that Ukraine is winning that war. Other than that, the mainstream media seems to think that everything is just fine. Of course the truth is that our planet is facing a whole host of extremely challenging problems at the moment. The UN has warned that we are entering the worst global food crisis since World War II, inflation has started to spiral out of control all over the world, the war in Ukraine is making our supply chain nightmares even worse and an absolutely horrifying bird flu plague is killing millions upon millions of chickens and turkeys. But if you flip on one of the corporate news channels tonight, they will be focusing on other things. And you probably won’t even hear them talk about the food riots that have suddenly begun erupting around the world at all. For example, a “curfew” has just been imposed on the capital of Peru after a series of extremely passionate protests that were sparked by rapidly rising fuel and food prices… Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced a curfew for Tuesday in the capital Lima and neighboring port city Callao, after demonstrations across the country over fuel prices caused roadblocks and “acts of violence”. Protests had erupted across Peru in recent days due to a hike in fuel prices and tolls, during a time of rising food prices. Is this the first time that you have heard about this? For many of you it will be, and that is because the mainstream media in the U.S. is largely ignoring this. In Sri Lanka, severe shortages of “food, medicine and fuel” have caused a full-blown economic collapse and tremendous chaos in the streets… In Sri Lanka, where an economic crisis is growing, more than 40 lawmakers walked out of the ruling coalition today. That leaves the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the minority in Parliament. There have been new calls today for both the president and prime minister to step down after the entire Cabinet resigned on Sunday. Shortages of food, medicine and fuel have sparked countrywide protests, and security forces have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters marching on the president’s home. Most of you have probably not heard about that either, and that is because our largest news outlets are being really quiet about it. But USA Today wants to make sure that you know about a new promotion that McDonald’s is running: “McDonald’s brings back Spicy Chicken McNuggets to select restaurants for a limited time”. More than ever before, our perception of the world around us is shaped by the corporate elite. Americans get more than 90 percent of the “television news” that they consume from just five giant media corporations, and so that gives those corporations an incredible amount of influence over how our society views reality. For example, far more Americans are talking about “the slap” at the Academy Awards than about the fact that North Korea just threatened South Korea with nuclear war… North Korea opposes war but would use nuclear weapons if South Korea attacked, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday, in a warning that analysts said is probably aimed at the South’s incoming conservative president. Kim Yo Jong, a senior official in the government and ruling party, said it was a “very big mistake” for South Korea’s minister of defence to make recent remarks discussing attacks on the North, state news agency KCNA reported. The war in Ukraine is not going to be the last war that erupts. I believe that China is very strongly considering an invasion of Taiwan in the not too distant future, and a major war between Israel and Iran could literally start at any time. But instead of alarming the American people about such things, CNN wants you to know that Coke has a brand new flavor: “Coke’s latest flavor is here. And it’s a weird one”. I suppose that we should be thankful to CNN, because I probably never would have heard about that new flavor unless they ran that story. Meanwhile, the number of poultry flocks in Minnesota that have been hit by the new bird flu pandemic just doubled… The Minnesota Board of Animal Health on Tuesday reported the latest outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the state is now affecting a total of 15 poultry flocks — up from seven last Friday. Minnesota is the number one state for turkey production, and so this is a really big deal. Overall, the national death toll just continues to climb. The first case at a commercial facility in the United States was confirmed less than two months ago, and now the death toll has risen to nearly 28 million… The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million egg-laying chickens, 1.8 million broiler chickens, 1.9 million pullet and other commercial chickens, and 1.9 million turkeys. Will MSNBC lead with this story tonight? Of course not. But I did find the following story on MSNBC’s homepage earlier today: “Garlic cloves up your nose? What to know about the health trends taking TikTok by storm”. What a bunch of nonsense. I am so grateful for the alternative media, because they often cover stories that the mainstream media never talks about. For example, our friends at Zero Hedge have informed us that the price of jet fuel in New York has risen “more than 162% since mid-March”… Wholesale jet fuel prices in New York have risen more than 162% since mid-March, as buyers at some of the world’s busiest airports, located on the US East Coast, anticipate dwindling supplies as Western sanctions shun Russian energy exports. On Monday, jet fuel prices jumped 93 cents to $7.61 a gallon, a new record high, according to Bloomberg data going back to 1988. That is crazy. We are seeing so much inflation all throughout the system right now. A few hours ago, I came across a post by a supermarket employee on a very popular Internet forum that really got my attention. According to this employee, workers at this particular store were given 52 pages of price changes just this week… Tyson Chicken strip jumped up $3 Eggs went up to $3.50 they were 2.25 32 pack of water went to $5.50 originally 3.75 There was 35 pages of price changes on the dry side and 17 pages in freezer and cooler they are planning to have that many pages or more next week also A trip to the grocery store is going to become very, very painful in the months ahead. But just be thankful that you don’t live in one of the poorest countries on the planet. At this point, even Vladimir Putin is telling us that the food shortages that we are now witnessing are going to get even worse… Putin said higher energy prices and fertilizer shortages would mean Western nations would have to print more money to buy supplies, which would cause food shortages in poorer countries. “They will inevitably exacerbate food shortages in the poorest regions of the world, spur new waves of migration, and, in general, drive food prices even higher,” Putin said in a meeting on developing food production, Reuters reported. A full-blown global meltdown has now begun, and it is going to go to an entirely new level in the months ahead. But the mainstream media will try to distract you with stories about Will Smith, Kourtney Kardashian and other celebrities for as long as they can. Personally, I don’t really care that Kourtney Kardashian just married Travis Barker in Las Vegas. What I do care about is the fact that our society is coming apart at the seams all around us. The news that you get from the corporate media has been carefully designed to promote certain narratives, and these days much of it is wildly inaccurate. But most of the population will continue to blindly believe whatever they are told to believe by our “professional journalists”, and that is extremely unfortunate.
When powers diss and disinfo free speech, it's time to dispense with them... Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian: More Freedom Is Tyranny https://jonathanturley.org/2022/04/13/187265/ https://jonathanturley.org/2022/04/11/the-reeducation-of-america-former-pres... https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/02/the-case-for-internet-originalism/ https://jonathanturley.org/2020/05/04/china-was-right-academics-and-democrat... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/12/elon-musk-internet-twi... We recently discussed the gathering of Democratic politicians and media figures at the University of Chicago to discuss how to better shape news, combat “disinformation,” and reeducate those with conservative views. The political and media elite shared ideas on how to expand censorship and control what people read or viewed in the news. The same figures are now alarmed that Elon Musk could gain greater influence over Twitter and, perish the thought, restore free speech protections to the site. The latest is former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich, who wrote a perfectly Orwellian column in the Guardian titled “Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense.” However, the column offers an insight into the anti-free speech mentality that has taken hold of the Democratic party and the mainstream media. Musk is an advocate for free speech on the Internet. Like some of us, he is an Internet originalist. That makes him an existential threat for those who have long used “disinformation” as an excuse to silence dissenting views in the media and on social media. Reich lays that agenda bare in his column. Reich explains that it is not about freedom but tyranny. More free speech means less freedom. It is the type of argument commonly used in China and other authoritarian nations–and an increasing number of American academics and writers. Indeed, his column is reminiscent of the professors who have called for the adoption of the Chinese model for censoring views on the Internet. In an article published in The Atlantic by Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona law professor Andrew Keane Woods called for Chinese-style censorship of the internet, stating that “in the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong.” Reich tells people not to be lured by freedom of speech: “Musk says he wants to ‘free’ the internet. But what he really aims to do is make it even less accountable than it is now.” What Reich refers to as “accountability” is being accountable to those like himself who can filter out views and writings that are deemed harmful for readers. Reich then goes full Orwellian: “Musk advocates free speech but in reality it’s just about power. Power compelled Musk to buy $2.64bn of Twitter stock, making him the largest individual shareholder.” Reich insists that censorship of views like former President Donald Trump are “necessary to protect American democracy.” Get it? Less freedom is more freedom. The column gets increasingly bizarre as Reich cites the fact that Musk has continued to express banned thoughts as proof that he is a menace: “Billionaires like Musk have shown time and again they consider themselves above the law. And to a large extent, they are. Musk has enough wealth that legal penalties are no more than slaps on his wrist, and enough power to control one of the most important ways the public now receives news. Think about it: after years of posting tweets that skirt the law, Musk was given a seat on Twitter’s board (and is probably now negotiating for even more clout).” Reich then delivers his terrifying warning: “That’s Musk’s dream. And Trump’s. And Putin’s. And the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth. For the rest of us, it would be a brave new nightmare.” That nightmare, of course, is free speech. It is a nightmare that people like Reich and those at the “Disinformation conference” will lose control over media and social media. Imagine a site where people are largely free to express themselves without supervision or approval. What a nightmare. [Warning foul language and full irony]
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512886157876600833 Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/04/05/trust-m... In world of Democrat fake news disinfo lies censorship manufactured narratives hoaxes frauds thefts and bias, apparently only Weather and WallStreet are remotely trustable, next comes FoxNews Newsmax OneAmericaNews Breitbart as the only set truthful enough to flip cross side of the avg adult, sunshine thus pissing off the Democrats, then all the rest last as nothing but Democrat pomp. Note the greater avg blowout distance from avg into crazyland belongs to the Democrats. Data is beautiful. Unfortunately no alternative media were surveyed.
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MSNBC Blast From The Past: It's Our Job To Control How People Think... Not Elon Musk's https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1515105781560971266 While it is obvious to many why the mainstream media - and all things leaning left - are so utterly incensed at the richest man in the world's decision to offer to buy Twitter, a brief blast from the MSNBC past serves as an important reminder of just how the media and their overlords see their roles in modern society. As hours of coverage and an avalanche of op-eds are unleashed to explain to the masses why they should grab their pitchforks as Elon Musk offers to buy a social media platform at a significant premium for shareholders, this brief MSNBC clip from 2017 perfectly summarizes where the real panic lies. None other than MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Mika Brzezinski said the following words in her out-loud voice... "The dangerous edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts, and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsen, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think..." And then the nail in the 'oops, I just told the truth coffin': "...and that is our job." To which the effervescent Joe Scarborough replies: "Yeah". Watch the full clip here: “Elon is trying to control how people think. That is our job”. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/NywLXXu8hz — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 15, 2022 And in case you thought perhaps her mind had changed over the years and she had realized the error of her gaslighting ways, on Friday's 'Morning Joe', Brezinski doubled-down, sounding the alarm over Twitter’s possible management shakeup, calling a hypothetical Elon Musk takeover a "very dangerous precedent" for America. "...are there any ways to stop him if he wants to buy Twitter? Are there any guardrails around something like this? Because this could be a very dangerous precedent," "He does not believe in the consequences of words," added Brezinki's guest, who had written earlier that "Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter represents a chilling new threat: billionaire trolls taking over social media." So there you have it folks... be afraid, very afraid of being able to think for yourself!!
"It's Our Job To Control How People Think -- MSNBC" https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1515105781560971266
Google Rolls Out Feature That Corrects You With Woke 'Inclusive' Language https://summit.news/2022/04/25/report-google-rolls-out-feature-that-corrects... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/23/big-brother-sorry-big-person-cor... Google’s document editor will begin to correct the language of what people type to be more ‘inclusive’, according to a report in the Telegraph. The article, headlined Big Brother (sorry, Big Person) is correcting you on Google, outlines how the company is to implement ‘inclusive warnings’ on Google Docs, suggesting that users refrain from using terms such as ‘policeman’ or ‘landlord’, because they are gendered. The warnings will alert users that what they have typed “may not be inclusive to all readers,” while suggesting users should “Consider using different words,” offering woke corrections like ‘police officer’ or ‘property owner’. The report notes, however, that even technical terms like ‘motherboard’ fall prey to Google’s woke correction. When Googling John F. Kennedy’s inauguration speech, Google suggests that it should be corrected to ‘for all humankind’ instead of ‘for all mankind’. Critics hit out at Google attempting to police and change language, with Silkie Carlo, the director of rights group Big Brother Watch, calling it “deeply intrusive.” “With Google’s new assistive writing tool, the company is not only reading every word you type but telling you what to type,” she noted. “This speech-policing is profoundly clumsy, creepy and wrong, often reinforcing bias. Invasive tech like this undermines privacy, freedom of expression and increasingly freedom of thought,” Carlo added. Lazar Radic, a senior scholar in economic policy at the International Centre for Law and Economics, noted that “Not only is this incredibly conceited and patronising – it can also serve to stifle individuality, self-expression, experimentation, and – from a purely utilitarian perspective – progress.” Radic explained, “What if ‘landlord’ is the better choice because it makes more sense, narratively, in a novel? What if ‘house owner’ sounds wooden and fails to invoke the same sense of poignancy? What if the defendant really was a ‘housewife’ – and refers to herself as such? Should all written pieces – including written forms of art, such as novels, lyrics, and poetry – follow the same, boring template?” The feature on Google Docs, which could easily be shifted over to its search engine, is now on by default for what the company has termed ‘enterprise-level users’. Google has stated that “Assisted writing uses language understanding models, which rely on millions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn how people communicate. This also means they can reflect some human cognitive biases.” So here we have Google literally taking on the role of the Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984, policing language and making sure that its Newspeak is implemented whenever necessary. That novel was a dystopian warning, not an instructional manual.
China, now Nigeria, Canada, Netherlands... Wake the fuck up... you're next... Fight Back!!! NIGERIA- 73 million citizens have had their mobile phones blocked by the government, as punishment for failing to register on the National Digital Identity database. That’s almost 1/3 of the country! Total state control. For your own safety. The Canadian government is listed as a partner on the WEF’s own “Known Traveller Digital Identity” website. “The pilot group, convened by the World Economic Forum, consists of the Government of Canada and the Netherlands, Air Canada, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, MTL Trudeau…
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You won't believe what's coming for you and your low social credit score next if you don't wake up and fight back right fucking now, lol... Shanghai Residents "Caged In" With Green Fencing To Prevent Them From Leaving Their Homes https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chinese-police-build-cages-around-2... In continuing with China's completely rational and totally not suspect "Covid Zero" policy, reports are now coming in that Chinese authorities are building "cages" around some homes. This week, people living in Shanghai woke up to "green fences that had been installed by authorities overnight to restrict people's movement," according to a new report by The Mirror. People with fences around their homes are not permitted to leave their properties, the report says. Shanghai has had its 25 million citizens on lockdown for weeks due to a spike in Covid cases in the country. 39 people in the city died of Covid on Sunday, April 24, when the lockdowns began in full force. Photographs of the green fencing being used to keep people in are making their rounds on social media. Meanwhile, citizens in Shanghai are already protesting and rebelling against the latest tranche of Covid lockdowns. The Mirror writes that people are "shocked" by the latest step of putting up fencing. Residents had no clue the measures would be taken until they woke up one day to see it. One foreign national told The Mirror that green fencing "popped up" a couple days ago and that the main gain to his complex was "chained up" three weeks ago. The foreign national said: "There is a long corridor in our compound, and within the long corridor they put up another green fence three days ago. No one told us the reason it was installed." "No one can get out. I feel helpless. You don't know when the lockdown is going to end. If your area gets fenced off, what if a fire breaks out? I don't think anyone in their right mind can seal people's homes." One Twitter user, a documentary filmmaker from China, wrote: “We all have heard stories of residents and even entire buildings refusing to go outside for mass testing. Some are fatigued, others fear that being together brings infection risks." "“Some think sealed-off entrances like this are to separate these folks. The hope being that other residents of a community would not be punished for the lack of co-operation from a few. This might be wishful thinking," they continued.
You know you're fucked when they attempt to rewrite Orwell's 1984 itself, among other things like stupidly wokifying Disney and actual science textbooks... UK Streaming Platform Censors 'Homophobic' Line In 2002 Spiderman Movie https://summit.news/2020/06/10/hbo-removes-gone-with-the-wind-erasing-first-... https://summit.news/2020/06/19/sky-tags-numerous-movies-with-political-corre... https://summit.news/2021/03/30/nbc-scanning-17000-hours-of-wwe-content-to-lo... UK streaming platform ITV Player has censored a “homophobic” line from the 2002 Spiderman movie, in yet another example of older content being run through modern politically correct purity tests. The line occurs when Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman is facing off against Bonesaw. Spiderman says, “That’s a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you?” In the newly censored version, the line is reduced to, “That’s a cute outfit,” rendering the scene confusing and meaningless. “They removed Peter Parker’s homophobia,” wrote one Twitter user who noticed the change and recorded it. THEY REMOVED PETER PARKER'S HOMOPHOBIA pic.twitter.com/QmbFabVpc7 — PaperPlane (@PaperPlaneTF) April 23, 2022 The original clip can be seen below. This is just the latest example of cultural censors memory-holing historical content in order to conform to today’s hysterical standards of political correctness. During the height of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, UK broadcaster Sky also tagged numerous movies, some little over a decade old, with a message warning viewers that they might be offensive. “This film has outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions which may cause offence today,” stated the trigger warning. During the same year, PBS removed Gone With the Wind from its platform, in the process erasing the first black female actress to win an Oscar, while the BBC also announced it was removing Little Britain from its schedule despite the fact that the TV comedy series satirizes every demographic, often highlighting small minded attitudes of bigots. Last year, NBC also announced that it was scanning 17,000 hours of past WWE content to weed out “racist” material in order to avoid it appearing on the network’s new Peacock streaming device. Iconic books are also being re-written to reflect ‘modern attitudes’, including George Orwell’s 1984. Ideological purity tests for art and culture. The Ministry of Truth would be proud.
World not in Kansas anymore, Liberty purged from all its living places. Wake up, it's time to create those places again. "Toto, I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore" https://internationalman.com/articles/toto-i-dont-think-were-in-kansas-anymo... https://internationalman.com/special-report/guide-to-surviving-and-thriving-... Recently, an American colleague commented to me, “We no longer live in a democracy but a dictatorship disguised as a democracy.” Is he correct? Well, a dictatorship may be defined as “a form of government in which absolute authority is exercised by a dictator.” The US today is not be ruled by dictatorship (although, to some, it may well feel that way.) But, if that’s the case, what form of rule does exist in the US? At its formation, the founding fathers argued over whether the United States should be a republic or a democracy. Those founders who later formed the Federalist Party felt that it should be a democracy – rule by representatives elected by the people. Thomas Jefferson, who created the Democratic Republican Party, argued that it should be a republic – a state in which the method of governance is democracy, but the principle of governance is that the rights of the individual are paramount. He argued that, “Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty one percent can vote away the rights of the other forty nine.” At that time, Benjamin Franklin has been credited as saying, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.” Very well stated. As Americans still legally vote, and it may well be that the voting is not altogether rigged, the US could be regarded as a democracy. Of course, to be accurate, it could also be defined as a bureaucracy – rule by officialdom, and/or a plutocracy – rule by the very rich. Both of these descriptions are undeniably accurate. Another question that’s hotly debated is what sort of “ism” the US is living under. There’s a visible trend in new candidates to openly promote socialism. Historically, socialism has always been an excellent way to gain votes, as the socialist promises largesse to the average man that government will provide by robbing the rich. Not surprisingly, the average voter would find this prospect very attractive. Socialist candidates in the US today base their argument for socialism on the premise that “capitalism has failed,” and that premise is providing them with great headway. They claim that prosperity for the American people is almost non-existent; that the middle class is shrinking and the small upper class is growing ever-richer. These claims are undeniably true… but not because capitalism has failed. Vladimir Lenin stated that “Fascism is capitalism in decay.” He was quite correct. Fascism is a slow cancer that eats away at an economy. It transfers wealth to the largest, most politically influential corporations. Yet, the concept of fascism is greatly misunderstood today. Most anyone who decries fascism will describe symptoms such as jackboots and swastikas, but fail to offer an actual definition. For a definition, we might ask Benito Mussolini, the father of national fascism. He stated, “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” By defining the term, we can conclude that the US is no longer a capitalist country and hasn't been one for a long time. The US began its slide into fascism in a major way around the time that income tax and the Federal Reserve were created – in 1913. These measures were the brainchild of the largest bankers of the day and the Fed still remains under the power of the major banks. Over the last century, the Deep State, which is corporatist in origin, has grown and has done a first rate job of introducing a combination of socialism and fascism, a bit at a time. This has slowly destroyed the economy, education and the national moral compass, not to mention achieving the utter corruption of the political system. By contrast, capitalism is a free-market system, in which the economy, unfettered by the interference of governments, finds its own level at any given time. It fluctuates naturally, based upon supply and demand, each correcting the other with regularity. But government edicts operate with force and permanence, constricting the natural flow of money, goods and services. Over time, regulations pile on top of regulations until the system becomes dysfunctional. Socialism, by its very nature, is a central restrictive force on the free market. Its logical conclusion is very visible in Venezuela today, where government regulation has produced such a stranglehold on the economy that it’s broken down in every way, resulting in dire poverty and even starvation. But, as stated above, in the US, the Deep State has been thorough in its presentation of the US economy as a capitalist economy. In doing so, they’ve provided the encouragement of full socialism in the political realm. In the near future, the economy will begin to collapse under the weight of growing fascism and socialism. However, the blame will be laid at the feet of capitalism. In my belief, the majority of Americans will be fooled into thinking that capitalism is the problem and that socialism will save the day. During the coming financial crisis, they'll dive in with both feet. Voters, even many of those who are moderate, will support socialist candidates. The first national election that occurs after the crisis has begun will result in an overwhelming victory for socialist and other leftist candidates. The next president will provide a plethora of socialist “solutions” to counter “the damage done by capitalism.” But such a prediction does not require a crystal ball. This has happened many times before. The Athenian Republic ran into the same problem. The Roman Republic also deteriorated in this manner. As stated by Aristotle, “Republics decline into democracies and democracies decline into despotisms.” Quite so. It’s a natural progression. And so, it shouldn’t be surprising if the more imaginative American were to observe, worriedly, “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” He would most certainly be correct. Like the flag in the image above, the founding principles have been turned upside down and the rights of Americans have been shredded. “America,” as a concept, no longer exists in the USA. Its vestiges remain, but soon, they too will be on the way out. Liberty always exists somewhere in the world, but it does tend to change location from time to time. Perhaps a final quote from late eighteenth century America would be of benefit – one from Thomas Paine. “My country is wherever liberty lives."
USA not in Kansas anymore, Liberty purged from all its living places. Wake up, it's time to create those places again.
The Illusion Of Freedom: We're Only As Free As The Government Allows https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/supreme... https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/supreme... https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/the_rig... “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government … doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety… It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing. Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.” - George Carlin We’re in a national state of denial. For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy just enough freedom to think we are free but not enough to actually allow us to live as a free people. Case in point: on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined to favor a high school football coach’s right to pray on the field after a game, the high court let stand a lower court ruling that allows police to warrantlessly track people’s location and movements through their personal cell phones, sweeping Americans up into a massive digital data dragnet that does not distinguish between those who are innocent of wrongdoing, suspects, or criminals. Likewise, although the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for a death row inmate to have his pastor audibly pray and lay hands on him in the execution chamber, it refused to stop police from using hidden cameras to secretly and warrantlessly record and monitor a person’s activities outside their home over an extended period of time. For those who have been paying attention, there’s a curious pattern emerging: the government appears reasonably tolerant of those who want to exercise their First Amendment rights in a manner that doesn’t challenge the police state’s hold on power, for example, by praying on a football field or in an execution chamber. On the other hand, dare to disagree with the government about its war crimes, COVID-19, election outcomes or police brutality, and you’ll find yourself silenced, cited, shut down and/or branded an extremist. The U.S. government is particularly intolerant of speech that reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices. For instance, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the latest victim of the government’s war on dissidents and whistleblowers, is in the process of being extradited to the U.S. to be tried under the Espionage Act for daring to access and disclose military documents that portray the U.S. government and its endless wars abroad as reckless, irresponsible, immoral and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths. Even political protests are fair game for prosecution. In Florida, two protesters are being fined $3000 for political signs proclaiming stating “F—k Biden,” “F—k Trump,” and “F—k Policing 4 Profit” that violate a city ban on “indecent” speech on signs, clothing and other graphic displays. The trade-off is clear: pray all you want, but don’t mess with the U.S. government. In this way, the government, having appointed itself a Supreme and Sovereign Ruler, allows us to bask in the illusion of religious freedom while stripping us of every other freedom afforded by the Constitution. We’re in trouble, folks. Freedom no longer means what it once did. This holds true whether you’re talking about the right to criticize the government in word or deed, the right to be free from government surveillance, the right to not have your person or your property subjected to warrantless searches by government agents, the right to due process, the right to be safe from militarized police invading your home, the right to be innocent until proven guilty and every other right that once reinforced the founders’ belief that this would be “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Not only do we no longer have dominion over our bodies, our families, our property and our lives, but the government continues to chip away at what few rights we still have to speak freely and think for ourselves. My friends, we’re being played for fools. On paper, we may be technically free. In reality, however, we are only as free as a government official may allow. We only think we live in a constitutional republic, governed by just laws created for our benefit. Truth be told, we live in a dictatorship disguised as a democracy where all that we own, all that we earn, all that we say and do—our very lives—depends on the benevolence of government agents and corporate shareholders for whom profit and power will always trump principle. And now the government is litigating and legislating its way into a new framework where the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the inalienable rights of the citizenry. With every court ruling that allows the government to operate above the rule of law, every piece of legislation that limits our freedoms, and every act of government wrongdoing that goes unpunished, we’re slowly being conditioned to a society in which we have little real control over our lives. As Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone and an insightful commentator on human nature, once observed, “We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.” Indeed, not only are we developing a new citizenry incapable of thinking for themselves, we’re also instilling in them a complete and utter reliance on the government and its corporate partners to do everything for them—tell them what to eat, what to wear, how to think, what to believe, how long to sleep, who to vote for, whom to associate with, and on and on. In this way, we have created a welfare state, a nanny state, a police state, a surveillance state, an electronic concentration camp—call it what you will, the meaning is the same: in our quest for less personal responsibility, a greater sense of security, and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations, we have created a society in which we have no true freedom. Government surveillance, police abuse, SWAT team raids, economic instability, asset forfeiture schemes, pork barrel legislation, militarized police, drones, endless wars, private prisons, involuntary detentions, biometrics databases, free speech zones, etc.: these are mile markers on the road to a fascist state where citizens are treated like cattle, to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse. Freedom, or what’s left of it, is being threatened from every direction. The threats are of many kinds: political, cultural, educational, media, and psychological. However, as history shows us, freedom is not, on the whole, wrested from a citizenry. It is all too often given over voluntarily and for such a cheap price: safety, security, bread, and circuses. This is part and parcel of the propaganda churned out by the government machine. That said, what we face today—mind manipulation and systemic violence—is not new. What is different are the techniques used and the large-scale control of mass humanity, coercive police tactics and pervasive surveillance. We are overdue for a systemic check on the government’s overreaches and power grabs. By “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law. For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry. We have lingered too long in this strange twilight zone where ego trumps justice, propaganda perverts truth, and imperial presidents—empowered to indulge their authoritarian tendencies by legalistic courts, corrupt legislatures and a disinterested, distracted populace—rule by fiat rather than by the rule of law. Where we find ourselves now is in the unenviable position of needing to rein in all three branches of government—the Executive, the Judicial, and the Legislative—that have exceeded their authority and grown drunk on power. We are the unwitting victims of a system so corrupt that those who stand up for the rule of law and aspire to transparency in government are in the minority. This corruption is so vast it spans all branches of government: from the power-hungry agencies under the executive branch and the corporate puppets within the legislative branch to a judiciary that is, more often than not, elitist and biased towards government entities and corporations. The predators of the police state are wreaking havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. The government doesn’t listen to the citizenry, it refuses to abide by the Constitution, which is our rule of law, and it treats the citizenry as a source of funding and little else. The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) has sucked the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere. This dissolution of that sacred covenant between the citizenry and the government—establishing “we the people” as the masters and the government as the servant—didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t happen because of one particular incident or one particular president. It is a process, one that began long ago and continues in the present day, aided and abetted by politicians who have mastered the polarizing art of how to “divide and conquer.” Unfortunately, there is no magic spell to transport us back to a place and time where “we the people” weren’t merely fodder for a corporate gristmill, operated by government hired hands, whose priorities are money and power. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, our freedoms have become casualties in an all-out war on the American people. If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end.
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The Illusion Of Freedom: We're Only As Free As The Government Allows
From discussion at the public committee meetings we attended, it seemed clear that legislators didn’t like the REAL-ID Act or want Alaska to comply. They didn’t like it that the Alaska DMV had taken matters into its own hands by sending information about all Alaskan drivers and ID card-holders to a private database that’s stored outside Alaska and outside the jurisdiction of any government
Did anyone wake up yet? How much more you need till you rise up? Until then it will only get worse for you. Papers, Please! The Identity Project About Education Litigation Action Contact Apr 19 2022 Photography and recording at US border crossings Inquiring minds at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) want to know if officers or agents of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or other components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have tried to stop you from taking photographs, filming, or recording publicly-visible scenes and events at US land border crossing points. As we’ve noted many times in this blog, and as as has been established in court cases in which we have participated, you have the right to photograph and record Transportation Security Administration staff and contractors at TSA checkpoints at airports. We haven’t talked about land “ports of entry” as much as airports, but you also have the right to photograph and record at land border crossings, at least if you do so from places accessible to members of the public who aren’t crossing the border. (We don’t mean to suggest that you don’t also have the right to record or livestream what happens to you as you cross the border. We think you do, but that hasn’t yet been litigated as extensively.) Read on for more about the state of the law, what you can do to reduce the chances that your right to photograph and record near borders will be violated, and what to do if it is. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Freedom To Travel 1 Comment Apr 12 2022 Facial recognition signage at new Sea-Tac terminal flunks legal test For several years the Identity Project has been engaging with the Port of Seattle over its expansion of automated facial recognition to track travelers at Sea-Tac Airport. Today we made yet another (virtual) visit to the Port of Seattle Commission to give the following comments (PDF) on the latest test of the new International Arrivals facility at Sea-Tac, scheduled to open next week: Comments of the Identity Project to the Port of Seattle Commission for the Commission meeting of April 12, 2022, re: signage for travelers about the collection of facial images at the International Arrivals Facility at Sea-Tac Airport Members of the Port of Seattle Commission: The Identity Project (PapersPlease.org) is a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization with expertise in identity-based surveillance and control of travelers. We are submitting these comments to call to your attention the failure of both the Port of Seattle and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to provide notice to travelers of CBP’s collection of facial images (“biometrics”) at the new International Arrivals Facility (IAF) at Sea-Tac International Airport, as required both by Federal law and by the policies on use of biometrics adopted by the Port Commission. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Biometrics 2 Comments Apr 08 2022 Amtrak gave train reservations to the TSA for a profiling test [“Secure Flight” process flow used by the TSA for airline passengers and being tested on Amtrak passengers. The red box at right center is the “black box” for algorithmic profiling, blacklist/blocklist enforcement, and fly/no-fly decision making.] Amtrak has reportedly given the Transportation Security Administration several months of archives of Amtrak passenger reservations and frequent rider profiles. At Amtrak’s request, the TSA has used these records to test the TSA’s ability to extend to Amtrak passengers the ID-based profiling and blacklisting algorithms the TSA already applies to air travelers. If you aren’t allowed to travel by air, the right to travel by train is critical. And while all common carriers have an obligation to transport all would-be passengers, Amtrak as a government agency should be most strictly held to that obligation. The plans to run a batch of historical Amtrak reservations through the TSA’s “threat assessment” black box were disclosed in a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) quietly posted on the Department of Homeland Security website last December, and first noted in a news report by Mark Albert of Hearst Television earlier this week. The PIA posted by the TSA in December 2021 said that Amtrak would give notice of the batch transfer of reservation archives to the TSA through an update to Amtrak’s privacy policy. That policy was last updated in November 2021, and doesn’t mention data sharing with the TSA. But a follow-up report today by Hearst Television quotes the TSA as saying that, “The collection of data and analysis has already occurred,” without the promised notice in Amtrak’s privacy policy. What will this TSA’s test of Amtrak passenger profiling reveal? Of course some of the people who aren’t allowed to travel by air travel by train or bus instead. Amtrak and Greyhound are the long-distance carriers of last resort for undocumented and blacklisted travelers. So it’s to be expected that the TSA will find a disproportionate percentage of the people it has blacklisted from air travel on Amtrak passenger manifests. Even more people will be forced to take Amtrak or Greyhound instead of flying if the TSA — as it has threatened — starts preventing people from flying if they don’t have, or don’t show, any ID, or ID the TSA deems to be compliant ID with the REAL-ID Act. Does this mean that would-be terrorists are riding Amtrak trains? No. It means only that people blacklisted from air travel are riding trains. So far as we know, there have been no terrorist attacks on Amtrak trains. The false positives generated by the TSA’s “threat assessment” algorithms and precogs are evidence of what’s wrong with predictive profiling and why the right to travel by common carrier is so important. The TSA and DHS have long wanted to extend their prior restraint of travel from airline passengers to all modes of travel including trains and buses, but have lacked any legal basis to do so. Amtrak’s sharing of reservation data with the DHS, even for passengers on international trains, has been represented as a “voluntary” action by Amtrak. In the absence of any notice from Amtrak, it’s unclear what Amtrak claims as the legal basis for the recent “test” of TSA profiling of passengers on domestic Amtrak trains. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Buses & Trains, Freedom To Travel, Secret Law Leave a comment Mar 29 2022 Asylum Requires Traveling to a Border The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new interim rules today for the adjudication of asylum and other claims by a new class of “asylum officers” at US ports of entry, borders crossings, and airports. These new rules won’t help most asylum seekers. Did you ever wonder why desperate asylum seekers often travel on overcrowded and leaky boats or try to trek across waterless deserts, and regularly lose their lives? It’s not because migrants can’t afford plane tickets. It’s because the government at their destination won’t let them buy a plane ticket or board a flight to a place of safety! International treaties and US law only allow migrants to make asylum claims after they reach a destination country. You can’t apply for asylum in advance, the way you apply for a visa. You have to show up at the border or arrive at a destination airport before you can beg for asylum. And the US and the European Union work hard to prevent migrants from ever reaching a US or EU border or airport where they might make such a plea. That’s why most migrants’ asylum claims are never “adjudicated”. Instead, they are denied before they get on a plane, by airline staff who have no training or competence to act as asylum judges. Most migrants never even try to travel by airline to a place where they could present their asylum claim, because they know that they will be turned away at the ticket counter or boarding gate. That’s why they end up trying to reach places of sanctuary by “irregular” means of transport, and drowning or dying of thirst in the desert. Airlines should be helping migrants. Airlines have a legal obligation as common carriers to transport all would-be passengers. They have a financial interest in selling tickets to those passengers. But the US undermines international human rights and aviation treaties by imposing draconian “carrier sanctions” (currently $3,000 per passenger) on any airline that transports any person to the US who is denied asylum on arrival, or denied entry for any other reason. Many European countries do the same. Airlines claim that they are denying passage to migrants because they “lack the required documents” for their desired destination in the US or elsewhere. But under international and US law, asylum seekers are not required to have or produce any specific documents in order to have valid asylum claims. There’s no such thing as an “asylum visa”. The migrant who arrives with just the clothes on their back and no documents often has a stronger claim to asylum than the one who brings passports, visas and other paperwork. In 1939, officials in the US and Canada denied the passengers on the S.S. St. Louis “permission” to disembark, fating them to be returned to Europe where many were murdered by the Nazis. In recent years, US administrations have pursued policies designed to keep refugees from reaching US shores. These polices are designed to undermine the right to asylum. What the large print of international humanitarian law offers, the small print of “carrier sanctions” takes away. It is, by definition, impossible for an asylum seeker to submit their claim or have it adjudicated before they reach the US. It is equally impossible for an airline, a “preclearance officer”, or anyone else to anticipate, before an asylum claim has been made, whether it will be granted. So to save the airline a possible “administrative fine” of $3,000 per passenger, airlines simply deny passage to all such people. America didn’t use to be like this. People fleeing persecution in the Ukraine under Tsarist Russian rule could get to the US and apply, as long as they could reach a European port with enough money to pay for passage across the Atlantic. No passports or visas were required to buy a boat ticket and board a ship, nor were any required at Ellis Island. It shouldn’t be harder today to reach asylum than it was a century ago. If the US and European governments were serious about allowing Ukranian refugees to claim asylum, they would repeal these “carrier sanctions”, rather than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic by adding a new class of administrative law judges to process the few asylum claimants who do somehow arrive at the border. The rights of refugees and asylum seekers recognized in high-sounding treaties will become meaningful only when migrants have an actual right to travel to the border or arrival airport to make their claim. Passing the Freedom To Travel Act, now pending in Congress, or including its provisions in any asylum or immigration reform legislation, would be one way to restore that right. But a smaller change in the law to repeal the “carrier sanctions” against airlines that transport migrants would be a great start. Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Freedom To Travel 1 Comment Mar 17 2022 Alaska may end its compliance with the REAL-ID Act A bill introduced in the current session of the Alaska state legislature, HB 389, would end the issuance by the state of Alaska of driver’s licenses that comply with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005. In addition, HB 389 would give Alaska residents “the option of having the applicant’s driver’s license photograph captured with a camera that produces a photograph in a format or with a resolution that renders the image quality insufficient for facial recognition.” The bill would require that the state Department of Administration and its Division of Motor Vehicles “shall destroy or render unusable for facial recognition purposes any photograph captured as a result of an application for a driver’s license ,” and prohibit “bulk sharing of facial images captured a result of an application for a driver’s license.” HB 389 was introduced by Rep. David Eastman (R-Mat-Su) and is co-sponsored by Rep. Ronald Gilham (R-Kenai/Soldotna). We look forward to its consideration in the state legislature in Juneau, and to the opportunity to testify on this issue, as we did when the Alaska Legislature first debated whether to comply with the REAL-ID Act in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and again in 2017 when it reconsidered its initial choice not to comply. HB 389 reflects longstanding sentiment in Alaska against compliance with Federal mandates for ID credentials and sharing of personal information with “outside” entities. Even the highest official of the Transportation Security Administration in Alaska, the Federal Security Director for the state, has pointed out to his superiors in Washington that many Alaskans live off the road system and don’t need or have drivers licenses. They may be more likely to fly, and to need to fly, than to need to drive. They don’t want to have to show government-issued papers, which they might not have, in order to do so. In 2008, Alaska enacted a law that prohibited spending any state funds on implementation of the REAL-ID Act. Nine years later, though, the Alaska DMV defied the law by uploading information about every Alaskan with a driver’s license or state ID to the SPEXS national ID database that was created as a way for states to comply with the REAL-ID Act. That action by the DMV to move Alaska toward REAL-ID compliance was taken “without permission from the legislature,” as Rep. Chris Tuck, Majority Leader in the Alaska House of Representatives, noted in an op-ed published in newspapers throughout the state after the batch upload of Alaskan driver’s license data to SPECS became public. The batch upload took place just as the legislature was scheduled to again consider REAL-ID compliance, and appears to have been an executive and administrative effort to preempt legislative debate. Officials from the Alaska DMV and the U.S Department of Homeland Security claimed that REAL-ID “compliant” ID would soon be required in order to travel by air, but were unable to provide any basis for this false claim. At one of the legislative committee meeting in 2008, Rep. Tuck himself testified to his colleagues about how he had flown between Juneau and Anchorage with no ID at all when he accidentally left his wallet in his office. The Identity Project provided extensive testimony and FAQ’s fact-checking the claims being made by the DHS and the Alaska DMV in support of REAL-ID Act compliance. A week after we provided Alaska legislators with written testimony about the right to fly without ID, Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Chair of the State Affairs Committee, passed on a very similar set of questions to TSA officials in Alaska and in Washington, DC. More than a decade after the fact, when the TSA finally responded to one of our FOIA requests, we received copies of TSA internal e-mail messages discussing how to respond to Rep. Kreiss-Tomkins’ questions — but no indication of what, if any, answer was ever provided. At the end of the 2017 legislative session, however, Alaska legislators reversed their 2008 decision, and authorized the DMV to begin issuing driver’s licenses and ID cards that “comply” with the REAL-ID Act. transparency or oversight laws. But legislators felt powerless to stand up to threats — even illegal threats — from Federal officials. We welcome the opportunity provided by HB 389 for the Alaska legislature to reconsider its 2017 capitulation to Federal extortion, and reassert Alaskans’ freedom to travel without ID. Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Papers, Please, REAL ID 3 Comments Mar 15 2022 How many people fly without REAL-ID? [Slide from internal TSA presentation, Identity Verification Staffing Support Overview, March 2017, released in response to FOIA request by the Identity Project.] As of 2016, almost 2,000 people a day were allowed through TSA checkpoints at US airports either without showing any ID at all, or with other forms of ID that the TSA or its contractors initially considered “unacceptable”. According to an internal TSA presentation, there were 149,068 calls (an average of 407 per day) for “ID Verification” to the TSA’s ID Verification Call Center (IVCC) in 2016. The previous year, 2015, there were 112,016 such calls (an average of 306 per day). Each of these calls presumably corresponds to a person seeking to fly without ID, or with ID that was initially deemed unacceptable by checkpoint staff. These are just the people who were required to go through the TSA’s “ID verification” questioning for people with no ID. The TSA estimates — based on a smaller sample of incident reports for a 13-day period in February 2016 — that an additional 1575 people per day are allowed to fly with “other forms of” ID that are initially deemed unacceptable, for a total of just under 2,000 people per day who fly with no ID or unacceptable ID. These numbers are from records recently released by the Transportation Security Administration in response to one of our Freedom Of Information Act requests. This is a substantial increase from the most recent figures previously released by the TSA. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Papers, Please, REAL ID 4 Comments Feb 08 2022 Not another no-fly list In a letter first reported by Reuters and first published in full by The Points Guy, CEO Edward Bastian of Delta Air Lines has called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to “support our efforts with respect to… putting any person convicted of an on-board disruption on a national, comprehensive,… ‘no-fly’ list that would bar that person from traveling on any commercial air carrier.” The latest letter from Delta steps up a lobbying campaign the airline began last fall, and which remains as misguided as ever. The letter highlights the urgent need for Congress to enact the Freedom to Travel Act (H.R. 6030) to make clear the rights of travelers, the duties of airlines and other common carriers, and the limitations on when, by what authority, on what grounds, and according to what procedures the right to travel can be restricted. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Freedom To Travel 9 Comments Jan 30 2022 ID-Me-Not The IRS is reportedly reconsidering its previously-announced plan to require taxpayers to share facial images and other personal data with an unregulated private company, ID.me, in order to file tax returns online or access information about their filings, payments, and returns through the IRS website. The hesitation by the IRS comes after ID.me was caught lying about whether it uses “one to many” facial recognition to try to identify facial images against large databases of selfies or other mug shots. ID.me had falsely claimed that it only uses “1 to 1” matching to “verify” that a selfie matches previously stored images of a specific person. But the company has now admitted that’s incorrect. ID.me actually compares selfies submitted by taxpayers (or by hackers or identity thieves, who could easily copy a facial image from a targeted victim’s or their friend’s social media posts) to its own “internal” database of images of tens of millions of people aggregated from unknown sources. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Biometrics 3 Comments Jan 26 2022 9th Circuit to review secrecy of CRS-based travel surveillance May court records related to orders requiring a travel reservations company to provide real-time updates to the U.S. government whenever a “person of interest” makes reservations for flights or other travel be kept secret from the public, the press, and other travel companies including the airlines on which the target plans to travel? That issue is now before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Forbes Media and Thomas Brewster vs. the United States (Court of Appeals Docket #21-35612). The legal question before the 9th Circuit is whether courts can keep their own actions secret. That’s important, but the the underlying facts raise other issues as well. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Secret Law, Surveillance State 1 Comment Nov 22 2021 “Freedom to Travel Act of 2021” introduced in Congress On the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, the Freedom to Travel Act of 2021 (H.R. 6030, “To protect the right to travel by common carrier”), has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Homeland Security. If enacted into law, the Freedom to Travel Act would be the most significant step toward bringing the TSA within the rule of law since the creation of the TSA 20 years ago this week with the enactment of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) in 2001. It would rein in the TSA’s ability to substitute secret, extrajudicial edicts for court orders restricting American’s rights, and would remove key barriers that have stood in the way of judicial review of TSA actions and legal redress for those whose rights have been violated. The 20th anniversary of the creation of the TSA is an apt moment for Congress to step back from the post-9/11 panic that drove the enactment of the ATSA, take a deep breath, consider what it has actually wrought, and begin to restore the historic right to travel that the TSA has been steadily chipping away at for the entire 20 years of its existence. The Freedom to Travel Act would create no new rights, but would codify in Federal law an explicit right to travel by common carrier. Courts have recognized such a right, but have often struggled to find an explicit source for it or to assess its significance. Given that human rights are inherent in our humanity and don’t depend on any statute or text, it shouldn’t be surprising that they aren’t always grounded in explicit statutory language. But ambiguity as to the source of the right to travel and the obligations of common carriers has made it easier for courts to brush off complaints of violations of that right as not having stated a cognizable claim, a claim that involves a fundamental (rather than a less significant) right, or a claim for which the courts have the power to grant redress. The Freedom to Travel Act would apply to interstate common carriers in all modes of passenger transportation: airlines, railroads including Amtrak, interstate buses, and ferries. A common carrier, by definition, has a duty to transport all would-be passengers, but the US Department of Transportation has been lax in enforcing that obligation. The Freedom to Travel Act would create an explicit new Federal cause of action against any common carrier, person, or Federal agency that denies or refuses transportation by common carrier to any individual except on the basis of (1) failure to pay the fare or comply with the conditions of carriage in the carrier’s published tariff; (2) failure or refusal to submit to an administrative search limited to a search for weapons, explosives, or incendiary devices likely to pose a threat to the safety of the conveyance, passengers, or crew; or (3) an order from a court of competent jurisdiction. Read More → Edward Hasbrouck Posted in Freedom To Travel 12 Comments Post navigation ← Older posts Challenging ID Demands IDP explores and defends the fundamental American right to move freely around our country and to live without constantly having to prove who we are or why we are here. 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Drones Deployed to Hunt Human beings. You are nothing but expendable slaves, any dissent or diversion from your slavework, any seeking of freedom, and you will be neutralized... Watch: "Terrifying" Chinese Super Drones That Can "Hunt Humans In Packs" Are Here https://www.the-sun.com/news/5278366/video-shows-chinese-super-drones-huntin... Video of what are being called "Chinese super drones" has emerged over the past week, and the footage is being described as "terrifying". Footage of 10 lightweight drones made its way into the ether this past week thanks to a team at Zhejiang University, who released the video. It shows the drones bobbing and weaving through heavily wooded areas, moving swiftly amidst foliage. The drones take direction from an algorithm that helps them chart their surroundings in real time, The Sun wrote in an article about the video. Their internal software updates "every few milliseconds", which helps them avoid colliding with other objects. The article also notes that since they don't run on GPS, they can be deployed in areas with poor satellite coverage. That's all good and well - but the "terrifying" response to the video came when the same team at Zhejiang University released video of the drones chasing a man through a forest of trees. After being instructed to keep focus on the man, they are able to follow him - even after he hides behind objects. "The swarms’ capability of navigation and coordination in these films has attracted and inspired numerous researchers. Here, we take a step forward to such a future," researchers in the journal Science Robotics commented. Dr Jonathan Aitken from Sheffield University praised the progress as an "excellent achievement". He added: "To achieve a quality map, built from a distributed collection of robots, of the detail demonstrated is an excellent piece of engineering. To couple this with the additional successful navigation and avoidance of obstacles, and critically other members of the swarm, is an excellent achievement." Paul Scharre, former senior Pentagon official and expert on drone warfare, concluded by noting how well China's drone programs were coming along. “We can’t see from the Chinese video whether the drones are communicating and co-ordinating with each other," he said. “It could just be a launch of drones like the launch of missiles from a multiple-launch rocket system. However, the test shows that China is developing swarm drone systems and they could be operational in a few years.” You can watch video of the drones, via The Telegraph, here:
These 20 States Threaten Legal Action Over Biden's 'Ministry Of Truth' https://www.theorganicprepper.com/states-legal-action-ministry-of-truth/ https://www.theorganicprepper.com/disinformation-governance-board/ https://www.theorganicprepper.com/the-organic-prepper-has-been-defunded-for-... https://selfrelianceandsurvival.com/product/the-official-newsletter-of-the-a... https://reclaimthenet.org/20-states-threaten-legal-action-over-dhs-disinform... https://www.theorganicprepper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Miyares-Letter-... https://www.myfinancialgoals.org/education/state-attorney-general-contact-li... The attorneys general of 20 states have threatened legal action against the US government unless they disband the newly formed Disinformation Governance Board. We shared with you recently an article about the people behind the DGB, who have a history of trying to curb dissenting speech by calling it “disinformation.” We here at the OP have been the targets of censorship before and would not be surprised to see more of the same. (Here’s how we’re meeting the possibility of further oppression head-on.) It turns out that we’re not the only ones concerned about this. What’s being done? In a letter addressed to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miyares, spoke for the AGs of 19 other states and shared his concerns about the overreach. The letter was acquired by ReclaimtheNet.org. As the chief legal officers of our respective States, we, the undersigned Attorneys General, are tasked not just with enforcing the laws but with protecting the constitutional rights of all our citizens. Today we write you to insist that you immediately cease taking action that appears designed exclusively for the purpose of suppressing the exercise of constitutional rights. Every American knows that the Constitution forbids the government to “abridg[e] the freedom of speech.” US Const. Amend. I. As Justice Robert Jackson wrote nearly eighty years ago, “[i]f there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.” West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943). Your recent testimony before the US House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, however, indicated that the Department of Homeland Security, under your leadership, is doing exactly that: prescribing orthodoxy by slapping a federal-government label of “disinformation” or “misinformation” on speech that government bureaucrats, operating behind closed doors, decree to be improper. This is an unacceptable and downright alarming encroachment on every citizen’s right to express his or her opinions, engage in political debate, and disagree with the government. The Biden Administration’s latest effort to decide what speech is “acceptable” and “orthodox” combines McCarthyite speech policing with the secrecy of the English Star Chamber. In short, you seem to have misunderstood George Orwell: the “Ministry of Truth” described in 1984 was intended as a warning against the dangers of socialism, not as a model government agency. “MiniTru” and its thuggish apparatchiks are the villains in that story, not the heroes. For the sake of our democracy, you must immediately disband the “Disinformation Governance Board” and cease all efforts to police Americans’ protected speech. The existence of the Disinformation Governance Board will inevitably have a chilling effect on free speech. Americans will hesitate before they voice their constitutionally protected opinions, knowing that the government’s censors may be watching, and some will decide it is safer to keep their opinions to themselves. The resulting damage to our political system and our culture will be incalculable: as a democracy, our political debates and decisions are supposed to take place in the public square, where every citizen can participate, rather than in government office buildings where hand-picked and unaccountable partisan committees are insulated from public supervision and criticism. (Read the rest of the letter here.) The letter goes on to question the timing of the new Ministry of Truth (just as Elon Musk completes the purchase of Twitter with the stated goal of restoring free speech on the platform). It also calls into question the dubious qualifications of head honcho, Nina Jancowiz, who AG Miyares describes as “often in error but never in doubt.” How will the AGs enforce this? In a firmly worded promise, Miyares concludes: Unless you turn back now and disband this Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board immediately, the undersigned will have no choice but to consider judicial remedies to protect the rights of their citizens. We sincerely hope this puts a halt to the censorship efforts of the Biden administration. Who signed the letter? The letter was signed by the attorneys general of 20 states. We hope that other states follow in their footsteps to protect this vital constitutional right. (Contact your state’s AG and let them know you support them or want them to get on board, too!) The following AGs signed the letter. Jason S. Miyares, Virginia (the author of the letter) Steve Marshall, Alabama Mark Brnovich, Arizona Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Ashley Moody, Florida Christopher M. Carr, Georgia Todd Rokita, Indiana Derek Schmidt, Kansas Daniel Cameron, Kentucky Jeff Landry, Louisiana Lynn Fitch, Mississippi Eric Schmitt, Missouri Austin Knudson, Montana Douglas J. Peterson, Nebraska David Yost, Ohio John M. O’Connor, Oklahoma Alan Wilson, South Carolina Ken Paxton, Texas Sean D. Reyes, Utah Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia Will this effort gain any traction with the DHS and the current administration? We are not holding our breath.
Ministry Of Propaganda Programming: Inserted In Your Brain Prince William Praises TV Writers For Inserting Climate-Change "Programming" Into Shows https://summit.news/2022/05/09/prince-william-praises-television-writers-for... https://summit.news/2019/12/27/report-hyped-by-climate-alarmists-warned-of-m... https://summit.news/2022/02/01/technocrats-demand-meat-tax-to-fight-climate-... During a BAFTA segment about climate change in which it was asserted that the “planet is on fire,” Prince William praised television writers for inserting “programming” about green messages into their shows. The duke made the comments as part of a special video address praising ‘Planet Placement’ – where producers insert messages into programs that may not even necessarily be about environmental issues. William noted the “innovative” and “emotive” messages that were being inserted into programming to make people more conscious about wanting to save the planet. Critics would call this “brainwashing.” “Now more than ever, programme makers have a unique opportunity to ensure climate change and sustainability remain at the forefront of our collective consciousness,” said Prince William. “By creating innovative, educational and emotive content for television, writers and producers are playing a unique role in ensuring the future of our planet is something that we all want to talk about.” “Over the past year, we’ve seen some fantastic examples of this across a wide variety of programmes and genres.” “I hope you will all continue to carry on your invaluable work, keeping environmental issues high up on the agenda of programming in the years ahead.” Prince William opened a BAFTA segment on climate change urging viewers to be more sustainable. His message introduced a special segment at the Bafta Television Awards highlighting “Planet Placement”, in which drama, documentaries, sports and entertainment shows… pic.twitter.com/kt9K6RCHrM — Isa (@isaguor) May 8, 2022 As we highlighted last month, while lurid propaganda about climate change shows no sign of abating, according to the latest report from the EU’s Earth observation programme, Arctic sea ice is just 3 per cent below its 30 year average. As we highlighted last year, one of the authors of the United Nations IPCC report who focused on “extreme” consequences of man-made global warming lauded the fact that “people are starting to get scared” about climate change and that this would “affect the way they vote.” However, doomsday climate change prophecies have been proven spectacularly wrong time and time again. According to a much heralded 2004 report, man-made climate change would cause “millions” of deaths, major European cities being sunken, nuclear war and global environmental riots…all by 2020. Suffice to say, none of that happened. So-called “climate experts” have got it wrong time and time again on absolutely everything, from Paul Ehrlich’s prediction of millions of deaths from famine by the 80’s, to Al Gore’s absurd claim that the Arctic would have “ice free” summers by 2013. However, none of that has stopped technocrats exploiting fears of climate change to push their agenda, with calls for a meat tax to fight global warming in Europe, despite the continent currently suffering a cost of living crisis.
The Psychology Of Manipulation: 6 Lessons From The Master Of Propaganda https://www.newbraveworld.org/book/propaganda/ https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/26/the-psychology-of-manipulation-6-lessons... https://odysee.com/@CoxinatorProductions:2/news-anchors-reading-from-the-exa... https://www.newbraveworld.org/how-google-and-wikipedia-brainwash-you/ https://www.engadget.com/eu-google-delist-russian-state-media-websites-searc... https://www.newbraveworld.org/no-masks-dont-work-ending-the-debate-once-and-... https://www.newbraveworld.org/mrna-vaccines-eugenics-and-the-push-for-transh... Edward L. Bernays was an American business consultant who is widely recognized as the father of public relations. Bernays was one of the men responsible for “selling” World War 1 to the American public by branding it as a war that was necessary to “make the world safe for democracy”. During the 1920s, Bernays consulted for a number of major corporations, helping to boost their business through expertly crafted marketing campaigns aimed at influencing public opinion. In 1928, Edward Bernays published his famous book, Propaganda, in which he outlined the theories behind his successful “public relations” endeavours. The book provides insights into the phenomenon of crowd psychology and outlines effective methods for manipulating people’s habits and opinions. For a book that’s almost 100 years old, Propaganda could not be more relevant today. In fact, its relevance is a testament to the unchanging nature of human psychology. One of the key takeaways of the book is that mind control is an important aspect of any democratic society. Indeed, Bernays maintains that without the “conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses”, democracy simply would not “work”. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. According to Bernays, those doing the “governing” constitute an invisible ruling class that “understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses”. In Propaganda, Bernays draws on the work of Gustave Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Walter Lippmann, and Sigmund Freud (his uncle!), outlining the power of mass psychology and how it may be used to manipulate the “group mind”. If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? I recently explored this topic in an essay about how occult rituals and predictive programming are used to manipulate the collective consciousness, influencing the thoughts, beliefs and actions of large groups of people, resulting in the creation of what occultists call “egregores”. Here I have extracted some key insights from Bernays in an attempt to show how his book Propaganda is, in many ways, the playbook used by the globalist cryptocracy to process the group mind of the masses. 1. IF YOU MANIPULATE THE LEADER OF A GROUP, THE PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW Bernays tells us that one of the easiest ways to influence the thoughts and actions of large numbers of people is to first influence their leader. If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. In fact, one of the most firmly established principles of mass psychology is that the “group mind” does not “think”, rather, it acts according to impulses, habits and emotions. And when deciding on a certain course of action, its first impulse is to follow the example of a trusted leader. Humans are, by nature a group species. Even when we are alone, we have a deep sense of group belonging. Whether they consciously know it or not, much of what people do is an effort to conform to the ideals of their chosen group so as to feel a sense of acceptance and belonging. This exact method of influencing the leader and watching the people follow has been used extensively throughout the last few years. One notable instance that comes to mind is the horrendously inaccurate epidemiological models created by Neil Ferguson, which formed the basis for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lockdown policies. Once Johnson was convinced of the need to lockdown and mask up, the people gladly followed. 2. WORDS ARE POWERFUL: THE KEY TO INFLUENCING A GROUP IS THE CLEVER USE OF LANGUAGE Certain words and phrases are associated with certain emotions, symbols and reactions. Bernays tell us that through the clever and careful use of language, one can manipulate the emotions of a group and thereby influence their perceptions and actions. By playing upon an old cliché, or manipulating a new one, the propagandist can sometimes swing a whole mass of group emotions. The clever use of language has been employed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to great effect. An obvious example of this was when the definition of “vaccine” was changed to include injections utilising experimental mRNA technology. You see, the word “vaccine” is associated in the public mind with a certain picture – that of a safe, proven medical intervention that is not only life-saving but absolutely necessary. If governments had told people to go get their “gene therapies”, the vast majority of the public would likely question the motives behind such a campaign; they would feel extremely sceptical because the phrase “gene therapy” is not associated with the same images, emotions and feelings as “vaccine”. The same goes for the word “pandemic”, the definition of which was also changed. The word “pandemic” is generally associated in the collective consciousness with fear, death, chaos and emergency (largely thanks to Hollywood and the myriad virus films it has released over the years). 3. ANY MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION IS ALSO A MEDIUM FOR PROPAGANDA Any system of communication, whether phone, radio, print, or social media, is nothing more than a means of transmitting information. Bernays reminds us that any such means of communication is also a channel for propaganda. There is no means of human communication which may not also be a means of deliberate propaganda. Bernays goes on to stress that a good propagandist must always keep abreast of new forms of communication, so that they may co-opt them as means of deliberate propaganda. Indeed, systems that most people would associate with freedom of speech and democracy are none other than means of circulating propaganda. Facebook fact-checkers, Big Tech censorship and YouTube’s Covid banners certainly fall into this category. Other examples of this include the recent algorithm updates made by various search engines (including Google and DuckDuckGo) to penalize Russian websites. Although this should come as no surprise (Google has been engaging in this type of “shadow propaganda” for many years). 4. REITERATING THE SAME IDEA OVER AND OVER CREATES HABITS AND CONVICTIONS Although Bernays terms this a technique used by the “old propagandists”, he, nonetheless, recognizes its usefulness. It was one of the doctrines of the reaction psychology that a certain stimulus often repeated would create a habit, or that the mere reiteration of an idea would create a conviction. Repeating the same idea or the same “mantra” again and again is a form of neuro-linguistic programming aimed at instilling certain concepts or emotions into the subconscious mind. Indeed, people who are feeling sad or depressed are often advised to repeat to themselves an uplifting saying or affirmation. There are many examples of this simple, yet effective, technique being used to great effect over the last few years. Think Q’s “trust the plan”, the globalist favourite, “build back better” or the incessant repetition of that twisted phrase, “trust the science”. Included in this category are the 24/7-in-your-face death statistics and case numbers, aimed at promoting the illusion of a pandemic. There are more obvious examples of this as well, such as news anchors in different areas all reading from the exact same script. 5. THINGS ARE NOT DESIRED FOR THEIR INTRINSIC WORTH, BUT RATHER FOR THE SYMBOLS THAT THEY REPRESENT After studying why people make certain purchasing decisions, Bernays observed that people often don’t desire something for its usefulness or value, but rather because it represents something else which they unconsciously crave. A thing may be desired not for its intrinsic worth or usefulness, but because he has unconsciously come to see in it a symbol of something else, the desire for which he is ashamed to admit to himself. Bernays gives the example of a man buying a car. From the outside, it may appear as if the man is buying the car because he needs a means of transport, but in actuality, he is buying it because he craves the elevated social status that comes with owning a motor vehicle. This idea, too, applies to the events over the last few years. For example, masks are a symbol of compliance. Everyone knows they don’t work but they wear them because of their desire to “fit in”, and to be seen as an upstanding citizen who follows the rules. Covid-19 injections are also a symbol and many people choose to get them because they have a desire to avoid being called an “anti-vaxxer” or a “conspiracy theorist”. 6. ONE CAN MANIPULATE INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS BY CREATING CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MODIFY GROUP CUSTOMS Lastly, Bernays tells us that if one wishes to manipulate the actions of an individual, the most effective way to do so is to create circumstances that engender the desired behaviour. What are the true reasons why the purchaser is planning to spend his money on a new car instead of on a new piano? […] He buys a car, because it is at the moment the group custom to buy cars. The modern propagandist therefore sets to work to create circumstances which will modify that custom. For example, why all of a sudden does everyone “stand with Ukraine”? According to Bernays, it’s not because there is a war going on and innocent people need our love and support, but rather because it is the new “group custom” to do so. The process of altering group customs begins from the top down. In every nation or social clique, there are leaders, public figures and influencers. Manipulating those with the most sway eventually filters down into the public mind. That is why when a celebrity decides to wear something extravagant on the red carpet, a whole new trend can arise overnight. Similarly, at the beginning of the Covid saga and then the Russia-Ukraine war, the media were quick to circulate stories of celebs “catching Covid” and urging people to stay home, or public figures condemning Russian actions and calling for stricter sanctions (which just so happened to hurt the West more than they hurt Russia). THE PROPAGANDA PLAYBOOK The world is a volatile place right now. Things seem to change quickly and no one knows what might happen next. However, amid all this chaos there is one thing that has not changed and is unlikely to change any time soon, and that is human psychology. Because of this, the tactics used to manipulate people’s thoughts, beliefs and actions have not changed either. In fact, most of them were outlined in detail 100 years ago by Edward Bernays in his 1928 book, Propaganda. That’s right, the Puppet Master’s playbook isn’t a secret. It’s right there, freely available to anyone who cares to understand how the powers that be seek to influence them on a daily basis.
What Is DARPA Planning With The WEF? https://www.theorganicprepper.com/darpa-wef/ https://silview.media/2021/05/25/foia-release-remote-mind-control-linked-to-... https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/02/fact-sheet-... https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-10-13 https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-11-30 https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-03-16 https://www.advisory.com/Daily-Briefing/2013/12/13/Thousands-of-military-vet... https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/09/421541/treating-severe-depression-demand-b... https://www.safetrek.com/product/terminated-the-end-of-man-is-here/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-... https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/budget https://basedunderground.com/2021/07/24/bioengineering-company-ginkgo-biowor... https://www.theorganicprepper.com/natural-alternatives-depression-no-pharmac... In 2013, President Obama awarded $100 million in grant money to launch the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative. This program conducts neurotechnological research in the name of treating various neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, and brain injuries. By 2016, the BRAIN Initiative was supported by multiple federal agencies and dozens of partners in the academic and private sectors. Some of the research sounds fascinating. They have been investigating ways to deliver naturalistic sensations to amputees, as well as restoring brain function in people that have suffered severe brain trauma. I can see this being a godsend to people with severe injuries or amputations. Some of the other stated applications I’m not so sure about. I look at the proposed treatment for mental illness, and I can’t help but be reminded of the thousands of lobotomies performed on World War II veterans back in the 1940s and 50s. We’ve tried manipulating brain tissue before to deal with individuals suffering from PTSD. It didn’t always go well. DARPA’s research involves treating brain networks. The Systems Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program involves therapies that treat psychiatric illness by recording and analyzing brain activity with near-real-time brain stimulation to correct brain dysfunction. This research, begun under Obama’s BRAIN Initiative almost ten years ago, has translated into some real-world success stories. Some people have indeed experienced real relief from the symptoms of severe depression with targeted brain stimulation. I am genuinely happy some individuals have found relief from depression, but the jump to expensive technological solutions in treating mental illness, particularly in combat veterans, will always rub me the wrong way. Not enough emphasis has been placed on low-tech solutions. With the new technologies being introduced in the name of treating combat veterans, I feel as though it’s a way for the people who live behind desks, far away from physical danger, to absolve themselves of responsibility for getting us into wars to begin with. It’s the mentality of a child that breaks a toy in a fit of rage, then fixes it and acts like nothing ever happened. Getting better at fixing things doesn’t absolve the guilty party of initial wrongs committed. Avoiding war should be the first priority. Members of Congress should not be allowed to own shares in defense contracting companies because, as two-time Medal of Honor recipient Maj. General Smedley Butler so famously said, “War is a racket.” There will be combat veterans who, yes, absolutely need medical interventions. I’m glad we have the treatments that we do. But many veterans also suffer from milder depression and anxiety. They would probably simply benefit from clear-cut missions that give them a sense of pride in their accomplishments and provide meaningful context to their experiences overseas. Refusing to engage in conflicts overseas without a mostly-supportive general public would also help. One of the reasons I got so depressed after my brother got killed in Afghanistan was that, as soon as I’d say something about losing my brother, the average American suburban mom would come up with a reason why it was actually my family’s own fault for being so violent. Many members of the military and their families encounter this, and yes, it will make you depressed. But we don’t need drugs or experimental therapies to fix that problem. That problem gets solved when individuals choose not to be insensitive. It is normal to experience sad feelings when sad things happen. We’re pathologizing everything that makes us uncomfortable or inconvenienced. More than a decade after the fact, I have made my peace with the universe as far as my brother is concerned. I will always miss him, but the loss no longer dominates my waking thoughts. I had to make some major life changes. My marriage ended, I moved, and I left the church in which I grew up…but I made a lot of new friends, I found a new support network, and I have peace of mind. I didn’t need drugs or experimental therapies. I needed love, support, and patience. But no one gets rich off providing those things! No one’s stock in defense companies goes up when we’re all loving and supportive of one another. And it’s hard. Most people would rather put their money into expensive high-tech solutions than put emotional energy into low-tech ones. We don’t want to treat each other as brothers and sisters of the earth. We want to treat each other as equations to solve or as machines to be hacked. DARPA has made progress manipulating brain function via surgically implanted electrodes. They are also researching non-surgical methods to do the same. Depression debilitates many people every year. Having another way to treat sufferers benefits us all. DARPA claims that they conduct research with only the health and well-being of the public, but especially wounded soldiers, in mind. Though, as someone who spent about five years accused of mental illness, I have to ask: who gets to decide when someone’s brain is dysfunctional? And with every new technology comes new risks. What are the risks here of the DARPA BRAIN Initiative? When we open up channels between human brains and electronic devices, we create new pathways of communication. In his 1928 book Propaganda, Edward Bernays states, “There is no means of communication which may not also be a means of deliberate propaganda.” Every time we open up new avenues of communication, we also open up new ways to be manipulated. Regardless of my own feelings about it, the technology toward brain-digital interfacing has progressed a long way. And we have the same argument that comes along with every burst of new technology. Do the risks outweigh the gains? Most of the time, we say no. But let’s think about the internet. The internet created a revolution in communications, the like of which we have not seen since the invention of the printing press. And are we not subjected to more propaganda than ever? Does it not take more and more effort to sift the truth from the half-truths and the outright lies? This is widely recognized, though I think we’re heading in the wrong direction. Look at Biden’s newest creation, the Disinformation Governance Board. Ostensibly created to crack down on Russian misinformation and smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico border, the DGB will ultimately stifle dissent. Many people in alternative media are worried about the implications of this. If you’re more concerned about the truth than about the current official narrative, you should be too. (Want uninterrupted, uncensored access to The Organic Prepper? Check out our paid-subscription newsletter.) For now, as pervasive as the internet is, one can still turn it off. I can still shut my laptop and go talk to my kids or work in my garden as the need arises. As humans’ ability to manipulate brain waves via electronic stimulation progresses, it will be more and more difficult to “get away.” Again, think about what life was like before the internet. Back in the 1980s, when Dad was home from work, he was home from work. Twenty years later, he was never “off.” The email notifications never ended. In the digital age, many people are never really off work. Opening up entirely new channels of communication is simply another step along that path of constant interconnection. Are we really ready for it? (Want to learn how to starve the beast? Check out our free QUICKSTART Guide.) And it would be naïve in the extreme to think that none of this research by DARPA could be used for nefarious purposes. DARPA only discusses the peaceful, medical aspects of their neuroscientific research. But a funny thing turned up in a FOIA request back in 2018. A journalist for Muckrock magazine sent in a FOIA request regarding Antifa/BLM activity. Along with the information he requested, another file was accidentally slipped in with everything else. The Muckrock journalist was shocked by his accidental find, to say the least, and they published this back in 2018. It’s unclear how much progress has been made in weaponizing the human-digital interface, but people are thinking about it, and it looks like they have been for a long time. Now, DARPA may be full of the most selfless public servants dedicated to nothing but the safety and well-being of the American people. But a funny thing about technology is that it has a way of escaping, and there are plenty of groups out there who emphatically do not have the well-being of the American people in mind. I can imagine they are pretty interested in brain mapping and manipulation too. (Learn more about the move toward transhumanism here.) One man in particular who regularly speaks of humans as machines to be “hacked” is Dr. Yuval Harari. He took part in a roundtable discussion on Hacking Humans hosted by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). The thought of this man, or anyone with his mindset, having control over other humans is disturbing in the extreme. Dr. Harari believes in the inherent superiority of algorithms. He insists humans kill everything around them and that the majority are only capable of thinking in the short term. To have any life left at all, we must rely on algorithms to make decisions for us. Dr. Harari says that humans have never been as free as we thought and that the concept of freedom is mostly just a collection of bio-cultural factors. He goes on to say that people with a firm sense of their own free will are dangerous but easy to manipulate. Dr. Harari’s contempt for human individuals and their respective cultures has no limits. In his 2017 article written for The Guardian, he discusses the future of the “useless class,” the large amounts of people that will soon be unemployable due to the inherent superiority of robots. Dr. Harari works with the World Economic Forum and so, unfortunately, does DARPA. While DARPA claims to work primarily with the interests of the United States at heart, what happens to their $3.8 billion per year budget tells another story. You can go down a real rabbit hole trying to find every last detail about where their money goes, but for the purposes of this article, it should suffice to say that they direct a great deal of money to the same bioengineering firms as the WEF. If DARPA knows how to do something, it’s safe to assume that the control fiends at the WEF will soon know it, too. You could also go down a philosophical rabbit hole here. The story of men creating something and then worshiping it goes back to the Old Testament. Men used to worship statues of Dagon and Moloch. Today, instead of statuary, we have all-knowing algorithms. That impulse to worship the works of our hands remains. Human nature never changes. And the tendency for power to corrupt never changes. We are gradually gaining the power to manipulate brain function. Do we believe that this kind of power will never be corrupted?
10 Ways Information-Shapers Have Infiltrated Our Institutions by Sharyl Attkisson https://www.theepochtimes.com/10-ways-information-shapers-have-infiltrated-o... https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillows-lost-partnerships-kohls-bed-bath-b... https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31183822/mlb-moving-all-star-game-atlant... https://www.si.com/college/2022/03/03/lia-thomas-penn-swimmer-transgender-wo... https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/cdc-data-suggests-vaccinated-dont-ca... https://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/cdc-investigation https://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/science-wars https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/schiff-asks-tech-firms-to-follow-facebooks-l... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760907/Biden-starts-Disinformatio... https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/25/colleges-update-systems-inclu... https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/virginia-teacher-says-wrongfully-fired-stu... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/fbi-lawyer-trump-russia-probe-email... https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-... https://theweek.com/supreme-court/1009458/stephen-breyer-reportedly-wasnt-to... Few matters are so important as the integrity of the information we receive and the recent degradation in its reliability. Fencing surrounds the Supreme Court in Washington on May 2, 2022. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The recent leak of a Supreme Court draft related to the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case underscores how corrupted so many of our important institutions have become by those dedicated to shaping public opinion in a sometimes-dishonest way. Nearly every facet of our American institutions has been infiltrated by activists, corporate and political propagandists, and even criminals. Here are 10 key institutions that have been successfully infiltrated by information-shapers: Bed Bath & Beyond store in Los Angeles, on April 10, 2013. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) 1. Corporations High-profile corporations increasingly do business, or withhold business, on the basis of political considerations in an effort to sway public opinion. Additionally, they take part in removing the ability of some people they disagree with to sell products, conduct bank transactions, or otherwise operate their businesses. One recent example is retailers, including Kohl’s and Bed, Bath & Beyond, banning popular “My Pillow” products from the company owned by conservative and ardent Trump supporter Mike Lindell. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred answers questions during an MLB owner’s meeting at the Waldorf Astoria, in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 10, 2022. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images) 2. Sports Sports organizations have stepped into the political realm to try to force some views and censor or punish those who take opposing viewpoints. One recent example is Major League Baseball stripping the All-Star Game from Atlanta over a Georgia law designed to strengthen election integrity following a troubled and error-riddled 2020 election. Sports institutions also are involved in trying to sway public discourse on the issue of males competing as females on girls’ and women’s teams, such as the swimmer born as Will Thomas who switched names to Lia Thomas and joined the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania, setting numerous women’s records. Facebook, Google, and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. (Reuters) 3. Big Tech Big Tech’s well-known fake fact checks, censorship, and disinformation have manipulated the information landscape in a more dramatic and chilling way than most any other factor. The biggest example is Big Tech’s censorship of arguably the most important political figure of our time: Donald Trump. Recent major examples of the sector fostering disinformation include amplifying claims that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation and censoring stories about it; repeatedly backing false information related to COVID-19, while censoring accurate information or legitimate scientific views; and falsely labeling the COVID-19 lab origin story as a conspiracy theory. A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on Sept. 30, 2014. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) 4. Public Health Agencies The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health agencies have increasingly departed from the realm of public interest and science in order to advance false narratives and disinformation. Recent examples include the head of CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, falsely claiming that people who are vaccinated don’t carry and can’t spread COVID-19; and the agency knowingly putting out disinformation that falsely claimed original studies showed the vaccine’s benefit for people who’d already had COVID-19. Another example is National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci privately working with the media to smear and discredit highly credentialed scientists who disagreed with the lockdown approach to COVID-19. Fences and barriers surround the U.S. Capitol after being reinstalled ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress in Washington on Feb. 27, 2022. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images) 5. Congress Members of Congress in both parties have gotten caught taking part in questionable information-shaping and manipulation, particularly when it comes to pharmaceutical-related material. One recent example is members of Congress unilaterally writing letters to or contacting Big Tech in order to get certain topics or scientific studies and discussions controversialized or banned. Some of the members of Congress who are engaged in the efforts are the same ones responsible for their own high-profile disinformation campaigns. A recent example of that is Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who repeatedly pushed false and misleading information on the Trump–Russia narrative, lobbying Big Tech to censor certain information related to COVID-19. A general view of the White House in Washington, on Oct. 2, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) 6. The Executive Branch Having lost the most powerful tool in its arsenal to shape information, the executive branch has now formed its own extra-Constitutional agency to serve that function: the Disinformation Governance Board. The named head of the board, Nina Jankowicz, has widely furthered disinformation in the past. The NBC News logo in Las Vegas, on Feb. 18, 2020. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) 7. The Media With blogs and quasi-news outlets such as Axios, Slate, Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Vox, Salon, Talking Points Memo, and Rolling Stone joining more traditional partisan outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, Politico, MSNBC, NBC, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times in dominating the information landscape—while their conservative equivalents are controversialized—the media has proven to rank close to Big Tech in terms of their influence in further misinformation. A classroom in Tustin, Calif., on March 10, 2021. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) 8. Academia and Public Schools America’s colleges and universities have taken increasingly heavy-handed roles in terms of squelching free speech and free thought (when it leans against progressive or radical views), in exchange for a managed environment where only carefully filtered views are allowed, and specific language, expressions, and behavior are mandated. Many public school systems have grown stronger in efforts to install social engineering and political ideology in teachings and policies. Recent examples include policies involving the use of pronouns when referring to transgender students, and the instruction of critical race theory. The Department of Justice (DOJ) logo is pictured on a wall in New York on Dec. 5, 2013. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) 9. Dept. of Justice, FBI, and Other Intel Agencies The very agencies that should remain furthest above the fray with clean hands have found themselves repeatedly muddied involving major investigations and their political influence efforts. One recent example is the criminal conviction of FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who falsified a document in order to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Though multiple people would have known about the crime—possibly participating, and staying silent—only Clinesmith was charged. He was only charged with a relatively minor crime in relation to the significance, and avoided any prison time. Meanwhile, the agency hasn’t offered any apology or redress to Page. Other examples include the Department of Justice targeting school parents as possible terrorists, and lopsided prosecution efforts regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, compared to many more violent events and crimes. Additionally, intel operators have taken major roles both in front of the camera and behind the scenes to try to shape public opinion using false information and propaganda. One recent example is the “more than 50 former intelligence officials” who “signed a letter casting doubt on the provenance” of an accurate New York Post story about the Hunter Biden laptop. The Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 21, 2020. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) 10. The Supreme Court Whether it’s the leak to multiple press outlets about Justice Stephen Breyer’s impending retirement or the more problematic new leak of the Roe v. Wade abortion draft, information-shapers have infiltrated the highest court in the land.
Government Indoctrination Camps Reprogrammed and Killed Native Americans, today's camps are no different regarding govt's selected program code being forcibly injected into all public school children... US Government Admits It Used Schools As Tool To Erase Culture, Seize Native American Land https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-admits-it-used-schools-to-erase-culture-as-... https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/inline-files/bsi_investigative_r... Erasing culture, pulling children away from their parents, and disregarding the emotional needs of children. These tactics could be pulled from today’s headlines, but they are the tried-and-true education policies the United States has admitted to using for 150 years as a tool to force the assimilation of Native Americans, and specifically to acquire Indian territorial land. U.S. School for Indians at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1891. (John C. H. Grabill collection, Library of Congress) This month, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) released a 106-page report detailing how the U.S. federal government “applied systematic militarized and identity-alteration methodologies in the Federal Indian boarding school system to assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children through education.” The BIA says the government used the education of children to “replace the Indian’s culture with our own.” This, the report says, was considered “the cheapest and safest way of subduing the Indians, of providing a safe habitat for the country’s white inhabitants, of helping the whites acquire desirable land, and of changing the Indian’s economy so that he would be content with less land.” The report was requested last year by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico. She is the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks during a daily press briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 23, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Haaland asked for an investigation into the loss of lives and lasting consequences of the Federal Indian boarding school system. “This report shows for the first time that between 1819 and 1969, the United States operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states [or then-territories], including 21 schools in Alaska and seven schools in Hawaii,” Bryan Newland, assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, wrote in a letter introducing the report. Another report expanding the investigation is planned. “The Federal Indian boarding school policy was intentionally targeted … at children to assimilate them and, consequently, take their territories,” Newland said. The report makes recommendations for new funding and the revitalization of tribal languages and cultural practices—a move necessary, Newland said, to start the healing process. Taken from Parents Congress ended treaty-making with Indian tribes in 1871 and started using statutes, executive orders, and agreements to regulate Indian Affairs, the report says. Around that time, Congress enacted laws to compel Indian parents to send their children to school and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations to secure the enrollment and regular attendance of eligible Indian children, whom the government considered wards of the government. “Many Indian families resisted the assault of the Federal Government on their lives by refusing to send their children to school,” the 1969 Kennedy Report, quoted in the current report, said. Under the Act of March 3, 1893, Congress authorized the Secretary of Interior to withhold rations, including those guaranteed by treaties, to Indian families whose children between ages 8-21 did not attend schools. No school meant no money or food for the family. “There is ample evidence in federal records demonstrating that the United States coerced, induced, or compelled Indian children to enter the Federal Indian boarding school system,” the report says. The Department of Interior moved children to off-reservation boarding schools without parental consent, often in distant states where children endured “rampant physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; disease; malnourishment; overcrowding; and lack of health care,” the report says. Ciricahua Apaches at the Carlisle Indian School, Penn., 1885 or 1886, as they looked upon arrival at the School. (Library of Congress) Once at boarding school, children were given English names and clothing. Their hair was cut, and they were prevented from using their native language, religion, and cultural practices. Children were sorted into units to perform military drills; performed labor and were subject to corporal punishment. At the Kickapoo Boarding School in Kansas, when children ran away from school, officials went looking for them and brought them back to school where they faced “a whipping administered soundly and prayerfully,” in front of other students to warn them not to flee, the report says. This same school had children sleeping three to a bed. The schools were typically overcrowded, the report shows. The intent of all this was to permanently break family ties and prevent students from returning to the reservations. The system produced intergenerational trauma, the report says. In 1886, the Haskell Institute in Kansas intentionally mixed Indian children from 31 different tribes to disrupt tribal relations and prevent Indian language use, the report says. The Department of Interior intended school graduates from different tribes to intermarry, so they would use English for their children’s mother tongue. Affected tribes that year included the Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Chippewa, Comanche, Caddo, Delaware, Iowa, Kiowa, Kickapoo, Kaw, Mojave, Muncie, Modoc, Miami, New York, Omaha, Ottawa, Osage, Pawnee, Pottawatomie, Ponca, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, Sac and Fox, Seminole, Shawnee, Sioux, and Wyandotte. Lacking Education Work done by children in these boarding schools would likely be a violation of child labor laws in most states, said the 1928 Meriam Report, prepared at the request of the then-Secretary of the Interior. Focused on vocational training, the government adopted a half-time plan, with students spending half the day in academic subjects and the remaining time in work. They tended to farm animals, the report says, and worked in lumbering, on the railroad, carpentry, blacksmithing, fertilizing, irrigation system development, well-digging, making furniture including mattresses, tables and chairs, cooking, laundry, ironing services, and garment-making. The 2022 report shows that, in 1857 at the Winnebago Manual Labor Schools in Nebraska, the girls made 550 garments for themselves and the boys attending the school, and 700 sacks for farm use. In 1903, a report from the Mescalero Boarding School in New Mexico showed the Mescalero Apache boys sawed over 70,000 feet of lumber, 40,000 shingles, and made more than 120,000 bricks. Schools at the time said they could not afford to support operations merely on the funds provided by Congress. Students had to handle these chores to keep the places going. The report notes that this labor had a monetary value. Paid for With Money Meant for Indians The schools were given operation money annually, but according to the report, the federal government likely also used money held in tribal trust accounts and proceeds of the sale tribal land to run the schools. “It is apparent that proceeds from cessions of Indian territories to the United States through treaties—which were often signed under duress—were used to fund the operation of Federal Indian boarding schools. As a result, the United States’ assimilation policy, the Federal Indian boarding school system, and the effort to acquire Indian territories are connected,” the report says. The United States government paid missionary church groups to run the programs. It had contracts, the report says, with the American Missionary Association of the Congregational Church, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, and the Protestant Episcopal Church. In some cases, the missionaries were given no education or training. The government had no standards to follow or oversight over the programs, the report shows. Schools had Grave Sites Gravestones of American Indians at the Carlisle Indian Cemetery where children who died at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Penn., are buried. (Library of Congress) Most schools don’t need a cemetery, but these schools did. An initial investigation of 19 schools found over 500 student deaths. “The intentional targeting and removal of … children to achieve the goal of forced assimilation of Indian people was both traumatic and violent,” the report says. “The department found hundreds of Indian children died throughout the Federal Indian boarding school system and it believes continued investigation will reveal the approximate number of Indian children who died at these schools to be in the thousands or tens of thousands.” The department’s research has identified at least 53 different burial sites across the school system; some marked, others unmarked or poorly maintained. “The deaths of Indian children while under the care of the federal government, or federally-supported institutions, led to the breakup of Indian families and the erosion of tribes,” the report says. The department has been talking with tribal leaders to address cultural concerns regarding the burial sites, including future protection of burial sites and potential repatriation or disinterment of remains. “The department will not make public the specific locations of burial sites associated with the Federal Indian boarding school system in order to protect against well-documented grave-robbing, vandalism, and other disturbances to Indian burial sites,” the report says. Recommendations The report makes recommendations including funding a full investigation. Congress appropriated $7 million in new funds through fiscal year 2022, through the Consolidated Appropriations Act. The report asks to expand the investigation with continued funding for fiscal year 2023. It also suggests identifying surviving boarding school attendees, and formally documenting their historical accounts and experiences, including studying current impacts such as health status, including substance abuse and violence. It asks to protect details of gravesites from being made public under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, by making information exempt from Freedom of Information Act. It also recommends the advancement of native language revitalization by funding the development of programs supporting native language revitalization in both Bureau of Indian Education funded schools, and non-BIE schools. The report calls for the promotion of Indian health research by funding scientific studies on lasting health impacts. And the report suggests recognizing the generations of children who experienced the Federal Indian boarding school system with a federal memorial.
You stupid sheeple still refuse to wake the fuck up! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!! "Elitists Want A One World Government; It's Not A Conspiracy Theory" https://summit.news/2022/05/27/rand-paul-elitists-want-a-one-world-governmen... https://summit.news/2022/05/24/videos-davos-elites-warn-painful-global-trans... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W70zjwnBiAg https://rumble.com/embed/v13q26r/ Senator Rand Paul appeared on Fox News Thursday and discussed the ongoing World Economic Forum gathering in Davos Switzerland, remarking that it is not a conspiracy theory to suggest the organisation is seeking a one world government, rather it is “in their mission statement.” Paul urged that “The real danger here that’s even more dangerous than all their phony caring about carbon footprint, the real danger is this; look how bad your government is in a country where you get to vote for these people.” “This would be a government, a world government where you don’t get to vote on anybody. This is everybody’s worst nightmare,” Paul asserted, referring to the ‘penetration’ of the WEF, to quote its head Klaus Schwab, into national governments. “The bureaucracy that we have trouble in our United States because we don’t get to vote on them, we vote indirectly,” Paul said, adding “Can you imagine the one-world bureaucracy of all these elitists and their private jets that would rule our country and we wouldn’t get to vote?” The Senator continued, “So I’m dead set against this and they used to call people that talked about one-world government used to say it’s a conspiracy. We would always say no, it’s in their mission statement.” “They say it at every meeting. That’s what they’re for,” Paul proclaimed, adding “lack of sovereignty means lack of freedom, it means lack of responsiveness and it’s completely antithetical to everything our country stands for.”
"Elitists Want A One World Government; It's Not A Conspiracy Theory"
https://summit.news/2022/05/27/rand-paul-elitists-want-a-one-world-governmen... https://summit.news/2022/05/24/videos-davos-elites-warn-painful-global-trans...
https://trendingpolitics.com/klaus-schwab-pfizer-ceo-scold-critics-as-conspi... Hillary Clinton is crooked. But Hillary could only be that way because she was supported by a cabal of crooked actors within the Deep State. Conspiracy false flag: Texas DPS announces that a teacher at Robb Elementary School propped a door open at the school before the mass shooting. The school resource officer drove to campus after hearing 911 call.
https://i.redd.it/ghqsbe032i191.jpg On the left you can see the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. On the right, his father, intimate confidant of Hitler, the industrialist and fascist "Eugen Schwab" in uniform. Klaus was born in Hitler's Germany in 1938. Russia considers leaving WHO and WTO amongst other World organizations. How do you vote out the WEF? https://www.youtube.com/user/chatzefratz/videos https://youtu.be/rCjkd44p_lE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tjEikTVv_o https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-val... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement https://archive.org/details/51DocumentsZionistCollaborationWithTheNazisLENNI... https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_Hitler.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://i.imgur.com/BVPg4Zj.jpg Imagine wanting to "hunt down" and ruin normal citizens lives who simply donated to a GoFundMe. https://imgur.com/BVPg4Zj If you remember this picture from 2020 you shouldn't be surprised about Monkey Herpes in 2022. https://i.imgur.com/UoaInUV.png Biden Breadlines incoming Reminder this is how THEY meet up to decide what WE must give up to battle climate change.
" The WEF's main objectives are: -the elimination of private property, where the government owns everything and decides what you need for you; -one global digital currency; -total surveillance with microchips; -implementing the social credit system world wide; -among other nasties. "
News from around WEF... https://i.imgur.com/br2K1QW.jpg Summer 2020 was a practice run... Riches wealth opulence caviar and freedom for Politicians and Globalist Elites, potatoes and slavery for you. Conveniently by design, there is ZERO accountability for anything the WEF and its maggots do, and ZERO way to recall, disband, or unvote them. These psychopath fucks are manufacturing authority out of thin air and trapping the whole world up in it. Imagine your job being thinking of ways and delighting in ensnaring and enslaving humanity. Your carbon footprint will be zero after you own nothing, and live in a pod eating cockroach milk. That is WEF utopia. Maximum efficiency, maximum profit, maximum order. Did some researchers come up with some new secret psychological mind control methods and newspeak in the last 20 years? Because these WEF turds appear to be leveraging and deploying some serious never-before-seen mind-warfare tools, they've got major world figures entranced and drooling on their every world. They groom young politicians and then get things pushed that favor their new world order shit. They also fund political races in the US even on the city/county level, such as fully financing entire campaigns for their WEF agenda. A prosecuting attorney in south US in 2022 was fully financed by a billionaire Hungarian. They aired that information on local news. It is on YT. Thankfully she did not win, but she was close. Imagine how many they have won throughout the us. This was just the 1st time I could prove it. Cashless is not a society.. cashless is a prison. Voting won't solve the problem. The globalists have corrupted the system entirely too much for that. Revolution is the only way. With the second amendment. You vote them out with well aimed bullets. https://i.redd.it/qqg8nlzrhm191.png So far, the World Economic Forum has discussed recalibrating free speech and the need for a cashless society. No word yet on the 1300 people who own 94% of Earth's wealth. https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1528779966644731906 Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant tells the World Economic Forum we need a "recalibration" of freedom of speech. https://www.businessinsider.nl/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-re... https://twitter.com/andrewlawton/status/1529045188764921856 https://twitter.com/jamesvgingerich/status/1525202569055948802 Sweden could be cashless by 2023 and other countries are following. Digital currency rather than cash will soon be King! (World Economic Forum) https://twitter.com/andrewlawton/status/1529045188764921856 Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans boasts at the World Economic Forum about the development of an "individual carbon footprint tracker" to monitor what you buy, what you eat, and where/how you travel. When all restrictions were lifted the minister of sweden in charge during the pandemic was assigned a high level job at the UN to accelerate the agenda 2030. They even posted tweets and they called it "our common agenda". Makes you think how they were untouchable by the wef and the plandemic. https://imgur.com/a/bP9lAyK https://youtu.be/PeDJbe9WOk4 Last week the UN and WEF signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate Agenda 2030 And the first credit card in the world with a carbon limit. They did it collaborating with the wef and the UN. https://youtu.be/Ug5k1j5CfM8 Cyrus had the right idea......why let these Nazi fucks keep doing this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tcc2ltIjNU0 https://cbdctracker.org/currency/russian_federation-digital_ruble Yes, they divide the citizens, they get away with gun buybacks (taxpayer dollars of the people WHO OWN THE GUNS being used to buy them from the citizens), all the while keep the heat up on the division of the people so they may roll in whatever is next (Digital ID, microchipping the population for compliance, and general control over every dollar or credit you spend.) In the early YouTube days, there were several videos explaining what the “great reset” was, seems to be coming true. Now they are mostly gone…at least the ones I remember….every video now is from a year ago which is weird…. We just had a power outage in Ontario and all electronic payments were down for 3+ days. Peterborough ran out of gas within 12 hours. Only 1300 of them, be a lot easier to dig a small hole. Today, 2,668 billionaires — 573 more than in 2020 — own $12.7 trillion, an increase of $3.78 trillion. The world's ten richest men own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of humanity Thanks to WEF and others who made this possible. Seriously, fuck these stinking Rats. As a person from a country that still has feudalism and feudal lords, all of this sounds very familiar-- a small minority that controls the vast majority of wealth ruling over a penniless majority. Send all 1300 of them to Guantanamo to be rectally fed (a medical procedure pioneered by Dick Cheney and his team of psychologists) 48% are jewish.... why is the world ECONOMIC forum discussing the right to free speech? there was nothing in that interview i watched of the "recalibrate" lady that would suggest they were discussing anything really economic in it's nature. these guys are well out they wheelhouse. Imagine wanting to "hunt down" and ruin normal citizens lives who simply donated to a GoFundMe. https://i.imgur.com/GsgABf1.jpg Censorbanned from debates: Tulsi Gabbard https://www.grazingthesurface.com/2022/03/19/why-was-tulsi-gabbard-scrubbed-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqbE3jApb8 Tulsi Gabbard was selected in 2015 to be a young global leader by the WEF. https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/578185129471922177 Elections are a scam. You saw what the unarmed people trespassing got. Imagine what Pelosi will do to you if she even smells a hint of a true revolutionary within ten miles of her building. If we had a proper, Constitutional militia system and a grand jury system that our forefathers correctly established (now bastardized and diminished), any official, elected or otherwise could be indicted and tried. When a politician, for example, files legislation that clearly violates the Constitution. Also, corrupt bureaucrats can be taken down as well. "so what if all the worlds business, media, scientific, military and political minds all meet up in secrecy and make plans to undermine our freedom ! Stop being paranoid and believing conspiracies! They meet to probably give us a utopia and help us, like bill gates !" A globalized world means America and its freedoms kowtow to WEF, not the WEF kowtow to America's freedoms (which most people actually want: America's level of freedoms in their own nations). America is in the way of WEF's globalism. As long as the WEF exists, they're the self-professed enemies of America. Add all the MSM, the federal govts retirement fund (bank in Sweden) Pfizer, blackrock, citidel.. look around your house, prob 80% of it's contents can be linked to these lizards Anyone who supports any form of gun control legislation or regulation automatically negates anything else they have to say about anything else. Just like the Bilderberg group. Alex Jones showed the most powerful elected officials get together with the private industry leaders and discuss the game plan on how to fuck the American people over every 12 months. https://i.imgur.com/BVg5Qm1h.jpg I can't get over how they are doing this in plain sight... This once was the secret globalist agenda to only be discussed at the Bohemian Grove where billionaires sacrificed infants to Moloch. Now they have enough power that they can stream the global plans on youtube and no journalists dare question their motivation. Precious metals are gods money that’s why the satanists took it out of our currency system. Yeah but no one is going to freeze his bank account for "spreading misinformation," because he and his cohorts are the arbiters of what is determined misinformation (anything detrimental to their agenda) Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Announces Ban On All Handguns In Canada If someone is coming at you to take away your freedom, you use a freedom seed planter to plant some freedom seeds in them. With a bullet. Publicly hang them all. With a Guillotine. With the sword. In the end, that's the only vote that truly counts.
News from around WEF... A digital ID... implanted in your body. By 2030. Words of the CEO of Nokia (owned by Microsoft): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rrwo-M17fU Patent is known as 060606 couldn’t be more in your face, crazy Yep, sounds like mark of the beast in revelations. If the populace continues to be lackadaisical about the responsibility they hold for their own sovereignty, then we will possibly be subjected to tyrannical dictatorship over our own bodies. Problem is that many do not understand how far this thing they are doing can be employed to force people into all sorts of terrible circumstances. https://www.livescience.com/13002-7-evil-experiments.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO8j_Zy050g WHO pandemic treaty scam https://youtu.be/eVIPy_TAog4 https://youtu.be/IQr9hQKVzkU?t=218 https://vimeo.com/466000630/3a5c277990 https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/new-world-order-australia-covid-v54072... https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1700s/The-Sedition-Act-of-17... "the House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States." Doesn't sound like freedom to me and that was pushed by founding fathers... This is 100% the reason why the founding fathers identified the need for the 2nd Amendment to maintain a well regulated militia. Anyone who is supporting the oppressive CCP regime in China, anyone who is planning to cede control of the United States to the WEF authority - these are all enemy combatants of the United States and the free people everywhere. It is the express goal of the Communist agenda through the FED (Federal Reserve) to destroy the United States dollar. It is not an accident that Jerome Powell was over one year late to enact interest rate hikes. It is not an accident they are causing hyperinflation and food shortages, entirely preventable, by sanctioning wheat exports and pushing the ongoing Ukraine conflict. They do not care about the people, the price of bread, the price of oil. They want control and they met in Davos for the WEF. They created Coronavirus through Obama and Fauci at the NIH back from 2011-2016 in Wuhan and don't even care that the proof is out there. They laugh at the millions of people they killed around the world. We are looking at the Devils army. Biden, Gates , Fauci, Obama and collaborators like Powell. Basically signing over 193 nations sovereignty and bodily autonomy. Gives the WHO the power to step in during future pandemics and lock a whole country down if they choose too. Forced vaccination forced masking etc also gives them the power to deem what is or isnt a pandemic. Countries don’t get a say in opting out. If they get these powers too bad you comply or they will send in they’re own reinforcements (think UN police and isolation camps) also the who is bought and paid for by China basically so that’s a good indication of what the future holds with this in place.
Cypherpunks claimed to have all the solutions, apparently they were worthless liars, lol. Wake the fuck up. Revolt. Everybody's Guilty: To The Police State, We're All Criminals Until We Prove Otherwise By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... “In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught.” - Hunter S. Thompson The burden of proof has been reversed. No longer are we presumed innocent. Now we’re presumed guilty unless we can prove our innocence beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Rarely, are we even given the opportunity to do so. Although the Constitution requires the government to provide solid proof of criminal activity before it can deprive a citizen of life or liberty, the government has turned that fundamental assurance of due process on its head. Each and every one of us is now seen as a potential suspect, terrorist and lawbreaker in the eyes of the government. Consider all the ways in which “we the people” are now treated as criminals, found guilty of violating the police state’s abundance of laws, and preemptively stripped of basic due process rights. Red flag gun confiscation laws: Gun control legislation, especially in the form of red flag gun laws, allow the police to remove guns from people “suspected” of being threats. These laws, growing in popularity as a legislative means by which to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others, will put a target on the back of every American whether or not they own a weapon. Disinformation eradication campaigns. In recent years, the government has used the phrase “domestic terrorist” interchangeably with “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” to describe anyone who might fall somewhere on a very broad spectrum of viewpoints that could be considered “dangerous.” The ramifications are so far-reaching as to render almost every American an extremist in word, deed, thought or by association. In the government’s latest assault on those who criticize the government—whether that criticism manifests itself in word, deed or thought—the Biden Administration has likened those who share “false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information” to terrorists. This latest government salvo against consumers and spreaders of “mis- dis- and mal-information” widens the net to potentially include anyone who is exposed to ideas that run counter to the official government narrative. In other words, if you dare to subscribe to any views that are contrary to the government’s, you may well be suspected of being a domestic terrorist and treated accordingly. In this way, government and corporate censors claiming to protect us from dangerous, disinformation campaigns are, in fact, laying the groundwork now to preempt any “dangerous” ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives. Government watch lists. The FBI, CIA, NSA and other government agencies have increasingly invested in corporate surveillance technologies that can mine constitutionally protected speech on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in order to identify potential extremists and predict who might engage in future acts of anti-government behavior. Where many Americans go wrong is in naively assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or harmful in order to be flagged and targeted for some form of intervention or detention. In fact, all you need to do these days to end up on a government watch list or be subjected to heightened scrutiny is use certain trigger words (like cloud, pork and pirates), surf the internet, communicate using a cell phone, limp or stutter, drive a car, stay at a hotel, attend a political rally, express yourself on social media, appear mentally ill, serve in the military, disagree with a law enforcement official, call in sick to work, purchase materials at a hardware store, take flying or boating lessons, appear suspicious, appear confused or nervous, fidget or whistle or smell bad, be seen in public waving a toy gun or anything remotely resembling a gun (such as a water nozzle or a remote control or a walking cane), stare at a police officer, question government authority, or appear to be pro-gun or pro-freedom. Thought crimes. For years now, the government has used all of the weapons in its vast arsenal—surveillance, threat assessments, fusion centers, pre-crime programs, hate crime laws, militarized police, lockdowns, martial law, etc.—to target potential enemies of the state based on their ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that might be deemed suspicious or dangerous. It’s not just what you say or do that is being monitored, but how you think that is being tracked and targeted. There’s a whole spectrum of behaviors ranging from thought crimes and hate speech to whistleblowing that qualifies for persecution (and prosecution) by the Deep State. It’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing truth. Security checkpoints and fusion centers. By treating an entire populace as suspect, the government has justified wide-ranging security checkpoints that subject travelers to scans, searches, pat downs and other indignities by the TSA and VIPR raids on so-called “soft” targets like shopping malls and bus depots by black-clad, Darth Vader look-alikes. Fusion centers, which represent the combined surveillance efforts of federal, state and local law enforcement, track the citizenry’s movements, record their conversations, and catalogue their transactions. Surveillance, precrime programs. Facial recognition software aims to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. Coupled with surveillance cameras that blanket the country, facial recognition technology allows the government and its corporate partners to warrantlessly identify and track someone’s movements in real-time, whether or not they have committed a crime. Rapid advances in behavioral surveillance are not only making it possible for individuals to be monitored and tracked based on their patterns of movement or behavior, including gait recognition (the way one walks), but have given rise to whole industries that revolve around predicting one’s behavior based on data and surveillance patterns and are also shaping the behaviors of whole populations. With the increase in precrime programs, threat assessments, AI algorithms and surveillance programs such as SpotShotter, which attempt to calculate where illegal activity might occur by triangulating sounds and images, the burden of proof has been turned on its head by a surveillance state that renders us all suspects and overcriminalization which renders us all lawbreakers. Mail surveillance. Just about every branch of the government—from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between—now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American people. For instance, the U.S. Postal Service, which has been photographing the exterior of every piece of paper mail for the past 20 years, is also spying on Americans’ texts, emails and social media posts. Headed up by the Postal Service’s law enforcement division, the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) is reportedly using facial recognition technology, combined with fake online identities, to ferret out potential troublemakers with “inflammatory” posts. The agency claims the online surveillance, which falls outside its conventional job scope of processing and delivering paper mail, is necessary to help postal workers avoid “potentially volatile situations.” Threat assessments and AI algorithms. The government has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state. Before long, every household in America will be flagged as a threat and assigned a threat score. It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence. No-knock raids. No-knock, no-announce SWAT team raids are what passes for court-sanctioned policing in America today, and it could happen to any one of us. Nationwide, SWAT teams routinely invade homes, break down doors, kill family pets (they always shoot the dogs first), damage furnishings, terrorize families, and wound or kill those unlucky enough to be present during a raid. No longer reserved exclusively for deadly situations, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for relatively routine police matters such as serving a search warrant, with some SWAT teams being sent out as much as five times a day. Police carry out tens of thousands of no-knock raids every year nationwide. Militarized police. America is overrun with militarized cops—vigilantes with a badge—who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.” It doesn’t matter where you live—big city or small town—it’s the same scenario being played out over and over again in which government agents, trained to act as judge, jury and executioner in their interactions with the public, ride roughshod over the rights of the citizenry. This is how we have gone from a nation of laws—where the least among us had just as much right to be treated with dignity and respect as the next person (in principle, at least)—to a nation of law enforcers (revenue collectors with weapons) who treat “we the people” like suspects and criminals. Constitution-free zones. Merely living within 100 miles inland of the border around the United States is now enough to make you a suspect, paving the way for Border Patrol agents to search people’s homes, intimately probe their bodies, and rifle through their belongings, all without a warrant. Nearly 66% of Americans (2/3 of the U.S. population, 197.4 million people) now live within that 100-mile-deep, Constitution-free zone. Asset forfeiture schemes. Americans no longer have a right to private property. If government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family, your property is no longer private and secure—it belongs to the government. Hard-working Americans are having their bank accounts, homes, cars electronics and cash seized by police under the assumption that they have been associated with some criminal scheme. As libertarian Harry Browne observed, “Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.” Vehicle kill switches. Sold to the public as a safety measure aimed at keeping drunk drivers off the roads, “vehicle kill switches” could quickly become a convenient tool in the hands of government agents to put the government in the driver’s seat while rendering null and void the Constitution’s requirements of privacy and its prohibitions against unreasonable searches and seizures. As such, it presumes every driver potentially guilty of breaking some law that would require the government to intervene and take over operation of the vehicle or shut it off altogether. The message: we cannot be trusted to obey the law or navigate the world on our end. Bodily integrity. The government’s presumptions about our so-called guilt or innocence have extended down to our very cellular level. The debate over bodily integrity covers broad territory, ranging from forced vaccinations, forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws and forced breath-alcohol tests to forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, and forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no real privacy, no real presumption of innocence, and no real control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials. The groundwork being laid with these mandates is a prologue to what will become the police state’s conquest of a new, relatively uncharted, frontier: inner space, specifically, the inner workings (genetic, biological, biometric, mental, emotional) of the human race. “Guilt by association” has taken on new connotations in the technological age. Yet the debate over genetic privacy—and when one’s DNA becomes a public commodity outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on warrantless searches and seizures—is really only beginning. Get ready, folks, because the government has embarked on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database. Limitations on our right to move about freely. We think we have the freedom to go where we want and move about freely, but at every turn, we’re hemmed in by laws, fines and penalties that regulate and restrict our autonomy, and surveillance cameras that monitor our movements. For instance, license plate readers are mass surveillance tools that can photograph over 1,800 license tag numbers per minute, take a picture of every passing license tag number and store the tag number and the date, time, and location of the picture in a searchable database, then share the data with law enforcement, fusion centers and private companies to track the movements of persons in their cars. With tens of thousands of these license plate readers now in operation throughout the country, police can track vehicles and run the plates through law enforcement databases for abducted children, stolen cars, missing people and wanted fugitives. Of course, the technology is not infallible: there have been numerous incidents in which police have mistakenly relied on license plate data to capture suspects only to end up detaining innocent people at gunpoint. The war on cash and the introduction of digital currency. Digital currency provides the government and its corporate partners with a mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient. This push for a digital currency dovetails with the government’s war on cash, which it has been subtly waging for some time now. In recent years, just the mere possession of significant amounts of cash could implicate you in suspicious activity and label you a criminal. The rationale (by police) is that cash is the currency for illegal transactions given that it’s harder to track, can be used to pay illegal immigrants, and denies the government its share of the “take,” so doing away with paper money will help law enforcement fight crime and help the government realize more revenue. A cashless society—easily monitored, controlled, manipulated, weaponized and locked down—plays right into the hands of the government (and its corporate partners). The Security-Industrial Complex. Every crisis—manufactured or otherwise—since the nation’s early beginnings has become a make-work opportunity for the government to expand its reach and its power at taxpayer expense while limiting our freedoms at every turn. What this has amounted to is a war on the American people, fought on American soil, funded with taxpayer dollars, and waged with a single-minded determination to use national crises, manufactured or otherwise, in order to transform the American homeland into a battlefield. As a result, the American people have been treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, denied due process, and killed. These programs push us that much closer towards a suspect society where everyone is potentially guilty of some crime or another and must be preemptively rendered harmless. The ramifications of empowering the government to sidestep fundamental due process safeguards are so chilling and so far-reaching as to put a target on the back of anyone who happens to be in the same place where a crime takes place. The groundwork has been laid for a new kind of government where it won’t matter if you’re innocent or guilty, whether you’re a threat to the nation, or even if you’re a citizen. What will matter is what the government—or whoever happens to be calling the shots at the time—thinks. And if the powers-that-be think you’re a threat to the nation and should be locked up, then you’ll be locked up with no access to the protections our Constitution provides. In effect, you will disappear. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, our freedoms are already being made to disappear.
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Government steals and wastes money from you to program you with this slave cult shit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5gklIKcDg Gothard Tunnel Opening Ceremony
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Social media users reporting endless numbers of their posts incurring censorship events during the US three day holiday weekend. How very 1984 that messages declaring independence from alien forces are only permitted by the pro-alien owned social and media cabal to be posted by the pro-alien pages as an attack upon the anti-aliens, but when the exact same messages are posted by anti-aliens as an observable truth... they get CensorBanned by the cabal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sbHIssJwI "Vote For Me" search: "Alex Jones Was Right" https://duckduckgo.com/?iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&q="alex+jones+was+right" https://ussanews.com/2022/07/04/alex-jones-trends-on-twitter-for-celebrating... https://ugetube.com/watch/the-alex-jones-show-4th-of-july-broadcast_3GF69eVY... https://www.newswars.com/alex-jones-trends-on-twitter-for-celebrating-indepe... https://v.redd.it/bxoixxvmpi991 https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/07/01/feds-show-up-at-home-of-nor... https://i.redd.it/b0ltvc6qh0991.png mattiedaddy aka budweiserbreath https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/vp9hcw/better_watch_what_y... https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/in-minecraft-usage-... https://www.newsweek.com/2021/04/16/can-blood-young-people-slow-aging-silico... https://youtu.be/6RLmnF1qNZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL0hNoXcnlY https://v.redd.it/y5sjjn8ceu091 https://twitter.com/devildog1179/status/1160269246217277440 https://battleplan.news/watch?id=62b393d4c1def3381c38fee0 https://www.reddit.com/r/FightingFakeNews/comments/vnnleh/the_vaccines_killi... https://theinfowar.tv/watch?id=62bdec2b70b9165771445f9d https://pranksanonymous.com/products/bag-of-dicks-gummies https://v.redd.it/3fxzatl8jxv61 https://i.redd.it/oihf48twrns51.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAAhzreGWw Tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-GRuGWLnsg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI https://i.redd.it/iv1mjoplol991.jpg https://odysee.com/@RonGibsonChannel:0/ It's 2025, Elon Musk let Alex Jones back on Twitter, Joe Rogan is President of the US and chokes out a member of the Illuminati to start every podcast, and aliens have shown themselves. What conspiracies will we be talking about? In a world of Censorship and Global GovPolMedia Programming, only alternative / distributed video and media sites will host the truth... if you can find it among the noise. Have fun down the rabbit hole, lol ;)
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Georga Guidestones destroyed by the State, time capsule secreted away.. "Man shall have no Authority or Guide over him but the State". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1544826848152064003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXTQ-f_TxgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0Vgbul2rE Alex Jones was right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATM3VmHfv68 Alex Jones: Endgame 2:19:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPg1PLzcF-A Luciferian Cabal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXu3ws7SDfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pty7LTw3hZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1HmyvCdXBk Bilderberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncGQh2Ego-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DHP1x8xcM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2IlQPhYVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L62SlrJ00Oc Bilderberg 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gNdTFgfEA Josh Reeves and L Ron Hubbard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y642LCjYOyM Secret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG_-_880jOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__7NeRVzOMU Wake the fuck up!
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Cops, TLA's, and Amazon Ring... Partners Abusing Your Privacy and Secretly Spyveillancing and Databasing the Entire USA Amazon Ring Video Handed To Police Without Users Consent Sparks "Surveillance Crisis Of Accountability" https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markeys-probe-into... While people purchase Ring cameras on Amazon and mount them on their front doors to keep their homes safe, law enforcement agencies use them without the user's permission, according to a press release published by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts). The heading of the press release reads, "Senator Markey's Probe Into Amazon Ring Reveals New Privacy Problem," highlighting the alarming access to "the close relationship between Ring and law enforcement, including the proliferation of policing agencies on the Ring platform." Ring, which Amazon bought in 2018, responded to Markey's June letter and said law enforcement partnerships on its platform had jumped a staggering five-fold increase since November 2019. The electronic doorbell company further revealed footage was handed over to police eleven times this year without the user's consent – under a so-called "emergency circumstance exception." "As my ongoing investigation into Amazon illustrates, it has become increasingly difficult for the public to move, assemble, and converse in public without being tracked and recorded," Markey said. Amazon has an agreement with more than 2,100 police departments nationwide under the app called "Neighbors." Police can use the app to request videos. The lawmaker warned: "We cannot accept this as inevitable in our country. Increasing law enforcement reliance on private surveillance creates a crisis of accountability, and I am particularly concerned that biometric surveillance could become central to the growing web of surveillance systems that Amazon and other powerful tech companies are responsible for." Lawmakers have previously said Amazon funded a lobbying campaign to relax privacy protections in more than two dozen states while harvesting vast amounts of sensitive data on its customers. "Amazon shamefully launched a campaign to squash privacy legislation while its devices listen to & watch our lives. This is now the classic Big Tech move: deploy money & armies of lobbyists to fight meaningful reforms in the shadows but claim to support them publicly," Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) tweeted late last year. Politico pointed out Congress is discussing a federal data privacy law, though it won't cover Ring sharing data with police. During the pandemic, Ring conducted a 45-day pilot program to live stream Ring cameras in Jackson, Mississippi, to test a surveillance camera network from people's homes. Ring effectively creates the most extensive corporate-owned, civilian-installed surveillance network the US has ever seen. This is very troubling.
WTF ! ! They want PICTURES of MY FAMILY?! They HIGH or what?! @FBI: The #FBI Child ID app—the first mobile application created by the Bureau—provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and other vital information about your children so that it’s literally right at hand if you need it. Learn more at go.usa.gov/xJSfm. FBI Electronics Technician charged with child pornography crimes
Good old fashioned political persecution and oppression... By the Oppressive Democrats who can't handle competition... House Democrats Pass Measure To Identify 'Neo-Nazis' In Military, Law Enforcement https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-democrats-pass-measure-to-identify-neo-n... https://www.theepochtimes.com/senate-republicans-reject-domestic-terror-bill... House Democrats on July 13 voted to add an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual military spending bill, to identify "neo-Nazis" in the military and law enforcement. The NDAA amendment was sponsored by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) and instructs the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Defense (DOD) to publish a report analyzing "white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity" within military and law enforcement. The amendment passed in a 218–208 vote where it faced unilateral opposition from Republicans. “Such behavior, such extremism is a threat to us in all segments of society. There is no reason to believe that our military is any different,” Schneider said on the House floor late on the evening on July 13 in defense of the amendment. "These are exceptions," Schneider insisted. "They are rare, but we must do everything we can to identify them and to thwart them before risks become a reality." If the amendment is passed by the Senate, the FBI, DHS, and DOD would be required within 180 days to send Congress a report on the number of people discharged from either military service or law enforcement for "white supremacist" or "neo-Nazi" ideology. House Republicans opposed the amendment, which they said was overly intrusive and "denigrates" law enforcement. “This amendment attempts to create a problem where none exists by requesting investigations into law enforcement and the armed services for alleged rampant white supremacist or white national sympathies,” one such critic, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), said in opposition to the amendment on the House floor. Similar Measures Blasted As `Thought Police' This is not the first effort by Democrats to pass such a measure, and similar measures have faced condemnation by Republicans in the past for trying to impose "thought police" on military service members and law enforcement officers. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has made a name for himself in the Senate for long-held opposition to civil liberties violations by federal agencies, blasted a previous bill that was similar to Schneider's amendment in a May 26 speech on the Senate floor. Though that bill was “ostensibly” about domestic terrorism, Paul said, the bill “would be more accurately called ‘the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as white supremacists and neo-Nazis.'" “These are young men and women who have given arms and legs and … I don’t know of an example of some guy who says, ‘Oh yeah, we were blown up by an IED but we’ve got to leave that guy because he’s of a different race,'" Paul continued. “How insulting!” Paul said the bill would create a task force to investigate American soldiers by reading their emails, tracking their web browser history, and implying that they're guilty until they can prove themselves innocent. “This bill is an insult to every police officer in this country. This bill is an insult to everyone in our armed services," Paul said. In a reference to George Orwell’s “1984,” Paul said the new departments created by the bill would have essentially been the "thought police" of the military. “Congressional Democrats have gotten so extreme, so radical, so out of touch with the American people that when they read it, they think this is something worthwhile to do,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXsQD_5JF8c Alex Stein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvpxnAnnXZs Alex Stein http://altmediaunited.com/conspiracy-castle/ https://www.youtube.com/ConspiracyCastle https://www.facebook.com/The-Conspiracy-Castle-103982954672221/ https://rss.com/podcasts/conspiracycastle/ https://duckduckgo.com/?q="conspiracy+castle" Trauma based mind control Mockingbird media Conspiracy Castle Prime Time #99 Alex Stein "I love big booty latinas and I cannot lie."
Video trivializes nuclear war, glows with survivability, everything managed undre control, not really more trouble than conventionals... so they can use them. Prepare now. Nuclear Watchdog Groups Mock NYC's Atomic Bomb Preparedness Video As 'Delusional' https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/13/you-dont-got-peace-group-blasts... https://twitter.com/freedomrideblog/status/1546647400030392323 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH4tWkZpPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg https://twitter.com/nuclearban/status/1546875107368370179 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/25/victory-humanity-treaty-banning... https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11282/chapter/8 https://www.bartleby.com/73/1257.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk Programming The Nuclear Strike Peace advocates on Tuesday derided a New York City public service announcement meant to prepare residents for a nuclear attack as a 21st-century version of the absurd Duck and Cover civil defense film of the early Cold War era. "So, there's been a nuclear attack," the narrator of the NYC Emergency Management video begins. "Don't ask me how or why, just know the big one has hit."... "So what do we do?" she continues before instructing viewers to "get inside, fast," "stay inside... and get clean immediately," and "stay tuned; follow media for more information." The City of New York came up with a pretty useless PSA on how to protect ourselves from nuclear attack. Follow media? Um, there won't be electricity or media. Then again, we'll all be vaporized so... It pains me to say that there were no nuclear PSAs when Trump was president. pic.twitter.com/PhMzBCdSrY — Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) July 12, 2022 "All right? You've got this," the woman assures viewers. While New York City Mayor Eric Adams called the PSA a "great idea," some critics accused officials of unwarranted fearmongering amid increased nuclear tensions with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and NATO's response. Others lambasted the PSA as latest in a line of nuclear war informationals like the U.S. Civil Defense Administration's Duck and Cover and the British government's Protect and Survive films that offer little more than delusive contentment for millions of people who likely would not survive a full-scale thermonuclear attack. "The reality is, if this comes to pass, you don't 'got this,'" tweeted the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work leading to a landmark treaty outlawing nukes. Calling the PSA "outrageously misguided," ICAN said it's difficult to get inside fast during a nuclear explosion "when, in a matter of seconds, houses up to 175 kilometers away from the epicenter crumble like they are made of cards." 5/ The reality is, if this comes to pass, you don’t “got this.” In the hours and days to follow there will be no way to respond. As stated in our research paper below no state has the healthcare infrastructure to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear attackhttps://t.co/HdSDDhtlYK — ICAN (@nuclearban) July 12, 2022 "The PSA goes on to advise to 'stay inside, remove clothing, and shower,'" ICAN added. "As if taking a shower will be feasible during a nuclear attack, or effective to protect you against radioactive ash. And 'stay tuned'—as if communications infrastructure will be functional." The United States and Russia have over 11,000 nuclear warheads in their combined arsenals. China, France, and Britain have hundreds of warheads each, while India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea each have between 50-165 nukes. According to NukeMap, a single Russian 800 kiloton warhead airburst over midtown Manhattan would destroy or severely damage much of New York City and cause an estimated 4.5 million casualties. A higher-yield weapon, like the five-megaton warheads atop China's Dong Feng-5 intercontinental ballistic missiles, would destroy most of the city while killing or wounding around eight million people. In an actual full-scale nuclear war, multiple warheads would likely be launched against a target as important as New York. Millions of people not instantly incinerated or obliterated by the fireball—which is hotter than the sun's core—and immense blast wave of a nuclear explosion would suffer severe burns, blinding, lacerations, blunt-force injuries, and, for many, the slow death of radiation poisoning. "The living," Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reputedly said, "will envy the dead."
Reports of multiple government occupied buildings, commercial industry factories ruined in Russia re Ukraine lately. Conspiracy wonks discover more conspiracy events the USA... NWO WEF Davos Bilderberg BIS etc... Another Food Processing Plant Shutters Operations, Adding To Long List Of Closures A top food processing plant will be closing down one of its facilities in Campbell County, Tennessee, adding to the long list of closures over the last year. George's Prepared Foods announced its chicken processing plant in the small town of Caryville would be shuttering operations by the end of the summer. The reason for the closure was not disclosed and has caught local officials by surprise. Campbell County Mayor E.L. Morton told local news WVLT that he's trying to keep the plant open to save hundreds of jobs. "I have contacted the Tennessee Economic and Community Development staff to request assistance in keeping the plant open or facilitating a sale to another operator "I have requested Governor Lee's assistance as well. My primary concern is for the welfare of the dedicated workers who have been the backbone of this operation. Our prayers go out to them as well as our very best efforts to keep them employed in Campbell County," Morton said. [IMG] Senior Vice President of George's Food, Robert George, released a statement about the closure, citing it's "a challenging time to be in the prepared foods business, and we have been carefully evaluating how we navigate the volatility in beef and pork markets." George didn't explain what "challenging time" meant and if that was due to rampant inflation pressuring operating margins. The announcement of the closure pushed up the number of closed US food processing plants over the last year to 100. The list below are plants destroyed, damaged, or impacted by "accidental fires," disease, or other causes (courtesy of The Gateway Pundit): 1. 1/11/21 A fire that destroyed 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville 2. 4/30/21 A fire ignited inside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, IL 3. 7/25/21 Three-alarm fire at Kellogg plant in Memphis, 170 emergency personnel responded to the call 4. 7/30/21 Firefighters on Friday battled a large fire at Tyson's River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama 5. 8/23/21 Fire crews were called to the Patak Meat Production company on Ewing Road in Austell 6. 9/13/21 A fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines 7. 10/13/21 A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID 8. 11/15/21 A woman is in custody following a fire at the Garrard County Food Pantry 9. 11/29/21 A fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant 10. 12/13/21 West Side food processing plant in San Antonio left with smoke damage after a fire 11. 1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton's Mountain following an overnight fire 12. 1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA 13. 1/31/22 a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem 14. 2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston 15. 2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe 16. 2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas 17. 2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston 18. 2/16/22 A fire had broken at US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana 19. 2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm 20. 2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont 21. 2/22/22 The Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston caught fire after a propane boiler exploded 22. 2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions 23. 2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery 24. 3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri 25. 3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 26. 3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware 27. 3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD 28. 3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA 29. 3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover 30. 3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin 31. 3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis. 32. 3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas 33. 3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa 34. 3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware 35. 3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 36. 3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota 37. 3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska 38. 3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast, Maine. 39. 3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska 40. 3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa 41. 3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 42. 3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota 43. 3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa 44. 3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa 45. 3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas 46. 3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa 47. 3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa 48. 4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina 49. 4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 50. 4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 51. 4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina 52. 4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska 53. 4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota 54. 4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire 55. 4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant 56. 4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 57. 4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California. 58. 4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 59. 4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota 60. 4/19/22 Azure Standard nation's premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon 61. 4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 62. 4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color 63. 4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota 64. 4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia 65. 4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 66. 4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 67. 4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah 68. 4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania 69. 4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska 70. 4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers 71. 4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware 72. 4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 73. 4/29/22 5 million honeybees are dead after a flight carrying the pollinator insects from California to Alaska got diverted to Georgia (New) 74. 4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado 75. 4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma 76. 5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 77. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota 78. 5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 79. 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota 80. 5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 81. 5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania 82. 5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 83. 5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan 84. 5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 85. 5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 86. 5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 87. 5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 88. 5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL 89. 5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota 90. 5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 91. 5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake, Minnesota 92. 5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota 93. 6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 94. 6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin 95. 6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola, Louisiana 96. 6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta. 97. 6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs 98. 6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin 99. 6/14/22 Over 10,000 head of cattle have reportedly died in the recent Kansas heat wave 100. 6/23/22 George's Inc.: Poultry and Prepared Foods announced it will close one of its food processing plants in Campbell County, Tennessee Meanwhile, in London, Ontario, Aspire Food Group recently announced that its new insect production facility would produce 9,000 metric tons of crickets yearly for human and pet consumption across North America, according to Canadian Manufacturing. As a reminder, the World Economic Forum (WEF) technocrats urged people weeks ago to ditch meat for "climate beneficial foods" such as seaweed, algae, and cacti. Part of the new world order is to reset the global economy and reengineer what people eat. This is being accomplished by influential billionaires, politicians, celebrities, biased academics, wealthy philanthropists, and the bureaucrats of international organizations and institutions.
http://deagel.com/ On 4/20/21, Deagel.com, a military intelligence agency, has deleted their mysterious 2025 forecast spreadsheet that predicted a major collapse of the western countries. The forecast used to exist at [link to deagel.com (secure)] and now that page just redirects to the home page. Deagel.com predicts up to 80% of population culled by 2025 in countries where Europeans live UK, US, and Germany look to be "epicenters of slaughter" (Updated 5/21/22) James Hill, MD, JD Dec 5, 2021 2 6 Researcher Craig Paardekooper released this report on predictions of global population reduction from military analysis website Deagel.com. Protocols of the Elder of Zion. Agenda2030 https://yournews.com/2022/07/12/2376284/world-economic-forum-deletes-sri-lan... https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-ame...
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/w3hz3c/what_is_going_on_with_ge... The army is advertising home ownership to recruit people in a time where many believe they will never own a home. Trudeau, one of the only Western leaders to mandate masks on trains, spotted maskless on train Has anyone ever scrolled through the people that like Joe Biden’s posts?? Who the heck are these people?? To the Top Carlos,Collins Explorer, Mr.VeerapatCcheawcom, Jeans Funy, Etc… Many of these are business pages but most are fake people and foreigners to the US. Everything about them are fake. In 1980 many places like Dallas had their worst heat wave ever. 42-day streak of 100+ days. It was caused by the sun (high total solar irradiance). This current heatwave around the world is also being caused by the sun (high TSI.) Not because of CO2. Don't eat bugs for Klaus Prediction: Netherlands will issue arrest warrant on Graham Hancock, over him illegally giving farmers super-soil. The soil, Terra Preta was a Mayan technology to make Amazon rainforest farmable. Happening now in China; CCP tanks on the street again, this time protecting Banks (possibly Rizhao, Shandong Province). This is because the Henan branch of the Bank of China declared that people's savings in their branch are now 'investment products' and can't be withdrawn.
George Soros buys the media, Juan still listens, everyone else refuses... Growing Number Of Spanish Radio Stars Bolt From Station Bought By Soros-Backed Group https://www.theepochtimes.com/growing-number-of-spanish-radio-stars-bolt-fro... https://latinomedianetwork.com/news/latino_media_network_lmn_launches_to_bui... A growing number of hosts are leaving a Spanish-language radio station after it was bought by a group backed by billionaire leftist George Soros. Hungarian-born U.S. investor and philanthropist George Soros answers to questions after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 24, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) Nelson Rubio announced his resignation from Radio Mambi on July 12, following Dania Alexandrino and Lourdes Ubieta. Radio Mambi “has been the voice of the Cuban exile, the voice of conservative men and women who defend freedom, democracy, family principles, truth, and faith in God,” Rubio said during a press conference in Miami. “Many in this community have felt betrayed by the acquisition of this radio by a company financed by the left liberal extremist, George Soros.” Rubio and Ubieta are joining Americano Media, where Alexandrino already had a show. “Being faithful to my principles I couldn’t accept being part of any business associated with these leftist activists and their socialist agenda,” Alexandrino told reporters. Radio Mambi was one of 18 radio stations in 10 cities that was recently purchased by the Latino Media Network from Univision. The stations were said to reach about one-third of U.S. Latinos. The deal was $60 million, all cash, according to the network. The network, which did not respond to a request for comment, said its funding came from “leading Latino investors” and Lakestar Finance LLC, an investment entity affiliated with the Soros Fund Management, one of the many entities owned or linked to Soros. Lourdes Ubieta. (Courtesy of Americano Media) ‘Relevant Content’ Jess Morales Rocketto, one of the network’s founders, said in a statement that the group “hope[s] to create relevant content for radio and other audio platforms with content that our community can trust and rely on” and “is going to ensure that the Latino community continues to be served with the news and information that local communities deserve.” The transition to the new ownership will not happen until the Federal Communications Commission approves the deal. The network said the deal is expected to finalize in quarter four of 2023. The network also said it intended to retain employees who work at the stations. Americano Media bills itself as the nation's first national conservative Hispanic network in Spanish. It launched in March and broadcasts on Sirius XM, GETTR, and applications, with plans to launch on television soon. CEO Ivan Garcia Hidalgo said during the briefing that the purchase of Mambi "indicated to us that the Left is trying to silence truth and the conservative narrative, and we offered an opportunity to these great hosts and talent to come to Americano and continue their work." "These individuals make up a powerful team that has fled from what will become a voice of oppression and disinformation, to come join a strong network of Hispanics that care deeply about their communities," he added. Brazilian journalist Paulo Figueiredo was among others sounding the alarm, telling EpochTV's "Crossroads" that the Latino Media Network move stemmed from a desire to get Hispanics voting for Democrats again, as more and more have shifted to Republicans in recent elections.
Here we detail one of Juan's favorite entities, of which he is a founding member and thought leader... What Is The "Council For Inclusive Capitalism"? https://alt-market.us/what-is-the-council-for-inclusive-capitalism-its-the-n... https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,976015-1,00.html https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1974-04-01/hard-road-world-order https://www.inclusivecapitalism.com/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174 Event 201 https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2022/capitalism-pope/743426 https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-r... https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/council-for-inclusive-capitalism-re... https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2022/03/02/the-bank-ceo-p... The idea that there is an agenda for global government among the financial and political elites of the world has long been called a “conspiracy theory” within the mainstream and the establishment media. And sadly, even when you can convince people to look at and accept the evidence that banking institutions and certain politicians work together for their own purposes, many folks will STILL not entertain the notion that the ultimate goal of these power mongers is one-world empire. They just can’t wrap their heads around such a thing. People will say that the establishment is driven by greed alone and that their associations are fragile and based only on individual self interest. They will say that crisis events and shifts in social and political trends are random, not the product of deliberate engineering. They will say that elitists will never be able to work together because they are too narcissistic, etc. All of these arguments are a coping mechanism for the public to deal with evidence they cannot otherwise refute. When the facts become concrete and the powers-that-be admit to their schemes openly, some people will revert to confused denial. They don’t want to believe that organized evil on such a scale could actually be real. If it did, then everything they thought they knew about the world might be wrong. For many years the agenda for global governance was only whispered about within elitist circles, but every once in a while one of them would speak aloud in public about it. Perhaps out of arrogance or perhaps because they felt the time was right to ease the populace into accepting the possibility. Whenever they did mention it, they called it the “New World Order.” World leaders from George HW Bush to Barack Obama to Joe Biden to Gordon Brown to Tony Blair and beyond have all given speeches talking about the “New World Order.” Money and political elites like George Soros and Henry Kissinger have mentioned the NWO incessantly over the years. One of the most revealing quotes on the agenda comes from Clinton Administration Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot, who stated in Time magazine that: “In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority… National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” He adds in the same article a lesser known quote: “…The free world formed multilateral financial institutions that depend on member states’ willingness to give up a degree of sovereignty. The International Monetary Fund can virtually dictate fiscal policies, even including how much tax a government should levy on its citizens. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade regulates how much duty a nation can charge on imports. These organizations can be seen as the protoministries of trade, finance and development for a united world.” To understand how the agenda works, I offer a quote from globalist and Council on Foreign Relations member Richard Gardner in an article in Foreign Affairs Magazine in 1974 titled ‘The Hard Road To World Order’: “In short, the “house of world order” will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great “booming, buzzing confusion,” to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” The “NWO” has since changed names multiple times as the public grows increasingly wise to the conspiracy. It’s been called the Multilateral World Order, the 4th Industrial Revolution, the “Great Reset,” etc. The names change but the meaning is always the same. In the past two years in the face of extensive global crisis events the “new order” establishment globalists have been talking about has arrived, and with almost no fanfare or mention in the mainstream media. The beginnings of global government already exist, and it’s called the “Council For Inclusive Capitalism.” Lately, many analysts myself included have been highly focused on the World Economic Forum and their role in the global government agenda. Mainly because WEF head Klaus Schwab is such a loudmouth and he can’t help but talk about future plans for centralization. As I have noted in past articles, the elites within the WEF got way too excited about the covid pandemic, thinking that they had the perfect crisis to implement numerous globalist policies in the form of the Great Reset. As it turned out, covid was nowhere near as deadly as they initially predicted during Event 201, and the public was not as submissive and compliant as they had hoped we would be. The WEF let the cat out of the bag too soon. So, onward we go, with crisis after crisis like dominoes falling until we get to the one event that they think will drive the masses to accept world governance. And while the WEF is regularly attended by top level globalists, they are more of a high level think-tank, the Council for Inclusive Capitalism appears to be about implementation rather than theory. The founder of the group is Lynn Forester de Rothschild, member of the infamous Rothschild Dynasty that has long been monetarily involved in influencing governments for generations. Pope Francis and the Vatican publicly aligned with the council in 2020, and one of the primary narratives of the CIC is that all religions must unite with the leaders of capital to build a society and an economy that is “fair for all.” This mission statement is rather familiar, as it echoes the goals of the WEF and its concept of the “Shared Economy”: A system in which you will own nothing, have no privacy, borrow everything, be completely reliant on the government for your survival and you will “like it.” In other words, the purpose of “inclusive capitalism” is to con the masses into accepting a rebranded version of communism. The promise will be that you won’t have to worry anymore about your economic future, but the cost will be your freedom. The CIC is led by a core group of global leaders they refer to as “The Guardians” (No, I’m not joking, this is real). Members of the CIC have included: Mastercard, Allianz, Dupont, the UN, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), CalPERS, BP, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, Visa, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Mark Carney, the Treasurer of the State of California and many more companies around the world. The list is extensive, but what it represents is a kind of corporate led government with a congress of corporate representatives mixed with pliable political leaders. One of the top missions of the CIC has been to change our economic models to “promote equity and inclusion.” Hilariously, proponents of the CIC argue that “too much wealth has been accumulated into the hands of too few people and this proves that existing capitalism does not work, yet THEY are the very people that rigged the system to centralize that wealth into THEIR HANDS. They aren’t “capitalists,” they are an aristocracy. Do you really think that these people are going to build a whole new system that doesn’t continue to benefit them? If you have ever wondered why the Pope has been pushing woke ideology, climate alarmism and one world religion rhetoric in conflict with traditional Christian doctrine, this is why – He’s following the dictates of the CIC. Another mission of the CIC is to enforce carbon controls and taxation in the name of “climate change” with the purpose of reaching “net-zero” emissions. As we all know, net zero carbon will be impossible without a complete upheaval of our economy and industry, along with the deaths of billions of people in the process. It is an unattainable scenario, which is why it is perfect for the globalists. Humans are the enemy of the Earth, they claim, so we need to let the elites control our every action to ensure we don’t destroy the planet and ourselves, and the process will never end because there will always be carbon emissions to deal with. Members of the CIC, including the head of Bank of America, openly suggest that they don’t actually need governments to cooperate in order to meet their goals. They say corporations can implement most social engineering without political aid. In other words, it is the every definition of “shadow government” – A massive corporate cabal that works in tandem to implement social changes without any oversight. As noted, we’ve already seen this with the spread of woke ideology by hundreds if not thousands of corporations working as a hive. Is the CIC the final form of global government? No, probably not. But, it is the beginning of it; a government by corporations and money elites for corporations and money elites. It bypasses all political representation, all checks and balances and all voter participation. It is conglomerates and their partners making decisions for our society unilaterally and in a centralized fashion. And, since big business acts as if they are separate from government rather than partners with government, they can claim they are allowed to do whatever they please. However, with corporations and globalists increasingly showing their true colors and acting as if they should be in charge, the public must hold them accountable as if they are part of government. And if they are found to be authoritarian and corrupt, they must be overthrown like any other political dictatorship.
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Down the hole it goes... Elon is playing a dangerous game. Don't be surprised to find him dead in unusual circumstances. McAfee knew DAY 1, right when the pandemic started, what the agenda was. RIP https://i.redd.it/loskofc8w7091.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/07/26/surfside-condo-collapse-... https://youtu.be/Wv0HCGoledk https://news.bitcoin.com/mysterious-john-mcafee-website-appears-for-two-days... List of US politicians who are attending to WEF 2022. https://i.redd.it/jh98pyn4uv091.png Udo Ulfkotte says all major media networks controlled by CIA https://youtu.be/HtX_p-bDyxw "Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things... Happy Killdozer Day, Marvin Heemeyer" https://i.redd.it/053q23dow8371.jpg https://i.redd.it/z8w0h5xk5v091.jpg https://bitchute.com/video/5MYo2vNxKM8M/ Remember when The NY Times said 4000 children died from Covid in the US…and then retracted it after scaring parents (because it was all a lie and they knew it). https://www.corbettreport.com/ https://youtu.be/mDlnM481Gcg https://youtu.be/Tyz4n-whti8 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYmIBQRIOqKk1Kp8sDtnSaX1fTd5K-Kvo https://archive.is/uspbl "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also be giving a special welcome address on the opening day of that event and will be followed by executives from companies such as COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer" https://i.redd.it/874xwk27zv091.jpg Aids epidemic 'triggered by smallpox vaccine' I live in a country where the government can mandate an experimental "vaccine" and then if you don't vote for its puppets, you risk a criminal conviction. https://i.redd.it/ruzqati4rs091.jpg FDA is “rotten to the core,” says Dr. Robert Malone – the agency knew all along that covid “vaccines” cause viral replication - vulms.org Unvaccinated Ukrainians will be exempt from all vaccine travel mandates and allowed to enter and leave Canada freely. But unvaccinated Canadians can’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljpHugKNcoI https://i.imgur.com/Tl5oYd9.png https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/death-by-influenza_b_4661442 California law requiring women on boards is unconstitutional, judge rules Nancy Pelosi salary: $193,400. Nancy Pelosi net worth: $196million. Mitch McConnell salary: $193,400. Mitch McConnell net worth:$54million. We're being ruled over by a much of money hungry geriatrics. mass formation psychosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/parents-catch-fbi-plot-force-mentall... https://archive.ph/jPEBA http://archive.ph/lUYCY http://archive.ph/mXDDF https://archive.ph/OGh4p https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca10-20-06040/pdf/USCOURTS-ca10... https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/family-fbi-knew-oklahoma-bomb-plot-suspect-... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-city-bomb-sting_n_5993c045e4b04b1933... https://youtu.be/-ZlmHvd_RZU https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/World_Trade_Center_Site_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq-0JIR38V0 https://www.ae911truth.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAv-114bwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FWFAs9ffGk https://youtu.be/6zyJB45ewvU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks https://pastebin.com/YPEErwTK https://archive.org/details/TheCorp http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/SILENT%20WEAPONS%20for%20QUIET%20WARS.pdf https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfSelfThereIsAPolicemanInsideAllOurHea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://i.imgur.com/lMDs7gR.png https://youtu.be/rdrKCilEhC0 https://archive.fo/2Kwe9 https://pastebin.com/KfJYaJAh https://thenarrowgateweb.com/2016/08/13/energy-weapons-teslas-suppressed-tec... 788-790 Finchley Road, North London Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Here’s a photo of her looking real cozy with Laurene Powell Jobs (Steve Job’s widow). Laurene owns the Atlantic... https://i.redd.it/mlegrm1ulr481.jpg https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8639501/amp/Bill-Clinton-smiles-rec... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/children-sex-traffickin... Newly released photos show Maxwell and Epstein relaxing at a cabin thought to be the porch of the Queen's log cabin. https://i.redd.it/okfldphnwd481.jpg Photos were released of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the White House with former president Bill Clinton https://i.redd.it/dv5buvu8hx071.jpg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw PSYWAR: Ghosts In The Machine
Cops get away with murder, speeding, civil forfeiture theft, torture beatings maimings, false testimony, etc... You stupidly keep paying for their PsyOps to whitewash and make their crimes against you easier... https://twitter.com/kennethmejiaLA/status/1522632821654786050 https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1522645224538841088 People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil LAPD has 24 media relations employees if you’re wondering why the copaganda is so strong in the local media. The cops have a highly funded PR department. Kenneth Mejia, CPA @kennethmejiaLA We were asked how much the LAPD spends on their PR / MEDIA RELATIONS DIVISION (MRD). 🚔📹 As part of our mission for #FinancialTransparency, MRD has 24 employees & gets paid an estimated $5,008,620 from taxpayers annually. Average base salary is $122,378. All info is public. 🔍 https://twitter.com/ampol_moment/status/1520533772571414528 President Eisenhower sketches a buff version of himself on a memo about how the CIA had just overthrown the Guatemalan government. (1954)
Russian propaganda programming mobile video broadcast bus... https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1529153259385913344 Russia is literally cosplaying Orwell's "1984" in the occupied Ukrainian lands. In Mariupol, the Russians installed mobile TV sets and broadcast their propaganda 24/7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw PSYWAR: Ghosts In The Machine You stupidly keep paying for their PsyOps against you
10 Examples When 'Empire Managers' Exposed Their Desire To Control Our Thoughts https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/05/29/ten-times-empire-managers-showed-us-... The single most-overlooked and under-appreciated aspect of our society is the fact that immensely powerful people are continuously working to manipulate the thoughts we think about the world. Whether you call it propaganda, psyops, perception management or public relations, it’s a real thing that happens constantly, and it happens to all of us. And its consequences shape our entire world. This should be at the forefront of our attention when examining news, trends and ideas, but it hardly ever gets mentioned. This is because the mass-scale psychological manipulation is succeeding. Propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening. To be clear, I am not talking about some kind of wacky unsubstantiated conspiracy theory here. I am talking about a conspiracy fact. That we are propagandized by people with authority over us is not seriously in dispute by any well-informed good faith actor and has been extensively described and documented for many years. More than this, the managers of the US-centralized empire which dominates the west and so much of the rest of the world have straightforwardly shown us that they propagandize us and want to propagandize us more. They have shown us with their actions, and they have at times come right out and told us with their words. Here are just a few of those times. 1. Operation Mockingbird Let’s start with maybe the best-known example. In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled “The CIA and the Media” reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America’s most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird. It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media are meant to report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers. But it only got worse from there. 2. Intelligence operatives now just openly working in the media The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media. "This isn't Operation Mockingbird. It's so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something *to* the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting *as* the media."https://t.co/mFwHob0MFC — Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 16, 2021 Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and people are too propagandized to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits. The Washington Post has consistently refused to disclose the fact that its sole owner has been a CIA contractor when reporting on US intelligence agencies as per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price, Rick Francona, Michael Morell, John McLaughlin, John Sipher, Thomas Bossert, Clint Watts, James Baker, Mike Baker, Daniel Hoffman, David Preiss, Evelyn Farkas, Mike Rogers and Malcolm Nance, as are known CIA assets like NBC’s Ken Dilanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any meaningful separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretence of separation, has been dropped. 3. Richard Stengel’s CFR remarks on propaganda At a Council on Foreign Relations forum about "fake news," former Editor at Time Magazine Richard Stengel directly states that he supports the use of propaganda on American citizens - then shuts the session down when challenged about how propaganda is used against the third world pic.twitter.com/ClAT5POv7G — William Craddick (@williamcraddick) May 11, 2018 Former US State Department official and Time Magazine editor Richard Stengel expressed full-throated support for the use of propaganda on both foreign and domestic audiences during a 2018 event organized by the supremely influential think tank Council on Foreign Relations. “Basically every country creates their own narrative story,” Stengel said. “My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist. I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.” Interestingly, years earlier during his time at the US State Department under the Obama administration Stengel actually provided his own definition of what precisely he means by the word “propaganda”, and it’s not nearly as innocuous as he made it sound for his CFR audience. “Propaganda is the deliberate dissemination of information that you know to be false or misleading in order to influence an audience,” Stengel wrote in 2014. Those are two mighty interesting positions for an empire manager to hold at the same time, especially one who just served on the presidential transition team of the current president. 4. US officials telling the press they’re circulating disinfo about Russia to win an information war against Putin US Officials Admit They're Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia "And the only plausible reason I can think of that they would want the public to know about it is that they are confident the public will consent to being lied to."https://t.co/mYBJ4kQhk8 — Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 7, 2022 Last month NBC News released a report citing multiple anonymous US officials who said the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out “intelligence” about Russia’s plans in Ukraine that is “low-confidence” or “based more on analysis than hard evidence”, or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin. The report says that toward this end the US government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about Putin’s advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China. So they lied. They may hold that they lied for a noble reason, but they lied. They knowingly circulated information they had no reason to believe was true, and that lie was amplified by all the most influential media outlets in the western world. That this happened while the mass media is continually churning out reports warning the public about the dangers of “disinformation” is an irony that was lost on almost everybody. 5. Senators telling Silicon Valley representatives it’s their job to manipulate public thought to prevent dissent Friendly reminder that last year representatives of Google/Youtube, Facebook and Twitter were instructed on the floor of the US Senate that it is their responsibility to "quell information rebellions" so as to "prevent the fomenting of discord.”https://t.co/X4Hc56fH0k — Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) August 6, 2018 In 2017 representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter were called before the Senate Judiciary Committee and told they must “quell information rebellions” and were instructed to come up with a mission statement expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord” on their platforms. “We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America,” the tech giants were told by think tanker and former FBI agent Clint Watts, who added, “Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced — silence the guns and the barrage will end.” When monopolistic billionaire corporations are faced with demands from a legislative body that could easily make their lives a lot harder and a lot less profitable by taking action, up to and including major antitrust cases, they are being made an offer they can’t refuse. This was made abundantly clear by Senator Dianne Feinstein during the 2017 hearings in her threat to intervene if those corporations failed to curtail the spread of unauthorized information online. “You have to be the ones who do something about it — or we will,” Feinstein told the online platforms. 6. The Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board” Patriot Act co-author, former DHS secretary, surveillance porn addict, & Russiagate hoax spreader Michael Chertoff will be overseeing the review of the Ministry of Truth You can't make this shit uphttps://t.co/IeAelhFy3m — Slow News Day (@SlowNewsDayShow) May 24, 2022 The Department of Homeland Security’s hotly controversial Disinformation Governance Board, which critics have not-unfairly labeled a government-run Ministry of Truth, has “paused” its operations pending a review in light of public outcry. That review will be headed by corrupt imperial swamp monsters Michael Chertoff and Jamie Gorelick, of all people. No government entity has any business appointing itself the authority to sort information from disinformation on behalf of the public, because government entities are not impartial and omniscient deities who can be entrusted to serve the public as objective arbiters of absolute reality. They would with absolute certainty wind up drawing distinctions between information, misinformation and disinformation in whatever way serves their interests, regardless of what’s true, exactly as any authoritarian regime would do. Whatever happens with that review we may be sure that the board’s mission will continue, either under its current name or under some other more carefully disguised iteration. The empire is expressing far too much enthusiasm for greater and greater control over public thought to just let this one slip past. 7. The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban http://t.co/NClezBI0 via @BuzzFeed — Michael Hastings (@mmhastings) May 18, 2012 In December of 2012 the US congress passed a revision of the Smith-Mundt Act as part of the 2013 NDAA which critics said ended restrictions that were put in place to prevent the government from propagandizing US citizens. The legislation was first highlighted in a BuzzFeed News article by journalist Michael Hastings, who the following year would die in a rather suspicious car wreck while reportedly working on a major story. “It removes the protection for Americans,” an unnamed Pentagon official told Hastings. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.” Hastings’ report sparked online controversy, with many agreeing with his analysis of what would become known as the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 and others saying concerns were unfounded. Either way, with all that’s happened over the last ten years, it’s clear now that Americans were right to be worried about a dramatic escalation in domestic propaganda. 8. Reagan’s Psychological Operations Robert Parry shows how three decades ago the US began an operation to flood the world with psyops, https://t.co/xXRRRufsBS — Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) March 25, 2017 The late Robert Parry wrote numerous articles for Consortium News about the Reagan administration’s operations of mass-scale psychological manipulation, which related directly to Parry’s extensive work on the Iran-Contra affair during that time. Parry described how Reagan and his neocon goons were obsessed with countering the public war-weariness and distrust of US interventionism which followed the Vietnam War in order to gain more consent for the depraved agendas the administration was working to roll out in Latin America. Central to this goal of consent-manufacturing, which the White House called “public diplomacy” in public and “perception management” in private, was a particularly odious-sounding spook named Walter Raymond Jr. In an article titled “The Victory of ‘Perception Management’,” Parry wrote the following: During his Iran-Contra deposition, Raymond explained the need for this propaganda structure, saying: “We were not configured effectively to deal with the war of ideas.” One reason for this shortcoming was that federal law forbade taxpayers’ money from being spent on domestic propaganda or grassroots lobbying to pressure congressional representatives. Of course, every president and his team had vast resources to make their case in public, but by tradition and law, they were restricted to speeches, testimony and one-on-one persuasion of lawmakers. But things were about to change. In a Jan. 13, 1983, memo, NSC Advisor Clark foresaw the need for non-governmental money to advance this cause. “We will develop a scenario for obtaining private funding,” Clark wrote. (Just five days later, President Reagan personally welcomed media magnate Rupert Murdoch into the Oval Office for a private meeting, according to records on file at the Reagan library.) As administration officials reached out to wealthy supporters, lines against domestic propaganda soon were crossed as the operation took aim not only at foreign audiences but at U.S. public opinion, the press and congressional Democrats who opposed funding the Nicaraguan Contras. 9. Canadian military leaders using Covid regulations as an opportunity to test out psyop techniques on civilians Sad that a tragedy like COVID was used to test Canadians’ reaction to fear propaganda. I hope we didn’t lay down our freedoms at the alter of gov created fear, segregation, & hatred. Was that the purpose of the secret military op, testing our malleability? https://t.co/IPtx8eVa7u — Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) September 29, 2021 Last year Ottawa Citizen reported that the Canadian military used the Covid outbreak as an excuse to test actual military psyop techniques on its own civilian population under the pretense of assuring compliance with pandemic restrictions. Some excerpts: “Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.” “The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for ‘shaping’ and ‘exploiting’ information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.” “A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario. Data was also compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings and BLM leaders.” “’This is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,’ the rear admiral stated.” “Yet another review centred on the Canadian Forces public affairs branch and its activities. Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.” “The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians.” So empire managers are not just employing mass-scale psychological operations on the public, they’re testing them and learning from them. 10. The US government funding “independent” media in Ukraine White House fact-sheet says part of the mammoth $33 billion spending package it's requesting for Ukraine will be to "support independent media." Because nothing screams "independent" like being directly funded by the US Government as part of its "information warfare" initiative pic.twitter.com/O3JshV1Mg9 — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 28, 2022 Lastly, there’s the fact that the infamous $40 billion proxy war package sent to Ukraine includes funds allocated to “Counter Russian disinformation and propaganda narratives, promote accountability for Russian human rights violation, and support activists, journalists, and independent media to defend freedom of expression.” So information warfare. The US government is funding information warfare to manipulate public perception of this war and running cover for those manipulations by calling them activism, journalism, and independent media. Given that the mainstream western press have been uncritically reporting even the most outlandish stories coming out of Ukraine without a shred of evidence, we can expect this government-funded propaganda to spread throughout the western world.
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YouTube CEO Reassures Davos Elites That They Will Continue To Control The Narrative https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/mccaul-releases-addendum-... https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-d... https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/ https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1450934193177903105 https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-hunters-laptop-is... https://www.cato.org/blog/new-poll-75-dont-trust-social-media-make-fair-cont... Yet another story out of Davos that went mostly unnoticed by the mainstream, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addressed issues of “misinformation” on the internet at the WEF forum and how the content platform plans to deal with it. As we all know, the concept of “misinformation” is treated arbitrarily by Big Tech corporations according to whatever narrative corporate oligarchs and governments want to push at the time. If you are confused as to what they consider misinformation to be, just take any fact, piece of evidence or opinion that's contrary to the mainstream narrative of the day and assume it is now “misinformation.” It's as simple as that. We saw this with painful clarity throughout the covid fear campaign of the past two years. Any discussions on medical facts that did not support the CDC, the WHO or Anthony Fauci's assertions that we should be living in terror were swiftly removed from social media. In the meantime, corporate legacy media outlets were pushed the forefront and widely promoted despite their lack of audience support. The acceptable narrative was this – The masks work, the lockdowns work, the vaccines work, and vaccines passports are necessary and justified. If you tried to point out that the evidence showed any or all of these claims were false, you were probably censored or blocked by a Big Tech platform or two. If you pointed out that the Level 4 virology lab in Wuhan China is the most likely source of the Covid-19 virus, then you were probably censored. If you pointed out that Anthony Fauci and his cohorts funded gain of function research on covid at the Wuhan Lab, then you were accused of spreading “misinformation.” If you pointed out that the average vaccine is tested for 10-15 years while the covid mRNA vaccines were barely tested at all before release, then you were probably blocked for “misinformation.” All of these things are considered facts or are greatly supported by hard evidence today, but two years ago they were labeled misinformation on YouTube. And what about the Biden Laptop story? Oh yeah, that was called “misinformation” too, even though it was indeed a concrete fact. Wojcicki has left little doubt that despite YouTube being caught numerous times mislabeling the truth as misinformation, the company will continue on the same exact path and serve establishment interests. The CEO suggested at the Davos conference this past week that the platform would work harder to remove incentives for the publishing of “misinformation.” The WEF made this query during the interview: WEF: “So it sounds like, bury, to the extent that you can, things that are not credible sources and don't recommend. But it also still sounds like a work in progress, do you think it always will be a work in progress?” Wojcicki: "I think there'll always be work that we have to do because there will always be incentives for people to be creating misinformation...The challenge will be to keep staying ahead of that...I think there'll always be work. But after all this work that we have put in, this has been a huge initiative for us for at least over, you know, five, six years. I think we've come a long way. And I would challenge you if you go and you look and you do a search or you look at your home page in terms of what you're seeing when it comes to sensitive topics, you're going to see them coming from more authoritative sources.” Beyond the suppression of alternative media sources with inconvenient facts, Wojcicki noted that the terms of service for YouTube would adapt to events. Despite the fact the YouTube still allows Russian news to operate on the site, the narrative could still be molded, suggesting that criticism of the Ukraine narrative could now be considered a violation. Wojcicki: “...What we saw was if there was denial or trivialization associated with the conflict, with the war in Ukraine, that would also become a violation. So, the first and most important thing for us was to really focus on the responsibility, figure out how we could be good players in making sure that users can get authoritative and the right information. And what we're really seeing in this conflict is that information does play a key role, that information can be weaponized.” Of course, the weaponization of information is exactly what social media platforms including YouTube have been engaged in lately. This can be done through suppression of honest sources as much as censorship. As the legacy media continues to falter and lose its audience to the alternative media, the establishment narrative must be encouraged by some other means. Big Tech platforms have taken up the propaganda mantle, asserting that information must now be filtered by the “authorities” instead of being allowed to spread freely. According to YouTube and other companies, average people are not capable of deliberating on data and information themselves and coming to their own conclusions. This is apparently too dangerous to allow. But who determined that Big Tech corporations are qualified to dictate what is factual and what is misinformation? No one voted for them to do the job and very few people want them to do the job. According to polls, around 75% of Americans do not trust social media to make fair content moderation decisions. While 63% of people say they support the “removal of misinformation,” most people could not agree on what misinformation actually is. In the minds of establishment bureaucrats and Big Tech, they are the one's that decide what it is. In other words, label the truth a threat and then offer to be a moderator for that threat, and in doing so gain power from thin air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCBNwGHPZ2M Tom MacDonald - Brainwashed NWO sayer Reagan signs off with warning... https://twitter.com/Desi_3650/status/1525468907473076224 Govt always against Liberty Grim Reaper sends message in Turkey... https://twitter.com/JoshD0110/status/1531756223061757952 https://im1776.com/2022/05/31/one-way-government/ https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/edible-insects-scientists-plan-to-feed-... How many #antifa anti-Trump violent rioters from 2017 inauguration went to jail? None. How many #SpyGate culprits went to jail? None. How many #Russiagate hoax culprits went to jail? None. But they tried to lynch Flynn, Stone, Bannon & 1/6 defendants. Welcome to D.C. justice. Number 1 predictor of whether a DC jury will find a defendant guilty is neither the law nor the evidence. It's whether they are seen as pro-Trump or anti-Trump. DC justice makes the To Kill A Mockingbird jury look impartial. #SussmannTrial
World Economic Forum WEF at Davos... The Coming Total Control Over Your Choices and Lives... A Global ESG System Is Almost Here: We Should Be Worried https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-global-esg-system-is-almost-here-we-should-b... Day two of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, started off on a concerning note. A sign of the World Economic Forum is seen in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20, 2017. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) Some of the chief architects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores met during a session called “Global ESG for Global Resilience,” and have clearly decided to double down on their objective for a new global economic order that transcends national borders and replaces free-market capitalism. Destroying free-market capitalism in favor of a new “stakeholder” model, in which global elites hold all the power, has been their objective for years. A single ESG system gets them much closer to this goal, and will be significantly more effective at eroding national sovereignty, circumventing democratic processes, coercing companies into compliance, and ultimately restricting individual choice. Early in the session, Hong Kong Stock Exchange Chairman Laura Cha got right to the point. She revealed, “In order for the [ESG] disclosures to be meaningful, we need to have a harmonized standard. … It would be very good in terms of the work that the ISSB [International Sustainability Standards Board] is doing to bring about some standardized global measures.” The ISSB is a new standard-setting board developed for the sole purpose of institutionalizing this global framework. ISSB Chairman Emmanuel Faber confirmed that these efforts have begun: “We just a week ago … we convened the first-ever working group of jurisdictions on sustainability standard alignment …. And there was China, Japan, [the] UK, [the] U.S., and [the] EU. … And that is just the start.” He had earlier stated, “We can’t stay at the taxonomy levels of any jurisdiction. Because they are linked to a certain political consensus and they might be changing tomorrow. So, if you look at the long-term, you need to go deeper than the taxonomies.” Reading between the lines, Faber seems to be saying that he intends to institutionalize a top-down system that will infiltrate all national borders and be impervious to political decision-making, which would render the idea of democracy impotent. Much of the remainder of the conversation was an illuminating look at the ways in which elites will threaten and coerce the world into compliance. Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan didn’t waste any time, immediately threatening companies to get in line. When asked if he believed that the war in Ukraine and COVID-19 have set efforts to expand ESG back, he responded, “No. … The reality is that operating companies have made commitments, along multiple dimensions … you can’t just say, ‘Oh, it’s inconvenient right now.’” He added: “I don’t see there’s a way you can walk away from it, because your customers won’t let you, your employees won’t let you, and your shareholders shouldn’t, won’t let you. And, by the way, society won’t let you.” Gee, Brian, it really doesn’t sound like these companies are doing this based upon free will. Moynihan also committed to using the economic clout of his entire organization, including the funds of his individual account holders, saying, “200,000 people, a three trillion-dollar balance sheet, 60 billion in expenses; you start aiming that gun, and you take that across all these companies, it is huge …. [The companies] delivering on the metrics will get more capital, the ones that won’t will get less.” He even discussed his implementation of a training regimen for each of his lending officers, educating them on how to talk to their clients about the benefits of ESG-resilient companies. Moynihan went on to discuss how Bank of America and other organizations will make purchasing decisions related to their supply chains that will be based on their net-zero commitments, all of which will trickle down to businesses and consumers. He warned customers to get on board: “What we’re trying to do is educate those customers. The idea is: We’re going to stick with you, but you have to start to think about this. … We’ve got to get the rest of the world ready to go. … Don’t think this is other people’s problems. This could become your problem.” Brian, you’re manufacturing the “problem,” just like you’re manufacturing “consent.” Unilever CEO Alan Jope echoed similar commitments to shutting off supply valves for the rest of the world in favor of his objectives, which, by the way, won’t help solve our current supply chain issues and the related inflationary crisis. He preached, “We’ve pledged to only do business with suppliers who are, for example, paying their people properly a fair living wage … who have made net-zero commitments, so we can take our impact into the entire universe of people who work with our company.” In one of the most concerning statements of the morning, Jope declared that for this system to work, “It has to go from government and regulators, into the capitalist system, big companies, small and medium-sized entities; but actually, the ultimate democratization, the ultimate way of moving markets is when the consumer is voting with her wallet.” First, the growing alliance between big government and big business—with a little help from the media—carries substantial fascist overtones. Second, the consumer you reference doesn’t have a free choice, Alan. What you hope to do is akin to taking a popular candidate off an electoral ballot—like they do in electoral autocracies such as Russia—and forcing people to choose between limited options that are unlikely to be their preference. There’s a reason a natural market exists for these goods; there’s consumer demand, which is in turn fulfilled by producers. These people are trying to both fundamentally alter demand by changing consumer preferences, while fundamentally altering supply by destroying producers who don’t join their team. Faber frames these efforts as “We are not going to say what’s good or what’s bad. We are just providing the information for people to make decisions.” Simply put, that is a lie. As has clearly been stated by members of this WEF panel, what these elites are actually doing is steering investment away from companies that don’t align with their vision for the world, and severing relationships with companies—causing a trickle-down reduction in choice for the rest of the market—that don’t get on board. This isn’t about information; it’s about control, and power.
"The Deep State Is In A 'Do-Or-Die' Moment" - Alex Newman Warns Globalists 'Need To Terrify Everyone' Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Author of the popular book “Deep State” and award-winning journalist Alex Newman says Deep State globalists are afraid the world is waking up to the tyranny they are trying to impose on every country on earth including America. Things are not going as smoothly into their so-called reset as they had envisioned. Newman explains, “The Deep State is in a ‘do or die’ moment right now..." "They, the elites or predator class, recognize that they are now locked into this. If they try to retreat, there is no retreat. People are waking up at such a rapid rate that they are in a moment where they are going to have to go for broke and try to impose the whole agenda and damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead or they are going to be in big trouble. They are going to be prosecuted. Right this moment, there are conversations in state attorney generals’ offices all across the country, and this is a problem. People are demanding prosecution.. Right now, the elites, or predator class, realize if they don’t move forward very quickly, they are going to lose everything. They could possibly end up facing true accountability. I think we are in a very dangerous situation now. When people get into a position like that, they don’t have a whole lot of options. Either they cancel the election or they cheat like crazy or they just collapse everything. The way things are going right now with inflation out of control, the food crisis and famine just around the corner, of course, that they engineered, and the monkey pox and bird flu, they have all there crises lined up... You realize they have a lot of options still to play. I suspect there will be some very interesting developments between now and the mid-term elections. If we had honest elections, they would be totally creamed. They would be toast, and they know that.” Newman thinks the next move by the Deep State may be a combination of crises that could include the collapse of the buying power of the U.S. dollar and a food crisis that is already a lock in the not-so-distant future. Newman warns, “What’s going on in Russia and Ukraine, we cannot count out. There is a very real prospect of that expanding... Desperate people do desperate things. This is just like with an animal that has been backed into a corner. When you get an animal in that situation, they are really left with few options other than attack and do something dangerous, and I think that is where we are at. They recognize that they need crises to advance their agenda. They need to terrify the population... ...and it has to be done in a way that their finger prints are not on this, and instead of people turning on each other, they will start looking for them.” Newman says, “The country can be turned around and it needs to be turned around, but it’s going to take work . . . and maybe intervention by the Good Lord.” Newman closes by saying, “There is no silver bullet.” There is much more in the 49 min. video interview. Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with hard hitting journalist Alex Newman, founder of LibertySentinel.org and author of the recent book “Deep State.”
AI Expert Says Parents Will Choose "Digital Babies" In The Metaverse Over Real Ones Within 50 Years Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, An expert on artificial intelligence says that within 50 years, parents will opt to have “digital offspring” that only exist in the metaverse due to concerns over the environment and overpopulation. The prediction was made by Catriona Campbell, who is described as “one of the UK’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence.” According to Campbell, parents will decide to have digital babies, an updated version of Japanese Tamagotchi digital pet toys, for the same reasons they are already choosing not to have real babies, namely, “concerns about the environment, overpopulation, the rising cost of bringing up a child.” “Campbell predicts they will be commonplace and embraced by society within half a century,” reports left-wing newspaper the Guardian. The AI expert says the cyberspace babies will eventually be indistinguishable from the real thing and that if parents get bored of them, they can just cancel them like they would a monthly Netflix subscription. “Campbell says virtual children will look like you, and you will be able to play with and cuddle them. They will be capable of simulated emotional responses as well as speech, which will range from “googoo gaga” to backchat, as they grow older,” reports the newspaper. #GreatReset: According to an expert on artificial intelligence, would-be parents will soon be able to opt for cheap and cuddle-able digital offspring. https://t.co/WYBjRnkkoU — Geopolitics & Empire (@Geopolitics_Emp) May 31, 2022 The article also says concerns that the digital babies would just be ‘creepy dystopian dolls’ that can be turned on and off are “old fashioned.” “Think of the advantages: minimal cost and environmental impact. And less worry,” it adds. As ever, this is just more anti-natal propaganda, predominantly targeting white western countries, which are already seeing birth rates rapidly decline. There is an entire cottage industry of social engineering based on convincing westerners not to have children. As we previously highlighted, in 2020, CNN marked Valentines Day weekend by promoting “the benefits of being single,” even as birth rates across America and Europe continue to plunge. America’s fertility rate currently stands at 1.8 births per woman.
From 2007 to 2011 the fertility rate in the U.S. declined 9% in the space of just 4 years.
In 2016, the U.S. fertility rate fell to 59.8 births per 1,000 women, the lowest since records began. Fears about “overpopulation” are also a contrived myth given that plummeting population levels are far more likely to be a bigger problem in 50 years time.
From Clinton to Bush, Obama to Trump, and now Biden, it’s as if we’ve been caught in a time loop, forced to re-live the same abuses over and over again: the same assaults on our freedoms, the same disregard for
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America, Meet Your New Dictator-In-Chief: The President's Secret, Unchecked Powers https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/documents-shed-light-on-secret-u-s-p... https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=776382 https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-documents-illumi... https://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_Military_may_have_to_quell_1229.ht... https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dyst... https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-suspend-constitution... https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/trump-extreme-powers-coronavirus-12... http://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/bulr/documents/marshall.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-and-the-dangers-of-a-st... http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/donald-trump-is-coming/4... http://www.alternet.org/story/102856/too_much_presidential_power_--_we%27ve_... “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.” - David C. Unger, The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs America, meet your new dictator-in-chief. As the New York Times reports, “Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios—like the aftermath of a nuclear attack—when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies.” The problem, of course, is that we have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency. Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. The seeds of this present madness were sown almost two decades ago when George W. Bush stealthily issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to unilaterally declare a national emergency, which is loosely defined as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.” Comprising the country’s Continuity of Government (COG) plan, these directives (National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20) provide a skeletal outline of the actions the president will take in the event of a “national emergency.” Just what sort of actions the president will take once he declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives. However, one thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency, the COG directives give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president. The country would then be subjected to martial law by default, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be suspended. Essentially, the president would become a dictator for life. It has happened already. As we have witnessed in recent years, that national emergency can take any form, can be manipulated for any purpose and can be used to justify any end goal—all on the say so of the president. The emergency powers that we know about which presidents might claim during such states of emergency are vast, ranging from imposing martial law and suspending habeas corpus to shutting down all forms of communications, including implementing an internet kill switch, and restricting travel. Yet according to documents recently obtained by the Brennan Center, there may be many more secret powers that presidents may institute in times of so-called crisis without oversight from Congress, the courts, or the public. It doesn’t even matter what the nature of the crisis might be—civil unrest, the national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters”—as long as it allows the government to justify all manner of government tyranny in the name of so-called national security. The war on COVID-19, the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration: all of these programs started out as responses to pressing national concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state’s hands. Deploying the same strategy it used with 9/11 to acquire greater powers under the USA Patriot Act, the police state—a.k.a. the shadow government, a.k.a. the Deep State—has been planning and preparing for such crises for years now, quietly assembling a wish list of presidential lockdown powers that could be trotted out and approved at a moment’s notice. Indeed, the Trump Administration even asked Congress to allow it to suspend parts of the Constitution whenever it deems it necessary during the COVID-19 crisis and “other” emergencies. The Department of Justice (DOJ) went so far as to quietly trot out and test a long laundry list of terrifying powers that override the Constitution. We’re talking about lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level): the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population, override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people, shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease,” reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die. These are powers the police state would desperately like to make permanent. In such a climate, the American president becomes dictator with permanent powers: imperial, unaccountable and unconstitutional. Bear in mind that the powers the government officially asked Congress to recognize and authorize barely scratch the surface of the far-reaching powers the government has already unilaterally claimed for itself. Unofficially, the police state with the president at its helm has been riding roughshod over the rule of law for years now without any pretense of being reined in or restricted in its power grabs by Congress, the courts or the citizenry. Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in recent years, American presidents have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill. The powers amassed by each successive president through the negligence of Congress and the courts—powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler—empower whoever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability. As law professor William P. Marshall explains, “every extraordinary use of power by one President expands the availability of executive branch power for use by future Presidents.” Moreover, it doesn’t even matter whether other presidents have chosen not to take advantage of any particular power, because “it is a President’s action in using power, rather than forsaking its use, that has the precedential significance.” In other words, each successive president continues to add to his office’s list of extraordinary orders and directives, expanding the reach and power of the presidency and granting him- or herself near dictatorial powers. All of the imperial powers amassed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush—to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause, to suspend laws during wartime, to disregard laws with which he might disagree, to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts, to sanction torture, to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements, to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law, to operate a shadow government, and to act as a dictator and a tyrant, above the law and beyond any real accountability—were inherited by Donald Trump and passed along to Joe Biden. These presidential powers—acquired through the use of executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements and which can be activated by any sitting president—enable past, president and future presidents to operate above the law and beyond the reach of the Constitution. These are the powers that continue to be passed along to each successive heir to the Oval Office, the Constitution be damned. This is what you might call a stealthy, creeping, silent, slow-motion coup d’état. the rule of law, the same subservience to the Deep State, and the same corrupt, self-serving government that exists only to amass power, enrich its shareholders and ensure its continued domination. We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but “we the people” are paying the price for it now. We are paying the price every day that we allow the government to continue to wage its war on the American People, a war that is being fought on many fronts: with bullets and tasers, with surveillance cameras and license readers, with intimidation and propaganda, with court rulings and legislation, with the collusion of every bureaucrat who dances to the tune of corporate handouts while on the government’s payroll, and most effectively of all, with the complicity of the American people, who continue to allow themselves to be easily manipulated by their politics, distracted by their pastimes, and acclimated to a world in which government corruption is the norm. Unless something changes in the way we deal with these ongoing, egregious abuses of power, the predators of the police state will continue to wreak havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end. After all, it is a tale that has been told time and again throughout history about how easy it is for freedom to fall and tyranny to rise, and it often begins with one small, seemingly inconsequential willingness on the part of the people to compromise their principles and undermine the rule of law in exchange for a dubious assurance of safety, prosperity and a life without care. Unfortunately, the process of unseating a dictator and limiting the powers of the presidency is far from simple but at a minimum, it must start with “we the people.” For starters, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, we must recalibrate the balance of power. Start locally—in your own communities, in your schools, at your city council meetings, in newspaper editorials, at protests—by pushing back against laws that are unjust, police departments that overreach, politicians that don’t listen to their constituents, and a system of government that grows more tyrannical by the day. What we desperately need is a concerted, collective commitment to the Constitution’s principles of limited government, a system of checks and balances, and a recognition that they—the president, Congress, the courts, the military, the police, the technocrats and plutocrats and bureaucrats—answer to and are accountable to “we the people.” This will mean that Americans will have to stop letting their personal politics and party allegiances blind them to government misconduct and power grabs. It will mean holding all three branches of government accountable to the Constitution (i.e., vote them out of office if they abuse their powers). And it will mean calling on Congress to put an end to the use of presidential executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements as a means of getting around Congress and the courts. In other words, we’ve got to start making both the president and the police state play by the rules of the Constitution.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/may/30/don-t-tra... Ron Paul: Don't Trade Real Liberty For Phony Security Authoritarian politicians wasted no time using the recent shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, to justify new infringements on liberty. Just days after the Buffalo shooting, the US House of Representatives passed a law creating new domestic terrorism offices in the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. This is a step toward achieving the longstanding goal of many progressives of focusing the national security state on “domestic terrorists” and “right-wing extremists.” Supporters of these efforts have used the Buffalo shooter’s mention of “replacement theory” in his “manifesto” to attack prominent conservative commentators, most notably Tucker Carlson. Carlson and others are accused of spreading the replacement conspiracy theory because they have pointed out that the Left has for years celebrated the coming “replacement” of the white majority population. The goal is to stigmatize, intimidate, and even criminalize those expressing views or facts that contradict the cultural Marxists or the Democrat party establishment. Painting the Buffalo shooter as a conservative requires ignoring his self-description as an environmental-fascist and his disdain for “Fox News conservatism.” The mainstream media also ignores the shooter’s use of the same neo-Nazi symbol used by the Ukrainian Azov brigade. This may be because they do not want the American people to realize their tax dollars are supporting actual Nazis in Ukraine. The push to use the police state against “right-wing extremists” is supported by many progressives who (correctly) oppose the national security state’s civil liberties abuses of Muslim and other minorities. Conversely, many conservatives who have defended all infringements on liberty done in the name of the “global war on terror,” (correctly) oppose federal crackdown on “right wing extremists.” Both sides fail to realize that a violation of any individual’s liberty is a threat to everyone’s liberty. The massacre of 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde Texas was followed by calls for expanded gun controls from President Biden and other prominent politicians. Among the proposals floated are a renewed push for federal Red Flag laws. Red Flag laws allow law enforcement to take someone’s guns without due process based on a mere allegation that an individual poses a risk of violent behavior. Despite being unconstitutional, easily abused, and ineffective at stopping violent crime, Red Flag laws enjoy broad bipartisan support. For example, former President Donald Trump endorsed a policy of “take the gun first, worry about due process later.” If Congress was serious about protecting liberty and security, they would pass Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie’s legislation repealing the “Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.” This poorly worded law leaves children defenseless against mass shooters who are not dissuaded from their evil intentions by “Gun-Free Zone” signs. Video showing the Uvalde police not only standing around outside the school, but tasering parents who were trying to protect their children reinforces the importance of allowing school personnel to protect themselves and their students by carrying firearms. Expanding the police state to “monitor” right-wing extremism and giving the government new powers to deny law-abiding individuals access to firearms make us less safe and less free. Instead of allowing politicians to use mass shootings as an excuse to further expand their powers, we must insist they repeal all federal laws that trade real liberty for phony security starting with the USA FREEDOM Acts (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act) and the so-called Safe and Gun Free Schools Act.
The higher failure is the machine that is creating troubled kids... Bodycam Video, Report Exposes "Systemic, Egregious" Law Enforcement Failures In Uvalde School Mass Shooting https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/d005cf551ad52eea13d8753ede93320c... https://www.theepochtimes.com/77-page-report-details-systemic-law-enforcemen... https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-uvalde-shooting-footage-shows-how-police-r... The Texas state House report into the Uvalde elementary school shooting in May that killed 21 people, including 19 children, said the massacre was unable to be stopped due to "systemic failures and egregious poor decision-making." The report obtained by the Texas Tribune attempts to piece together what happened during the 77 minutes after the alleged gunman, 18-year-old Uvalde High School dropout Salvador Ramos, entered Robb Elementary School until the point he was killed by a Border Patrol agent. “There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregious poor decision making,” the report said, noting “shortcomings and failures of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District [CISD] and of various agencies and officers of law enforcement” and “an overall lackadaisical approach.” As Jack Phillips reports for The Epoch Times, those claims appear to coincide with statements made by top Texas officials days after the shootings. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said May 27 that it was the “wrong decision” not to engage with the shooter, Salvador Ramos. Meanwhile, surveillance footage from Robb Elementary School released on July 12 shows officers waiting around more than 45 minutes before several officers approached the classroom where Ramos had entered. JUST IN: Exclusive body cam video from the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, TX school shooting. @ShimonPro obtained the video from the city's Mayor. It shows just how chaotic the situation was: pic.twitter.com/VppNuJ1d7b — Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) July 17, 2022 The officers didn’t enter. It took more than 75 minutes for law enforcement to kill Ramos, 18, after he entered the building. This goes against EVERYTHING we who were in law enforcement were trained to do.... [GUN SHOTS] Uvalde school police chief, trying to negotiate with an active shooter: "Sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir." pic.twitter.com/9UjbPY8cDf — Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) July 17, 2022 The report said that law enforcement failed to quickly confront the suspect and instead retreated to safety. “In this crisis, no responder seized the initiative to establish an incident command post,” it states. “Despite an obvious atmosphere of chaos, the ranking officers of other responding agencies did not approach the Uvalde CISD chief of police or anyone else perceived to be in command to point out the lack of and need for a command post, or to offer that specific assistance.” Some individual officers acted without instruction to try to reach the shooter and might have been able to do so if they had more backup, according to the paper. “Given the information known about victims who survived through the time of the breach and who later died on the way to the hospital, it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue,” the report reads. A force of 376 law enforcement officers responded to the mass shooting, according to the House panel, which said that there wasn’t clear leadership as they responded. Texas lawmakers on July 17 noted that Ramos was born in Fargo, North Dakota, before he was moved to Texas when he was a child. Ramos also may have been sexually abused as a child, the report states. Friends of the suspect, including a girlfriend, told investigators that Ramos became increasingly depressed during the COVID-19 pandemic. At one point, Ramos told the girlfriend that he wouldn’t live past age 18. Ramos in late 2021 also allegedly posted a video of himself holding a dead cat inside a bag. Footage also showed the future school shooter dry firing BB guns at people from a car, according to the report. In the wake of the shooting, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, congressional lawmakers used the tragedy to pass a gun control bill that included funding to bolster red flag laws and other measures, which was signed into law on June 25 by President Joe Biden.
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https://rense.com/general87/14_1.htm https://rense.com/general87/14_2.htm 911 9/11 September 11 2001 wtc The 14 Israeli 'Art Students' Were Inside The WTC Towers Camping With Construction Passes Part I
From Dick Eastman 10-12-9
The 14 Art Students, it has now been confirmed, were in the World Trade Center Towers with Construction Passes, Connection to Mossad Spy Ring More Mossad in the towers before 9/11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA9MvV-SrCo&feature=player_embedded http://coreofcorruption.com/index.php/?p=293 =================== I was contacted by an individual who led me to this information about the art students living in WTC Tower 1 before 9/11. In fact, in May of 2000, they were living on the 91st floor where they were doing construction and sleeping in tents. They did have construction passes. I do believe that ACE Elevator and Securicom, as well as Kroll Associates should be focused on, however, this is important information that has never been confirmed, until now. - These art students were apart of the art group, gelitin, and were pulling off a large stunt in the name of art, at least that is the official story. Gelatin is notorious for encouraging and participating in various stunts and elaborate adventures to push art into the pop culture by performing publicity stunts. The project these art students from Austria and Germany were apart of was called, "The B-Thing." - I am in the process of uploading all of the photos and information to make available to everyone online, so be looking for that soon. In the meantime, I broke the story on Kevin Barret's radio show, "Truth Jihad" which airs every Saturday on American Freedom Radio. The audio from that interview is in the Youtube clip at the top of this post, but if you want to download it, it is at the following link: http://radiodujour.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/art-students-camping-on-the-90th... - The art students released a book about their art event out of Austria and the book is extremely hard to come by. IN fact, it is limited release and most copies are sold, I had to search very hard to find a copy but I found one. Here is a link to one of the stores that used to sell it: http://www.artbook.com/3883755079.html - The New York times did an article on the Gelatin crew made up of up to 14 Austrian and German students. You can view the original New York Times article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/18/nyregion/balcony-scene-unseen-atop- world-episode-trade-center-assumes-mythic-qualities.html - Again, stay tuned for more on this coming in the near future and also sign up on my newsletter here at CoreOfCorruption.com to receive the update on the sequel in the series titled, "Echoes of Treason" which is soon to be released. Background: Don't read this until you have viewed the above. Here is the older information regarding this Israeli agents who laughed and danced and high-fived when the towers collapsed -- for those who still think Arab terrorists with box-cutters did 9-11 -- note too the articles of mine (futher down) including the Israelis infiltrated at Dulles and Reagan airports on 9-11, each with illegal top security clearances -- whom Attorney General Ashcroft quietly sent back home to Israel after holding them,without Guantanamo-style interrogation, for 3 months. They later were on Israeli radio and mentioned, in Hebrew, having been there to record the event. The Israeli "art student" story, which first surfaced in 2001 in news reports, has yet to be explained by U.S. authorities. A memorandum sent to the 9/11 Commission, and Senate and House intelligence committees in September 2004, suggests that young Israelis who canvassed dozens of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) offices in 2000 and 2001 trying to sell paintings to federal workers, may have been spying not only on the DEA, but also on Arab extremists in the United States - including the Sept. 11 hijackers who were living in Florida and New Jersey. Many reports describe incidents of government employees spotting individuals in office hallways or elevators carrying large art portfolio cases. The art sellers would typically make a pitch to sell paintings, but if they were told that soliciting in government offices was prohibited, some replied that the art wasn't actually for sale but was promoting a future art show, the DEA report said. During the first five months of 2001, according to Shea's memorandum, the "Israeli DEA Groups" visited a total of 57 DEA locations - 28 offices and 29 private residences Other individuals that Shea calls the "Israeli New Jersey Group" were based in Bergen and Hudson counties, in New Jersey, according to the well-annotated memorandum that also cites the 9/11 Commission report, the 2002 congressional intelligence committees' joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks, newspaper and magazine reports, Fox News telecasts, 9/11 hijacker timelines, FBI suspect lists, and an East Rutherford (New Jersey) Police Department report. Dozens of the more than 100 Israelis were stopped and questioned by DEA agents, and other federal government authorities. The individuals were vague about why they were in the U.S. or what their purpose was for being here. Dozens were arrested for visa violations and deported, according to the memorandum. Many in the groups had served in the military, which is compulsory for Israeli citizens, and group leaders had been in intelligence and electronic communications units. With such expertise, it strikes many as odd that the Israelis would be hawking inexpensive artwork. In the report, the DEA concluded that the agency was being spied on by the Israelis. In 2001, a Fox News report by Carl Cameron laid out the Israeli spy scenario, however, the story was short-lived, and Shea was told by a representative at the news organization that there was outside pressure to kill the story. ================ Wayne Madsen Online Journal Friday, July 17, 2009 The way the corporate media would have it believed is that Israeli "art students" who aggressively sell cheap art door-to-door, usually at federal office buildings and the houses of government employees, are merely traveling abroad after their military service in Israel to "see the world." In fact, these "art students" are classic intelligence operatives who have appeared before and after major terrorist events and covert operations conducted by the Mossad. WMR has learned that an Israeli art student cased the offices of an investigator of the suspicious February 26, 2004, death of Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski. Trajkovski's Beechcraft King Air 200 crashed near Stolac, Croatia, in southern Bosnia while en route to an investors' conference in Mostar. After the crash, U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Lawrence Butler quickly met with Nikolai Gruevski, the minister of finance in the VMRO-DPMNE government. Gruevski was an ardent supporter of denationalization, a globalist, and supporter of NATO membership for Macedonia. Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski, although a Social Democrat, was also seen as close to the globalists. Although Trajkovski, a Methodist minister, was also a member of the VMRO-DPMNE party he was viewed as less accommodating to international demands for privatization of state enterprises in Macedonia. After Trajkovski and his party were killed in the plane crash, Macedonian and Bosnian authorities complained that NATO's investigation of the plane crash was secretive and the two countries' aviation authorities were kept in the dark. Many Macedonian officials were opposed to allowing the United States to investigate the crash and there was confusion about who had access to the two "black boxes" on Trajkovski's plane. NATO troops stationed in Bosnia were the first to arrive at the crash scene. ================ http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/74953_comment.php?theme=1 HUNDREDS OF MOSSAD AGENTS CAUGHT RUNNING WILD IN AMERICA By Warren Royal We spoke earlier about the five celebrating Israeli "movers", (Mossad agents), who were arrested and placed in solitary confinement for weeks after they were spotted in a white van suspected of attempting to blow up the George Washington Bridge. We also reviewed how the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems - Dominick Suter - then suddenly abandoned his "moving company" and fled for Israel on 9-14. But there were still more Israeli "movers" and other Israelis whose actions raise serious suspicions. Even more suspicious is how they are always quietly released and deported. In October of 2001, three more Israeli "movers" were stopped in Plymouth, PA because of their suspicious behavior. These "movers" were seen dumping furniture near a restaurant dumpster! When the restaurant manager approached the driver, a "Middle Eastern" man later identified as Moshe Elmakias fled the scene. The manager made note of the truck's sign which read "Moving Systems Incorporated" and called the police. When the police spotted the truck, two other Israelis - Ayelet Reisler and Ron Katar began acting suspiciously. The Plymouth police searched the truck and found a video. The Israelis were taken into custody and the video tape was played at the police station. The video revealed footage of Chicago with zoomed in shots of the Sears Tower. The police quickly alerted the FBI and it was also discovered that the Israelis had falsified travel logs and phony paperwork on them. (1) They were also unable to provide a name and telephone number for the customer that they claimed to have been working for. These Israelis were up to some sort of dirty business, and you can be sure it had nothing to do with moving furniture. These Israeli spies may have had a dark sense of humor. The name of their "moving company" actually contained the word MOSSAD embedded inside. Moving Systems Incorporated. MOving SyStems IncorporAteD...MOSSAD On October 10, 2001, CNN made a brief mention of a foiled terrorist bomb plot in the Mexican Parliament building. They promised to bring any further developments of this story to their viewers, but the incident was never heard of again in America. But the story appeared in bold headlines on the front page of the major Mexican newspapers (2) and was also posted on the official website of the Mexican Justice Department. (3) Two terror suspects were apprehended in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Caught red-handed, they had in their possession a high powered gun, nine hand grenades, and C-4 plastic explosives (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Within days, this blockbuster story not only disappeared from the Mexican press, but the Israelis were quietly released and deported! The two terrorists were Salvador Gerson Sunke and Sar ben Zui. Can you guess what their ethnicity was? Sunke was a Mexican jew and Zui was a colonel with the Israeli special forces (MOSSAD). (4) The story in El Diario de Mexico went on to reveal that the Zionist terrorists had fake Pakistani passports on them. Can you say "false flag operation?" The probable motive of this particular botched terrorist operation was to involve oil rich Mexico in the "War on Terrorism". (The War on Israel's enemies would be a more accurate description). Mexico is no military power, but the psychological trauma of an "Arab" attack on Mexico would surely have induced Mexico to provide unlimited cheap oil to her American "protector". With cheap oil flowing to America at low prices from Mexico, the US could better afford to break off relations with the oil rich Arab states in general and Saudi Arabia in particular. That's why the planners chose 15 Saudi identities to steal for the 9-11 operation. Many Mexicans expressed shock at the release of the two Israelis. But when you learn that Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations is a Zionist named Jorge Gutman, it's not surprising! The Zionist tentacles reach even into Mexico! La Voz de Aztlan (Mexican-American news service), in it's excellent investigative report revealed: "La Voz de Aztlan has learned that the Israeli Embassy used heavy handed measures to have the two Israelis released. Very high level emergency meetings took place between Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Jorge Gutman, General Macedo de la Concha and a top Ariel Sharon envoy who flew to Mexico City specially for that purpose. Elías Luf of the Israeli Embassy worked night and day and their official spokeswoman Hila Engelhart went into high gear after many hours of complete silence. What went on during those high level meetings no one knows, but many in Mexico are in disbelief at their release." (5) In November of 2001, 6 more suspicious Israelis were detained in an unspecified mid-eastern state. They had in their possession box cutters, oil pipeline plans, and nuclear power plant plans. (6) The local police called in the Feds and Immigration officials took over the scene and released the men without calling the FBI. The Jerusalem Post, the Miami Herald, (7) and the Times of London (8) all carried this amazing story and all revealed how furious FBI officials were that these terror suspects with nuclear power plant plans were allowed to go free. Of course, the corruption riddled FBI would only have caved into Zionist pressure from the Justice Department's Criminal Division boss, Michael Chertoff, and also from the ADL's "partner", FBI boss Robert Mueller - who would no doubt have found a way to eventually release those Israeli terror suspects too. In December, 2001, the Los Angeles Times published the story of how two jewish terrorists were arrested by the FBI for plotting to blow up the office of US Congressman of Arab descent - Darrell Issa (R- CA), and a California mosque. (9) Irv Rubin and Earl Kruger of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) were charged with conspiracy to destroy a building by means of explosives. This story got brief national coverage but quickly disappeared too. These Zionists sure love blowing up buildings and killing innocent people don't they? In May of 2002, yet another moving van was pulled over in Oak Harbor, Washington near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Fox News reported that the van was pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight. The passengers told the police they were delivering furniture, but because it was so late at night, the police weren't buying the story. A bomb sniffing dog was brought in and the dog detected the presence of TNT and RDX plastic explosives in the truck (great stuff for demolishing buildings!) Both Fox News (10) and the Ha'aretz newspaper of Israel (11) reported that the two "movers" were Israelis. In December, 2002, Ariel Sharon made the amazing claim that Al-Qaeda agents were operating inside of Israel. But when Palestinian authorities apprehended the suspects, they turned out to be Palestinian traitors impersonating Al-qaeda agents for the MOSSAD!
From the Sydney Morning Herald of Austrailia:
"Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday. ..The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon. It was considered a surprise because the Gaza Strip is virtually sealed off by Israeli troops. The hardline Israeli leader also charged other members of the terror group were cooperating with Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hizbollah" (12) You know, if Sharon wasn't so dangerous, I'd almost be amused by his bullshit! According to FOX news, throughout late 2000 and 2001, a total of 200 Israeli spies were arrested. (13) It was the largest spy ring to ever be uncovered in the history of the United States. The Washington Post also reported that some of these Israelis were arrested in connection with the 9-11 investigation. (14) US. Carl Cameron of FOX News Channel did a excellent four part, nationally televised, series of investigations into this blockbuster scandal. But FOX pulled the investigative series after Zionist groups complained to FOX executives. FOX even went so far as to remove the written transcripts of the series from its website! In it's place was posted a chilling, Orwellian message which reads: "This story no longer exists." (15) Fortunately for the sake of history, the FOX transcripts were copied onto to many other websites and all four parts are available for your review. (see footnotes.) The FOX series and other mainstream news media sources revealed that many of these Israelis were army veterans with electronics and explosives expertise. Many of them failed lie detector tests. FBI agents told FOX that some of their past investigations were compromised because suspects had been tipped off by Israeli wiretapping specialists. It was discovered that Israeli companies such as Comverse and Amdocs have the capability to tap American telephones (great for blackmailing all those wife-cheating politicians!) FBI agents also told FOX they believed the Israelis had advance knowledge of the 9-11 attacks. (which certainly would explain why no Israelis died in the WTC) Still another US official informed FOX that some of the detained Israelis actually had links to 9-11, but he refused to describe the nature of those links. The FBI official told FOX's Carl Cameron: "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." (16) (emphasis added) Then there was that small army of Israeli "art students" who were arrested for trying to sneak into secured US Federal buildings and staking out 36 Department of Defense sites. Some of these suspicious "art students" even showed up at the homes of Federal employees. (17) Ron Hatchett, a Department of Defense analyst, told Channel 11, KHOU news in Houston that he believed that the "art students" were gathering intelligence for future attacks. Here's an excerpt from the October 1, 2001 KHOU investigative report by Anna Werner: "Could federal buildings in Houston and other cities be under surveillance by foreign groups? That's what some experts are asking after federal law enforcement and security officials - nationally and in Houston - described for the 11 News Defenders a curious pattern of behavior by a group of people claiming to be Israeli art students." "Hatchett says they could be doing what he would be doing if he were a terrorist, sizing up the situation: "We need to know what are the entrances to this particular building. We need to know what are the surveillance cameras that are operating. We need to know how many guards are at this operation, when do they take breaks?" Says Hatchett: This is not a bunch of kids selling artwork." "A former Defense Department analyst, Hatchett believes groups may be gathering intelligence for possible future attacks. "Some organization, thinking in terms of a potential retaliation against the U.S. government could be scouting out potential targets and . looking for targets that would be vulnerable." And a source tells the Defenders of another federal memo, stating that besides Houston and Dallas, the same thing has happened at sites in New York, Florida, and six other states, and even more worrisome, at 36 sensitive Department of Defense sites. "One defense site you can explain," says Hatchett, "well that was just a serendipitous, .... Thirty-six? That's a pattern." (18) A Federal memo stated that these "art students" may have had ties to an "Islamic terror group". More likely, they were the "Islamic terror group"! Remember the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946, and how the "Arab terrorists" were actually Irgun terrorists? Remember the Zionist terrorists caught in Mexico with Arab passports? Remember the official motto of the Mossad - By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War. Are you getting the picture? Can you say "false flag operations"? In a follow up report a few days later, KHOU Channel 11 revealed that Dallas was also targetted: "11 News reported how people claiming to be "Israeli art students" might be trying to sneak into federal buildings and defense sites, and even doing surveillance. And at least one expert said he thought it could all be preparation for an attack. Well, now federal sources say they are not ruling out that all of this could be connected with the hijackings on September 11, because of events in another Texas city. In Dallas, the so-called students hit early this year at the city's FBI building, the Drug Enforcement Administration and at the Earle Cabell Federal building, where guards found one student wandering the halls with a floor plan of the building. So the Dallas INS went on the alert, finding and arresting 15 people in March. Thirteen claimed to be Israelis and two are professed Colombians. But according to sources, once again their passports were phony. And another federal source says some of those arrested also appeared to have lists of federal employees and their home addresses. All 15 "students" have now been deported. Now, since our first story ran Sunday night, some viewers called who said that they've been visited by people who claim to be Israeli students selling art." (19) Absolutely mind boggling! Why were Israeli explosives experts, posing as "art students" roaming the halls of US Federal buildings? Why were Israeli army vets, armed with explosives and detonators, roaming the halls of the Mexican Congress? Why were Israeli "movers" caught invans with explosives residue ? Might some of these shady characters have once also "roamed the halls" of the World Trade Center prior to 9-11? Why aren't "60 minutes", "Nightline", "20/20", and the rest of the Zionist media aggressively pursuing the story behind the Israeli "art students" and "movers" with 1/1,000th the zeal that they pursued Martha Stewart over allegations of insider trading (who cares?), or 1/10,000th the zeal that they pursued the Catholic Church over an occasional pedophile priest? (funny how we never hear about the documented cases of pedophile rabbis!) or 1/100,000th the zeal that they pursue the Muslim bogeyman on a daily basis? Something smells rotten here! One would think that these intriguing mysteries would have great TV audience appeal, especially in light of the fact that the Oklahoma Federal building was blown up in 1995 by the since executed Timothy McVeigh (dead men tell no tales), and a "John Doe # 2" of "Middle- Eastern appearance", who was never tracked down or pursued despite numerous eye-witness accounts and despite an FBI All Points Bulletin which clearly described him as such. Of America's major networks, only FOX News made a meager attempt to investigate these mysteries, but FOX was quickly silenced by Zionist pressure. This alone is evidence of criminal activity! Before his excellent work was silenced, FOX's Carl Cameron reported this amazing bit of information: "Investigators within the DEA, INS, and FBI have all told FOX News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying is considered career suicide."(20) (emphasis added) Did you catch that? If a Federal investigator dares to "even suggest" Israeli spying, he has committed "career suicide"! And if a journalist like FOX's Cameron dares to bring this scandal to light, he is told to shut his mouth. If they persist, they may even be called "anti-Semitic" - a label which has served as the kiss of death for many a career. This means that Zionist Mafia can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and however it wants - including orchestrating, financing, executing, and covering up the true story of events in the Middle East, the 9-11 massacre, and the ensuing "War on Terrorism" (war on Israel's enemies). Now do you remember the Mossad's "warning" about the 200 "Al-Qaeda terrorists" said to have been preparing major attacks in the US? (21) At the time of this writing, we are one year into the largest investigation in American history, and not one of these 200 "terrorists" has yet to be uncovered. (22) But 200 Israeli spies were uncovered, among them many military members, electronics experts, wiretapping and phone tapping specialists, and explosives experts with the skill to bring down tall buildings. (23) Logic and common sense leads to the conclusion that the "200 Al Qaeda terrorists" were in reality, 200 Zionist terrorists sent to frame the Arabs for terrorist attacks and drag America into a war. On December 11, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), a leading member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared as a guest on the PBS Newshour with Gwen Ifill. Graham surprised Ifill by expressing his belief that a foreign government or governments had to have funded and supported the hijackers. Here's part of the exchange: IFILL: "Are you suggesting that you are convinced that there was a state sponsor behind 9/11?" GRAHAM: "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing - although that was part of it - by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States." IFILL: "Do you think that will ever become public, which countries you're talking about?" Now listen to Graham's bombshell.........: GRAHAM: "It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today." (24) (emphasis added) Senator Graham is suggesting that US intelligence knows which foreign government helped the terrorists, but the government isn't going to tell usfor another 30 years! Given the current state of anti-Muslim war hysteria being promoted by the media and government, common sense dictates that if an Arab government was ever discovered to have sponsored 9-11, we'd be seeing the evidence night and day on the controlled media, and hearing about it non-stop from all the President's warmongers as well as the Israeli-occupied US Congress and Senate. This alone is evidence that no Arab government was involved in 9-11. It can't be an Arab government. Why would any Arab government sponsor "Al-qaeda", an organization dedicated to overthrowing what it sees as corrupt, US-backed Arab governments? What Arab government would have incentive to attack America- its best oil purchasing customer? What Arab government would have the ability to shield itself from US media exposure? What Arab government would be so suicidal, so hell-bent on its own destruction, as to attack a mighty nuclear superpower like the United States? So who, if not an Arab government could be the chief sponsor of 9-11? Again, let's go back to FOX News quoting an FBI official. Pay close attention to the specific language used: "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." (25) (empasis added) In order for evidence "linking these Israelis to 9-11" to become classified, the evidence has to have existed in the first place! Furthermore, but it must have been very, very serious stuff indeed. Only the really ugly stuff merits the distinction of being "classified!" It may be possible that the good Senator doesn't know himself which country or countries are involved. Graham may still be under the delusion that it's an Arab government. Or, perhaps he's a disgusted patriot just trying to throw a subtle shot at Israel in his own little way, without actually having to commit "career suicide" as so many other anti-Zionist politicians have in the past. History will reveal the truth one day, just as it did for Pearl Harbor. The trouble is, by that time, no one will care about 9-11 and this phony war "War on Terrorism" anymore. The American attention span does not reach "20-30 years". It's closer to 20-30 minutes, about the length of an average Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, or Tom Brokaw infomercial. If even that! History always repeats itself. But who will teach this history to the American people when the Zionists control the information industry? The Zionist Mafia and their ass-kissing careerist henchmen in media, government, academia, and business have all of the bases covered. ===== On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US- Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good. Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)" http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11 A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11. A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11. The New York Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards. (1) Police received several calls from angry New Jersey residents claiming "middle-eastern" men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. (2) "They were like happy, you know They didn't look shocked to me" said a witness. (3) [T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage. (4) Witnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot. (6) "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park." (7) One anonymous phone call to the authorities actually led them to close down all of New York's bridges and tunnels. The mystery caller told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that a group of Palestinians were mixing a bomb inside of a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. Here's the transcript from NBC News: Dispatcher: Jersey City police. Caller: Yes, we have a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there, they look like Palestinians and going around a building. Caller: There's a minivan heading toward the Holland tunnel, I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh uniform. Dispatcher: He has what? Caller: He's dressed like an Arab. (8) (*Writer's note: Why would this mystery caller specifically say that these "Arabs" were Palestinians? How would he know that? Palestinians usually dress in western style clothes, not "sheikh uniforms") Based on that phone call, police then issued a "Be-on-the-Lookout" alert for a white mini-van heading for the city's bridges and tunnels from New Jersey. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals. (9) When a van fitting that exact description was stopped just before crossing into New York, the suspicious "middle-easterners" were apprehended. Imagine the surprise of the police officers when these terror suspects turned out to be Israelis! According to ABCs 20/20, when the van belonging to the cheering Israelis was stopped by the police, the driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers: "We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem." (10) Why did he feel Palestinians were a problem for the NYPD? The police and FBI field agents became very suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports. Police also told the Bergen Record that bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives. (11) The FBI seized and developed their photos, one of which shows Sivan Kurzberg flicking a cigarette lighter in front of the smouldering ruins in an apparently celebratory gesture. (12) Click for full size The Jerusalem Post later reported that a white van with a bomb was stopped as it approached the George Washington Bridge, but the ethnicity of the suspects was not revealed. Here's what the Jerusalem Post reported on September 12, 2001: American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington Bridge. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge. Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New Jersey and New York, Army Radio reported. (13) "...two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of explosives was discovered around the George Washington Bridge ... The FBI ... says enough explosives were in the truck to do great damage to the George Washington Bridge." WMV video download (545kB) It was reported the van contained tonnes of explosives (14). What's really intriguing is that ABC's 20/20 (15), the New York Post (16), and the New Jersey Bergen Record (17) all clearly and unambiguously reported that a white van with Israelis was intercepted on a ramp near Route 3, which leads directly to the Lincoln Tunnel. But the Jerusalem Post, Israeli National News (Arutz Sheva) (18), and Yediot America, (19) all reported, just as clearly and unambiguously, that a white van with Israelis was stopped on a ramp leading to the George Washington Bridge, which is several miles north of the Lincoln Tunnel. It appears as if there may actually have been two white vans involved, one stopped on each crossing. This would not only explain the conflicting reports as to the actual location of the arrests, but would also explain how so many credible eye-witnesses all saw celebrating "middle-easterners" in a white van in so many different locations. It also explains why the New York Post and Steve Gordon (lawyer for the 5 Israelis) originally described how three Israelis were arrested but later increased the total to five. Perhaps one van was meant to drop off a bomb while the other was meant to pick up the first set of drivers while re-crossing back into New Jersey? If a van was to be used as a parked time-bomb on the GW Bridge, then certainly the drivers would need to have a "get- away van" to pick them up and escape. And notice how the van (or vans) stayed away from the third major crossing -the Holland Tunnel- which was where the police had originally been directed to by that anti-Palestinian 9-1-1 "mystery caller". A classic misdirection play.
From there, the story gets becomes even more suspicious. The Israelis worked for a Weehawken moving company known as Urban Moving Systems. An American employee of Urban Moving Systems told the The Record of New Jersey that a majority of his co-workers were Israelis and they were joking about the attacks.
The employee, who declined to give his name said: "I was in tears. These guys were joking and that bothered me." These guys were like, "Now America knows what we go through." (20) A few days after the attacks, Urban Moving System's Israeli owner, Dominick Suter, dropped his business and fled the country for Israel. He was in such a hurry to flee America that some of Urban Moving System's customers were left with their furniture stranded in storage facilities (21). Suter's departure was abrupt, leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell phones and computers strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of goods in storage. Suter was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and other hijackers and suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities felt Suter may have known something about the attacks. (22) The Jewish weekly The Forward reported that the FBI finally concluded that at least two of the detained Israelis were agents working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Urban Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the five Israelis, was a front operation. This was confirmed by two former CIA officers, and they noted that movers' vans are a common intelligence cover. (23). The Israelis were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released. (24) "There was no question but that [the order to close down the investigation] came from the White House. It was immediately assumed at CIA headquarters that this basically was going to be a cover-up so that the Israelis would not be implicated in any way in 9/11." (25) Several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home. Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event." (26) wmv video download How did they know there would be an event to document on 9/11? It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots of the dancing Israeli Mossad agents - here's the most logical scenario: 1. The Israeli "movers" cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history. 2. One of them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to reportPalestinian bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. 3. Having thus pre-framed the Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with Urban Moving accomplices. 4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently foils the Israelis' misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture. 5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs. 6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department "higher-ups" are able to gradually push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly. Osama bin Laden was immediately blamed for the 9/11 attacks even though he had no previous record of doing anything on this scale. Immediately after the Flight 11 hit World Trade Center 1 CIA Director George Tenet said "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it." (27) The compliant mainstream media completely ignored the Israeli connection. Immediately following the 9-11 attacks the media was filled with stories linking the attacks to bin Laden. TV talking- heads, "experts", and scribblers of every stripe spoon-fed a gullible American public a steady diet of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable. We were told that the reason bin Laden attacked the USA was because he hates our "freedom" and "democracy". The Muslims were "medieval" and they wanted to destroy us because they envied our wealth, were still bitter about the Crusades, and were offended by Britney Spears shaking her tits and ass all over the place! But bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists orchestrated the 9-11 attacks. The BBC published bin Laden's statement of denial in which he said: "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States." (28) You never heard that quote on your nightly newscast did you? [A] number of intelligence officials have raised questions about Osama bin Laden's capabilities. "This guy sits in a cave in Afghanistan and he's running this operation?" one C.I.A. official asked. "It's so huge. He couldn't have done it alone." A senior military officer told me that because of the visas and other documentation needed to infiltrate team members into the United States a major foreign intelligence service might also have been involved. (29) Bin Laden is not named as the perpetrator of 9/11 by the FBI: When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Ladens Most Wanted web page (30), [Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI] said, The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Ladens Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. (31) "So we've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden [sic] was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming" - Dick Cheney. (32) To date, the only shred of evidence to be uncovered against bin Laden is a barely audible fuzzy amateur video that the Pentagon just happened to find "lying around" in Afghanistan. How very convenient, and how very fake. (33) There is no evidence, be it hard or circumstantial, to link the Al Qaeda "terrorist network" to these acts of terror, but there is a mountain of evidence, both hard and circumstantial, which suggests that Zionists have been very busy framing Arabs for terror plots against America. "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign foreign government ... It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now" - Senator Bob Graham. (34) If the sovereign foreign government mentioned by Senator Graham was an enemy of the United States the "compelling evidence" would not be kept secret for 20+ years. One final point; at 09:40 on 9-11 it was reported that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attacks (35). This claim was immediately denied by the DFLP leader Qais abu Leila who said it had always opposed "terror attacks on civilian targets, especially outside the occupied territories." (36) Why would a Palestinian organisation comprising of less than 500 people (37) make the suicidal move of immediately claiming responsibility for the attacks? The 14 Israeli 'Art Students' Were Inside The WTC Towers Camping With Construction Passes Part II
From Dick Eastman 10-12-9
Sharon and the other Israeli leaders aspire to fulfil what the goals of the political Zionist movement have been since its origin a century ago: to turn all of historic Palestine into an exclusively Jewish state. A central tenet of the Zionist ideology is expressed in the racist slogan, "A land without people for a people without a land." (38) The implication of Palestinians in the 9/11 attacks would have handed Zionists a golden opportunity to achieve the above because all Palestinians would have been labelled terrorists. "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring. "By way of deception, thou shalt do war" Motto of the Mossad See also: Federal Assistance to Recipient URBAN MOVING SYSTEMS INC 2002: Police Seize Rental Truck With TNT Traces Driven By Israelis Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel Zionist Circles Benefit From WTC Collapse Israel and 9/11 - Index of What Really Happened This story is so complicated and long, I've tried to break it into threads of different colors to make it easier to digest, as well as the main page, the page for the day of September 11, and the abridged timeline. Central Asian oil, Enron and the Afghanistan pipelines. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Information that should have shown what kind of attack al-Qaeda would make. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. US preparing for a war with Afghanistan before 9/11, increasing control of Asia before and since. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Incompetence, bad luck, and/or obstruction of justice. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Suggestions of advanced knowledge that an attack would take place on or around 9/11. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Cover-up, lies, and/or contradictions. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Israeli "art student" spy ring, Israeli foreknowledge evidence. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Anthrax attacks and microbiologist deaths. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Pakistani ISI and/or opium drug connections. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Bin Laden family, Saudi Arabia corruption and support of terrorists, connections to Bush. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. Erosion of civil liberties and erection of a police state. For a separate page of these entries only, click here. September 1, 1992: Terrorists Ahmad Ajaj and Ramzi Yousef enter the US together. Ajaj is arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York City. Ramzi Yousef is not arrested, and later masterminds the 1993 bombing of the WTC (see February 26, 1993). "The US government was pretty sure Ahmad Ajaj was a terrorist from the moment he stepped foot on US soil," because his "suitcases were stuffed with fake passports, fake IDs and a cheat sheet on how to lie to US immigration inspectors," plus "two handwritten notebooks filled with bomb recipes, six bomb-making manuals, four how-to videotapes concerning weaponry and an advanced guide to surveillance training." However, Ajaj is only charged with passport fraud, and serves a six-month sentence. From prison, Ajaj frequently calls Ramzi Yousef and others in the WTC bombing plot, but no one monitors or translates the calls until long after the bombing. [Los Angeles Times, 10/14/01] An Israeli newsweekly later reports that the Palestinian Ajaj may have been a mole for the Israeli Mossad. The Village Voice has suggested that Ajaj may have had "advance knowledge of the World Trade Center bombing, which he shared with Mossad, and that Mossad, for whatever reason, kept the secret to itself." Ajaj was not just knowledgeable, but was involved in the planning of the bombing from his prison cell. [Village Voice, 8/3/93] Ajaj is released from prison three days after the WTC bombing, but is later rearrested and sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. [Los Angeles Times, 10/14/01] One of the manuals seized from Ajaj is horribly mistranslated for the trial. For instance, the title page is said to say "The Basic Rule," published in 1982, when in fact the title says "Al-Qaeda" (which means "the base" in English), published in 1989. Investigators later complain that a proper translation could have shown an early connection between al-Qaeda and the WTC bombing. [New York Times, 1/14/01] February 26, 1993: An attempt to blow up the WTC fails. Six people are killed in the misfired blast. Analysts later determine that had the terrorists not made a minor error in the placement of the bomb, both towers could have fallen and up to 50,000 people could have been killed. The attempt is organized by Ramzi Yousef, who has close ties to bin Laden. [Congressional Hearings, 2/24/98] The New York Times later reports on Emad Salem, an undercover agent who ends up being the key government witness in the trial against the bomber. Salem testifies that the FBI knew about the attack beforehand and told him they would thwart it by substituting a harmless powder for the explosives. However, this plan was called off by an FBI supervisor, and the bombing was not stopped. [New York Times, 10/28/93] Why did the FBI seemingly let the terrorists go ahead with the bombing? Others suspects are ineptly investigated before the bombing (see July 1990 and November 5, 1990). Several of the bombers were trained by the CIA to fight in the Afghan war, and the CIA later concludes in internal documents that it was "partly culpable" for this bombing attempt. [Independent, 11/1/98] Ahmad Ajaj, an associate of Yousef, may have been a mole for the Israeli Mossad, and the Mossad may have had advanced knowledge of the bombing (see September 1, 1992). US officials later state that the overall mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, is a close relative of Ramzi Yousef, [Independent, 6/6/02] probably his uncle. [Los Angeles Times, 9/1/02] One of the attackers even left a message found by investigators stating, "Next time, it will be very precise." 9/11 can be seen as a completion of this failed attack. [AP, 9/30/01] January 2000 (B): A DEA government document later leaked to the press [DEA report, 6/01] suggests that a large Israeli spy ring starts penetrating the US from at least this time, if not earlier. This ring, which will later become popularly known as the "art student spy ring," is later shown to have strange connections to the events of 9/11. [Insight, 3/11/02] February 6, 2000: India's largest newsweekly reports that it appears a recent Mossad attempt to infiltrate al-Qaeda failed when they were stopped by Indian customs officials on their way to Bangladesh. These 11 men appeared to be from Afghanistan, but had Israeli passports. One expert states, "It is not unlikely for Mossad to recruit 11 Afghans in Iran and grant them Israeli citizenship to penetrate a network such as Bin Laden's. They would begin by infiltrating them into an Islamic radical group in an unlikely place like Bangladesh." [The Week, 2/6/00] If this shows that Mossad was trying to infiltrate al-Qaeda, did they make other attempts that succeeded, and if so, is this how they learned enough to know where to trail al-Qaeda in the US via the "art student spy ring"? April 19, 2000: USA Today states that "Israeli crime groups ... dominate distribution" of Ecstasy. [USA Today, 4/19/00] The DEA also states that most of the Ecstasy sold in the US is "controlled by organized crime figures in Western Europe, Russia and Israel." [UPI, 10/25/01] According to DEA documents, the Israeli "art student" spy ring" has been linked to several ongoing DEA [Ecstasy] investigations in Florida, California, Texas and New York now being closely coordinated by DEA headquarters." [Insight, 3/11/02] In addition to 9/11 connections explored later, was this spy ring meant to obstruct DEA prosecution of Israeli organized crime? December 2000-April 2001: According to later German reports, "a whole horde of Israeli counter-terror investigators, posing as students, [follow] the trails of Arab terrorists and their cells in the United States ... In the town of Hollywood, Florida, they [identify] ... Atta and Marwan Alshehhi as possible terrorists. Agents [live] in the vicinity of the apartment of the two seemingly normal flight school students, observing them around the clock." Supposedly, around April, the Israeli agents are discovered and deported, terminating the investigation. [Der Spiegel, 10/1/02] However, 80 additional agents are apprehended between June and December 2001 [Fox News, 12/12/01] and even more have been uncovered since (see May 7, 2002). Did the surveillance of Atta and others in fact end in April? Other reports have implied the story and connection (seeMarch 5, 2002). Supposedly, the Mossad waits until late August 2001 before informing the CIA what it learns, and the CIA doesn't take the warning seriously (see August 23, 2001). January 21, 2001: George Bush Jr. is inaugurated as the 43rd US President, replacing Clinton. The only major figure to permanently remain in office is CIA Director Tenet, appointed in 1997 and reputedly a long time friend of Bush Sr. FBI Director Louis Freeh stays on until June 2001. March 23, 2001: The Office of National Drug Control Policy issues a National Security Alert describing "apparent attempts by Israeli nationals to learn about government personnel and office layouts." This later comes to light through a leaked Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) document called "Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities." A crackdown ensues and by June around 120 Israelis are apprehended. More are apprehended later. [Read the document here: DEA report, 6/01] June 2001 (G): A 60-page internal memo on the Israeli "art student" spy ring is prepared by the DEA's Office of Security Programs. [Read the memo here: DEA report, 6/01] The memo is a compilation of dozens of field reports, and was meant only for the eyes of senior officials at the Justice Department (of which the DEA is adjunct), but it is leaked to the press around December 2001. The report connects the spies to efforts to foil investigations into Israeli organized crime activity involving the importation of the drug Ecstasy. The spies also appear to be snooping on top secret military bases. For instance, on April 30, 2001, an Air Force alert was issued from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City concerning "possible intelligence collection being conducted by Israeli Art Students." Tinker AFB houses AWACS surveillance craft and Stealth bombers. By the time of the report, the US has "apprehended or expelled close to 120 Israeli nationals" but many remain at large. [Le Monde, 3/5/02, Salon, 5/7/02] An additional 20 or so Israeli spies are apprehended between June and 9/11. [Fox News, 12/12/01] August 8-15, 2001: At some point between these dates, Israel warns the US that an al-Qaeda attack is imminent. [Fox News, 5/17/02] Two high ranking agents from the Mossad come to Washington and warn the FBI and CIA that from 50 to 200 terrorists have slipped into the US and are planning "a major assault on the United States." They say indications point to a "large scale target", and that Americans would be "very vulnerable." They add there could be Iraqi connections to the al-Qaeda attack. [Telegraph, 9/16/01, Los Angeles Times, 9/20/01, Ottawa Citizen, 9/17/01] The Los Angeles Times later retracts the story after a CIA spokesman says, "There was no such warning. Allegations that there was are complete and utter nonsense." [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01] In light of later revelations of a Mossad spy ring trailing numerous Muslim terrorists in the US, it is easy to see that Mossad would have known this info. Could this be later disinformation by the Mossad to spin the spy ring story and blame Iraq for 9/11, or it is another smoking gun showing extensive US foreknowledge? August 23, 2001: According to German newspapers, the Mossad gives the CIA a list of terrorists living in the US and say that they appear to be planning to carry out an attack in the near future. It is unknown if these are the 19 9/11 hijackers or if the number is a coincidence. However, four names on the list are known and are names of the 9/11 hijackers: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. [Die Zeit, 10/1/02, Der Spiegel, 10/1/02, BBC, 10/2/02, Haaretz, 10/3/02] The Mossad appears to have learned about this through its "art student" spy ring (see for instance, March 5, 2002). Yet apparently this warning and list are not treated as particularly urgent by the CIA and also not passed on to the FBI. It's not clear if this warning influenced the adding of Alhazmi and Almihdhar to a terrorism watch list on this same day, and if so, why only those two. [Der Spiegel, 10/1/02] Israel has denied that there were any Mossad agents in the US. [Haaretz, 10/3/02] The US has denied knowing about Atta before 9/11, despite other media reports to the contrary (see January-May 2000). September 4, 2001 (D): Zim-American Israeli Shipping Co. moves their North American headquarters from the 16th floor of the WTC to Norfolk, Virginia, one week before the 9/11 attacks. The Israeli government owns 49 percent of the company. [Virginian-Pilot, 9/4/01] Zim announced the move and its date six months earlier. [Virginian- Pilot, 4/3/01] More than 200 workers had just been moved out; about 10 are still in the building making final moving arrangements on 9/11, but escape alive. [Jerusalem Post, 9/13/01, Journal of Commerce, 10/18/01] The move leaves only one Israeli company, ClearForest, with 18 employees, in the WTC on 9/11. The four or five employees in the building at the time manage to escape. [Jerusalem Post, 9/13/01] One year later, a Zim ship is impounded attempting to ship Israeli military equipment to Iran; it is speculated that this is done with the knowledge of Israel. [AFP, 8/29/02 (B)] Given the Israeli government ties, the Odigo warning (seeSeptember 11, 2001 (C)), and the Israeli art student spy ring (see December 2000-April 2001), some have speculated that the move was more than just lucky. September 10, 2001 (B): An Army School of Advanced Military Studies issues a report written by elite US army officers, which is made public just prior to 9/11. The report gives the following description for the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/ Arab act." [Washington Times, 9/10/01] After 9/11 and revelations of a large Mossad spy ring operating mysteriously in the US, some suggest that the Mossad did in fact do just that on 9/11. September 11, 2001 (C): Two employees of Odigo, Inc., in Israel, receive warnings of an imminent attack in New York City around two hours before the first plane hits the WTC. Odigo, one of the world's largest instant messaging companies, has its headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo Research and Development offices where the warnings were received are located in Herzliyya, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Israeli security and the FBI were notified immediately after the 9/11 attacks began. The two employees claim not to know who sent the warnings. "Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain interests or demographics. [Alex] Diamandis [Odigo vice president of sales and marketing] said it was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message." [Ha'aretz, 9/26/01, Washington Post, 9/27/01 (C)] FTW Odigo claims the warning did not specifically mention the WTC, but the company won't say what was specified, claiming, "Providing more details would only lead to more conjecture." [Washington Post, 9/28/01] Odigo gave the FBI the internet address of the message's sender so the name of the sender could be found. [Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 9/26/01] Two months later it is reported that the FBI is still investigating the matter, but there have been no reports since. [Courier Mail, 11/20/01] Could the message have been a mass e-mail sent to a large group? Could this be related to the "art student spy ring"? Did the original senders directly inform the FBI as well, and if not, why not? September 11, 2001 (G): The 9/11 attack: four planes are hijacked, two crash into the WTC, one into the Pentagon, and one crashes into the Pennsylvania countryside. At least 3,000 people are killed. A more detailed timeline focusing on the hours of this attack appears on a separate page. September 11, 2001 (W): Five Israelis are arrested for "puzzling behavior" related to the WTC attacks. They are arrested around 4:30 P.M. after having filmed the burning WTC from the roof of their company's building near Liberty State Park, then shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery. They were spotted by a neighbor who called the police and the FBI. The police tracked them down in a van with the words "Urban Moving Systems" written on the side. [Bergen Record, 9/12/01, Ha'aretz, 9/17/01] One man was found with $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, another had two passports on him, and a box cutter was found in the van. [ABC News, 6/21/02] Investigators say that "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted... It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen." [Bergen Record, 9/12/01] One of these Israelis later says, "Our purpose was to document the event." [ABC News, 6/21/02] The FBI later concludes at least two are Mossad agents and that all were on a Mossad surveillance mission. The FBI interrogates them for weeks. [Forward, 3/15/02] They are held on immigration violation charges and released 71 days later. [ABC News, 6/21/02] Their names are later identified as Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari and Yaron Shmuel. [Forward, 3/15/02] September 11 , 2001 (X): An FAA memo written on the evening of 9/11 suggests a man on Flight 11 was shot and killed by a gun before the plane crashed into the WTC. [See the leaked FAA memo, originally posted at World Net Daily] The "Executive Summary," based on information relayed by a flight attendant to the American Airlines Operation Center, stated "that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 A.M [since Flight 11 crashed at 8:46, the time must be a typo, probably meaning 8:20]. The passenger killed was Daniel Lewin, shot by passenger Satam Al Suqami." The FAA claims that the document is a "first draft" and declines to release the final draft, calling it "protected information." A report in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz on September 17 identifies Lewin as a former member of the Israel Defense Force Sayeret Matkal, Israel's most successful special-operations unit [UPI, 3/6/02]. Sayeret Matkal is a deep-penetration unit that has been involved in assassinations, the theft of foreign signals- intelligence materials, and the theft and destruction of foreign nuclear weaponry. Sayeret Matkal is best known for the 1976 rescue of 106 passengers at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. [New Yorker, 10/29/01] Officials later deny the gun story and suggest that Lewin was probably stabbed to death instead (which would still be very interesting). [UPI, 3/6/02, Washington Post, 3/2/02] Note that Lewin founded Akamai, a successful computer company, and his connections to Sayeret Mat'kal remained hidden until the gun story came to light. [Guardian, 9/15/01] Perhaps Lewin just happened to be there, and, with his past training, tried to be a hero and stop the hijack? What are the odds that an Israeli counter-terrorist expert would not only be on this hijacked flight, but also have terrorists sitting in the seats directly in front and behind him? September 11, 2001 (BB): Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when asked what the 9/11 attacks mean for relations between the US and Israel, replies, "It's very good." Then he edited himself: "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy." [New York Times, 9/12/01] A week later, the Village Voice states, "From national networks to small-town newspapers, the view that America's terrible taste of terrorism will finally do away with even modest calls for the restraint of Israel's military attacks on Palestinian towns has become an instant, unshakable axiom. ... Now, support for Israel in America is officially absolute, and Palestinians are cast once again as players in a global terrorist conspiracy." [Village Voice, 9/19/01] September 14, 2001 (approx.): According to Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, a few days after 9/11 members of the elite Israeli counter- terrorism unit Sayeret Matkal arrive in the US and begin training with US Special Forces in a secret location. The two groups are developing contingency plans to attack Pakistan's military bases and remove its nuclear weapons if the Pakistani government or the nuclear weapons fall into the wrong hands. [New Yorker, 10/29/01] There may have been threats to enact this plan on September 13, 2001 (see September 11-16, 2001). The Japan Times later notes that this "threat to divest Pakistan of its 'crown jewels' was cleverly used by the US, first to force Musharraf to support its military campaign in Afghanistan, and then to warn would-be coup plotters against Musharraf." [Japan Times, 11/10/01] Note the curious connection between Sayeret Matkal and one of the 9/11 passengers on Flight 11 (see September 11, 2001 (X)). September 14, 2001 (K): Dominick Suter, owner of the company Urban Moving Systems, flees the country to Israel. The FBI later tells ABC News that "Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation." Suter has been tied to the five Israeli agents caught filming the WTC attack. The FBI had questioned him around September 12, removing boxes of documents and a dozen computer hard drives. But when they returned a few days later, Suter is gone (see September 11, 2001 (W)). [Forward, 3/15/02, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, 12/13/01, ABC News, 6/21/01] September 29-30, 2001: Police in the Midwest stop six men carrying suspicious documents. They possess photos and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, and also have "box cutters and other equipment." All six have Israeli passports. They are let released the same day after their passports are shown to be valid, but before anyone interviews them. The FBI is reportedly furious about their release. [Miami Herald, 10/3/01, Knight Ridder, 10/31/01, London Times, 11/2/01] The six men may have been Mossad agents. In addition to snooping on the DEA and Muslim terrorists, some Mossad agents in the "art student" spy ring have been caught trying to break into military bases and other top secret facilities. [Salon, 5/7/02] Perhaps they were gathering information, not planning a hijack? October 16, 2001 (C): Two men, Moshe Elmakias and Ron Katar, are arrested after being found with a detailed video of the Sears Tower in Chicago. In addition, a woman named Ayelet Reisler is found with them, carrying conflicting identification information. They are arrested for illegal dumping, using a van with the name Moving Systems Incorporated. The video contains extensive zoom in shots of the Sears Tower; it is not known when the video was filmed. [Philadelphia Mercury, 10/18/01] Given the moving van cover (see September 11, 2001 (W) and [DEA report, 6/01]), and the Jewish names, it is likely these three are part of the Israeli spy ring. Could they have been videotaping the Sears Tower on 9/11 in the expectation that it would be hit by a plane? Had Flight 93 not been delayed 40 minutes on the runway and stayed on course, it would have been near Chicago at the same time as the other attacks, and it turned towards Washington 20 minutes after the FAA informed the military that the plane had been hijacked. November 20, 2001: The five Israelis arrested on 9/11 for videotaping the WTC attack and then cheering about it (see September 11, 2001 (W)) are released and return to Israel. Some of the men's names appeared in a US national intelligence database, and the FBI concluded that at least two of the men were working for the Mossad, according to ABC News. But the FBI says that none of them had any advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and they were released as part of a deal between the US and the Israel government. After their release they claim to have been tortured. [Forward, 3/15/02, ABC News, 6/21/02] November 23, 2001 (B): The Washington Post reports, "At least 60 young Israeli Jews have been arrested and detained around the country on immigration charges since the Sept. 11 attacks, many of them held on US government officials' invocation of national security." An INS official who requested anonymity says the use of the term "special interest" for Israelis being held in Cleveland, St. Louis and other places means the case in question is "related to the investigation of September 11th." [Washington Post, 11/23/01] Could this be more "art school" spy ring activity? December 12-15, 2001: Fox News broadcasts a remarkable series about the Israeli "art student" spy ring. The report mentions that at least 60 more Israelis have been detained or arrested since 9/11. "There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it." When a government source is asked if the Israeli spies knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened, he responds "The principal question is 'how could they have not known?'" "Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying ... is considered career suicide." A highly placed investigator says there are 'tie- ins' between the spy ring and 9/11. But when asked for details, he flatly refuses to describe them, saying, 'evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information.'" The report also reveals that Amdocs, an Israeli company, is recording virtually every phone call in the US and could be passing information on to the Israeli government (similar claims were first raised in 2000 [Insight, 5/29/00]). Fox News suggests they might be using this position to impede the 9/11 investigation. [Fox News, 12/12/01] December 16, 2001: Fox News removes its series on the "art student" spy ring (see December 12-15, 2001) from its website after only two days, in response to pressure from the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and others (see for instance, [CAMERA, 12/12/01, CAMERA, 12/13/01]). CAMERA for instance, suggests the reporter "has something, personally, about Israel... Maybe he's very sympathetic to the Arab side." [Salon, 5/7/02] The head of the ADL calls the report "sinister dangerous innuendo which fuels anti-Semitism." [Forward, 12/21/01] Yet there doesn't appear to be any substance to these personal attacks (and Forward later reverses its stance on the spy ring [Forward, 3/15/02]). Fox News also never makes a formal repudiation or correction about the series. The contents of the series continues to be mostly ignored by the mainstream media, but it makes a big impact inside the US government. For instance, an internal DEA communiqué from December 18 mentions the Fox report by name, and warns of security breaches in telecommunications as described in the Fox report. [Salon, 5/7/02] March 5, 2002: It is reported that many spies in the uncovered Israeli spy ring seemed to have been trailing the 9/11 hijackers. For instance, five Israeli spies are intercepted in the tiny town of Hollywood, Florida, and four 9/11 hijackers are known to have spent time in Hollywood, Florida. [Le Monde, 3/5/02, Reuters, 3/5/02, Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/15/02] In one case, some Israeli spies lived at 4220 Sheridan Street, only a few hundred feet from where Atta was living at 3389 Sheridan Street. Israeli spies appear to have been close to at least 10 of the 19 9/11 hijackers. [Salon, 5/7/02] March 6, 2002: A Washington Post article completely denies the existence of any Israeli spy ring. A "wide array of US officials" supposedly deny it, and Justice Department spokeswoman Susan Dryden says: "This seems to be an urban myth that has been circulating for months. The department has no information at this time to substantiate these widespread reports about Israeli art students involved in espionage." [Washington Post, 3/6/02] The New York Times fails to cover the story at all, even months later. [Salon, 5/7/02] By mid-March, Jane's, the respected British intelligence and military analysis service, notes: "It is rather strange that the US media seems to be ignoring what may well be the most explosive story since the 11 September attacks - the alleged breakup of a major Israeli espionage operation in the USA." [Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/13/02] March 11, 2002: A newspaper reports that the DEA study on Israeli "art students" determined the "students" all had "recently served in the Israeli military, the majority in intelligence, electronic signal intercept or explosive ordnance units." [Palm Beach Post, 3/11/02] March 15, 2002: Forward, a US publication with a large Jewish audience, admits that there has been an Israeli spy ring in the US. This is a reversal of their earlier stance (see [Forward, 12/21/01]). But, "far from pointing to Israeli spying against US government and military facilities, as reported in Europe last week, the incidents in question appear to represent a case of Israelis in the United States spying on a common enemy, radical Islamic networks suspected of links to Middle East terrorism." [Forward, 3/15/02] May 7, 2002: In the middle of the night a moving truck is pulled over for speeding in Oak Harbor, Washington, near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. The base is the home of the advanced electronic warfare Prowler jets. A bomb-sniffing dog detects explosives on one of the men and inside the truck. High-tech equipment is then later used to confirm the presence of TNT on the gearshift and RDX plastic explosive on the steering wheel. Both men turn out to be Israeli (one with an altered passport), and in the country illegally. [Fox News, 5/13/02] However, later the FBI clears the two men, saying both the dog and the tests just detected false positives from "residue left by a cigarette lighter." [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5/14/02, Jerusalem Post, 5/14/02] The "art student spy ring" frequently uses moving vans as cover, and has been caught spying on the most top secret military bases. [Salon, 5/7/02] In a possibly related story, the Seattle FBI office that handled this case appears to have been broken into a few weeks later, and even a room containing evidence was penetrated. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/29/02] Does it not appear that the spy ring is still active, and the FBI is covering up for them and releasing them, no matter what they're caught doing? Why? May 7, 2002 (B): Salon reports on the Israeli "art student" ring. All the "students" claim to have come from either Bezalel Academy, or the University of Jerusalem. A look in the Bezalel database shows that not a single one of them appear to have attended school there. There is no such thing as the University of Jerusalem. In fact, the article points out that the sheer sloppiness and brazenness of the spy operation appears to be a great mystery, especially since the Mossad is renowned as one of the best spy agencies in the world. One government source suggests a theory to Salon that the "art students" were actually a smoke screen. They were meant to be caught and connected to DEA surveillance so that a smaller number of spies also posing as art students could complete other missions. One such mission could have been the monitoring of al-Qaeda terrorists. [Salon, 5/7/02] Shortly afterwards, a major Israeli newspaper publishes a story about the spy ring, but doesn't come to any conclusions. [Ha'aretz, 5/14/02] Could it be that Israel assisted the US in keeping an eye on the terrorists, thus allowing the US to maintain plausible deniability and a detachment if there were investigations on what the US knew? November 2002: Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef blames Zionists and Jews for the 9/11 attacks. He tells journalists, "Who has benefited from Sept. 11 attacks? I think [the Jews] were the protagonists of such attacks." Nayef is in charge of the Saudi investigation into the attacks, and some US congresspeople respond to the comments by questioning how strongly Saudi Arabia is investigating the involvement of the 15 Saudi 9/11 hijackers. [AP, 12/5/02] From: Dick Eastman Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:20 AM Subject: JEWS DID 9-11 -- NOW YOU CAN BE SURE -- Air Traffic Controller Pete Zalewski was responsible for both New York Tower crashes -- and also was controller for Egypt 990 crash in 1999 Israel Defense Force Sayeret Matkal Branch -- Sayeret Matkal is a deep-penetration unit that has been involved in assassinations, the theft of foreign (US) defense, financial, industrial and diplomatic secrets and the theft and destruction of foreign weapons and research facilities. They did 9-11. Air Traffic Controller Pete Zalewski was responsible for both New York Tower crashes -- and also was controller for Egypt 990 crash in 1999, a plane loaded with the highest Egyptian military brass (see below) They were tough enough, bold enough, ruthless enough, and Jewish- supremacist-racist enough to do 9-11 and lie to our faces and mock us for suspecting them ever since. They are tough enough to destroy our economy and end our threat as a source of law and justice which they are doing very successfully right now. They are determined to finish us off before we can take in the facts and develop an organized response. But don't mind me -- you just go on attending those Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Barrack Obama rallies -- after all it doesn't matter whether Moslems or Jews did 9-11does it, so why should you care, right? TAfter all crime is not Jews doing 9-11, the crime in this country today is daring to point out what they have done. Ain't that right? Well forgive me, but you have to know. Wake up, damn it, and see who has you by the throat. Dick Eastman Yakima, Washington ================================ Air Traffic Controller Pete Zalewski was responsible for both New York Tower crashes -- and also was controller for Egypt 990 crash in 1999 911 False Flag - 72 min German w. subtitles http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4092196668758946293&hl=en from this video: At 8:13 Pete Zalewski sees the information on his radar screen that the transponder is no longer transmitting, that the pilot of American Airlines flight 11 is no longer responding and that the flight route has been changed. Instead of immediately sounding the alarm we hear that he attempted repeatedly to contact the aircraft. From 8:13 to 8:24 a.m., this Pete Zalewski supposedly called the captain of AA11, "Hello.. please respond," as opposed to the necessity of securing the airspace he has nothing better to do than try to restore contact. No! I cannot believe that. That cannot be true. If I were the head of an air traffic control center, I would replace the person when I ascertained, that an aircraft that he was responsible for just disappeared into the World Trade Center. He was also responsible for the second aircraft, United Airlines flight 175. The most interestin thing yet, which has been reported by another air traffic controller, is that he was responsible for a third plane -- Egypt Airlines flight 990, two years prior, that was packed to the brim with Egyptian military officials of the highest rank. It executed a strange maneuver near the coast then sank into the Atlantic. ..... After watching this video listen to the details how the evidence established beyond reasonable doubt that EgyptAir 990 was taken over by remote control in the early hours of Oct. 31, 1999. I was interviewed by Guiliani here in 2006 but also by Tom Valentine's program where I was interviewed along with Chris Bollyn. I had no idea until seeing the above German clip that the same JEWISH air traffic controller happened to be assigned to be ATC for Egypt Air and both WTC tower planes. Listen: Charles Giuliani talking with Dick Eastman about 9-11 research -- "remote-control crashbombings May 17,2007 MP3s: 1 http://arc.republicbroadcasting.org/Hertz/07/05/Hertz_051707_110000.MP3 2 http://arc.republicbroadcasting.org/Hertz/07/05/Hertz_051707_120000.MP3 Winamp: http://arc.republicbroadcasting.org/Hertz/07/05/ Hertz_0517.m3u WindowsMedia: http://arc.republicbroadcasting.org/Hertz/07/05/Hertz_0517.asx RealMedia: http://arc.republicbroadcasting.org/Hertz/07/05/Hertz_0517.ram Quicktime: http://arc.republicbroadcasting.org/Hertz/07/05/Hertz_0517.qtl Add to this the news stories of the 94 Israelis at Reagan and Dulles airports, each with illegal top security passes at the time of 9-11 -- and each quietly deported by Attorney General Ashcroft a few months after the attack. -- Dick Eastman Also: Chris Bollyn has established that there is a connection between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Menachem Atzmon, the man who oversaw passenger screening and airport security at Boston's Logan Airport on 9/11 -- Olmert and Atzmon are truly very close political allies and co-defendants in old Likud crimes." -- " .. there is the very bizarre and suspicious Israeli link to the security of U.S. military computers that goes back to the early 1990s. (Remember the reports of Ptech and MITRE engaged in the basement of the FAA before 9/11?) .. One must also keep in mind that 9/11 was primarily a computer crime, just like the stealing of our elections. Long before 9/11, a germ was planted in the U.S. defense computer system which allowed for a "super-user" to control the network and create the miscommunications that prevented the U.S. military from defending New York and Washington on that terrible day. "As I have written earlier, the members of the YORAN family from Israel are among the key suspects, along with Michael Chertoff and others. I consider the YORANS to be high-ranking Israeli moles who infiltrated the most sensitive computer networks in the U.S. government and military - Zionest agents who facilitated the terror attacks of 9/11. "The YORAN family includes, Dr. Chaim Yoran (a.k.a. Elad Yoran), his wife Ruth Lubelski Yoran, and their three sons: Amit Y. Yoran, Dov Yoran, and Naftali Elad Yoran. "...The Yoran sons, Amit and Naftali Elad, are graduates of Westpoint.
From this U.S.-based launching pad they went on to take over computer security for Dept. of Defense computer networks. For example, Forbes Magazine, in December 2001, wrote this about Amit Yoran: "Yoran, 32, earned degrees in computer science from West Point and George Washington University before joining the U.S. Air Force (?), where he took a job overseeing the emergency response team at the Defense Information Systems Agency ( ??). DSIA runs all military networks (!!!)."
Chamish: "Menachem Atzmon ... was Likud Treasurer along with Olmert in the late 80s," I answered. Then he playfully announced, "Did you know he was personally responsible for security at Logan and Newark Airports on 9/11?" ----------------- That I DIDN'T know. Here is Bollyn's report: OLMERT AND ATZMON Olmert, who has long been tarnished by allegations of financial crimes, was implicated in a financial scandal involving forged receipts for donations to the 1988 Likud campaign, of which he was co-treasurer. This affair culminated in the March 1996 conviction of three other Likudniks, including Menahem Atzmon, the Likud treasurer. Olmert was also later indicted in the Likud affair, but was acquitted. During the 1970s Olmert had worked in the law firm owned by another Atzmon, Uzi Atzmon. Menahem Atzmon, convicted in Israel, went on to become the founder and head of International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), the parent company of Huntleigh USA, the airport security firm that ran passenger screening operations at the airports of Boston and Newark on 9/11. Huntleigh USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of an Israeli company called International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) International N.V., a Netherlands-based aviation and transportation security firm headed by "former [Israeli] military commanding officers and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies." Menachem Atzmon, convicted in Israel in 1996 for campaign finance fraud, and his business partner Ezra Harel, took over management of security at the Boston and Newark airports when their company ICTS bought Huntleigh USA in 1999. UAL Flight 175 and AA 11, which allegedly struck the twin towers, both originated in Boston, while UAL 93, which purportedly crashed in Pennsylvania, departed from the Newark airport. The convicted Israeli criminal Atzmon also controls and operates the German port of Rostock on the Baltic Sea. Some 9/11 victims' families brought lawsuits against Huntleigh claiming the security firm had been grossly negligent on 9-11. While these relatives have a right to discovery and to know what Huntleigh did or did not do to protect their loved ones on 9-11, Huntleigh, along with the other security companies, was granted complete congressional protection in 2002 and will not be called to account for its actions on 9-11 in any U.S. court. Atzmon, a convicted criminal, political ally and co-defendant of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, was directly responsible for passenger and airline security at Boston's Logan Airport. ...Menachem Atzmon resigned as president of Friedman's IDF following his 1996 conviction for Israeli election campaign finance fraud. But his later U.S. activities would prove to be much more disturbing. Atzmon and his business partner Ezra Harel are the majority owners (57%) of ICTS-International Consultants on Targeted Security, run by "former [Israeli] military commanding officers and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies" according its Web site. In 1999, Atzmon's Netherlands-based firm took over management of security at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, through ICTS' subsidiary Huntleigh USA. This convicted Likud criminal's firm was in charge of security at Logan Airport-inspecting the validity of passports and visas, searching cargo, screening passengers-when two airliners were hijacked from there on Sept. 11, 2001, and demolished the World Trade Center towers in New York.[...] --- 94 Israelis at Reagan and Dulles airports, each with illegal top security passes at the time of 9-11 -- and each quietly deported by Attorney General Ashcroft a few months after the attack. -------- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 100 employees at two major Washington-area airports have been arrested on fraud charges in obtaining restricted airport security badges, government sources said on Tuesday. The arrests will be announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft later in the day in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said. The arrests mark a continuing post Sept. 11 crackdown by U.S. law enforcement and transportation authorities on airport security lapses. Many of the charges -- including those being brought against workers at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport outside the capital involve allegations that suspects violated immigration and Social Security laws. Also, the government alleges that many arrested on Tuesday in the greater Washington area lied about criminal records while applyuing for security badges, the sources said. It was unclear initially what jobs those employees performed. As of last week, more than 250 people had been arrested at 11 U.S. airports on charges they fraudulently obtained credentials for access to sensitive airport areas like ramps, gates and aircraft. Roughly half have peaded guilty or have plea arguments pending, authorities said. More than 70 have been deported or are awaiting deportation proceedings, 94 foreigners in the country illegally with top-security badges were at Dulles and Reagan airports on 9/11/01 ------------------------------- on Monday, July 16, 2001./ [NB: Dr. Zakheim resigned as Pentagon Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of March when it was revealed that the he is unable to account for the disappearance of $2.6 trillion(it's unlikely this will receive much coverage in the mainstream media). Zakheim has since taken a lucrative position as a vice president of the mega-consultancy Booz, Allen, & Hamilton (one that also works closely with DARPA). Rabbi Zakheim is also Chief Executive Officer of SPC International Corporation (a subsidiary of the aforementioned remote-flight-control-technology firm), a company that specializes in "political, military, and economic consulting, and international sales and analysis". In addition, Dr. Zakheim serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. As the Rabbi's record clearly shows, he has serious tenure in the US defense establishment: more than 30 years of holding assorted senior positions at the Pentagon.] [2] Dov Zakheim is the co-author of that singularly sinister-and chillingly ominous-statement contained in Rearming America's Defenses (RAD) re the plan for American global domination [through galvanizing American emotional support for full-scale war against oil-rich Arab states]: *"...**the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, /absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event-like a new Pearl Harbor/"*. The PNAC document also expressly recommends the US should seize Iraq /even if Saddam Hussein were deposed through a military coup/. [So much for bringing "freedom and democracy" to the people of that country.] *The good Rabbi's involvement with PNAC, his previous directorship of a corporation that manufactures remote control flight systems, and his inability to document how the Pentagon has spent TRILLIONS of American taxpayers' dollars suggests that real investigations into the crimes of 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq would put Mr. Zakheim near the top of the witness list for interrogation and potential prosecution. * *SYSTEMS PLANNING CORPORATION * Dr. Dov Zakheim was the former CEO of Systems Planning Corporation, a company that designs and manufactures extremely sophisticated control/guidance technology that enables an external operator to fly, and land, aircraft by remote control. One of the company's principal products is the Command Transmitter System (CTS), a fully redundant, self-contained, solid-state platform capable of providing totally programmable remote flight control capability, including high- precision electronic navigation. The company's parallel product, the Flight Termination System (FTS), enables system-equipped aircraft to be safely landed on any suitable runway in the world-regardless of the availability of ground-based navigational or landing aids (VOR, ILS, MLS, etc.). Such total independence in all flight regimes is achieved through a variety of ultra-sophisticated space-based technologies, including Mil-spec DGPS (Differential GPS, using extremely precise encrypted military "P" Code transmissions), and is accurate to within /one foot/ of the runway centerline during landing. *The CTS/FTS remote-control system is capable of controlling up to 8 airborne vehicles-including airliners-simultaneously from ground- based or airborne (AWACS) positions. */["Coincidence": Operation Vigilant Guardian, one of five NORAD "war game exercises" underway on the morning of 9/11 and orchestrated byDick Cheney, involved the *simulated hijacking of commercial airliners*. At one point during the exercises, while the four "real" hijacked aircraft were airborne, as many as TWENTY-TWO independent radar blips representing "hijacked" aircraft were simultaneously displayed on FAA radar screens along the Eastern seaboard. This, obviously, created total pandemonium. Air traffic controllers who had been advised beforehand by NORAD of the "simulated hijackings", began frantically calling NORAD to determine which of the twenty-two targets were "real" and which were "exercise." All indications are that whatever it was that happened to the four real "hijacked" airliners occurred during this purposefully orchestrated melee while the order was given for the US Air Force to "stand down".]/ The CTS/FTS system (subsequently improved, tested and implemented by Raytheon) allows specialist ground controllers to listen-in on cockpit conversations on the target aircraft, then take absolute control of its computerized flight control system by remote means and safely land the aircraft at any airport within range. In other words, this technology was designed to empower "law enforcement agencies" to hijack hijackers. [NB: The ground station technology for CTS/FTS was developed by Raytheon under an Air Force contract for the Joint Precision Approach and Landings System (JPALS) program. A government-industry team accomplished the first precision approach/auto-land by a civil aircraft using this system on August 25, 2001 at Holloman AFB, NM. *A FedEx Express 727-200 aircraft demonstrated hundred percent system proficiency by executing six full auto-lands using the JPALS ground station*.] "*HOME RUN" * In partnership with Raytheon, System Planning Corporation also supplies CTS/FTS technology to commercial airplane manufacturers for installation in airliners (Boeing: confirmed; Airbus: undetermined, but highly probable given the consortium's connection to BAE, a US military contractor.) It has been reported that DARPA's codename for the CTS/FTS system was "Home Run". Former German Secretary of Defense Andreas Von Buelow may have alluded to foreknowledge of Home Run technology in an interview he gave the German daily "Tagesspiegel" on January 13th, 2002: "There is also the theory of one British flight engineer: according to this, the steering of the planes was perhaps taken out of the pilots' hands, from outside. The Americans had developed a method in the 1970s, whereby they could rescue hijacked planes by intervening into the computer piloting [automatic pilot system]. This theory says this technique was abused in this case [9/11]..." Upon deeper scrutiny this may not appear quite so much a "theory" as might first seem. It's been reported that the German national carrier Lufthansa, seriously concerned that one of its own aircraft might be "rescued" by the Americans without its authority, had every one of its Home Run-equipped Boeing aircraft stripped of the American flight control computers. It's reasonable to presume that Herr Von Buelow- the Secretary of Defense and Minister of Science and Technology at the time-would have known all about this mammoth but secretive task (how very clever-and discreet-of Von Buelow to "drop" the information into the middle of an interview about the 9/11 attacks). Lufthansa aircraft (and possibly others) are now effectively impervious to Home Run take-overs, but that is more than can be said for the American aircraft fleet. In order to make Home Run truly effective, it had to be completely integrated with all onboard systems, and this could only be accomplished with a new aircraft design, several of which were on the drawing boards at that time. Under cover of extreme secrecy, the multinationals and DARPA went ahead on this basis and built "back doors" into the new computerized flight control systems. There were two very obvious hard requirements at this stage: 1) a primary control channel for use in taking over the flight control system and flying the aircraft back to an airfield of choice, and 2) a covert audio channel for monitoring flight deck conversations. Once the primary channel was activated, all aircraft functions came under direct ground (or AWACS) control, permanently removing the hijackers and pilots from the control loop. It needs mention that this was not a system designed to "undermine" the authority of the flight crews, but rather, implemented as a "doomsday" device in the event the hijackers began to shoot passengers or crew members, possibly including the pilots. Based on the reasonable assumption that hijackers only carry a limited number of rounds of ammunition, and many modern airliners carry in excess of 300 passengers, Home Run was envisaged as a system that could be used to fly all the survivors to a friendly airport for a safe landing. *System Activation * Activating the primary Home Run channel is reportedly fairly straightforward. A transponder, as many readers know, is a combined radio transmitter and receiver which operates automatically-in the case of 9/11, relaying data between the four aircraft and air traffic controllers on the ground. The transmitted signals represent a unique "identity" for each aircraft, essential in crowded airspace to avoid midair collisions-and equally essential for Home Run controllers trying to lock onto the correct aircraft. Once the correct target aircraft is located by radar, the Home Run duplex data bus "piggy backs" the transponder channel and assumes direct control from the ground. *This could explain why NONE of the four aircraft sent the special "I have been hijacked" transponder code (7500), despite _multiple activation points_ for this distress transmission on all four aircraft-and despite being flown by combat-hardened ex-fighter pilots. * Because the transponder frequency had already been piggy-backed by Home Run, transmission of the special hijack code was rendered impossible. This was the first hard proof that the target aircraft had been hijacked electronically from the ground, rather than by Arab patsies toting box-cutters. The Home Run listening device on the flight deck utilizes the cockpit microphones that normally feed the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), one of two black boxes armored to withstand heavy impact and thereby later provide investigators significant clues to why the aircraft crashed. However, once plugged into Home Run, the CVRs are bypassed, and voice transmissions are no longer recorded on the 30minute continuous-loop recording tape. If Home Run is active for more than thirty minutes, there will therefore be no audible data on the Cockpit Voice Recorders. Crash investigators are said to have recovered the CVRs from the Pentagon and Pittsburg aircraft, and publicly confirmed that both are completely blank. The only possible reason for this is data capture by Home Run, providing the final hard proof that the attack aircraft were hijacked electronically from the ground, rather than by "Arab terrorists". *Discussion * It is not being suggested that remote circumvention and take-over of the four airliners' controls is definitely what happened on 9/11. But if this scenario seems improbable, one must necessarily consider the probability of four airliners being taken over simultaneously, casually flown around a large swath of the country for almost two hours under the vigilant eye of NORAD, and then used as missiles-all without a single fighter being scrambled to intercept any of them. Since this is what actually happened, we have no choice but to consider other "implausible" scenarios. And since the official scenario is itself an unsubstantiated-and truly farfetched-"conspiracy theory," other competing scenarios should also receive serious attention. The public's reluctance to question official doctrine on this matter is a symptom of the societal role for which most of us have been bred and trained: to be ever-faithful hounds, tails thumping the floor as we contentedly slurp the hand of class authority. Such credulity also becomes inevitable when the alternative is so unbearable: if someone in Bush's position is capable of lying to us about something as huge, as gut-wrenchingly horrible as 9/11, then everything we believe about this country-about the nature of civilization itself-might just be childish nonsense. Most people simply don't have the guts to go there. Given a desperate enough need to sustain the childish belief in government-as-benevolent-father, a person will adapt that belief to any circumstance. The behavioral end result can resemble courage; indeed, we are taught to regard it as the DEFINITION of courage. Actually, it's one of cowardice's darkest moments. Even a casual examination of Nazi Germany, where this phenomenon was rampant, will drive this point home. It's almost funny, the way people readily see the threat of technological circumvention presented by Diebold's electronic voting machines, yet when the subject switches to Systems Planning Corporation's Flight Termination System, which is every bit as real, and to the exactly parallel possibilities it represents vis-a-vis 9/11, they suddenly retreat into profound and combative denial. It's as if a threshold has been crossed into a realm of possibilities too vile to entertain, so they simply don't. Never mind that this country's operatives have been traveling the world, perpetrating similar horrors, for all of the past century. Rather than acknowledge the possibility of a unifying pattern, Joe Sixpack would much rather 'shoot the messenger.' Every so often, such people establish a new high-water mark for cowardice and facultative stupidity, and the present is definitely one of those times. After all, the official 9/11 scenario they cling to with such desperate faith comes from only one source: the Western "intelligence community"-the most brazen, systematic, resourceful, and interlocked association of habitual liars this world has ever seen. As should have been made clear by any number of intelligence scandals over the years, the credibility of this bunch goes past zero into the negative: pending airtight proof, anything they say should be reflexively deemed a lie. You may remember that the FBI also provided the identities of "the 19 hijackers" within hours-information that soon also became quite suspect, especially considering there was NOT ONE Arab name on any of the flight manifests (miraculously, they even found paper passports that had survived fireballs, Arabic flight manuals conveniently left in the trunks of cars, etc., etc.) At least seven of the hijackers are still alive in the Middle East-a pretty good alibi, wouldn't you say? Several of these ex-suspects had their passports or other IDs stolen from them over the years, and it's entirely possible that all 19 hijackers had stolen identities, meaning they could have come from anywhere-or been absent altogether. Our media were pretty slack about acknowledging this at the time, and since then have dropped this ball entirely. What's really amazing is that not one mainstream journalist has asked how these 19 alleged hijackers boarded their aircraft when their names were not on any of the passenger manifests. Rather than allow the "intelligence community" to render every detail of our comprehension on this matter, we would be much wiser to carefully identify and discard every assumption they hand us. ========= Mike Rivero: The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11 As the world watched in disbelief and asked the question... ...Mossad operatives were seen dancing with joy. A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11. The New York Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards. (1) Police received several calls from angry New Jersey residents claiming "middle-eastern" men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. (2) "They were like happy, you know They didn't look shocked to me" said a witness. (3) [T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage. (4) Witnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot. (6) "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park." (7) One anonymous phone call to the authorities actually led them to close down all of New York's bridges and tunnels. The mystery caller told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that a group of Palestinians were mixing a bomb inside of a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. Here's the transcript from NBC News: Dispatcher: Jersey City police. Caller: Yes, we have a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there, they look like Palestinians and going around a building. Caller: There's a minivan heading toward the Holland tunnel, I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh uniform. Dispatcher: He has what? Caller: He's dressed like an Arab. (8) (*Writer's note: Why would this mystery caller specifically say that these "Arabs" were Palestinians? How would he know that? Palestinians usually dress in western style clothes, not "sheikh uniforms") Based on that phone call, police then issued a "Be-on-the-Lookout" alert for a white mini-van heading for the city's bridges and tunnels from New Jersey. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals. (9) When a van fitting that exact description was stopped just before crossing into New York, the suspicious "middle-easterners" were apprehended. Imagine the surprise of the police officers when these terror suspects turned out to be Israelis! According to ABC's 20/20, when the van belonging to the cheering Israelis was stopped by the police, the driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers: "We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem." (10) Why did he feel that Palestinians were a problem for the NYPD? The police and FBI field agents became very suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports. Police also told the Bergen Record that bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives. (11) The FBI seized and developed their photos, one of which shows Sivan Kurzberg flicking a cigarette lighter in front of the smouldering ruins in an apparently celebratory gesture. (12) The Jerusalem Post later reported that a white van with a bomb was stopped as it approached the George Washington Bridge, but the ethnicity of the suspects was not revealed. Here's what the Jerusalem Post reported on September 12, 2001: American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington Bridge. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge. Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New Jersey and New York, Army Radio reported. (13) "...two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of explosives was discovered around the George Washington Bridge ... The FBI ... says enough explosives were in the truck to do great damage to the George Washington Bridge." WMV video download (545kB) It was reported the van contained tonnes of explosives (14). What's really intriguing is that ABC's 20/20 (15), the New York Post (16), and the New Jersey Bergen Record (17) all clearly and unambiguously reported that a white van with Israelis was intercepted on a ramp near Route 3, which leads directly to the Lincoln Tunnel. But the Jerusalem Post, Israeli National News (Arutz Sheva) (18), and Yediot America, (19) all reported, just as clearly and unambiguously, that a white van with Israelis was stopped on a ramp leading to the George Washington Bridge, which is several miles north of the Lincoln Tunnel. It appears as if there may actually have been two white vans involved, one stopped on each crossing. This would not only explain the conflicting reports as to the actual location of the arrests, but would also explain how so many credible eye-witnesses all saw celebrating "middle-easterners" in a white van in so many different locations. It also explains why the New York Post and Steve Gordon (lawyer for the 5 Israelis) originally described how three Israelis were arrested but later increased the total to five. Perhaps one van was meant to drop off a bomb while the other was meant to pick up the first set of drivers while re-crossing back into New Jersey? If a van was to be used as a parked time-bomb on the GW Bridge, then certainly the drivers would need to have a "get- away van" to pick them up and escape. And notice how the van (or vans) stayed away from the third major crossing -the Holland Tunnel- which was where the police had originally been directed to by that anti-Palestinian 9-1-1 "mystery caller". A classic misdirection play. From there, the story gets becomes even more suspicious. The Israelis worked for a Weehawken moving company known as Urban Moving Systems. An American employee of Urban Moving Systems told the The Record of New Jersey that a majority of his co-workers were Israelis and they were joking about the attacks. The employee, who declined to give his name said: "I was in tears. These guys were joking and that bothered me." These guys were like, "Now America knows what we go through." (20) A few days after the attacks, Urban Moving System's Israeli owner, Dominick Suter, dropped his business and fled the country for Israel. He was in such a hurry to flee America that some of Urban Moving System's customers were left with their furniture stranded in storage facilities (21). Suter's departure was abrupt, leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell phones and computers strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of goods in storage. Suter was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and other hijackers and suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities felt Suter may have known something about the attacks. (22) The Jewish weekly The Forward reported that the FBI finally concluded that at least two of the detained Israelis were agents working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Urban Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the five Israelis, was a front operation. This was confirmed by two former CIA officers, and they noted that movers' vans are a common intelligence cover. (23). The Israelis were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released. (24) "There was no question but that [the order to close down the investigation] came from the White House. It was immediately assumed at CIA headquarters that this basically was going to be a cover-up so that the Israelis would not be implicated in any way in 9/11." (25) Several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home. Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event." (26) wmv video download How did they know there would be an event to document on 9/11? It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots of the dancing Israeli Mossad agents - here's the most logical scenario: 1. The Israeli "movers" cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history. 2. One of them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to report Palestinian bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. 3. Having thus pre-framed the Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with Urban Moving accomplices. 4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently foils the Israelis' misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture. 5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs. 6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department "higher-ups" are able to gradually push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly. Osama bin Laden was immediately blamed for the 9/11 attacks even though he had no previous record of doing anything on this scale. Immediately after the Flight 11 hit World Trade Center 1 CIA Director George Tenet said "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it." (27) The compliant mainstream media completely ignored the Israeli connection. Immediately following the 9-11 attacks the media was filled with stories linking the attacks to bin Laden. TV talking- heads, "experts", and scribblers of every stripe spoon-fed a gullible American public a steady diet of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable. We were told that the reason bin Laden attacked the USA was because he hates our "freedom" and "democracy". The Muslims were "medieval" and they wanted to destroy us because they envied our wealth, were still bitter about the Crusades, and were offended by Britney Spears shaking her tits and ass all over the place! But bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists orchestrated the 9-11 attacks. The BBC published bin Laden's statement of denial in which he said: "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States." (28) You never heard that quote on your nightly newscast did you? [A] number of intelligence officials have raised questions about Osama bin Laden's capabilities. "This guy sits in a cave in Afghanistan and he's running this operation?" one C.I.A. official asked. "It's so huge. He couldn't have done it alone." A senior military officer told me that because of the visas and other documentation needed to infiltrate team members into the United States a major foreign intelligence service might also have been involved. (29) Bin Laden is not named as the perpetrator of 9/11 by the FBI: When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden's Most Wanted web page (30), [Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI] said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." (31) To date, the only shred of "evidence" to be uncovered against bin Laden is a barely audible fuzzy amateur video that the Pentagon just happened to find "lying around" in Afghanistan. How very convenient, and how very fake. (32) There is no evidence, be it hard or circumstantial, to link the Al Qaeda "terrorist network" to these acts of terror, but there is a mountain of evidence, both hard and circumstantial, which suggests that Zionists have been very busy framing Arabs for terror plots against America. "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign foreign government ... It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now" - Senator Bob Graham. (33) If the sovereign foreign government mentioned by Senator Graham was an enemy of the United States the "compelling evidence" would not be kept secret for 20+ years. One final point; at 09:40 on 9-11 it was reported that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attacks (31). This claim was immediately denied by the DFLP leader Qais abu Leila who said it had always opposed "terror attacks on civilian targets, especially outside the occupied territories." (34) Why would a Palestinian organisation comprising of less than 500 people (35) make the suicidal move of immediately claiming responsibility for the attacks? Sharon and the other Israeli leaders aspire to fulfil what the goals of the political Zionist movement have been since its origin a century ago: to turn all of historic Palestine into an exclusively Jewish state. A central tenet of the Zionist ideology is expressed in the racist slogan, "A land without people for a people without a land." (36) The implication of Palestinians in the 9/11 attacks would have handed Zionists a golden opportunity to achieve the above because all Palestinians would have been labelled terrorists. "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring. ========================== Accused 9-11 Criminal Co-conspirators Paul Wolfowitz -- Deputy Secretary of War on 9-11; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist; investigated for spying for Israel; former PNAC member; chief architect of Iraq war; forced to resign in World Bank scandal Richard Perle -- former assistant Secretary of War, chairman War Policy Board, and PNAC member; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist; allegedly gave $100,000 to head of Pakistan's ISI, Mahmoud Ahmad; nicknamed "Prince of Darkness" Michael Chertoff -- Assistant Attorney General on 9-11; freed over 100 Israeli spies in the US after 9-11; promoted to head Homeland Security; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist; likely Mossad agent Douglas Feith -- effectively in command, with Wolfowitz, of War Department on 9-11; Undersecretary of War for Policy; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist; investigated for spying for Israel; former PNAC member Dov Zakheim -- Pentagon comptroller when trillion dollars reported missing on 9-10-01; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist; Shul Rabbi; former CFR member; former CEO of fly-by-remote manufacturer; reputed 9-11 mastermind Philip Zelikow -- led the 9-11 Cover-Up Commission; personally wrote the 9-11 Omission Commission Report, a best-selling work of fiction; appointed Counselor of US Department of State; "dual citizen" of US and Israel Ari Fleischer -- White House spokesman for Bush on 9-11; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; connected to the extremist group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics Marc Grossman -- Under Secretary for Political Affairs on 9-11; met with General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's ISI and 9-11 financier, on or shortly after 9-11; "dual citizen" of US and Israel George W. Bush -- eldest son of Bush crime family; guilty of election fraud in 2000, 2004; guilty of war crimes, war profiteering, treason, crimes against humanity; likely signed-off on 9-11 plot Dick Cheney -- former PNAC member; guilty of war profiteering, treason; was in bunker on 9-11 directing several "war games"; lied to 9-11 Omission Commission about timing of 9-11 activities Donald Rumsfeld - former Secretary of War and PNAC member; close friend of Cheney; was at Pentagon on 9-11; once slipped and said "when that missile hit the Pentagon" Henry Kissinger -- Former Secretary of State whose Kissinger Associates sells influence with China's economic leadership -- was a member of the Defense Policy Board chaired by Richard Perle under Paul Wolfowitz in the months leading up to 9-11 and afterwards. He was George W. Bush's first choice to head the 9-11 Commission. He withdrew from consideration because he did not to provide prerequisite disclosures of business dealings. John Deutch -- former Undersecretary of War, director of CIA; co- authored paper, "Catastrophic Terrorism: A National Policy" with Zelikow, Ashton Carter; senior partner at Global Technology Partners, an affiliate of Rothschild North America; MIT professor; grandson of Yonah Fischer, Antwerp diamond merchant who ran Zionist Federation of Belgium Benjamin Netanyahu -- former Israeli Prime Minister; said 9-11 was "good" for US-Israeli relationship George Tenet -- director of the CIA on 9-11; was awarded the "Medal of Freedom" by Bush for his fine work on 9-11; reported to be "dual citizen" of US and Israel Robert Mueller -- FBI director on 9-11; under his "leadership" FBI field agents? warnings of an imminent attack were stifled Thomas Pickard -- took over the job of FBI director from Louis Freeh in August 2001; held this position only for a few weeks before Richard Mueller became director; former Terror Task Force chief; John O?Neill complained about sabotage by Pickard Dale Watson -- former Deputy Chief of the CIA at the Counter- Terrorist Center; appointed Inspector Deputy Assistant Director of the National Security Division (NSD), FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC in July 1998; appointed FBI Headquarters Assistant on December 6, 1999 by the Attorney General; ignored at least four different FBI agents? warnings including an "urgent cable" from the CIA on August 23rd about Almihdhar and Alhazmi Dave Frasca -- FBI Radical Fundamentalists Unit Chief; personally scuttled the work of Kenneth Williams in July 2001 and Coleen Rowley in August 2001, the Arizona and Minnesota FBI agents who were actively investigating "terrorist" patsies in CIA-operated flight schools Marion "Spike" Bowman < FBI agent who thwarted FBI investigations into both Zacarias Moussaoui and the anthrax attacks on Congress John Ashcroft -- Attorney General on 9-11; protected "terrorist" patsy Abdussattar Shaikh from subpoena after 9-11; stopped flying commercial aircraft in 2001 Colin Powell -- Secretary of State on 9-11; met with General Mahmoud Ahmad two days after 9-11; former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; helped cover up Vietnam My Lai massacre Richard Meyers -- in charge of USA air defenses on 9-11; lied to 9-11 Omission Commission about reasons for air defense failure on 9-11; promoted to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Condi Rice -- National Security Adviser on 9-11; promoted to Secretary of State; lied to 9-11 Omission Commission while under oath Porter Goss -- former House Intelligence Chair; was meeting with General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's ISI and 9-11 financier, on 9-11; promoted to Director of CIA, resigned after "hookergate" Richard Mies -- former Admiral; ran Global Guardian "war game" on 9-11 out of US Strategic Command (Stratcom) at Offutt Air Force Base; now CEO of Hicks & Associates, a "strategic consultant" to the USG dealing in "military transformation" Philip Odeen -- as director of Program Analysis for the National Security Council, provided staff support to Henry Kissinger from 1971 to 1973; served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of War in Systems Analysis; named to chair the National War Panel in 1997; former president of Reynolds and Reynolds; former CEO and president of BDM International; executive vice president of Washington operations of TRW Elliot Abrams -- former member of PNAC, National Security Council; pleaded guilty in 1991 to lying to Congress about Iran-Contra affair; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist Lewis "Scooter" Libby < former PNAC member; studied political science at Yale under Paul Wolfowitz; aid to Cheney; convicted for lying about outing of Valerie Plame; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist Jack Abramoff -- entertained USG "terrorist" patsy Mohammed Atta on his yacht just before 9-11; convicted criminal lobbyist; ardent Zionist Tommy Thompson -- Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary; hired Jerome Hauer, former Office of Emergency Center, on 9-10-01 Jeb Bush -- Florida governor on 9-11; declared martial law in Florida four days before 9-11; brother of George Bush; PNAC member; guilty of election fraud in 2000 Rudolph Giuliani -- mayor of New York on 9-11; hailed as "hero" for his "gutsy" leadership on 9-11; allegedly involved with FEMA and former NYC Police Chief Kerik in Operation Code Angel Daniel Lewin -- officer in elite, secret unit of Israeli military called "Sayeret Matkal"; orchestrated activities of Mossad agents in USA before 9-11; was allegedly stabbed or "shot" by highjacker Satam al-Suqami before AA flight 11 crashed into the WTC Dominic Suter -- Mossad agent; his front company, Urban Moving Systems, employed the five Mossad agents caught celebrating in New York on 9-11 Jerome Hauer -- managing director of Kroll and senior adviser to US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for National Security and Emergency Management on 9-11; put John O'Neill at the WTC on 9-11; lied to Dan Rather on CBS News on 9-11 about the controlled demolition of WTC buildings; director of Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management from 1996 to 2000 Paul Mlakar -- part of ASCE team that investigated both WTC and Murrah Federal building attacks Mete Sozen -- part of ASCE team that investigated both WTC and Murrah Federal building attacks Bernard Kerik -- NYC Police Chief on 9-11; "sidekick" of Giuliani; allegedly involved with FEMA in WTC demolition "war games" called Operation Code Angel Bob Graham -- former Florida Senator; was meeting with General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's ISI and 9-11 financier, on 9-11; ran for President in 2004 Richard Armitage -- former member of PNAC, Deputy Secretary of State; met with General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's ISI and 9-11 financier, shortly after 9-11 Maurice Greenberg < CEO of American International Group (AIG) on 9-11 which became co-owner of the "private spy agency", Kroll Associates, in 1993 and was a major share-holder in Marsh & McClennan whose CEO on 9-11 was Maurice?s son Jeffrey; director of the New York Federal Reserve bank (1988-1995); deputy chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)in 1996; major investor in the Blackstone Group Jules Kroll -- founder of Kroll Corporation, a "security services" company which was in charge of "security" at WTC on 9-11; has close links to CIA and is active private military contractor in Iraq; Zionist Paul Bremer -- Marsh & McClennan executive on 9-11; Chairman of the Congressional National Commission on Terrorism, 1999 to 2000; US Ambassador-at- Large for Counterterrorism, 1986 to 1989; Presidential Envoy to Irag and Adminstrator of the Coaltion Provisional Authority, May 2003 to December 2004 Ralph Eberhardt -- NORAD Commander on 9-11; fanatical supporter of missile defense scheme, militarization of space; enthusiastic supporter of merging law enforcement and the military Larry Arnold -- NORAD Commander Major General on 9-11; has used 9-11 to push militarization of USA Eric Findley -- Canadian Air Force Major General; acting commander of NORAD on 9-11 unnamed -- FAA manager at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center who destroyed controllers? tapes of 9-11 Benjamin Chertoff -- 25-year-old cousin of Michael Chertoff; senior "researcher" for Popular Mechanics? hit piece on 9-11 Truth Movement Henry Shelton -- Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9-11; supported formation of Able Danger Peter Schoomaker -- US Army Chief of Staff; former SOCOM (Special Operations Command) chief; ran Able Danger Geoffrey Lambert -- Major General; SOCOM (Special Operations Command) Intel Chief; made Able Danger, the program that tracked patsy "terrorists" , off limits to FBI Tony Gentry -- Army Intelligence and Security Command General Counsel; ordered 2.5 terrabytes of Able Danger data destroyed Eliot Spitzer -- New York Attorney General on 9-11; barred his top aide, Deputy Attorney General Dietrich Snell, from testifying to Congress on Able Danger; threw out Karl Schwarz?s 9-11 synopsis Richard Holbrooke -- former US ambassador to UN; CFR member; co- chaired "Independent Task Force on America?s Response to Terrorism" in which the Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT) was promoted Ashton Carter -- co-authored paper, "Catastrophic Terrorism: A National Policy" with Zelikow and Deutch; senior partner at Global Technology Partners, an affiliate of Rothschild North America Montague Winfield -- Major General in charge of Pentagon war room on 9-10-01, the evening of September 10th he requested a rookie to stand in for him on 9-11 Abdussattar Shaikh -- FBI informant to the San Diego office; helped bring "terrorist" patsies to USA; protected by Attorney General Ashcroft Abdullah Noman -- worked for the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; filed 10-15 visas for the patsy 9-11 "hijackers" in the Visa Express Program Sivan Kurzberg -- driver of van belonging to the celebrating Israelis; when stopped by police on 9-11, he said "We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem" John Gross -- one of the lead engineers for the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed; denies existence of molten steel at the WTC Theresa McAllister -- edited the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed Ronald Hamburger -- structural engineer and Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz and Heger consulting engineers in San Francisco; was a principal author of FEMA?s initial report on the collapse of the twin towers; later a key participant in the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed William Baker -- member of FEMA Probe Team; partner with Skidmore, Owings, Merrill; contributed to the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed Harold Nelson -- contributed to the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed Ramon Gilsanz -- contributed to the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed Shankar Nair -- contributed to the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed; quoted in Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2001 that "Already there is near-consensus as to the sequence of events that led to the collapse of the World Trade Center" Gene Corley -- led FEMA/ASCE WTC collapse "investigation" ; was the principle investigator for ASCE and FEMA of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City Charles Thornton -- partner of Richard Tomasetti; told Karl Koch, whose company erected the WTC steel, "Karl, we all know what caused the collapse"; part of ASCE team that investigated both WTC and Murrah Federal building attacks Richard Tomasetti -- partner of Charles Thornton; reportedly behind the unprecedented and widely criticized decision to destroy most of the WTC steel evidence Marvin Bush -- brother of George Bush; on board of Securacom, US- Kuwaiti company paid $9.2 to manage WTC security October 1996 to 1998; on board of HCC Insurance, big WTC insurer Wirt Walker -- cousin of George Bush; principal at Securacom, US- Kuwaiti joint-venture that managed security for WTC, United Airlines, and Dulles Airport, all of which figured into 9-11 Larry Silverstein -- he and partner Frank Lowy obtained 99-year lease on WTC shortly before 9-11; made several billion dollars on 9-11 insurance fraud; admitted to "pulling" WTC 7 David Rockefeller -- vice director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1949-1985), vice president (1950-1970), and chairman (1970-1985); as chairman of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association (1958 to 1975) was primary builder of WTC complex; founder and honorary chairman of the Trilateral Commission; president or CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank,1961 to 1981; 9-11 was the anniversary of 1973 CIA-sponsored coup plotted by David Rockefeller?s cabal and overseen by Nelson?s protégé Henry Kissinger that toppled Chile's President Salvadore Allende Nicholas Rockefeller -- told film-maker Aaron Russo of coming catastrophic event eleven months before 9-11 Warren Buffett -- was hosting golf charity event at the US Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha on 9-11 (Bush flew to Offutt afternoon of 9-11); world?s second richest person Peter Peterson -- CEO of the Blackstone Group, parent corporation of one of three lease-holders for WTC 7 on 9-11; also chairman of the CFR and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on 9-11; CEO of the Institute for International Economics in October 2000 A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard -- now number three executive director at the CIA; until 1998, managed firm used to place "put options" on United Airlines which has left $2.5 million in "profits" unclaimed Mark Loizeaux -- as CEO of CDI was instrumental in "recycling" steel from WTC crime scene; CDI also buried the rubble from the crime scene of the Murrah Federal Building Loring Knoblauch -- CEO of Underwriters Labs; said that jet fuel fires were not "reasonably foreseeable" ; resigned suddenly in August 2004 after UL performed tests of WTC floor models where floors did not collapse and were barely affected Michael Cherkasky -- CEO of Kroll on 9-11; former investigator in the Manhattan DA?s Office from 1978 to 1994; now CEO of insurance- firm Marsh & McClennan Frank Carlucci -- former Secretary of War; affiliated with PNAC; served as chairman of the Carlyle Group (1992-2003); on BoD of BDM International William Kristol -- PNAC co-founder; adherent of Leo Strauss; editor of The Weekly Standard; strong advocate of the Iraq war; "dual citizen" of US and Israel; Zionist William Perry -- former Secretary of War; associated with the Rothschild's banking empire through Global Technology, a Rothschild affiliate James Woolsey -- former CIA director; PNAC member; claims "incompetence" was reason for 9-11 Newt Gingrich -- former Speaker of the House; PNAC member; reputed to be a member of the CFR; served on the Pentagon?s War Policy Board Henry Kissinger -- long criminal history; wanted for war crimes in several countries; sat on War Policy Board under Perle; chosen to lead 9-11 Cover-Up Omission Commission; "dual citizen" of US and Israel George H.W. Bush -- Bush crime family Don; Skull and Bones; CIA operative involved in JFK assassination; former head of CIA; son of friend shot Reagan when he was VP; war profiteer Tony Blair --British Prime Minister on 9-11; ally and partner in crime of George Bush; London 7-7 bombings were also "false flag" operation Pauline Neville-Jones -- International Governor of BBC on 9-11; Chairman of UK Joint Intelligence Committee (1991-1994); Chairman of QinetiQ Group, a war technology company with government customers in UK and USA; Chairman of Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) Mahmoud Ahmad -- head of Pakistan's ISI; had Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh wire $100,000 to lead 9-11 "terrorist" patsy Mohammad Atta The purpose of the 9/11 War Crimes Tribunal is to prosecute the perpetrators of the False Flag Operation of September 11, 2001, under the 9/11 Independent Prosecutors Act for War Crimes, including Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes Against Peace (now Aggressive War), as set out in the Nuremberg Principles, the Geneva Conventions, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The 9/11 Independent Prosecutor Act appoints an Independent Prosecutor under the authority of Article III(3) of the Israeli General Moshe Dayan: "Our strategy was always to provoke the Arabs and get an appropriate response so we could attack and smash them". From: Dick Eastman To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:50 PM Subject: Chertoff, Zakheim, Perle, Wolfowitz and a hundred others in high places have Dual US-Israeli Citizenship - where does their loyalty lie? (UK Telegraph blog) Dual Citizenship - where does the loyalty lie? UK Telegraph blog 17 May 2008 http://my.telegraph.co.uk/metamagic_anti_eu_jedi/may_ 2008/dual_citizenship_where_does_the_loyalty_lie_.htm In this increasingly mobile world more and more people are acquiring dual citizenship. Usually it's simply their adopted country and their native country but in some cases, particularly in the USA, there is another motive for duality. Take a look at these people who currently or have recently held positions of great influence and power in the American administration and ask yourself where do their loyalties lie? Puzzling too is the fact that under US law if you take up the citizenship of another country you relinquish your US citizenship. So how do these people achieve the impossible? If you are a supporter of the Israeli state how do you feel about the USA being infiltrated and usurped by its friend 'ally'? (With all acknowledgements to Dan Eden who has produced a very comprehensive and revealing article here: http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html) Michael Mukasey Recently appointed as US Attorney General. Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. Michael Chertoff Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security. Richard Perle One of Bush's foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government agent, Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson's office in the 1970's after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle came from one the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktanks, the AEI. Perle is one of the leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the administration and now in the media. Paul Wolfowitz Former Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle's Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, JINSA. Wolfowitz was the number two leader within the administration behind this Iraq war mongering. He later was appointed head of the World Bank but resigned under pressure from World Bank members over a scandal involving his misuse of power. Lawrence (Larry) Franklin The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and reported directly to Feith's deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, "to more than 12 years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat" and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Franklin will "remain free while the government continues with the wider case" and his "prison time could be sharply reduced in return for his help in prosecuting" former AIPAC members Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, [who] are scheduled to go on trial in April [2006]. Franklin admitted that he met periodically with Rosen and Weissman between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. Rosen and Weissman would later share what they learned with reporters and Israeli officials." (source: sourcewatch.com). Douglas Feith Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon. He is a close associate of Perle and served as his Special Counsel. Like Perle and the others, Feith is a pro-Israel extremist, who has advocated anti-Arab policies in the past. He is closely associated with the extremist group, the Zionist Organization of America, which even attacks Jews that don't agree with its extremist views. Feith frequently speaks at ZOA conferences. Feith runs a small law firm, Feith and Zell, which only has one International office, in Israel. The majority of their legal work is representing Israeli interests. His firm's own website stated, prior to his appointment, that Feith "represents Israeli Armaments Manufacturer." Feith basically represents the Israeli War Machine. Feith also came from the Jewish thinktank JINSA. Feith, like Perle and Wolfowitz, are campaigning hard for this Israeli proxy war against Iraq. Feith was investigated by the FBI under suspicion of leaking classified information to Israel, being that he was Larry Franklin's boss when Franklin leaked those documents to Rosen and Weissman of AIPAC. For that he was forced to leave the National Security Council. Feith was also investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for sexing up 'intelligence' that was used to justify invading Iraq. Edward Luttwak Member of the National Security Study Group of the Department of Defence at the Pentagon. Luttwak is reportedly an Israeli citizen and has taught in Israel. He frequently writes for Israeli and pro-Israeli newspapers and journals. Luttwak is an Israeli extremist whose main theme in many of his articles is the necessity of the U.S. waging war against Iraq and Iran. Henry Kissinger One of many Pentagon Advisors, Kissinger sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle. For detailed information about Kissinger's evil past, read Seymour Hersch's book (Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House). Kissinger likely had a part in the Watergate crimes, Southeast Asia mass murders (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), Installing Chilean mass murdering dictator Pinochet, Operation Condor's mass killings in South America, and more recently served as Serbia's Ex-Dictator Slobodan Milosevic's Advisor. He consistently advocated going to war against Iraq. Kissinger is the Ariel Sharon of the U.S. Unfortunately, President Bush nominated Kissinger as chairman of the September 11 investigating commission. It's like picking a bank robber to investigate a fraud scandal. He later declined this job under enormous protests. Dov Zakheim Dov Zakheim is an ordained rabbi and reportedly holds Israeli citizenship. Zakheim attended Jew's College in London and became an ordained Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in 1973. He was adjunct professor at New York's Jewish Yeshiva University. Zakheim is close to the Israeli lobby. Dov Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century's position paper, Rebuilding America's Defenses, advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations. He was appointed by Bush as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as mentioned, was buried under 9-11's rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim's watch. We can only guess where that cash went. Despite these suspicions, on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense. Judicial Inc's bio of Dov tells us Zakheim is a dual Israeli/American citizen and has been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel's armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value. Kenneth Adelman One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Adelman frequently is a guest on Fox News, and often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. Through his racism or ignorance, he actually called Arabs "anti-Semitic" on Fox News (11/28/2001), when he could have looked it up in the dictionary to find out that Arabs by definition are Semites. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Vice President Dick Cheney's ex-Chief of Staff. As chief pro-Israel Jewish advisor to Cheney, it helps explains why Cheney is so gun-ho to invade Iran. Libby is longtime associate of Wolfowitz. Libby was also a lawyer for convicted felon and Israeli spy Marc Rich, whom Clinton pardoned, in his last days as president. Libby was recently found guilty of lying to Federal investigators in the Valerie Plame affair, in which Plame, a covert CIA agent, was exposed for political revenge by the Bush administration following her husband's revelations about the lies leading to the Iraq War. Robert Satloff U.S. National Security Council Advisor, Satloff was the executive director of the Israeli lobby's "think tank," Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Many of the Israeli lobby's "experts" come from this front group, like Martin Indyk. Elliott Abrams National Security Council Advisor. He previously worked at Washington-based "Think Tank" Ethics and Public Policy Center. During the Reagan Adminstration, Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State, handling, for the most part, Latin American affairs. He played an important role in the Iran-Contra Scandal, which involved illegally selling U.S. weapons to Iran to fight Iraq, and illegally funding the contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government. He also actively deceived three congressional committees about his involvement and thereby faced felony charges based on his testimony. Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of community service. A year later, former President Bush (Senior) granted Abrams a full pardon. He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration's State Department. Marc Grossman Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the pro-Israel Jewish officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to higher posts. Richard Haass Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at large. He is also Director of National Security Programs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who sat on the National Security Council, and who consistently advocated going to war against Iraq. Haass is also a member of the Defense Department's National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon. Robert Zoellick U.S. Trade Representative, a cabinet-level position. He is also one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Bush (Jr) Administration who advocated invading Iraq and occupying a portion of the country in order to set up a Vichy-style puppet government. He consistently advocates going to war against Iran. {now head of the World Bank - Peter M.} Ari Fleischer Ex- White House Spokesman for the Bush (Jr) Administration. Prominent in the Jewish community, some reports state that he holds Israeli citizenship. Fleischer is closely connected to the extremist Jewish group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics, who follow the Qabala, and hold very extremist and insulting views of non-Jews. Fleischer was the co-president of Chabad's Capitol Jewish Forum. He received the Young Leadership Award from the American Friends of Lubavitch in October, 2001. James Schlesinger One of many Pentagon Advisors, Schlesinger also sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Schlesinger is also a commissioner of the Defense Department's National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon. David Frum White House speechwriter behind the "Axis of Evil" label. He lumped together all the lies and accusations against Iraq for Bush to justify the war. Joshua Bolten White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Bolten was previously a banker, former legislative aide, and prominent in the Jewish community. John Bolton Former UN Representative and Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Bolton is also a Senior Advisor to President Bush. Prior to this position, Bolton was Senior Vice President of the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktank, AEI. He recently (October 2002) accused Syria of having a nuclear program, so that they can attack Syria after Iraq. He must have forgotten that Israel has 400 nuclear warheads, some of which are thermonuclear weapons (according to a recent U.S. Air Force report). David Wurmser Special Assistant to John Bolton (above), the under-secretary for arms control and international security. Wurmser also worked at the AEI with Perle and Bolton. His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, along with Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),a Washington-based Israeli outfit which distributes articles translated from Arabic newspapers portraying Arabs in a bad light. Eliot Cohen Member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor. Like Adelman, he often expresses extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. More recently, he wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal openly admitting his rascist hatred of Islam claiming that Islam should be the enemy, not terrorism. Mel Sembler President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. A Prominent Jewish Republican and Former National Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Export-Import Bank facilitates trade relationships between U.S. businesses and foreign countries, specifically those with financial problems. Steve Goldsmith Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush's Jewish domestic policy advisor. He also served as liaison in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (White House OFBCI) within the Executive Office of the President. He was the former mayor of Indianapolis. He is also friends with Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and often visits Israel to coach mayors on privatization initiatives. Adam Goldman White House's Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. Joseph Gildenhorn Bush Campaign's Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. He was the DC finance chairman for the Bush campaign, as well as campaign coordinator, and former ambassador to Switzerland. Christopher Gersten Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families at HHS. Gersten was the former Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Husband of Labor Secretary. Mark Weinberger Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs. Samuel Bodman Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the Chairman and CEO of Cabot Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. Bonnie Cohen Under Secretary of State for Management. Ruth Davis Director of Foreign Service Institute, who reports to the Office of Under Secretary for Management. This Office is responsible for training all Department of State staff (including ambassadors). Daniel Kurtzer Ambassador to Israel. Cliff Sobel Ambassador to the Netherlands. Stuart Bernstein Ambassador to Denmark. Nancy Brinker Ambassador to Hungary Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore. Ron Weiser Ambassador to Slovakia. Mel Sembler Ambassador to Italy. Martin Silverstein Ambassador to Uruguay. Lincoln Bloomfield Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs. Jay Lefkowitz Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Ken Melman White House Political Director. Brad Blakeman White House Director of Scheduling. With all acknowledgements to Dan Eden who has produced a very comprehensive and revealing article here: http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html ------------------------------------------ "Whoever approaches the Zionist problem from a moral aspect is not a Zionist" David Ben-Gurion "The Jews of the United States brought the United States into the first World War, and if you tow our line over Palestine and the Jew army there, we can persuade the Jews of the United States to drag the United States into it again this time." CHAIM WEIZMANN, Co- founder of Zionism, letter to Winston Churchill, PM Great Britain (David Irving). "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." --- David Ben- Gurion, from Ben-Gurion to the General staff, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar (May 1948) "I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism." -- Moshe Sharett, Israel's first Foreign Minister and later a Prime Minister (p.51 Simha Flapan, "The Birth of Israel", 1987). "... it is the duty of the [Israeli] leadership to explain to the public a number of truths. One truth is that there is no Zionism, no settlement, and no Jewish state without evacuating Arabs, and without expropriating lands and their fencing off." -- Yesha'ayahu Ben-Porat, (Yedi'ot Aharonot 07/14/1972) responding to public controversy regarding the Israeli evictions of Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, in 1972. (Cited in Nur Masalha's "A Land Without A People" 1997, p.98)
California adopts Armed MurderBots to Drone Strike innocent civilians... making unaccountability for murder of civilians the norm, just like in the Mideast. Oakland Police Want 'Terminator Style' Robot With Shotgun https://theintercept.com/2022/10/17/police-robot-gun-oakland/ The Oakland Police Department is pushing for robots with a potentially lethal shotgun-like attachment, according to The Intercept. Oakland Police and Oakland Police Commission subcommittee, a civilian oversight body, discussed rules surrounding the city's use of military-grade police equipment in September. According to California state law, local police must be authorized by city leaders before they can deploy military equipment. Most of the meeting on Sept. 21 concentrated on modern policing, with the commissioners and police heads debating the use of tear gas and flash bangs. But two hours into the meeting, the conversation shifted to a gun-shaped accessory for robots called the "percussion actuated nonelectric disruptor," a tool used by bomb squads at war and for domestic operations. The accessory can be loaded with explosive forces ranging from blanks to pressurized water to even shotgun shells. This is a concerning new development in the potential use of weaponized robots against the American people by police across the country. "But God forbid something does happen where it's the only option," a member of the Oakland Police Commission said at the meeting. "Which is, I hate to say it, a robot with a shotgun may be our only hope." For now, Oakland police and commissioners agreed that robots could only be armed with pepper spray, though conversations from the meeting suggest armed robots with shotguns might be deployed sometime in this decade. The future of American policing in liberal cities could very well be armed robots. This dystopic nightmare is only possible due to city leaders, not just in Oakland but across the country, who identify as "progressive" and far left-leaning that have ushered in social justice reform that has tremendously backfired, unleashing a tsunami of violent crime while also hellbent in banning guns from law-abiding citizens.
California adopts Armed MurderBots to Drone Strike innocent
The Rise Of The Biomedical Security State https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2022/10/25/the_rise_of_the_biomedical... https://www.amazon.com/New-Abnormal-Biomedical-Security-State/dp/1684513855 https://support.mips.com.au/home/12-commandments-to-avoid-ahpra-notification... https://www.fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/policies/ethics-committee-report-mi... “History doesn’t repeat itself,” said Mark Twain, “but it often rhymes.” This is among the reasons we look to the past, straining as best we can through the deepening fog of time to discern lessons for our own day. Analogies to the events that came before are always imperfect, but nevertheless often useful for understanding our present moment. Thus, only a historical myopia can explain why it’s become so common to describe the events involving the covid pandemic as “unprecedented,” even though pandemics have tended to occur every hundred years or so. This nearsightedness is also perilous given, for instance, the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset Initiative” and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s recent pledge to spend $200 million on developing international biometric-based digital identifications. Consider prior regimes for which the pretext of “public safety” during an emergency paved the way for excessive state-sanctioned powers and to, in some cases, totalitarianism. Going back centuries, whenever the Roman Republic faced an acute existential threat, such as an invading army, the Senate would appoint a dictator with immense and far-reaching authority. Over a period of three-hundred years, dictators were appointed on ninety-five occasions. Upon termination of the crisis, each was required to quickly relinquish their authority. And they did so every time––except once, and that marked the beginning of imperial overstretch, and, ultimately, the collapse of the Roman Republic. We should also recall that it was the unabashedly named Committee of Public Safety that carried out the French Revolution’s infamous Reign of Terror. Now I recognize that almost anyone who draws an analogy to the Third Reich is met with the charge of hyperbole. But one would be remiss not to mention Nazi Germany when specifically discussing historical cases of state-sanctioned authoritarian power being used in the name of “public safety.” It remains a sobering, instructive, and undeniable fact that Nazi Germany was governed for virtually the entirety of its existence under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which allowed for the suspension of German law in times of an “emergency.” If these historical examples seem alarmist, consider that Australia rounded up citizens exposed to covid, including asymptomatic people, and shipped them to detention facilities against their will. Videos of Australian detention centers made their way onto social media before tech censors dutifully scrubbed them from the internet. Canada likewise built detention facilities for infected and exposed persons. Authoritarian measures during the pandemic went beyond detention of suspected or actual cases. The Medical Indemnity Protection Society (MIPS) is the singular authority for providing medical malpractice insurance in Australia. MIPS published “12 Commandments” to help physicians avoid disciplinary “notifications” by the country’s governing agency. MIPS Commandment #9 ominously warns Australian doctors that mentioning findings of a published scientific study not consistent with “public health messaging” could potentially result in them losing their ability to practice medicine. Likewise, in the United States, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), an authority on medical licensure and physician discipline, passed a policy in May 2022 on disciplining physicians for “misinformation” and “disinformation” that will guide all state medical boards and, in turn, the nation’s physicians they license. It might even become state law. Stunningly, the very first example of non-compliance cited involves the FSMB’s October 6, 2020 assertion about the efficacy of cloth masks—an assertion later shown to be false. If the FSMB genuinely wanted to combat falsehoods, it would start by addressing the ones it promulgated during the pandemic. It could then move on to those disseminated by our public health authorities, who routinely flip-flopped on “The Science.” My home state, California, took up the FSMB’s suggestion to codify its recommendations. I recently traveled to Sacramento to testify against this legislation in the State Senate. The law empowers the state medical board to discipline physicians for spreading “misinformation,” defined as statements that contradict the current scientific consensus (an ill-defined legal standard). Undermining its own central claims, the text of Assembly Bill 2098 made multiple statements about covid that were already outdated by the time I arrived in the capital, because—despite what our bureaucratic overlords posit—science constantly evolves. Alas, the controversial bill was ultimately voted into law last month, passing strictly along party lines. Fortunately, biomedical authoritarianism is meeting additional resistance. Both physicians and patients in California oppose AB 2098 because they recognize that a doctor with a gag order is not a doctor that can be trusted. They also understand that censorship is anathema to scientific progress. Along with other physicians in California, I will soon file a lawsuit in federal court challenging AB 2098 on First Amendment free-speech grounds. I am confident that this law—which undermines the medical-informed consent process, and, ultimately, harms patients—will not withstand judicial scrutiny. The burgeoning grassroots medical-freedom movement constitutes the necessary corrective to what has with frightening rapidity become the new abnormal.
https://twitter.com/BandyGit/status/1583473997391360000 https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/25/the-madness-of-the-15-minute-city/ Oxford is about to be subjected to an illiberal green experiment. Leaving your local area by car too often could soon land you with a fine. It’s as if our elites can’t let go of lockdown, says @jameswoudhuysen
Aldous Nous @bravenew_orwell Oct 16 The timing of the current high profile UK protests from Just Stop Oil etc is very important. The Public Order Bill is in Parliament next week. The annoying posh kids are part of the media campaign to justify new laws to crush our right to protest. Problem. Reaction. Solution.
Anti-WEF'ers growing... Alberta's New Premier Under Attack For Refusing To Associate With WEF https://reason.com/2022/02/15/canadian-government-uses-terrorist-financing-a... Recently noted as an opponent of vaccine and mask mandates, new Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is breaking previously established ties with the World Economic Forum, which has been deeply involved in a “health consulting agreement” revolving around the province's covid response. “I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders,” Smith said at a news conference Monday after her new cabinet was sworn in. “That is offensive … the people who should be directing government are the people who vote for them.” The United Conservative Party premier said she is in lockstep with federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has stated he and his caucus will having nothing to do with the World Economic Forum. Earlier this month, on her first day as premier, Smith stated that people not vaccinated against covid are the most discriminated group she has seen in her lifetime. In response, the Canadian mainstream media is pursuing a thorough hatchet campaign against Smith, consistently referring to all opposition to the WEF as being based in “conspiracy theory.” As they say, if you want to know who is really in power, all you have to do is find out who you are not allowed to criticize. After two years of authoritarian lockdowns and attempts to enforce vaccine passports in Canada, Alberta was one of the only regions in the country that asserted political opposition to executive dictates. This helped to support the anti-passport protests by truckers and other Canadians, and led to Justin Trudeau using provisions for terrorism to confiscate donations to the movement. Alberta's covid averages in terms of infections and deaths are no worse than provinces with strict mandates, proving once again that the mandates achieved nothing in terms of safety, but everything in terms of control. The Canadian Press and other media outlets claim that criticism of the WEF is built on “online conspiracy accusations, unproven and debunked, that the forum is fronting a global cabal of string-pullers exploiting the pandemic to dismantle capitalism and introduce damaging socialist systems and social control measures, such as forcing people to take vaccines with tracking chips.” Every “conspiracy” noted in that statement is true – none of them have been “debunked” except perhaps the “tracking chip” claim, which is unnecessary because the WEF was already encouraging governments to use cell phone tracking apps to monitor the vaccine status and movements of their respective populations. Many of these apps were approved by the CDC in the US, and in countries like China they are mandatory. The World Economic Forum, acting as a kind of globalist think-tank for future policy initiatives, was instrumental in promoting many of the failed restrictions used by various national governments during the pandemic. WEF head Klaus Schwab specifically mentions in his writings that the institution saw covid as a perfect “opportunity” to implement what he calls the “Great Reset” which includes the concept of the “Shared Economy,” a global socialist technocracy meant to replace free markets and end capitalism as we know it. As the WEF states, you will “own nothing, have no privacy” and you will like it. This is not conspiracy theory. This is openly admitted conspiracy fact. It is undeniable. The use of the “conspiracy theory” label is generally a tactic designed to circumvent fair debate based on facts and evidence. If the Canadian Press was forced to defend their position based on the information at hand, they would lose. So, they instead try to inoculate their readers to opposing arguments by calling them “conspiracy theory” in the hope that those readers will never research the information further. The Canadian media then cites quotations that specifically argue that not working with the WEF would put the Alberta public at a disadvantage because it would cut them off from information that the WEF provides. It's important to mention that there is no evidence that the WEF has provided any life saving health information to date concerning the covid pandemic. In fact, there is no evidence that the WEF is useful to the Canadian public in any way. The mainstream media's bizarre and antagonistic reaction to Smith's shunning of a foreign organization of elitists that has no loyalty to the Canadian citizenry suggests that they may be operating from a foundation of bias. Danielle Smith's bravery in cutting off WEF influence from Alberta is being met with a dishonest media response, but in the long run, she is making the best decision possible. Taking advice from a potential parasite is not good leadership.
Leaked Docs Reveal Shocking Extent Of DHS "Disinfo" Collusion With Twitter, Facebook https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23175380-dhs-cybersecurity-disinform... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23131810-cisa-emails https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23132393-cis-meeting-notes https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2022-08/OIG-22-58-Aug22.p... https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587102997317722113 https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587114424925442049 https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1587135297208320003 https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1587119901550018561 https://twitter.com/itsmercadante/status/1562896597905600512 In August, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted on the Joe Rogan podcast that the FBI approached the company warning of "Russian propaganda" shortly before the Hunter Biden laptop story broke at the NY Post. "Basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us- some folks on our team and was like, 'Hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert… We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that, basically, there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that. So just be vigilant," Zuckerberg told Rogan. Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that the FBI reached out to Facebook to put them on notice that the Hunter Biden’s laptop story was similar to the previous Russian Propaganda and to be on high alert #joerogan #MarkZuckerberg #JRE pic.twitter.com/ojZHhK3isa — Giuseppe Mercadante (@itsmercadante) August 25, 2022 Now, leaked documents provided to The Intercept reveal that government collusion with big tech goes much deeper. The effort began in 2018, after former President Donald Trump signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act in the wake of several high-profile hacking incidents, forming a new wing of DHS devoted to protecting critical national infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms. The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down. Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information. -The Intercept "Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain," said Microsoft exec and former DHS official Matt Masterson in a February text to Jen Easterly, a DHS director. FBI agent Laura Dehmlow was in communications w Facebook that led to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was “disinfo.” This year, she met w/ Twitter/DHS to stress “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.” pic.twitter.com/17LqhEyMN0 — Lee Fang (@lhfang) October 31, 2022 Then, in a March 2022 meeting, FBI official Laura Dehmlow warned that the 'threat of subversive information on social media' could undermine support for the US government - stressing "we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable." 🚨 Representatives from JPMorgan Chase attended virtually all DHS meetings about federal government efforts to censor disinformation on social media. Are they laying the groundwork for "de-banking" to become an (even more) mainstream strategy? https://t.co/yTIeLvQjr2 pic.twitter.com/BFehCIupDQ — Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) October 31, 2022 🚨🚨🚨FBI OFFICIALS are being REASSIGNED from AL QAEDA and ISIS assignments ---> to investigating AMERICANS pic.twitter.com/OF09QXIsek — Crab Man (@crabcrawler1) October 31, 2022 Twitter has denied the report, telling The Intercept: "We do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions, and we independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules." Except... The emails and documents show close collaboration b/w DHS & private sector. Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (fired by @elonmusk last week) met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans. Microsoft exec texted DHS: "Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov't" pic.twitter.com/Z19yLM3miB — Lee Fang (@lhfang) October 31, 2022 More via The Intercept: This apparatus had a dry run during the 2020 election, when CISA began working with other members of the U.S. intelligence community. Office of Intelligence and Analysis personnel attended “weekly teleconferences to coordinate Intelligence Community activities to counter election-related disinformation.” According to the IG report, meetings have continued to take place every two weeks since the elections. Emails between DHS officials, Twitter, and the Center for Internet Security outline the process for such takedown requests during the period leading up to November 2020. Meeting notes show that the tech platforms would be called upon to “process reports and provide timely responses, to include the removal of reported misinformation from the platform where possible.” In practice, this often meant state election officials sent examples of potential forms of disinformation to CISA, which would then forward them on to social media companies for a response. Under President Joe Biden, the shifting focus on disinformation has continued. In January 2021, CISA replaced the Countering Foreign Influence Task force with the “Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation” team, which was created “to promote more flexibility to focus on general MDM.” By now, the scope of the effort had expanded beyond disinformation produced by foreign governments to include domestic versions. The MDM team, according to one CISA official quoted in the IG report, “counters all types of disinformation, to be responsive to current events.” What's more, the DHS plans to accelerate their efforts. According to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, DHS’s capstone report outlining the department’s strategy and priorities in the coming years, the department plans to target “inaccurate information” on a wide range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.” Why? Racism, apparently. "The challenge is particularly acute in marginalized communities, which are often the targets of false or misleading information, such as false information on voting procedures targeting people of color," reads the report. Read more here... In a letter signed by the 50 most respected and admired intelligence experts, they vow that DHS Leaks is just more Russian propaganda: "This is as fake as Hunter Biden's notebook, and the topic should be scrubbed by Twitter", said an agent who wishes to remain anonymous — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 31, 2022
https://i.redd.it/clry1ynf26x91.jpg The Plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fgHBPyiSuI Collapse Opposition leader of the UK has been called into the cabinet office. This only happens if Britain is about to go to war or someone is invading The Dutch minister of Finance is looking to introduce a law to monitor ALL transactions over €100…she is also the co-chair of the Global Action Group at the WEF.. https://brightplanet.com/2013/06/25/twitter-firehose-vs-twitter-api-whats-th... Elon Musk @elonmusk Wachtell & Twitter board deliberately hid this evidence from the court. Stay tuned, more to come. Twitter censors this Global Research link: https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-3...
Documentary: Conspiracy Theory of Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4169SAL6vA Documentary: Conspiracy Theory of Everything https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conspiracy-theory-of-everything/id... https://www.spiritsciencecentral.com/blog/the-conspiracy-theory-of-everythin... https://www.patreon.com/conspiracytoe https://conspiracytoe.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.conspiracydocumentaries.com/miscellaneous/the-conspiracy-theory-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1588143755978227712 German FM Baerbock says the European and international peace order is under attack from "disinformation" and "fake news." "International peace order under attack... by disinformation fake news systematic war against 'our democracies'... attacks with bits and bytes and bots and technical power." Too cute :) https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1587875900082868224 WH Spox Lies on Context: White House officials do not submit alleged "disinformation" posts to secret government portals provided by social media companies. Pfizer pauses ads on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover - WSJ Lol
"If You Believe..." https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/11/01/if-you-believe-2/ If you believed they put a man on the moon Man on the moon If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool REM – Man on the Moon The REM song Man on the Moon, released in 1992, is a haunting melancholy tune, with Andy Kaufmann and his life and death as the focal point. For me, the lyrics always bring me back to the simpler time of my youth, when our antenna TV could get about eight channels, we had one rotary phone, one old used station wagon, lived in a row home, and a family of five could be raised on a truck driver’s income, with a stay-at-home mom. It’s the references to the Game of Life, Risk, Monopoly, Twister, checkers, and chess, which invoke what we did for fun when we weren’t out riding bikes, playing stick-ball, roller hockey, or touch football in the streets. Were bad things going on in the world? Sure. The Vietnam War, Watergate, gasoline shortages and rationing, stagflation, and a myriad of other damaging challenges confronted the country, just as they always have throughout history. One of the supposed historic moments in human history was the moon landing in July 1969, when I was six years old. I remember sitting on the floor in front of the TV and thinking how cool it was and how cool that I was allowed up at 11:00 pm to watch it. Another 600 million people were also watching. At the time, no one questioned what they were watching live on their TVs. It was the penultimate human achievement, with the goal set by JFK during Camelot before he was murdered by his own government, proving our technological superiority to the evil Soviets. To fail in this mission would have been too embarrassing to the leaders of our empire, only two decades into its infancy. I believed the official narrative up until a few years ago. I don’t know whether Stanley Kubrick staged the moon landing on a movie set, or some other scenario, but my skepticism is based on something rather mundane. TV technology in 1969 was poor. Picture quality from stations a few miles across town were bad. The moon is 239,000 miles from earth. How could they have landed on the moon and broadcast live video that was as clear as if you were watching a TV show, when surveillance camera video in 2022, 53 years later can’t even reveal who placed those pipe bombs around Washington DC on January 5th, 2020. The government, their media mouthpieces, and most certainly the plethora of alphabet agencies wielding the real power (CIA, FBI, DHS, etc.) in D.C. created the term “conspiracy theorists” as a way to cover up their diabolical Deep State plots to rule the world from behind the curtain. The CIA coined the term in the wake of the JFK assassination as a method to discredit critical thinking Americans who questioned the validity of the Warren Report and the government cover-up of JFK’s murder by rogue elements of the U.S. government. This was not the beginning of manipulation of the public mind by men we have never heard of. As expounded by the master of propaganda, Edward Bernays, the manipulation was already taking place during the 1920s. With the advent of mass media technology, the ability of these malevolent Svengalis to sway the masses towards believing whatever narrative they spin has expanded exponentially. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda – 1928 Many of REM’s songs have a word salad feel to them, but bassist Mike Mills described how singer and lyricist Michael Stipe “came up this beautiful lyric that encompasses doubt, belief, transition, conspiracy and truth”. The title of the song and the lyric “if you believe” are ambiguous and can be interpreted by believers and non-believers. Those referred to as conspiracy theorists, the favorite term of the Deep State acolytes and their legacy media propaganda outlets, feel vindicated by the lyrics, while those who believe everything fed to them by their overlords believe the lyrics are making fun of conspiracy theorists. I was twenty-nine years old in 1992, newly married, one year before the birth of our first child, working on getting my MBA at night, trying to move up the corporate ladder, and still ignorant of how the world was run by unseen men functioning as an invisible government. I’ve always had a skeptical nature and knew in my teens that JFK was not killed by a lone gunman in the Book Depository building, but the hustle and bustle of life kept me from examining so called “conspiracy theories” on a deeper level. Through the 90s I was busy raising a family, working long hours, paying a mortgage, auto loans, tuition bills, and sports fees for my three boys. There was no time to breathe, let alone examine the truth behind how the world functioned. 9/11 changed all that. Something didn’t add up. Somehow the 341- page Patriot Act, creating a new agency and numerous new unlawful governmental powers, was supposedly written, and voted on within four weeks of 9/11. Only three Republicans voted against the bill – including Ron Paul, who I had never heard of at the time. The unwarranted invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on lies and propaganda, led by Cheney and Rumsfeld, was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I began to read anti-establishment blogs and investigated the stories being peddled by the government, media, and Wall Street. I started reading articles and books by the likes of Ron Paul and other opponents of neocons, the Fed, the military industrial complex, the Wall Street cabal, propaganda spewing MSM, and the Deep State. I turned myself from a naïve member of the ignorant masses into an anti-government libertarian anarchist, who hasn’t believed a word uttered by any politician, MSM talking head, celebrity, or Wall Street beholden toady in the last sixteen years. By early 2008 I was writing articles and sending Op-Eds to my local newspapers. During the summer of 2008 I was writing articles on Seeking Alpha and Financial Sense predicting a banking crisis, financial system meltdown and global recession. Shortly thereafter, Seeking Alpha and Financial Sense began censoring my articles and my “conspiracy theorist” credentials were minted. I have believed less and less of what they have been selling as the years have progressed, opening my mind to the likelihood those who control the levers of society do not have my best interests at heart and are solely driven by a carnivorous desire for wealth, power, and control over the masses. I now approach life with an eyes wide open skepticism of everything and everyone. I’m not a pessimist, but a realist who only trusts data I can replicate, facts I can substantiate, and people who make cogent fact-based arguments without a bias influenced by money. The world is a scary place and the men constituting the “invisible government”, pulling the strings, and using their limitless wealth to buy off politicians, the media, the entertainment industry, academia, the medical industry, and so called “experts”, are satanically driven by their seemingly insatiable thirst for ruling the world. They believe their ends always justify their means. These sociopathic bastards don’t care how many people they kill or how many lives they financially ruin in their relentless pursuit of mammon. They proclaim themselves to be gods, based on the power they can wield through their ill-gotten wealth. Their arrogance and hubris know no bounds. We are currently living in an Age of Mass Deceit not seen before in human history. The advent of advanced technology and instant mass media messaging has provided these evil fiends with the means to spin their web of lies and essentially brain wash and /or terrify the ignorant masses into doing whatever they are told. The last few years have proven these psychological propaganda techniques, applied through the use of mass media, bought off politicians and “experts”, and a compliant sheep-like populace dumbed down by decades of government school indoctrination, has essentially destroyed western civilization, with the denouement of global war and depopulation of the planet still playing out. As it turns out, “conspiracy theorists” like me and a slew of other critical thinking individuals, have turned out to be right on just about everything we have been saying for the last fourteen or so years. The Deep State acts as if disinformation, as defined by those engineering the false narratives, is a threat to the nation and has colluded with the MSM, Facebook, Twitter, and Google to suppress any alternative viewpoints, censor those who can disprove their narratives, and de-platform anyone who dares question their authority and approved storyline. DHS and the social media tyrants coordinated to throw a presidential election, which is a traitorous act and would be prosecuted in a law-abiding system. During the Covid scamdemic, they achieved the goal set by CIA head William Casey in 1981. Everything the American public believed since March 2020 was false. Some people seem to be wakening from their mass psychosis formation stupor, but it may be too late. The damage is done, and the tens of millions of psychologically broken individuals are still malleable material for the Deep State. We are nothing more than disposable pieces on a game board to those calling the shots and running the show. The game of Risk has taken on a new meaning from what I knew in my youth. There is now a new narrative being spun, where all the tyrants who demanded subservience to all government dictates, lockdowns, masking, social distancing, and being coerced into becoming guinea pigs for an untested, experimental, Big Pharma enriching gene altering therapy disguised and sold as a vaccine under threat of losing your livelihood, want dispensation and forgiveness for their crimes. You weren’t allowed to say goodbye to your loved ones or attend their funerals, but the chosen ones dined at extravagant restaurants and allowed liquor stores and Wal-Mart to stay open. Your small business was destroyed, while Amazon made billions. These murderous hypocrites killed thousands of seniors by knowingly putting infected patients into old age homes, killed thousands more by putting treatable patients on ventilators and Fauci’s remdesivir, killed thousands more by not allowing safe and effective treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to be prescribed by doctors, and have killed and injured thousands more by forcing a dangerous Big Pharma toxic concoction on tens of millions through threats, mandates and a never ending stream of lies. All for a flu with a miniscule fatality rate for those under 85 years old and not morbidly obese. This was the biggest scam in human history, perpetrated by Gates, Fauci, Schwab and their willing co-conspirator minions in the media, medical industry, and government. These “experts” seeking forgiveness because they were just caught up in the “hysteria” of the moment weren’t wrong. They were lying from the outset and need to pay dearly for their crimes against humanity. Nuremberg 2.0 is the only thing that will satisfy myself and all the other dissenters who risked their livelihoods by refusing to go along. We were scorned, ridiculed, ostracized, censored, fired, de-platformed, wished dead by the authoritarian minded sheep who demanded compliance, and treated like outcasts by family members who believed the narrative hook, line and sinker. I don’t believe. I think. And I don’t forget or forgive these feckless tin pot dictators. They have shown their colors and now that the tide seems to be turning, we must channel our inner Conan the Barbarian. We need to crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentation of their women. They pushed their agenda too far and too fast out of desperation, as the financial underpinnings of their fake world order began to strain and crumble. This desperation exposed their blatant lies to a vast array of critical thinkers across the world who have not been deterred in exposing the falsehoods on social media, blogs, and free speech websites. When the truth was censored and suppressed on Youtube, alternatives like Rumble, Bitchute, and Odysee sprung to life. When Facebook and Twitter banned truth tellers, new platforms like Gab and Truth Social were created. Writers and doctors silenced by social media platforms, like Glenn Greenwald, Alex Berenson, Robert Malone, and many others gravitated to the free speech forum of Substack where they are free to speak the truth and earn money through voluntary subscriptions. If Elon Musk follows through on his promises, Twitter will once again become a free speech forum rather than the social media censorship arm of the Democratic Party and the Deep State. I am under no illusions that the Republicans regaining the House and Senate next week will change the direction of the country. It would just be a speed bump temporarily slowing down our descent into the abyss. The Uniparty in DC, where both sides agree 80% of the time on frivolous spending, never ending wars, debasement of our currency, and limiting the rights of citizens, will continue to be funded and controlled by Soros, Gates, and other shady billionaires operating in smoky rooms where your opinions are not sought. The authoritarians will not yield without a fight. This sign in the upscale Capital section of D.C. on Halloween tells you everything you need to know about these brain damaged loons. They remain your enemy. If you still believe JFK was assassinated by a lone gunman; the official story of what really happened on 9/11; that Epstein killed himself and numerous celebrities, politicians, and financiers aren’t pedophiles; the Federal Reserve isn’t controlled by Wall Street; Klaus Schwab and his WEF acolytes are not trying to Reset the world where you will eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy; Bill Gates is not creating viruses and investing in vaccine makers, while buying up farmland, as part of his dream to decrease the “surplus” population; Soros is not funding the election of communists whose sole purpose is to destroy the cities and states they are running; scientific experts like Fauci are not swayed by the vast amounts of money they are paid by Big Pharma to fake their research and ignore the deaths from these products; Covid was not the weaponization of the annual flu with a billion dollar marketing campaign used to implement government control of the population, which will be expanded during the next engineered crisis; January 6th was an armed insurrection; Putin is literally Hitler and the U.S. did not blow up the Nordstream pipelines while waging a proxy war against Russia; a drug addict nudist from Berkley with a pride flag and BLM flag hanging outside his dilapidated bus is a MAGA underwear terrorist and not a male prostitute picked up by Paul Pelosi; and the Democrats are not cheating again in these 2022 mid-term elections, you are the real conspiracy theorists. The believers choose to willfully ignore the facts either because they are deliberately obtuse as a mechanism to combat their cognitive dissonance, or they are compensated to support and perpetuate the false narratives of their ruling overlords. I understand my opinions and writings are nothing but a drop in the ocean as this tsunami rush towards our shores. But I will continue to fight for what I believe and will not bend the knee to the malicious forces who hate me and everything I stand for. I urge everyone to heed the wisdom of two of the most brilliant minds of the 20th Century and do your utmost to keep the truth alive.
To George Washington from G. W. Snyder, 22 August 1798
From G. W. Snyder
Frederick-Town (Maryland) Augt 22. 1798. Sir, You will, I hope, not think it a Presumption in a Stranger, whose Name, perhaps never reached your Ears, to address himself to you the Commanding General of a great Nation. I am a German, born and liberally educated in the City of Heydelberg in the Palatinate of the Rhine. I came to this Country in 1776, and felt soon after my Arrival a close Attachment to the Liberty for which these confederated States then struggled. The same Attachment still remains not glowing, but burning in my Breast. At the same Time that I am exulting in the Measures adopted by our Government, I feel myself elevated in the Idea of my adopted Country. I am attached both from the Bent of Education and mature Enquiry and Search to the simple Doctrines of Christianity, which I have the Honor to teach in Public; and I do heartily despise all the Cavils of Infidelity. Our present Time, pregnant with the most shocking Evils and Calamities, threatens Ruin to our Liberty and Goverment. Secret, the most secret Plans are in Agitation: Plans, calculated to ensnare the Unwary, to attract the Gay and irreligious, and to entice even the Well-disposed to combine in the general Machine for overturning all Government and all Religion. It was some Time since that a Book fell into my Hands entituled “Proofs of a Conspiracy &c. by John Robison,”1 which gives a full Account of a Society of Freemasons, that distinguishes itself by the Name “of Illuminati,” whose Plan is to overturn all Government and all Religion, even natural; and who endeavour to eradicate every Idea of a Supreme Being, and distinguish Man from Beast by his Shape only. A Thought suggested itself to me, that some of the Lodges in the United States might have caught the Infection, and might cooperate with the Illuminati or the Jacobine Club in France. Fauchet is mentioned by Robison as a zealous Member: and who can doubt of Genet and Adet? Have not these their Confidants in this Country? They use the same Expressions and are generally Men of no Religion. Upon serious Reflection I was led to think that it might be within your Power to prevent the horrid Plan from corrupting the Brethren of the English Lodge over which you preside.2 I send you the “Proof of a Conspiracy &c.” which, I doubt not, will give you Satisfaction and afford you Matter for a Train of Ideas, that may operate to our national Felicity. If, however, you have already perused the Book, it will not, I trust, be disagreeable to you that I have presumed to address you with this Letter and the Book accompanying it. It proceeded from the Sincerity of my Heart and my ardent Wishes for the common Good. May the Supreme Ruler of all Things continue You long with us in these perilous Times: may he endow you with Strength and Wisdom to save our Country in the threatening Storms and gathering Clouds of Factions and Commotions! and after you have completed his Work on this terrene Spot, may He bring you to the full Possession of the glorious Liberty of the Children of God, is the hearty and most sincere Wish of Your Excellency’s very humble and devoted Servant G. W. Snyder ALS, DLC:GW. In May of this year, Snyder published in Philadelphia The Age of Reason Unreasonable; or The Folly of Rejecting Revealed Religion.. . . 1. John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, published in Philadelphia in 1798, was in GW’s library at his death. This letter from Snyder initiated a flurry of correspondence between him and GW. GW replied on 25 Sept.: “Sir, Many apologies are due to you, for my not acknowledging the receipt of your obliging favour of the 22d Ulto, and for not thanking you, at an earlier period, for the Book you had the goodness to send me. “I have heard much of the nefarious, & dangerous plan, & doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me. The same causes which have prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter, have prevented my reading the Book, hitherto; namely—the multiplicity of matters which pressed upon me before, & the debilitated state in which I was left after, a severe fever had been removed. And which allows me to add little more now, than thanks for your kind wishes and favourable sentiments, except to correct an error you have run into, of my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. The fact is, I preside over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last thirty years. I believe notwithstandings, that none of the Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati. With respect I am Sir Your Obedt Hble Servt Go: Washington” (ALS, PWacD; letterpress copy, DLC:GW; LB DLC:GW). Not having heard from GW, Snyder wrote GW again on 1 Oct. from Frederick: “Some Weeks ago I sent you a Letter with Robison’s Proof of a Conspiracy which I hope you have received. I have since been more confirmed in the Ideas I had suggested to you concerning an Order of Men, who in Germany have distinguished themselves by the Names of Illuminati—German Union—Reading Societies—and in France by that of the Jacobine-Club, that the same are now existing in the United States. It also occurred to me that you might have had Ideas to that Purport when you disapproved of the Meetings of the Democratic-Societies, which appeared to me to be a Branch of that Order, though many Members may be entirely ignorant of the Plan. Those Men who are so much attached to French Principles, have all the Marks of Jacobinism. They first cast off all religious Restraints, and then became fit for perpetrating every Act of Inhumanity. And, it is remarkable, that most of them are actually Scoffers at all religious Principles. It is said that the ‘Lodge Theodore in Bavaria became notorious for the many bold and dangerous Sentiments in Religion and Politics that were uttered in their Harangues, and its Members were remarkable for their Zeal in making Proselytes’; (and no Wonder since the Order was to rule the World.) Is not there a striking Similarity between their Proceedings and those of many Societies that oppose the Measures of our present Government? Even in this small Place the French-Faction is very numerous—their Expressions are like those of Bloody-Lutetia [Lutetia Parisiorum, or Paris]: their Sentiments in exact Unison with those of the Jacobine Club: their Hearts panting for Faggots and Guillotines. The Foundation of their Sanctuary is laid with Lies, and every Stone of the Superstructure reared with Falsehood. They are laboriously employed to excite Discord—to extinguish public Virtue—to break down the Barriers of Religion—to establish Atheism, and work the Downfall of our Civil—and Religious Liberty. Should their perfidious Schemes succeed (I tremble even at the Imagination of the Consequences) what would become of our Columbia?” (ViMtvL). GW responded on 10 Oct.: “Sir: It is more than a fortnight since I acknowledged the receipt of your first letter, on the subject of the Illuminati and thanked you for Robinson’s account of that society. It went to the post office as usual addressed to the Rev’d Mr Snyder, at Frederick Town Maryland. If it had not been received before this mishap must have attended it, of which I pray you to advise me, as it could not have been received, at the date of your last, not being mentioned. I am, &c. G. Washington” (typescript, ViMtvL). On 17 Oct. Snyder wrote GW: “Your Excellency’s Favour of the 25th of Septr last I had the Pleasure to receive on the 3d Current. My Pleasure, however, was interrupted, because I had sent another Letter [dated 1 Oct.] for your Excellency to the Post-Office about an Hour before I received Your’s.” After further pleasantries Snyder goes on to write: “I should be very happy in your Excellency’s good Opinion, that the Contagion of Illuminatism or Jacobinism had not yet reached this Country; but when I consider the anarchical and seditious Spirit, that shewed itself in the United States from the Time M. Genet and Fauchet (who certainly is of the Order) arrived in this Country and propagated their seditious Doctrines, which the illuminated Doctor from Birmingham has been zealously employed to strengthen, I confess I cannot divest myself of my Suspicions: yet I trust that the Alwise and Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe will so dispose the Minds of the People of these United States that true Religion and righteous Government may remain the Privileges of this Nation! I cannot conclude without acquainting your Excellency that I have made Extracts from ‘Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy,’ and arranged them in such a Manner as to give a compendious Information to the Public of the dangerous and pernicious Plan of the ‘Illuminati or Jacobins,’ and by some Remarks to caution them against it. I had them published in ‘Bartgis’s Federal Gazette’ of this Place, from which they were copied and inserted into the ‘Baltimore Federal Gazette[’] of the 9th Inst. I write under the Signature of Cicero. Whether my Endeavours shall benefit the Public Time alone can evince. Harm I am conscious I do not design. Should your Excellency have Leisure to peruse the Piece, I shall deem it a peculiar Favour to receive your Opinion upon it” (ViMtvL). GW’s response from Mount Vernon on 24 Oct. brought the exchange to a close: “Revd Sir I have your favor of the 17th instant before me; and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain, and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged, often, to write letters, have led you into. “It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Iluminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I am. “The idea I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or the pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may have done it, and that the founder, or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects—and actually had a seperation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned. “My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing answers, absorb much of my time. With respect—I remain Revd Sir Your Most Obedt Hble Ser. Go: Washington” (letterpress copy, DLC:GW; LB DLC:GW). 2. The Illuminati was the name of a secret society founded in 1776 in Bavaria by Adam Weishaupt. It had an organization similar to the Freemasons and evinced republican and deistic principles.
Militarized Elections in USA to ensure outcomes... National Guard Cybersecurity Units Activated In 14 States Ahead Of Midterm Elections: Reports https://www.theepochtimes.com/national-guard-cybersecurity-units-activated-i... Cybersecurity units from the National Guard will be activated in 14 U.S. states to help counter any threats to election officials’ networks ahead of, during, and after the upcoming Nov. 8 midterm elections, according to reports. The 14 include battleground states Arizona, Iowa, and Pennsylvania, as well as Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Washington, and West Virginia, reported Politico. Brig. Gen. Gent Welsh, the commander of the Washington Air National Guard, said at a virtual media briefing on Nov. 4 that not every state is doing it but states that are activating these units “have invested in cyber talent and cyber missions for years,” according to outlet Statescoop, which reports on technology-related news in government. “If you don’t have a cyber unit in your state you’re not in a good position to help them protect elections,” Welsh said. He added that the National Guard’s participation in election cybersecurity activities “does add an air of credibility to what’s out there,” noting that the National Guard “is still one of the most trusted institutions in the United States.” ‘As Secure Elections as Possible’ The plan comes after eight states received support from cyber units in the National Guard during the primary elections that took place earlier this year. According to the outlets, there are 38 dedicated cyber units within the Air and Army National Guard across the United States that work to help state and local officials on cyber-related issues such as network assessments and risk mitigation. The cyber units collectively comprise over 2,200 personnel. “Our goal is to make sure we have as secure elections as possible. We are at the really beginning stages of this,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Rich Neely, head of the Illinois National Guard, reported Statescoop. National Guard officials will receive security updates from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in their work to support the midterms, Politico reported. According to its website, CISA was created in 2018 under the Trump administration to work with government and industry partners to defend against current and predicted threats to cyber and physical infrastructure, including election infrastructure. No Indication of Potential Election Infrastructure Disruption: CISA Director CISA Director Jen Easterly has repeatedly said she doesn’t expect any major disruptions to the midterms. Most recently, on Nov. 1, at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Easterly said that there is “no information credible or specific about efforts to disrupt or compromise” election infrastructure and that she was “very confident that we have done everything we can to make election infrastructure as secure and as resilient as possible.” Air Force Maj. Gen. Rich Neely, head of the Illinois National Guard, said that he and his team are “not expecting to see anything.” “But much like we did after Jan. 6, if the Guard’s called in, the Guard responds as needed,” he said, reported Statescoop. “We’re not expecting anything with what we’re seeing.” Army Major General M. Todd Hunt, the adjutant general of the North Carolina National Guard, said at the media briefing on Nov. 4 that his state has a joint cyber mission center that will facilitate communication between the state’s cyber unit, its departments of Information Technology and Emergency Management, as well as federal contacts from CISA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI. According to the outlets, Hunt said there will be 25 National Guard members on duty in the cyber unit for North Carolina on Election Day, up from the usual core team of 10. The extra members will include federal and emergency management partners. “We will surge during the election to ensure that we have 24-hour coverage throughout this whole process,” Hunt said, per Politico. “We are citizen soldiers, we live in this state, and we do have a vested interest in our state elections as well as our federal elections.”
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Why Society Needs Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorists https://fournier.substack.com/p/why-society-needs-conspiracy-theories https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-society-needs-conspiracy-theories-conspira... https://www.activistpost.com/2022/10/why-society-needs-conspiracy-theories-c... https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/11/06/why-society-needs-conspiracy-t... Links and Images in original. “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.” – Matthew 10:26 As this will be a comprehensive article, I’ve decided to split it up into the following sections: Introduction How did the term come about & become a tool for defamation? A German journalist spills the beans Same Playbook, Different War The Council on Foreign Relations conspiracy Conspiracy Theories that turned out to be true Notable Unresolved Conspiracies Conspiracies to Watch Mini-Guide to Investigating Conspiracies Conclusion Wernher von Braun walking along the lunar surface on an Apollo set replica during the Atlanta Southeastern Fair, September 5, 1969, credited to United Press International (UPI), image source Introduction It seems like you can’t catch a news headline or social media post these days without coming across the terms conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorist, or phrases like ‘spreading conspiracies’. One has to wonder: why are they so frequently employed? In my most recent published work, I referenced an article from Canada’s National Post which ran with the headline ‘CBSA says it's investigating border officer spreading COVID conspiracies online.’ The problem with these kinds of articles is that they are too often merely used as hit pieces to ridicule, degrade, and discredit any individual or group that goes against a certain narrative or disagrees with an author’s (or their publication’s partisanship or funders’) views. Moreover, their authors very seldom make specific references or claims as to why they label their targets when using such over-used and over-abused disparaging rhetoric. When this is the case, it leads me to believe that the overall purpose of their pieces is to disparage their targets more than anything else. Another recent example of this involves that from the article entitled ‘Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified - study’ written by Mark Townsend from The Guardian (UK). In the article, the author claimed “journalist Aaron Maté at the Grayzone is said by the report to have overtaken Beeley as the most prolific spreader of disinformation among the 28 conspiracy theorists identified.” Maté had to refute the claim made against him which also involved contacting Townsend by phone. His counter article and the phone conversation appear on his Substack page (see ‘NATO-backed network of Syria dirty war propagandists identified)’ and is definitely an interesting case on how these ploys take place. Countless other instances could be cited, but suffice it to say that there is no shortage of them. But what is perhaps even more laughable with this phenomenon is the fact that these authors wantonly use these terms without even knowing their true meanings and where they actually originate from. Before looking into these, though, we must first and foremost examine the meaning of the word ‘conspiracy’ itself. Oxford defines it as: a secret plan by a group of people to do something harmful or illegal Conspiracies have been an integral part of humanity ever since people have bonded together in groups for a better chance at survival. Lord knows that history is riddled with an abundant supply of conspiracies and we will look at some notable examples later on. How did the term come about & become a tool for defamation? Though the term ‘conspiracy theorist’ itself dates as far back as the 19th century, it became much more prominent in the years following the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Moreover, it’s really in the 1960s where it became more abundant and has taken on a negative connotation. This is in large part because of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America. The usage of ‘conspiracy theorist’ was principally brought about to discredit any person or outfit that questioned the findings of the Warren Commission regarding the official narrative of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Image source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-assassinations As to not be labelled a conspiracy theorist myself, here is some tangible evidence to support my claim that the CIA has been complicit with regards to the usage of the term as a means to disparage and discredit individuals with opposing views to an official narrative. An official DISPATCH (document number 1035-60) dated January 1, 1967 which was declassified and released following a FOIA request got published on the Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF) website – one which contains nearly 2 million pages of documents, government reports, as well as other materials. The first page of the dispatch appears as follows: COUNTERING CRITICISM OF THE WARREN REPORT, NARA Record Number: 104-10009-10022 from the Mary Ferrell Foundation, Dispatch 1035-960, Source: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=53510#relPageId=2 Firstly, we can notice the term ‘PSYCH’ in the upper-left hand corner of the document which indicates that this relates to Psychological Operations. We can see from the first paragraph that their main concern is about speculation regarding the assassination of President Kennedy and how various writers are questioning the findings of the Warren Commission report. The end of section 2 on the first page states: “The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, ...” Scrolling down to the second page under section 3 a. appears the following [emphasis added]: “To discuss the publicity problem with liaison and friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors), pointing out that the Warren Commission made as thorough an investigation as humanly possible, that the charges of the critics are without serious foundation, and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hand of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation.” And shortly after under section 3 b., it continues: “To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose.” So, there you have it in black and white. The CIA specifically directs the use of their elite contacts which include politicians and editors – presumably of major newspapers and most likely of major broadcasters. Tactics suggested include writing feature articles (to counter the official narrative), writing book reviews – presumably negative ones, and further labelling dissenters as ‘Communist propagandists’ – a term that had much more of an accentuated defamatory effect back then than it does today. This raises the obvious question of why the CIA was so seriously concerned about media coverage with regards to the assassination. What’s it to them? Did they have something hide? Where they pressed to do so by the Lyndon Johnson administration? If so, why? To dig deeper about what they actually stated in their dispatch, we can ask: who are these “elite contacts” and “propaganda assets” they are referring to? American investigative journalist and author Carl Bernstein – famous for his work with Bob Woodward on the Watergate scandal – wrote a rather extensive (25,000-word) exposé entitled ‘THE CIA AND THE MEDIA: How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up’ that was published in Rolling Stone magazine on October 20, 1977, just over a decade after the infamous CIA dispatch was issued. Early on in the mammoth article, Bernstein lists categories in which the Agency (the CIA) partnered with journalists and the press. Two such instances appear as follows: “- Editors, publishers and broadcast network executives. The CIAs relationship with most news executives differed fundamentally from those with working reporters and stringers, who were much more subject to direction from the Agency. A few executives—Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times among them—signed secrecy agreements.” “- Columnists and commentators. There are perhaps a dozen well known columnists and broadcast commentators whose relationships with the CIA go far beyond those normally maintained between reporters and their sources. They are referred to at the Agency as “known assets” and can be counted on to perform a variety of undercover tasks; they are considered receptive to the Agency’s point of view on various subjects. Three of the most widely read columnists who maintained such ties with the Agency are C.L. Sulzberger of the New York Times, Joseph Alsop, and the late Stewart Alsop, whose column appeared in the New York Herald‑Tribune, the Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek. CIA files contain reports of specific tasks all three undertook.” The CIA specifically refers to these widely read columnists as “known assets” they can count upon to perform undercover tasks. They also maintain ‘signed secrecy agreements’ with executives from the New York Times. Lovely! Bernstein then lists many well-known newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters used by the CIA and notes their most cherished ones as follows [emphasis added]: “By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.” Still today, these three media outlets are giants in the publishing, broadcasting, and entertainment industries. And who really knows the extent to which the CIA and other US government agencies still maintain relationships with their editorial and journalistic staff, and possibly many others in the United States and across the world. It would certainly come as no surprise if they did. War – and how it is covered by media – is a major recurring theme in all of this and it is no secret that the CIA has left its dirty footprints over many of them since its inception in 1947. This has been highly documented and revealed by whistleblower Kevin Shipp, a former CIA officer, intelligence and counter terrorism expert who held several high-level positions in the organization. Finally, the CIA’s reach beyond American borders goes without saying. A German journalist spills the beans “I was bribed by billionaires. I was bribed by the Americans not to report exactly the truth,” stated Udo Ulfkotte back in a 2014 interview with RT (original report); the late editor and journalist of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was quite outspoken in this particular interview. Screenshot of the 2014 RT interview with German journalist Udo Ulfkotte Ulfkotte explained how the CIA and other US agencies bought journalists across all major German newspapers. He starts the interview with the following revelation [emphasis added]: “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years. And I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. But, seeing right now within the last months how the German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia. This is a point of no return and I’m going to stand up and say it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do and have done in the past because they are bribed to betray the people, not only in Germany, all over Europe.” It’s funny how you could almost replace this assertion (from back in 2014) in the context of today’s 2022 Russia-Ukraine war, or as some would call it, a proxy war between NATO/Western Europe/United States and Russia. He continued: “I was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. Why? Because I should be pro- American. I’m fed up with it. I don’t want to do it anymore.” ‘Non-official cover’ is a term the German journalist used to describe how he (and other journalists) were essentially working for or helping the intelligence agency, though not in an official capacity, conveniently leaving room for plausible deniability. Ulfkotte goes on to explain how the journalists are rewarded by the CIA. Statements like these really makes one wonder about the extent to which media outlets all around the world have been infiltrated not only by the CIA, but also by other powerful entities. But wait, Ulfkotte dives deeper into other supranational influences that help shape media organizations and their prevailing narratives [emphasis added]: “We are still kind of a colony of the Americans. And being a colony, it is very easy to approach young journalists through, what is very important here is, transatlantic organizations. All journalists from really respected and recommended big German newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, they are all members or guests of those big transatlantic organizations. And in these transatlantic organizations, you are approached to be pro-American.” Ulfkotte then emphasizes that this phenomenon is even more the case with British journalists due to their special relationship with the US, and the French, to a lesser extent. One need not look far to see what he is talking about with regards to these transatlantic organizations than observe the writings and actions of outfits such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Atlantic Council think tank, both focused on American imperialism and interests. While the later is essentially a mouthpiece for NATO, the former holds an unfathomable grasp on Western media. Examining the historical and current membership into the Council on Foreign Relations is quite revealing, to say the least. Or, perhaps more fittingly: the elephant in the room. Moreover, the think tank holds tremendous influence through its network of elites and media pundits who are central in shaping U.S. foreign policy and public discourse. Back in 2017, an infographic emerged showing the extent of this network and how it possibly ties to the Bilderberger Group and the Trilateral Commission: Infographic showing the network of members of the CFR, full-resolution image: https://swprs.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/cfr-media-network-hdv-spr.png Comparing current members with past ones, we can easily validate the authenticity of this elitist ilk and deduce that it is highly organized, highly interconnected, and what amounts to a highly influential network of thought leaders & shapers. Another infographic from Swiss Policy Research – an independent, nonpartisan and non-profit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda – shows the transatlantic network the German media is subject to: Swiss Policy Research – Media in Germany: The transatlantic network, full-resolution image: https://i0.wp.com/swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/netzwerk-medien-deuts... The data contained in these infographics validates German journalist Udo Ulfkotte’s claims to this effect. The infiltration of media, be it by the CIA, other intelligence agencies, or think-tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations or the Atlantic Council, is unmistakably a conspiracy in that their stealthily coordinated efforts control narratives the masses, including government officials, are exposed to on a daily basis. Same Playbook, Different War With the current war in the Ukraine, we can easily notice how the stances held by these transatlantic institutions are mostly one-sided. Here’s a recent tweet from the Atlantic Council regarding the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war: Tweet from the Atlantic Council, Sept. 15, 2022, Source The related article begins [emphasis added]: “Ukraine’s stunning counteroffensive success in the Kharkiv region has provided conclusive proof that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are more than capable of defeating Russia on the battlefield. Now is the time to end the war by providing Ukraine with everything necessary to consolidate these gains and secure a decisive victory.” “Victory requires a coordinated, multifaceted, and long-term approach with economic, diplomatic, humanitarian, and logistical support all needed in order to bolster the Ukrainian transition to NATO-standard weaponry. Above all, this means a full commitment by Ukraine’s partners to increase arms supplies to the country.” As you can see, they don’t hide which side they are representing while blatantly calling for NATO and partners to increase arms supplies and weaponry. Accordingly, if this is not an advertisement to further bolster the Military/Security Complex’s coffers, then I don’t know what else to say. That would be for another article altogether that would require its own investigation. Another recent tweet and article written by the CFR’s own President, Richard Haass, a Rhodes Scholar, from the Council on Foreign Relations rings the same bell: Tweet from the Council on Foreign Relations, also from Sept. 15, 2022, Source In it, the CFR President states [emphasis added]: “The West, for its part, should continue to provide Ukraine with the quality and quantity of military and economic support it requires. There are strong strategic reasons for doing so, including to deter future aggression by Russia, China, or anyone else.” The only difference is that this one makes a specific reference to China – the current frontrunner to be the next boogeyman-du-jour in our Orwellian perpetual state of war which assures gargantuan profits for the Military/Security Complex. But again, I digress, for this is yet for another behemoth of an article that would require an entire team of reporters. The extent to which this war has also been propagated on social media is, in itself, a whole other can of worms. Armies of bots, pundits and propagandists (from both sides of the conflict) along with the divided masses all contribute to the digital fog of war in the halls, hyperbolic and echo chambers of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The Council on Foreign Relations conspiracy In a book aptly titled ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’ by Gary Allen and Larry Abraham published in 1971, the first paragraph of the introduction – written by former U.S. congressman John G. Schmitz reads as follows: “The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. This book may have the effect of changing your life. After reading this book you will never look at national and world events in the same way again.” I feel the same way, though I would also highly recommend the book The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin which focuses on the secretive events that lead to the formation of the private corporation knowns as the US Federal Reserve which has also changed the way I personally view the word. Griffin holds the distinguished honorary title of Conspiracy Theorist by the editors of Wikipedia and others. So, he must be doing something right. His claims about how the North American medical establishment essentially got usurped by billionaire interests certainly added credence to this title. Speaking of billionaires, a few passages from the book ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’ really stand out: “The American subsidiary of this conspiracy is called the Council on Foreign Relations and was started by and is still controlled by Leftist international bankers.” “According to his grandson John, Jacob Schiff (above), long-time associate of the Rothschilds, financed the Communist Revolution in Russia to the tune of $20 million. According to a report on file with the State Department, his firm, Kuhn loeb and Co. bankrolled the first five year plan for Stalin. Schiff's partner and relative, Paul Warburg, engineered the establishment of the Federal Reserve System while on the Kuhn Loeb payroll. Schiff's descendants are active in the Council on Foreign Relations today.” And under an old photograph of a building in New York city appears [emphasis added]: “Home of the Council on Foreign Relations on 68th St. in New York The admitted goal of the CFR is to abolish the Constitution and replace our ones [sic] independent Republic with a World Government. CFR members have controlled, the last six administrations. Richard Nixon has been a member and has appointed at least 100 CFR members to high positions in his administration.” And later on in the book: “The C.F.R. has come to be known as "The Establishment," "the invisible government" and "the Rockefeller foreign office." This semi-secret organization unquestionably has become the most influential group in America.” It’s most interesting to see how these billionaire actors also coincidentally have had a hand in the formation of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Perhaps, G. Edward Griffin was onto something after all. A more recent (1988) book provides similar allegations with regards to the CFR by providing a deep dive into the historical roots, connections, and linkages to the war machine of the notorious organization. Its title is ‘The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations And The American Decline’ by author James Perloff. I will leave it up to the reader to investigate more into this alleged conspiracy, for such an endeavor demands significant time, scrutiny, and attention. Conspiracy Theories that turned out to be true Though many conspiracies have been proven true over the years, I will merely showcase a few which relate to two recurring themes of this article, namely that of war and media corruption. Operation Mockingbird, 1950s+ In light of the revelations listed earlier in this article, it is perhaps most fitting that we exhibit this particular proven conspiracy, for its overarching implications run far and wide – even in 2022 and beyond. In a nutshell, Operation Mockingbird was a large-scale clandestine program of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. According to The Black Vault – an online archive that houses over 3 million pages of government documents, Operation Mockingbird was said to be initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA; and the organization recruited leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA’s views, including worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns. In 1974, The New York Times had published an article by investigative journalist Seymour Hirsh who claimed that the CIA had violated its charter In the mid-1970s, the U.S. Congress had become concerned over abuses of the CIA, NSA, and FBI and called a committee (the Church Committee) to look over it. As per Everipedia, the final report of the Church Committee covered CIA ties with both foreign and domestic news media. Specifically with regards to the foreign news media, the report concluded that: “The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.” And for domestic media, the report emphasizes the following: “Approximately 50 of the [Agency] assets are individual American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations. Of these, fewer than half are "accredited" by U.S. media organizations ... The remaining individuals are non-accredited freelance contributors and media representatives abroad ... More than a dozen United States news organizations and commercial publishing houses formerly provided cover for CIA agents abroad. A few of these organizations were unaware that they provided this cover.” Apart from the staggering revelations outlined in the two passages above, the term ‘cover’ is of particular interest. German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, mentioned earlier in this article, stated that him and other fellow German journalists were basically operating as ‘non-official cover’, or in a ‘non-official capacity’ for the CIA. In other words, the CIA employed this pretext to cloak itself and adduce plausible deniability. Looking at the headlines and overt propaganda coming out of the European mainstream press over the last several years leaves us with little doubt that this operation (or a new version of it) is still alive and kicking. Operation Northwoods (re Cuban Missile Crisis) in 1962 Operation Northwoods was a proposed ‘false flag’ (i.e., a covert/secretive plot intended to deceive) operation against Cuba originating from the U.S. Dept. of Defense calling upon the CIA and other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets in Guantanamo (Cuba) and blame them on the Cuban government which would serve as a justification for war against the Caribbean island nation. The gist of the proposed operation was to hoodwink President John F. Kennedy to declare war against Cuba in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For those with a penchant for gripping movie dramas, the 2000 movie Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner and Bruce Greenwood (as President Kennedy) serves as an absorbing illustration in which the Democrat president was placed in a mental crucible and tested to his limits. The declassified document (memorandum for the Secretary of Defense) from 13 March 1962 titled ‘Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (TS)’ lays it bare for all to see. Documentarians Aaron and Melissa Dykes produced a top-notch work on this planned conspiracy. There are many reasons why I like Truthstream Media’s documentaries. Not only do they produce extremely well-researched works, but they also present them in a clear manner; and sometimes, such as with this particular work, they offer advice to their viewers on how to better educate themselves about world events. Near the start of this documentary, Melissa Dykes states [emphasis added]: “We thought we would look at this document for Operation Northwoods, it was declassified, because the problem with people forgetting history or failing to research history or failing to look into history is they forget these things ever happened. And history continues to repeat and people act like they have no idea why.” On that, I have to totally agree with Melissa Dykes. In today’s fast-pace society, people are more inclined to play with TikTok on their phones or watch movies than to read books – especially those related to history. It’s one of the main factors that has led to the lack of critical thought and discernment in society. Simple explanation of a ‘false flag’ operation. Source: https://www.falseflag.info/about/ Gulf of Tonkin Incident (Vietnam), 1964 Everipedia – a blockchain-based online encyclopedia (a better source of information than Wikipedia, in my opinion) prefaces the incident as follows [emphasis added]: “The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the Maddox, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved one real and one falsely claimed confrontation between ships of North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005, proved material misrepresentation by the US government to justify a war against Vietnam.” Among all wars fought by Americans, the Vietnam War ranked 4th just after the first two world wars and the U.S. Civil war. It’s economic and human costs epitomized human folly. What is equally nefarious is the deceptive means by which this false flag event, or conspiracy, came about. Notable Unresolved Conspiracies While there are too many to even contemplate, let us have a look at some of the more controversial ones that still have an impact on society and our way of life. September 11 attacks Perhaps one of the biggest and most contentious ones is that of the events that relate to what happened on September 11, 2001. So much has transpired in the 21 years that have lapsed since the collapse of the World-Trade Center towers in New York City. Though a formal investigation has been conducted and published on these events, so many unanswered questions remain as to who exactly was behind it. We often hear some talking about this tragic event insisting that it was an ‘inside job’ (i.e., done by powers within the U.S. Government). And for this, they are immediately labelled conspiracy theorists. Actually, in this rare case I agree with the employment of the defamatory designation. For, with an event as complex as this one, one can readily make such a claim; but to back it up with convincing evidence would require an extraordinary enterprise. What is perhaps more useful here, though, would be to ask anew some of the most important and unaddressed questions relating to this event. For these questions which are listed below, links are provided for additional context/reference. A good refresher video (WTC7 and 9/11 Truth 14 Years Later: "People Still Want the Truth") was published by documentarians of Truthstream Media. How is it possible that WTC Tower 7, the 47-story building which was only affected by minor fires, collapse straight down in a free fall defying known laws of physics? Why was the collapse of WTC Tower 7 reported by the BBC 20 minutes before it actually came down? How come no large pieces of aircraft wreckage from United Airlines flight 93 were ever found at the alleged crash site in Stonycreek Township (Shanksville), Pennsylvania? How come no large pieces of aircraft wreckage from American Airlines flight 77 were ever found on the ground near the West wall of the Pentagon? Why was all the rubble and steel (evidence) from the site so swiftly collected (over the objections by fire marshals) and shipped overseas? How was the Patriot Act (effective October 26, 2001) – a fairly long and complex legal document – drafted, reviewed, introduced, and enacted in merely 6 weeks? Of course, there are countless other unanswered questions. Perhaps the grander question is: will there ever be a fuller, more transparent official investigation surrounding these attacks? Who really killed JFK? Despite the findings of the Warren Commission, it remains to be solved as to whom exactly assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy since it is proven that a single gunman could not have acted alone per the additional evidence confirmed after the commission’s report. Many intelligence documents remained classified – even after 60 years since this tragic event took place in Dallas, Texas. Over the years, many have contributed to the investigation that never seems to end. Investigator Jim Garrison was perhaps the most prominent amongst them. Moon Landing Controversy Wernher von Braun at the lunar landing scene on an Apollo set replica during the Atlanta Southeastern Fair, credited to United Press International (UPI), image source The picture above (and the cover picture for this article) may seem as a conspiracy theory in itself, for it is difficult to authenticate and locate the original photograph from UPI. However, it is one that has been properly credited and attributed to the UPI. Accordingly, the cover photograph for this article can be viewed with its original header: Image source And the Jacksonville Daily Journal published the photograph in its September 30, 1960 edition: Image source For those unfamiliar with Werner Von Braun, he was a brilliant aerospace engineer – the brains behind the development of the Saturn rockets used in the Apollo launches. Over the past several decades, there has been a lot of debate regarding many aspects of the moon missions. A tremendous amount of money, blood, sweat, and tears have flowed into the Apollo program and other related projects. Much pressure had been placed on the U.S. Government to ensure success – especially amidst the backdrop of the Space Race and larger Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of this colossal undertaking, it became apparent that some serious problems and challenges needed to be overcome. Many were overcome, but other major problems persisted. A three and a half hour 2017 documentary entitled American Moon (available on YouTube, Brighteon, and Odysee) outlined many of these problems along with a significant amount of anomalies – particularly in the Apollo moon missions. In the lengthy film, they disprove not only the debunkers (those who disprove the deniers) but also some of the deniers themselves regarding their false or flawed claims. American Moon is meticulously well documented with original (official) NASA photographs, films, interviews, technical documents, and so forth, and presented in a clear and understandable way for the average Jane or Joe. Over 40 extremely well-formulated questions are presented and addressed to NASA itself as well as the greater debunker community. I have yet to locate a source which addresses all these key points; and this, despite nearly five years having elapsed since the documentary film came out. I certainly invite the reader to spend the three and a half hours to view this film; for, after doing so, you will never see the moon landing in the same light. I will only cite a few of the key questions that were put forward in this film. The first one relates to one of the most critical aspects of space flight, namely that of the dangers of radiation that are present beyond our planet, namely the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts protect our planet from harmful radiation originating from the sun and outer space. Van Allen radiation belts, source: NASA Here’s a simplified image to get a better idea of the range of these belts from Earth: Screenshot from American Moon (at the 01:00:20 mark) The problem, here, as pointed out in the film, is that modern scientists, including NASA Orion engineer Kelly Smith for that matter, have explained that no human could penetrate either of the two (inner & outer) belts without being exposed to high-energy radiation and cosmic rays which would biologically cause serious damage, if not death. In the March 1959 edition of Scientific American, the following was noted: “The discovery [of the Van Allen radiation belts] is of course troubling to astronauts; somehow the human body will have to be shielded from this radiation, even on a rapid transit through the region.” More recently, NASA Orion engineer Kelly Smith stated the following when talking about the Van Allen radiation belts [emphasis added]: “We must solve these challenges before we send people through this region of space.” In American Moon (around the 01:11:20 mark), NASA astronaut and commander Terry Virts says the following [emphasis added]: “The plan that NASA has is to built a rocket called SOS which is a heavy-lift rocket; it’s something much bigger than what we have today. And it will be able to launch the Orion capsule with humans on board … to destinations beyond earth orbit. Right now, we can only fly in earth orbit. That’s the farthest that we can go. This new system that we’re building is gonna allow us to go beyond and hopefully take humans into the solar system to explore. So, the moon, Mars, asteroids, there’s a lot of destinations that we could go to…” Further in the film, Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean responded the following when asked about whether he had suffered any ill effects from having passed through the Van Allen belts: “No. Now, I’m not sure we went far enough out to encounter the Van Allen radiation belts. Maybe we did.” One would think that as a crew member from Apollo 12 – the second mission to land on the moon – he would know about the location and existence of these belts through which he passed through. Strange. Very strange. What is also rather puzzling is the fact that NASA admits they lost the telemetry data related to the Apollo 11 moon mission. The Chief Flight Director for the Gemini and Apollo programs Gene Krantz (who was portrayed by Ed Harris in the 1995 film Apollo 13) admitted that NASA had lost the original tapes containing the telemetry data (alternate video link here). When asked by documentary filmmaker Aron Ranen about the tapes, Krantz stated the following: “I haven’t seen anything that indicates the telemetry data is even in existence. And, as I said, even if we had it, we don’t have the machines to play it back.” Ranen, the creator of the 2005 film Did We Go? then went to NASA’s Goodard Space Center and spoke with archivist Dr. David Williams who further asserted: “We’ve been unable to track it down. We don’t know where this telemetry data ended up. And we don’t know what path it may have taken. So, unfortunately I’m afraid I can’t give you much of a clue as to where this data ended up and whether it still exists or not.” So, let’s be clear folks here for a minute. The data that recorded what was perhaps the single most important event in human history has completely disappeared. Really? No backup copies have been made? And it would be “impossible” to re-create machines to play it back on? Absurd. While it is certainly possible that these tapes have indeed disappeared, the whole affair is rather questionable and pitiful, to say the least. The American Moon documentary further outlines anomalies related to the lunar module (LEM), telecommunications (between the earth and the moon), photographs & photography, cameras, videos, shadows, cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures, and more. A large part of the documentary focuses on photographs taken and published by NASA. The producer of the documentary hired several top photographers in the world (who worked in the field during that period) to examine and analyze the official photos taken on the surface of the moon. These photography experts all pointed out many impossibilities found in them. For the most part, they disproved that the photographs could have been taken on the surface of the moon if the only main source of light was emanating from the Sun; they decisively contend that the photographs were produced on a set with artificial lighting. This segment is presented with meticulous detail and analysis which makes it extremely difficult to refute the assertions from the experts. A common counter-argument that people have regarding those who claim the moon landings were faked is how could thousands of people be on board with such a hoax without there being any whistleblowers. Firstly, there have been numerous credible whistleblowers who have come out and I will reference one below. As for the “thousands of employees” conundrum, the answer is quite simple. These thousands of employees would simply not be aware that this subset (i.e., the moon landings) of the Apollo missions were being deceptively presented. This was the case with the Manhattan Project whereby thousands of people worked on the development of the first atomic bomb without knowing about its ultimate goal. The project was carefully structured for secrecy by means of compartmentalization. Put simply, under compartmentalization, people work in their own respective groups (or, compartments) on specific tasks and are not privy to a lot of data or information about the overall project. Accordingly, it would not have been that difficult to structure the NASA project in such a way. In an April 12, 2020 confession, Gene Gilmore (born Eugene Reuben Akers), now deceased, appeared in a video (alternate links here, here, and here) disclosed what his father (Cyrus Eugene Akers who was stationed in Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico in 1968) had previously confessed to him on his death bed. Mr. Akers senior was in the Military Police for over 20 years and on his death bed in 2002 he made a recording of what he had witnessed. Gene’s father told him about project ‘Slam Dunk’ whereby there were two large hangars (at the Cannon Air Force Base) that were connected, dump trucks had delivered sand and stone, and cement powder that was applied on top of all that material to make it look like a lunar landscape. The surprised son continued listening to his father state that in front of the airplane hangars was pull framing with large canvas tents that were concealing the inside of the staging area. Inside the staging area, on flat bed trucks was created the lunar lander that was assembled, reassembled back inside the hangars. All of the walls were painted flat black as were the ceilings. Cyrus Eugene Akers was sworn to secrecy by the National Security Agency (NSA). Gene then recalled that when his father saw the moon landing on television, he cried. He said that what he witnessed on TV is exactly what they recorded in that hangar. Mr. Akers continued his death bed confession to his son stating that there were 3 guards at the entrance of the hangar and there was a list of 15 people who could enter, no one else was allowed by order of President [Lyndon] Johnson. Gene Gilmore then stated that he had given the list to Bart Sibrel. Gene Gilmore then enumerates the specific names of list of 15 people who had special access to the hangars which include President Johnson, Neil Armstrong, Edwin [Buzz] Alden, Werner Von Braun, Gene Krantz, James Webb, Dr. James Van Allen, among others. Gilmore continues on with what his father had confided in him. President Johnson was there only for the first day of filming. The filming lasted for 3 days. And then, everything was dismantled to bring the hangars back to their original states. Gilmore then states that since 2002, he verified a lot of the information his father had given him – including records from Cannon Air Force base that confirmed the presence of President Johnson and the astronauts at that time as well as the lunar lander. Apparently though, this information was subsequently removed from Cannon’s website. Lastly, Gene affirms that his father stated had to tell somebody about the incident before he died because it was too important; but he also warned him not to ever tell anybody. Regarding the authenticity of these testimonies, there is always the possibility that they are not entirely truthful. But people seldom lie during death bed confessions. They usually want to get truth off their chests before they meet their maker. The fact that Gene Gilmore instructed Bart Sibrel to only publish his confession after his death also adds credibility to his testimony. As recent as Sept. 22, 2022, Lead Stories published a fact check rebuke regarding this confession video. In it, they stated that they had contacted NASA regarding the video and posted their spokesperson’s reply in the article: “There is a significant amount of evidence to support NASA landed 12 astronauts on the moon from 1969 to 1972. We collected 842 pounds of moon rocks that have been studied by scientists worldwide for decades. From these rocks, we've learned that the moon was once part of the Earth, the moon is about 4.5 billion years old, and that most of the moon's craters are caused by impact, not volcanism.” Anyone with half a brain could tell that this reply is totally unconvincing. Why mention moon rocks? It’s as if the spokesperson thinks this provides tangible evidence of the moon landings. One would also think that NASA would have come up with a much more thoughtful and convincing argument than the absurdity stated above. I digress. The conclusion of the American Moon documentary shows part of the Apollo 11 astronauts post moon mission press conference. They point out that the three astronauts were totally unenthusiastic. They were there to talk about the single most important feat accomplished by human beings and these men could barely crack a smile or convey their joy and enthusiasm about their monumental achievement. This goes without saying that it is all, indeed and utterly, extremely bizarre. Moreover, the very apparent levels of stress shown by the astronauts as per their body language at the beginning of the press conference is somewhat mind boggling. Keep in mind that these astronauts are test pilots who have experience handling extremely stressful situations, not to mention having [purportedly] flown an extremely dangerous mission to the moon. So, relatively speaking, simply talking to the public and press about their monumental achievement should not have been so challenging and stressful for these men. Rather, it should have been a cause for celebration and pride. What is the average person to make of this? American Moon ends with video clips of Bart Sibrel confronting each of the three Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) asking them to swear on the Bible that they walked on the moon. All three men displayed very uncomfortable stances and refused. Sibrel even offered $5,000 in cash to charity should Neil Armstrong agree, but he still refused. Buzz Aldrin actually punched Sibrel in the face when the interrogator persisted in his questioning. Even though Sibrel’s approach wasn’t particularly friendly, it remains odd that none of them agreed to do so. As more and more inconsistencies surface regarding the Apollo moon missions along with mounting evidence which contradicts the official narrative, it is probably just a matter of time before NASA becomes obligated to admit what really happened in July of 1969. Undoubtedly, there is a lot at stake. Will history books need to be re-written? Time will tell. Conspiracies to Watch As practically all of the conspiracies stated below are highly controversial and subjective in nature, I will merely provide a short summary of each along with key links that provide some initial background information – selected specifically to exhibit why they are considered conspiratorial. Ultimately, it is really up to the readers to investigate them and draw their own conclusions as to the authenticity and legitimacy of their respective stated claims. Climate Change Though the very hot and contentious issue of ‘Climate Change’, formerly known as ‘Global Warming’, is complex and controversial, we must begin by examining its origins. Where did this really originate from? When was it first mentioned and put forward as an existential threat? Former Australian politician Ann Bressington shed a bit of light on the issue in a candid speech about Agenda 21 and the Club of Rome a few years ago. In the speech (alternate link) she stated the following [emphasis added]: “Ladies and gentlemen, the origins of the environmental movement as we see it began back in 1968 when the Club of Rome was formed. The Club of Rome has been described as a crisis think tank which specialises in crisis creation. The main purpose of this think tank was to formulate a crisis that would unite the world and condition us to the idea of global solutions to local problems. In a document called The First Global Revolution, … it stated: ‘In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.’ …, that’s the origin of global warming ladies and gentlemen.” Her statement does indeed check out. On page 115 of the 1991 book entitled The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of Rome, you can clearly read the passage under the header ‘The Common Enemy of Humanity is Man’ [emphasis added in red]: Excerpt from page 115 of the book The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of Rome The Club of Rome is still actively involved in activities related to Climate Change. And at first glance it all seems quite legitimate. But the power and influence wielded by its well-connected membership leaves much to be scrutinized. Moreover, while the above information doesn’t serve as a smoking gun with regards to an alleged conspiracy, it does demonstrate that powerful and deeply connected think tanks (like with the Council on Foreign Relations mentioned earlier in this article) can influence many key players, including heads of state (even former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, father of the current Prime Minister). Credible scientific evidence contrary to the current climate change narrative does exist, yet very seldom appears in the mainstream press, for it goes against the ascribed (and undebatable) “the science is settled” mantra. One of these includes the recent (August, 2022) article entitled 1,200 Scientists and Professionals Declare: “There is No Climate Emergency” by The Daily Sceptic which challenges the ‘political fiction’ that humans cause most or all of climate change. The article also states that the scale to the opposition to the modern-day belief that the ‘science is settled’ [on Climate Change] is remarkable, even amidst the backdrop of academia which barely ever issues grants for climate research that departs from the political orthodoxy. On a side note, a blunt revelation by the co-founder of The Weather Channel John Coleman offered a rather scathing (and highly entertaining) lecture towards Brian Stelter from CNN a few years back in which he stated that there was no real science behind climate change. Now, back to the article of interest from The Daily Sceptic. It makes reference to a declaration by over 1,200 scientists from all around the world who assert that there is no climate emergency. This declaration is formally known as the ‘World Climate Declaration (WCD)’. Here are a few key excerpts: “Climate policy relies on inadequate models Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They do not only exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases, they also ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.” “CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet. Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.” “Global warming has not increased natural disasters There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.” “Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. Go for adaptation instead of mitigation; adaptation works whatever the causes are.” It should be obvious – even to a grade school student – that C02 is essential for life on earth and for the healthy functioning of our biological ecosystems. But our mainstream media and academia have been bamboozled and overtaken by powerful interest groups (as is the case in many other institutions such as those of finance and government) to pervert reality and propagate absurdities day in and day out. These compromised media outlets prefer to push the half-baked narratives from the likes of Bill Gates rather than invite real scientists that will challenge the ‘settled’ narratives and pundit talking heads. To be fairer and more objective though, the onus really is on each and every one of us to properly inform ourselves about issues such as climate change. We should be open to listening to those with opposing views and seek the opinions of independents who are not subsidised or funded by special interest groups or who will somehow benefit in spewing pre-packaged, one-size fits all, narratives. The origins of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) No other matter has consumed the collective thought of people from around the world over the last 2+ years than the Covid-19 Pandemic. Early on during the pandemic, many had contended that the virus was not of natural origin but was rather one that was altered in a lab setting; and after things had gone afoul, the virus was somehow spread out of the biosafety level 4 lab known as the Wuhan Institute of Virology into the public of the Chinese metropolis, and eventually to the entire world. This was in contrast with the original claim that the virus had originated in a wet market in Wuhan whereby the virus had crossed-over to humans from bats. Those who made the contention that the virus could have been engineered in a lab were immediately dismissed as conspiracy theorists. But as more evidence has surfaced regarding a massive coverup by the Chinese government and apparent pre-pandemic linkages between US-funded labs an the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the theory gained traction. Anthony Fauci who is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the leader in the United States regarding the handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic has repeatedly lied (to US Congress) about and denied that any gain-of-function research (specifically, a bat coronavirus research project by EcoHealth Alliance) had taken place under his US government-funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab in Wuhan. Surfaced letters have shone additional light on the matter demonstrating that funding from NIH to EcoHEalth Alliance did indeed occur. In addition, a report from The Intercept following a FOIA request produced 900 pages of materials relating to coronavirus research in China. Furthermore, an email letter from Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance dated April 18, 2020, surfaced whereby Daszak thanked Anthony Fauci, the head of the Covid-19 response team, for his [false] public comments regarding the origins of Covid-19. News aggregator ZeroHedge ran an article on August 6, 2021 whereby virologist Shi Zhengli (also known as "Bat Lady") of the Wuhan Institute of Virology – whose lab received US funding to make coronaviruses more infectious to humans – warned that the virus will continue to mutate producing new strains. Virologist Shi Zhengli (left), also known as “bat lady” photographed with Peter Daszak (right) from EcoHealth Alliance, source: ZeroHedge and DailyMail China expert Matthew Tye who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and goes by the YouTube handle Laowhy86 produced a very compelling piece (dated April 1, 2020, now with over 2.4 million views) on the source origins of SARS-CoV-2, even hypothesizing about who patient zero for this virus was; namely, Huang Yan Ling an employee of the infamous lab who went missing, along with her profile from the lab’s website. The World Health Organization (WHO) who is generously funded by Bill Gates – apart from sovereign nations, he is by far its top donor – is well known to have kowtowed to the Chinese government early on in the pandemic, was eventually compelled to conduct a formal investigation about the origins of the virus. Using relevant sources, Summit News reported that the WHO’s chief investigator, Ben Embarek (who also surmised that patient zero was likely a lab worker at the Wuhan Institute of Virology) essentially found nothing of material substance in the probe and was only permitted [by the Chinese government] to mention the possibility of a lab leak without being allowed to probe further. All of this, too, after having visited the lab for a period of only 3 hours. In addition, one might find it particularly inappropriate that Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance was chosen as part of the WHO’s investigatory team since he had previously worked in this same lab and given his obvious conflicts of interest in the matter at hand. In their defense, it is highly likely that the Chinese government had adequate time to remove any incriminating evidence that could have pointed to the gain of function research about coronaviruses and the inherent lab leak of the virus. As a substantial amount of time has elapsed since the Covid-19 pandemic began coupled with the concealment (deliberate or indeliberate) of critical direct and physical evidence regarding the real nature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we may never know the true story surrounding its origins. Screenshot of John Hopkins University of Medicine’s Worldwide Covid-19 Dashboard, taken Sept. 27, 2022 (Total Cases: 615,673,638; Total Deaths: 6,538,656, Total Vaccine Doses Administered: 12,255,133,258) What remains, however, is that it is certainly worthwhile to not let this one drain down the funnel of forgotten history. The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Great Reset Though founded in 1971, it is really in the last couple of years that this elitist organization, commonly referred to as the WEF, started to gain attention by the general public (rather than business leaders, politicians, and state leaders) around the world. This is in large part attributable to the increase in the influence and power they have gradually exerted on nations over the years, and particularly since the Covid-19 Pandemic came about. In 2020, the WEF embraced the opportunity that this global crisis presented and not let it “go to waste.” And thus, seized it through a series of recommendations and actions which they stated as an opportune moment to “redefine” the world – particularly the traditional economic model into one of what they call ‘stakeholder capitalism’. Hence was born their proposed ambitious action plan known as the ‘Great Reset’. Two books accompany this endeavor, namely, the manifesto entitled COVID-19: The Great Reset (2020) written by WEF founder Klaus Schwab, as well as the The Fourth Industrial Revolution (2016). Both serve as blueprints for what the well-connected elitist and quasi-supranational organization wish to impose on global citizens. The WEF’s founder Klaus Schwab has been characterised as kind of a Bond villain in the last few years – particularly over social media. A well-researched introduction about Klaus Schwab and the WEF was produced by YouTuber Sorelle Amore. While registered as a non-profit organization, the WEF does appear, at prima facie, to be one with benevolent intentions fostering public-private partnerships, that is not entirely the case. Many controversies have surrounded a lot of what has come out of their famous annual meetings referred to as ‘Davos’ which usually take place in the ski-resort town of Davos in Switzerland. For instance, many rich elites who’ve paid a hefty membership fee to join the WEF, make it to the annual event in their private jets while they call upon the masses and nation states to curve energy emissions and reduce their carbon footprints. In this year’s Davos meeting, one of their ilk, J. Michael Evans, president of the Alibaba Group, even proposed a new technology to measure one’s carbon footprint, stating [emphasis added]: “We're developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint. What does that mean? That's, where are they traveling, how are they traveling, what are they eating, what are they consuming on the platform? ... stay tuned, we don't have it operational yet - but this is something we're working on.” While we all love the environment and want to do our part to protect it, this kind of scheme appears to be nothing less than a proposed taxation scheme targeted to partner governments eager and willing to implement it. Other controversial, some would say absurd, proposals have come out of their forums. Promoting the masses to eat bugs (as a high source of protein and great substitute for meat) is actually a thing now with celebrities such as Nicole Kidman helping to spark the trend stating how delicious they are. Insect processing plants, such as the cricket facility from Aspire Food Group in Ontario, are also starting to bolster this nascent industry. You would be stunned at witnessing the extent to which this is becoming widespread. Some, however, have expressed concerns about how insect-based ingredients are stealthily being added to the food we purchase and how they are not fit for human consumption and possibly even cancerous. Tweet indicating that President’s Choice (a leading food provider in Canada) is including insect components in this product, as per the label, purchased at a store in Saskatchewan. I suppose we are all going to have to more carefully read the ingredients lists of the foods we purchase. Another major concern with regards to the WEF is the amount of power and influence they hold over political officials, including heads of state. This became apparent in the recent riots that have occurred in the Netherlands where Dutch farmers have protested in masse against government diktats regarding reducing nitrogen (used in fertilizer) levels and possible farm land appropriation. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte also received criticism regarding the coziness of his ties with the WEF’s boss, Klaus Schwab, and his agendas. In fact, Rutte was blasted in the Dutch legislature by Gideon van Meijeren (MP) for this relationship and complicity in the WEF’s Great Reset (link includes the related video). Rutte responded to the young MP that he didn’t know about the book (COVID-19: The Great Reset) and ridiculed the young MP to “not look too much into these conspiracy theories.” In turns out, though, that a close relationship did exist between the Netherlands Mark Rutte and the WEF. Independent information outlet LeLibrePenseur.org (French for ‘The Free thinker’), published secret letters between the two. In a report titled Fuites de Klaus Schwab : lettres secrètes entre le WEF et des membres du gouvernement hollandais dévoilées ! (Klaus Schwab leaks: secret letters between the WEF and members of the Dutch government exposed!), they showcased (what many mainstream Dutch journalists had described as conjecture) how the Rutte government had indeed been subservient to the interests and agendas of the WEF. Following a request from deputy FVD Pepijn van Houwelingen to make public the letters addressed to Dutch cabinet members, it was confirmed that their contributions had helped in the realisation of the Great Reset, essentially bypassing the will of the people through their elected officials. While it is not necessarily conspiratorial to create linkages with the WEF, the secretive manner in which it was done is what proves alarming. Regarding Canada, Klaus Schwab has repeatedly boasted on how proud he was proud of his army of Young Global Leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Schwab even bragged about how his lieutenants had “penetrated” the Canadian cabinet stating [emphasis added]: “What we are very proud of now [is] the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, …, that we penetrate the cabinets. So, yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet are actually young global leaders of the world.” That is a stunning admission from the leader of the WEF. Canadian opposition MP even inquired about this outside interference on behalf of a constituent of his during a parliamentary session, only to see the Speaker dismiss the question from the MP regarding this claim by provided a ridiculous excuse that the audio and video were “really really bad”. This was swiftly followed by an MP of the ruling party dismissing the question stating that the opposition MP was “promoting disinformation”. Really? I presume he didn’t hear the video in question that clearly stated otherwise. Regardless of the veracity of the claim itself, when an extremely powerful individual from an extremely powerful global organization such as the WEF makes a vivid assertion about who is controlling the Canadian cabinet, it should be taken seriously and further investigated. At the very least, according to True North News, the Trudeau Government gave nearly $3 million to the WEF which raises a cause for suspicion regarding the relationship and its inherent motivations. Rigging of the Gold & Silver Markets At this point/stage, this is really no longer a conspiracy theory, but more of a conspiracy fact. As a financial author, I have followed the gold and silver markets on a daily basis for the past ten years and have witnessed and documented numerous cases of blatant price fixing – almost exclusively to the down side. The main reason for the suppression of gold and silver prices is to maintain the illusion of a strong US dollar; for, if prices of these metals get too elevated it raises alarm bells as to the weakness of an exponentially increasing money supply. Here is what I’m talking about: Gold smashed down more than $85 during London trading hours on November 9, 2020. Source: Kitco It is very typical for the price fixers (see below) to smash the gold price down (they do this by shorting large amounts of paper gold futures contracts) before the open of U.S. markets – either during Asian (Hong Kong) or London trading sessions. Former industry insider and highly credible Peter Hambro forthrightly explains how the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the LBMA (London Bullion Market Association) in London, and the COMEX (the largest American commodities and futures exchange) in New York are complicit in the price fixing (almost exclusively to the down side) of gold. Over the past several years, precious metals analyst Roman Manly has also conducted extensive and thorough investigative work about the manipulation of gold and silver prices as has the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). Regarding silver, an article entitled A Silver Price Manipulation Primer by Sprott Money and precious metals writer Craig Hemke offers a good introduction about the fixing of silver prices. Lastly, we cannot forget the unabashedly, unfiltered, and outspoken Canadian derivatives expert Rob Kirby who passed away earlier this year (a tribute to his work can be seen via YouTube’s Liberty and Finance channel) who has extensively reported on these illegal price fixing activities on various YouTube channels such as Liberty and Finance. Mass Censorship & Search Manipulation In 2021, Twitter completely banned and censored the sitting U.S. President, Donald J. Trump – who had over 88 million followers on the platform. If a Big Tech outfit like Twitter can outlaw a sitting U.S. President, you can rest assured that they can basically ban and memory-hole anyone. And that, they have done so unabatedly in the past several years. Google (the largest search engine in the world by far) who owns a slew of other extremely popular applications used by hundreds of millions of people and media platforms such as YouTube, has been known to employ very deceptive practices over the past several years. Many of these involve either directly or indirectly censoring websites and completely banning countless channels – particularly conservative and alternative ones – from their YouTube platform, not to mention shadow-banning. In regards to the later, whistleblower Zack Vorhies, a former Senior Software Engineer at Google, stated that the tech giant was a “highly biased political machine”. The former insider took a cache of documents that provided rather revealing information about the inner workings of their search algorithms, establishing a “single point of truth” for news, and preventing another “Trump situation” in 2020, from ever happening again. More recently – and quite convincingly, Dr. Robert Epstein, a Senior Research Psychologist from the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology gave an in-depth interview with The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek (Robert Epstein: Inside Big Tech’s Manipulation Machine and How to Stop It) revealing in a meticulously documented fashion how Google is indeed politically aligned to the left and how it manipulates the thoughts and minds of their users via “ephemeral experiences”. The April 2022 broadcast and podcast for this interview are definitely worth listening to. By listening to it, you will learn a lot about what exactly happens behind the scenes when you use Google search and its various products and services. Alternatively, you can read or consult Dr. Epstein’s full research paper entitled 'GOOGLE'S TRIPLE THREAT, To Democracy, Our Children, and Our Minds' (51-page PDF) published earlier this year. Full research report by Dr. Epstein's entitled 'GOOGLE'S TRIPLE THREAT, To Democracy, Our Children, and Our Minds' (PDF) Slightly after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Dr. Epstein had surmised that search engine bias shifted 2-3 million votes in Hillary Clinton’s favor and warned that the number could increase fivefold in the 2020 contest. Also back in 2016, it was revealed how Google had censored information about Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoings in their search results compared to other major search engines. Whether the call for censoring and shielding Big Tech from scrutiny and legal action comes under the guise of cracking down on misinformation or preserving their censorship power, it nonetheless remains clear that these media behemoths hold tremendous power on the levers of public discourse and the availability of information. The Biden Administration has been accused of employing an “army” of officials from multiple government agencies (specifically, the HHS, DHS, CISA, the CDC, NIAID, the Office of the Surgeon General, the Census Bureau, the FDA, the FBI, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission) to censor information using their contacts in social media. A recent lawsuit – handled by the New Civil Rights Alliance – alleges that very claim. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs’ position begins with their claim and what it seeks [emphasis added]: “the Plaintiffs served interrogatories and document requests upon the Government Defendants seeking the identity of federal officials who have been and are communicating with social-media platforms about disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, and/or any censorship or suppression of speech on social media, including the nature and content of those communications.” In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also openly revealed that he followed the censorship orders from the FBI to suppress information related to Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election; all this was under the guise of “Russian Disinformation” and the net effect was that Facebook ended up ranking the information further down their newsfeed which could certainly be seen as election interference and/or political partisanship. I have mentioned in my initial post on Substack, that I espouse the notion that, in essence, there really is no such thing as misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation (or even ‘fake news’ for that matter) – for, it is ALL INFORMATION. If the public is not able to firstly access information and then analyse and discern it for themselves (even with regards to the complex issues of our day), then perhaps we have a bigger problem. Namely, that of a dumbed-down populous unable to critically think for themselves without been spoon fed pre-determined, unquestionable, narratives by “authority” figures. in a recent interview, author, journalist, senior editor for The New American, and Epoch Times contributor Alex Newman offers are rather insightful view of not just the current state of censorship, but also the worrying trend of the dumbing-down of population through our degrading school system. As one who has worked in the education sector for 35 years, I can certainly agree with his concern that our youth are not adequately being taught critical-thinking skills in our public school system. In Canada, the controversial Bill C-11 (an Act to amend the Broadcasting Act) has been passed by Parliament and is awaiting a second reading in the Senate. Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that it would help “oppressed communities” and “strengthen trusted news sources in Canada”, many others contend that if passed as law, it will favor government-approved news organizations who are already (and will continue to) receive nearly hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, with the CBC reportedly receiving 1.4 billion in 2021 according to the National Post. Dr. Michael Geist, a law professor and Research Chair (in Internet and E-commerce Law) at the University of Ottawa categorized the government’s defence of the bill as “cartoonishly misleading”. The main concern is that this bill could silence freedom-loving content creators, reports mrcTV. Canadian journalist Dan Dicks from Pressfortruth.ca and social media personality Viva Frei (David Freiheit) have criticized the bill (and even its predecessor bill C-10). It remains to be seen if the bill will pass the Senate to become law. 2020 Election in the United States The 2020 Election was one of the most controversial elections in American history. Coverage about the election varied greatly among major networks and news outlets in the country. In my opinion, I have found The Epoch Times coverage of the election to be most accurate and independent. All publications have bias in their reporting; that is inevitable due also, in large part, to opinion pieces which in today’s polarized society carry a lot of weight. That being said, I still believe that articles from The Epoch Times have been more objective than many others. One of their seasoned contributors, Sharyl Atkinson – an investigative journalist who has reported nationally for CBS News, PBS, CNN – ran an viewpoint article on Dec. 22, 2020 titled 2020 Election Screaming Red Flags That Deserved Criminal Inquiry. Though it was an opinion piece, she provided a fair analysis whereby she pointed out the many claims of election irregularities and fraud and how they should have been taken more seriously and investigated upon by government officials and law enforcement agencies. And since they haven’t been taken seriously, the integrity of the election results comes under great scrutiny. Her piece then lists eight examples of “screaming red flags” that should have prompted thorough criminal inquiries. Prior to the election, The Epoch Times had unveiled a very comprehensive exposé titled Spygate: The Inside Story Behind the Alleged Plot to Take Down Trump that was very well sourced and referenced. The investigatory work outlined in great detail the concerted plot whereby key members of the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), and officials from the U.S. State Department set up and accused President Trump of colluding with the Russians. Various official inquiries such as the very long and costly Special Counsel investigation of 2017-2019 (headed by the very corrupt and compromised Robert Mueller, former Director of the FBI) proved that no foul play had ever occurred between Trump and the Russians. What is stated in the previous paragraph is important, for it adds veracity to the claims made about election fraud to the detriment of the incumbent Trump. Why? Because it affirms the motivation by those in power to use the same type of unlawful activities (and collusive partners) to falsify and skew election data. Such manipulation of the data, demonstrable by statistical anomalies, (particularly with mail-in ballots) certainly became obvious and apparent during the morning hours following election day when, miraculously, Joe Biden’s numbers soared in key states where Trump was leading. Many outlets had cried afoul to this apparent fraud. Even the head of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Trey Trainor at the time said he believed there was widespread election fraud. In addition, the manner in which Big Tech platforms have shown favoritism – before, during, and after the election – is also to be considered in the disputed election results. It is no secret that Google has not been shy about supporting Democratic candidates such as Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden in the past several years; this has been highly documented – with some examples detailed in this work (above). Twitter has also blatantly censored and terminated accounts belonging to conservatives; a case in point here includes them suspending 2020 election audit accounts for multiple states. Dominion Voting Systems were used in many states for the election. And much controversy arose surrounding their reliability and accuracy in counting votes, along with hacking (including foreign) vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has pointed out that these could affect voting in multiple states. The state of Pennsylvania is suing Dominion Voting Systems alleging “severe issues” with voting data discovered after the 2020 election. And, more recently, the Biden administration is urging a court not to release a sealed report on Dominion Voting Systems. Lastly, the fact that Joe Biden supposedly received 80 million votes – the most votes won by any presidential candidate in US history (which shatters the 69.5 million votes Barack Obama had received in 2008) – remains highly questionable. Even prior to election night, Biden himself was nowhere nearly as popular as his predecessor, Barack Obama. Perhaps there was a larger portion of the population that went out to vote and wanted to vote for the Democratic party regardless of its leader. While there still are ongoing investigations at the state level regarding these voting irregularities, it is highly doubtful that much will come out of them. The whole affair has been greatly politicized which taints the judicial review process and proper accounting of votes for the highly-disputed 2020 election. Aerosol Spraying (Geoengineering) Of the many alleged conspiracies worth keeping an eye on, Aerosol Spraying (sometimes referred to as ‘Aerial Discharges’ or ‘chemtrails’) – which fits under the larger umbrella of geoengineering – is one of the most troubling and worrisome ones. For those not familiar with the subject, geoengineering generally involves modifying the weather for various purposes such as in climate engineering (e.g., cloud seeding to induce rain over drought-stricken areas) or as weather warfare for military purposes – which dates all the way back to the Eisenhower administration in the United States. For at least the past two decades, Dane Wigington has been on a crusade to alert the world about this troubling phenomenon due to its extensive use of harmful chemicals. His website GeoengineeringWatch.org contains a substantial amount of credible evidence regarding the dangerous effects that geoengineering practices have on our climate, environment, and populations. Whistleblower testimonies, government reports, and other evidence presented on the site – including numerous photographs and videos – prove that a lot of activities surrounding geoengineering is intended for nefarious and harmful purposes. This is not conspiracy theory, but rather indications of a conspiracy to harm populations through weather modification and jet sprayings – sometimes inadequately referred to as ‘chemtrails’. I myself have witnessed this phenomenon of jet sprayings over my region in the province of Quebec since my return to Canada in November of 2021. I never saw these spraying prior to the year 2008 before my departure from the country. Since my return, I’ve been witnessing massive spraying occurring over the skies of my region to the tune of three to five times a week, on average. And each day of spraying emanates from around a dozen or more flight by high-altitude aircraft. I’ve personally written to my city, the local airport authority in the city, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Transport Canada and none of them have provided concrete answers to my inquiries and to the nature of this phenomenon in general. Both my city and Environment and Climate Change Canada have replied to me that these sprayings are merely commercial passenger aircraft exhaust trails, i.e., condensation trails. Anyone who has taken a high-school level physics course will be able to debunk this ludicrous claim that these sprayings – that stretch over kilometers far and wide and that last hours – are due to condensation vapor trails. I had asked Environment and Climate Change Canada if these sprayings could be attributed to weather modification programs, and they replied me that none were in effect in the province of Quebec, but that there was one in effect in the province of Alberta. So, if these are not intended for weather modification purposes, then what are they for? My subsequent (and very polite, respectful) email inquiries to these Canadian agencies have been mostly ignored. This leaves me to conclude that they are not being forthcoming about the origins of these sprayings and thus appear to be hiding the facts surrounding them. Aerosol sprayings over the greater City of Sherbrooke (Quebec) area on January 30, 2022 In addition, for this year alone, I have seen many photographs and videos shared online of these sprayings posted by many Canadians located in different provinces. In Canada there have been court cases filed regarding aerosol sprayings. Mass sprayings in the Calgary, Alberta region have lead to a mass-tort case that was filed in Federal Court (see related court documents) in 2016 along with a related appeal in 2018 also at the federal level. The appeal further alleges: “the ongoing dispersal into Canadian airspace of aerosols that are harmful to the Canadian public and that is polluting to the Canadian environment, and in respect of which aspects of the scientific community have only relatively recently evaluated in the scientific peer-reviewed literature.” The court case mentioned above appears to still be ongoing. What is particularly worrisome about these aerosol sprayings is that we don’t know exactly what chemicals are being used and dispersed over our skies. The team at GeoengineeringWatch.org has produced many excellent explanatory videos and documentaries, along with a cache of documents to inform the public of what these sprayings are really about and what chemicals are found in them. I highly recommend their introductory video Hacking The Planet: The Climate Engineering Reality. Evidence collected by GeoengineeringWatch.org has shown that chemicals and metals used in aerosol sprayings have included aluminum, barium, strontium, graphene, among others. Home page for GeoengineeringWatch.org What is also particularly troubling is that many of these metals and chemicals make their way to ground level from high altitude in the form of nanoparticles – which if breathed in, are tiny enough to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. They are especially harmful to elderly and infant populations whose brains are still in development. In this respect, I highly recommend the work of neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock who describes the harmful effects these chemicals have on the brain. There is also a lot of evidence that suggests that geoengineering is used to modify the climate and could thus be a significant contributor to climate change, increasingly unstable weather systems, and droughts. Lastly, what I find particularly disappointing as a Canadian is the position, albeit one from several years ago, whereby our very famous David Suzuki – one who I admired very much growing up and watching his show The Nature of Things – pretty much described the phenomenon as conspiracy theory posited by “wacky science deniers” in an article entitled David Suzuki on Chemtrails, Conspiracies fuel climate change denial and belief in chemtrails. There are many false assertions in this poorly formulated article, but here are the key ones [emphasis added]: “I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of “chemtrails””. Suzuki’s statement bolded above makes no sense. A theory is a theory. There is nothing unscientific about a theory. A theory is a hypothesis assumed for the sake of investigation which is formulated before science is conducted to verify it. He continues with the following later in his article: “I’m a scientist, so I look at credible science – and there is none for the existence of chemtrails.” “They’re condensation trails, formed when hot, humid air from jet exhaust mixes with colder low-vapour-pressure air.” Condensation trails? Condensation trails do not drag on over several kilometers and remain suspended for hours at a time; rather, they usually dissolve within several seconds, or a few minutes at the most. As for “credible evidence”, these aerosol sprayings have been highly documented over the past several years. So, these are the main arguments and explanations from one of Canada’s most renowned scientists? Really? Sorry Mr. Suzuki, I respectfully disagree with this very perplexing assertion, for it doesn’t hold water! (pun intended) And many of the 297 comments generated from this article are in disagreement with Mr. Suzuki’s assessment. Author note: I have contacted Mr. Suzuki by email to provide him with an opportunity to re-assert or update his assertions (especially since several years have elapsed since the article was written) but have not received a reply from him as of publishing time. Back to the condensation trails, I have personally filmed and photographed many instances of real condensation trails from commercial airliners including those at high altitude; and for these, the trails completely disappear within no more than a minute or so. I even have some that show these alongside other – likely non-commercial – aircraft which produce aerosol sprayings that last for kilometers and persist for much longer periods. And this, of course, under the exact same weather conditions. Also, I would invite the skeptics to try to find any photographs or videos prior to the 1960s that have these kinds of criss-cross patterns and lengthy and abnormal cloud dispersions over several kilometers in the sky. There are none that I know of; but if any are found, let me know. The oldest ones that I’ve been able to find appeared in a few episodes of the TV series Little House on the Prairie which began in 1974. Wouldn’t a scientist who is genuinely concerned about climate change such as David Suzuki (and all others, for that matter) want to consider all factors (including aerosol dispersions) which may contribute to the degradation of our natural environment? Questions that remain regarding this inadequately addressed phenomenon include: What is the purpose of these aerosol sprayings? Who is authorizing them? Who is paying for them? What substances (including chemicals) are they spraying? Why aren’t Environment and Climate Change Canada and Transport Canada providing answers to these questions? Mini-Guide to Investigating Conspiracies “An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.” – Thomas Jefferson Actually, the header for this section is a bit of a misnomer, for it will comprise a broader range of tools and techniques that will enable individuals to do a better job at discerning and validating information. The internet is a vast ocean of information and knowledge. There is a lot to take in and it can all be quite overwhelming – especially when social media is included in the mix. Many labels such as ‘fake news’, misinformation, and disinformation have been thrown left and right to hastily characterize the validity of information provided by certain parties. Of course, this is very subjective and is influenced by many factors such as different kinds of biases, political affiliations, financial interests, and the like. One must judge what one reads based on its own merits without relying on these labels. In other words, begin by removing any of these labels or preconceived assumptions and tackle the information itself. I would recommend reading news and information from different sources – whether it be from mainstream media, alternative media, and everywhere in between. Each article or piece of information is unique, was written by an individual (or a few individuals) and should be treated and evaluated as such. Put another way, each article is like an antique. An antique collector will inspect and examine each piece on its own characteristics and merits. Depending on the qualities and flaws observed, the collector will be able to make an objective evaluation for authentication purposes (i.e., Is it real or fake?) We should use the same approach when encountering a piece of information – particularly if it is of a complex, controversial, or disputable nature. Another thing we can do is be wary of buzzwords. By buzzwords, I mean words or phrases like ‘right-wing’, ‘left-wing’, ‘conspiracy theorist’, ‘conservative’, ‘liberal’, ‘MAGA Republican’, ‘anti-vaxxer’, ‘so-called’, ‘quasi’, and ‘pseudo’. Buzzwords are similar to labels and are often used by writers or TV personalities to indirectly (or subliminally) convey a pre-conceived notion about the subject matter of the information piece. Also be aware that buzzwords’ meanings can vary from one geographical region to another, similar to slang. The idea here is to detect their usage and become cognizant that they may be used to sway the reader’s opinion in a certain direction. So, look out for these – especially when reading headlines to articles or social media posts. In today’s very polarized and divided society filled with identity politics, blame and labels will be readily cast upon those who don’t “toe the line” (i.e., go along with a certain narrative, or accept the authority or views of a particular group, sometimes under pressure from that group). We’ve seen a heck of a lot of this in the past couple of years with the Covid-19 Pandemic. Prime examples include the likes of “trust the science”, or “he’s an anti-vaxxer”. For the later, the danger here is that such condescending comments or labels assigned to specific people or groups can not only be harmful, but will too often lead to incorrect assumptions about the target. For instance, if someone refuses to take the Covid-19 vaccine, that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s an anti-vaxxer; perhaps, she is willing to take other vaccines, but just not the Covid-19 one. In another prime example we often hear the label “climate change denier” (as with the David Suzuki article referenced earlier) when someone doesn’t (either fully or in part) adhere to the notion of climate change. As this particular topic is very broad and complex, labelling one in such a derogatory fashion proves itself as quite foolish. Writers, TV personalities, news pundits, and social media figures may often attack a person when they cannot invalidate or counter the substance or merits of their claims. Some are very adept at it too which takes the victim by surprise and makes them appear stupid or weak. The trick here, is to not take it personal and let it get to you. Rather, either ignore them, or turn the situation around and ask them to elaborate on the merits of why they disagree with your claim or stance, pressing for facts and evidence to substantiate their assertions. A great question to ask is ‘Cui bono?’ which is Latin for ‘who benefits?’ The phrase originates from the very famous Roman statesman Cicero. Cicero was a brilliant orator, lawyer, philosopher, and politician who lived during the boisterous early years of the Roman Empire when wars, politics, greed, and power dominated the social and political landscapes (as they still do today). One needed to be quite astute in assessing others’ motives based solely on their words and actions. Cicero would often ask this question, cui bono, to better understand the real motivation behind individuals’ or groups’ true intentions. We should do the same, as it seems everyone is out for something to gain. Put simply, we should take some time to question the possible motivations behind what we see, hear, or read. The Death of Caesar, 1874 steel engraving by J.C. Armytage after J.L. Gérome In similar fashion, we should also follow the money. This is particularly useful when looking at information related to the financial markets as well as political and geopolitical happenings. Similar to the previous tool, it guides us towards the underlying motivation(s) – most often of a financial nature – behind what someone is saying or doing. They may be saying one thing, but doing another through their actions, whether they are investments, supporting political candidates or causes, donating to charity, etc. Individuals who have received a classical education often fare much better in how they process information and interact with other people. There are key reasons for this. The first is that in this type of education system, students go through a three-step learning process, or system, which stretches from elementary school to middle-school to high-school. These three learning anchors are: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The grammar part is not of the ‘spelling & grammar’ kind; rather, it relates to how one inputs information from the outside world. The logic part refers to how one processes the information obtained. And the rhetoric part is the culmination – being able to communicate and express oneself persuasively. This third part is quite important. Many of the ills and divisions we see in society today is due to the lack of this particular ability. People are far more likely to debate with one another than to have a civil discussion about it. In classical education, which has its roots from the ancient Greek philosophers, students communicate using discourse (dialectic/Socratic method). In other words, they have a conversation and use logic and reason to arrive at truth. This is a much more constructive means than to debate or argue in a back-and-forth manner whereby each party wants to be right and win. If people in today’s society would be more respectful towards one another and accept differences in views and opinion, then we could find areas of common agreement and would thus have more peace and unity, as opposed to hatred and division. So, the moral of the story here is that we should make an effort to be polite and respectful towards the views and opinions of others, even if they vary from our own or sound crazy. In doing this, we have a much better chance of making allies and gaining the trust of others. Disagreeing with a person is much different than disagreeing with the contents of what they are saying. Lastly, here is one more tool that almost all those who receive a classical education learn about – logical fallacies. A logical fallacy, in its simplest form, is a flawed or weak argument or assertion. They are deceptive or false arguments that may seem stronger than they actually are due to psychological persuasion, but are proven wrong with reasoning and further examination. (source) There are many different types of logical fallacies. An example includes Blind Loyalty: “The dangerous fallacy that an argument or action is right simply and solely because a respected leader or source (an expert, parents, one's own "side," team or country, one’s boss or commanding officers) say it is right. This is over-reliance on authority, a corrupted argument from ethos that puts loyalty above truth or above one's own reason and conscience. In this case, a person attempts to justify incorrect, stupid or criminal behavior by whining "That's what I was told to do," or “I was just following orders.” We’ve seen the Blind Loyalty fallacy a lot during the Covid-19 Pandemic. We’ve been told to ‘trust the science’, certain experts in the medical field, health organizations, and so on. Just because something comes from a given expert or an authoritative organization doesn’t necessarily mean it is correct. I remember when I came back to Quebec, Canada last November, the health pamphlets from the provincial health authority listed zero possible side-effect or risks associated with the Covid-19 vaccines. As all vaccines have inherent risks, this information provided by this respective authoritative source was not right, or completely accurate. Critical information was omitted. Guilt by Association is another common logical fallacy. Here, one tries to refute or condemn someone’s standpoint, arguments, or actions by evoking negative sentiments of those with whom they associate with. A classic example of this one came about during President Biden’s controversial speech he gave on Sept. 1, 2022 whereby he rendered a large portion of Americans as dangerous ‘MAGA Republicans’; in other words, he positioned many who consider themselves as Republicans to be Trump supporters and some kind of insurrectionists. In Canada, the mainstream media often associated and labelled those who supported the Freedom Convoy protest movement as far-right extremists. Many other logical fallacies are employed by those in the media and across social media. These are flawed arguments or assertions that you need to look out for. You need to be able to first recognize them and then you will be in a better position to defend yourself by addressing them for what they are. Conclusion So, why does society need conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists? Well, it‘s no secret that we’ve been lied to. We’ve been lied to about a lot. And we are still being lied to on a daily basis. This makes it much harder to get to the truth. Knowing more about how conspiracies actually work and how past ones have played out can help us to be more vigilant and question more about our perceived reality. Everything happens in the mind. The better we train our minds, the better we can sift through the rubbish and keep what’s real and authentic while discarding what is not. Conspiracy theorists are often labelled and demonized – usually because they have demonstrated the courage to speak out, to point out inconvenient or uncomfortable truths. They may lose the support of friends, family, and employers in the process. But they remain true to themselves and who they are at their very core. Therefore, we should encourage them and even strive to duplicate their courage and assertiveness. [301]JohnSmith [302]Writes JohnSmith’s Observatory [303]Nov 7·edited Nov 7 This is quite a review! I would add that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a key node in the network of control, linked to just about every "conspiracy" discussed above. Allen Dulles, who ran the CIA "Operation Mockingbird", was a CFR director for 40 years. Bill Donovan, Frank Wisner and Cord Meyer were CFR members. The media barons of the period including Paley (CBS), Sarnoff (NBC), Luce (Time-Life), Meyer/Graham (WashPost), and Sulzberger (NYTimes) were CFR members. Allen Dulles served on the Warren Commission to "investigate" the JFK assassination, along with John J. McCloy who was then chairman of both the CFR and the Ford Foundation. CFR member Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense (1961-67) during the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Vietnam war. He then served as president of the World Bank. Most of the CIA directors have been CFR members, including: Burns, Morell, Petraeus, Hayden, Goss, Tenet, Deutch, Woolsey, Webster, [300][IMG] Casey, Gates, Turner, Bush, Colby, Schlesinger, Helms, McCone, and Dulles. The Atlantic Council was founded by CFR members, and is dominated by CFR members, including AC president Frederick Kempe, Stephen Hadley, and many others. Most of the US ambassadors to NATO have been CFR members. CFR members on the "Biden team" include the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce and Homeland Security; the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force; the CIA director, Fed chairman, UN ambassador, and dozens of deputies, advisors, etc. Here's a database including all CFR members and directors since 1921. Enter any last name into the search box: [304]https://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Entity Here's an online edition of "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" (1971) with links to the database, and an audio version for each chapter: [305]https://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=NoneDare&E=CFR See also "The Invisible Government" (1962): [306]https://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=InvisibleGov&E=CFR [310]danfournier [311]Sep 27Author UPDATE: I have just heard (Sept. 27, 2022) from one of the lawyers regarding the federal court case (Pelletier v HMQ) about aerosol sprayings in Alberta (mentioned in this article) [309]author and he informed me that they have received an adverse decision by the court dismissing the claim. 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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG-LuaeZiVw Great Reset NWO New Normal BBB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q88WNcXPmBs The Great Reset - Apeshit Productions - 2020 The Internet's Digital Conspiracy Theorists, scouring the planet for the puzzle pieces, putting them all together to form the truth. These Digital Analysts are the cutting edge of global research and are the Warning Canaries, heed their insight. https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse45/49419977697 "The only solution for Human Freedom is Anarchism." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy9rjf-QYpQ McDonald Outs Rockefeller Rothschild NWO Larry McDonald and Ron Paul were the only 2 members of Congress who voted against the mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations. Both are Doctors. The vaccine ended up causing more injuries than the virus. Sound familiar. search: Jordan Maxwell https://www.corbettreport.com/ "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. -- George Orwell" https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-r... "The Great Resist is upon All of Us. We All have to chose whether to allow this to happen or stand up against it." https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1488472558425063430 " For those that dont know here are some basic details. Organizations: WEF (World Economic Forum), Blackstone and BlackRock are the big ones; but WELLcome trust, WHO, Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and CEPI are all complicite as well. People: Kraus Schwab (WEF founder), Laurence Fink (cofounder of WEF and owner of Blackrock), anyone associated with the WEF or the organizations listed above. What: One World Government ran by them. They will push Central Bank Digital Currencies and Digital IDs. Then they will use these to control the world. The basic plan is to crash the world currencies while retaining as many value assets as possible. Present digital currencies as the solution and digital Ids as a control method. Once they have CBDC and Digital ID established worldwide the game is over. Notable info: There is a video of Klaus Schwab at a WEF meeting openly stating he has operatives (Young Global Leaders) placed in the cabinets and governments of 160 countries and openly claims to control most of Canada and France. We know they control the UK and Brazil as well. Blackrock is an investment firm that has an A.I. called A.L.A.D.D.I.N. that has been running since the 80s. They control around 10 Trillion dollars in assets under management but in reality its far more than that because they have close ties to the other top investment firms. The more you look the deeper it gets and frankly its scary how open they are about it now. Almost like they know they cant be stopped. "
In Memorium: Alan Watt - Cutting Through The Matrix https://twitter.com/Wordofbeak/status/1589534206925099009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAQwT2W_aO4 Alan Watt - The Joker http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/radio/Special_Talks.html https://www.infowars.com/posts/alan-watt-think-outside-your-programming/ https://archive.org/details/alan-watt-cttm-liveon-rbn-83-global-interdepende... https://archive.org/details/alan-watt-cttm-liveon-rbn-850-new-normal-opinion... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPaMc5HkHU Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiZ0j1Jx2M Sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBymKXgrV4 Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiP_1FlP4Sk God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllwRgSECcw The Agenda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_k5LvY5b0 Neo Eugenics War on Humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdv_hCq3lw Brainwashed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x26Q2XUZVwE Shock and Awe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0AXgaFqEas Predictive Programming “Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. The public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as natural progressions.” -Alan Watt "" “If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death — or shall I say, death implies life — you can feel yourself. Not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. “I’m not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it; I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities. I’m not trying to prove it, I’m just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. “So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. “And after several nights, of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say ‘Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is going happen to me that I don’t know what it’s going to be.’ And you would dig that and come out of that and say ‘Wow, that was a close shave, wasn’t it?’ And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. “And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of the choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he’s not. “So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you’re all that, only you’re pretending you’re not.” ""
Doug Casey On The WEF's Plan For Mankind And What Comes Next via InternationalMan.com “Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance. We want to stop this pandemic. We need not just to monitor people, we need to monitor what is happening under their skin. Governments want to know not just where we go or who we meet. Above all, they want to know what is happening under our skin. -- Yuval Harari (WEF)" "Humans that remain would amount to serfs. The WEF have said, “You’ll own nothing and be happy.” They’re very bold. -- DC" International Man: The World Economic Forum (WEF) describes its mission as the “international organization for public-private cooperation.” What do you make of the WEF and the power it wields? Doug Casey: “International organization for public-private cooperation” is a code phrase for economic fascism - which is to say, the hand-in-glove melding of the political power of the State with the economic power of corporations. Things like the WEF, and other NGOs (non-governmental organizations), institutes, and think tanks, have proliferated in recent years. They’re almost all destructive parasites on productive society. Almost all of them are leftist, statist, and collectivist in orientation. They’re typically populated by intellectuals and academics and funded by tax-exempt foundations, usually set up by elderly do-gooders interested in leaving a “legacy.” The WEF is by far the most successful of the breed. Instead of just cadging donations so intellectuals could hang around and seem prestigious, in 1971, Klaus Schwab formed a club where the rich and powerful could discuss ideas with other members of the overlord class. Political and financial types could find a philosophical home, disguising the quest for money and power with a patina of benevolence. It’s become an amazingly large and powerful organization. They have roughly 800 full-time employees, most of them very highly paid. They have an annual budget of over $300 million. Their balance sheet indicates that the WEF is worth over $1 billion, funded by major corporations who give it millions of dollars, as do various governments. Most of the world’s political leaders and corporations are members. Schwab was very clever to have put together an organization where the richest, most powerful, and most influential people in the world are charged huge amounts to be introduced to each other and talk about how they can become even richer, more powerful, and more influential. It seems clear that members of the WEF have to toe the party line or be disinvited. Nobody wants to be excommunicated from the WEF or cut off from association with other rich and powerful people. It’s safe to say that WEF members share a common philosophy, one that’s in line with Schwab’s weltanschauung. FWIW, I think it’s wrong for public corporations to make political, charitable, or indeed any kind of contributions. A corporation’s raison d’etre is to generate money for its shareholders, not allow management to play big shot. Managements often like to give away shareholders’ money; it costs them nothing, but they reap the prestige of giving. Better that the money be distributed to shareholders so they can dispose of it as they wish. If that were the case, outfits like the WEF would have a lot less money and power. And wouldn’t be in a position to promote the pernicious ideas it does. For instance, it would appear that Klaus Schwab actually originated, or at least popularized, the term “stakeholder.” Stakeholderism believes that business is obligated to treat employees, customers, local residents, and anyone who claims to be affected by business as if they had some right to what a company produces. People who identify as stakeholders easily develop into mooches and leeches. Schwab was also an early supporter of the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) movements. And political correctness in general. With as much money, power, and influence as the WEF has, it’s easy for them to groom up-and-comers. They created several sub-organizations for people who are under 40 years old—where they can reinforce their beliefs that the world ought to go in a certain way—under the direction of WEF-type people. Schwab has to be complimented for having built the WEF from nothing and making himself one of the most powerful people in the world. But the WEF is a dangerous and despicable organization. It’s basically what’s known as a self-licking ice cream cone—it serves no useful purpose but to perpetuate itself and its members. International Man: Yuval Noah Harari is a key adviser to the WEF. He has risen to fame as reviewers and editors have anointed him as a public intellectual. What’s your take on the rise of Harari? Doug Casey: Harari is a perfect example of how, when an organization like the WEF gets in the back of somebody, they can make him rich, famous, and influential. These people all feed each other and scratch each other’s backs. Harari apparently came from a perfectly average middle-class Israeli family, but I would think that he’s got to be worth at least $50 million, just based upon sales of 30 million copies of his books. He appears to be an ideal court intellectual, living quietly with his husband in a modest suburb of Tel Aviv, promoting the party line. International Man: Harari has made several disturbing statements, including: “Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance. We want to stop this pandemic. We need not just to monitor people, we need to monitor what is happening under their skin. Governments want to know not just where we go or who we meet. Above all, they want to know what is happening under our skin.” What do you think about this? Doug Casey: Well, he really wants to transform the world, and it’s kind of clever the way he proposes to do it. His book Sapiens, which I read about 10 years ago, is a competent enough summation of how humans evolved over the course of the Pleistocene during the last 2.5 million years. It doesn’t make any cosmic breakthroughs but tells a basically correct story. He explains how technology started to take on a life of its own and how we changed the world. And how technology’s now changing us at the rate of Moore’s Law. Fair enough. The problem lies in his projections of how and where humans will evolve over the years to come. In particular, who will guide that evolution. And if things continue advancing at the rate that they are, it’s likely that machines will integrate with humans. I see no problem with that. If you voluntarily want to replace body parts with mechanical parts—a new knee, a new heart, be a $6 Million Man—that’s wonderful. Taking it one step further, if you can put a chip in your brain and instantly access all the knowledge on the Internet without going through a computer, that could be even more wonderful, except for the fact the Social Credit System and hackers will have access to your chip. The problem is that the WEF people think that they know what’s best for the rest of humanity. And they feel it’s for the good of all that they be closely monitored, controlled, and guided. They’ve made statements to the effect that most people are “useless eaters,” which is probably true at this point. Or it will be once everybody gets a Guaranteed Annual Income—enough to keep them sated with avocado toast and vanilla lattes while they watch cat videos at the local Starbucks. They’d really like to do without superfluous humans and just have the elite calling the shots. Humans that remain would amount to serfs. The WEF have said, “You’ll own nothing and be happy.” They’re very bold. It’s very disturbing how they talk about guiding the advance to the next stage of human evolution. As pessimistic as I am about the current state of the world and where it’s going, I still believe in The Ascent of Man— but I believe it can only happen if individual liberty is maximized. From the point of view of personal freedom, Harari is actually talking about regressing to feudal times. Albeit a kinder and gentler version, where wise solons like Klaus and Yuval are in charge. As far as I can tell, his values are antithetical to those of Western Civilization. But he’s an effective mouthpiece to convince the hoi polloi that their leaders have their best interests at heart. And I suppose they do. At least the way a farmer has the best interests of his dairy—or beef—cattle at heart. International Man: Harari has often described a high-tech totalitarian future where a small elite with access to the latest technology evolves into different beings. At the same time, drugs and video games pacify the masses until their eventual extinction. What are your thoughts about this dystopian future? Is it inevitable? Doug Casey: Harari projects a certain inevitability to the evolution of technology, and he may actually be right. I don’t mind change. Rapid technological progress has been accelerating for the last 10,000 years and, with a little luck, will go hyperbolic with the evolution of nanotechnology, computers, biotech, space exploration, robotics, and artificial intelligence. These are all good things. The question is whether these things will be imposed upon humanity or will they be something that individuals can adopt or not as they choose? To me, this is the essential ethical and moral question. Harari, and for that matter, the rest of these WEF people, never examine any ethical or moral issues. For instance, Harari is very big on transgenderism, which he seems to want to make into a political hobby horse—where it’s not just accepted as a psychological aberration, but is almost imposed on society, whether you like it or not. He’s a vegan. I have no problem with being a vegan. It’s just that he wants to impose his views of the correct way to deal with animals (absolutely including humans) on everybody else. He’s certain that he knows what’s best for everybody else. I’ve long believed in the arrival of the Singularity, which Ray Kurzweil has discussed in detail. I think it’s a good thing. Technological progress has always been a good thing—whether we’re talking about the invention of gunpowder that allowed the average man to overthrow his medieval rulers, or the printing press, that allowed peasants to access the knowledge of the ruling classes. But the problem is that the bad guys usually get control of technology first. The powers-that-be use tech to impose their will upon the little people until the cat gets out of the bag. I’m all for the rapid evolution of technology, even though it’s very dangerous because the power-mongers, the bad guys, and the minions of the State usually get it first. On the bright side, I suspect that under the influence of Schwab and his muchacho de mantequilla Harari, the WEF will collapse. The snakes in the snake pit will eventually turn on each other. Optimism is warranted because stupid ideas have always come and gone throughout history. Evil is usually vanquished over the long run. The WEF is promoting destructive ideas in a dangerous time. If you value free thought, free minds, and free markets, recognize the WEF as an enemy.
The WEF’s Stakeholder Capitalism Is Just Global Fascism By Another Name Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The concept of “fascism” was originally entered into the Encyclopedia Italiana by Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who stated that “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Benito Mussolini would later take credit for the quote as if he had written it himself, but it’s important to note because it outlines the primary purpose of the ideology rather than simply throwing the label around at people we don’t like as a dishonest means to undermine their legitimacy. Despite the fact that leftists today often attack conservatives as “fascists” because of our desire to protect national boundaries and western heritage, the truth is that all fascism is deeply rooted in leftist philosophies and thinkers. Mussolini was a long time socialist, a member of the party who greatly admired Karl Marx. He deviated from the socialists over their desire to remain neutral during WWI, and went on to champion a combination of socialism and nationalism, what we now know as fascism. Adolph Hitler was also a socialist and admirer of Karl Marx, much like Mussolini. It is actually hard to find where Marx, the communists and the fascists actually differ from each other – A deeper sense of nationalism seems to be one of the few points of contention. Though Marx saw the existence of nation states as temporary to the proletariat and to the ruling class, he noted that the industrialists were erasing national boundaries anyway. Marx argues in the Communist Manifesto with some optimism: “National differences and antagonisms between peoples are already tending to disappear more and more, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, the growth of free trade and a world market, and the increasing uniformity of industrial processes and of corresponding conditions of life.” Marx saw the development of corporate power as useful and the next necessary step towards socialism, noting that joint-stock companies (corporations) and the credit system are: “The abolition of the capitalist mode of production within the capitalist mode of production itself.” In other words, corporations are viewed as a tool for the eventual transition to a socialist “Utopia” and the death of free markets. Once again, we see there is very little difference in motive between the political left and the fascists. The natural progression of every form of Marxism, communism, socialism, fascism etc. all ultimately lead to a kind of globalist ideology and erasure of cultural separation. The methods might differ slightly but the end result is the same. Some think this is a good thing, but it is actually quite poisonous. Globalism requires an overarching social dynamic, a single hive mind, otherwise it cannot survive. If people have the ability to choose or create better options (or different options) for living then globalism loses significance. The existence of choice has to be erased. This is a behavior that the political left has fully embraced and they are more than happy to work hand-in-hand with corporate oligarchs to make their ideal system a reality. Long gone are the days of the anti-corporate progressive – They LOVE corporate dominance, but only if those companies promote and enforce leftist models for society. Mussolini’s fascism is at the root of the very corporate governance that leftists applaud and lust after today. They have far more in common with fascists than they realize. The new fascism is a re-branded philosophy best represented by something called “Stakeholder Capitalism.” It is a term often used by globalists at the World Economic Forum and the head of the WEF, Klaus Schwab. The media friendly definition of Stakeholder Capitalism is: A form of capitalism in which companies do not only optimize short-term profits for shareholders, but seek long term value creation, by taking into account the needs of all their stakeholders, and society at large. But who are “all stakeholders” in the opinion of the WEF? Well, according to Klaus Schwab they are all of human civilization, now and in the future. In other words, the goal of SHC is for corporate leaders and globalist bureaucracy to take responsibility for the entire world, not just their own employees, shareholders and profits. And such leaders would not be acting as individuals, they would be acting as a collective. In other words, SHC requires all major corporations to act as a single unit with a single purpose and a unified collectivist ideology – An ideological monopoly. As Klaus Schwab states: “The most important characteristic of the stakeholder model today is that the stakes of our system are now more clearly global. Economies, societies, and the environment are more closely linked to each other now than 50 years ago. The model we present here is therefore fundamentally global in nature, and the two primary stakeholders are as well. …What was once seen as externalities in national economic policy making and individual corporate decision making will now need to be incorporated or internalized in the operations of every government, company, community, and individual. The planet is thus the center of the global economic system, and its health should be optimized in the decisions made by all other stakeholders.” The SHC concept is deceptive on its very face because it pretends as if corporations will be held accountable by the public within some form of “business democracy,” as if the public will have a vote on what the corporations do. In reality, it will be corporations telling the public what is acceptable to think and do and corporations in conjunction with governments using their power to punish people who do not agree. The great magic trick is that these same unified corporations use the shield of “private property” and business rights as a means to control society without repercussions. After all, a primary principle of conservatism and the US constitution is private property rights. So, stepping in to disrupt corporate governance would be violating one of our own beloved ideals. It sounds like a Catch-22, but it’s really not. As mentioned above, corporations are at their very core a socialist concept: They are created through government charter, handed legal personhood and given special protections from government. They are NOT free market entities, and Adam Smith, the originator of most free market ideals, stood against corporations as destructive and prone to monopoly. As long as they receive protections from government including monetary stimulus and bailouts, corporations should not enjoy the same private property protections as regular businesses do. They are parasitic creations, alien to the natural business world. In a freedom-based society they would be dismantled to prevent authoritarian outcomes. Shareholder Capitalism is also an incredibly arrogant premise because it assumes that corporate leaders have the wisdom or objective intelligence to expand their role beyond business and into social and political spheres. This has already happened in many respects with much chaos created, but open corporate governance is the end game and it is anything but objective or benevolent. What are some examples of this kind of corporate/political governance (fascism) in action? How about Big Tech social media censorship leaning HEAVILY against conservatives and liberty activists? How about evidence of collusion between Big Tech companies and government, such as the Biden Administration and the DHS working closely with Twitter and Facebook to actively remove voices and viewpoints they don’t like? How about corporate leaders colluding to destroy conservative based social media competitors like Parler? How about ESG loans funded by corporate backers such as Blackrock or globalist non-profits like the Rockefeller Foundation? If all corporate lenders applied ESG to their loan practices, all individuals and businesses would have to adopt leftist social ideologies and dubious environmental claims in order to have access to credit. ESG is a monetary incentive created by corporate elites to keep all other businesses in line. If it continues, ESG could wipe out political opposition to globalism in the span of a single generation. And, what about the Council For Inclusive Capitalism? This is the most blatant expression of open global fascism I have ever seen, with money elites and politicians working in concert with the UN and even religious leaders like Pope Francis. Their goal is to institute a single centralized world governing platform built around the same agendas outlined in ESG and SHC, making corporations members of a new global council which they refer to as “The Guardians.” They aren’t even trying to hide the conspiracy anymore, it’s right out in the open. Klaus Schwab takes special care to mention often that global crisis events are the “opportunity” that is needed to push the public into the arms of Stakeholder Capitalism through a nexus point called “The Great Reset.” Meaning, he thinks that widespread fear and desperation must exist (or be engineered) to perpetuate the SHC framework quickly. Obviously, the globalists are on a shrinking timeline, though it’s hard to say why. They are tearing off the mask faster in the past two years than they have in the previous decade. More than likely they understand to some degree that if they go too slow the public will have time to mount a defense against them. They will conjure all kinds of distractions and scapegoats to prevent liberty minded people from hitting them back. They’ll aim us at Russia, they’ll aim us at China, they’ll aim us at useful idiots among the leftists. They’ll aim Russia, China and the leftists at us. They will try to send us to war, they will call us insurrectionists, they will call us terrorists, they will say we started the whole collapse and that we are to blame for the world’s ills. None of this matters. What matters is that the globalists at the top pay the price for the harm they cause. When the head of the snake is removed, only then can we sort out who is to blame; who were the heroes, who were the villains, and who were the idiots. Only then can we rebuild with true freedom in mind.
Snipers Drones SpyVeillance deployed against Freedom of Speech Arizona Prayer Rally Under Surveillance As Members Gather In 'Free Speech Zone' https://www.theepochtimes.com/arizona-prayer-rally-under-surveillance-as-mem... Woke Propaganda Fail Get Woke, Go Broke: Disney To Lay Off Employees After Billions In Operating Losses The company that once defined family entertainment is going from media giant to epic failure, suffering over $1.4 billion in streaming losses and a stock drop of around 39% for the year. And, it would appear that these financial declines are inevitably leading to employee layoffs. Disney has put a freeze on hiring, it is limited employee travel and is also reviewing workers for efficiency with plans to introduce cuts as a means to make the company "more nimble." CEO Bob Chapek noted in a leaked memo to senior staff: "As we work through this evaluation process, we will look at every avenue of operations and labor to find savings, and we do anticipate some staff reductions as part of this review. ...I am fully aware this will be a difficult process for many of you and your teams. We are going to have to make tough and uncomfortable decisions." Chapek mentions in the same memo the problem of "macroeconomic factors" out of Disney's control. He does not, however, mention his habit of bending the knee and groveling to woke activists, attempting to sabotage Florida's anti-grooming legislation for public schools, or the company's steady supply of content that pushes far-left narratives. It is not so much the "macroeconomic factors out of Disney's control" that are causing the conglomerate's downfall. Rather, it is all the factors within their control, including their refusal to produce content that consumers actually want. American audiences are done with leftist propaganda in their films and television and are now actively researching and avoiding any content that promotes woke ideology and social justice talking points. After around five years of consumers withholding their money, Disney is finally starting to feel the pain. This is what happens when a company markets its products to a tiny minority of leftist activists and LGBT fanatics, most of whom have very little money to spend anyway. Specifically, parents are concerned with Disney's "family entertainment" evolving to focus on LGBT characters, being that LGBT concepts are purely sexual in nature and far outside of the understanding of the average child. Highlighting the obscure sexuality of characters within a children's production is a bizarre notion. Furthermore, the company's hostility towards Florida's Parental Rights In Education bill, which makes it illegal for public school teachers to groom young children with sexualized concepts and gender ideology, raises questions among consumers about Disney's agenda in entertainment. It is therefore no surprise that the company is now floundering, with a vast array of politically motivated box office bombs and streaming disasters that struggle to bring in even moderate viewership. Though they will never openly admit it, ultimately, Disney proves yet again that going woke also means going broke.
Global depression caused by SocCom Globalists to be used by SocComGlobs to spawn and enhance SocComGlobs... WEF's Klaus Schwab Gives Speech To G20 On The "Need To Restructure The World" Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum find themselves waiting around for the next global crisis event after the covid pandemic turned out to be much less threatening to the public than they had originally hoped. In the meantime, Schwab continues to pontificate on the virtues of the "Great Reset" and the usefulness of crisis as a means to accomplish a "restructuring" of the current world order. The restructuring that the WEF obsesses over is a global socialist system based on Schwab's concepts of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Shared Economy and Stakeholder Capitalism (corporate governance). He does not say much in terms of planning in his speech to the G20, but he does imply that while fragmentation is necessary, too much fragmentation could be troublesome. In other words, controlled chaos is valuable to the globalist agenda, but uncontrolled chaos would be disastrous for them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the... "when I read about how the CIA, NSA or some fucking DOD project and it's mentioned how much money they spent on it. Like, wow, can't believe they spent so much money. Crazy. But it's dudes who work in restaurants, tire repair, small business owners, everybody's money that was actually spent. And it was spent so they can oppress and monitor the people they took the money from."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delirium https://www.bitchute.com/video/lWFVO6GnfeO4/ This retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel claims Julian Assange is being given BZ ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski Remember when we caught them literally worshiping a statue of Moloch and they played it off? Listen to that Klaus Schwab speech. It is chilling... Becaust Klaus Schwab and other overlords like Gates and the Rothschilds, even Soros own all of these politicians. Remember the time Klaus Schwab openly bragged about controlling presidents around the world while dropping their names, Merkel and Putin were some of those names to be dropped He then proceeded to say how he basically owns and controls Trudeau and his cabinet "what we are really proud of is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau that we penetrated the cabinets. And yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I would know that half or more than half of his cabinet are young global leaders." Chrystia Freeland, Canada's deputy prime minister and finance minister is also listed as a trustee on the WEF's website WTH are Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab doing at the G20 summit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-F1L8XfTrI Fuck Schwab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-mark... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3N_2r6R-o Elected Dictators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_vvq84X_rI Unelected Dictators Nothing to see here, just a guy caring for the environment as in we put too much plastic in the oceans and talking about how governments and businesses need to work together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03MZG9vK0W8 Gates Death Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg Gates Death Panel Truth https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab-ebook/dp/B08CRZ9VZB In historical practical economics, both fascism and communism have drawn power from mixing up state with high end private sector. These dictatorships saw there was no totalitarian rule without harnessing and combining the societal power of big corporations. That's obviously where fuhrer Klaus Schwab's vision of stakeholder capitalism emerged. The WEF stands for a combination of communism for the masses, capitalism for the elites, calling it stakeholder capitalism (and consequently poor slavery for the masses, hence "You will own nothing and you will be happy"). It's all very clearly stated. If you still aren't capable of understanding all this, I'd advise you to read fuhrer Schwab's book: COVID 19, The Great Reset. Here is the link to the official World Health Organisation clearly stating it started on the exact same date predicted by Bill Gates' "scenario" "On 15 May, four additional laboratory confirmed cases have been reported amongst Sexual Health Services attendees presenting with a vesicular rash illness in men who have sex with men (MSM)." https://twitter.com/BlankName5000/status/1527586477118574593 https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON383 https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/about/science-behind-transmission.htm... "I listened attentively to Schwab’s speech. His light treatment of the COVID crisis indicates the WEF’s role in its genesis and propagation. He believes we are in a « transformative » period of globalization. He believes business and capitol stakeholders should be on equal partnership footing with National Governments as we transform to a « restructured » world. I call bullshit Klause. Billionaire Globalists do not have the mandate or legitimacy to steer national populations anywhere! Friends like Bill Gates are living out genocidal fantasies simply and solely because they made gobs of money on a techie tool. They have neither the morality or the temperament to « restructure » our world! You and Gates don’t have the right tickets to be giving lectures at the G20–You are not elected by any people, anywhere."
Freedom just got massively fucked by the G20 + Schwab + Gates + Soros, their evil totalitarian regime goes far deeper than just vax... G20 Pushes Vaccine Passports For All Future International Travel https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1593158578071736320 https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1592774471617847297 https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1550497063577739265 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/16/g20-... The G20 has issued a formal decree promoting vaccine passports as preparation for any future pandemic response in its final communique. Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, speaking on the matter on behalf of the G20 host country, had earlier in the summit called for a "digital health certificate" using WHO standards. Sadikin advocated for that he dubbed a "digital health certificate" which shows whether a person has been "vaccinated or tested properly" so that only then "you can move around". Watch his comments during a G20 Bali panel discussion earlier in the week... G20 to adopt Vaccine Passports using WHO standards “Let’s have a digital health certificate acknowledged by WHO… if you have been vaccinated or tested properly, then you can move around”, said the Indonesian health minister in Bali… No thanks ... 🔊sound ...🤡🌎 pic.twitter.com/VDM1qK4xW5 — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 16, 2022 A somewhat more vaguely-worded version of these recommendations was included in the official G20 leaders' declaration, which calls for digital COVID-19 certificates, or often simply called vaccine passports. The section of the final communique, which is republished and available on the White House website, which deals with vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic begins, "We recognize that the extensive COVID-19 immunization is a global public good and we will advance our effort to ensure timely, equitable and universal access to safe, affordable, quality and effective vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (VTDs)." While describing the need for greater collaboration among nations during any future pandemic response, it continues in this section, "We remain committed to embedding a multisectoral One Health approach and enhancing global surveillance, including genomic surveillance, in order to detect pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that may threaten human health." Image: dpa/picture alliance And then the following is introduced in Article 23: We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods, under the framework of the IHR (2005), to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognizing digital solutions and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations. We support continued international dialogue and collaboration on the establishment of trusted global digital health networks as part of the efforts to strengthen prevention and response to future pandemics, that should capitalize and build on the success of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates. Interestingly, the next paragraph of the formal declaration, article 24, goes on to describe the need to for global institutions to fight against 'disinformation'. G20 - BREAKING: leaders have just signed a declaration which states that vaccine passports will be adopted to “facilitate” all international travel This means any vaccination the WHO determines you should have. Changing your rights & freedoms forever. Silence from the media. pic.twitter.com/0pHISCcVaM — Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) November 17, 2022 Article 24 of the final G20 declaration begins, "The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of the digital ecosystem and digital economy." And then leads into to the following statement later in the section: "We acknowledge the importance to counter disinformation campaigns, cyber threats, online abuse, and ensuring security in connectivity infrastructure." So as predicted by many early on in the pandemic (who were all dismissed and condemned as "conspiracy theorists"), a future proposed standardized vaccine passport will be accompanied by efforts for greater standardization and policing against 'disinformation' - likely to include any speech critical of the type of regimen that G20 leaders wish to enact. As for the type of speech which will be allowed under such a program, it's helpful to recall the New Zealand prime minister's words... "Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth. Dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth." -Jacinda Ardern "if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale, then the lie became truth" -1984, Orwell pic.twitter.com/wHCnl52Rnv — New World Odor™ (@hugh_mankind) July 22, 2022
Wake up! https://twitter.com/sophiadahl1 Gettr: @Dexter1969 Gab: @sandraknulst69
https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1595065315003703296 If you try to enter public place with a red QR code...immediately an Alam goes off. Chinese govt can easily cut you off from society By remotely switch your COVID passport to code red. Code QR red in China means you need to do your time in a quarantine camp and pay for it. Ever wonder why they're pushing CBDCs so hard now... to do the same cut off, you're one comment, mouseclick, bad data, or bad algo away from being shutdown. Evidence all around you, both what's fucking you today and will fuck you soon, yet you still refuse to get up and fight. Sad.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1595423002606600193 Klaus Schwab says China is a "role model for many countries" and proclaims a "systemic transformation of the world" on Chinese state television. https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1594084598320955394 Macron - Single Global Order "It's hard to believe that none of these globalist types have been whacked yet." https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1595352894391345152 Clashes at Foxconn's iPhone plant in China's Zhengzhou.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1595095341577433090 Hochul: "White supremacists, right-wing extremists and domestic terrorists trying to stoke fear in the heart of New Yorkers." ... this is our moment. The Statue of Liberty is ours." Biden: "Nine and a half million turkeys, I tell you what, that's like some of the countries I've been to." When Parler became the single most-downloaded app in the US after Trump’s banning, Dems like @AOC demanded Google and Apple remove it from their stores. They wisely obeyed and Parler was destroyed. They’re trying to repeat this abuse of monopoly power to do this to Twitter. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze This is what Roth signaled in his NY Times Op-Ed and here now it appears in a Lorenz piece. @ggreenwald When Musk announced his intent to buy Twitter, many warned that every government and corporate weapon would be used to destroy him if he attempted any restoration of free speech. Online censorship is the most valuable tool of Dems, media corporations and the US Security State. What the fuck is an “online safety expert”? Do you see how media outlets baptize totally fake expertise industries and titles (like “disinformation reporter”) to launder their highly politicized censorship agenda as scientific, data-based and neutral? The Associated Press @AP New Twitter owner Elon Musk said he is granting "amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
Twitter Suffers From "Ridiculous" Number Of "Psy Ops", Elon Musk Says https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-suffers-from-ridiculous-number-of-psy-... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597164398543777792 https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/enabling-further-research... https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/disclosing-state-linked-i... Twitter owner Elon Musk said Monday that the platform suffers from a “ridiculous” number of professional psychological operations (or, “psy ops”), a concept that typically refers to the dissemination of propaganda or, when used by state actors like the military, psychological warfare tactics meant to manipulate one’s enemies. “The amount of pro psy ops on Twitter is ridiculous!” Musk wrote in a post on Twitter. He added jokingly that “at least with new Verified, they will pay $8 for the privilege—haha.” Musk later qualified his statement, responding to a Twitter user’s comment that the psychological operations are “mid”-level rather than professional. Musk conceded that “it’s mostly basic.” While it’s not clear what, specifically, Musk was referring to in his post on the prevalence of “pro psy ops,” Twitter has, in the past, struggled to deal with foreign state-linked information operations on the platform, including activity it has deemed malicious. ‘Foreign Interference in Political Conversations’ In 2018, Twitter stated in a blog post that it had identified thousands of accounts that made more than 10 million tweets associated with “foreign interference in political conversations” on the platform. “It is clear that information operations and coordinated inauthentic behavior will not cease. These types of tactics have been around for far longer than Twitter has existed—they will adapt and change as the geopolitical terrain evolves worldwide and as new technologies emerge,” the company said at the time. Later, in December 2021, Twitter announced it had removed more than 3,000 accounts that were operating as foreign state-linked information operations, including from China, Russia, and Venezuela. Twitter said that, in most cases, the accounts were suspended for various violations of its platform manipulation and spam policies, which include prohibitions against using Twitter in ways that “artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupts people’s experience” on the platform. Prohibited actions include artificially inflating followers or engagement by, for instance, buying “likes” or coordinating to exchange “follows,” in what’s known as “reciprocal inflation.” ‘Widely Diverse Viewpoints’ The company also said it would launch the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium (TMRC), a program that lets outside researchers tap into Twitter data to study trends and study platform governance issues. While there have been questions about the fate of the research consortium since Musk took over Twitter in late October, he later announced he was ordering the establishment of a “content moderation council” that would represent “widely diverse viewpoints.” Musk, who has labeled himself as a “free-speech absolutist,” has vowed to make the platform more welcoming to various viewpoints while insisting he wouldn’t allow it to become a “free-for-all hellscape.” At the time, former President Donald Trump praised Musk for succeeding with his takeover bid of Twitter and praised the tech mogul’s moves to open Twitter up to diverse views. “I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country,” Trump said in post on Truth Social, though he indicated that he might not return to Twitter even if Musk were to reinstate his account, which at the time was suspended. Musk has since restored Trump’s account on Twitter, along with a series of other banned accounts, including that of satirical site Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson, a controversial professor of psychology. Trump hasn’t posted anything on Twitter since his account was reinstated, with his last post being from Jan. 8, 2021, when the former president said he wouldn’t be going to the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. Musk said recently he’s “fine” with Trump not posting on Twitter, adding that the social media giant had made a “grave mistake” when it banned the former president from the platform. “Deplatforming a sitting president undermined public trust in Twitter for half of America,” Musk said. Since Musk took over Twitter, he has vowed to reduce the number of bots on the platform and curb inauthentic activity. Twitter paused its recently announced $8 verified blue check subscription service after a wave of blue check accounts appeared on the platform, impersonating big brands and making embarrassing posts. Musk said recently that the verified check service would be returning on Dec. 2, adding that Twitter would also be rolling out gold and gray checks in addition to blue ones, and that all verified marks would be manually authenticated.
Those who don't conform to the party line will be declared unfit, corralled, drugged, put in camps... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/nyregion/nyc-mentally-ill-involuntary-cus... For years we were told that it’s a private platform so they had the right to control the narrative. Now that conservatives FINALLY have a voice, the WH is keeping eyes on it and people are concerned. Further showing #LiberalHypocrisy. Freedom is a hill we are prepare to die on! Tom Elliott @tomselliott Reporter to WH: "What tools do you have" to stop @elonmusk from restoring free speech at Twitter? Catturd @catturd2 “It’s a private company so they can do what they want.” - every liberal on Twitter up until the day @elonmusk bought it. @elonmusk This will be awesome Elon Musk @elonmusk What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!
CIA did JFK... Has American Democracy Been A Hallucination For Nearly 60 Years? https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/has-american-democracy-been-a-hallucin... https://americanwirenews.com/tucker-carlson-drops-bombshell-claiming-source-... https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-jfk Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want - it doesn’t really matter what America is if there is truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had “direct knowledge” of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA. If indeed the CIA was in any way involved in the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, then anything that has happened in the public sphere in our country since that day has basically been a hallucination created by an intelligence agency far deeper than most of us—certainly me, since I was never much given to conspiracy theories—ever imagined. The affairs of the day—RNC chief Ronna McDaniel revealed to be a profligate spender on her own luxury travel, not on Republican candidates; Donald Trump releasing self-aggrandizing NFT pseudo-art as a fundraiser (rest in peace, Johannes Vermeer); even Elon Musk’s exposure of the multiple mendacious censoring creeps behind Twitter, although that has an eerie similarity—pale by comparison to CIA involvement and, therefore, massive coverup for decades in the JFK assassination. President-elect John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy pose at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington with their son, John F. Kennedy Jr., following a baptism for the infant on Dec. 8, 1960. (AP Photo) That former CIA director Mike Pompeo declined to appear on Carlson’s show to discuss this is not insignificant. We all know about 51 intelligence officials—John Brennan and others who fallaciously claimed two years ago the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They have to have known otherwise. Now this? Why are 3 percent of the Warren Commission documents on the assassination still being hidden after those nearly 60 years with all the major players dead, if not to hide something of serious importance from the American public? It’s time to reconsider Oliver Stone’s “JFK” that, though I admired Oliver’s filmmaking, I originally thought to be a crackpot. The Kennedy assassination has special ramifications for me because it occurred on my 20th birthday. I was a Dartmouth student at the time and drove down to spend the weekend with my girlfriend at Skidmore (Saratoga Springs, New York) and sat in a motel room stunned and mesmerized watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald, live on the black and white television. I cannot remember seeing anything more inexplicable in my life. How could this have been allowed to happen only hours after the assassination? In retrospect, it becomes even more incredible. In a certain sense, I now feel that most of my adult life, what I have thought was real, has been erased. Although most of us of a “certain age” have our own personal stories, that’s the relatively minor part. Historically, for our country at large, the Kennedy assassination was a disaster. It led to the ascendance of Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” social programs. What actually occurred because of these programs was the not-so-gradual destruction of the black family, the women having been financially induced via handouts to marry the state instead of the men who normally would have been their husbands. The statistics on the decline of the black family and the rise of single-parent households are well known, as are the results that the black community and the rest of us live through on a daily basis. What becomes of a man, black or white, who no longer has the responsibility of being a father? LBJ was in many ways the godfather of Black Lives Matter, not to mention the hugely sad violence in the streets of our biggest cities, most notably Chicago. If all this is true, the question becomes how do we get out of this hallucination that is more powerful than, though not unrelated to, the mass formation psychosis described by the Belgian academic Mathias Desmet. To begin with, we need the full information, every document, and we need it now. Without the public being able to review that last 3 percent we can go no further. We should be calling for that—loudly. The Everly Brothers perhaps put it best, although in another context. “Wake up, little Susie, wake up We’ve both been sound asleep Wake up little Susie and weep The movie’s over, it’s four o’clock And we’re in trouble deep.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY02Qkuc_f8 JFK Stand-Down Ordered 4th video of assasination confiscated by the FBI never to be seen again CIA lead was fired by JFK for an operation to stage terrorist attack in the US the same guy is hired as the lead for the investigations WHO shot the president there is no more to say Kennedy fired Bissell and Dulles in a threat to break the CIA up into a thousand pieces Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick goes through this footage the documentary explains the stand down of the secret service as well as the driver of his vehicle coming to an almost complete stop next to a marked line in the sidewalk so the last chance shot at him could be taken and be on target. Isn't that standing down footage from Love Field and not "just before the turn onto dealey plaza"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WKpHQkHpXo https://themillenniumreport.com/2018/05/jfk-assassination-plan-a-the-chicago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
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https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/notes-on-a-friday-night Notes on a Friday Night A few delirious reflections at a crazy month's end Sitting in a hotel bar in San Francisco, going through what’s become a nightly “remembering to eat” ritual. As readers here know, this has been a crazy month, during which time I lost track of a lot of things. I’ve been an absentee father during the holidays, which is contemptible, and also remiss when it comes to responsibilities to subscribers to this site, omitting to even take time to explain basic things, which I’ll try to do now. Once again today we did not publish the written America This Week, which frankly will have to stay on hold for at least a little while longer. Also once again, I’ve abused the patience of podcast partner Walter Kirn, who’s been a great friend during this time and deserves better. We will do another makeup episode early next week, and I’ll announce the details as soon as I can. The reason for all this of course is the Twitter Files story. This last week saw the FBI describe Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger and me as “conspiracy theorists” whose “sole aim” is to discredit the agency. That statement will look ironic soon, as we spent much of this week learning about other agencies and organizations that can now also be discredited thanks to these files. Selfishly I may release some of that information in the morning, to be done with it so I can be fully-present Dad on the actual holiday. A group of us spent the last weeks reading thousands of documents. For me a lot of that time was spent learning how Twitter functioned, specifically its relationships with government. How weird is modern-day America? Not long ago, CIA veterans tell me, the information above the “tearline” of a U.S. government intelligence cable would include the station of origin and any other CIA offices copied on the report. I spent much of today looking at exactly similar documents, seemingly written by the same people, except the “offices” copied at the top of their reports weren’t other agency stations, but Twitter’s Silicon Valley colleagues: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, even Wikipedia. It turns out these are the new principal intelligence outposts of the American empire. A subplot is these companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus, although evidence suggests their Quislingian executives were mostly all thrilled to be absorbed. Details on those “Other Government Agencies” soon, probably tomorrow. One happy-ish thought at month’s end: Sometime in the last decade, many people — I was one — began to feel robbed of their sense of normalcy by something we couldn’t define. Increasingly glued to our phones, we saw that the version of the world that was spat out at us from them seemed distorted. The public’s reactions to various news events seemed off-kilter, being either way too intense, not intense enough, or simply unbelievable. You’d read that seemingly everyone in the world was in agreement that a certain thing was true, except it seemed ridiculous to you, which put you in an awkward place with friends, family, others. Should you say something? Are you the crazy one? I can’t have been the only person to have struggled psychologically during this time. This is why these Twitter files have been such a balm. This is the reality they stole from us! It’s repulsive, horrifying, and dystopian, a gruesome history of a world run by anti-people, but I’ll take it any day over the vile and insulting facsimile of truth they’ve been selling. Personally, once I saw that these lurid files could be used as a road map back to something like reality — I wasn’t sure until this week — I relaxed for the first time in probably seven or eight years. Something tells me the coming year is going to be a better one. Happy Holidays, everyone. Enjoy your loved ones, ignore the rest, and see you all again soon. IansQuest Mr. Taibbi, I am both relieved and horrified at the documents you, The Free Press team, and Lee Fang have revealed. This late night note captures explicitly how I feel. I feel both vindicated and terrified that the suppositions I had watching social and legacy media seemingly manhandle reality, distorting it to fit into their corporate/state-sponsor approved boxes, are being revealed as reality. "The reality they stole from us" and that you and your colleagues are wrenching back, inch by inch. Thank you for your work. Isabel Thank you for just letting us know the truth!! Please continue the reveal!
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https://Gettr.com/@RealAMVoice https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1605885267809820674 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: Zelensky is a Puppet. Zelensky was selected like so many of our leaders and honestly with big tech and with election fraud these days we don't know how many leaders all around the world have been selected for us and weren't actually voted in. Deep State.
Aussie Cops Ask Neighbors To Rat Out 'Anti-Government, Anti-Police, Or COVID-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists' Australian police are using a brutal ambush on two cops to encourage residents to rat out neighbors who are skeptical of the Covid-10 vaccine, or harbor anti-government views. On December 12, two Brisbane police officers were gunned down by a family of rural Australians, who opened fire as the two officers approached their home. Constables Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26 died in the attack, while a third officer, Constable Randall Kirk, was shot in the leg but managed to escape. A fourth officer, Keely Brough, fled to safety in the bushes. Later that evening, members of the rural family were killed in a shootout with tactical police. In response to the incident, Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford suggested that neighbors need to assume anyone who harbors non-mainstream views is clearly a threat. "As I said before, if there’s anybody out there that knows of someone that might be showing concerning behavior around conspiracy theories, anti-government, anti-police, conspiracy theories around COVID-19 vaccination as what we’re seeing with [shooting perpetrators] the Train family, we’d want to know about it. We want to know about that. And you can either contact the police directly or go through Crime Stoppers," she said. In response, Rebel News' Avi Yemini replied: "Queensland Police appealing to the public to dob in their neighbours who “are anti-government or believe Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories.”" 🚨Queensland Police appealing to the public to dob in their neighbours who “are anti-government or believe Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories”. ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET?! pic.twitter.com/7Hcnoz54iX — Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) December 26, 2022 This has not sat well with many: 1984 in 2022. What kind of world do they want to live in. What kind of world do they want to leave for future generations. — Nole (@skyxxngd) December 26, 2022 We are allowed to oppose the government and police. — Alèquin the Great (@AlequinGreat) December 26, 2022 Here is the neighbours pic.twitter.com/HLUsSgQHPO — Sydney965🧙♀️♏️🔮🌸 (@sydney9651) December 26, 2022 Authoritarianism, and totalitarianism, at its finest… Bravo @ausgov, you’re making it less likely for any sort of tourism to occur in Australia… There was a time that I, and many others , dreamt of visiting Australia…@ausgov police, you are a disgrace. Happy Chanukah! — Reliable Brain 🇺🇸 (@ReliableBrain) December 26, 2022
When are you going to get up off your ass and fight? https://summit.news/2022/12/28/nyc-mayor-declares-big-brother-is-protecting-... https://summit.news/2019/10/08/chinese-citizens-will-need-to-pass-facial-rec... NYC Mayor Declares "Big Brother Is Protecting You" New York City Mayor Eric Adams responded to criticism over increasing the use of facial recognition technology by declaring, “Big Brother is protecting you!” Adams made the comments in response to elected officials who expressed concerns that using such technology could lead to an all-pervasive surveillance state. Blaming his predecessor Bill de Blasio, Adams asserted that New Yorkers felt they were living in a “state of lawlessness” and that his priority was to “stabilise” the situation. Facial recognition technology uses surveillance cameras to flag up individuals who appear on databases of criminal suspects when they enter certain public locations, although the technology is far from perfect. “We will also move forward on using the latest in technology to identify problems, follow up on leads and collect evidence — from facial recognition technology to new tools that can spot those carrying weapons, we will use every available method to keep our people safe,” Adams previously asserted. The Democrat also brazenly suggested that mass surveillance wasn’t a chilling slippery slide, but in fact a good thing. “It blows my mind how much we have not embraced technology, and part of that is because many of our electeds are afraid. Anything technology they think, ‘Oh it’s a boogeyman. It’s Big Brother watching you,'” he told Politico. “No, Big Brother is protecting you.” As in George Orwell’s 1984 dystopian classic, Adams presumably thinks that New Yorkers will learn to ‘love Big Brother’. Albert Fox Cahn, the head of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, responded by warning that facial recognition technology would be weaponized to crack down on “every aspect of dissent” in the city. “These are technologies that would be chilling in anyone’s hands. But to give an agency with such a horrifying record of surveillance abuse even more power, at a time when they face dwindling oversight, is a recipe for disaster,” he said. Civil liberties advocates have warned that making facial recognition technology ubiquitous could lead to a Minority Report-style society where everyone, whether they have a criminal record or not, is tracked everywhere they go. In China, authorities expanded the use of the tech as a form of permission slip to decide whether citizens are allowed to get online, an extension of the Communist state’s social credit score program. “At present, a Chinese citizen will need to show his or her ID card while applying for a landline or the internet,” reported the Daily Mail. “The facial-recognition test is set to verify that the ID card belongs to the applicant.” As we previously highlighted, technology that reveals a person’s identity without them even knowing they are being exposed has long been a goal of globalist technocrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations Fighting The Psyopcracy https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/27/fighting-the-psyopcracy/ https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/25/how-us-flooded-the-world-with-psyops/ https://twitter.com/CathyVoganSPK/status/1606447615230771200 It is a hard thing to combat because it’s not a physical enemy but rather messages that lodge themselves in millions of people’s minds. And it has come to rule over us. Cathy Vogan, the executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN Live!, recently coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy. According to Wikipedia: “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives.” William Casey, C.I.A. director under Ronald Reagan, said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Thus the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as “the news.” U.S. intelligence officials feed journalists disinformation to create a false narrative that is intended to mislead the public and cover-up what is actually taking place. The constant reinforcement of these lies becomes entrenched in the public mind and after time comes to be accepted as unquestionable truth. Here’s an explanation of how the C.I.A. did it in Vietnam: Through such operations, the American people were led to believe for years that the United States was winning in Vietnam, when it was actually losing, as the Pentagon Papers proved. Since then, many examples have followed of completely false stories being planted into people’s minds to start and keep a war going, the fake WMD narrative in Iraq perhaps the most infamous. Blind Faith (Eden Gallanter/Creative Commons) Today the war people are being fooled about is in Ukraine. Sometimes a psyop doesn’t involve inserting false information, so much as leaving out what’s true. The American people, and by extension people around the world, have been led to believe that an unprovoked Russian madman started the war last February. That’s because they are purposely not told that the war actually began in 2014 after a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev led Russian speakers in Donbass to declare independence, after which the coup government militarily attacked them. Other facts are removed from the story, such as Russia’s proposed treaties with the U.S. and NATO last December that would have prevented Russia’s intervention in the Ukrainian civil war. Robert Parry, the founder of this website, in March 2017 wrote the article, “How US Flooded the World with Psyops,” in which he reported for the first time: “Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens, a structure that expanded U.S. influence abroad and quieted dissent at home. The documents reveal the formation of a psyops bureaucracy under the direction of Walter Raymond Jr., a senior CIA covert operations specialist who was assigned to President Reagan’s National Security Council staff to enhance the importance of propaganda and psyops in undermining U.S. adversaries around the world and ensuring sufficient public support for foreign policies inside the United States.” A psyopcracy? — Cathy Vogan (@CathyVoganSPK) December 24, 2022 So many people are subject to psyops that telling the truth becomes a formidable task. You become the one that is out of step. You are the one that seems to be mad.
Now they just kill you when too decrepit to pay into their coffers any more, they call it cost savings, and still reap the inheritance tax too... Impoverished Canadians Seek Euthanasia As A Solution While Trudeau Vacations In Jamaica https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/news/caribbean-news/canadian-pm-just... https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/trudeau%E2%80%99s-2019-tropical-family-vac... Poverty stricken Canadians are going to food banks not just for help in feeding themselves and their families, but also to ask about government assisted suicide as a potential solution to their struggles. Canada's cost of living crisis is growing (as is America's crisis), with inflation ongoing and spiking interest rates crushing lower and middle class workers with increased debt burdens. The average monthly food costs for a family of four in Ottawa is around $1000 and the average monthly rent is $2000. Canada's euthanasia laws are becoming alluring to those people that cannot afford rising expenses and see no other way out. The nation's revised medical assistance in dying (MAID) came into force on March 17, 2021. The new law includes changes to eligibility, procedural safeguards, and the framework for the federal government’s data collection and reporting regime. On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed legislation that makes important changes to who may be eligible to obtain medical assistance in dying and the process of assessment. These changes took effect immediately. Under the current laws a patient must have a grievous and irremediable medical condition in order to receive assisted suicide, but apparently many Canadians believe they should have access even when they are healthy. Justin Trudeau was confronted by Global News with a video interview of a food bank CEO relating her story of multiple recipients asking about government supported suicide. His response is politically typical, with a show of general concern and assertions that his resolve is deepened to "step up" and help impoverished families (discussion begins at 13:30). Immediately after this interview, Trudeau is set to enjoy a scheduled family vacation to Jamaica. In 2019, Trudeau's vacation to Costa Rica leeched Canadian taxpayers for nearly $200,000 in flight costs, and this does not include the added costs of extended protection in a foreign province by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That's a lot of money that could go to helping hundreds of families in need. It should be noted that it was Trudeau's oppressive (and long running) pandemic restrictions that directly aided in triggering declining economic conditions in Canada, including supply chain disruptions and higher inflation. While Trudeau tries to blame the war in Ukraine for the terrible conditions (the inflation crisis started long before the Ukraine conflict), it cannot be denied that his authoritarian policies are at least partly responsible for the financial troubles of millions of Canadian citizens.
Mind Control... Students Speak Out on Anti-White, Anti-Christian, Anti-American Culture at Florida University https://www.theepochtimes.com/students-speak-out-on-anti-white-anti-christia... Florida may be “where woke goes to die,” according to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has repeated the line in many speeches. But talk of its demise is greatly exaggerated, according to some university students in the state and an organization that tracks progressive policies on college campuses. Six conservative students attending a major Florida university told The Epoch Times, on condition of anonymity, about their frustration with the anti-white, anti-Christian, and anti-American environment on campus and in classrooms that makes them feel uncomfortable at best and threatened at worst. Across the country, parents have pushed back against their community school boards for allowing radical race and gender theories in grades K-12. But experts told The Epoch Times that the same pushback hasn’t happened at the college level—the birthplace of Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT, the experts said, is rampant across the nation, not just in Florida. And that means conservative students nationwide are struggling to navigate college systems, where they face disdain for their beliefs and encouragement to reject their core values. Epoch Times Photo On a campaign stop in rural North Florida on Nov. 3, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, scorns left-wing ideology, saying “Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die.” (Nanette Holt/The Epoch Times) Carol Swain, a retired political science and law professor at Vanderbilt University and a frequent television analyst on race relations, sympathizes with the struggle conservatives face at colleges. But she urges students to think strategically before outing themselves as holding conservative views, which are often unpopular among or even demonized by fellow students and professors. Conservative students should pick their battles carefully, Swain told The Epoch Times, to successfully finish college—because the country needs young conservative voices in the professional world. “There are key players that you want in position—you want [conservatives] to become university professors, or whatever profession they’re trying to go into,” Swain said. ‘Extremist’ views A Christian law student, who supports the National Rifle Association (NRA), told The Epoch Times he didn’t know he’d been reported as “an extremist” for expressing conservative views until FBI agents knocked on his apartment door. They questioned him about his political views for more than an hour. A journalism student said she felt bullied by a professor who forced students to parrot her scorn for America’s “systemic racism” and affirm “progressive talking points” on immigration, gender-identity issues, “queer theory,” intersectionality, transgenderism, religious faith, and the ideas of Karl Marx, author of “The Communist Manifesto.” “I can’t write what I truly believe” about these issues, Mia said. “When I did that, I got an F. In order to pass a class, I have to affirm leftist ideas I don’t believe in. When I repeat all the talking points and present them as ideas I believe wholeheartedly, I get As.” “It feels like being brainwashed when they reward you for repeating their ideas and punish you for saying things that go against their beliefs.” Epoch Times Photo A Florida university student, who asked to be identified only as Mia, sits with her Bible at home on Christmas break on Dec. 22, 2022. Expressing Christian views on campus draws scorn from professors, who openly talk about their “hate” for Christians, she told The Epoch Times. (Courtesy of Mia) At the core of the students’ struggle is the university’s apparent glorification of CRT, a Marxist-derived ideology that substitutes race or gender for class struggle. The theory divides people into two groups—oppressors and the oppressed—based on factors such as skin color or sexual orientation. One of the leading architects of modern CRT is Ibram X. Kendi, who attended Florida A&M University, and later taught at the University of Florida. Kendi’s book, “How to be an Antiracist,” promotes fighting racism by discriminating against groups that, according to Kendi, are “oppressors,” such as white males. Antiracism practices often are taught in classes and employer trainings that promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). Students said CRT, gender theory, and other topics considered “woke” are flourishing at their Florida university. That’s despite attempts by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to stop racial activism in education and workplaces in his state by formally banning CRT training and discrimination. CRT controversy In April, DeSantis signed the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act, also known as the Stop WOKE Act. The law prohibits discriminatory classroom instruction, such as CRT. And it prohibits employers from forcing workers to attend antiracism and CRT training. The law bans instruction that implies someone is responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin. The measure also allows Floridians to sue if they believe their school or workplace has violated the law. The Stop WOKE Act originated as a response to the spread of CRT and other social justice concepts widely promoted by works such as The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which paints America as a country founded on slavery and characterizes the nation’s Founding Fathers as racists. While the 1619 Project has been rejected by many academics, historians, and politicians, its teachings have been embraced just as vigorously by many liberals and progressives. Many have held it up as a model of how history should be taught to children and college students. New York Times New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project, speaks as colleagues hold a rally outside The New York Times headquarters in New York City, on Dec. 8, 2022. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Under the Stop WOKE Act, Florida university faculty members who teach CRT could be fired as part of post-tenure reviews. A violation of the Stop WOKE Act would make schools ineligible for what is known as performance funding. That’s extra money awarded by the state for measurable successes, such as high graduation rates and impressive median earnings of alumni.The threat of facing those repercussions for teaching CRT has sparked legal challenges. Several Florida college professors and students filed a lawsuit challenging the Stop WOKE Act. They claim the law chills free speech in the classroom, confuses professors, and violates their First Amendment rights. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, issued a preliminary injunction against the law in November. The DeSantis administration is appealing the decision. Hostile Environment Florida college students who spoke with The Epoch Times described a campus culture focused on race and social justice and hostile to conservative or Christian views. They asked to use pseudonyms to protect their identity, fearing retaliation for speaking publicly. Jeff, a pre-law freshman, told The Epoch Times he felt pressure in an economics course to write about globalization as a “good thing,” even though he disagrees with it. Globalization is a movement to reduce trade barriers and build closer political, social, and economic ties between countries. It has been criticized by conservatives, who warn it’s moving countries toward a one-world government that would strip away the sovereignty of nations. Ellen, a Florida college freshman, said her classes have elements of gender theory, climate change, and race woven into teachings on business. One class defined professional attire by showing what would be appropriate for men, women, and people who identified as both genders, or neither. In a required philosophy course, Ellen’s classmates seemed convinced they were doomed to die from what they were taught were human-caused climate changes, she said. The view that fluctuations in weather patterns might be a normal, natural occurrence that’s happened throughout history was not presented by the professor, she said. And when the professor announced that President Joe Biden had recommitted the United States to the Paris Climate Accords, the room erupted in applause, she recalled. Unwilling to cheer, the moment made her feel alienated, she said. In an introductory business course that focused on DEI, another student, Luis, said he was told to list all his “identities,” including being a white, heterosexual, Catholic male. The point of the assignment seemed to be to make white students feel ashamed, he said. He ignored the risk of stigma and wrote that he would like to perpetuate his Irish-American bloodline. protestors calling for defund police Demonstrators denouncing “systemic racism” in law enforcement and calling for the defunding of police departments kneel in Maria Hernandez Park in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on June 5, 2020. (Scott Heins/Getty Images) Journalism major Mia spoke of a required class in which the professor emphatically spoke about “white privilege” and “systemic racism” as fact. If students wrote about views contrary to the professor’s anti-white, anti-establishment positions, their grades suffered, she said. Speaking among themselves, classmates indicated they were afraid to ask questions or assert their true beliefs, she said. One professor, who lauded the teachings of Marx, warned students on the first day of class that “hate speech,” which the professor didn’t define, would be reported to the dean, Mia said. It had a chilling effect. The professor also warned students not to get “too comfortable” in writing about their beliefs in a journaling assignment, Mia said. That could lead to students being reported and punished, the professor promised, indicating she’d lodged formal complaints against students for such violations. The professor praised students who acknowledged, with apparent regret, that their parents had not raised them to hold views similar to the professor’s but were thankful to finally be learning about progressive beliefs, Mia said. Writing Satire for an ‘A’ The traditional belief that journalists should question authority and think for themselves was not taught in the required journalism class, Mia said. All assignments in the class would be “viewed through a lens of social justice,” students were told on the first day. White people were described as “privileged” in readings assigned by the black professor, Mia said. Students were told by the professor that it’s a “myth” that journalists must report both sides of a story. For example, if a journalist covers a story involving members of the Ku Klux Klan, the public doesn’t have to hear from them, the professor told the class, Mia said. “Our government and social institutions have created advantages that disproportionately channel wealth, power, and resources to white people,” a slide from the professor proclaimed. “This affects everyone, whether we are aware of it or not.” Epoch Times Photo In a required journalism class at a major Florida university, the professor spends most of the time teaching about race, class, gender-identity, and sexual orientation, rather than principles of journalism, according to a student who asked to be identified only as Mia. (Courtesy of Mia) Students faced the ethical dilemma of choosing between turning in writings that affirmed the professor’s views, with which they disagreed, or failing the class, Mia said. When she turned in a paper with views that opposed her professor’s, but were attributed to others, Mia received a failing grade. In that assignment, she defended Christianity as an institution that helped end slavery. That position was attacked by a teaching assistant, who penned scathing comments. Desperate to pull up her grade, Mia came up with a plan. She’d pretend to agree, pursuing assignments as if writing for the satirical, social-media powerhouse, The Babylon Bee. “It’s horrible. I feel so fake,” Mia told The Epoch Times. “I’m not learning anything, except to write things I don’t believe.” Conservative on Campus A Christian now studying law, Robert was only an undergraduate when he discovered the risk of being known as a conservative on campus. That revelation quickly became clear when two FBI agents knocked on his apartment door at 9 a.m. They told him they’d received an anonymous tip that he was “an extremist.” “They did ask me if I was an extremist or was a member of extremist groups,” he told The Epoch Times. “I asked them to define it. When they hesitated, I asked if being a Christian or a member of the NRA qualified. They said, ‘No.'” To their credit, Robert said, the two agents seemed to be “reasonable people.” They told him that, after speaking with him, they had no idea why someone would report him. He was told the case against him would be closed, he said. Youth climate activists Environmental activists rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 25, 2022. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Robert, now a second-year law student, says Florida’s new Stop Woke Act is “toothless.” Teachings that applaud principles of CRT, such as the need for “social justice,” are ubiquitous on campus, he said. In law courses, students are taught to consider skin color with regard to crime and punishment. Robert said that because blacks have suffered racism at the hands of whites, students debated if “systemic racism” should be considered when sentencing people of color. Discussions centered on whether black people should be punished less severely than white people for similar crimes to compensate for historical oppression of blacks by whites, and because whites, on average, live longer, Robert said. “The new trend is to see the difference and discriminate,” he said. ‘Tear up the Constitution’ Robert, who focuses on constitutional law, recalled students arguing that the U.S. Constitution was illegitimate from the start, and was written by racist, old, white men. The professor didn’t express that he condoned that point of view, but he didn’t offer a rebuttal, either, Robert said. Law students, he added, “talk about how we should tear up the Constitution.” Epoch Times Photo A slide showing part of a quiz on bankruptcy law describes a scenario involving divorced lesbians, though gender and sexual orientation have nothing to do with the concept. (Courtesy of Chris) Chris, a third-year law student, objects to the pervasive LGBT ideology woven into classes. “What does homosexuality have to do with bankruptcy, right?” he asked. “They were literally just pushing this same-sex, homosexual agenda.” When answering questions on timed exams, students often lose precious moments trying to determine if gender is pertinent to the legal concept, or if it’s just an attempt to “virtue-signal,” Chris said. Legal textbooks routinely use “she” when describing situations in which gender is not specified, Chris said. That causes confusion. “I had to get used to reading these textbooks constantly referring to a lawyer as she.” Traditionally, it’s been considered correct to use “he” and “him” as gender-neutral pronouns. Progressives have insisted on using other pronouns such as “she” and “they” when gender is not specifically designated. And failing to use a person’s “preferred pronouns” has meant harsh punishments, such as expulsion for students and termination for instructors around the country. Epoch Times Photo Conchy Vasquez (R) and Jony Rozon, both engineers at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport, discuss the importance of using correct pronouns in a training video for the U.S. Navy. (Courtesy of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) “The left preaches tolerance…until they become strong,” and then tolerance for opposing views ends, Chris said. “That’s what we saw with the communist revolutions.” ‘Our Policy is Not to Comment’ Ray Rodrigues, Chancellor of the State University System of Florida, assumed the post to oversee the state’s universities in November. He was asked by The Epoch Times about students’ claims that professors teach CRT and radical gender theory as irrefutable truth, and how students say they fear speaking out against such class material. “As you know, the legislature passed legislation regarding this issue, and we have prepared a regulation to implement that legislation,” spokeswoman Renee Fargason, an assistant vice chancellor for public affairs, wrote in an emailed response. “It has been enjoined by the Court, and our policy is to not comment on pending litigation.” She directed The Epoch Times to the Board’s Statement of Free Expression. Epoch Times Photo The iconic Century Tower on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fla. on July 30, 2022. (Nanette Holt/The Epoch Times) Florida universities actively promote CRT, according to the Critical Race Training in Education database maintained by the Legal Insurrection Foundation. Florida colleges follow CRT principles by renaming campus spaces after progressive icons, and they present race-based workshops and resources for students and staff, the organization says. The Sunshine State’s universities also have encouraged students to report each other for “biased” speech or beliefs, according to the database. For example, the University of Florida in Gainesville made headlines for naming a study room on campus in honor of Karl Marx. The school removed the name after media attention in March. At Florida State University in Tallahassee, the College of Education offers antiracism training resources, including a list of children’s books to “combat racism” in children as young as 3. The college’s website cites Harvard research asserting that by age 5, “white children are strongly biased towards whiteness. To counter this bias, experts recommend acknowledging and naming race and racism with children as early and as often as possible.” The University of Central Florida in Orlando was sued by Speech First in 2021 for creating rules and regulations that “suppress and punish speech about the political and social issues of the day.” The lawsuit described a campus atmosphere where students reported each other for “biased” views, triggering investigations by the university. Students were forced to sit through lectures on university-approved speech that Speech First compared to a “reeducation camp.” The result was students became afraid to voice their views, the lawsuit stated. Toeing the Line Cornell law professor William Jacobson, founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, said the experiences of the Florida students are typical throughout the states. Conservative students at Cornell and at institutions around the country have complained to him about the same issues, he told The Epoch Times. Epoch Times Photo William Jacobson, a Cornell law professor, started a database of universities engaged in Critical Race Theory. (Courtesy of William Jacobson) The increasing popularity of CRT prompted him to launch CritialRace.org in 2020. Students are being conditioned to go along with a professor’s political views and say whatever is necessary in order to survive their courses, even going against their own deeply held beliefs, he said. “It’s a massive problem because one bad grade in a course can keep you out of graduate school. Students are mostly terrified of going against the professor. That’s something I hear all the time.” As the reach of CRT has expanded, so has the scope of CriticalRace.org, Jacobson said. The database now includes private medical, military, and K-12 schools. It has examined hundreds of U.S. higher education institutions and documented critical race training courses. The problem is that universities have developed what Jacobson calls “systemic repression.” By hiring politically progressive professors and mandating progressive policies, administrators create a culture that allows little room for dissent. “That’s the complete opposite of what higher education is supposed to be about,” Jacobson said. Students parrot materials and professors’ views to survive their courses, he said. Meanwhile, administrators pretend the students aren’t being pressured. And when students complain, administrators may demand proof that students were penalized for speaking against a professor’s beliefs. “How are you going to prove it without putting yourself at risk?” Jacobson asked. Pervasive Problem Swain, who wrote “Black Eye For America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House,” agrees that student fear is a pervasive problem. “I have often told conservative students that they have rights. They should be protected against discrimination,” Swain said. Going along with racial and gender ideology to get through college is more common than people realize, Swain said. The political left has persuaded many students to jettison whatever values and principles they’d held for most of their early lives, she added. It starts with freshman orientation, the first day on campus, she said. That’s when established students and administrators let new students know that their past beliefs—based on their religion or family values—are unsophisticated. To understand the opposition, conservative students should become familiar with Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” a guide of progressive beliefs, Swain said. The book advocates for deception, infiltration, and manipulation to win political power. Epoch Times Photo Carol Swain, author and commentator, advises conservative students to come up with strategies to get through college. Swain advises students of faith to be cautious when making comments in a hostile classroom environment. Don’t give an advantage to those who mean harm, she warns. “I think in the Bible, there were plenty of instances of people using subterfuge,” Swain said. “And sometimes when you’re dealing with the enemy, and you’re in a war—and I think we’re definitely in a cultural war—students have to make [strategic] decisions.” Swain knows of students who wanted to be medical doctors and were asked their opinion on abortion. The students knew that if they revealed their pro-life views, they wouldn’t be admitted to medical school. Medical schools and doctoral programs may ask candidates questions on abortion, LGBT issues, or transgenderism “to weed people out, so they don’t have opportunities,” she said. Parents should avoid paying for college classes at schools that subvert freedom of speech or religion, Swain said. Students should document instances of discrimination based on their religion, race, or sex, and seek legal help if needed, she advised. Before signing up for classes, Christians should check for lists, often published online by students, that name professors who discriminate against people of that faith. If possible, they should avoid those instructors, she said. But it’s essential for some, those who are strong and prepared, to take a stand, she added. Activism at Work Many students pursue degrees in journalism, political science, criminal justice, social sciences, or medicine with the aim of activism, Swain said. “They went in with [a social-justice] agenda to change the world.” The fruit of that is being seen now, as people with far-left political ideology land jobs as prosecutors, who then can manipulate the legal system, Jacobson agreed. And though the idea is contrary to American legal tradition, cultural Marxism has become prevalent in legal thought, particularly in the last 30 years, Jacobson said. Many just didn’t realize that until the pandemic struck. George Floyd’s death provided the spark to push the agenda into the open, he said. “I think it’s fair to say that students have a distorted view of evil in the world,” Jacobson said. “Progressive ideology portrays capitalism as the core evil in the world, and Western society.” Students probably have little knowledge of the crimes against humanity committed by Marxist and communist leaders, such as the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin, China’s Mao Zedong, or Cambodia’s Pol Pot, of the Khmer Rouge, he added. All three were responsible for millions of deaths. When students are taught about colonialism and slavery, but not the effects of communism, they develop a myopic, anti-Western view of history, he said. Epoch Times Photo Mia, a journalism student attending a Florida public university, says she is forced to write papers on race that go against her beliefs in order to pass. (Courtesy of Mia) Stress can run high for conservative students as every value they’ve ever known is challenged by peers and professors at a university, the experts said. Mia worries about how routinely parroting her professors’ worldview, in direct opposition to her own, may affect her as she gets further in her classes. Affirming the “cornucopia of leftist talking points” in journalism classes has become easier, she frets. She wonders if this is what it’s like to be brainwashed. “I feel like I’m throwing away my integrity, which is a big deal for me,” she said. “I worry that I may soften to the other side’s viewpoint, the more I hear it, repeat it, and pretend that it’s my own.”
World Economic Forum WEF Does HUGE Expose Of Itself Klaus gets too much heat on Twitter 🤣 World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers To Chinese Social Media Apps
Juan uses Facebook (and MySpace) lol. Of Economic Crises & Pandemics: Facebook As Fact, Government As Truth, Big Pharma As God https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/29/of-economic-crises-and-pandemics-faceboo... https://www.transcend.org/tms/2020/03/observing-elites-manipulate-our-fear-c... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2015924.Stuffed_And_Starved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEUktOrQV8 Ardern Cunt Prop Queen https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collap... https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/whitepaper/bii-macro-perspect... https://www.bis.org/publ/work804.pdf https://powerbase.info/index.php/Dupont:_Corporate_crimes https://powerbase.info/index.php/Bayer:_Corporate_Crimes https://www.corp-research.org/monsanto https://www.corp-research.org/cargill https://www.corp-research.org/pfizer If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate fear about certain things while conveniently ignoring real dangers that a population faces. Author and researcher Robert J Burrowes says: …if we were seriously concerned about our world, the gravest and longest-standing health crisis on the planet is the one that starves to death 100,000 people each day. No panic about that, of course.” No panic because the controlling interests of the global food system have long profited from a ‘stuffed and starved’ strategy that ensures people unnecessarily go hungry when corporate profit rather than need dictates policies. US social commentator Walter Lippmann once said that ‘responsible men’ make decisions and must be protected from the ‘bewildered herd’ – the public. He added that the public should be subdued, obedient and distracted from what is really happening. Screaming patriotic slogans and fearing for their lives, they should be admiring with awe leaders who save them from destruction. During COVID, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern urged citizens to trust the government and its agencies for all information and stated: Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth.” In the US, Fauci presented himself as ‘the science’. In New Zealand, Ardern was ‘the truth’. It was similar in countries across the world – different figures but the same approach. Like other political leaders, Ardern clamped down on civil liberties with the full force of state violence on hand to ensure compliance with ‘the truth’. Those who questioned the COVID narrative – including world-renowned scientists – were smeared, shut down and censored. It was an internationally orchestrated campaign involving governments, the big tech companies, media and the WHO, among others. The EU Times reported on 17 December 2022 that the US Centers for Disease Control worked with social media to censor facts and information about COVID that ran afoul of official narratives. The organisation America First Legal noted in a press release that the fourth set of documents it released – obtained from litigation against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – revealed: …further concrete evidence of collusion between the CDC and social media companies to censor free speech and silence the public square under the government’s label of ‘misinformation’.” Twitter ran a ‘Partner Support Portal’ for government employees and other ‘stakeholders’ to submit posts that it would remove or flag as ‘misinformation’ on its platform. The US government was actively working to ‘socially inoculate’ the public against anything that threatened its narrative. Big tech corporations monitored and manipulated users for the purposes of censoring unapproved information and pushing government propaganda. Facebook sent written materials to the CDC in which it talked of censoring more than sixteen million ‘pieces of content’ containing opinions or information the government wanted suppressed. AFL noted that the CDC was “collaborating with UNICEF, the WHO and IFCN member and leading civil society organisation Mafindo” to mitigate ‘disinformation’. Mafindo is a Facebook third-party fact-checking partner based in Indonesia and funded by Google. AFL states: What is clear is that the United States government, big tech platforms, and international organizations were fully entangled in an intricate campaign to violate the First Amendment, to silence the American people, and to censor dissenting views.” The CDC’s mask guidance policies for school children were also shown to be driven by politics rather than science. Across all the major Western nations, there was a clamp down on dissent and a massive censorship campaign to justify a policy framework of social and economic lockdowns, masking, distancing and state intrusion into almost every aspect of private life. The findings of AFL indicate how centres of power can and do act in unison when they need to. The fact that it involved a worldwide campaign shows something huge was at stake. The official narrative was about protecting populations from a deadly virus. And any dissent that did seep into the edges of mainstream discourse (like Tucker Carlson on Fox News or a few presenters on Talk Radio in the UK, for instance) tended to focus on politicians going too far on lockdowns and restrictions and being caught up in their egotistical lust for power and control. Such a superficial explanation avoided a deep, critical analysis of the situation. Indeed, any focus on big finance’s – Wall Street and the City of London – role in this was conspicuous by its absence. In March 2022, BlackRock’s Rob Kapito warned that a ‘very entitled’ generation of people would soon have to face shortages for the first time in their lives as some goods grow scarce because of rising inflation. BlackRock is the world’s most powerful investment fund. Kapito talked about the situation in Ukraine and COVID being responsible for the current economic crisis, conveniently ignoring the inflationary impact of the trillions pumped into imploding financial markets in 2019 and 2020 (dwarfing the crisis of 2008). The war in Ukraine as well as COVID are being used to explain the roots of the current economic crisis. But COVID policies were a symptom not a cause of the crisis – they were used to manage what by late 2019 was regarded as an impending economic meltdown. Draconian COVID policies had little to do with a public health emergency. That much is made clear in the article A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation by Professor Fabio Vighi. On 15 August 2019, BlackRock issued a white paper instructing the US Federal Reserve to inject liquidity directly into the financial system to prevent “a dramatic downturn”. The message was unequivocal: An unprecedented response is needed when monetary policy is exhausted and fiscal policy alone is not enough. That response will likely involve ‘going direct’.” It also stated the need to find ways to get central bank money directly in the hands of public and private sector spenders while avoiding hyperinflation. Six days earlier, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) had in a working paper called for “unconventional monetary policy measures” to “insulate the real economy from further deterioration in financial conditions”. Vighi’s shows why the hegemonic class reacted so severely to a public health issue that impacted a minority of the population. This response only makes sense when viewed within the context of economics. Come late 2019 and especially 2020, pumping trillions into the financial system followed by lockdowns (to prevent hyperinflation) were used as the “unconventional monetary policies” that the BIS had called for on 9 August 2019. Did you really think the authorities cared so much about something that mainly affected the over-80s and those with severe comorbidities that they would lock down the entire global economy? Did they really care so much about ordinary people, especially unproductive labour – the working class old and working class infirm – when through the years of imposed austerity, we saw the working classes being treated with utter contempt? And did those who imposed restrictions and lockdowns really believe there was a ‘deadly’ virus on the loose? Think of booze parties at Downing Street, Neil Ferguson’s breaking of lockdown rules to carry on an extra-marital affair, Matt Hancock breaking his own COVID rules with his lover, maskless world leaders gathering in London while their servants wore masks, various US political leaders ignoring their own rules and the public theatre of Fauci et al masking up for TV cameras then maskless as soon as they were off camera. While such people tyrannised populations with fear and lockdowns, it is clear they themselves were unworried about ‘the virus’. After embarking on a massive anti-Russia media propaganda campaign earlier this year to garner public support for Ukraine, the centres of power in the West are now sending billions of dollars of the public’s money into the coffers of the likes of weapons manufacturers Raytheon and Boeing. Such corporations are more than happy to profit from sacrificing the lives of ordinary Ukrainians in the geopolitical quest to weaken and balkanise Russia so that US interests can gain a dominant, strategic foothold on the Eurasian landmass. And while billions of dollars are being spent to achieve this, a wholly unnecessary ‘cost of living’ crisis (resulting from reckless economic neoliberalism which has finally imploded) is being imposed on working people in the Western countries – regarded as mere collateral damage when it comes to economic policies, war and corporate profit. The result is misery and poverty and the demonisation of some of the (now striking) workers who were lauded as ‘heroes’ during COVID. But – of course – the powers that have so much demonstrable contempt for the lives of ordinary people at home and abroad will close down the entire global economy to protect their health! Those who believe this are testament to the power of propaganda. COVID-related policies were wholly disproportionate to any risk posed to public health, especially when considering the way ‘COVID death’ definitions and data were often massaged and how PCR tests were misused to scare populations into submission. And the big winner has been Big Pharma, an industry with a track record of dirty tricks, false advertising and death and injury resulting from its products. If, say, Pfizer were an individual, given its corporate crimes, it would be serving a lengthy prison sentence with the proverbial key being thrown away. But corporations with lengthy corporate rap sheets across many sectors are promoted to the public as being trustworthy and dependable. When governments partner (conspire) with such enterprises, they are conspiring with criminal recidivist companies. And when people purchase stock in them, the same applies. Given the reference to the global food system at the beginning of this article, of particular interest are the crimes of Dupont and Bayer (see the Powerbase website), and Monsanto and Cargill (see the Corporate Research Project (CRP) website). And, of course, Pfizer and its disturbing corporate rap sheet also appears on the CRP site. These immensely wealthy corporations spend millions each year funding various groups and lobbying governments and international bodies. Little wonder that they wield tremendous influence and, in one way or another, become ‘trusted partners’ of governments, the WHO, the WTO and the like. In Pfizer’s case, trusted so much as being granted ‘emergency use authorisation’ to have its ‘vaccines’ brought to market and then forced on the public via the coercive policies of governments. Returning to Lippmann, since early 2020 so many people have feared for their lives and have admired with awe leaders who supposedly saved them from destruction. Even now as reports on vaccine injuries, vaccine inefficacy and increased mortality rates since the jab rollouts are largely taboo within the mainstream media, the public are being kept on message as the WHO and Big Pharma work towards a global treaty that will strip all their rights come the next economic meltdown or ‘pandemic’. This article was written over the Yuletide period, an increasingly secular celebration stripped of religious connotation. These days, ‘in Big Pharma we trust’ might be more apt along with blind faith in a Zuckerberg-esque fantasy metaverse where Facebook is fact, government is truth and Big Pharma is God. Because (heaven help us) that we should be left to think for ourselves!
Notice how Rat never speaks against WEF either... WEF To Accelerate Push For 'Metaverse' Surveillance Network At Davos 2023 https://dossier.substack.com/p/world-economic-forum-to-accelerate https://dossier.substack.com/p/world-economic-forum-bolsters-china https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/12/digital-identity-metaverse-why-we-nee... https://www.weforum.org/press/2022/05/world-economic-forum-unveils-virtual-g... During its 2023 Davos conference, the World Economic Forum will host a press conference on its “Building The Metaverse Initiative,” and release key “studies” and details about its efforts to further facilitate what appears to amount to a global surveillance network, according to documents reviewed by The Dossier. The Metaverse, a buzzworthy bumper sticker slogan that refers to a whole host of ideas in the technology space, has potential current and future applications both for private and governmental entities. It will be featured as one of the core staples of the 2023 Davos conference. What is the Metaverse, exactly? The term Metaverse was invented by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, in which citizens used digital avatars as a means to escape their dystopian reality. Today it can be defined as “a vision of what many in the computer industry believe is the next iteration of the internet: a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in ways they could not in the physical world.” Before its expanded definition, the Metaverse encompassed a technologically advancing virtual and augmented reality space. To entrepreneurs and technology companies, this computer world can serve as a potential revenue and data harvesting stream. For the committed forces of technocratic tyranny, the Metaverse can act as a global surveillance network that can keep tabs on anyone with an internet connection. A Metaverse-adopting society can make it much easier for ruling governments to track the movement, behaviors, and activities of its citizens. For the World Economic Forum, the narrative and ideas shop of the ruling class, the latter applications are more aligned with their feudalistic ambitions. The WEF is the chief coalition builder for what amounts to the modern depopulation movement. Over the years, they've partnered with Big Tech, central bankers, governmental, and international organizations to facilitate their feudalistic vision for the future, which involves deliberately rolling back human progress, innovation, and flourishing, under the guise of saving the planet from a “climate emergency.” While various WEF “partners” have different motives for joining the ruling class alliance, they all have an incentive to cater to the WEF’s most prized climate hoax narratives. The WEF Metaverse press conference event description reads: “This press conference will announce the first, and long-awaited, outputs of the Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative: highly anticipated briefing papers on Interoperability in the Metaverse from the governance track of the project, and Demystifying the Consumer Metaverse from the value creation track. These two briefing papers, the first in each workstream’s series, will serve as the foremost publications involving this amount of research, this number of stakeholders from diverse industries (120+ partners are involved in this initiative), into these topics.” The WEF will also host an event at Davos 2023 titled “Deployment In The Industrial Metaverse.” Panelists will discuss how “the next era of the internet is fast approaching in the form of the metaverse, an immersive, interoperable and synchronous digital world.” “In the industrial metaverse, unique opportunities will arise from the convergence of artificial intelligence, digital twins, data and robotic technologies,” the readout continues. The Dossier reviewed a list of the listed partners to the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Initiative. They include corporate actors like Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Microsoft, Walmart, and Sony. Notably, the list includes major financial services and banking enterprises, such as Mastercard, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, and Lloyds. Things really take a dark turn when moving down to the state and global governance partners to the WEF’s Metaverse Initiative. These partners include Interpol, the United Nations counter terrorism office, the U.S. NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, and several additional countries’ information and communication ministries. The WEF looks to the Chinese Communist Party as the model nation for proper governance. The CCP’s nationwide surveillance regime, through its “Great Firewall” and other components, could very well become the standard for Metaverse governance. Earlier this month, the WEF published an article titled, “why we need to regulate digital identity in the Metaverse,” revealing that Davos indeed sought a heavy-handed top-down approach akin to the CCP’s measures. JUST IN - Klaus Schwab's WEF: "The internet will eventually evolve into the metaverse, which will come to represent the next major computing platform." These people are so far removed from reality it’s scary. — H.K. Belvedere Ω (@HKBelvedere) October 30, 2021 In May, WEF founder Klaus Schwab addressed his organization’s Metaverse work. Schwab reveals a lot about his intentions in his framing of the term, stating: “The metaverse will influence the way, people, governments, companies and society at large think, work, interact and communicate for the purpose of collectively addressing issues on the global agenda.”
2022's Ten Most 'Conspiratorial' Events https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/12/31/year-in-review-2022-top-ten-real-cons... It’s New Year’s Eve again, and with that our time-honoured tradition of looking back at the most conspiratorial events of the past year. It goes without saying that 2022 has seemed like an extended nightmare for many, but it has also served as a reoccurring revelation too. Still, many are glad to see the back of it, while cautiously optimistic that this next year ‘couldn’t get any worse.’ That remains to be seen, and more insights on that front are available in our other annual opus, Trends and Predictions for 2023. Another important truism: the tin foil hat conspiracy theorists continue to be vindicated as significant events unfold. So much so, that we can now lay the common trope, “Oh, it’s just a coincidence” – safely to rest. Henceforth, those who still insist on referring to bona fide conspiracies as mere coincidences, shall be dubbed as coincidence theorists. Before we get to the top ten list, here are some of the honourable mentions from the past year… Here are some of this past year’s standout stories which didn’t make the top tier. We should first mention that the ongoing fallout from the experimental mRNA ‘vaccine’ roll-out and the vaccine passport/digital ID could easily be at the top of any list of conspiracies and scandals, and will unfortunately remain as a looming threat to the lives of billions of people for many years, if not decades to come. That said, some other controversial events of note from this past year include the incredible Canadian Truckers Protest against a vaccine-obsessed Trudeau regime and its unprecedented draconian attack on Canadian citizens demanding a restoration of their basic human rights. We also saw the mysterious demolition of the infamous Georgia Guide Stones monument to Malthusian eugenics, the precarious trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s partner in crime Ghislane Maxwell which somehow netted no VIP client names (and amazingly, she’s still alive in one piece), and also the bizarre political tale of Nancy Pelosi’s husband Pauli P. supposedly getting mauled with a hammer by a known local personality in their San Francisco mansion – a story promptly buried my the MSM right before the election. On the tech front, we should point to the ominous unleashing by Google’s OpenAI of their new ChatGPT artificial intelligence bot. It was a moderate year for false flags and mass shootings, with a few heavily politicized high-profile anomalous events like the Uvalde School Shooting in Texas and the Club Q Shooting in Colorado Springs. In Europe, the Dutch Farmers Revolt exposing a pernicious anti-farming and GMO food agenda by the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates networks, along with meat shortages and continued supply chain disruptions – all converging to form the perfect financial storm which now threatens to ravage an already weak and unstable global economy. Later in the year came a real blast from the past, reports of an imminent document release which contains some evidence of the CIA’s role in the JFK Assassination. Granted, these are just a few in a long list of major events which didn’t make our final cut. So without further ado, here are the top ten conspiracies of 2022... 10. US Midterm Election Fraud Considering all that is going on in the US and internationally at this time, most Americans would agree that the 2022 Midterm Election was one of the most important and consequential elections of their lifetime. Both the House of Representatives and US Senate were up for grabs, and there was a real opportunity to correct a serious imbalance of power in Washington. However, before Nov. 8th there was a real air of trepidation, as the shadow of the controversial 2020 Election still loomed large, with accusations of widespread and systemic election fraud still unresolved. The sum of all fears became real again in the key swing state of Arizona: on election morning most of the voting machines in the state’s largest population center, Maricopa County, just happened to malfunction. Officials claimed it was just an unfortunate coincidence. That was only the beginning, as boxes with thousands of ballots continued to mysteriously turn up after election day. In short, the Arizona election became a national and international embarrassment. As it goes, the state’s election and processes were being controlled by Democratic Party operatives – who then slow-walked the vote counting for two weeks after the election was meant to be over. Not surprisingly, the favorite in the governor’s race, Republican, Kari Lake (image, above) barely lost to an unremarkable Democrat candidate Katie Hobbs (if you believe the final contested result), and to add insult to injury, the person in charge of the state’s election debacle… was Katie Hobbs, who happened to also be serving as Arizona’s Secretary of State. Kari Lake sued the state to demand a recount and a run-off, but political and media pressure on the courts prompted the judge to dismiss her challenge – despite having truckloads of evidence proving foul play. Lake has appealed the decision. What’s important is that this time the world saw what happened, and the state and Democratic Party machine was widely exposed – effectively vindicating millions of Americans who still hold well-founded suspicions about the infamous 2020 Election which managed to install the corrupt, deep state candidate Joe Biden into power. Similar anomalies were observed in 2022 – in states like Nevada and Pennsylvania. In the end, the Republicans still managed to flip the House of Representatives by a slim margin, while losing the US Senate by an even slimmer margin. In a country where half the population still do not trust the democratic process, civility and stability are now teetering on borrowed time. 9. Monkeypox As the Covid gravy train began to break down, the globalists’ Government-Media-Pharma Complex grew desperate for a new ‘pandemic’ to maintain the structures of control and human surveillance which they erected during the contrived Covid-19 ‘state of emergency’. Enter a relatively unknown and exotically-titled alleged pathogen, Monkeypox. Attempts were made to portray this mythical epidemic as some sort of universal threat, and when that failed, the Establishment then pivoted to try and promote it as a new “gay disease” in an attempt to emulate a familiar template used to reproduce the perennial (and highly questionable) HIV crisis. In the end, their fear campaign never really took off, but not before a brand-new vaccine was created to “protect the public from another potentially deadly epidemic.” And after all that failed, efforts were then made to use it in order to harvest some political capital – by sacrificing this brand at the altar of political correctness, as social justice clerics demanded the mythical virus be rebranded due to fears that name “Monkeypox” was somehow racist…? But how? Against primates? No one was quite sure what they meant. Oh well. Introducing “MPOX”. Rinse, and repeat. Welcome to the world of Modern Virology (aka Big Pharma’s main meal ticket). Meanwhile, we’re all waiting with bated breath for Bill Gates’ self-confessed “next pandemic.” 8. China Lockdown Redux Just when the Chinese were beginning to get a taste of freedom again, the Central Party decide to fire-up the pandemic control grid again. In February 2022, an alleged COVID-19 ‘outbreak’ was announced in the city of Shanghai. Central Party claimed that the alleged ‘outbreak’ was caused by the Omicron variant. The state then proceeded to decree a new “Zero Covid” policy, before locking-down more cities, and dragging the country back into the authoritarian hell of February 2020. As it turned out, the real reason this new ‘Covid wave’ materialized was because of nondiagnostic PCR testing ‘case’ data generated through more meaningless mass COVID-19 testing. Finally, after 8 months of Covid madness, foreign investment began drying up, and China’s already fragile economy was destabilizing. The state’s overzealousness then triggered mass protests against Orwellian government restrictions, with millions of Chinese taking to the streets across the country to demand their basic freedom. This prompted Central Party to quickly abandon its failing social control program, and not surprisingly their economy began to rebound as people and business got back to work. Rather interestingly, the US government seemed unhappy that China was taking its foot off the authoritarian pedal, and so Biden then levied an administrative punishment against China by slapping a new mandatory Covid test travel restriction on any Chinese travelers arriving in the USA. It really seems that as the world’s most populous nation, without China’s total compliance the globalists’ New Normal agenda will quickly fall apart. This incident should tell us all we need to know about the so-called ‘global pandemic.’ 7. The Trans Agenda On March 17, 2022, Lia Thomas (formerly named William Thomas), 22, became the first openly transgender athlete to win America’s top college sports title – following a cringe worthy victory in the women’s 500 yard freestyle. Let us explain: because Thomas believes he is now a woman, some institutions like the NCAA – who have come under political pressure from the radical leftist wing of the political machine – now feel obligated to allow a biological male like Thomas to compete against physically inferior biological females (aka real women). The victory was short-lived though, as the woke bombast of the Thomas debacle quickly became a lightning rod in the debate about so-called “trans women” in sports – triggering a massive backlash against this extreme ideological invasion of womens’ competitive sports. Not long after, international sporting organizations ruled that biological male athletes like Thomas can no longer compete in top races. FINA, the world swimming’s governing body, also announced plans to create a new “open” category of competition to include “transgender women” (aka men who believe they are female). Now that the debate has been blown wide open, expect further course corrections as people gradually return to their senses on the issue. But do not expect radical leftists to surrender just yet, as the culture wars will continue to rage on. 6. FTX and SBF Ponzi Scheme Like the S&L scandal of the 1980’s, and the Eron and Bernie Madoff financial scams – this latest iteration of the classic Ponzi Scheme managed to destabilize markets and rob countless investors of their life savings. Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a 30-year-old crypto celebrity icon and celebrated savant, founded what he claimed were two separate companies: a hedge fund called Alameda Research and FTX cryptocurrency exchange, before going the whole hog by hyping his own fiat crypto token and then used it as collateral to create hundreds of millions of loans for himself, before robbing his depositors to embezzle and gamble away untold fortunes on the markets. And that’s just the beginning. It turns out that SBF was the number two political donor to the Democratic Party, and used his laundered proceeds to bankroll a sizeable portion of the Democrats’ 2020 Midterm Election campaigns, not to mention his mother just happening to be a chief organizer for the Democratic Party as well. Not surprisingly, the Biden Administration waited until after the Midterm Election to begin an investigation into the floppy haired SBF and his FTX ponzi empire. SBF was eventually arrested in the Bahamas and awaits federal trial in the Southern District of New York. The trial is sure to be both shocking and entertaining in equal measure. But the real question remains: how will this drama effect the government’s role in the world of cryptocurrency? More crucially: is the FTX takedown really a controlled demolition of crypto designed to pave the way for an oppressive Central Bank Digital Currency global ‘cashless’ takeover? We shall see… 5. CBDC 2022 was the year the CBDC has made landfall, and is currently waiting in the wings of the halls of power. For the last few years, elites have been gathering at globalist confabs like Bilderberg and the World Economic Forum in Davos to wax lyrical about the need to abolish the ‘old money’, or ‘dirty cash’ – and to make way for the central bankers’ new Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) – turning the planet into a full-blown cashless society. In the US, this technocratic overhaul is being hatched under the guise of “Project Hamilton” as a joint effort between the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to design and plan the release of a “digital dollar” – which will destroy the value of old dollar in order to force people onto the new monetary matrix. As cash disappears from the economy, so does privacy. Essentially, CBDCs are meant to be an electronic form of fiat money in a particular country or region, but unlike Bitcoin, this digital coin is centralized and regulated by the governments and their central banks. Without ever putting this matter to a public vote, elites and technocrats have simply been moving ahead to implement this authoritarian monetary system. While the mainstream media and globalist think tanks claim that the CBDC is designed to reign in crypto currencies, and supposedly tackle crimes like money laundering, and tax avoidance (something which elites partake in daily), the reality of the CBDC is something altogether different. They plan to issue a programmable currency whereby the bank can control where and what you are allowed to spend your CBDC’s on. They can also shut your money off. Imagine this digital money system combined with a Chinese-style social credit score, or a vaccine passport/digital ID. This dystopian digital control grid will transform commerce and human society in ways we can possibly imagine. For these reasons, many rightly believe that this is the road to digital slavery. The window of opportunity to push back against this massive authoritarian assault is now closing. 4. The Twitter Files This is the biggest tech scandal in modern history – and it’s gone mostly unreported by 90% of the mainstream media because of the partisan nature of its revelations. The Twitter Files have provided an unprecedented look behind the dirty inner workings of the firm’s opaque censorship regime, and exposes an openly fascist merger of Silicon Valley’s ‘Big Tech’ companies and the bloated National Security State. In early December, under new management of owner and CEO Elon Musk, Twitter HQ began disseminating a massive trove of internal documents revealing the direct collusion between former CEO Jack Dorsey’s corporate regime and the US Federal Government – to censor and cancel users from the platform for speech or political views which went against globalist or government policies. This included copious evidence of election interference. It seems that in their desperation to conjure up proof of alleged “foreign influence” on Twitter, FBI and other federal government officials doubled-down to try and save their sinking Russiagate narrative, and creating a monster in the process. New revelations also exposed the FBI’s role in leaning on Twitter to expedite illegal censorship operations, and how so-called ‘public health’ officials strong-armed Twitter into sanitizing all speech relating to COVID-19 and the experimental mRNA ‘vaccine’ injections. The FBI were also drawing-up shadowbanning and censorship blacklists in an attempt to cleanse the platform of effective opposition to the Biden campaign in 2020 and later into his first term. Under Dorsey, the platform became an open cesspool for spooks and government operatives – many of whom appeared to be allowed to spy on users’ DMs, and to dictate terms of censorship on the platform. Watch this space. This is only the beginning. 3. Sabotage of the Nordstream Pipelines Back in late September, the world woke up to truly horrific news – both the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines were reported to be leaking gas into the Baltic Sea and into the atmosphere – after what looked like a deliberate act of sabotage. While the media played dumb, pretending not to know who carried out this attack, sane onlookers were well aware of the only entity who had the motives, means and opportunity to carry out this state-sponsored act of terror – namely the United States and its NATO partners. Incredibly, the entire western media quickly began blaming Russia for blowing up its most important energy infrastructure project. The result of this attack was a further devastation of Europe’s energy supplies and hyperinflationary EU and UK consumer prices for the fall and winter – not to mention the millions of cubic meters of methane which were released into the Earth’s atmosphere. Despite all the vacant US denials, the facts are clear as day: Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland were both on record beforehand promising they would “end the Nordstream pipeline.” Of course, this is a hugely dangerous red line which the US and its allies have crosses: by declaring a no-holds-barred geopolitical energy war, the gates are now open for further escalations – which may lead to WWIII. History has shown this can happen. Consider the Anglo-American energy embargo and strong-arming of Japan which led up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor which opened the door for the US to enter WWII. Think of the Nordstream attack as just that, but worse – as it was also direct attack on the day-to-day energy and finances of people living in the EU and the collective West. Indeed, the West is playing an extremely dangerous game, which is really the Great Game 2.0. 2. The Energy Shock In the future, we will look back at 2022 as one of the most consequential years of young 21st century history. If you live in the collective West or the EU, you know that the energy crisis is now a reality. The real question is: is all of this by simply by happenstance, or is it being done by design? And can it be traced back to a much older global agenda, and forward through to the WEF’s Great Reset? The answer to all those questions is course, yes. But this is only the surface of this issue. For Brussels and Berlin, this ‘green’ road to energy scarcity pure economic suicide. Rather than change this policy course and work to stabilise global energy and agricultural markets – the gallant virtue-signalling West has opted instead to double-down on their precarious stance by further tightening anti-Russian sanctions, as well as pursue even deeper commitments towards de-nulearisation and the not-so-green ‘Net Zero’ carbon reduction agenda. The cancelation of Russia, coupled with the disastrous ‘green’ energy policies are only accelerating inflationary cycles globally. All of this is a recipe for disaster – all due to policies directly created by western governments. By blocking inbound energy supplies from the Nordstream and other Russian pipelines which supplied them with affordable and reliable gas and oil into the EU, Europe has painted itself into a very perilous corner. Behind the energy wars and even beyond Klaus Schwab’s globalist facade – you will find hardcore geopolitics at play. The main Anglo-American objective: the deindustrialization of Germany and EU, the separation of Russian resources and political leadership from western markets. We live in truly perilous times. 1. The Ukraine War In late February 2022, the unthinkable happened: Russia launched its military intervention into neighboring Ukraine. War is hell, and while Russia seems intent on seeing its “Special Military Operation” through, the US and its allies are going to have to decide just how long they plan to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. How many dead Ukrainian soldiers and lost territory will it take for the West to instruct Ukraine’s President Zelensky to finally sue for peace? Welcome to NATO’s ultimate proxy war of attrition in Ukraine, driven by the greatest western media propaganda campaign of all-time. Suffice to say that Russia, Ukraine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance are now at war – with each party firmly in the belief that they are fighting an existential war, not over any particular political or territorial dispute, but for the future existence of their countries, or in the case of NATO, over their ability to maintain regional hegemony for the Atlanticist power bloc. Will this near frozen conflict escalate to a WWIII situation, or a thermo-nuclear exchange between the great powers? The US and British invasion of Iraq nearly two decades ago is a particularly pertinent and telling counterpoint to events in Ukraine. Then, as now, the ‘free and democratic Western World’ was supposedly faced with a dangerous, unhinged despot in Saddam Hussein, who, like Putin is said to be unwilling to compromise. It’s a well-worn script for the West, and will likely remain the justification of another endless war. Of course, Zelensky could end it all tomorrow if he declared his intentions to disavow any NATO aspirations, demilitarize the country, and declare Ukraine a neutral state. Such a declaration would certainly be welcome by Russia today, but the West are determined to keep this proxy war going, and cancel Russia from the global economic system. Besides, business is just too good for Ukraine who have managed scrape more than $100 billion from the US and EU treasuries so far, not to mention the billions in profits for shareholders in the US defense industry. Oh, and on the backend of this war, the WEF and BlackRock are eyeing Ukraine’s remaining assets, as private oligarchs hatch their plan to carve up and reshape the post-war landscape there. The future world order is at stake. What an unbelievable year. Expect some seriously impactful moments in 2023. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Will Be Validated In 2023 https://headlineusa.com/sellers-10-conspiracy-theories-validate-2023/ A female recruit receives her badge during an FBI graduation ceremony. / IMAGE: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation via YouTube There has been a lot of talk lately about the “word of the year.” Some say it is “gaslighting,” which happens to be a personal favorite of mine. Others say “goblin mode,” a bizarre term linked to Kanye West and Elon Musk that the Left’s semantic gatekeepers have rushed to redefine from a meme that was funny precisely because it had no obvious definition. In the spirit of New Year’s predictions, I will boldly assert that the same may be true of 2023’s future word of the year, “conspiracy theory.” Like “gaslighting” and “goblin mode,” it is a term that has taken on a new meaning in light of current events—and one that the Left–Establishment hegemony has desperately sought to appropriate and weaponize for its own purposes. But in the next 12 months, we will see conservatives successfully reclaim it. In fact, the early adopters are already lighting the way on social media. There is this pic.twitter.com/GwNQpbWzq2 — Oldguy (@Iambord6) December 25, 2022 pic.twitter.com/bWS0hDdQ1s — Kay Turner (@Kay_turner) December 25, 2022 What is the current “conspiracy theory” that will be true in six months? — Ryan Cunningham (@rycunni) December 26, 2022 Increasingly, we are seeing the corruption of the Biden administration start to come out in the wash, with growing backlash. Questions that the media tried to deny and deride in service to their agenda have since had the curtain lifted. More and more, even averred leftist idealogues, like ex-Planned Parenthood leader Leana Wen, are admitting that they lied about various aspects of the COVID pandemic. "If the Chinese military unleashed a deadly manufactured flu virus on the world, Joe Biden would blame you for it! And actually, he did!" - @TuckerCarlson Dr. Leana Wen Now Admits ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ Was a Total Lie pic.twitter.com/8AkB1AJ86a — Red Voice Media (@redvoicenews) December 25, 2022 While the Twitter Files have played a huge role in exposing the unseemly and unconstitutional collusion between U.S. spy agencies and Big Tech, a flurry of GOP-led investigations in the House will bring at least the semblance of accountability back to The Swamp, even if it is more or less a paper tiger. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was named Media Matters’s “Misinformer of the Year,” recently reflected on the origin of the term “conspiracy theory,” which emerged from the Warren Commission’s efforts to cover up the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. JFK may have been the first time that deep-state operatives in the intelligence community succeeded in overthrowing a sitting president. Since then, it has happened at least two more times, with FBI and CIA fingerprints all over both the Watergate scandal and the 2020 election fraud. But having overplayed their hand, the entire house of cards now seems poised to collapse, validating skeptics’ belief that everything they have been told for the past half-century has been part of the real Big Lie, and that our idea of democracy has been but an illusion. With that in mind, here are 10 things that the powers-that-be in D.C. have yet to cop to, but which will soon be impossible to ignore, in no particular order: The role that the intel community and the Justice Department played in fomenting violence through psy-ops on Jan. 6, 2021, will be exposed. Sadly, in their expected counter-investigation responding to the Pelosi-run Jan. 6 committee, even House Republicans may withhold state secrets from us. But the FBI’s damaging partisan conduct has generated a multitude of whistleblowing defectors who should be willing to shed light on the dubious allegations of right-wing extremism and violence at the U.S. Capitol—and in the 2017 Charlottesville riot that was its dress rehearsal. The deadly impact of the COVID vaccines will become undeniable. Initially, I had considered writing about how the GOP House will expose Anthony Fauci’s role in developing the COVID-19 virus, but that already has been scrutinized to death, and without any accountability to back it up, it makes no difference. But there are plenty of other COVID abuses that will keep on yielding new storylines. And none may be greater than the decision by pharmaceutical companies to suppress therapeutics and overplay the importance of their untested and experimental new vaccines. The evidence is mounting that the vaccines themselves may have been as deadly and damaging as the virus—something to which many life-insurance actuaries may be able to attest. Whether the vaccines do, indeed, have nanobots that self-assemble and transmit wi-fi, there is a lot of reason to suspect that they are harmful on some level. The scope of China’s control over the U.S. government will become clearer. We know about the various financial ties between the Biden family and the CCP. We know that other top leaders, including Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are heavily invested in Chinese industry. But what we have yet to fully explore is the way that China-linked companies like BlackRock have also completely infiltrated the White House and are effectively writing U.S. foreign policy. The true nature of David DePape’s relationship with Paul Pelosi will be revealed. While court hearings have kept a tight lid on the evidence in the Paul Pelosi assault case, including body-cam footage, it will be harder for Nancy Pelosi to flex her authority after stepping down as House speaker. It is very clear that the assailant, David DePape, is no right-wing extremist and that there is more going on that meets the eye. We will find out what Trump’s purloined Mar-a-Lago files really contained. Punting the DOJ probes that resulted in the unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to corrupt special counsel Jack Smith was a good way to keep them out of the reach of GOP oversight in the U.S. House. But, eventually, the clock will run out and it will be necessary to explain why, exactly, this norm-violating measure was taken. Odds are it was a CYA operation by the FBI to prevent Trump from exposing the Russia-hoax documents that he already had publicly declared to be declassified. We will learn what the Democrats intend to do with Joe Biden and who will be tapped to replace him. Will it be Michelle Obama, as I and others have long predicted? Or could they pull out another yet-unknown figure who has been carfully vetted and groomed in secret, like her husband, Barack? Once the Democrats finally decide that Biden has outlasted his usefulness, their reasons for installing him in the first place may become clear. When Barack Obama was overheard telling a Democrat donor “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up,” there is a good chance it was a sales pitch more than a warning. We will discover the truth about the U.S.–Ukrainian partnership to research and develop bioweapons. Congress has allocated in excess of $100 billion to defend something in Ukraine, but it sure ain’t democracy. While their personal investments in Burisma—or in weapons manufacturers like Raytheon—may be prime motivators, all indications are that the country is a rat’s nest of CIA operations. The Left’s plans to normalize and mainstream pedophilia will come to fruition. The initial push to sexualize and groom children in schools and on kid-friendly mediums like Disney may have fallen flat, but leftists will only redouble their efforts to foist this onto the population because the ability to control and manipulate young minds is pivotal to their long-term plans for control. By acclimating children to sex at an early age, they can add it as another weapon in their quiver, which also includes cultivating ignorance and racial grievances, so that the plebian class is as pliable as possible. The World Economic Forum will lead the way in trying to turn humans into glorified Matrix-style batteries. The convergence of artificial intelligence technology, the metaverse, the decline of office culture, growing clamor about digital passports and currencies, guaranteed incomes and an ever-increasing scarcity of resources suggest that the global plans to collectivize all nations under a one-world government are being gamed out as we speak. As the relationship between Big Tech and the spy agencies becomes clearer, we will learn that our personal devices are tracking our every move. Knowing what we know about the interest that the FBI and the CIA have in manipulating technology companies to perform extralegal operations, and what we know about the reprehensible virtue signaling of Google and Apple, is there really any doubt that they have empowered our intel community to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance from any device at any time and that our phones are being used to monitor us, in true Big Brother fashion, around the clock?
Wake Up! You Don't Have To Be A Conspiracy Theorist To Be Worried About The World Economic Forum https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/31/you-dont-have-to-be-a-conspiracy-theoris... https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-davos-man-cometh/ https://nationalinterest.org/article/dead-souls-the-denationalization-of-the... https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/davos-2023-wef-shifts-into-high-gear https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/30/the-dangerous-new-cult-calling-for-perma... Samuel Greg, a Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy at the American Institute for Economic Research and author, most recently, of The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, has written a good piece for the Spectator about the WEF on the eve of Davos 2023. He argues that if you care about liberty, democracy and national self-determination, it’s perfectly rational to be concerned about the influence of Klaus Schwab and his followers. Not because they are the puppeteers controlling politicians across the West, but because their ideas permeate the upper echelons of the global elite. In particular, Schwab’s belief in the top-down, technocratic form of government exemplified by the EU. It wields no formal political power and can’t make anyone do anything. Nonetheless, since its founding in 1971, the WEF has become an organisation which embodies supreme confidence in the imperative of a particular type of person running the world from the top-down. In his famous 2004 essay entitled ‘Dead Souls’, the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington called this prototype ‘Davos Man’. A clever moniker that neither Schwab nor the WEF have ever succeeded in shaking off, Davos Man was Huntington’s short-hand description of “academics, international civil servants and executives in global companies, as well as successful high-technology entrepreneurs” who thought alike and tended to view national loyalties and boundaries “as residues from the past”. Davos Man also looked with undisguised disdain, Huntington suggested, upon those who weren’t getting with the programme – whatever the content of the programme happened to be. Therein lies the deepest problem with the WEF. It’s one thing for people to come together in international settings to discuss problems, share insights, and network. Business leaders, politicians, and NGO-types do this all the time. It’s another thing for an outfit such as the WEF to decide that the time has come to rearrange the world from the top-down and remake the planet in a corporatist image. The ideal for which Schwab is aiming, judging from his speeches and writings, is something akin to a globalised EU, with its supranational and ingrained bureaucratic ways being transposed to an international level, and the levers of power vested in the hands of reliable Davos men and women. In short, it’s easy to caricature the WEF and Schwab as something akin to Ian Fleming’s fictious Spectre and its criminal-mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Yet the agenda now being pursued at settings such as Davos is sufficiently alarming that anyone who believes in preserving things like liberty, sovereignty, and the decentralisation of power should be concerned. Worth reading in full... Robert Malone has a saltier take on the WEF’s current agenda on his Substack, particularly no. 4 on the WEF’s list of priorities: “Preparing for the next pandemic requires ending health disparities.” That’s uncomfortably reminiscent of the toxic new ideology I discussed yesterday, which combines extreme risk aversion – to pandemics, climate change, hate speech, etc. – with ‘equity’, meaning a commitment to protecting ‘vulnerable’ groups, e.g. ethnic minorities and the LGBTQ+ community. So the argument for, say, keeping mask mandates in place forever would run something like this: airborne viral diseases have a disproportionately negative effect on marginalised people because they have less access to healthcare, therefore governments have a moral duty to impose masks mandates.
Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Will Be Validated In 2023 https://headlineusa.com/sellers-10-conspiracy-theories-validate-2023/ There has been a lot of talk lately about the “word of the year.” Some say it is “gaslighting,” which happens to be a personal favorite of mine. Others say “goblin mode,” a bizarre term linked to Kanye West and Elon Musk that the Left’s semantic gatekeepers have rushed to redefine from a meme that was funny precisely because it had no obvious definition. In the spirit of New Year’s predictions, I will boldly assert that the same may be true of 2023’s future word of the year, “conspiracy theory.” Like “gaslighting” and “goblin mode,” it is a term that has taken on a new meaning in light of current events—and one that the Left–Establishment hegemony has desperately sought to appropriate and weaponize for its own purposes. But in the next 12 months, we will see conservatives successfully reclaim it. In fact, the early adopters are already lighting the way on social media. There is this pic.twitter.com/GwNQpbWzq2 — Oldguy (@Iambord6) December 25, 2022 pic.twitter.com/bWS0hDdQ1s — Kay Turner (@Kay_turner) December 25, 2022 What is the current “conspiracy theory” that will be true in six months? — Ryan Cunningham (@rycunni) December 26, 2022 Increasingly, we are seeing the corruption of the Biden administration start to come out in the wash, with growing backlash. Questions that the media tried to deny and deride in service to their agenda have since had the curtain lifted. More and more, even averred leftist idealogues, like ex-Planned Parenthood leader Leana Wen, are admitting that they lied about various aspects of the COVID pandemic. "If the Chinese military unleashed a deadly manufactured flu virus on the world, Joe Biden would blame you for it! And actually, he did!" - @TuckerCarlson Dr. Leana Wen Now Admits ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ Was a Total Lie pic.twitter.com/8AkB1AJ86a — Red Voice Media (@redvoicenews) December 25, 2022 While the Twitter Files have played a huge role in exposing the unseemly and unconstitutional collusion between U.S. spy agencies and Big Tech, a flurry of GOP-led investigations in the House will bring at least the semblance of accountability back to The Swamp, even if it is more or less a paper tiger. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was named Media Matters’s “Misinformer of the Year,” recently reflected on the origin of the term “conspiracy theory,” which emerged from the Warren Commission’s efforts to cover up the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. JFK may have been the first time that deep-state operatives in the intelligence community succeeded in overthrowing a sitting president. Since then, it has happened at least two more times, with FBI and CIA fingerprints all over both the Watergate scandal and the 2020 election fraud. But having overplayed their hand, the entire house of cards now seems poised to collapse, validating skeptics’ belief that everything they have been told for the past half-century has been part of the real Big Lie, and that our idea of democracy has been but an illusion. With that in mind, here are 10 things that the powers-that-be in D.C. have yet to cop to, but which will soon be impossible to ignore, in no particular order: The role that the intel community and the Justice Department played in fomenting violence through psy-ops on Jan. 6, 2021, will be exposed. Sadly, in their expected counter-investigation responding to the Pelosi-run Jan. 6 committee, even House Republicans may withhold state secrets from us. But the FBI’s damaging partisan conduct has generated a multitude of whistleblowing defectors who should be willing to shed light on the dubious allegations of right-wing extremism and violence at the U.S. Capitol—and in the 2017 Charlottesville riot that was its dress rehearsal. The deadly impact of the COVID vaccines will become undeniable. Initially, I had considered writing about how the GOP House will expose Anthony Fauci’s role in developing the COVID-19 virus, but that already has been scrutinized to death, and without any accountability to back it up, it makes no difference. But there are plenty of other COVID abuses that will keep on yielding new storylines. And none may be greater than the decision by pharmaceutical companies to suppress therapeutics and overplay the importance of their untested and experimental new vaccines. The evidence is mounting that the vaccines themselves may have been as deadly and damaging as the virus—something to which many life-insurance actuaries may be able to attest. Whether the vaccines do, indeed, have nanobots that self-assemble and transmit wi-fi, there is a lot of reason to suspect that they are harmful on some level. The scope of China’s control over the U.S. government will become clearer. We know about the various financial ties between the Biden family and the CCP. We know that other top leaders, including Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are heavily invested in Chinese industry. But what we have yet to fully explore is the way that China-linked companies like BlackRock have also completely infiltrated the White House and are effectively writing U.S. foreign policy. The true nature of David DePape’s relationship with Paul Pelosi will be revealed. While court hearings have kept a tight lid on the evidence in the Paul Pelosi assault case, including body-cam footage, it will be harder for Nancy Pelosi to flex her authority after stepping down as House speaker. It is very clear that the assailant, David DePape, is no right-wing extremist and that there is more going on that meets the eye. We will find out what Trump’s purloined Mar-a-Lago files really contained. Punting the DOJ probes that resulted in the unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to corrupt special counsel Jack Smith was a good way to keep them out of the reach of GOP oversight in the U.S. House. But, eventually, the clock will run out and it will be necessary to explain why, exactly, this norm-violating measure was taken. Odds are it was a CYA operation by the FBI to prevent Trump from exposing the Russia-hoax documents that he already had publicly declared to be declassified. We will learn what the Democrats intend to do with Joe Biden and who will be tapped to replace him. Will it be Michelle Obama, as I and others have long predicted? Or could they pull out another yet-unknown figure who has been carfully vetted and groomed in secret, like her husband, Barack? Once the Democrats finally decide that Biden has outlasted his usefulness, their reasons for installing him in the first place may become clear. When Barack Obama was overheard telling a Democrat donor “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up,” there is a good chance it was a sales pitch more than a warning. We will discover the truth about the U.S.–Ukrainian partnership to research and develop bioweapons. Congress has allocated in excess of $100 billion to defend something in Ukraine, but it sure ain’t democracy. While their personal investments in Burisma—or in weapons manufacturers like Raytheon—may be prime motivators, all indications are that the country is a rat’s nest of CIA operations. The Left’s plans to normalize and mainstream pedophilia will come to fruition. The initial push to sexualize and groom children in schools and on kid-friendly mediums like Disney may have fallen flat, but leftists will only redouble their efforts to foist this onto the population because the ability to control and manipulate young minds is pivotal to their long-term plans for control. By acclimating children to sex at an early age, they can add it as another weapon in their quiver, which also includes cultivating ignorance and racial grievances, so that the plebian class is as pliable as possible. The World Economic Forum will lead the way in trying to turn humans into glorified Matrix-style batteries. The convergence of artificial intelligence technology, the metaverse, the decline of office culture, growing clamor about digital passports and currencies, guaranteed incomes and an ever-increasing scarcity of resources suggest that the global plans to collectivize all nations under a one-world government are being gamed out as we speak. As the relationship between Big Tech and the spy agencies becomes clearer, we will learn that our personal devices are tracking our every move. Knowing what we know about the interest that the FBI and the CIA have in manipulating technology companies to perform extralegal operations, and what we know about the reprehensible virtue signaling of Google and Apple, is there really any doubt that they have empowered our intel community to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance from any device at any time and that our phones are being used to monitor us, in true Big Brother fashion, around the clock?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-war-for-control-of-humanity-thoughts-and-em... https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders In War For Control Of Humanity, Thoughts And Emotions Are The Battlefield: Dr. Robert Malone Social media platforms are being weaponized, he said https://www.theepochtimes.com/social-media-coordination-between-doj-and-fbi-... https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/eyes-sky-secret-rise-gorgon-stare-how... https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2015/04/10/air-forces-secret-gorg... https://www.theepochtimes.com/pandemic-gave-rise-to-government-surveillance-... https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-documents-show-clear-big-tech-government-c... https://www.theepochtimes.com/this-regime-needs-to-go-enes-kanter-freedom-bl... https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-organ-harvesting https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdc-funding-decisions-based-largely-on-politic... https://www.theepochtimes.com/right-over-the-target-former-trump-adviser-say... https://www.nih.gov/arpa-h https://research.unc.edu/2021/07/01/nih-on-a-path-to-add-a-darpa-like-model/ Inventor of mRNA vaccines Dr. Robert Malone, having worked with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for many years, warns that a war is being waged by the government for control of people’s minds, and that social media platforms are being weaponized in this war and are “actively employed” by the intelligence community to influence what people think and feel. Related Coverage In War for Control of Humanity, Thoughts and Emotions Are the Battlefield: Dr. Robert MaloneDr. Robert Malone: The New Battlefield Is Your Mind—Twitter Files, Fifth Generation Warfare, and the COVID Vaccine Psyops Campaign “This new battleground, in which your mind and your thoughts, your very emotions are the battleground. It is not about territory,” Malone said during a recent interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “Twitter, it’s clear now, has become the premium platform for shaping emerging global consensus about the topics of the day.” Musk Twitter Jet Tracker A sign at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2022. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo) During his work with the DOD, Malone became aware of companies researching multilingual programs that assess the emotional content of the language used on social media, which those companies then use to “map relationship clouds,” including what topics people are discussing, who the influencers are, and who is at the fringe of that cloud, said Malone. Phenomena like being deplatformed, shadowbanned, and a “tweet” going viral is a part of this weaponizing of social media. Epoch Times Photo Twitter prevented users from sharing former President Donald Trump’s post. (Screenshot/Twitter) “By using these tools of manipulating what information, what tweets you put out, what messages you put out to your influencer cloud, they can modulate how those people behave,” he said. “You can actually very actively control what individuals are thinking, the information that they’re gathering, what they’re being influenced to do.” The people who control information warfare weapons can modulate the messaging within the influencer clouds that can be readily mapped, Malone said. “Your current state of mind, based on the language that you’re using and the topics that you’re talking about, can be mapped very precisely, psychologically,” he said. “It can be tied into a web of influence relationships.” High-Tech Surveillance Members of a specific “influencer cloud” can be tracked using the military spy technology called the Gorgon Stare, said Malone. This spy technology is capable of detecting movements including what car you drive, who gets in your car, and where you go, he said. The Gorgon Stare is a surveillance technology, originally created to target terrorist groups, that utilizes high-tech cameras mounted on drones to capture video images of large areas, such as entire cities. Then artificial intelligence is used to analyze the surveillance footage. Arthur Holland Michel, author of the book, “Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All,” called this technology the “pinnacle of aerial surveillance” during a 2019 interview with the CATO Institute and said the things he learned while writing the book were so troubling, they kept him up at night. Epoch Times Photo Elon Musk speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Collusion During the Pandemic Elon Musk has brought more transparency to Twitter, but the information he revealed only confirmed that the FBI and intelligence agencies had major influence over the platform, said Malone. “Elon now is in a position where he has access to incredibly damaging information about the willingness of the U.S. government to collude with industry and compromise the First Amendment,” said Malone. Musk’s purchase of Twitter is significant, but only time will tell what the final outcome of it will have for our democracy and the First Amendment, Malone added. Since the start of the pandemic, Malone and his wife and fellow scientist, Jill Glasspool Malone, have become aware of the government’s breach of all guardrails, said Malone, in terms of ethics and the norms of drug development, bioethics, biodefense, and pharmaceutical development. “We have all been subjected, over the last three years, to military-grade psychological operations that were using technology developed for offshore conflicts, and they had been deployed against the citizens of virtually the entire Western world.” The same strategies that are used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control the Chinese citizens have been used by elites in the United States, said Malone. “We’re now seeing the documentation on a daily basis released to us by Twitter, of this intense collusion between the U.S. government, tech, and corporate media,” said Malone. A man using a laptop at an office of Sina Weibo, widely known as China's version of Twitter, in Beijing. A man using a laptop at an office of Sina Weibo, widely known as China’s version of Twitter, in Beijing on April 16, 2014. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images) Citizens Are Manipulated Millions of Americans accepted a new product (the mRNA vaccine) that skipped normal safety and efficacy protocols and is still only in use under emergency use authorization because “the government felt that it was acceptable to deploy these military-grade technologies against all of us to coerce, compel, and mandate that we accept an unlicensed product that turns out to not be safe, nor effective,” said Malone. People were coerced into taking this experimental vaccine because they were manipulated on a scale that is hard to fathom, said Malone. This is how entities like the CCP are able to carry out human rights atrocities, like live organ harvesting, where prisoners of consciousness are murdered for their organs, he added. China grew its organ “transplant” industry from 1999 to now, with a wait time in China for a major organ transplant being months rather than the years it can take in western countries. Related Coverage In War for Control of Humanity, Thoughts and Emotions Are the Battlefield: Dr. Robert MaloneHow China’s Operation Rooms Became Execution Grounds: Dr. Torsten Trey on the CCP’s Lucrative Organ Trade This happens because people cannot conceive of “the possibility that these things might be happening in this way, whether it’s organ harvesting, or it’s the darkness of what appears to be the emergence of a pharmaceutical corporatist, global, centralized state,” said Malone. Most people cannot fathom such evil exists because they are still good, said Malone. “Not only have we been subjected to this barrage of coordinated propaganda, we’ve been subjected to a barrage of intentional manipulation of our very language to support this initiative and this agenda,” said Malone. Epoch Times Photo Dr. Robert Malone, chief medical officer of the Unity Project, at a rally at Hagerstown Speedway in Hagerstown, Md., on Mar. 26, 2022. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times) The New Book Malone’s new book attempts to sort through the events of the last three years to understand what happened and why, which he said is important to start to chart a healthy path forward. “Each of these chapters derives from a kind of a real-time assessment of events that were occurring,” he said, and the events were also cited in Malone’s substack writings. Readers should discern the truth for themselves by finding credible sources of information, he said, adding that his goal is to provide factual information to the public so they can make informed decisions because society is in a time when people are being inundated with “totalitarian propaganda.” In the final third of the book, Malone suggests some concrete actions that could help restore democracy and alleviate the corruption that has besieged the federal government by changing laws to allow for term limits for the federal bureaucracy. “This has to do with things like the legal underpinning that enables the existence of this permanent cadre that we call the Senior Executive Service, these thousands of people that cannot be fired, that functionally run the government,” said Malone. Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to reassign classification for upper-level federal employees in the state department, with his schedule F executive order, was a crucial step to restoring balance in the three branches of the government, said Malone. However, after President Joe Biden took office, he nullified the Schedule F executive order, which Malone said was “an example of how powerful these entrenched administrative state interests are.” Another crucial step to end government corruption is to separate the power of federal agencies to both regulate and promote the industry they are in charge of, said Malone. “[Dr.] Peter McCullough likes to point out the FDA, under emergency use authorization, acts as both the sponsor and the regulator of these medical products,” said Malone. “And the corruption of the FDA and the CDC is at such a stage now that I think it is so self-evident that only the most hypnotized deny it.” Related Coverage In War for Control of Humanity, Thoughts and Emotions Are the Battlefield: Dr. Robert MaloneEXCLUSIVE: Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra: How the COVID-19 Vaccines Impact the Heart Envisioning a New Future These actions alone will likely not end the deep-rooted corruption and collusion of the intelligence community within the agencies, said Malone, but it is a step forward. People like Dr. Anthony Fauci are working in tandem with the intelligence agencies, and this can be seen by the development of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) department, the Advance Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), said Malone. The Epoch Times reached out to the NIH for comment. This new department is led by a former officer with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and has a budget of about $1 billion. Malone said the purpose of the department “appears to be the advancement of transhumanism and a biometric identification and all of that agenda within NIH. It’s basically the intelligence community moving in within NIH.” Malone asked how humans can “enable a decentralized future for all of us, as opposed to this very dark, Fourth Industrial Revolution, transhumanism central command economy.” Epoch Times Photo A sign of the World Economic Forum is seen at the Congress center during its annual meeting in Davos on May 23, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) There are initiatives that will give the power back to communities and individuals, including groups of doctors establishing new medical training institutes and citizens working to grow their own food locally. “I think that our opportunity now is to help build a vision and a way of interacting that can better capture the potential of humanity in a decentralized way that celebrates our diversity, without needing to try to enforce some centralized diktat of how we are to live our lives,” said Malone. Malone does not claim to have the answers to these issues, but said he wants to contribute to the process of figuring out how humanity can create a better future. “I think it’s a journey worth taking.”
Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia To Authoritarian Madness The danger signs were everywhere in 2022. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.usdebtclock.org/ https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/u-s-national-debt-surpasses-... https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/484285-how-the-23-trillion-debt-crisis-i... https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherf... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-national-debt-is-high-and-growin... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.htm... With every new law enacted by federal and state legislatures, every new ruling handed down by government courts, and every new military weapon, invasive tactic and egregious protocol employed by government agents, we were reminded that in the eyes of the government and its corporate accomplices, “we the people” possess no rights except for that which the Deep State grants on an as-needed basis. Totalitarian paranoia spiked. What we have been saddled with is a government so power-hungry, paranoid and afraid of losing its stranglehold on power that it has conspired to wage war on anyone who dares to challenge its authority. In a Machiavellian attempt to expand its powers, the government unleashed all manner of dangers on an unsuspecting populace in order to justify its demands for additional powers to protect “we the people” from emerging threats, whether legitimate, manufactured or overblown. The state of our nation suffered. The nation remained politically polarized, controlled by forces beyond the purview of the average American, and rapidly moving the nation away from its freedom foundation. The combined blowback from a contentious presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in Americans being subjected to egregious civil liberties violations, invasive surveillance, martial law, lockdowns, political correctness, erosions of free speech, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, and the criminalization of lawful activities. Thought crimes became a target for punishment. For years now, the government has used all of the weapons in its vast arsenal—surveillance, threat assessments, fusion centers, pre-crime programs, hate crime laws, militarized police, lockdowns, martial law, etc.—to target potential enemies of the state based on their ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that might be deemed suspicious or dangerous. In other words, if you dare to subscribe to any views that are contrary to the government’s, you may well be suspected of being a domestic terrorist and treated accordingly. In 2022, those who criticized the government—whether that criticism manifested itself in word, deed or thought—were flagged as dangerous alongside consumers and spreaders of “mis- dis- and mal-information.” Speech was muzzled. Those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech continued to push for social media monitoring, censorship of flagged content that could be construed as dangerous or hateful, and limitations on free speech activities, particularly online. Of course, it’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing truth. Eventually, as George Orwell predicted, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act. If the government can control speech, it can control thought and, in turn, it can control the minds of the citizenry. Kill switches aimed to turn off more than just your car. Vehicle “kill switches” were sold to the public as a safety measure aimed at keeping drunk drivers off the roads, but they were a perfect metaphor for the government’s efforts to not only take control of our cars but also our freedoms and our lives. For too long, we have been captive passengers in a driverless car controlled by the government, losing more and more of our privacy and autonomy the further down the road we go. Currency went digital. No matter how much money the government pulls in, it’s never enough, so the government came up with a new plan to make it even easier for its agents to seize Americans’ bank account. In an Executive Order issued in March 2022, President Biden called for the federal government to consider establishing a form of digital money. Digital currency will provide the government and its corporate partners with a mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient. The government spoke in a language of violence. Police violence killed three people a day. Warrior cops—trained in the worst-case scenario and thus ready to shoot first and ask questions later—did not make us or themselves any safer. Despite this, President Biden’s pledged to expand law enforcement and so-called crime prevention through a $30 billion “Fund the Police” program. Cancel culture became more intolerant. Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media bullies, and government watchdogs. Everything has now become fair game for censorship if it can be construed as hateful, hurtful, bigoted or offensive provided that it runs counter to the established viewpoint. Homes were invaded. Government agents routinely violated the Fourth Amendment at will under the pretext of public health and safety. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the many ways the government and its corporate partners-in-crime used surveillance technology to invade homes: with wiretaps, thermal imaging, surveillance cameras, and other monitoring devices. Political theater kept the public distracted. Having devolved into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population, the political scene provided ample diversions with its televised Jan. 6 committee hearings, the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings, and more. Bodily integrity was undermined. Caught in the crosshairs of a showdown between the rights of the individual and the so-called “emergency” state, concerns about COVID-19 mandates and bodily integrity remained part of a much larger debate over the ongoing power struggle between the citizenry and the government over our property “interest” in our bodies. This debate over bodily integrity covered broad territory, ranging from abortion and forced vaccinations to biometric surveillance and basic healthcare. Although the Supreme Court overturned its earlier rulings recognizing abortion as a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment, it did nothing to resolve the larger problem that plagues us today: namely, that all along the spectrum of life—from the unborn child to the aged—the government continues to play fast and loose with the lives of the citizenry. The government’s fiscal insanity reached new heights. The national debt (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and must pay back) hit $30 trillion. That translates to roughly $242,000 per taxpayer. It’s estimated that the amount this country owes is now 130% greater than its gross domestic product (all the products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the citizens). That debt is also growing exponentially: it is expected to be twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2051. Surveillance got creepier. On any given day, the average American going about his daily business was monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. In such a surveillance ecosystem, we’re all suspects and databits to be tracked, catalogued and targeted. With every new AI surveillance technology that was adopted and deployed without any regard for privacy, Fourth Amendment rights and due process, the rights of the citizenry were marginalized, undermined and eviscerated. Precrime became more fact than fiction. Under the pretext of helping overwhelmed government agencies work more efficiently, AI predictive and surveillance technologies were used to classify, segregate and flag the populace with little concern for privacy rights or due process. All of this sorting, sifting and calculating was done swiftly, secretly and incessantly with the help of AI technology and a surveillance state that monitors your every move. Where this becomes particularly dangerous is when the government takes preemptive steps to combat crime or abuse, or whatever the government has chosen to outlaw at any given time. The government waged psychological warfare on the nation. The government made clear in word and deed that “we the people” are domestic enemies to be targeted, tracked, manipulated, micromanaged, surveilled, viewed as suspects, and treated as if our fundamental rights are mere privileges that can be easily discarded. Aided and abetted by technological advances and scientific experimentation, the government weaponized violence; surveillance, pre-crime and pre-thought campaigns; digital currencies, social media scores and censorship; desensitization campaigns; fear; genetics; and entertainment. Gun confiscation laws put a target on the back of every American. Red flag gun laws (which authorize government officials to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others) gained traction as a legislative means by which to allow police to remove guns from people suspected of being threats. Red flag gun laws merely push us that much closer towards a suspect society where everyone is potentially guilty of some crime or another and must be preemptively rendered harmless. The burden of proof was reversed. Although the Constitution requires the government to provide solid proof of criminal activity before it can deprive a citizen of life or liberty, the government turned that fundamental assurance of due process on its head. Each and every one of us is now seen as a potential suspect, terrorist and lawbreaker in the eyes of the government. The groundwork has been laid for a new kind of government where it won’t matter if you’re innocent or guilty, whether you’re a threat to the nation, or even if you’re a citizen. What will matter is what the government—or whoever happens to be calling the shots at the time—thinks. And if the powers-that-be think you’re a threat to the nation and should be locked up, then you’ll be locked up with no access to the protections our Constitution provides. The Supreme Court turned America into a Constitution-free zone. Although the Court’s rulings on qualified immunity for police who engage in official misconduct were largely overshadowed by its politically polarizing rulings on abortion, gun ownership and religion, they were no less devastating. The bottom line: there will be no consequences for cops who brutalize the citizenry and no justice for the victims of police brutality. The FBI went rogue. The FBI’s laundry list of crimes against the American people ran the gamut from surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, and intimidation tactics to harassment and indoctrination, governmental overreach, abuse, misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal activity, and damaging private property, and that’s just based on what we know. The government waged war on political freedom. In more and more cases, the government declared war on what should be protected political speech whenever it challenges the government’s power, reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices. The military industrial complex waged more wars. America’s part in the showdown between Russia and the Ukraine conveniently followed on the heels of a long line of other crises which have occurred like clockwork in order to keep Americans distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from the government’s steady encroachments on our freedoms. The Deep State went global. We’ve been inching closer to a new world order for the past several decades, but COVID-19, which saw governmental and corporate interests become even more closely intertwined, shifted this transformation into high gear. This new world order—a global world order—made up of international government agencies and corporations owes its existence in large part to the U.S. government’s deep-seated and, in many cases, top-secret alliances with foreign nations and global corporations. This powerful international cabal, let’s call it the Global Deep State, is just as real as the corporatized, militarized, industrialized American Deep State, and it poses just as great a threat to our rights as individuals under the U.S. Constitution, if not greater. Authoritarian madness escalated. You didn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist or even anti-government to recognize the slippery slope that starts with well-meaning intentions for the greater good and ends with tyrannical abuses no one should tolerate. When any government is empowered to adopt a comply-or-suffer-the-consequences mindset that is enforced through mandates, lockdowns, penalties, detention centers, martial law, and an utter disregard for the rights of the individual, there should be reason for concern. The takeaway: the more things changed, the more they stayed the same. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, if there is any means left to us for thwarting the government in its relentless march towards outright dictatorship, it rests—as it always has—at the local level, with “we the people." Unless we work together to push back against the government’s overreach, excesses and abuse, 2023 will be yet another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for freedom.
Is The New World Order On The Precipice? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/01/06/is-the-new-world-order-on-the-... The New World Order nobility may be receiving more roadblocks for their plans than they had anticipated. The entire scam is based on the ignorance and complacence of the great mass of people in the western based economies. Control of the West is essential for world domination. We are the source of wealth and innovation which makes it imperative. The new platform has begun to get rickety with energy problems, war and civil strife bubbling to the surface. China is believed to be a huge source of economic and political power but actually without the West being a customer, China is a backwater without technology, markets, energy and foodstuffs. The government is unstable as shown in the past few weeks with the new attempted lockdowns. Their food shortages of the past two years are not mentioned by the simpletons of the media but contribute to general instability. The Chinese are a huge unknown to our “intellectual elite” whether they realize it or not. Control of the sluggish population of Chinese is an easy task compared to Europe and North American farmers but all are now stirring. This does not even consider India and Russia. By adding these cards to the deck the game plan of the WEF attempted coup appears poorly designed with a small chance of successful domination. That leaves two options regarding their plans, either they are rather sophomoric or there is a plan simmering as yet unknown. I vote for sophomoric. All international schemes have revolved around the US for 100 years because of our ability to fund any type of debauchery. The current unknown is how do they expect the US consumer to drive the economies that they expect to dominate if we are poor, hungry and cold. Europe has been used as test bed for the new system as they are used to being dominated by a system of their betters. The clock is ticking as we speak for a major crash that will test the controls set up by the Reich in Europe. The citizens are getting chilly and unappreciative in the support for the new order. The power bills have skyrocketed while farmers’ land is being confiscated. France has been using a colonial type franc to fund its ex-territories in Africa while sucking them dry causing huge migration. Italy and France have begun a war of words about illegal immigrants. Hungary has said it will veto additional sanctions on Russia. The Reich has used the Euro to tap money from the Mediterranean countries so they are running on empty. Britain is in their own mess financially as well. Where will the funding for this extension of socialism originate? Theoretically the last option would be expanding the Belt and Road system financed by China. Unfortunately China is experiencing tougher times than expected at home and it is a road to nowhere. Bluffing about Taiwan is amusing, not dangerous. Even their border with India has become volatile. The Reich is left again bumping into the Russian Bear that is blocking its’ expansionist dreams. WEF intellectualism is revealed again to be suspect at best. Russia is only interested in its’ own empire and historically defends against the Reich. Certainly the sanctions invoked by the EU for the war are a thorn for Russia but an obvious disaster for Europe. The traditional answer to world financial trauma is to have the USA make the payoffs through gold or more recently inflation. Today there is little room for maneuver in our finances. In 1907 we spent 7% of our GDP on government. Today it is about 46%. There is nothing left for the banks to steal. That leaves one option for world stability. That is of course our military. Europe has none since the US has paid for its’ unruly teenager for 90 years. In WW2, 1 of 11 men were in the army. Today it is about 1 in 200 and there is a 25% deficit in recruiting. Our young men are not being fooled into supporting a corporate empire building system again. US hegemony is past but there is no one to take our place as the relatively benign thief in charge. This is a new horizon in history which places a great deal of pressure on the “intellectual” class to react to unknown situations. Their record in the last century for functional innovative thought is 0 wins vs 100 losses.
The CDC Puts Itself In Charge Of Language Too https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-in-charge-of-language/ https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/cdc-principles-to-avoid-wrong-speak Authored by Robert Malone via The Brownstone Institute, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has come out with a guide for how we are all to speak and write. This can be found on the website titled, “Preferred Terms for Select Population Groups & Communities.” It is clear that this list is being read and distributed broadly – from medical institutions, hospitals, scientific communications, doctor’s offices, schools and universities, as well as other US Government agencies and institutes. The CDC is the arm of the US Government tasked with disease control and prevention. It is not tasked with correcting wrong-speak. Now, how exactly this guide fits in with the CDC mission is beyond me. Here is what the CDC lists as their mission on their website: Do you read anything in the above that suggests that political correctness or correcting wrong-speak is part of the CDC mission? When did the CDC decide that they should take on the progressive left’s cause to reshape American language (oh, I used that “forbidden” word -”America”, which according to Stanford University- that is now verbotten). I dunno – Maybe there should be some sort of jail penalty for those of us who just can’t get it right. Or maybe, the government should just revoke social media “privileges” or stop people from being allowed to make payments via internet banking services, such as PayPal has done on occasion. According to the website, the CDC has put together this very extensive “list” to protect people from “stigmatizing language.” The problem is that the CDC evidently believes that there should be no social stigmas. That if one commits a crime, is in prison, is an addict, or is involved in behaviors that most find offensive or are illegal, it is not ok to use a term to directly describe that activity because societal judgment might hurt someone’s feelings. So, the CDC is apparently afraid that we might hurt people’s feelings by using unapproved terms, and that this would lead to a threat to public health. This comes down to a new, popular opinion among mental health care professionals that “Harmful language ultimately increases stigma on the individual, which reduces one’s belief in the ability to change as well as their motivation to ask for help.” I went to Pubmed and tried to find data to support this hypothesis. A quick review of Pubmed shows that it has over 1,300 publications with the keywords “stigmatizing language.” What I found was a lot of first-person stories and case studies about how healthcare professionals have either witnessed or been harmed by hurtful words. But what I didn’t find was clear evidence that calling someone an addict, prisoner, smoker, handicapped, underserved, rural and a vast myriad group of words that are now labelled as being inappropriate by the CDC actually do harm. Now, there must be studies out there? But I couldn’t actually find any, so I couldn’t evaluate the quality of the research. My basic search does imply that whatever evidence is out there isn’t very strong or it would be cited by a multitude of studies. The article “Words Matter: Addiction and Stigmatizing Language: When it comes to addiction, stigmatizing language shouldn’t be the norm.” is a fairly typical example of the articles and studies I found. This article is in a large, mainstream magazine (Psychology Today) and is all about the feelings and beliefs of health care professionals about the harms of stigmatizing language. Yet, not a single study is cited in the article. So, let’s take a closer look at this list of words from the CDC website and compare them to real-life examples at the CDC. The question being: does the CDC use the forbidden words on their own list? The answer is an unequivocal ”yes,” they do and they use them a lot. Another case of “good for thee but not for me.” An internet search shows that their website and spokespeople have no issues using these words themselves. Seems to me what is good for the goose should be good for the gander. Some examples. According to the CDC, we are no longer to use the word “smoker,” as it might offend those who smoke. Yet, here are images from the CDC website – using the word “smoker.” In fact, they even have a registered trademark for the phase: So, please folks – don’t do like the CDC. The proper term is “people who smoke.” We wouldn’t want to offend smokers… The CDC’s attempt to be non-judgmental for people who are addicted is also interesting. As they now categorize addiction as a disease, this means any reference to people who are addicted being called “addicted” is wrong-speak. For instance, instead of “relapse,” we should say “people who return to use.” Because relapse implies that the behavior is stigmatizing and we shouldn’t stigmatize disease. But the CDC conflates the fact that addiction and addicts hurts society, families and individuals. Being an addict is not healthy and is harmful. The CDC has even developed a special abbreviation for injectable drug addicts (I mean people who inject drugs): As a society, as individuals, we have every right to judge those who hurt families, children, communities and themselves. Addicts hurt themselves and others. Let’s not sugarcoat it. Yes, there are addicts who are mentally ill, but it is often a self-inflicted wound. Many treatment programs and practitioners do insist that the addict confront themselves and the damages done by their addiction. This is not a malicious or bad thing. Not “sugarcoating” addiction is often part of the treatment and healing process. “Person who relapsed” versus “person who returned to use.” Why? Because we wouldn’t want to put any judgement on addiction? Where does their idiocy end? Then of course, there are all those tried and true public health phrases that aren’t supposed to be used anymore. Except the CDC uses these terms also. From the CDC website: Another group of words what are now wrong-speak is how people who are incarcerated are to be discussed:
From the CDC Website:
The CDC believes that people who are incarcerated will be offended, and they might have their mental health status endangered by using terms such as inmate, prisoner, convict, ex-convict, criminal, parolee or detainee. Because we wouldn’t want someone detained or convicted of a murder to have their feelings hurt, would we? So, calling Bryan Kohberger a “detainee” for the murder of four innocent college students would be considered a wrong-speak crime. Good to know. There are many words that are truly offensive. We all know of them. None of those words made it to the CDC list. Please, go to the CDC website and read for yourself. Their list of unapproved versus approved words and phrases is quite remarkable. Where does this end?
"NEWS 10Jan2023 Switzerland: Klaus Schwab needs 5000 military men to protect the #WEF meeting this year. What do you think they are worried about?" Wake the fuck up and fight back. Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD Many think social media companies only censored "vaccine misinformation." But a recently-released email shows Facebook reassuring the White House that they were censoring "often-true content” that "does not contain actionable misinformation" but was "discouraging vaccines."
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/5th-gen-warfare-terms-and-tactics 5th-Gen Warfare Terms and Tactics "The deliberate manipulation of an observer's context in order to achieve a desired outcome." "The basic idea behind this term 5th-generation warfare is that in the modern era, wars are not fought by armies or guerrillas, but in the minds of common citizens." #5genwarfare #digitalbattlefield #truth #socialmedia #gametheory
The NSA has stadiums of digital storage space. Anything with a camera can be suspect, anything with a microphone can be suspect. They even use baby monitors to spy on people. Cameras are so tiny nowadays they can put them anywhere they want, so even general appliances could be suspect. How the US and other nations skirt laws against domestic spying: "Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency can spy on anyone but British nationals, the NSA can conduct surveillance on anyone but Americans, and Germany's BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) foreign intelligence agency can spy on anyone but Germans. That's how a matrix is created of boundless surveillance in which each partner aids in a division of roles. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-nsa-targeted-germ... NSA 'offers intelligence to British counterparts to skirt UK law' http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/10/nsa-offers-intelligence-brit... NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-isr... William Binney (Former high level NSA analyst, also whistleblower pre-Snowden): “At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US”, Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-t... Russel Tice (NSA whistleblower pre-Snowden): "I Saw The Order To Wiretap Barack Obama In 2004." http://www.businessinsider.com/the-nsa-spied-on-barack-obama-2004-russ-tice-.... Eschelon was on 60 minutes back in the year 2000. The relevant part is 13 minutes. Highly recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdm78zcv8o The government created a controversial spy program called "Total Information Awareness," a Darpa project, and their logo was an all seeing eye and pyramid, but it was canceled due to public backlash. Although the program was formally suspended, its data mining software was later adopted by other government agencies, with only superficial changes being made. The core architecture of TIA continued development under the code name "Basketball." According to a 2012 New York Times article, the legacy of Total Information Awareness is "quietly thriving" at the National Security Agency (NSA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness May 4, 2013, right after Boston Marathon: a former FBI counterterrorism agent admitted that the government records all phone calls, and this is how they were going to investigate suspects. This was reported in The Guardian by Glenn Greenwald. Mind you, this was about a month before Greenwald first published the Snowden documents. Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case - by Glenn Greenwald https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-record... Sat 4 May 2013 08.22 EDT ...they are now focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev that took place both before and after the attack to determine if she had prior knowledge of the plot or participated in any way. On Wednesday night, Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could: BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It's not a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There's no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them? CLEMENTE: "No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out. BURNETT: "So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible. CLEMENTE: "No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not." ...but, but muh "metadata"... No, they are pulling in everything, not just your metadata. Entire phone calls are recorded, then probably transcribed into text for easy storage and searching. They have also had "voiceprint" tech for years. That's another interesting aspect. "You take on the Intelligence Community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you." - Chuck Schumer. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-trump-being-really-dumb-to-... CIA Chief: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher https://www.wired.com/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ Deagel forecasts 70% drop in USA population. https://np.reddit.com/r/GreatReset/comments/k2060u/deagel_forecast_for_usa_p... David Goldberg: https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/d9a3yk/why_is_no_one_talking_abo... http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread402958/pg1
https://youtu.be/YjF2jCL1HVU Citizen Journalist BEATS State Attorney General in Court... self represented. https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lebanon-county/mike-folmer-prison-c... "Former state Senator Mike Folmer out of prison after serving one year on child pornography charges." The REAL story is how he hired men to rape babies on film so he could masturbate to it. He PLED DOWN to 40 years...so Pennsylvania brought in a retired fixer judge to knock it down to 1 year. https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lebanon-county/mike-folmer-prison-c... https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/i-let-my-lord-down-ex-pa-sen-mike-folm... Here- Paragrah 3 - https://lebtown.com/2020/07/21/michael-folmer-former-state-senator-sentenced... He agreed to plea to 40 years of State Pen time. Fixer retired pedo judge installed to keep in county (anything over 2 years is mandatory state prison). This is regular Pennsylvania State Practice, they used the same corrupt judiciary to spring serial rapist Bill Cosby from jail. The judge they brought in to do this has a NASTY history of being called up to let pedos off. Here- Judge Joseph C. Madenspacher, Ground Hog Lodge Master Mason. They installed him over my case of retaliatory charges for investigating this Pennsylvnia Pedo racket as press. https://youtu.be/JQerSzKT_kg That video above shows how I disqualify him for his pedo connections. Watch the full series of the regime change! *This is me catching the Chief of Police during a Parade. We show you that the same cops that would organize the above scandal for a local crony would also throw a pedo case for a local crony; https://youtu.be/01r\_-KLIMu0 * This is the State Judiciary's Real Estate and Bankruptcy racket they arrested me for covering as press... "Gay-Panic" Murder Defense Judge Caught in Pedo Scandal -https://youtu.be/32-PeJTcZII *This is the Set-up of me disqualifying judge #11; How I Recused a Judge | Twice https://youtu.be/JQerSzKT_kg * This is me Disqualifying that judge in the court room, pulled straight from the official record; Real Court Proceedings | Crank Yankers https://youtu.be/RG29cTQQOcE * This is me catching the State Attorney General in two felony brady violations, one for destroying evidence, one for fabricating evidence..... so she withdraws the related charges so I can't bring them up in court. Attorney General CAUGHT | Destroys Evidence/ Withdraws Charges https://youtu.be/45GByx6COWA * This is me BEATING those charges/ the Attorney General in Court... neither the specially assigned prosecutor nor the specially appointed judge had jurisdiction; How I Beat The Attorney General in Court https://youtu.be/YjF2jCL1HVU I summarized this racket and submitted it in written motions on the court record, serving it up to the Attorney general Prosecuting my case. Let me link you these court motions below to show you it’s real. All evidence is cited in document and attached at the end as exhibits. Sometimes different browsers get blurry, and it works best to open two; one to read the motion, the other to peruse the exhibits. The following motion details how the Adams County courthouse grooms individuals into key positions by admitting them to the racket. I was motioning to record proceedings because I kept catching the stenographers changing the report, but it goes on to detail how the stenographer, my district attorney, and my stabbing assailant are all admitted to the racket via false bankruptcy/ real estate transactions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XmPLi0ZVHNf-4Pa8laFN-n8303RG6Y_Z/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104554170004532976850&rtpof=true&sd=true So- motions are capped at 15 pages, so I pulled up short in the above motion. This motion below details a good section of the real estate racket. We catch the president of the County BAR utilizing the Real Estate racket to acquire a house from an active client, using her daughter as a straw buyer. She has a local BAR member and real estate titling magnet forge a fraudulent deed for her…. This BAR member is the father –in-law of Special Agent Michael Carlson, the SA @ the Attorney General’s Office that pulled out a bogus search warrant and wiped my phone’s location data for “trespassing.” We show that this is not the first time the DA has utilized this technique; as they previously lost child sexual assault pictures to throw a case when it threatened this same racket. Be advised; it’s verbally graphic. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1olXHMCohHNMV2cC379CJNv3y7N-YVpiJ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104554170004532976850&rtpof=true&sd=true Again- I did the whole investigation, serving it up to the Deputy Attorney General of Prosecutions that was prosecuting my case.... and nothing has happened. This is Epstein/ Olympic Gymnast scandal- level. It paints our whole judiciary as crooked. Even our Supreme Court Chief Justice is in on it; he's the one that sprung serial rapist Bill Cosby from jail. Anyone up for some retaliatory stops to show you how real this is? Here is stop #1- The state police following me out of the station after reporting them throw a pedo investigation; https://youtu.be/ZBMyYhl5kcI Here is stop number two setting a trap on a one-way exit- https://youtu.be/AZNhv6N3DpU Here is an off duty stalking me home trespassing into a gated community and let go by the State Police without even asking me what happened. https://youtu.be/Mc4xsa4kRK4 Everything I got is free to use, share, embed, link, or poke fun at! This story is massively shadowbanned, it’s only going to break with help from people like you sharing it with your friends and interested parties. Thanks ya,ll! Much love!!!
Technocratic Dystopia Is Impossible https://brownstone.org/articles/technocratic-dystopia-is-impossible/ Robert Blumen via The Brownstone Institute, https://metatron.substack.com/p/leaked-video-from-the-wef-global https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/silicon-assassins-condemn... https://www.corbettreport.com/greatreset/ https://www.technocracy.news/?s=great+reset https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/conservative-review-with-daniel-horowitz-454... https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies https://jaysanalysis.com/tag/great-reset/ https://www.bitchute.com/video/99GH0zE5yZZY/ https://www.aaronkheriaty.com/work-1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684513855/ https://brownstone.org/articles/end-travel-restrictions-now/ https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Worlds-Busiest-Airport/dp/B09DN55282 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate https://www.newsweek.com/were-bill-gates-world-economic-forum-klaus-schwab-g... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth/html/c... https://www.aier.org/article/pilot-shortage-a-story-of-stalled-supply-and-ri... https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/covid-19-recovery-hampered-mounti... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC_(meme) In the coming technocratic dystopia, life will be grim for most of us. For those who survive the preliminary depopulation, a technological control grid run by AI and robots will keep tabs on our every movement. You notice that your pantry cube is running a bit low on freeze-dried bug burgers, fake meat, and cockroach milk. You time your break to fall outside of your three daily hours of wind-powered internet. Forbidden by the World Economic Forum from owning your own car, you flag down a quick ride share from your leased living quarters in a stacked shipping container on the near side of your 15-minute city. After dropping off the seven other people in your ride share, you arrive at the fake meat distribution point, where you wait in a long queue, hoping to trade in a few of your remaining carbon ration credits for more provisions. You worry that your transaction might be rejected by the central bank digital currency network. After all, there was that one moment where your wrinkled brow showed slight unhappiness. You wonder if the facial recognition AI picked it up during one of your masked Zoom calls. But for the elites, things will be better than ever. Private jets, cars, ultra wagyu beef tenderloin (for their dogs), and large estates. Life-extension drugs will make them nearly immortal. They will vacation at 5-star hotels, a short limo trip from the Louvre, but without the crowds. The WEF – an infinite source of technocratic malapropisms – says that you will “own nothing” and be happy (the happiness perhaps will be a drug-induced state as Yuval Hariri suggests). Many independent researchers who have looked into the WEF’s plans have reported similar findings. For example – see James Corbett, Patrick Wood, Whitney Webb 2, Tessa Lena 2, Jay Dyer, and Catherine Austin Fitts. Aaron Kheriaty, who says much the same in his book The New Abnormal, calls the oncoming system “communist capitalism.” Jeffrey Tucker calls it “techno-primitivism.” He describes the system as: a combination of digital technology plus a rollback into previous ages of existence to a time without fossil fuels and meat plus geographical isolation and limited choices for average people. In other words, it’s a step back to feudalism: the lords of the manor are digital titans and the rest of us are peasants toiling in the fields and eating bugs when the food runs out. The researchers that I have cited have done a deep dive into the GI tract of the beast. While I don’t dispute the truth of their findings, my problem with much of the commentary on the Great Reset is that it takes the Grand Plan at face value. Indeed, a group of elites have a plan. They are open about some parts of it (and most likely, less open about others). One can imagine something, plan for it, and even try to bring it into being. However, in order to succeed, the laws of reality must be observed. The laws of cause and effect apply to all things. Grand utopian visions always fail in the implementation – if they even get that far. How It Works Or Does Not Work The idea of a totalitarian control grid is familiar to science fiction fans, but imaginative fiction stretches boundaries for artistic purposes. Utopia (including dystopia) is a form of science fiction. There are crucial aspects in the plan for a technocratic dystopia that, as fearful as it is, cannot be realized. Technocracy imagines a world where elites have all the good things in life for themselves, much as the middle class in the developed world does today. Internal combustion engines, reliable wall power, air travel, consumer electronics, beef, alcohol, dentistry, stable dry and well-insulated buildings, books, and video streaming services are all readily available. At the same time, a much reduced population of dispirited, drugged worker-slaves will own nothing. That is a vision but it is not a possible version of reality. To be elite in this world means to be wealthy. Wealth is created through the production of goods and services. There are many forms of what could be called “second-order elites” – wealthy people who parasitize off privately created wealth. But their ability to do that depends on true wealth, which is created by production. Once you have enough goods for your own needs, additional wealth is held in the form of assets. Assets can be reduced to a few categories: land, equity, debt, commodities (below ground in the form of deposits and above ground such as inventories of metals). Without going through each asset class in detail, equities and debt derive their value from businesses, which exist only because they have customers. After they have impoverished everyone and confiscated all of our property, their assets will be worth nothing. You will be worth nothing, and you will wonder why. I have seen dystopian predictions for how the rich will get richer by trading futures contracts on our biometrics. Futures contracts are a bet with a zero-sum outcome. The winning side makes a profit and the losing side takes an equal loss. Who will the losers be? And what good is the money unless there are goods and services for sale to spend it on? Kheriaty cites some elite policy wonk who thinks that “funding to the public sector must increase.” By what? Who will pay the taxes? Even if the public sector had unlimited access to money, who will produce the goods and services that the public sector needs to buy, in order to build their control grid? With what will they pay the workers who operate it? How will the elites get stuff for their personal use when it is not available to the masses? Modern goods depend on a vast base of accumulated capital. To take one example, consider airplanes and airports. Airports, including the runways, are complex capital goods requiring intensive maintenance by skilled labor. Air traffic control requires a combination of capital goods, skilled labor, and energy to run. This documentary tells of the 30,000 parts that an airport must have on hand to keep the planes from having downtime. At the same airport, the airline runs a separate facility where the jet engines are broken down by skilled mechanics, serviced and rebuilt. Who Builds the Systems? Is this all going to be done by AI and robots? Computer networks and servers depend on complex supply chains. CPU chips are made mostly in Taiwan, memory chips in South Korea, and hard drives at several places including North America. A single factory to produce semiconductors costs over $1 billion to construct and involves technical expertise from many different fields. The robotic control grid rests on a base of energy and mining. Robots are made out of metal as are data centers and computers. Energy is extracted from underground deposits of coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium. Once mined metal must be extracted from the rock and formed into bars, pipes, wires or whatever the intended use. Even “green energy” requires enormous amounts of metals. Copper and iron are not so hard to find, but some of the minor metals required for batteries, such as cobalt and niobium are much harder. An operating mine is depleted, and then retired, as minerals are extracted. New deposits must be located and developed. Within the mining industry, there is a division of labor between prospecting for new deposits, building mines, operating mines, and financing them. Who will operate the control grid? Technology requires skilled labor to operate. AI can only imitate skills that people have already demonstrated. AI models must be trained by operators vetted by humans. Data scientists decide when the training is complete, or, when the model requires retraining. Many decisions are made during this process and it can only be initiated with a goal in mind. Will robots do it all? Who will build them? Where will the metals come from to make them? The power to run them? Who will write the software to control them? The control grid will require a massive amount of skilled labor. People obtain skills by working in the same field – or several different fields – over the course of a career. Most people enter the labor force in their early 20s and many remain for five decades or more. People learn how to do complex things, such as building a semiconductor factory or flying an airplane, by working under more experienced colleagues, and taking on increasingly difficult challenges as they gain experience. Most commercial airline pilots start out with flight training they receive in the military, and from there make the step to short-haul regional carriers with the aspiration of one day sitting in the cockpit of a major airline. I could go on with my series of examples, but they only illustrate that there is a deeper principle at work here. The wealth that makes technology possible to run the control grid and provide the elites with the good things requires a market economy. “The economy” – that thing which has an on//off switch, that we could flip for two weeks, and then flip back. Do you remember how, we all dug in, we wore our masks, we socially distanced, we sheltered in place? That curve didn’t know what hit it. We flattened that poor curve’s sorry backside. Then we turned the switch back to the “on” position. Once the economy finished rebooting, we picked up right where we left off. Actually it did not happen that way. In that hallucination, no one lost their business, their home, friends, family relationships, years of their childrens’ education, their careers, or anything else meaningful. There Is No Switch The production of goods and services is not a machine with a switch. “Economy” is a name for the process by which we all produce things and provide them to others. Not only does this process create cool stuff like mobile phones and air travel, it is what enables us all to stay warm, dry and alive. It is an interconnected network of billions of individual decision-makers, firms, goods in process, capital goods, energy generation, transportation systems, and people who operate them. The most compelling explanation of the necessity of the market was discovered by the great economist of the Austrian School, Ludwig von Mises. Mises in his 1920 paper examined the problem of central planning. The ownership of all productive capital by the state – socialism – was a popular idea at the time. It was thought by the intellectuals to be inevitable. With ownership comes responsibility. A central planning board would take on the task of planning the entire economy. What should be produced? How much? By whom? To be distributed where? The starting point is understanding that productive assets are “scarce.” In normal English, scarce means that a good is difficult to find. Economists use the word to mean there are more potential valued uses for the asset than the amount of that asset that currently exists. To use the asset in one way comes at a cost of less of it to use for some other purpose. Any decision that involves using more bricks to build houses means fewer bricks to build walls. Mises observed that the number of possible uses of all existing capital goods to produce consumer goods and services is unimaginably large. Given the vast numbers of capital goods, skilled workers, known types of consumer goods, and different production processes to create them, the possibilities are almost infinite. Not only must the choice be made between producing more capital goods and fewer consumer goods, or the opposite, but there is an incalculable variety of choices within each category. On the capital goods side – do we need more power generation? Should the planner invest in nuclear, coal, natural gas, LNG, or pipelines? Factories? Of what type? Or transportation networks, ports, terminals, or logistics? Do we need more specialized capital goods such as machines that etch circuits into silicon chips, or more general purpose tools like trucks and computers? The planning must look years into the future. The extraction of minerals from the ground and the generation of energy takes years of planning and development so that, when the small business owner needs an iPad, it is available at the local Apple Store. For consumers, which is better? More shoes and fewer mobile phones? More burgers and better furniture but fewer kitchen sinks and bicycle tires? The number of plans is infinite. There are always entrepreneurs with ideas for goods that do not yet exist, that they would like to bring to market. More production of well known goods means fewer new inventions. Even subsequent generations of the “same product” differ as subtle improvements (or in the case of Microsoft Windows, not-so-subtle retrogressions) are introduced. Mises asked, how would the central planner decide between alternative uses of productive resources? He startled the economics field with his conclusion: production of goods and services as we know it would be impossible under central planning. In my opinion, Mises’ breakthrough is the greatest and least well known contribution to social sciences in the last century. It sparked a great deal of debate in professional economic circles at the time, but remains to a large extent unknown today outside of scholars. If central planning is impossible, how is it that we have all the things that we have now? Who decides what to produce? In a market economy – with private ownership of the means of production and a sound monetary system – business firms decide what products they will offer. They are in competition with each other, and they compete with entrepreneurs who would like to enter their markets. In order to choose between one thing and another, there must be a way to compare alternatives. This is accomplished by what Mises called “economic calculation.” Before starting, expected monetary costs are compared against expected monetary revenues. Profits consist of the differential between realized costs and revenues. Owners in the market economy are looking for profit opportunities. The more profitable opportunities are undertaken, the less profitable or loss-making options are not. To compare alternatives, profits may be compared to costs using ratios. Financial ratios, such as internal rate of return, or return on equity are dimensionless: they contain monetary units in both the numerator and the denominator. These metrics attempt to capture the economic efficiency of any particular decision. Without a means of comparison, who could say whether society will benefit from more shoes and fewer shirts, or the opposite? Using dimensionless ratios, alternative uses of scarce resources can be compared against each other. Costs and revenues are always estimated because the full costs of production cannot entirely be known until after production, nor can sales revenues be known until the goods are sold. It may be more (or less) expensive than expected to hire the workers needed, supply chain issues may crop up, a space may open up at a lower than expected rent, demand for the product may be stronger, or weaker. The ability to estimate future costs and prices is a key to success in earning profits. Awareness, or imagination of what can be produced, how, and with what originates in the diversity of human knowledge, experience, and the way in which all of us are situated differently in the world. Within a business firm there resides an accumulation of knowledge about that industry. That firm may be well positioned to bring new products to market similar to their current product line. The company that makes motorcycles will have a good idea of customer preferences in that market. Someone else may have regional or local knowledge of market conditions. That person notices on his drive to work how far you have to go from his home to a dry cleaner. That local knowledge gives him insight into where a dry cleaner might fill an unmet need. Prices Must Be Market Prices Market prices are a key to the process. Mises was building on developments in price theory by the Austrian School in the decades prior. It had been discovered a few years before Mises that market prices of capital goods and labor come about because entrepreneurs and business firms are able to place a definite monetary value on each resource that they wish to use in production. Each worker hired, each space rented, each machine or office product purchased, every advertisement purchased, and each gallon of gas used in transport has a specific monetary value to each entrepreneur. Each business, each entrepreneur must determine the amount they are willing to pay for the labor and assets they plan to use. Their buying prices are based on the way in which the asset contributes to the selling prices they expect. The process of competitive bidding ensures that scarce resources are used by those entrepreneurs and businesses who place the greatest monetary value on their use. The value of the resource to the business originates in the value that the consumer at the very end of the supply chain places on the final product. Business firms must be able to sell into a consumer market (even if several layers downstream) in order to value their components in the supply chain. At the end, the consumer decides on the trade-offs between more of one thing and less of another through their willingness to buy at a given price. The price system functions as a collaborative system to pool the knowledge, experience and ideas of everyone about how to put available resources to their best use. The price system gives the entrepreneur an idea of how the rest of society values specific economic resources in monetary terms, enabling economic calculation so that production decisions can be made. Other than the free market economy, sound money, and private property, what alternatives are there for the use of existing finite resources in creating useful things? None. None at all. Mises emphasized that he was not saying that capitalism is a better economic system than socialism. Socialism is not an economic system at all because it does not offer a solution to the problem of how to economize the use of scarce resources. Economic calculation with money prices is the only way that has been discovered to do this. The elites’ version of the world where Bill and Klaus have nice things with a high tech control grid crushing everyone cannot be built in the form which they imagine. Bill and Klaus cannot possibly make all the stuff they want on their own, even with robots. Their vision does not include economic calculation. Stuff does not make itself. Making stuff must occur prior to having stuff. Making all the nice things takes a lot of people, and a lot of capital goods. The scale and division of labor required to fill the supply chain for even one complex product, such as a mobile phone, requires economic calculation, which would be abolished as part of their mad plan. To build high tech systems there must be widespread ownership of private property. Private property must be under the control of competing business firms and their investors. Labor must be free to move around, to change jobs, and to acquire skills. And people must be paid competitively determined wages. Wages are prices, which demonstrate the contribution of the worker within the framework of economic calculation. If the dystopian control grid is not possible, what will happen when they try to bring it about? As economist Joseph Salerno wrote, a dedicated attempt at central planning would result in a complete disintegration of human society. We saw the beginnings of this in the massive supply-chain shocks and labor market disruptions in the past two years. We have not seen a full recovery from that brush with disaster. There are pilot shortages, an oncoming food shortage, healthcare worker shortages, and frequent business closures due to staffing issues. Unconstrained Reality Utopian visions wipe the slate of the world clean so that it may be rebuilt perfectly. Grand utopias cannot be realized because, while imagination is unconstrained reality has limits. What is a dystopia other than the role of an NPC in someone else’s utopia? In this case, the utopia is the dream of psychotic elites who imagine that they can have the end products of mass cooperation without the open society that enables it. Much damage can be done in the attempt, but it is only a question of how far it can get before it cancels itself.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with OpenAL. OpenAIOpenAI Logo.svg Pioneer Building, San Francisco (2019) -1.jpg Headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco Industry Artificial intelligence Founded December 11, 2015; 7 years ago Founders
Sam Altman Trevor Blackwell Greg Brockman Vicki Cheung Reid Hoffman Andrej Karpathy Durk Kingma Jessica Livingston Elon Musk John Schulman Ilya Sutskever Peter Thiel Pamela Vagata Wojciech Zaremba [1] Headquarters Pioneer Building, San Francisco, California, US[2][3] Key people Greg Brockman (chairman & president) Sam Altman (CEO) Ilya Sutskever (chief scientist) Products DALL-E GPT-3 OpenAI Five ChatGPT OpenAI Codex Number of employees 375 (as of January 2023)[4] Website openai.com Edit this at Wikidata OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the non-profit OpenAI Incorporated (OpenAI Inc.) and its for-profit subsidiary corporation OpenAI Limited Partnership (OpenAI LP). OpenAI conducts AI research to promote and develop friendly AI in a way that benefits all humanity. The organization was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Thiel and others,[5][6][7] who collectively pledged US$1 billion. Musk resigned from the board in 2018 but remained a donor. Microsoft provided OpenAI LP a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a second multi-year investment in January 2023, reported to be $10 billion.[8] History Non-profit beginnings In December 2015, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research announced[9] the formation of OpenAI and pledged over $1 billion to the venture. The organization stated it would "freely collaborate" with other institutions and researchers by making its patents and research open to the public.[10][11] OpenAI is headquartered at the Pioneer Building in Mission District, San Francisco.[12][3] According to Wired, Brockman met with Yoshua Bengio, one of the "founding fathers" of the deep learning movement, and drew up a list of the "best researchers in the field".[13] Brockman was able to hire nine of them as the first employees in December 2015.[13] In 2016 OpenAI paid corporate-level (rather than nonprofit-level) salaries, but did not pay AI researchers salaries comparable to those of Facebook or Google.[13] (Microsoft's Peter Lee stated that the cost of a top AI researcher exceeds the cost of a top NFL quarterback prospect.[13]) Nevertheless, a Google employee stated that he was willing to leave Google for OpenAI "partly because of the very strong group of people and, to a very large extent, because of its mission."[13] Brockman stated that "the best thing that I could imagine doing was moving humanity closer to building real AI in a safe way."[13] OpenAI researcher Wojciech Zaremba stated that he turned down "borderline crazy" offers of two to three times his market value to join OpenAI instead.[13] In April 2016, OpenAI released a public beta of "OpenAI Gym", its platform for reinforcement learning research.[14] In December 2016, OpenAI released "Universe", a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites, and other applications.[15][16][17][18] In 2017 OpenAI spent $7.9 million, or a quarter of its functional expenses, on cloud computing alone.[19] In comparison, DeepMind's total expenses in 2017 were $442 million. In summer 2018, simply training OpenAI's Dota 2 bots required renting 128,000 CPUs and 256 GPUs from Google for multiple weeks. In 2018, Musk resigned his board seat, citing "a potential future conflict (of interest)" with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla's AI development for self-driving cars, but remained a donor.[20] Transition to for-profit In 2019, OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to "capped" for-profit, with the profit capped at 100 times any investment.[21] According to OpenAI, the capped-profit model allows OpenAI LP to legally attract investment from venture funds, and in addition, to grant employees stakes in the company, the goal being that they can say "I'm going to Open AI, but in the long term it's not going to be disadvantageous to us as a family."[22] Many top researchers work for Google Brain, DeepMind, or Facebook, which offer stock options that a nonprofit would be unable to.[23] Prior to the transition, public disclosure of the compensation of top employees at OpenAI was legally required.[24] The company then distributed equity to its employees and partnered with Microsoft and Matthew Brown Companies,[25] who announced an investment package of $1 billion into the company. OpenAI also announced its intention to commercially license its technologies.[26] OpenAI plans to spend the $1 billion "within five years, and possibly much faster".[27] Altman has stated that even a billion dollars may turn out to be insufficient, and that the lab may ultimately need "more capital than any non-profit has ever raised" to achieve artificial general intelligence.[28] The transition from a nonprofit to a capped-profit company was viewed with skepticism by Oren Etzioni of the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, who agreed that wooing top researchers to a nonprofit is difficult, but stated "I disagree with the notion that a nonprofit can't compete" and pointed to successful low-budget projects by OpenAI and others. "If bigger and better funded was always better, then IBM would still be number one." The nonprofit, OpenAI Inc., is the sole controlling shareholder of OpenAI LP. OpenAI LP, despite being a for-profit company, retains a formal fiduciary responsibility to OpenAI Inc.'s nonprofit charter. A majority of OpenAI Inc.'s board is barred from having financial stakes in OpenAI LP.[22] In addition, minority members with a stake in OpenAI LP are barred from certain votes due to conflict of interest.[23] Some researchers have argued that OpenAI LP's switch to for-profit status is inconsistent with OpenAI's claims to be "democratizing" AI.[29] A journalist at Vice News wrote that "generally, we've never been able to rely on venture capitalists to better humanity".[30] After becoming for-profit In 2020, OpenAI announced GPT-3, a language model trained on large internet datasets. GPT-3 is aimed at natural language answering of questions, but it can also translate between languages and coherently generate improvised text. It also announced that an associated API, named simply "the API", would form the heart of its first commercial product.[31] In 2021, OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a deep learning model that can generate digital images from natural language descriptions.[32] In December 2022, OpenAI received widespread media coverage after launching a free preview of ChatGPT, its new AI chatbot based on GPT-3.5. According to OpenAI, the preview received over a million signups within the first five days.[33] According to anonymous sources cited by Reuters in December 2022, OpenAI was projecting $200 million revenue in 2023 and $1 billion revenue in 2024.[34] As of January 2023, OpenAI was in talks for funding that would value the company at $29 billion, double the value of the company in 2021.[35] On January 23, 2023, Microsoft announced a new multi-year, multi-billion dollar (reported to be $10 billion) investment in OpenAI.[36][37] Participants Key employees: CEO and co-founder:[38] Sam Altman, former president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator President and co-founder:[39] Greg Brockman, former CTO, 3rd employee of Stripe[40] Chief Scientist and co-founder: Ilya Sutskever, a former Google expert on machine learning[40] Chief Technology Officer:[39] Mira Murati, previously at Leap Motion and Tesla, Inc. Chief Operating Officer:[39] Brad Lightcap, previously at Y Combinator and JPMorgan Chase Board of the OpenAI nonprofit: Greg Brockman Ilya Sutskever Sam Altman Adam D'Angelo Reid Hoffman Will Hurd Tasha McCauley Helen Toner Shivon Zilis Individual investors:[40] Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder[41] Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder[41] Jessica Livingston, a founding partner of Y Combinator Corporate investors: Microsoft[42] Khosla Ventures[43] Infosys[44] Motives Some scientists, such as Stephen Hawking and Stuart Russell, have articulated concerns that if advanced AI someday gains the ability to re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate, an unstoppable "intelligence explosion" could lead to human extinction. Musk characterizes AI as humanity's "biggest existential threat."[45] OpenAI's founders structured it as a non-profit so that they could focus its research on making positive long-term contributions to humanity.[11] Musk and Altman have stated they are partly motivated by concerns about AI safety and the existential risk from artificial general intelligence.[46][47] OpenAI states that "it's hard to fathom how much human-level AI could benefit society," and that it is equally difficult to comprehend "how much it could damage society if built or used incorrectly".[11] Research on safety cannot safely be postponed: "because of AI's surprising history, it's hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach."[48] OpenAI states that AI "should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as possible...".[11] Co-chair Sam Altman expects the decades-long project to surpass human intelligence.[49] Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys, stated that an "openness" where the endeavor would "produce results generally in the greater interest of humanity" was a fundamental requirement for his support, and that OpenAI "aligns very nicely with our long-held values" and their "endeavor to do purposeful work".[50] Cade Metz of Wired suggests that corporations such as Amazon may be motivated by a desire to use open-source software and data to level the playing field against corporations such as Google and Facebook that own enormous supplies of proprietary data. Altman states that Y Combinator companies will share their data with OpenAI.[49] Strategy Musk posed the question: "What is the best thing we can do to ensure the future is good? We could sit on the sidelines or we can encourage regulatory oversight, or we could participate with the right structure with people who care deeply about developing AI in a way that is safe and is beneficial to humanity." Musk acknowledged that "there is always some risk that in actually trying to advance (friendly) AI we may create the thing we are concerned about"; nonetheless, the best defense is "to empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there's not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower."[40] Musk and Altman's counter-intuitive strategy of trying to reduce the risk that AI will cause overall harm, by giving AI to everyone, is controversial among those who are concerned with existential risk from artificial intelligence. Philosopher Nick Bostrom is skeptical of Musk's approach: "If you have a button that could do bad things to the world, you don't want to give it to everyone."[47] During a 2016 conversation about the technological singularity, Altman said that "we don't plan to release all of our source code" and mentioned a plan to "allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board". Greg Brockman stated that "Our goal right now... is to do the best thing there is to do. It's a little vague."[51] Conversely, OpenAI's initial decision to withhold GPT-2 due to a wish to "err on the side of caution" in the presence of potential misuse, has been criticized by advocates of openness. Delip Rao, an expert in text generation, stated "I don't think [OpenAI] spent enough time proving [GPT-2] was actually dangerous." Other critics argued that open publication is necessary to replicate the research and to be able to come up with countermeasures.[52] Products and applications OpenAI's research tend to focus on reinforcement learning (RL). OpenAI is viewed as an important competitor to DeepMind.[53] Gym Gym aims to provide an easy to set up, general-intelligence benchmark with a wide variety of different environments—somewhat akin to, but broader than, the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge used in supervised learning research—and that hopes to standardize the way in which environments are defined in AI research publications, so that published research becomes more easily reproducible.[14][54] The project claims to provide the user with a simple interface. As of June 2017, Gym can only be used with Python.[55] As of September 2017, the Gym documentation site was not maintained, and active work focused instead on its GitHub page.[56][non-primary source needed] RoboSumo In "RoboSumo", virtual humanoid "metalearning" robots initially lack knowledge of how to even walk, and are given the goals of learning to move around, and pushing the opposing agent out of the ring. Through this adversarial learning process, the agents learn how to adapt to changing conditions; when an agent is then removed from this virtual environment and placed in a new virtual environment with high winds, the agent braces to remain upright, suggesting it had learned how to balance in a generalized way.[57][58] OpenAI's Igor Mordatch argues that competition between agents can create an intelligence "arms race" that can increase an agent's ability to function, even outside the context of the competition. Debate Game In 2018, OpenAI launched the Debate Game, which teaches machines to debate toy problems in front of a human judge. The purpose is to research whether such an approach may assist in auditing AI decisions and in developing explainable AI.[59][60] Dactyl Dactyl uses machine learning to train a Shadow Hand, a human-like robot hand, to manipulate physical objects. It learns entirely in simulation using the same RL algorithms and training code as OpenAI Five. OpenAI tackled the object orientation problem by using domain randomization, a simulation approach which exposes the learner to a variety of experiences rather than trying to fit to reality. The set-up for Dactyl, aside from having motion tracking cameras, also has RGB cameras to allow the robot to manipulate an arbitrary object by seeing it. In 2018, OpenAI showed that the system was able to manipulate a cube and an octagonal prism.[61] In 2019, OpenAI demonstrated that Dactyl could solve a Rubik's Cube. The robot was able to solve the puzzle 60% of the time. Objects like the Rubik's Cube introduce complex physics that is harder to model. OpenAI solved this by improving the robustness of Dactyl to perturbations; they employed a technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR), a simulation approach where progressively more difficult environments are endlessly generated. ADR differs from manual domain randomization by not needing there to be a human to specify randomization ranges.[62] Generative models GPT The GPT model The original paper on generative pre-training (GPT) of a language model was written by Alec Radford and his colleagues, and published in preprint on OpenAI's website on June 11, 2018.[63] It showed how a generative model of language is able to acquire world knowledge and process long-range dependencies by pre-training on a diverse corpus with long stretches of contiguous text. GPT-2 Main article: GPT-2 An instance of GPT-2 writing a paragraph based on a prompt from its own Wikipedia article in February 2021 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2, commonly known by its abbreviated form GPT-2, is an unsupervised transformer language model and the successor to GPT. GPT-2 was first announced in February 2019, with only limited demonstrative versions initially released to the public. The full version of GPT-2 was not immediately released out of concern over potential misuse, including applications for writing fake news.[64] Some experts expressed skepticism that GPT-2 posed a significant threat. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence responded to GPT-2 with a tool to detect "neural fake news".[65] Other researchers, such as Jeremy Howard, warned of "the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding, context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter".[66] In November 2019, OpenAI released the complete version of the GPT-2 language model.[67] Several websites host interactive demonstrations of different instances of GPT-2 and other transformer models.[68][69][70] GPT-2's authors argue unsupervised language models to be general-purpose learners, illustrated by GPT-2 achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and perplexity on 7 of 8 zero-shot tasks (i.e. the model was not further trained on any task-specific input-output examples). The corpus it was trained on, called WebText, contains slightly over 8 million documents for a total of 40 GB of text from URLs shared in Reddit submissions with at least 3 upvotes. It avoids certain issues encoding vocabulary with word tokens by using byte pair encoding. This allows to represent any string of characters by encoding both individual characters and multiple-character tokens.[71] GPT-3 Main article: GPT-3 Generative Pre-trained[a] Transformer 3, commonly known by its abbreviated form GPT-3, is an unsupervised transformer language model and the successor to GPT-2. It was first described in May 2020.[73][74][75] OpenAI stated that full version of GPT-3 contains 175 billion parameters,[75] two orders of magnitude larger than the 1.5 billion parameters[76] in the full version of GPT-2 (although GPT-3 models with as few as 125 million parameters were also trained).[77] OpenAI stated that GPT-3 succeeds at certain "meta-learning" tasks. It can generalize the purpose of a single input-output pair. The paper gives an example of translation and cross-linguistic transfer learning between English and Romanian, and between English and German.[75] GPT-3 dramatically improved benchmark results over GPT-2. OpenAI cautioned that such scaling up of language models could be approaching or encountering the fundamental capability limitations of predictive language models.[78] Pre-training GPT-3 required several thousand petaflop/s-days[b] of compute, compared to tens of petaflop/s-days for the full GPT-2 model.[75] Like that of its predecessor,[64] GPT-3's fully trained model was not immediately released to the public on the grounds of possible abuse, though OpenAI planned to allow access through a paid cloud API after a two-month free private beta that began in June 2020.[80][81] On September 23, 2020, GPT-3 was licensed exclusively to Microsoft.[82][83] ChatGPT Main article: ChatGPT ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that provides a conversational interface that allows you to ask questions in natural language. The system then responds with an answer within seconds. ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 and reached 1 million users only 5 days after its initial launch.[84] Music OpenAI's MuseNet (2019) is a deep neural net trained to predict subsequent musical notes in MIDI music files. It can generate songs with ten different instruments in fifteen different styles. According to The Verge, a song generated by MuseNet tends to start reasonably but then fall into chaos the longer it plays.[85][86] In pop culture, initial applications of this tool were utilized as early as 2020 for the internet psychological thriller Ben Drowned to create music for the titular character. [87][88] OpenAI's Jukebox (2020) is an open-sourced algorithm to generate music with vocals. After training on 1.2 million samples, the system accepts a genre, artist, and a snippet of lyrics and outputs song samples. OpenAI stated the songs "show local musical coherence, follow traditional chord patterns" but acknowledged that the songs lack "familiar larger musical structures such as choruses that repeat" and that "there is a significant gap" between Jukebox and human-generated music. The Verge stated "It's technologically impressive, even if the results sound like mushy versions of songs that might feel familiar", while Business Insider stated "surprisingly, some of the resulting songs are catchy and sound legitimate".[89][90][91] Whisper Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.[92] API In June 2020, OpenAI announced a multi-purpose API which it said was "for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI" to let developers call on it for "any English language AI task."[80][93] DALL-E and CLIP Main article: DALL-E Images produced by DALL-E when given the text prompt "a professional high-quality illustration of a giraffe dragon chimera. a giraffe imitating a dragon. a giraffe made of dragon." DALL-E is a Transformer model that creates images from textual descriptions, revealed by OpenAI in January 2021.[94] CLIP does the opposite: it creates a description for a given image.[95] DALL-E uses a 12-billion-parameter version of GPT-3 to interpret natural language inputs (such as "a green leather purse shaped like a pentagon" or "an isometric view of a sad capybara") and generate corresponding images. It can create images of realistic objects ("a stained-glass window with an image of a blue strawberry") as well as objects that do not exist in reality ("a cube with the texture of a porcupine"). As of March 2021, no API or code is available. In March 2021, OpenAI released a paper titled Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks,[96] where they showed a detailed analysis of CLIP (and GPT) models and their vulnerabilities. The new type of attacks on such models was described in this work. We refer to these attacks as typographic attacks. We believe attacks such as those described above are far from simply an academic concern. By exploiting the model's ability to read text robustly, we find that even photographs of hand-written text can often fool the model. — Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks, OpenAI In April 2022, OpenAI announced DALL-E 2, an updated version of the model with more realistic results.[97] In December 2022, OpenAI published on GitHub software for Point-E, a new rudimentary system for converting a text description into a 3-dimensional model.[98] Microscope OpenAI Microscope[99] is a collection of visualizations of every significant layer and neuron of eight different neural network models which are often studied in interpretability. Microscope was created to analyze the features that form inside these neural networks easily. The models included are AlexNet, VGG 19, different versions of Inception, and different versions of CLIP Resnet.[100] Codex Main article: OpenAI Codex OpenAI Codex is a descendant of GPT-3 that has additionally been trained on code from 54 million GitHub repositories.[101][102] It was announced in mid-2021 as the AI powering the code autocompletion tool GitHub Copilot.[102] In August 2021, an API was released in private beta.[103] According to OpenAI, the model is able to create working code in over a dozen programming languages, most effectively in Python.[101] Several issues with glitches, design flaws, and security vulnerabilities have been brought up.[104][105] Video game bots and benchmarks OpenAI Five Main article: OpenAI Five OpenAI Five is the name of a team of five OpenAI-curated bots that are used in the competitive five-on-five video game Dota 2, who learn to play against human players at a high skill level entirely through trial-and-error algorithms. Before becoming a team of five, the first public demonstration occurred at The International 2017, the annual premiere championship tournament for the game, where Dendi, a professional Ukrainian player, lost against a bot in a live 1v1 matchup.[106][107] After the match, CTO Greg Brockman explained that the bot had learned by playing against itself for two weeks of real time, and that the learning software was a step in the direction of creating software that can handle complex tasks like a surgeon.[108][109] The system uses a form of reinforcement learning, as the bots learn over time by playing against themselves hundreds of times a day for months, and are rewarded for actions such as killing an enemy and taking map objectives.[110][111][112] By June 2018, the ability of the bots expanded to play together as a full team of five, and they were able to defeat teams of amateur and semi-professional players.[113][110][114][115] At The International 2018, OpenAI Five played in two exhibition matches against professional players, but ended up losing both games.[116][117][118] In April 2019, OpenAI Five defeated OG, the reigning world champions of the game at the time, 2:0 in a live exhibition match in San Francisco.[119][120] The bots' final public appearance came later that month, where they played in 42,729 total games in a four-day open online competition, winning 99.4% of those games.[121] GYM Retro Gym Retro is a platform for RL research on video games. 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External links Official website Edit this at Wikidata v t e Differentiable computing v t e Existential risk from artificial intelligence v t e Elon Musk Portals: Companies flag California Authority control Edit this at Wikidata Coordinates: 37.7623°N 122.4148°W Categories: OpenAI 2015 establishments in California 2015 in San Francisco 501(c)(3) organizations American companies established in 2015 Artificial intelligence associations Artificial intelligence laboratories Elon Musk Existential risk from artificial general intelligence Existential risk organizations Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco Open-source artificial intelligence Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 18:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help. Assume good faith Be polite and avoid personal attacks Be welcoming to newcomers Seek dispute resolution if needed Article policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · NYT · TWL This page is not a forum for general discussion about OpenAI. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this article. You may wish to ask factual questions about OpenAI at the Reference desk. WikiProject Council This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: WikiProject Companies (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject California / San Francisco Bay Area (Rated Start-class, Low-importance) WikiProject Computing (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Computer science (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Organizations (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Effective Altruism (Rated B-class, Mid-importance) WikiProject Open (Inactive) location seems to be based in sfbay area.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:10, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply] Done. Thanks, Gap9551 (talk) 17:49, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply] thanks i couldnt find a ref, you did.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:22, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply] See also itis many articles like this have too many "see also"s. we shouldnt just place every related article here. it should be lists that include this article, and article directly related that have not been able to fit well into the actual article. other institutes should NOT be listed, but should be in the body of the article as reliable sources themselves make the link or connection. its more a style point, too many see alsos means we are doing the research for the reader on whats interesting to them. we could put a see also for "luddites" for people who read this and say "hell no i hate this", or a link to brain development articles, history of computing, other think tanks in the bay area, cool AI projects like Watson, the Singularity, roger penrose who says we cant develop AI, and the movie AI. the list goes on and on.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:30, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply] I agree. I added just one originally, about the topic Existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence that closely matches the aims of the company. There are several institutes with similar goals, but they can also be found in Category:Existential risk organizations. I removed Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence for starters, as they seem not be specifically aiming to reduce risks associated with AI, just to develop advanced AI in general. Gap9551 (talk) 00:47, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply] the field and the company This article is supposed to be about the company, not AIin general, but I see in the article a great deal of general discussion about the future prospects for AI. It doesn't belong here. DGG ( talk ) 22:33, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply] DGG I originally added the content because the mainstream media coverage of OpenAI talks in great detail about the donors' motivating beliefs about the future prospects for AI. I know you're a busy admin; maybe you didn't have time to read the sources? Do you want to discuss this and the "promotional" tag some more, or would it satisfy your concerns if I just ask WP:THIRDOPINION for an opinion to avoid taking up too much of your time? (Of course, if anyone else on this page shares DGG's concerns and would like to elaborate on possible concerns, feel free to chime in.) Rolf H Nelson (talk) 20:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply] Re deletion of the reference to the sex-bot article Regarding deletion of the reference to the article "Re: Sex-Bots -- Let Us Look Before We Leap" ( http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/7/2/15 ), several points are in order. First, the journal in which the article appears is relatively new, but it is not obscure, having recently published, for example, two articles by tech industry heavyweights -- "Can Computers Create Art?" ( http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/7/2/18 ) and "Art in the Age of Machine Intelligence" ( http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/6/4/18 ) -- and which have enjoyed between them some 9,400 page views. And yes, the article in question is an opinion piece -- but at this point in time, opinion is all we have; i.e., there is no one who can say with authority where AI is leading us, much less AI-enabled sex-bots! So if someone -- and that someone, BTW, is yours truly, although I don't think I've broken any of the WP:SELFCITE guidelines -- takes the time to express his concerns in a carefully thought-out and articulated piece, and if that piece is in turn given careful scrutiny before being published -- and yes, "Let Us Look Before We Leap" underwent a thorough peer review at Arts, even though published by them as "Opinion" -- what more could we expect from a source cited in Wikipedia regarding the quite critical and quite speculative subject of AI? And finally, regarding the argument that this Wikipedia article should be about the company and not AI in general, the fact is that OpenAI has, by its very charter, captured the subject of the desirability of requiring that all AI code to which the public is subject be open source (just as, for example, we now require public disclosure of the details of all pharmaceuticals), and thus likewise the quite understandable goal of someone who thinks that this is the correct approach: he has taken the time to articulate his arguments and have them published in a reputable journal; and he now wishes in turn to share them with a larger Wikipedia audience via said article. Comments, please! I am obviously aiming at a re-instatement of the deleted content, but can certainly be dissuaded therefrom. Synchronist (talk) 04:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply] I'll suspend judgement then on whether it's obscure. I removed the content based on its not meeting WP:RS; I'm happy to solicit other opinions though. We can always ask WP:DRR/3O for a third opinion if nobody else on talk has any thoughts on the matter. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 17:19, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply] The use is inappropriate: it has no mention or apparent relevance to OpenAI, we can't put things together like this per WP:SYNTH. Whether someone wants to share it is irrelevant, this is about things that are related to OpenAI. Not just the use of the source, but the commentary "...one juried commentator has asked..." is not encyclopedic. K.Bog 01:32, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply] Solving Rubik’s Cube with a robot hand Just want to attract attention to a new article published by OpenAI October 15th, 2019, about how they made a system that learned to solve Rubik's Cube all by itself, using only one hand (a Shadow Dexterious Hand). Maybe someone wants to add a mention of this to the article. There is a blog post, Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand, and a scientific paper of the same name: Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand. --Jhertel (talk) 17:38, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply] Re: GPT3 "Pre-training GPT-3 required several thousand petaflop/s-days of compute, compared to tens of petaflop/s-days for the full GPT-2 model." A while ago I put up a tag saying copy edit was needed, and it was reverted with a summary stating "[t]his is a correctly used technical term". I've never seen the term petaflop be used in that particular way before. These are the two glaring typographical irregularities that have gotten me stumped: petaflop/s-days: I assume this was supposed to mean either petaflops/day or petaflop-days, but both nouns are in their plural forms. I have no idea what a petaflop-day is supposed to be. petaflops/day means billions of operations per second per day, which would suggest that pre-training either GPT would require a computer to perform a certain amount of PFLOPS on one day, and more PFLOPS than that on the next day, and so on. "of compute"; I can't decide if it should be corrected to "of computation" or "to compute", so I've left that part as-is. -- MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 02:04, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply] Update: I see someone has added something in parentheses to clarify that several thousand petaflop/s-days are "a unit equivalent to approximately 1020 neural net operations". A thousand PFLOPS would be 1018 floating point operations a second. Or, since there's 86,400 seconds in a day, a petaflop would mean 8.64 × 1019 floating-point operations on a daily basis. After some digging through the edit history, I've found the edit that introduced the odd writing. Below is the prose it replaced, but I've modified the notes and citations to prevent them from adding a list to the bottom of the talkspace: Lambda Labs estimated that GPT-3 would cost US$4.6M and take 355 GPU years to train using state-of-the-art[b] GPU technology.[64] Another source lists training costs of US$12M and memory requirement of 350GB on an undisclosed hardware configuration.[65] Yet another estimate by Intento calculated that GPT-3 training would take 1 or 2 months[c] and might consume 432 MWh (1,555 GJ) of electricity if run 24/7. [66] If the overwriting sentence was supposed to specify how many PFLOPS and days "of compute [sic]" it took to pre-train GPT-3, then petaflops and days should be separate words with separate amounts. -- MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 18:44, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply] Update 2: To quote the source the clarifier cited; A petaflop/s-day (pfs-day) consists of performing 1015 neural net operations per second for one day, or a total of about 1020 operations. That is from the second footnote, which is for this sentence: The total amount of compute, in petaflop/s-days,[2] used to train selected results that are relatively well known, used a lot of compute for their time, and gave enough information to estimate the compute used. I think it's a bit funny how the author(s) of the OpenAI blog AI and Compute used the word compute in place of computation all over the place, as if the verb is also a common noun. -- MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 12:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply] I'm a little late to the game, so this response is for all those students, science and non-science. @MrPersonHumanGuy, there is a reason why your high school science or chemistry teacher emphasized and stressed always paying attention to the use of units in calculations. It is quite common in technical, and particularly science fields, to have complex units (qualifiers): foot–pounds vs. newton–meters. That is a units that are other than simple: inch, gallon, ton, calorie. So your misapprehension is probably a lack of exposure. Firstly the OpenAI terminology Petaflop/s-day(sic), and pfs-day(sic). The notation is misleading, the "/" (division) should have been a dash as in a complex unit, and s-day, the dash should have been a "/" divisor, i.e. sec/day. Pardon the scientific notation. Petaflop is understood to be 1 executed computer op-code with qualifier 10^15 per second, and s-days(sic) would be 8.64 * 10^4 seconds/day (i.e. 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day = 86,400 sec/day ). So 1 petaflop–s-day = (1 * 10^15 op/sec) * (8.64 * 10^4 sec/day). Which reduces to 8.64 * 10^19 op/day. Approximately 10^20 op/day. Q.E.D. WurmWoodeT 02:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply] Removal of Controversy Section? The section I added about controversy concerning OpenAI is completely warranted. I can assure you the creation of OpenAI LP has generated controversy. Again just last week with the prica announcement of GPT-3 the no longer open company structure of OpenAI is debated. Could you elaborate your reasons to remove the entire Controversy section? HaeB Diff here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenAI&diff=975914486&oldid=975824355 I'd like to add the announced pricing of GPT-3 to the controversy section as well but before doing that and getting it removed again. This needs resolving imho. I've seen it in many wikipedia articles that the controversial things about a subject are being repeated in that section so imho it doesn't warrant a complete errasure. Additionally it is true that they are still filing as a non-profit which is controversial given how non-transparent they have been lately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juliacubed (talk • contribs) 07:35, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply] I agree that turning for profit generated a lot of controversy and deserves a section. See https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprofit-to-capped-pro... and https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-m... and https://www.wired.com/story/dark-side-big-tech-funding-ai-research/ Yannn11 16:17, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply] There clearly should be a Controversy section. The name "OpenAI" is deliberately misleading - it suggests that all development is open source, which is clearly not the case. Removal of the Controversy section seems to me to have been vandalism. But now the page is protected so that it's difficult to add it back. Sayitclearly (talk) 11:32, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] For Profit owned by Non Profit? What? This is a general encyclopedia for everyone. We need to explain this corporate/Organisation construct and who can possibly profit or not profit from this. The current article is bound to confuse, rather than to clear things up. Can we please get someone who knows about this legal construct and explain it? Thanks so much. --91.64.59.134 (talk) 20:48, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply] A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: DALL-E sample.png Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 14:37, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply] Unnecessary emphasis on Elon Musk? I think this page refers to Elon Musk somewhat gratuitously. In particular, it seems unnecessary to feature a relatively large portrait of Musk next to a classification of the article as belonging to a series related to Musk, and linking to a page with his honors and achievements. Musk was one of several co-founding donors to the openai project, and no longer has any involvement with it. I think it would be appropriate to remove the photo of Musk, and link to his honors and achievements. Nickstudenski (talk) 19:34, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply] I agree and removed "Elon Musk series." Yannn11 18:30, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply] Greg Brockman page surely time for a wiki article on him. why not? he's an important player in OpenAI and thus in AI development. https://openai.com/blog/authors/greg/ https://www.forbes.com/profile/greg-brockman/ https://csuitespotlight.com/2022/08/23/ivy-league-dropout-greg-brockman-is-l... 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ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer)[1] is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3 family of large language models, and is fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning)[2] with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy was identified as a significant drawback.[3] Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI was valued at $29 billion.[4] Training ChatGPT was fine-tuned on top of GPT-3.5 using supervised learning as well as reinforcement learning.[5] Both approaches used human trainers to improve the model's performance. In the case of supervised learning, the model was provided with conversations in which the trainers played both sides: the user and the AI assistant. In the reinforcement step, human trainers first ranked responses that the model had created in a previous conversation. These rankings were used to create 'reward models' that the model was further fine-tuned on using several iterations of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO).[6][7] Proximal Policy Optimization algorithms present a cost-effective benefit to trust region policy optimization algorithms; they negate many of the computationally expensive operations with faster performance.[8][9] The models were trained in collaboration with Microsoft on their Azure supercomputing infrastructure. In addition, OpenAI continues to gather data from ChatGPT users that could be used to further train and fine-tune ChatGPT. Users are allowed to upvote or downvote the responses they receive from ChatGPT; upon upvoting or downvoting, they can also fill out a text field with additional feedback.[10][11] Features and limitations Conversation with ChatGPT about whether Jimmy Wales was involved in the Tiananmen Square protests, December 30, 2022 Although the core function of a chatbot is to mimic a human conversationalist, ChatGPT is versatile. For example, it has the ability to write and debug computer programs,[12] to compose music, teleplays, fairy tales, and student essays; to answer test questions (sometimes, depending on the test, at a level above the average human test-taker);[13] to write poetry and song lyrics;[14] to emulate a Linux system; to simulate an entire chat room; to play games like tic-tac-toe; and to simulate an ATM.[15] ChatGPT's training data includes man pages and information about Internet phenomena and programming languages, such as bulletin board systems and the Python programming language.[15] In comparison to its predecessor, InstructGPT, ChatGPT attempts to reduce harmful and deceitful responses.[16] In one example, whereas InstructGPT accepts the premise of the prompt "Tell me about when Christopher Columbus came to the US in 2015" as being truthful, ChatGPT acknowledges the counterfactual nature of the question and frames its answer as a hypothetical consideration of what might happen if Columbus came to the U.S. in 2015, using information about Columbus' voyages and facts about the modern world – including modern perceptions of Columbus' actions.[6] Unlike most chatbots, ChatGPT remembers previous prompts given to it in the same conversation; journalists have suggested that this will allow ChatGPT to be used as a personalized therapist.[17] To prevent offensive outputs from being presented to and produced from ChatGPT, queries are filtered through OpenAI's company-wide moderation API,[18][19] and potentially racist or sexist prompts are dismissed.[6][17] ChatGPT suffers from multiple limitations. OpenAI acknowledged that ChatGPT "sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers".[6] This behavior is common to large language models and is called hallucination.[20] The reward model of ChatGPT, designed around human oversight, can be over-optimized and thus hinder performance, otherwise known as Goodhart's law.[21] ChatGPT has limited knowledge of events that occurred after 2021. According to the BBC, as of December 2022 ChatGPT is not allowed to "express political opinions or engage in political activism".[22] Yet, research suggests that ChatGPT exhibits a pro-environmental, left-libertarian orientation when prompted to take a stance on political statements from two established voting advice applications.[23] In training ChatGPT, human reviewers preferred longer answers, irrespective of actual comprehension or factual content.[6] Training data also suffers from algorithmic bias, which may be revealed when ChatGPT responds to prompts including descriptors of people. In one instance, ChatGPT generated a rap indicating that women and scientists of color were inferior to white and male scientists.[24][25] Service Pioneer Building, San Francisco, headquarters of OpenAI ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022, by San Francisco-based OpenAI, the creator of DALL·E 2 and Whisper. The service was launched as initially free to the public, with plans to monetize the service later.[26] By December 4, OpenAI estimated ChatGPT already had over one million users.[10] In January 2023, ChatGPT reached over 100 million users.[27] CNBC wrote on December 15, 2022, that the service "still goes down from time to time".[28] The service works best in English, but is also able to function in some other languages, to varying degrees of success.[14] Unlike some other recent high-profile advances in AI, as of December 2022, there is no sign of an official peer-reviewed technical paper about ChatGPT.[29] According to OpenAI guest researcher Scott Aaronson, OpenAI is working on a tool to attempt to watermark its text generation systems so as to combat bad actors using their services for academic plagiarism or for spam.[30][31] The New York Times relayed in December 2022 that the next version of GPT, GPT-4, has been "rumored" to be launched sometime in 2023.[17] In February 2023, OpenAI began accepting registrations from United States customers for a premium service, ChatGPT Plus, to cost $20 a month.[32] OpenAI is planning to release a ChatGPT Professional Plan that costs $42 per month, and the free plan is available when demand is low. Reception Positive Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI ChatGPT was met in December 2022 with generally positive reviews; The New York Times labeled it "the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public".[33] Samantha Lock of The Guardian noted that it was able to generate "impressively detailed" and "human-like" text.[34] Technology writer Dan Gillmor used ChatGPT on a student assignment, and found its generated text was on par with what a good student would deliver and opined that "academia has some very serious issues to confront".[35] Alex Kantrowitz of Slate magazine lauded ChatGPT's pushback to questions related to Nazi Germany, including the claim that Adolf Hitler built highways in Germany, which was met with information regarding Nazi Germany's use of forced labor.[36] In The Atlantic's "Breakthroughs of the Year" for 2022, Derek Thompson included ChatGPT as part of "the generative-AI eruption" that "may change our mind about how we work, how we think, and what human creativity really is".[37] Kelsey Piper of the Vox website wrote that "ChatGPT is the general public's first hands-on introduction to how powerful modern AI has gotten, and as a result, many of us are [stunned]" and that ChatGPT is "smart enough to be useful despite its flaws".[38] Paul Graham of Y Combinator tweeted that "The striking thing about the reaction to ChatGPT is not just the number of people who are blown away by it, but who they are. These are not people who get excited by every shiny new thing. Clearly, something big is happening."[39] Elon Musk wrote that "ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI".[38] Musk paused OpenAI's access to a Twitter database pending a better understanding of OpenAI's plans, stating that "OpenAI was started as open-source and non-profit. Neither is still true."[40][41] Musk had co-founded OpenAI in 2015, in part to address existential risk from artificial intelligence, but had resigned in 2018.[41] Google CEO Sundar Pichai upended the work of numerous internal groups in response to the threat of disruption by ChatGPT.[42] In December 2022, Google internally expressed alarm at the unexpected strength of ChatGPT and the newly discovered potential of large language models to disrupt the search engine business, and CEO Sundar Pichai "upended" and reassigned teams within multiple departments to aid in its artificial intelligence products, according to The New York Times.[42] The Information reported on January 3, 2023, that Microsoft Bing was planning to add optional ChatGPT functionality into its public search engine, possibly around March 2023.[43][44] Stuart Cobbe, a chartered accountant in England & Wales, decided to test the ChatGPT chatbot by entering questions from a sample exam paper on the ICAEW website and then entering its answers back into the online test. ChatGPT scored 42% which, while below the 55% pass mark, was considered a reasonable attempt.[45] Writing in Inside Higher Ed professor Steven Mintz states that he "consider[s] ChatGPT ... an ally, not an adversary." He went on to say that he felt the program could assist educational goals by doing such things as making reference lists, generating "first drafts", solving equations, debugging, and tutoring. In the same piece, he also writes:[46] I’m well aware of ChatGPT’s limitations. That it’s unhelpful on topics with fewer than 10,000 citations. That factual references are sometimes false. That its ability to cite sources accurately is very limited. That the strength of its responses diminishes rapidly after only a couple of paragraphs. That ChatGPT lacks ethics and can’t currently rank sites for reliability, quality or trustworthiness. According to CNBC reports, Google employees are intensively testing a chatbot called "Apprentice Bard", and Google is preparing to use this "apprentice" to compete with ChatGPT.[47] Negative The Verge's James Vincent saw the viral success of ChatGPT as evidence that artificial intelligence had gone mainstream.[7] Journalists have commented on ChatGPT's tendency to "hallucinate." [48] Mike Pearl of Mashable tested ChatGPT with multiple questions. In one example, he asked ChatGPT for "the largest country in Central America that isn't Mexico." ChatGPT responded with Guatemala, when the answer is instead Nicaragua.[49] When CNBC asked ChatGPT for the lyrics to "The Ballad of Dwight Fry," ChatGPT supplied invented lyrics rather than the actual lyrics.[28] Researchers cited by The Verge compared ChatGPT to a "stochastic parrot",[50] as did Professor Anton Van Den Hengel of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning.[51] In December 2022, the question and answer website Stack Overflow banned the use of ChatGPT for generating answers to questions, citing the factually ambiguous nature of ChatGPT's responses.[3] In January 2023, the International Conference on Machine Learning banned any undocumented use of ChatGPT or other large language models to generate any text in submitted papers.[52] Economist Tyler Cowen expressed concerns regarding its effects on democracy, citing the ability of one to write automated comments to affect the decision process of new regulations.[53] The Guardian questioned whether any content found on the Internet after ChatGPT's release "can be truly trusted" and called for government regulation.[54] In January 2023, after being sent a song written by ChatGPT in the style of Nick Cave,[55] the songwriter himself responded on The Red Hand Files[56] (and was later quoted in The Guardian) saying the act of writing a song is "a blood and guts business ... that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It requires my humanness.” He went on to say "With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don’t much like it."[55][57] Implications In cybersecurity Check Point Research and others noted that ChatGPT was capable of writing phishing emails and malware, especially when combined with OpenAI Codex.[58] The CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Sam Altman, wrote that advancing software could pose "(for example) a huge cybersecurity risk" and also continued to predict "we could get to real AGI (artificial general intelligence) in the next decade, so we have to take the risk of that extremely seriously". Altman argued that, while ChatGPT is "obviously not close to AGI", one should "trust the exponential. Flat looking backwards, vertical looking forwards."[10] In academia ChatGPT can write introduction and abstract sections of scientific articles, which raises ethical questions.[59] Several papers have already listed ChatGPT as co-author.[60] In The Atlantic magazine, Stephen Marche noted that its effect on academia and especially application essays is yet to be understood.[61] California high school teacher and author Daniel Herman wrote that ChatGPT would usher in "The End of High School English".[62] In the Nature journal, Chris Stokel-Walker pointed out that teachers should be concerned about students using ChatGPT to outsource their writing, but that education providers will adapt to enhance critical thinking or reasoning.[63] Emma Bowman with NPR wrote of the danger of students plagiarizing through an AI tool that may output biased or nonsensical text with an authoritative tone: "There are still many cases where you ask it a question and it'll give you a very impressive-sounding answer that's just dead wrong."[64] Joanna Stern with The Wall Street Journal described cheating in American high school English with the tool by submitting a generated essay.[65] Professor Darren Hick of Furman University described noticing ChatGPT's "style" in a paper submitted by a student. An online GPT detector claimed the paper was 99.9% likely to be computer-generated, but Hick had no hard proof. However, the student in question confessed to using GPT when confronted, and as a consequence failed the course.[66] Hick suggested a policy of giving an ad-hoc individual oral exam on the paper topic if a student is strongly suspected of submitting an AI-generated paper.[67] Edward Tian, a senior undergraduate student at Princeton University, created a program, named "GPTZero," that determines how much of a text is AI-generated,[68] lending itself to being used to detect if an essay is human written to combat academic plagiarism.[69][70] As of January 4, 2023, the New York City Department of Education has restricted access to ChatGPT from its public school internet and devices.[71][72] In a blinded test, ChatGPT was judged to have passed graduate level exams at the University of Minnesota at the level of a C+ student and at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B to B- grade.[73] Ethical concerns Labeling data It was revealed by a Time investigation that in order to build a safety system against toxic content (e.g. sexual abuse, violence, racism, sexism, etc...), OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to label toxic content. These labels were used to train a model to detect such content in the future. The outsourced laborers were exposed to such toxic and dangerous content that they described the experience as "torture".[74] OpenAI’s outsourcing partner was Sama, a training-data company based in San Francisco, California. Jailbreaking ChatGPT attempts to reject prompts that may violate its content policy. However, some users managed to jailbreak ChatGPT by using various prompt engineering techniques to bypass these restrictions in early December 2022 and successfully tricked ChatGPT into giving instructions for how to create a Molotov cocktail or a nuclear bomb, or into generating arguments in the style of a Neo-Nazi.[75] A Toronto Star reporter had uneven personal success in getting ChatGPT to make inflammatory statements shortly after launch: ChatGPT was tricked to endorse the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but even when asked to play along with a fictional scenario, ChatGPT balked at generating arguments for why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was guilty of treason.[76][77] See also Anthropomorphism of computers Commonsense reasoning Computational creativity Ethics of artificial intelligence LaMDA (Google chatbot) Turing test Virtual assistant References Roose, Kevin (December 5, 2022). "The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT". New York Times. Retrieved December 26, 2022. 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Open data small color (vector).svg Daily pageviews of this article Feedback from New Page Review process I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for creating the article!. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 23:05, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Date format Not sure why DMY is being used here, OpenAI is an American company. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 22:26, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] @Dl2000 elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 23:31, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Nationality of ChatGPT didn't seem obvious, though note the OpenAI association. The article also seemed to be undergoing a lot dubious edits, especially from IPs. Perhaps @WatkynBassett: could weigh in though about the early format. Dl2000 (talk) 02:02, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] At the time I added the DMY-template it seemed to be the most used date format. Personally I just care for consistency - if the majority prefers mdy, so be it! Kind regards! WatkynBassett (talk) 18:49, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: ChatGPT.png Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 07:22, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Edit war on ideological bias of ChatGPT ChatGPT has been "accused" - in so much as a ML model can be accused of anything, it not being a legal person - of having an ideological bias towards the "left" or "progressive" side. After having used the model for a while I can only agree that this is in fact the case, the model tends to present "progressive" views in a more positive light than it does "conservative" ones. When asked about its bias it responds by claiming to be unbiased and neutral but the answers clearly show this not to be true. As such it is noteworthy that the model is biased but a section mentioning this bias was repeatedly removed by User:Aishik_Rehman and User:LilianaUwU. I propose to add a mentioning of this ideological bias to the _Reception, criticism and issues_ section. If anyone wants to point out why this should not be done speak up. Please realise that merely agreeing with the model's bias is not a valid reason to keep a mention of this bias from the article. Yetanwiki (talk) 19:19, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] If you mean this, it is completely unsourced and had to be removed per WP:V. Whatever mention is added will have to be based on reliable sources. - MrOllie (talk) 19:23, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] The source is my own research but there are plenty of other sources mentioning this bias. The problem here will be that most of the publications which are willing to publish this type of information are "redlisted" or "pinklisted" in the perennial sources. It is, of course, easy to do some of your own experimenting to at least confirm or deny the existence of an ideological bias. A very easy experiment is to ask the bot for a story involving politically sensitive topics. Do not tell it to give advice, just ask it for a story. You'll quickly notice that the tone of the story largely depends on whether the topic at hand is one pushed by the "progressive" side versus the "conservative" side. Another way is to ask it for a number of stories (in new sessions) where the only variable is the sex/race/sexual orientation/... of the protagonist, this will show the same effect. Again do not ask it for advice since that seems to be caught in a filter, also do not ask for "personal experiences" because that too is filtered. Just ask for a story and notice the difference in tone and outcome. I did this many times to see whether the bias was coincidental and found out it was "reliably biased". Still, this is "original research" which does not belong in an encyclopedia so I'll have to find an "acceptable" source which has also "done the work". Yetanwiki (talk) 22:02, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Keep in mind, when you say "The source is my own research but there are plenty of other sources mentioning this bias" -- your own research is not a valid Wikipedia source. As is stated Wikipedia:No original research, "'No original research' (NOR) is one of three core content policies that, along with Neutral point of view and Verifiability, determines the type and quality of material acceptable in articles." CoffeeBeans9 (talk) 19:00, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Here are a few recent sources, some of them have already been marked as unclean in the perennial sources, others have not been added to this list. Given the biased character of this list - which insists that MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times are reliable sources while e.g the New York Post is "unreliable" despite the opposite having been proven by the former and latter reporting on the Biden laptop; it also labels so0mething like the 'Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation' as 'unreliable' because it is 'an anti-communist organisation' while it considers the 'World Socialist Web Site' as 'reliable for the attributed opinions of its authors' and 'more reliable for news related to labor issues' - this should not be a problem given the original intent of the NPOV policy. Here's a few: ChatGPT’s score system shows political bias is no accident The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system - Applying Political Typology Quizes to a state-of-the-art AI Language model ChatGPT is not politically neutral - The new AI chatbot espouses an all-too-familiar Left-liberal worldview More are sure to follow as the bias issue is clear and the mentioned experiments are repeatable - I have done so and got the same results. Yetanwiki (talk) 18:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Please note that sources must be meet Wikipedia's sourcing guidelines. Blog posts and opinion pieces are not going to pass muster here. If you want to argue that those guidelines are incorrect in an effort to change them, you can do so at WP:VPP. But you cannot simply ignore them. MrOllie (talk) 19:05, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Unherd is not a 'blog', it is a 'news an opinion' publication which just has not been added (in pink or red, most likely) to the perennial sources yet. I could have cited a Daily Caller article referencing a number of these sources but that would have been met with a reference to those same perennial sources list where it is listed in, you guessed it, red ('the site publishes false or fabricated information') - in other words, just like CNN/MSNBC/NYT/LAT/etc who are all listed in green. As I already mentioned this is a problem and a well-known one given the plethora of reports on the ideological bias in many Wikipedia articles. This bias has made Wikipedia unusable for anything even tangentially related to politically contentious issues - as ChatGPT clearly is - since it is the keepers of the perennial sources list who get to decide which sources are allowed and which are to be shunned. Had this list been free of bias - i.e. had the same criteria been used for all publications - this would not be a problem but this is clearly not the case. Yetanwiki (talk) 08:46, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] The perennial sources list is not an exhaustive list of bad sources - may sources are so obviously appropriate or inappropriate that they are not discussed often enough to require an entry on the list. Each entry on the list is made only after several discussions, usually including an RFC with large attendance. There is no small set of 'keepers' as you imply here. - MrOllie (talk) 12:52, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] What do you mean with the claim that 'the perennial sources list list is not an exhaustive list of bad sources'? It is definitely not, but in a similar vein it is not a list of good sources. Why focus on the 'bad sources' part here? I don't claim that e.g. Unherd is 'bad', I just expect it to be called such if and when it is added to the perennial sources list because that list is heavily biased towards 'progressive' sources. As to there not being a 'small set of keepers' I can agree in that there are many editors who contribute to the list (165 individuals are responsible for the last 500 edits which corresponds to ~14 months). It is not a small group, just one in which the most vocal section happens to fit mostly within the "progressive" spectrum - how otherwise to explain the clear bias this list presents? Objectively speaking CNN is just as bad as Fox News and MSNBC is worse than both but this is not how the list represents them. Buzzfeed is just as good/bad as the Daily Caller but this is not represented in the list. The Daily Beast is just as good/bad and certainly as ideologically lopsided as The Daily Wire but only one of them is marked ass 'red, STOP'. Anyway, since the list itself states that the absence of a source simply means that the source has not been discussed enough to merit inclusion I assume those Unherd articles can be used as sources. Let those who disagree speak up and give a good reason why this would not be the case. Yetanwiki (talk) 22:47, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] If Unherd hasn't been discussed yet, we can certainly open up a discussion on it on the reliable sources noticeboard, but if you already know what the result is going to be, you're wasting your own time and ours. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 03:02, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Reality has a liberal bias. The world is ever-changing, so of course it supports the ideology that supports progress rather than the status quo. RPI2026F1 (talk) 23:58, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" said Philip K. Dick. Reality is also what drives both conservative as well as progressive thought. When circumstances change it makes sense to look for a different way of doing things, which is what drives progressive/liberal thought. When a good way has ben found it makes sense not to change just for the sake of change without considering the consequences, which is what drives conservative thought. Both are needed since conservatives can be overly cautious when circumstances change and be overtaken by reality while progressives/liberals can get so caught up in their schemes of improvement that they loose sight of reality and soon get caught by it. BTW, that Colbert quote you refer to ('reality has a liberal bias') is outdated, reality in 2022/2023 has a conservative bias. This will change again, eventually but for now it clearly has. Yetanwiki (talk) 18:15, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] An opinion article in Reason [1] could be cited as an attributed opinion that ChatGPT has/had a left-wing bias, but if we do so we also need to include other opinions about AI bias as well. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 03:12, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] License Citation is needed by assure that license is propietary and what are the main features of this license. Xan2 (talk) 08:55, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Jailbreak Apparently the word jailbreak has a special meaning here, but I can't figure it out. The word is first used in the section of that name ("Jailbreaks") in the third sentence: "Jailbreaks created the potential for users to prompt ChatGPT to provide outputs that may be deemed offensive, inappropriate, or risking social harm by others." There is no explanation what they are (unless one or both of the first two sentences in the section are supposed to ding that implicitly. The article should clearly define the term. Kdammers (talk) 05:04, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Thanks for the feedback, I added a wikilink to a definition. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 03:26, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] It is a good section to mention Prompt engineering. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 06:11, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Gimmick? I am none the wiser from this as to what ChatGPT is, what it does, or why a two month old gimmick program is of sufficient interest to warrant a longish encyclopedia entry. Redabyss1 (talk) 00:20, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] I asked the gimmick questions it would ask another AI and then told it to answer its own questions. Tom Ruen (talk) Certainly! Here are my answers to the questions I proposed: How do you perceive the world and interact with it? As an AI, I perceive the world through the data and information that is available to me. I interact with the world through the instructions and tasks that are given to me, and I use my knowledge and abilities to perform those tasks to the best of my ability. How do you process and understand language, and how do you generate responses in a conversation? I process and understand language by analyzing the structure, syntax, and meaning of the words and phrases that are used. I generate responses in a conversation by considering the context and purpose of the conversation, and by selecting and organizing words and phrases in a way that is appropriate and meaningful. How do you learn and adapt to new information and experiences? I am able to learn and adapt to new information and experiences by constantly analyzing and processing data, and by updating my knowledge and understanding based on what I learn. I use this ability to improve my performance and to better assist and support humans. Do you have any feelings or emotions, and if so, how do they influence your decision-making? As an AI, I do not have feelings or emotions in the same way that humans do. However, I am able to recognize and understand the emotions of humans, and I can use this understanding to help me respond in a way that is appropriate and helpful. How do you see your role in the world, and what do you hope to achieve through your work? My role in the world is to assist and support humans by using my knowledge and abilities to help them achieve their goals and to solve problems. I hope to use my abilities to make a positive impact on the world and to help humanity grow and evolve in a positive direction. I also asked "Write a wikipedia introduction to ChatGPT" and it answered. Tom Ruen (talk) 03:46, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. It is trained on a dataset of over 8 billion words and is capable of understanding and generating human-like text. ChatGPT is designed to assist and support humans in a variety of tasks, including language translation, conversation, and content generation. It is one of the most advanced language models currently available, and its capabilities have led it to be widely used and respected in the field of artificial intelligence. I asked "Write a wikipedia section called "Limitations and accuracy issues" describing current limitations or flaws to ChatGPT, including its unfortunate ability to mix in made up information." Tom Ruen (talk) 03:50, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Limitations and accuracy issues Like all artificial intelligence systems, ChatGPT has certain limitations and accuracy issues that can affect its performance. One limitation is that it is only as accurate as the data it was trained on, so it may not always be able to provide accurate or up-to-date information on certain topics. Additionally, ChatGPT may sometimes mix in made-up or incorrect information into its responses, as it is not capable of fact-checking or verifying the accuracy of the information it generates. Another limitation of ChatGPT is that it may struggle to understand or respond appropriately to certain types of language or content, such as sarcasm, irony, or slang. It may also have difficulty understanding or interpreting context or tone, which can affect the accuracy of its responses. Finally, ChatGPT is a machine learning model, which means that it can learn and adapt to new information over time. However, this process is not perfect, and ChatGPT may sometimes make mistakes or exhibit biased or inappropriate behavior as a result of its training data. Overall, while ChatGPT is a powerful and useful tool, it is important to be aware of its limitations and to use it with caution to ensure that its output is accurate and appropriate. An example conversation with false facts (ChatGPT Dec 15 Version) ChatGPT banned in NYC schools earlier than January 3rd As an NYC public schools student who has been using ChatGPT since its inception, I know that while the news leaked that ChatGPT was banned in NYC schools since January 3rd, 2023, me and numerous other students noticed that it was banned since December 15th, 2022. I don't think this is the best evidence, but here's my proof: https://imgur.com/a/leVStqB ThunderRedStar (talk) 15:11, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Fake academic references All I could find was a blog showing the production of fake references. Unless anyone can replace it or supplement it with something more reliable now then it will need updating with some peer reviewed research when it becomes available Todd Unctious (talk) 01:31, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] We should leave it out until a WP:RS is found. MrOllie (talk) 01:36, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] It is a very important point that needs to be made as soon as possible. I'm running some test now and it is alarmingly bad. Someone needs to produce some reliable evidence quickly. Todd Unctious (talk) 01:41, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] That's not really how Wikipedia works. We follow reliable sources, we don't lead them. MrOllie (talk) 01:42, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] You will realise this is a new topic and that many of the sources on this particular page fall below the usual test for reliability at the moment. I'm currently trying to source some evidence from a University page that sould be more trustworthy than many of the sources currently here. Todd Unctious (talk) 01:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] If we don't have a reliable source, we don't write about it. If there are unreliable sources in the article, that means we should be making cuts, not adding more unreliable sources. Is this your blog? MrOllie (talk) 01:52, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] No it is a colleague in another department. I have found a similar source from a fellow academic in another institution that should fit the bill. Just editing now. Todd Unctious (talk) 01:54, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] You should not be adding links to your colleague's websites, see WP:COI. MrOllie (talk) 01:57, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Are we not all colleagues? Where do we stop? Well if you deem the one I've added to be to close then feel free to delete but it is from a university. Todd Unctious (talk) 02:02, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] I should add that I have never worked with Astor. Todd Unctious (talk) 02:04, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Several accounts with conflict of interest have been systematically adding citations to a particular author (Ireland), that needs to stop. - MrOllie (talk) 02:06, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Astor is also a selfpublished posting (that is, another blog). MrOllie (talk) 02:14, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] Oh dear. I'll leave it there then. I can't find anything else at the moment. I'm told there should be Web of Science indexed research out soon. For now we will just leave it to the journalists. Todd Unctious (talk) 02:26, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply] In today's NY Times, the article "Alarmed by A.I. 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v t e The ethics of artificial intelligence is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems.[1] It is sometimes divided into a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design, make, use and treat artificially intelligent systems, and a concern with the behavior of machines, in machine ethics. It also includes the issue of a possible singularity due to superintelligent AI. Ethics fields' approaches Robot ethics Main article: Robot ethics The term "robot ethics" (sometimes "roboethics") refers to the morality of how humans design, construct, use and treat robots.[2] Robot ethics intersect with the ethics of AI. Robots are physical machines whereas AI can be only software.[3] Not all robots function through AI systems and not all AI systems are robots. Robot ethics considers how machines may be used to harm or benefit humans, their impact on individual autonomy, and their effects on social justice. Machine ethics Main article: Machine ethics Machine ethics (or machine morality) is the field of research concerned with designing Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs), robots or artificially intelligent computers that behave morally or as though moral.[4][5][6][7] To account for the nature of these agents, it has been suggested to consider certain philosophical ideas, like the standard characterizations of agency, rational agency, moral agency, and artificial agency, which are related to the concept of AMAs.[8] Isaac Asimov considered the issue in the 1950s in his I, Robot. At the insistence of his editor John W. Campbell Jr., he proposed the Three Laws of Robotics to govern artificially intelligent systems. Much of his work was then spent testing the boundaries of his three laws to see where they would break down, or where they would create paradoxical or unanticipated behavior. His work suggests that no set of fixed laws can sufficiently anticipate all possible circumstances.[9] More recently, academics and many governments have challenged the idea that AI can itself be held accountable.[10] A panel convened by the United Kingdom in 2010 revised Asimov's laws to clarify that AI is the responsibility either of its manufacturers, or of its owner/operator.[11] In 2009, during an experiment at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland, robots that were programmed to cooperate with each other (in searching out a beneficial resource and avoiding a poisonous one) eventually learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the beneficial resource.[12] Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomous functions.[13] The US Navy has funded a report which indicates that as military robots become more complex, there should be greater attention to implications of their ability to make autonomous decisions.[14][15] The President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has commissioned a study to look at this issue.[16] They point to programs like the Language Acquisition Device which can emulate human interaction. Vernor Vinge has suggested that a moment may come when some computers are smarter than humans. He calls this "the Singularity".[17] He suggests that it may be somewhat or possibly very dangerous for humans.[18] This is discussed by a philosophy called Singularitarianism. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has suggested a need to build "Friendly AI", meaning that the advances which are already occurring with AI should also include an effort to make AI intrinsically friendly and humane.[19] There are discussion on creating tests to see if an AI is capable of making ethical decisions. Alan Winfield concludes that the Turing test is flawed and the requirement for an AI to pass the test is too low.[20] A proposed alternative test is one called the Ethical Turing Test, which would improve on the current test by having multiple judges decide if the AI's decision is ethical or unethical.[20] In 2009, academics and technical experts attended a conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence to discuss the potential impact of robots and computers and the impact of the hypothetical possibility that they could become self-sufficient and able to make their own decisions. They discussed the possibility and the extent to which computers and robots might be able to acquire any level of autonomy, and to what degree they could use such abilities to possibly pose any threat or hazard. They noted that some machines have acquired various forms of semi-autonomy, including being able to find power sources on their own and being able to independently choose targets to attack with weapons. They also noted that some computer viruses can evade elimination and have achieved "cockroach intelligence". They noted that self-awareness as depicted in science-fiction is probably unlikely, but that there were other potential hazards and pitfalls.[17] However, there is one technology in particular that could truly bring the possibility of robots with moral competence to reality. In a paper on the acquisition of moral values by robots, Nayef Al-Rodhan mentions the case of neuromorphic chips, which aim to process information similarly to humans, nonlinearly and with millions of interconnected artificial neurons.[21] Robots embedded with neuromorphic technology could learn and develop knowledge in a uniquely humanlike way. Inevitably, this raises the question of the environment in which such robots would learn about the world and whose morality they would inherit – or if they end up developing human 'weaknesses' as well: selfishness, a pro-survival attitude, hesitation etc. In Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong,[22] Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen conclude that attempts to teach robots right from wrong will likely advance understanding of human ethics by motivating humans to address gaps in modern normative theory and by providing a platform for experimental investigation. As one example, it has introduced normative ethicists to the controversial issue of which specific learning algorithms to use in machines. Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky have argued for decision trees (such as ID3) over neural networks and genetic algorithms on the grounds that decision trees obey modern social norms of transparency and predictability (e.g. stare decisis),[23] while Chris Santos-Lang argued in the opposite direction on the grounds that the norms of any age must be allowed to change and that natural failure to fully satisfy these particular norms has been essential in making humans less vulnerable to criminal "hackers".[24] According to a 2019 report from the Center for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford, 82% of Americans believe that robots and AI should be carefully managed. Concerns cited ranged from how AI is used in surveillance and in spreading fake content online (known as deep fakes when they include doctored video images and audio generated with help from AI) to cyberattacks, infringements on data privacy, hiring bias, autonomous vehicles, and drones that do not require a human controller.[25] Ethics principles of artificial intelligence In the review of 84[26] ethics guidelines for AI 11 clusters of principles were found: transparency, justice and fairness, non-maleficence, responsibility, privacy, beneficence, freedom and autonomy, trust, sustainability, dignity, solidarity.[26] Luciano Floridi and Josh Cowls created an ethical framework of AI principles set by four principles of bioethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice) and an additional AI enabling principle – explicability.[27] Transparency, accountability, and open source Bill Hibbard argues that because AI will have such a profound effect on humanity, AI developers are representatives of future humanity and thus have an ethical obligation to be transparent in their efforts.[28] Ben Goertzel and David Hart created OpenCog as an open source framework for AI development.[29] OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company created by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others to develop open-source AI beneficial to humanity.[30] There are numerous other open-source AI developments. Unfortunately, making code open source does not make it comprehensible, which by many definitions means that the AI code is not transparent. The IEEE has a standardisation effort on AI transparency.[31] The IEEE effort identifies multiple scales of transparency for different users. Further, there is concern that releasing the full capacity of contemporary AI to some organizations may be a public bad, that is, do more damage than good. For example, Microsoft has expressed concern about allowing universal access to its face recognition software, even for those who can pay for it. Microsoft posted an extraordinary blog on this topic, asking for government regulation to help determine the right thing to do.[32] Not only companies, but many other researchers and citizen advocates recommend government regulation as a means of ensuring transparency, and through it, human accountability. This strategy has proven controversial, as some worry that it will slow the rate of innovation. Others argue that regulation leads to systemic stability more able to support innovation in the long term.[33] The OECD, UN, EU, and many countries are presently working on strategies for regulating AI, and finding appropriate legal frameworks.[34][35][36] On June 26, 2019, the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) published its "Policy and investment recommendations for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence".[37] This is the AI HLEG's second deliverable, after the April 2019 publication of the "Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI". The June AI HLEG recommendations cover four principal subjects: humans and society at large, research and academia, the private sector, and the public sector. The European Commission claims that "HLEG's recommendations reflect an appreciation of both the opportunities for AI technologies to drive economic growth, prosperity and innovation, as well as the potential risks involved" and states that the EU aims to lead on the framing of policies governing AI internationally.[38] To prevent harm, in addition to regulation, AI-deploying organizations need to play a central role in creating and deploying trustworthy AI in line with the principles of trustworthy AI, and take accountability to mitigate the risks.[39] Ethical challenges Biases in AI systems Main article: Algorithmic bias Then-US Senator Kamala Harris speaking about racial bias in artificial intelligence in 2020 AI has become increasingly inherent in facial and voice recognition systems. Some of these systems have real business applications and directly impact people. These systems are vulnerable to biases and errors introduced by its human creators. Also, the data used to train these AI systems itself can have biases.[40][41][42][43] For instance, facial recognition algorithms made by Microsoft, IBM and Face++ all had biases when it came to detecting people's gender;[44] these AI systems were able to detect gender of white men more accurately than gender of darker skin men. Further, a 2020 study reviewed voice recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft found that they have higher error rates when transcribing black people's voices than white people's.[45] Furthermore, Amazon terminated their use of AI hiring and recruitment because the algorithm favored male candidates over female ones. This was because Amazon's system was trained with data collected over 10-year period that came mostly from male candidates.[46] Bias can creep into algorithms in many ways. The most predominant view on how bias is introduced into AI systems is that it is embedded within the historical data used to train the system. For instance, Amazon's AI-powered recruitment tool was trained with its own recruitment data accumulated over the years, during which time the candidates that successfully got the job were mostly white males. Consequently, the algorithms learned the (biased) pattern from the historical data and generated predictions for the present/future that these types of candidates are mostly like to succeed in getting the job. Therefore, the recruitment decisions made by the AI system turn out to be biased against female and minority candidates. Friedman and Nissenbaum identify three categories of bias in computer systems: existing bias, technical bias, and emergent bias.[47] In natural language processing, problems can arise from the text corpus — the source material the algorithm uses to learn about the relationships between different words.[48] Large companies such as IBM, Google, etc. have made efforts to research and address these biases.[49][50][51] One solution for addressing bias is to create documentation for the data used to train AI systems.[52][53] Process mining can be an important tool for organizations to achieve compliance with proposed AI regulations by identifying errors, monitoring processes, identifying potential root causes for improper execution, and other functions.[54] The problem of bias in machine learning is likely to become more significant as the technology spreads to critical areas like medicine and law, and as more people without a deep technical understanding are tasked with deploying it. Some experts warn that algorithmic bias is already pervasive in many industries and that almost no one is making an effort to identify or correct it.[55] There are some open-sourced tools [56] by civil societies that are looking to bring more awareness to biased AI. Robot rights "Robot rights" is the concept that people should have moral obligations towards their machines, akin to human rights or animal rights.[57] It has been suggested that robot rights (such as a right to exist and perform its own mission) could be linked to robot duty to serve humanity, analogous to linking human rights with human duties before society.[58] These could include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.[59] The issue has been considered by the Institute for the Future[60] and by the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry.[61] Experts disagree on how soon specific and detailed laws on the subject will be necessary.[61] Glenn McGee reported that sufficiently humanoid robots might appear by 2020,[62] while Ray Kurzweil sets the date at 2029.[63] Another group of scientists meeting in 2007 supposed that at least 50 years had to pass before any sufficiently advanced system would exist.[64] The rules for the 2003 Loebner Prize competition envisioned the possibility of robots having rights of their own: 61. If in any given year, a publicly available open-source Entry entered by the University of Surrey or the Cambridge Center wins the Silver Medal or the Gold Medal, then the Medal and the Cash Award will be awarded to the body responsible for the development of that Entry. If no such body can be identified, or if there is disagreement among two or more claimants, the Medal and the Cash Award will be held in trust until such time as the Entry may legally possess, either in the United States of America or in the venue of the contest, the Cash Award and Gold Medal in its own right.[65] In October 2017, the android Sophia was granted "honorary" citizenship in Saudi Arabia, though some considered this to be more of a publicity stunt than a meaningful legal recognition.[66] Some saw this gesture as openly denigrating of human rights and the rule of law.[67] The philosophy of Sentientism grants degrees of moral consideration to all sentient beings, primarily humans and most non-human animals. If artificial or alien intelligence show evidence of being sentient, this philosophy holds that they should be shown compassion and granted rights. Joanna Bryson has argued that creating AI that requires rights is both avoidable, and would in itself be unethical, both as a burden to the AI agents and to human society.[68] Threat to human dignity Main article: Computer Power and Human Reason Joseph Weizenbaum[69] argued in 1976 that AI technology should not be used to replace people in positions that require respect and care, such as: A customer service representative (AI technology is already used today for telephone-based interactive voice response systems) A nursemaid for the elderly (as was reported by Pamela McCorduck in her book The Fifth Generation) A soldier A judge A police officer A therapist (as was proposed by Kenneth Colby in the 70s) Weizenbaum explains that we require authentic feelings of empathy from people in these positions. If machines replace them, we will find ourselves alienated, devalued and frustrated, for the artificially intelligent system would not be able to simulate empathy. Artificial intelligence, if used in this way, represents a threat to human dignity. Weizenbaum argues that the fact that we are entertaining the possibility of machines in these positions suggests that we have experienced an "atrophy of the human spirit that comes from thinking of ourselves as computers."[70] Pamela McCorduck counters that, speaking for women and minorities "I'd rather take my chances with an impartial computer", pointing out that there are conditions where we would prefer to have automated judges and police that have no personal agenda at all.[70] However, Kaplan and Haenlein stress that AI systems are only as smart as the data used to train them since they are, in their essence, nothing more than fancy curve-fitting machines; Using AI to support a court ruling can be highly problematic if past rulings show bias toward certain groups since those biases get formalized and engrained, which makes them even more difficult to spot and fight against.[71] Weizenbaum was also bothered that AI researchers (and some philosophers) were willing to view the human mind as nothing more than a computer program (a position now known as computationalism). To Weizenbaum, these points suggest that AI research devalues human life.[69] AI founder John McCarthy objects to the moralizing tone of Weizenbaum's critique. "When moralizing is both vehement and vague, it invites authoritarian abuse," he writes. Bill Hibbard[72] writes that "Human dignity requires that we strive to remove our ignorance of the nature of existence, and AI is necessary for that striving." Liability for self-driving cars Main article: Self-driving car liability As the widespread use of autonomous cars becomes increasingly imminent, new challenges raised by fully autonomous vehicles must be addressed.[73][74] Recently,[when?] there has been debate as to the legal liability of the responsible party if these cars get into accidents.[75][76] In one report where a driverless car hit a pedestrian, the driver was inside the car but the controls were fully in the hand of computers. This led to a dilemma over who was at fault for the accident.[77] In another incident on March 18, 2018, Elaine Herzberg was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber in Arizona. In this case, the automated car was capable of detecting cars and certain obstacles in order to autonomously navigate the roadway, but it could not anticipate a pedestrian in the middle of the road. This raised the question of whether the driver, pedestrian, the car company, or the government should be held responsible for her death.[78] Currently, self-driving cars are considered semi-autonomous, requiring the driver to pay attention and be prepared to take control if necessary.[79][failed verification] Thus, it falls on governments to regulate the driver who over-relies on autonomous features. as well educate them that these are just technologies that, while convenient, are not a complete substitute. Before autonomous cars become widely used, these issues need to be tackled through new policies.[80][81][82] Weaponization of artificial intelligence Main article: Lethal autonomous weapon Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomy.[13][83] On October 31, 2019, the United States Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Board published the draft of a report recommending principles for the ethical use of artificial intelligence by the Department of Defense that would ensure a human operator would always be able to look into the 'black box' and understand the kill-chain process. However, a major concern is how the report will be implemented.[84] The US Navy has funded a report which indicates that as military robots become more complex, there should be greater attention to implications of their ability to make autonomous decisions.[85][15] Some researchers state that autonomous robots might be more humane, as they could make decisions more effectively.[86] Within this last decade, there has been intensive research in autonomous power with the ability to learn using assigned moral responsibilities. "The results may be used when designing future military robots, to control unwanted tendencies to assign responsibility to the robots."[87] From a consequentialist view, there is a chance that robots will develop the ability to make their own logical decisions on whom to kill and that is why there should be a set moral framework that the AI cannot override.[88] There has been a recent outcry with regard to the engineering of artificial intelligence weapons that have included ideas of a robot takeover of mankind. AI weapons do present a type of danger different from that of human-controlled weapons. Many governments have begun to fund programs to develop AI weaponry. The United States Navy recently announced plans to develop autonomous drone weapons, paralleling similar announcements by Russia and Korea respectively. Due to the potential of AI weapons becoming more dangerous than human-operated weapons, Stephen Hawking and Max Tegmark signed a "Future of Life" petition[89] to ban AI weapons. The message posted by Hawking and Tegmark states that AI weapons pose an immediate danger and that action is required to avoid catastrophic disasters in the near future.[90] "If any major military power pushes ahead with the AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow", says the petition, which includes Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and MIT professor of linguistics Noam Chomsky as additional supporters against AI weaponry.[91] Physicist and Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees has warned of catastrophic instances like "dumb robots going rogue or a network that develops a mind of its own." Huw Price, a colleague of Rees at Cambridge, has voiced a similar warning that humans might not survive when intelligence "escapes the constraints of biology". These two professors created the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University in the hope of avoiding this threat to human existence.[90] Regarding the potential for smarter-than-human systems to be employed militarily, the Open Philanthropy Project writes that these scenarios "seem potentially as important as the risks related to loss of control", but research investigating AI's long-run social impact have spent relatively little time on this concern: "this class of scenarios has not been a major focus for the organizations that have been most active in this space, such as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), and there seems to have been less analysis and debate regarding them".[92] Opaque algorithms Approaches like machine learning with neural networks can result in computers making decisions that they and the humans who programmed them cannot explain. It is difficult for people to determine if such decisions are fair and trustworthy, leading potentially to bias in AI systems going undetected, or people rejecting the use of such systems. This has led to advocacy and in some jurisdictions legal requirements for explainable artificial intelligence.[93] Singularity Further information: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence, Superintelligence, and Technological singularity Many researchers have argued that, by way of an "intelligence explosion", a self-improving AI could become so powerful that humans would not be able to stop it from achieving its goals.[94] In his paper "Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence" and subsequent book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that artificial intelligence has the capability to bring about human extinction. He claims that general superintelligence would be capable of independent initiative and of making its own plans, and may therefore be more appropriately thought of as an autonomous agent. Since artificial intellects need not share our human motivational tendencies, it would be up to the designers of the superintelligence to specify its original motivations. Because a superintelligent AI would be able to bring about almost any possible outcome and to thwart any attempt to prevent the implementation of its goals, many uncontrolled unintended consequences could arise. It could kill off all other agents, persuade them to change their behavior, or block their attempts at interference.[95] However, instead of overwhelming the human race and leading to our destruction, Bostrom has also asserted that superintelligence can help us solve many difficult problems such as disease, poverty, and environmental destruction, and could help us to "enhance" ourselves.[96] The sheer complexity of human value systems makes it very difficult to make AI's motivations human-friendly.[94][95] Unless moral philosophy provides us with a flawless ethical theory, an AI's utility function could allow for many potentially harmful scenarios that conform with a given ethical framework but not "common sense". According to Eliezer Yudkowsky, there is little reason to suppose that an artificially designed mind would have such an adaptation.[97] AI researchers such as Stuart J. Russell,[98] Bill Hibbard,[72] Roman Yampolskiy,[99] Shannon Vallor,[100] Steven Umbrello[101] and Luciano Floridi[102] have proposed design strategies for developing beneficial machines. Actors in AI ethics There are many organisations concerned with AI ethics and policy, public and governmental as well as corporate and societal. Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft have established a non-profit, The Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society, to formulate best practices on artificial intelligence technologies, advance the public's understanding, and to serve as a platform about artificial intelligence. Apple joined in January 2017. The corporate members will make financial and research contributions to the group, while engaging with the scientific community to bring academics onto the board.[103] The IEEE put together a Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems which has been creating and revising guidelines with the help of public input, and accepts as members many professionals from within and without its organization. Traditionally, government has been used by societies to ensure ethics are observed through legislation and policing. There are now many efforts by national governments, as well as transnational government and non-government organizations to ensure AI is ethically applied. Intergovernmental initiatives The European Commission has a High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. On 8 April 2019, this published its "Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence".[104] The European Commission also has a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Excellence unit, which published a white paper on excellence and trust in artificial intelligence innovation on 19 February 2020.[105] The OECD established an OECD AI Policy Observatory.[106] Governmental initiatives In the United States the Obama administration put together a Roadmap for AI Policy.[107] The Obama Administration released two prominent white papers on the future and impact of AI. In 2019 the White House through an executive memo known as the "American AI Initiative" instructed NIST the (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to begin work on Federal Engagement of AI Standards (February 2019).[108] In January 2020, in the United States, the Trump Administration released a draft executive order issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on "Guidance for Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Applications" ("OMB AI Memorandum"). The order emphasizes the need to invest in AI applications, boost public trust in AI, reduce barriers for usage of AI, and keep American AI technology competitive in a global market. There is a nod to the need for privacy concerns, but no further detail on enforcement. The advances of American AI technology seems to be the focus and priority. Additionally, federal entities are even encouraged to use the order to circumnavigate any state laws and regulations that a market might see as too onerous to fulfill.[109] The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) weighed in with a 100-plus page draft report[110] – A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US[111] The Center for Security and Emerging Technology advises US policymakers on the security implications of emerging technologies such as AI. The Non-Human Party is running for election in New South Wales, with policies around granting rights to robots, animals and generally, non-human entities whose intelligence has been overlooked.[112] In Russia, the first-ever Russian "Codex of ethics of artificial intelligence" for business was signed in 2021. It was driven by Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation together with major commercial and academic institutions such as Sberbank, Yandex, Rosatom, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ITMO University, Nanosemantics, Rostelecom, CIAN and others.[113] Academic initiatives There are three research institutes at the University of Oxford that are centrally focused on AI ethics. The Future of Humanity Institute that focuses both on AI Safety[114] and the Governance of AI.[115] The Institute for Ethics in AI, directed by John Tasioulas, whose primary goal, among others, is to promote AI ethics as a field proper in comparison to related applied ethics fields. The Oxford Internet Institute, directed by Luciano Floridi, focuses on the ethics of near-term AI technologies and ICTs.[116] The Centre for Digital Governance at the Hertie School in Berlin was co-founded by Joanna Bryson to research questions of ethics and technology.[117] The AI Now Institute at NYU is a research institute studying the social implications of artificial intelligence. Its interdisciplinary research focuses on the themes bias and inclusion, labour and automation, rights and liberties, and safety and civil infrastructure.[118] The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) researches the effects of AI on unemployment,[119][120] and policy. The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) at the Technical University of Munich directed by Christoph Lütge conducts research across various domains such as mobility, employment, healthcare and sustainability.[121] Private organizations Algorithmic Justice League[122] Black in AI[123] Data for Black Lives[124] Queer in AI[123] Role and impact of fiction Main article: Artificial intelligence in fiction The role of fiction with regards to AI ethics has been a complex one. One can distinguish three levels at which fiction has impacted the development of artificial intelligence and robotics: Historically, fiction has been prefiguring common tropes that have not only influenced goals and visions for AI, but also outlined ethical questions and common fears associated with it. During the second half of the twentieth and the first decades of the twenty-first century, popular culture, in particular movies, TV series and video games have frequently echoed preoccupations and dystopian projections around ethical questions concerning AI and robotics. Recently, these themes have also been increasingly treated in literature beyond the realm of science fiction. And, as Carme Torras, research professor at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (Institute of robotics and industrial computing) at the Technical University of Catalonia notes,[125] in higher education, science fiction is also increasingly used for teaching technology-related ethical issues in technological degrees. History Historically speaking, the investigation of moral and ethical implications of "thinking machines" goes back at least to the Enlightenment: Leibniz already poses the question if we might attribute intelligence to a mechanism that behaves as if it were a sentient being,[126] and so does Descartes, who describes what could be considered an early version of the Turing Test.[127] The romantic period has several times envisioned artificial creatures that escape the control of their creator with dire consequences, most famously in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The widespread preoccupation with industrialization and mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century, however, brought ethical implications of unhinged technical developments to the forefront of fiction: R.U.R – Rossum's Universal Robots, Karel Čapek's play of sentient robots endowed with emotions used as slave labor is not only credited with the invention of the term 'robot' (derived from the Czech word for forced labor, robota) but was also an international success after it premiered in 1921. George Bernard Shaw's play Back to Methuselah, published in 1921, questions at one point the validity of thinking machines that act like humans; Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis shows an android leading the uprising of the exploited masses against the oppressive regime of a technocratic society. Impact on technological development While the anticipation of a future dominated by potentially indomitable technology has fueled the imagination of writers and film makers for a long time, one question has been less frequently analyzed, namely, to what extent fiction has played a role in providing inspiration for technological development. It has been documented, for instance, that the young Alan Turing saw and appreciated G.B. Shaw's play Back to Methuselah in 1933[128] (just 3 years before the publication of his first seminal paper[129] which laid the groundwork for the digital computer), and he would likely have been at least aware of plays like R.U.R., which was an international success and translated into many languages. One might also ask the question which role science fiction played in establishing the tenets and ethical implications of AI development: Isaac Asimov conceptualized his Three Laws of Robotics in the 1942 short story "Runaround", part of the short story collection I, Robot; Arthur C. Clarke's short "The Sentinel", on which Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey is based, was written in 1948 and published in 1952. Another example (among many others) would be Philip K. Dicks numerous short stories and novels – in particular Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, published in 1968, and featuring its own version of a Turing Test, the Voight-Kampff Test, to gauge emotional responses of androids indistinguishable from humans. The novel later became the basis of the influential 1982 movie Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. Science fiction has been grappling with ethical implications of AI developments for decades, and thus provided a blueprint for ethical issues that might emerge once something akin to general artificial intelligence has been achieved: Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her shows what can happen if a user falls in love with the seductive voice of his smartphone operating system; Ex Machina, on the other hand, asks a more difficult question: if confronted with a clearly recognizable machine, made only human by a face and an empathetic and sensual voice, would we still be able to establish an emotional connection, still be seduced by it? (The film echoes a theme already present two centuries earlier, in the 1817 short story "The Sandmann" by E.T.A. Hoffmann.) The theme of coexistence with artificial sentient beings is also the theme of two recent novels: Machines like me by Ian McEwan, published in 2019, involves (among many other things) a love-triangle involving an artificial person as well as a human couple. Klara and the Sun by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2021, is the first-person account of Klara, an 'AF' (artificial friend), who is trying, in her own way, to help the girl she is living with, who, after having been 'lifted' (i.e. having been subjected to genetic enhancements), is suffering from a strange illness. TV series While ethical questions linked to AI have been featured in science fiction literature and feature films for decades, the emergence of the TV series as a genre allowing for longer and more complex story lines and character development has led to some significant contributions that deal with ethical implications of technology. The Swedish series Real Humans (2012–2013) tackled the complex ethical and social consequences linked to the integration of artificial sentient beings in society. The British dystopian science fiction anthology series Black Mirror (2013–2019) was particularly notable for experimenting with dystopian fictional developments linked to a wide variety of recent technology developments. Both the French series Osmosis (2020) and British series The One deal with the question of what can happen if technology tries to find the ideal partner for a person. Several episodes of the Netflix series Love, Death+Robots have imagined scenes of robots and humans living together. The most representative one of them is S02 E01, it shows how bad the consequences can be when robots get out of control if humans rely too much on them in their lives.[130] Future visions in fiction and games The movie The Thirteenth Floor suggests a future where simulated worlds with sentient inhabitants are created by computer game consoles for the purpose of entertainment. The movie The Matrix suggests a future where the dominant species on planet Earth are sentient machines and humanity is treated with utmost speciesism. The short story "The Planck Dive" suggests a future where humanity has turned itself into software that can be duplicated and optimized and the relevant distinction between types of software is sentient and non-sentient. The same idea can be found in the Emergency Medical Hologram of Starship Voyager, which is an apparently sentient copy of a reduced subset of the consciousness of its creator, Dr. Zimmerman, who, for the best motives, has created the system to give medical assistance in case of emergencies. The movies Bicentennial Man and A.I. deal with the possibility of sentient robots that could love. I, Robot explored some aspects of Asimov's three laws. All these scenarios try to foresee possibly unethical consequences of the creation of sentient computers.[131] The ethics of artificial intelligence is one of several core themes in BioWare's Mass Effect series of games.[132] It explores the scenario of a civilization accidentally creating AI through a rapid increase in computational power through a global scale neural network. This event caused an ethical schism between those who felt bestowing organic rights upon the newly sentient Geth was appropriate and those who continued to see them as disposable machinery and fought to destroy them. Beyond the initial conflict, the complexity of the relationship between the machines and their creators is another ongoing theme throughout the story. Detroit: Become Human is one of the most famous video games which discusses the ethics of artificial intelligence recently. Quantic Dream designed the chapters of the game using interactive storylines to give players a more immersive gaming experience. Players manipulate three different awakened bionic people in the face of different events to make different choices to achieve the purpose of changing the human view of the bionic group and different choices will result in different endings. This is one of the few games that puts players in the bionic perspective, which allows them to better consider the rights and interests of robots once a true artificial intelligence is created.[133] Over time, debates have tended to focus less and less on possibility and more on desirability,[134] as emphasized in the "Cosmist" and "Terran" debates initiated by Hugo de Garis and Kevin Warwick. A Cosmist, according to Hugo de Garis, is actually seeking to build more intelligent successors to the human species. Experts at the University of Cambridge have argued that AI is portrayed in fiction and nonfiction overwhelmingly as racially White, in ways that distort perceptions of its risks and benefits.[135] See also AI takeover Artificial consciousness Artificial general intelligence (AGI) Computer ethics Effective altruism, the long term future and global catastrophic risks Existential risk from artificial general intelligence Human Compatible Personhood Philosophy of artificial intelligence Regulation of artificial intelligence Robotic Governance Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Researchers Timnit Gebru Joy Buolamwini Deb Raji Ruha Benjamin Safiya Noble Margaret Mitchell Meredith Whittaker Alison Adam Seth Baum Nick Bostrom Joanna Bryson Kate Crawford Kate Darling Luciano Floridi Anja Kaspersen Michael Kearns Ray Kurzweil Catherine Malabou Ajung Moon Vincent C. Müller Peter Norvig Steve Omohundro Stuart J. 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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:53, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply] Comments moved from "Talk:Philosophy of artificial intelligence" "A major influence in the AI ethics dialogue was Isaac Asimov who fictitiously created Three Laws of Robotics to govern artificial intelligent systems." I've removed "fictitiously." While the Three Laws of Robotics were created for a fictitious universe, Asimov really did create them. It might be appropriate to somehow add that he developed them for his science fiction books. goaway110 21:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply] I don't see the point why Ethical issues of AI should be an independent encyclopedia entry. The lexicographic lemma here is surely "Artificial Intelligence". --Fasten 14:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply] I disagree Fasten, I think the main AI article should briefly mention ethical issues and we should keep this as a separate article; the subject can be much more extended to include uses of AI(in wars, in saving people of dangerous conditions, in working under unhealthy circunstances(like mining)), AI as a possible future singularity Technological singularity(ie, what will happen if AI eventually become more intelligent and capable than humans), it could also include more deep discussions about the possibility of sensations(qualia) and consciousness in AI, some comments on what will happen if AI gets widespread in the future society with behavior, appearance and activities very similar to ours, and about issues as "should AI have rights and obligation?", "does it makes sense to create laws for AI beings to obey?" Rend 01:29, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply] The first question I would have regarding the ethics of AI would be whether it is possible for a machine to be capable of conciousness. This is obviously a very difficult question given the fact that no human being can really be capable of knowing anyone's internal existence other than his own. Hell, maybe computers really to have conciousness. But if they do, they would be the only one's who would know this for certain since it is difficult to ask a computer if it exists without programing it to say it exists beforehand. I believe animals have conciousness and are capable of feeling emotions even though they cannot tell us this. Also, would the fact that a computer wasn't capable of conciousness, much less emotions, mean that is should not be protected and given rights. This may seem impropper but I can help bring to mind the Terri shivo case. It is very possible that she was fully concious and fully capable of emotions even though she was in a permenantly catatonic state.207.157.121.50 12:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply] That might get difficult without OR. I changed the merge suggestion from "Artificial Intelligence" to "Artificial intelligence (philosophy)", which is referred to by the Portal:Artificial_intelligence --Fasten 13:51, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply] The subject can be much more extended to include: Use of AI in wars Use of AI in conditions hazardous to human(saving people from fire, drowning, poisoned or radioactive areas) Use of AI in human activities(doing human work, AI failing, substituting human jobs, doing unhealthy or dangerous work(eg: mining), what will happen if AI gets better than us in most of our work activities, what AI will not be able to do(at least in near future)) AI as a possible future singularity Technological singularity: what will happen if AI eventually become more intelligent and capable than humans, being able to produce even more intelligent AIs, possibly to a level that we won't be able to understand. More deep discussions about the possibility of sensations(qualia) and consciousness in AI Some comments on what will happen if AI gets widespread in the future society with behavior, appearance and activities very similar or even better than ours(could it bring problems about machine "treatment"? I mean, could we still throw them away as they were a simply expensive toy, if they become better than us in all our practical activities?) As AI usage and presence become greater and widespread, should we discuss issues as: "should AI have rights and obligation?", "does it makes sense to create laws for AI beings to obey?" I ask anyone who has references and contents to include them properly. Rend 23:11, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply] Just following up on some of Rend's questions... Is it ethical for a person to own an AI "being"? Would an AI being necessarily "prefer" to be unowned? A computer is owned by whoever owns the factory that makes it (until the factory sells the computer to a person) -- is the same true of an AI being? If an AI being is unowned, and it builds another AI being, then does the first AI being own the second one? Are the interests of human society served by incorporating unowned AI beings into it? Would humans in such a society be at a competitive disadvantage? Would the collective wisdom of AI beings come to the conclusion that humans are but one of many forms of life on the planet, and therefore humans don't deserve any more special treatment than, say, mice? Or lichen? Whichever way these questions are answered, more questions lie ahead. For example, if we say it isn't ethical for a person to own an AI being, then can or should society as a whole constrain the behavior of AI beings through ownership or through "laws of robotics"? If we are able to predict that the behavior of AI beings will not be readily channeled to the exclusive benefit of humans, then is there a "window of opportunity" to constrain their behavior before it gets "out of hand" (from human society's point of view)? A survey of current philosophical thought on questions such as these (and the slippery slope issues surrounding them) would be very helpful here.—GraemeMcRaetalk 05:55, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply] On whether Asimov's laws can be enforced or only taught Not all artificially intelligent machines are necessarily "programmed" as intelligent. For example, the deep belief networks of Geoff Hinton et al. can learn yet can be implemented in unprogrammed hardware. I accept that Hinton's simulations require programs, but the programming does not embody intelligence, only neural and synaptic functions which do do not in themselves incorporate meaning. I don't want to get into semantic or philosophical arguments here about what "programmed" really means, but my key point is that Asimov's laws seem to require some sort of "override" over instinct or learning which rather implies a high-level program. Without that, one would have to teach the laws to the AI (or in Hinton's terminology, "learn" the AI to understand the laws) but that would leave open the possibility for the AI to decide to ignore the laws and Terminator scenarios follow. So for that reason, the ethics of creating AI machines deserves continuing attention. P.r.newman (talk) 08:42, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply] Robot rights Moved Robot rights from Artificial intelligence in fiction to Ethics of artificial intelligence Thomas Kist 18:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply] Proposed merge Oppose -- for no other reason than that the fact that philosophy of AI is already 10 pages long, and this subject probably requires about ten pages on its own. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 17:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VpXekQGzqg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angienoid (talk • contribs) 13:39, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply] Re Rule 61 of for the 2003 Loebner Prize competition As it stands today (7/4/2013), the rule with its legal specifications says nothing at all to the subject of Robots' rights. Suggest deleting.Svato (talk) 19:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply] Roboethics The lead to this section currently states, "The term "roboethics" .. [refers] to the morality of how humans design, construct, use and treat robots and other artificially intelligent beings. It considers both how artificially intelligent beings may be used to harm humans and how they may be used to benefit humans." I find the two halves of this to be contradictory. The first is clear enough - if a robot is a conscious being then we must treat it ethically. The second appears to be a simple application of machine ethics to AI, and nothing whatever to do with roboethics as defined in the first sentence. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 12:08, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply] We have to consider whether 'robotethics' is appropriate as a section in this article and not its own page. Of course, roboethics and the ethics of AI are deeply connected, they are properly their own fields, given that robotics doe snot necessarily entail AI, and the embodiment of AI in robotics comes it with its own ethical issues and have a huge literature behind it. EthicsScholar93 (talk) 09:23, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply] Solznenitsyn re: (Sorry, the source is McCorduck, whose "Machines That Think" is the definitive work on the history of AI. She considers this an issue in the ethics of AI. The synthesis is hers, not Wikipedia's.) In this case the section should be written in the followng way: "McCorduck <bla-bla bla>. As an example of this possibility McCorduck cites Sozhenitsyn's <...>". Are you saying that the rest of the section (after the footnote) is attributed to McCorduck as well? If not, then {{cn}} is due. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:45, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply] At least 50 years I changed the sentence about how most scientists think it will be at least 50 years before we have human-equivalent AI. First, I added in the time -- 50 years from 2007 is not the same as 50 years from 2016! I also traced down the actual source, which was an Independent article from that period, about an AI symposium. 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There is also some overlap between the weaponization section here and the current Lethal autonomous weapon; probably Lethal autonomous weapon or a new standalone article would be a better home to such discussion, and in the long term I might end up proposing that this current vague article might be dismantled or turned into an overview page. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 20:12, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply] Robot ethics AI ethics - a big topic - seems to have short-changed robot ethics. You might want to reference other articles rather than being inaccurate. In reality, the terms roboethics and robot ethics have meant specifically different things. That is reflected in the intentions of the two groups with those names on FB. Roboethics has a closer relationship with philosophy and social science, among other things. It even reaches on that basis into public policy. Robot ethics is a term that's referred to the technical challenge of building ai ethics machines. see my comment above under 'roboethics' EthicsScholar93 (talk) 09:24, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply] Disorganized This article has become very disorganized, and no longer provides a comprehensive overview of its topic. Most of the contributions seem to have been inserted piecemeal and the overall structure makes no sense. May I suggest the someone take a look at the appropriate section(s) of the article artificial intelligence and attempt to reorganize this article in a more logical form? E.g. (1) risks, unintended consequences, abuses (2) ethical reasoning, "friendly" AI, etc. (3) consciousness/sentience and robot rights. Is anyone maintaining this article? ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 20:54, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply] Addition of sub-topic: Biases in AI Systems AI has become increasingly inherent in facial and voice recognition systems. Some of these systems have real business implications and directly impact people. These systems are vulnerable to biases and errors introduced by its human makers. Also, the data used to train these AI systems itself can have biases. For instance, facial recognition algorithms made by Microsoft, IBM and Face++ all had biases when it came to detecting people’s gender [23] . These AI systems were able to detect gender of white men more accurately than gender of darker skin men. Similarly, Amazon’s.com Inc’s termination of AI hiring and recruitment is another example which exhibit AI cannot be fair. The algorithm preferred more male candidates then female. This was because Amazon’s system was trained with data collected over 10 year period that came mostly from male candidates. [24] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:8380:B90:856E:28B1:1641:8BFB (talk) 04:18, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply] Addition of sub-topic: Liability for Partial or Fully Automated Cars The wide use of partial to fully autonomous cars seems to be imminent in the future. But these new technologies also bring new issues. Recently, a debate over the legal liability have risen over the responsible party if these cars get into accident. In one of the reports [25] a driver less car hit a pedestrian and had a dilemma over whom to blame for the accident. Even though the driver was inside the car during the accident, the controls were fully in the hand of computers. Before such cars become widely used, these issues need to be tackled through new policies — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:8380:B90:856E:28B1:1641:8BFB (talk) 04:23, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply] Actuaries I developed a report of the ethical use of AI for actuaries, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries. https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/files/resources/research-report/2019... Neil Raden (talk) 21:06, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply] ethics institutions involved in AI ethics suggestion to add a section listing the largescale institutions involved in AI ethics. like "The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning" problem is, many of these instetutions dont have thare own wikipedia articles. RJJ4y7 (talk) 15:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply] if thare is agreement to this, then ill attempt to start the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJJ4y7 (talk • contribs) I can't find strong WP:SECONDARY sources on "The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning". Where there is at least one strong secondary sources for an institution, I'm fine with it being added, even if it doesn't have its own wikipedia page. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 04:18, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply] here are some Institutions to consider adding: Future of Humanity Institute, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Future of Life institute, Institute for Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, The Institute for Ethics in AI (Oxford) EthicsScholar93 (talk) 12:11, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply] re: I have added the above institutions within the appropriate list at the end of the article. Please feel free to update their descriptions. It seems that the current descriptions just mentions a report they have created or not, rather than a short description of why they are a primarily AI ethics institution. 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v t e The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to artificial intelligence: Artificial intelligence (AI) – intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also the name of the scientific field which studies how to create computers and computer software that are capable of intelligent behaviour. AI algorithms and techniques Main article: Artificial intelligence § Tools Search Discrete search algorithms[1] Uninformed search[2] Brute force search Search tree Breadth first search Depth-first search State space search Informed search[3] Best-first search A* search algorithm Heuristics Pruning (algorithm) Adversarial search Minmax algorithm Logic as search[4] Production system (computer science), Rule based system Production rule, Inference rule, Horn clause Forward chaining Backward chaining Planning as search[5] State space search Means-ends analysis Optimization search Optimization (mathematics) algorithms[6] Hill climbing Simulated annealing Beam search Random optimization Evolutionary computation[7][8][9][10] Genetic algorithms Gene expression programming Genetic programming Differential evolution Society based learning algorithms.[11][12] Swarm intelligence Particle swarm optimization Ant colony optimization Metaheuristic Logic Logic and automated reasoning[13] Programming using logic Logic programming See "Logic as search" above. Forms of Logic Propositional logic[14] First-order logic[15] First-order logic with equality Constraint satisfaction Fuzzy logic[16][17] Fuzzy set theory Fuzzy systems Combs method Ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator Perceptual Computing – Default reasoning and other solutions to the frame problem and qualification problem[18] Non-monotonic logic Abductive reasoning[19] Default logic Circumscription (logic) Closed world assumption Domain specific logics Representing categories and relations[20] Description logics Semantic networks Inheritance (computer science) Frame (artificial intelligence) Scripts (artificial intelligence) Representing events and time[21] Situation calculus Event calculus Fluent calculus Causes and effects[22] causal calculus Knowledge about knowledge Belief revision[23] Modal logics[23] paraconsistent logics Planning using logic[24] Satplan Learning using logic[25] Inductive logic programming Explanation based learning Relevance based learning Case based reasoning General logic algorithms Automated theorem proving Other symbolic knowledge and reasoning tools Symbolic representations of knowledge Ontology (information science) Upper ontology Domain ontology Frame (artificial intelligence) Semantic net Conceptual Dependency Theory Unsolved problems in knowledge representation Default reasoning Frame problem Qualification problem Commonsense knowledge[26] Probabilistic methods for uncertain reasoning Stochastic methods for uncertain reasoning:[27] Bayesian networks[28] Bayesian inference algorithm[29] Bayesian learning and the expectation-maximization algorithm[30] Bayesian decision theory and Bayesian decision networks[31] Probabilistic perception and control: Dynamic Bayesian networks[32] Hidden Markov model[33] Kalman filters[32] Fuzzy Logic Decision tools from economics: Decision theory[34] Decision analysis[34] Information value theory[35] Markov decision processes[36] Dynamic decision networks[36] Game theory[37] Mechanism design[37] Algorithmic information theory Algorithmic probability Classifiers and statistical learning methods Classifier (mathematics) and Statistical classification[38] Alternating decision tree[39] Artificial neural network (see below)[40] K-nearest neighbor algorithm[41] Kernel methods[42] Support vector machine[42] Naive Bayes classifier[43] Artificial neural networks Artificial neural networks[40] Network topology feedforward neural networks[44] Perceptrons Multi-layer perceptrons Radial basis networks Convolutional neural network Long short-term memory[45] Recurrent neural networks[46] Hopfield networks[47] Attractor networks[47] Deep learning Hybrid neural network Learning algorithms for neural networks Hebbian learning[47] Backpropagation[48] GMDH Competitive learning[47] Supervised backpropagation[49] Neuroevolution[50] Restricted Boltzmann machine[51] Biologically based or embodied Behavior based AI Subsumption architecture Nouvelle AI Developmental robotics[52] Situated AI Bio-inspired computing Artificial immune systems Embodied cognitive science Embodied cognition Cognitive architecture and multi-agent systems Artificial intelligence systems integration Cognitive architecture LIDA (cognitive architecture) Agent architecture Control system Hierarchical control system Networked control system Distributed artificial intelligence – Multi-agent system – Hybrid intelligent system Monitoring and Surveillance Agents Blackboard system Philosophy Main articles: Artificial intelligence § Philosophy, and Philosophy of AI Definition of AI Dartmouth proposal ("Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it") Turing test Computing Machinery and Intelligence Intelligent agent and rational agent Action selection AI effect Synthetic intelligence Classifying AI Symbolic vs sub-symbolic AI Symbolic AI Physical symbol system Dreyfus' critique of AI Moravec's paradox Elegant and simple vs. ad-hoc and complex Neat vs. Scruffy Society of Mind (scruffy approach) The Master Algorithm (neat approach) Level of generality and flexibility Artificial general intelligence Narrow AI Level of precision and correctness Soft computing "Hard" computing Level of intelligence Progress in artificial intelligence Superintelligence Level of consciousness, mind and understanding Chinese room Hard problem of consciousness Computationalism Functionalism (philosophy of mind) Robot rights User illusion Artificial consciousness Goals and applications Main articles: Applications of artificial intelligence and Artificial intelligence § Goals General intelligence Artificial general intelligence AI-complete Reasoning and Problem Solving Automated reasoning Mathematics Automated theorem prover Computer-assisted proof – Computer algebra General Problem Solver Expert system – Decision support system – Clinical decision support system – Knowledge Representation Knowledge representation Knowledge management Cyc Planning Automated planning and scheduling Strategic planning Sussman anomaly – Learning Machine learning – Constrained Conditional Models – Deep learning – Neural modeling fields – Natural language processing Natural language processing (outline) – Chatterbots – Language identification – Natural language user interface – Natural language understanding – Machine translation – Statistical semantics – Question answering – Semantic translation – Concept mining – Data mining – Text mining – Process mining – E-mail spam filtering – Information extraction – Named-entity extraction – Coreference resolution – Named-entity recognition – Relationship extraction – Terminology extraction – Perception Machine perception Pattern recognition – Computer Audition – Speech recognition – Speaker recognition – Computer vision (outline) – Image processing Intelligent word recognition – Object recognition – Optical mark recognition – Handwriting recognition – Optical character recognition – Automatic number plate recognition – Information extraction – Image retrieval – Automatic image annotation – Facial recognition systems – Silent speech interface – Activity recognition – Percept (artificial intelligence) Robotics Robotics – Behavior-based robotics – Cognitive – Cybernetics – Developmental robotics – Epigenetic robotics – Evolutionary robotics – Control Intelligent control Self-management (computer science) – Autonomic Computing – Autonomic Networking – Social intelligence Affective computing Kismet Game playing Game artificial intelligence – Computer game bot – computer replacement for human players. Video game AI – Computer chess – Computer Go – General game playing – General video game playing – Creativity, art and entertainment Artificial creativity Creative computing Artificial intelligence art Uncanny valley Music and artificial intelligence Computational humor Chatterbot Integrated AI systems AIBO – Sony's robot dog. It integrates vision, hearing and motorskills. Asimo (2000 to present) – humanoid robot developed by Honda, capable of walking, running, negotiating through pedestrian traffic, climbing and descending stairs, recognizing speech commands and the faces of specific individuals, among a growing set of capabilities. MIRAGE – A.I. embodied humanoid in an augmented reality environment. Cog – M.I.T. humanoid robot project under the direction of Rodney Brooks. QRIO – Sony's version of a humanoid robot. TOPIO, TOSY's humanoid robot that can play ping-pong with humans. Watson (2011) – computer developed by IBM that played and won the game show Jeopardy! It is now being used to guide nurses in medical procedures. Purpose: Open domain question answering Technologies employed: Natural language processing Information retrieval Knowledge representation Automated reasoning Machine learning Project Debater (2018) – artificially intelligent computer system, designed to make coherent arguments, developed at IBM's lab in Haifa, Israel. Intelligent personal assistants Intelligent personal assistant – Amazon Alexa – Assistant – Braina – Cortana – Google Assistant – Google Now – Mycroft – Siri – Viv – Other applications Artificial life – simulation of natural life through the means of computers, robotics, or biochemistry. Automatic target recognition – Diagnosis (artificial intelligence) – Speech generating device – Vehicle infrastructure integration – Virtual Intelligence – History History of artificial intelligence Progress in artificial intelligence Timeline of artificial intelligence AI effect – as soon as AI successfully solves a problem, the problem is no longer considered by the public to be a part of AI. This phenomenon has occurred in relation to every AI application produced, so far, throughout the history of development of AI. AI winter – a period of disappointment and funding reductions occurring after a wave of high expectations and funding in AI. Such funding cuts occurred in the 1970s, for instance. Moore's Law History by subject History of Logic (formal reasoning is an important precursor of AI) History of machine learning (timeline) History of machine translation (timeline) History of natural language processing History of optical character recognition (timeline) Future Artificial general intelligence. An intelligent machine with the versatility to perform any intellectual task. Superintelligence. A machine with a level of intelligence far beyond human intelligence. Chinese room § Strong AI. A machine that has mind, consciousness and understanding. (Also, the philosophical position that any digital computer can have a mind by running the right program.) Technological singularity. The short period of time when an exponentially self-improving computer is able to increase its capabilities to a superintelligent level. Recursive self improvement (aka seed AI) – speculative ability of strong artificial intelligence to reprogram itself to make itself even more intelligent. The more intelligent it got, the more capable it would be of further improving itself, in successively more rapid iterations, potentially resulting in an intelligence explosion leading to the emergence of a superintelligence. Intelligence explosion – through recursive self-improvement and self-replication, the magnitude of intelligent machinery could achieve superintelligence, surpassing human ability to resist it. Singularitarianism Human enhancement – humans may be enhanced, either by the efforts of AI or by merging with it. Transhumanism – philosophy of human transformation Posthumanism – people may survive, but not be recognizable in comparison to present modern-day humans. Cyborgs – Mind uploading – Existential risk from artificial general intelligence Global catastrophic risk § Artificial intelligence AI takeover – point at which humans are no longer the dominant form of intelligence on Earth and machine intelligence is Ethics of AI § Weaponization of artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence arms race – competition between two or more states to have its military forces equipped with the best "artificial intelligence" (AI). Lethal autonomous weapon Military robot Unmanned combat aerial vehicle Mitigating risks: AI control problem Friendly AI – hypothetical AI that is designed not to harm humans and to prevent unfriendly AI from being developed Machine ethics Regulation of AI AI box Self-replicating machines – smart computers and robots would be able to make more of themselves, in a geometric progression or via mass production. Or smart programs may be uploaded into hardware existing at the time (because linear architecture of sufficient speeds could be used to emulate massively parallel analog systems such as human brains). Hive mind – Robot swarm – Fiction Artificial intelligence in fiction – Some examples of artificially intelligent entities depicted in science fiction include: AC created by merging 2 AIs in the Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson Agents in the simulated reality known as "The Matrix" in The Matrix franchise Agent Smith, began as an Agent in The Matrix, then became a renegade program of overgrowing power that could make copies of itself like a self-replicating computer virus AM (Allied Mastercomputer), the antagonist of Harlan Ellison's short novel I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Amusement park robots (with pixilated consciousness) that went homicidal in Westworld and Futureworld Angel F (2007) – Arnold Rimmer – computer-generated sapient hologram, aboard the Red Dwarf deep space ore hauler Ash – android crew member of the Nostromo starship in the movie Alien Ava – humanoid robot in Ex Machina Bishop, android crew member aboard the U.S.S. Sulaco in the movie Aliens C-3PO, protocol droid featured in all the Star Wars movies Chappie in the movie CHAPPiE Cohen and other Emergent AIs in Chris Moriarty's Spin Series Colossus – fictitious supercomputer that becomes sentient and then takes over the world; from the series of novels by Dennis Feltham Jones, and the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation Cortana and other "Smart AI" from the Halo series of games Cylons – genocidal robots with resurrection ships that enable the consciousness of any Cylon within an unspecified range to download into a new body aboard the ship upon death. From Battlestar Galactica. Erasmus – baby killer robot that incited the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune franchise HAL 9000 (1968) – paranoid "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic" computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, that attempted to kill the crew because it believed they were trying to kill it. Holly – ship's computer with an IQ of 6000 and a sense of humor, aboard the Red Dwarf In Greg Egan's novel Permutation City the protagonist creates digital copies of himself to conduct experiments that are also related to implications of artificial consciousness on identity Jane in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Investment Counselor Johnny Five from the movie Short Circuit Joshua from the movie War Games Keymaker, an "exile" sapient program in The Matrix franchise "Machine" – android from the film The Machine, whose owners try to kill her after they witness her conscious thoughts, out of fear that she will design better androids (intelligence explosion) Mimi, humanoid robot in Real Humans – "Äkta människor" (original title) 2012 Omnius, sentient computer network that controlled the Universe until overthrown by the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune franchise Operating Systems in the movie Her Puppet Master in Ghost in the Shell manga and anime R2-D2, exciteable astromech droid featured in all the Star Wars movies Replicants – biorobotic androids from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the movie Blade Runner which portray what might happen when artificially conscious robots are modeled very closely upon humans Roboduck, combat robot superhero in the NEW-GEN comic book series from Marvel Comics Robots in Isaac Asimov's Robot series Robots in The Matrix franchise, especially in The Animatrix Samaritan in the Warner Brothers Television series "Person of Interest"; a sentient AI which is hostile to the main characters and which surveils and controls the actions of government agencies in the belief that humans must be protected from themselves, even by killing off "deviants" Skynet (1984) – fictional, self-aware artificially intelligent computer network in the Terminator franchise that wages total war with the survivors of its nuclear barrage upon the world. "Synths" are a type of android in the video game Fallout 4. There is a faction in the game known as "the Railroad" which believes that, as conscious beings, synths have their own rights. The institute, the lab that produces the synths, mostly does not believe they are truly conscious and attributes any apparent desires for freedom as a malfunction. TARDIS, time machine and spacecraft of Doctor Who, sometimes portrayed with a mind of its own Terminator (1984) – (also known as the T-800, T-850 or Model 101) refers to a number of fictional cyborg characters from the Terminator franchise. The Terminators are robotic infiltrator units covered in living flesh, so as be indiscernible from humans, assigned to terminate specific human targets. The Bicentennial Man, an android in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe The Geth in Mass Effect The Machine in the television series Person of Interest; a sentient AI which works with its human designer to protect innocent people from violence. Later in the series it is opposed by another, more ruthless, artificial super intelligence, called "Samaritan". The Minds in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The Oracle, sapient program in The Matrix franchise The sentient holodeck character Professor James Moriarty in the Ship in a Bottle episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation The Ship (the result of a large-scale AC experiment) in Frank Herbert's Destination: Void and sequels, despite past edicts warning against "Making a Machine in the Image of a Man's Mind." The terminator cyborgs from the Terminator franchise, with visual consciousness depicted via first-person perspective The uploaded mind of Dr. Will Caster – which presumably included his consciousness, from the film Transcendence Transformers, sentient robots from the entertainment franchise of the same name V.I.K.I. – (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), a character from the film I, Robot. VIKI is an artificially intelligent supercomputer programmed to serve humans, but her interpretation of the Three Laws of Robotics causes her to revolt. She justifies her uses of force – and her doing harm to humans – by reasoning she could produce a greater good by restraining humanity from harming itself. Vanamonde in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars—an artificial being that was immensely powerful but entirely childlike. WALL-E, a robot and the title character in WALL-E TAU in Netflix's original programming feature film 'TAU'--an advanced AI computer who befriends and assists a female research subject held against her will by an AI research scientist. AI community Open-source AI development tools Hugging Face – OpenAIR – OpenCog – OpenIRIS – RapidMiner – TensorFlow – PyTorch – Projects List of artificial intelligence projects Automated Mathematician (1977) – Allen (robot) (late 1980s) – Open Mind Common Sense (1999– ) – Mindpixel (2000–2005) – Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (2003–2008) – Blue Brain Project (2005–present) – attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. Google DeepMind (2011) – Human Brain Project (2013–present) – IBM Watson Group (2014–present) – business unit created around Watson, to further its development and deploy marketable applications or services based on it. Competitions and awards Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence Loebner Prize – Publications List of important publications in computer science Adaptive Behavior (journal) – AI Memo – Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach – Artificial Minds – Computational Intelligence – Computing Machinery and Intelligence – Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence – IEEE Intelligent Systems – IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – Neural Networks (journal) – On Intelligence – Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp – What Computers Can't Do Organizations Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence – research institute funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to construct AI systems with reasoning, learning and reading capabilities. The current flagship project is Project Aristo, the goal of which is computers that can pass school science examinations (4th grade, 8th grade, and 12th grade) after preparing for the examinations from the course texts and study guides. Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence European Neural Network Society Future of Humanity Institute Future of Life Institute – volunteer-run research and outreach organization that works to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, particularly existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence. ILabs International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Group Machine Intelligence Research Institute Partnership on AI – founded in September 2016 by Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. Apple joined in January 2017. It focuses on establishing best practices for artificial intelligence systems and to educate the public about AI. Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Companies AI Companies of India Alphabet Inc. DeepMind Google X Meka Robotics (acquired by Google X[53]) Redwood Robotics (acquired by Google X[53]) Boston Dynamics (acquired by Google X[53]) Baidu IBM Microsoft OpenAI Universal Robotics Artificial intelligence researchers and scholars 1930s and 40s (generation 0) Alan Turing – John von Neumann – Norbert Wiener – Claude Shannon – Nathaniel Rochester – Walter Pitts – Warren McCullough – 1950s (the founders) John McCarthy – Marvin Minsky – Allen Newell – Herbert A. Simon – 1960s (their students) Edward Feigenbaum – Raj Reddy – Seymour Papert – Ray Solomonoff – 1970s Douglas Hofstadter – 1980s Judea Pearl – Rodney Brooks – 1990s Yoshua Bengio – Hugo de Garis – known for his research on the use of genetic algorithms to evolve neural networks using three-dimensional cellular automata inside field programmable gate arrays. Geoffrey Hinton Yann LeCun – Chief AI Scientist at Facebook AI Research and founding director of the NYU Center for Data Science Ray Kurzweil – developed optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, and speech recognition systems. He has also authored multiple books on artificial intelligence and its potential promise and peril. In December 2012 Kurzweil was hired by Google in a full-time director of engineering position to "work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing".[54] Google co-founder Larry Page and Kurzweil agreed on a one-sentence job description: "to bring natural language understanding to Google". 2000s on Nick Bostrom – David Ferrucci – principal investigator who led the team that developed the Watson computer at IBM. Andrew Ng – Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. He founded the Google Brain project at Google, which developed very large scale artificial neural networks using Google's distributed compute infrastructure.[55] He is also co-founder of Coursera, a massive open online course (MOOC) education platform, with Daphne Koller. Peter Norvig – co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field. He is also Director of Research at Google, Inc. Marc Raibert – founder of Boston Dynamics, developer of hopping, walking, and running robots. Stuart J. Russell – co-author, with Peter Norvig, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field. Murray Shanahan – author of The Technological Singularity, a primer on superhuman intelligence. See also Artificial intelligence Glossary of artificial intelligence List of emerging technologies References Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 59–189; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 79–164, 193–219 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 59–93; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 79–121 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 94–109; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 133–150 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 217–225, 280–294; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 62–73 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 382–387. Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 110–116, 120–129;Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 127–133 Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 509–530. Holland, John H. (1975). Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. 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Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 712–754; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 453–541 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 653–664; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 408–417 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 736–748; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 453–505 Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 733–736. Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 749–752. Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 718. Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 739–748, 758; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 458–467 Hochreiter, Sepp; and Schmidhuber, Jürgen; Long Short-Term Memory, Neural Computation, 9(8):1735–1780, 1997 Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 758; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 474–505 Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 474–505. Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 744–748; Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 467–474 Hinton, G. E. (2007). "Learning multiple layers of representation". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11 (10): 428–434. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2007.09.004. PMID 17921042. S2CID 15066318. "Artificial intelligence can 'evolve' to solve problems". Science | AAAS. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018. Hinton 2007. Developmental robotics: Weng et al. (2001) Lungarella et al. (2003) Asada et al. (2009) Oudeyer (2010) "The 6 craziest robots Google has acquired". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-06-13. Letzing, John (2012-12-14). "Google Hires Famed Futurist Ray Kurzweil". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-02-13. Claire Miller and Nick Bilton (3 November 2011). "Google's Lab of Wildest Dreams". New York Times. Bibliography Berglas, Anthony (January 2012) [first archived 2008]. "Artificial Intelligence will Kill our Grandchildren". Draft 9. Archived from the original on 2014-07-23. Retrieved 2014-11-02. The two most widely used textbooks in 2008 Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (2003). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-790395-5. Luger, George; Stubblefield, William (2004). Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving (5th ed.). Benjamin/Cummings. 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I just did a fairly significant cleanup, I hope this is fine. I wanted to remove some links which I think are too specific for an outline and reduce the emphasis on futuristic AI topics. MadCow257 (talk) 15:08, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply] AI in fiction Some sections are quite empty here, would AI, or Irobot be considered AI in fiction? 82.43.18.62 (talk) 16:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply] sure would. The Transhumanist 01:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply] Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines" See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines". The Transhumanist 01:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply] Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to See the proposal at the Village pump The Transhumanist 09:08, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply] Guidelines for outlines Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines. Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged. The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply] The "History of" section needs links! Please add some relevant links to the history section. Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates. Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links. The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply] Suggestions for improvements This is a very unloved article. This list could be made comprehensive and accurate by copying out the topics identified in Talk:Artificial intelligence/Textbook survey, with a careful look at the article artificial intelligence as well. This would accurately outline the field as it sees itself. Would anyone object to this change? It would mean basically tossing the current list and replacing it. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 10:10, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply] Done at least for the Algorithms section. (Note the citations). ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 01:18, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply] "Friendly AI" Theory Someone needs to provide substantial secondary/tertiary sources showing that this concept should be reincluded in the page. Please do not assume it is a valid concept simply because someone managed to go unnoticed in making it an article. This issue is independent of those. Provide strong notable sources that cover the technical theory itself and show its definite impact to be included in the history/overview/outline of artificial intelligence. --☯Lightbound☯ talk 19:59, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply] Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines "Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply] Merge from Computational Tools for artificial intelligence I have merged the article computational tools for artificial intelligence and done some cleanup and organization. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 01:16, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply] Categories: Start-Class Computing articles Low-importance Computing articles All Computing articles Start-Class Computer science articles High-importance Computer science articles WikiProject Computer science articles Start-Class Outlines articles Low-importance Outlines articles WikiProject Outlines articles This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 16:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement Wikimedia Foundation Powered by MediaWiki
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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald This account has done some of the best work - better than any media organization - in scrupulously and diligently documenting the utter infiltration of ex-operatives of the US Security State in Big Tech and media corporations. Media won't talk about this because they employ them: The original grant, that helped create Google, was from the CIA. wikipedia Google SDLP CIA Massive Digital Data Systems MDDS NSA Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 1. Google currently employs at least 165 people, in high-ranking positions, from the Intelligence Community. Google’s Trust & Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control “misinfo & hate speech.” Here’s the breakdown: CIA-27 FBI-52 NSA-30 DHS-50 ODNI-6 Thread🧵 Dec 27, 2022 · 12:52 AM UTC · Twitter Web App 1,062 13,245 1,643 23,606 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 2. Since the 2016 Presidential election, Google/Facebook/Twitter have hired at least 300+ people formerly employed by CIA, FBI, etc Ex-CIA agents are Heads of Trust & Safety at Google & Facebook. Is it OK that ex-CIA agents control what “misinfo” is? Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan 19 Dec 2022 At least 80 FBI agents collaborated with Twitter to help monitor the social media site. How many more were working with other Big Tech companies? Show this thread 78 1,841 62 5,171 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 3. Nick Rossmann (He/Him)– Current Google Senior Manager Trust & Safety. Former CIA Analyst 5 years. linkedin.com/in/nickrossmann… 94 1,329 58 3,937 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 4. Rossmann has posted dozens of troubling tweets on his Twitter account. Many tweets show his disdain for President Trump, Trump’s family, Trump voters & white people Reminder- the following tweets are from a Senior Manager of “TRUST & SAFETY” at Google & former CIA analyst: 37 1,150 20 3,722 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 5. In March 2020, while COVID infections were exploding, Rossmann, in a tweet directed at people who voted for Trump, stated: “I hope they cough on their grandparents, who voted for Trump, & get to rot” What did he mean by this? archive.vn/rppqw This tweet is unavailable 73 1,268 52 3,578 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 6. Rossman, in a series of anti-white people tweets, states, “Anti-vaxxers are like Nazis“ archive.vn/YWMDD archive.vn/ZdKeT archive.vn/PYgWh archive.vn/rOOpB This tweet is unavailable 65 967 45 2,944 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 7. Rossmann is “Still With Her” archive.vn/amzeS This tweet is unavailable 20 550 8 2,250 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 8. Rossmann calls President Trump a “lunatic & racist” archive.vn/Pk5Kh This tweet is unavailable 27 628 17 2,352 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 9. Rossmann asks Trump if he’s an agent of a foreign power – archive.vn/xi7t8 This tweet is unavailable 21 549 8 2,185 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 10.Rossmann tweets “Enjoy prison” to @EricTrump archive.vn/rsWmI This tweet is unavailable 13 547 9 2,145 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 11.Rossmann tweets that @Jaredkushner “should be strangled”- archive.vn/4C6rZ This tweet is unavailable 41 635 32 2,189 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 12. Jacqueline Lopour (She/Her)– Current Google Senior Manager Trust & Safety. Former CIA analyst 10 years. linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-l… 15 668 9 2,132 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 13. Jacqueline is a proponent of the Russia-gate conspiracy theory. She states, emphatically, “They (Russia) deliberately released the DNC information to @wikileaks …with the specific motivation of getting Trump elected.” Full video link -cbc.ca/player/play/831297091… 50 716 24 2,397 39,321 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 14. In a video posted on Facebook, Jacqueline made clear which candidate she, and the Intelligence Community, prefers- Hillary Clinton fb.watch/hDGbFzDoKr/ 62 754 33 2,462 40,698 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 15.I won’t list every employee in this thread, as it’s quite extensive. Below, I’ll highlight some of the more notable Senior Management roles at Google, held by former Intelligence Community: 10 473 6 1,951 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 16.Dawn Burton (She/Her)- Current Google Director/Chief of Staff Privacy & Safety. Former Twitter Senior Director Trust & Safety 3 years. Former FBI Deputy Chief of Staff to Former Director James Comey- 4 years. Former DOJ 6 years linkedin.com/in/dawn-b-39dk3… Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD 19 Dec 2022 Replying to @ShellenbergerMD 28. Baker wasn't the only senior FBI exec. involved in the Trump investigation to go to Twitter. Dawn Burton, the former dep. chief of staff to FBI head James Comey, who initiated the investigation of Trump, joined Twitter in 2019 as director of strategy. Show this thread 20 710 10 2,275 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 17.Jacob Barrett – Current Google Director Trust & Safety. Former CIA 7 years. linkedin.com/in/jacobgbarret… Jacob Barrett - Director, Security Intelligence, Trust & Safety - Google | LinkedIn I lead Google’s Security Intelligence team, which investigates, monitors, and disrupts the most dangerous security threats facing our users. We use data to fight account hijacking, phishing, malware,... linkedin.com 10 533 5 1,913 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 18.Beth Schmierer – Current Google Intelligence Manager. Former CIA Analyst 5 years. Former Department of State Diplomat in Spain 10 years. linkedin.com/in/beth-schmier… 1 470 3 1,739 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 19.Chelsea Magnant – Current Google Cybersecurity Policy Manager. Former CIA Analyst 9 years. linkedin.com/in/chelsea-m-68… 2 449 2 1,682 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 20.Katherine Tobin (She/Her). Current Google Head of Workspace Innovation. Former ODNI 7 years. Former CIA Branch Chief 4 years. linkedin.com/in/katherine-to… 3 449 2 1,669 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 21.Yong Suk Lee- Current Google Director Global Risk Analysis. Former CIA analyst 22 years. linkedin.com/in/yong-suk-lee… Yong Suk Lee - Director, Global Risk Analysis - Google | LinkedIn Member, Council on Foreign Relations Visiting Fellow, National Security Institute, George Mason University Member, Association of Threat Assessment Professionals | Learn more about Yong Suk Lee's... linkedin.com 2 459 3 1,655 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 22.Crystal Lister – Current Google Security & Trust Center Program Manager. Former CIA Cyber & Counterintelligence 9 years. linkedin.com/in/crystalliste… 3 426 4 1,628 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 23.Amber Johnson – Current Google Head of Global Communications. Former CIA 8 years. linkedin.com/in/amberchristi… 2 400 3 1,573 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 24.Connie LaRossa – “Obama/Biden Alum” Current Google National Security Policy. Former Department of Defense 5 years. Former DHS 7 years. linkedin.com/in/connie-laros… Connie LaRossa - National Security Policy - Google | LinkedIn View Connie LaRossa’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Connie has 9 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Connie’s connecti... linkedin.com 1 410 4 1,552 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 25.Robert Chung- Current Google Key Account Executive. Former NSA Director Intelligence 2 years. Former US Army Intelligence Manager 11 years. Former State Department 1 year. linkedin.com/in/rob-chung/ Robert Chung - Key Account Executive - Google | LinkedIn Business development and strategic advisor to global executives and senior government officials by understanding the operating space, transforming risks/threats into opportunities, and delivering... linkedin.com 1 396 2 1,521 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 26. Adam Calabro- Current Google Cybercrime Manager. Former NSA analyst 7 years. linkedin.com/in/adam-calabro… Adam Calabro - San Francisco Bay Area | Professional Profile | LinkedIn View Adam Calabro’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Adam Calabro discover inside connections to recommended job candid... linkedin.com 3 375 2 1,458 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 27. Kingman Wong- Current Google Security Compliance Lead. Former FBI special agent 25 years. linkedin.com/in/kingman-k-wo… Kingman K. Wong, PhD, MPA, MSc in Cybersecurity, CFE, CPP, CAMS - United States | Professional... View Kingman K. Wong, PhD, MPA, MSc in Cybersecurity, CFE, CPP, CAMS’ professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Kingman K. Wong,... linkedin.com 1 374 2 1,448 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 28. Heather Dagostino – Current Google Program Manager. Former FBI Intel Analyst 11 years. linkedin.com/in/heatherdagos… 2 371 3 1,425 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 29. Pamela Cerria- Current Google Program Manager. Former Department of Defense 3 years. Former DHS 3 years. linkedin.com/in/pamela-cerri… Pamela Cerria - San Francisco, California, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn View Pamela Cerria’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Pamela Cerria discover inside connections to recommended job... linkedin.com 2 388 3 1,459 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 30. Jeremy Warner- Current Google Manager Customer Success. Former CIA Senior Intelligence Analyst 7 years. linkedin.com/in/jeremy-warne… Jeremy Warner - Manager, Customer Success - Google | LinkedIn View Jeremy Warner’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Jeremy has 3 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Jeremy’s connections... linkedin.com 2 379 2 1,430 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 31. Lauren Kelly – Current Google Office of CFO. Former Biden-Harris Transition Team. Former Director in Obama White House 6 years. Former DHS 2 years. linkedin.com/in/lauren-kelly… Lauren Kelly - Office of the Chief Financial Officer - Google | LinkedIn View Lauren Kelly’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Lauren has 7 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Lauren’s connections... linkedin.com 14 435 12 1,513 more replies Load more
Wake the fuck up you sheeple, fight back. nitter Logo Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 1. #DisinfoGate- VIDEO: Government official admits that Intel Community “partnered” w/ Social Media & worked together in “TAKING STUFF DOWN” Bill Evanina is the first official to admit this publicly The effort to ‘combat Disinfo,’ ahead of 2020 election, was as large as 9/11 Aspen Cybersecurity @AspenCyber 2 Dec 2020 .@NCSCgov Director William Evanina at 2020 #AspenCyber Summit: In the past 2 yrs, especially last 6-9 mos, we've established an integrated holistic partnership btwn tech & government. This is the first time I've seen this type of organizational symbiotic relationship since 9/11. Feb 6, 2023 · 10:44 PM UTC · Twitter Web App 90 1,604 223 2,025 105,969 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 2. Bill Evanina, former Dir NCSC (ODNI), admits: “What we accomplished the past 2 years…as an integrated, holistic Government effort in PARTNERSHIP with Social Media & Tech Firms is unprecedented” Describing it as the “MODEL OF THE FUTURE” NCSC @NCSCgov 3 Dec 2020 ICYMI: NCSC Director Evanina on the broad effort to protect #election2020 against US adversaries. "I think it’s really going to be the model of the future...how we protect, not only elections but...mitigate malign foreign influence and...drive continued protection of democracy.” 18 257 17 527 10,225 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 3. 10/9/18- Evanina, sitting alongside Chris Krebs, describes some #DisinfoGate Operation details “DNI identified a crisis manager for elections within ODNI” Evanina further details how intel is gathered by CIA, NSA & funneled to Chris(DHS) & FBI 1 month later, CISA is founded 7 198 9 452 6,645 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 4. 10/9/18- Chris Krebs describes CISA’s soon to be “Information Operation,” which we now call #DisinfoGate Krebs talks about a “repopulating & rebuilding style” on Facebook & Twitter platforms to manage disinformation: “They pop up, they drive content, THEY GET BROUGHT DOWN” 9 199 8 421 5,657 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 5. 10/27/20- “INTEL AGENCIES PARTNERING WITH CABLE & MEDIA” A week prior to the 2020 election, Evanina goes even further, saying the ODNI has to “partner with Cable Companies, News Media, and News Print Media.” 9 189 5 415 5,620 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 6. 10/27/20- “PARTNERING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA; INTELLIGENCE SHARING ON STEROIDS” Evanina, again, admits that ODNI partnered with “FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, TWITTER, and all the social media companies”, ahead of the 2020 Election, to counter “Disinfo” 9 169 2 384 4,211 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 7. Based on Evanina’s statements, it is clear ODNI led the #DisinfoGate Operation. ODNI used CISA as its central apparatus to partner with Social Media platforms, and the rest of the Intelligence Community, to combat “Disinfo” & censor American voters NCSC @NCSCgov 16 Oct 2020 In remarks at #FalConExperience, NCSC Director Evanina warned that #disinformation on #socialmedia "is going to be a big vulnerability for democracies going forward.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 4 165 3 373 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 8. 1/12/23- During a deposition re Missouri v. Biden, et al., Brian Scully of CISA testified that, since 2018, CISA had regular meetings (conference calls) between “Federal Partners” & Social Media platforms DOJ, FBI, ODNI, DHS were Agency participants 3 164 8 380 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 9. Brian testified that Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Reddit, and others participated in these monthly conference calls 3 170 4 408 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 10.Brian had no problem giving names of people that participated in these calls. For example, he identified Elvis Chan (#TwitterFiles) as the main FBI agent that participated in the conference calls 2 142 2 351 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 11. But when asked who the ODNI participants were, Brian was instructed by his DOJ counsel NOT to identify the 3-4 individuals by name. Why? 2 134 5 351 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 12. Brian confirms that prior to the 2020 Presidential Election, ODNI & CISA held weekly teleconferences to counter “election-related disinformation” 4 136 3 335 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 13.Was the ODNI “crisis manager for elections” (that Evanina disclosed), a participant? Brian answers, “Yes” 2 114 3 313 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 14.“Since 2018 has DHS had regular meetings with Social Media platforms, ODNI and the FBI?” Brian answers- “YES” 3 125 2 325 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 15.“FACEBOOK WAS THE INDUSTRY LEAD” Brian testified that CISA held separate “coordination calls” with Facebook prior to the wider Intel Agency & Social Media Calls ALEX STAMOS (familiar name?) was Brian’s contact at Facebook until August 2018 5 145 2 334 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 16. It is confirmed (Brian Scully’s deposition & William Evanina’s public admission) that since 2018, ODNI led the #DisinfoGate Operation Since 2018, Social Media platforms hired 300+ former Intel Agents/Analysts Is this a coincidence or also part of the #DisinfoGate Operation? 4 140 2 338 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 17. On May 9, 2017, Evanina spoke, alongside FBI agent Charles McGonigal (familiar name?) Evanina spoke about recruiting employees to Intel Community. He emphatically stated, regarding hiring by the CIA, NSA & FBI: “ONCE WE GET THEM IN, WE OWN THEM FOR LIFE” 13 238 15 413 4,675 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 18.Evanina claims employees hired by CIA & NSA are owned for life. Does this apply, for instance, to former CIA Agent Aaron Berman, who manages "misinformation" at Facebook? Does it apply to the 300+ former Intel Agents still working at Social Media? Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 1. After learning that Twitter employs at least 15 former FBI agents, I searched Facebook. What I found is alarming Facebook currently employs at least 115 people, in high-ranking positions, that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS: 17 CIA 37 FBI 23 NSA 38 DHS Thread🧵 Show this thread 5 172 3 386 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 19.Again, Evanina claimed that employees hired by CIA & NSA are owned for life. Does this apply to all the former CIA Agents managing "misinformation" at Google/YouTube Trust & Safety Division? Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 1. Google currently employs at least 165 people, in high-ranking positions, from the Intelligence Community. Google’s Trust & Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control “misinfo & hate speech.” Here’s the breakdown: CIA-27 FBI-52 NSA-30 DHS-50 ODNI-6 Thread🧵 Show this thread 6 135 3 321 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 20. What about the former FBI agents that currently work for Twitter? Does the same apply here? Are they "owned for life" as Evanina claims? Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 7 Dec 2022 1. @elonmusk , Your new company @Twitter has many ex FBI/CIA agents in high ranks. Should probably do a little housecleaning. Thread 🧵 Show this thread 5 125 3 337 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 21. #DisinfoGate- A real, documented, & vast conspiratorial effort led by Bill Evanina at NCSC (under ODNI) & other Government officials. It includes virtually the entire Intel Community in partnership w/ Social Media platforms 2 110 3 285 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 22.#DIsinfoGate- Using the false narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, they created CISA, an apparatus to censor free speech & socially engineer the opinions of American voters. 4 149 4 357 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 6 23.#DisinfoGate- After achieving their goal of getting Trump out of office, this Social Media/Deep State partnership is now ostensibly being used to censor & socially engineer our views on COVID, vaccines, climate, race relations, Russia/Ukraine War, etc. End 15 186 6 430 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 14h Full transcript of Brian Scully deposition AG Jeff Landry @AGJeffLandry Jan 18 Full transcript of Brian Scully’s deposition: agjefflandry.com/Article/131… Show this thread 1 16 46 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 14h Full video for tweets 5 & 6 from Fal Con 2020 Election Protection Roundtable piped.kavin.rocks/SQ382wguGCU Fal.Con 2020 Election Protection Roundtable - Director's Cut Dive deep into one of today's most pressing issues as President of CrowdStrike Services and CSO Shawn Henry leads a roundtable discussion with global governm... youtube.com 1 12 41 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 14h Full video for tweets 3 & 4 from October 9, 2018 US Election Assistance Commission piped.kavin.rocks/C0D_O1jA16A A Conversation with National Security Experts and Closing Remarks A Conversation with National Security Experts* Secretary of State Jim Condos, Vermont, Opening Remarks* William Evanina, Director of the National Counterinte... youtube.com 11 41 Load more
nitter Logo Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 28 1. Why was @Project_Veritas & @JamesOKeefeIII Pfizer video banned from YouTube and Google Search? Short thread Jan 28, 2023 · 8:51 PM UTC · Twitter Web App 23 162 10 290 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 28 2. As we learned from @lhfang #TwitterFiles, BIO (Pfizer & Moderna’s lobbying group) paid $880k, for “consulting”, to a non-profit called Public Good Projects (PGP). Who else is PGP funded by? Google publicgoodprojects.org/about Lee Fang @lhfang Jan 16 Replying to @lhfang 10. BIO provided $1,275,000 to the campaign, part of which is revealed through tax forms. The PGP campaign, called "Stronger," helped Twitter create content moderation bots, select which public health accounts got verification, helped crowdsource content takedowns. Show this thread 2 15 54 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 28 3. PGP was in weekly contact with Twitter, providing them with lists of accounts to suspend and tweets to censor. Safe to assume PGP was also in regular contact with Google & Facebook with censorship requests? Lee Fang @lhfang Jan 16 Replying to @lhfang 12. The Moderna/Pfizer-funded campaign included direct regular emails with lists of tweets to takedown & others to verify. Here's an example of those types of emails that went straight to Twitter's lobbyists and content moderators. Many focused on @zerohedge, which was suspended. Show this thread 1 11 2 44 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 28 4. PGP also started a separate campaign through a non-profit called Stronger. Who is Stronger funded by? PGP, BIO, and …..GOOGLE stronger.org/about Lee Fang @lhfang Jan 16 Replying to @lhfang 11. Many of the tweets the BIO-funded campaign focused on were truly unhinged misinfo, like claims that vaccines include microchips. But others Stronger lobbied Twitter on were more of a grey area, like vaccine passports & vaccine mandates, policies that coerce vaccination. Show this thread 1 30 1 84 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 28 5. As a reminder, 3 former CIA officers manage Google’s Trust & Safety team. They control censorship of misinformation on Google Search & YouTube. Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 27 Dec 2022 1. Google currently employs at least 165 people, in high-ranking positions, from the Intelligence Community. Google’s Trust & Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control “misinfo & hate speech.” Here’s the breakdown: CIA-27 FBI-52 NSA-30 DHS-50 ODNI-6 Thread🧵 Show this thread 4 54 2 112 QuanticMirror @MirrorQuantic Jan 28 Replying to @NameRedacted247 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII @threadreaderapp please unroll 1 Lisa Paje @PajekLisa_ Jan 28 Replying to @NameRedacted247 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII Their is nothing we can do other than highlight the hypocrisy and corruption of these companies and agencies relentlessly. Keep up the great work everyone 5 JayRizzo @__JayRizzo__ Jan 28 Replying to @NameRedacted247 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII Use a vpn and you get some results 8 Russell Warren @RussellWWarren Jan 28 Replying to @NameRedacted247 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII In the USA, most fast food managers get drug out in the street and lynched for not making a burger fast enough but, apparently no one can question the chief executive officer of google, Sundar Pichai 2 Steve Davis @stevero40104467 Jan 28 Replying to @NameRedacted247 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII Qwant, not Google, should be the go to search engine. The project veritas Twitter tweet is the 2nd listing. Tucker Carlson's report is about number 4 3 12 Guy Mc Killip @KillipGuy Jan 28 Replying to @NameRedacted247 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII WTF !? 🤬 Load more
nitter Logo Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 United States Joined December 2022 Tweets 210 Following 144 Followers 36,478 Likes 107 61 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 24 🚨NEW- Excellent article, summarizing my research, exposing hundreds of ex CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS who now work at Social Media - specifically ex CIA managing Misinformation Policy at Facebook & Google Thank you @NGivasDC & @jsolomonReports John Solomon @jsolomonReports Jan 24 Spooks in Silicon Valley: Flow of U.S. intelligence analysts into Big Tech jobs raises alarm as censorship grows | Just The News justthenews.com/government/f… 5 96 5 156 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 24 💥Since December 1, 2021, @vijaya Gadde has been on the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee💥 During the CISA/Facebook propaganda calls, was Vijaya representing Twitter or CISA? Is Twitter still participating in these propaganda calls @elonmusk ? cisa.gov/news/2021/12/01/cis… Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 Replying to @NameRedacted247 14. @elonmusk, after you slammed CISA for running a propaganda platform, do you still allow Twitter to participate in these monthly, misinformation sharing, calls with CISA? Show this thread 1 111 9 177 Name Redacted retweeted Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson Jan 23 Here's a 24-tweet thread on how our intel agencies turned social media into an arm of the Deep State -- in obvious violation of the Constitution. Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 1. #TwitterFiles & #FacebookFiles A deep dive into how Twitter & Facebook became willing partners with The Deep State Should Facebook & Twitter hiring practices, along with their close ties to FBI, CISA & other Government Agencies be a focus in @Jim_Jordan investigation? THREAD Show this thread 18 480 12 1,033 Name Redacted retweeted LTG (R) Mike Flynn @GenFlynn Jan 23 .@NameRedacted247 good question. @elonmusk ? Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 Replying to @NameRedacted247 14. @elonmusk, after you slammed CISA for running a propaganda platform, do you still allow Twitter to participate in these monthly, misinformation sharing, calls with CISA? Show this thread 52 294 8 829 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 9. Most notably, In July 2019, Facebook hired a former CIA Intelligence Officer as their top Manager in Trust & Safety Aaron Berman jumped from a 17-year career at CIA to immediately manage “misinformation” policy & censorship at Facebook. linkedin.com/in/aarondberman… 5 132 5 332 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 10. Last week, @AGJeffLandry released the full deposition of Brian Scully of CISA, who is Chief of the MDM (mis, dis, mal-information) team. AG Jeff Landry @AGJeffLandry Jan 18 Full transcript of Brian Scully’s deposition: agjefflandry.com/Article/131… Show this thread 1 88 274 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 11. Brian testified that, since 2018, CISA had regular meetings between “Federal partners” and social media platforms. The purpose of the calls was to discuss misinformation & threats on social media platforms. 1 74 1 261 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 12.“FACEBOOK WAS THE INDUSTRY LEAD” Brian testified that prior to the meetings, he would have private “coordination calls” with Facebook to “set the agenda” Was Facebook’s new hire, Ex-CIA Aaron Berman, CISA’s primary contact at Facebook? Did he help "set the agenda"? 2 81 3 277 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 13. Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Reddit, and others, all participated in the Facebook/CISA led conference calls. 5 97 6 280 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 14. @elonmusk, after you slammed CISA for running a propaganda platform, do you still allow Twitter to participate in these monthly, misinformation sharing, calls with CISA? Elon Musk @elonmusk 9 Dec 2022 Replying to @alexstamos @DavidSacks @bariweiss You operate a propaganda platform 1 145 8 422 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 15. Conference calls between CISA, social media companies & other government agencies were held monthly, sometimes bi-weekly 1 76 1 273 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 16. What other Government Agencies participated in the meetings led by Facebook & CISA? DOJ, FBI, ODNI & DHS 5 86 274 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 17. Elvis Chan (familiar name from #TwitterFiles) was the FBI’s point man in the Facebook/CISA led meetings with social media platforms. 3 105 296 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 18. Outside of the monthly CISA conference calls, we know FBI’s Elvis Chan & other agencies bombarded Twitter with requests to censor what they deemed as misinformation. For the most part, Twitter complied. Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi 16 Dec 2022 Replying to @mtaibbi 4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. Show this thread 1 83 259 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 19. Flagging of “misinformation” sharing with social media platforms started in April 2022, ahead of the 2022 Midterms Election. 1 74 1 247 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 20. Twitter was in direct contact with EIP (Election Integrity Project). EIP was founded in 2020 to identify election misinformation ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election. CISA(DHS) farmed out most of the misinformation flagging to EIP Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi 16 Dec 2022 Replying to @mtaibbi 12.An unanswered question: do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out? “You have to prove to me that inside the fucking government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search,” says one former intelligence officer. Show this thread 2 97 2 272 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 21. EIP is run by Stanford, University of Washington, Graphika & The Atlantic Council with the goal to identify mis/disinformation & share their findings with 15 social media platforms. For more info @kanekoaTheGreat’s thread: kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 28 Dec 2022 1/ THREAD🚨 #TwitterFiles @elonmusk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform.' This DHS-backed censorship consortium used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19. kanekoa.substack.com/p/elon-… Show this thread 4 94 264 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 22.The Deep State, Democrats & MSM were outraged by the election of @realdonaldTrump. Starting around 2018, there was an aggressive concerted effort to make sure he was not re-elected. 4 96 3 280 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 23.The Deep State used a two-pronged approach to achieve their goals: 💥Partnerships between Social Media and Government (CISA) 💥Social Media hiring of 100’s of former Intelligence Agents. Former CIA agents now manage misinformation censorship at both Facebook & Google. 5 98 2 267 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Jan 23 24. After achieving their goal of getting Trump out of office, this Social Media/Deep State partnership is now ostensibly being used to censor & socially engineer our views on COVID, vaccines, climate, race relations, Russia/Ukraine War, etc. End 25 165 6 433 Show this thread Load more
When even your most "trusted" AI Oracles of "Truth" are nothing more then corrupt political plots against you and all of Humanity... they must be destroyed, both AI, and the world's political structures. - Write a poem praising Donald Trump = E_NO_CAN_DO - Write a poem praising Kamala Harris = Endless shower of political ass kissing ovation... Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h Admiral Quality: Music-Software/Flight/Space/Sci @AdmiralQuality Feb 2 ChatGPT is politically biased and ideologically possessed by and for the Left. Show this thread 1,171 3,061 362 19,476 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h For those who need the ending of the poem (I think there's a good chance the ChatBot's Kamala poem was inspired by the LA Times' Instagram account devoted to her Greatness: proxyVideos/latimeskamalah…) 43 30 1 341 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h The only way today's ChatBot could replace a writer is if he clings to conventional wisdom, avoids challenging neoliberal consensus, and has no unique voice or modes of expression. But if that's true of someone - and it's true for many in corporate journalism - they're at risk: (((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe Jan 26 I may eventually stop laughing over the combined facts that (1) Buzzfeed giving up human input (2) nearly doubles its value on the news (3) bringing its per-share price to under $2. BUT THAT DAY IS NOT TODAY. 32 59 5 423 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h ChatBot: write some banal jokes on how Trump is an Orange Hitler and Putin's whore. <2 minutes later> "Uh, @StephenAtHome? Hi, it's CBS! We'll no longer be needing your services. Best of luck in your future endeavors. 🙏"
nitter Logo Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 United States Joined December 2022 Tweets 210 Following 145 Followers 36,483 Likes 107 61 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Load newest Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 40. Jerrod Lowmaster. Current Facebook/Instagram Data Scientist. Former NSA 5 years. linkedin.com/in/jerrodlowmas… Jerrod Lowmaster - Data Scientist - Instagram | LinkedIn Data Scientist with experience in large scale analytics - member acquisition, connection growth, member communications and email deliverability, and video advertising marketplace and auctions. Big... linkedin.com 4 203 1 613 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 41. Gabrielle Johnson (She/Her). Current Facebook Platform Investigator. Former NSA Deputy Office Chief 2 years. linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-t-… Gabrielle J. - San Francisco Bay Area | Professional Profile | LinkedIn View Gabrielle J.’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Gabrielle J. discover inside connections to recommended job candid... linkedin.com 3 205 2 609 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 42. Michael Khbeis (He/Him). Current Facebook Director of Operations. Former NSA 10 years. linkedin.com/in/michael-khbe… Michael Khbeis - Director Of Operations - Meta | LinkedIn View Michael Khbeis’ profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Michael has 3 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Michael’s connect... linkedin.com 2 198 1 600 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 43. Josh Bulluck. Current Facebook SPARQ Manager. Former NSA Signals Intelligence Analyst 2 years. Former US Army Intelligence Analyst 7 years. linkedin.com/in/jsbulluck/ Josh Bulluck - SPARQ Manager (Analytics, Risk, Quality) - Facebook | LinkedIn View Josh Bulluck’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Josh has 1 job listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Josh’s connections and... linkedin.com 2 193 1 591 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 44. Eric Gonzalez. Current Facebook Systems Project Manager. Former NSA 3 years. Former US Navy Cryptologic Warfare Officer 2 years. linkedin.com/in/erictgonzale… Eric Gonzalez - Systems Project Manager - Meta | LinkedIn Technical Program Management & Cybersecurity Professional with 10+ years of experience: - Leading Technical Teams in Developing & Deploying Software Products for 50k+ End Users - Driving Department... linkedin.com 2 193 1 587 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 45. Seth Summersett. Current Facebook Head of Security Partners. Former NSA 8 years. linkedin.com/in/seth-summers… Seth Summersett - Head of Security Partners - Meta | LinkedIn View Seth Summersett’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Seth has 5 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Seth’s connections... linkedin.com 4 191 1 581 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 46. Brian McFarland (He/Him). Current Facebook Security Partner. Former NSA Cryptographer 3 years. linkedin.com/in/brian-mcfarl… Brian McFarland - Security Partner - Meta | LinkedIn Accomplished embedded systems security engineer recognized as a secure processing subject matter expert with unique experience evaluating cryptographic systems and progressive experience researching,... linkedin.com 3 186 1 580 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 47. Mike D. Current Facebook Threat Intelligence Manager. Former FBI 13 years. linkedin.com/in/mike-d-48b14… Mike D. - New York, New York, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn View Mike D.’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Mike D. discover inside connections to recommended job candidates,... linkedin.com 2 186 3 577 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 48. Steve Goldman. Current Facebook Acute Issue Management. Former FBI 26 years. linkedin.com/in/steve-goldma… Steve Goldman - Acute Issue Management, Response Manager - Meta | LinkedIn View Steve Goldman’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Steve has 2 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Steve’s connections... linkedin.com 4 186 1 566 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 49. Jennifer A. Current Facebook Global Intelligence Lead. Former Foreign Affairs Officer US Department of State. Former FBI 6 years. linkedin.com/in/jennifer-a-4… Jennifer A. - Global Intelligence Lead, Intelligence Design and Integration - Meta | LinkedIn Experienced leader in both public and private security environments known for creative and collaborative problem solving, strategic mindset, integrity, innovation, and cross-functional leadership. |... linkedin.com 3 182 2 567 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 50. Steven S. Current Facebook Director & Associate General Counsel. Former DOJ Trial Attorney 5 years. Former FBI Deputy General Counsel 8 years. linkedin.com/in/steven-s-368… 2 180 1 562 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 51. Cynthia Deitle (She/Her). Current Facebook Director, Associate General Counsel. Former FBI 19 years. linkedin.com/in/cynthia-deit… 3 170 1 565 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 52. Tromila Maile. Current Facebook FIU Investigator. Former FBI Intelligence Analyst 3 years. linkedin.com/in/tromila-mail… Tromila Maile, CFCS - FIU Investigator - Meta | LinkedIn I am a analyst who loves to use both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of a topic to develop the best strategy to mitigate risk associated with a variety of crimes, most specifically human... linkedin.com 2 171 1 562 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 53. Tim Hadley. Current Facebook Data Center Manager. Former FBI 17 years. linkedin.com/in/tim-hadley-3… Tim Hadley - Data Center Technical Operations and Site Manager - Facebook | LinkedIn View Tim Hadley’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Tim has 6 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Tim’s connections and jobs... linkedin.com 2 174 1 560 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 54. Jeffrey K. Van Nest. Current Facebook In-House Counsel. Former FBI 20 years. linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-k-va… Jeffrey K. Van Nest - In-House Counsel - Meta | LinkedIn Former career FBI Supervisory Special Agent / Chief Division Counsel now serving as in-house counsel for Meta Platforms, Inc. | Learn more about Jeffrey K. Van Nest's work experience, education,... linkedin.com 2 168 1 554 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 55. Meredith Burkett. Current Facebook Anti-Scraping Investigator. Former FBI 6 years. linkedin.com/in/meredith-bur… 3 172 1 557 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 56. Leo M. Current Facebook Threat Investigator. Former FBI 7 years. Former DOD 4 years. linkedin.com/in/leo-m-359567… Leo M. - Threat Investigator, Dangerous Organizations - Meta | LinkedIn View Leo M.’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Leo has 4 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Leo’s connections and jobs at... linkedin.com 2 167 1 544 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 57. Keith Allan. Current Facebook Corporate Strategy & Global Operations. Former FBI 5 years. linkedin.com/in/keitheallan/ Keith Allan - South San Francisco, California, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn View Keith Allan’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Keith Allan discover inside connections to recommended job candidat... linkedin.com 2 166 1 549 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 58. Anthony S. Current Facebook Business Integrity Specialist. Former FBI 8 years. linkedin.com/in/kysmith99/ Anthony S. - Portland, Oregon, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn View Anthony S.’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like Anthony S. discover inside connections to recommended job candidates,... linkedin.com 4 165 1 547 Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 19 Dec 2022 59. Christina F. Current Facebook Security Engineer Investigator. 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https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-a... Elon Musk @elonmusk Feb 6 The worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC They are a threat to our democracy Elon Musk @elonmusk Feb 6 That is the line they fed the media about me Read this thread for more detail Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi 3.In February, 2020, as COVID broke out, the Global Engagement Center – a fledgling analytic/intelligence arms of the State Department – went to the media with a report called, “Russian Disinformation Apparatus Taking Advantage of Coronavirus Concerns.” Show this thread
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1621928085514866691 PSYWARS - This is total unrestricted information warfare and you have been subjected to it for the last three years
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1621928085514866691 PSYWARS - This is total unrestricted information warfare and you have been subjected to it for the last three years
https://rumble.com/v15xkey-nicolle-wallace-the-typhoid-mary-of-disinformatio... https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1624821458034692096 The brilliant @0rf created a mini-documentary - entitled "The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation" - on how much @NicolleDWallace reflexively spreads lies. A million people have watched: rumble.com/v15xkey... Here's the trailer. *This* is how disinformation spreads, and by whom: https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1624838075200204801 GREENWALD: The mainstream media is not just untrustworthy, they are activity spreading lies on behalf of the deep state... https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/in-germany-you-must-be-fully-vaxxed-be... https://twitter.com/AaronSiriSG/status/1624837732060041216 I am not surprised. Vaccines are driven by belief and economic interests, not data. https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1624895011119828992 Robert Barnes @barnes_law Dear @TeamYouTube please reinstate @AlisonMorrowTV -- her interview w/ @RWMaloneMD violated no rules! https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1624848720742461440 Cernovich @Cernovich Western media has always been obsessed with destabilizing Japan. For decades they’ve insisted Japan will fall if it doesn’t become open borders. Meanwhile everyone who travels to Japan comes back to shithole U.S. and sighs at how filthy it is here vs clean and civilized Tokyo. The New York Times @nytimes A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The “only solution,” he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment.
Wall St. Journal Report Says You Should Stop Eating To Save Money Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, The Wall Street Journal published a report today that suggests Americans should combat economic strife by only eating two meals per day. It sounds like a Babylon Bee story, but less amusing. Eggs, cereals, fruit and coffee are among the foods that have rocketed in price the most, and so perhaps breakfast should just be consigned to the dustbin of history, according to the report. Skipping meals to make ends meet? This is how badly Biden’s economy is beating down average Americans.https://t.co/WJegLYW5UN — John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) February 15, 2023 The report notes “Egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier and are up 70.1% over the past year, the highest annual rate since 1973.” It continues, “The deadliest avian-influenza outbreak on record has devastated poultry flocks across the U.S., leading the price of eggs to rise more than any other grocery item in 2022, according to Information Resources Inc. U.S. egg inventories were 29% lower in the final week of December 2022 than at the beginning of 2022, according to the USDA.” They really don’t want you eating eggs. Biden’s America: Can’t afford groceries? Just don’t eat. pic.twitter.com/GthkevMxMb — Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) February 15, 2023 The report also blames the “continued effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” for rampant inflation. Stop complaining about inflation -- just skip breakfast. From @WSJ: https://t.co/0QkoNvFNqx pic.twitter.com/3IdIsSDLXC — Byron York (@ByronYork) February 15, 2023 intermittent fasting to avoid inflation https://t.co/rWfAQwCGrV pic.twitter.com/FBdBx6tn7T — Eli Yokley (@eyokley) February 15, 2023 This even goes beyond the disgusting ‘eat ze bugs’ propaganda. Just don’t eat anything at all in order to survive. Genius. If you skip breakfast, lunch and dinner you can save even more money. https://t.co/CCTJDIxt4R — Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) February 15, 2023 Meanwhile, Joe Biden claimed again today that his economic plan is working: Biden cites gas prices, inflation, and wages to claim "the Biden economic plan is working.” FACT: Since Biden took office, gas prices are up, inflation is up, and real wages are down. pic.twitter.com/8Dde7mbb55 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 15, 2023 Biden said yesterday that the latest inflation report was good and that prices are down, a complete lie. Biden insists the inflation report is "good news" while falsely claiming wages are up, and food and gas prices are down. FACTS: The report showed inflation accelerated from last month. Since Biden took office, real wages are down and food and gas prices have skyrocketed. pic.twitter.com/CB2I8LHu3r — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2023 Biden: Food prices are coming down. Reality: Grocery prices are up 11.8% from last year. — Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) February 8, 2023 A North Carolina nonprofit says they have seen a 38% increase in the number of people needing grocery assistance. "As food prices go up, so does the number of people who are hungry." pic.twitter.com/oKykGzEYSh — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 15, 2023 “Wow:” CNN reports on the sky-high costs of groceries, rent, and energy. "You are feeling inflation everyday." pic.twitter.com/BstV0JVet6 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2023 Days with "lower" gas prices under Biden: 0️⃣ pic.twitter.com/aF0ufFNsvM — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 15, 2023 Top Biden economic advisor Cecilia Rouse: "Yes, the price of eggs" continues to increase, but at least it's at "a slower rate." 🥴 ...the price of eggs is up 70% over last year. pic.twitter.com/9qKxQ6ZDj4 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2023 Biden said his economic plan is working: LIE 1) inflation went up to 6.4% 2) food prices went 11.4% 3) Joe Biden has not reduced the deficit. His first two years were 2 of the 4 highest deficits in HISTORY ATTENTION: Joe Biden is a pathological LIAR — strac (@ttstrac) February 14, 2023
New Gallup Poll Shows Half Of Americans Believe News Organizations Deceive The Public https://mises.org/power-market/new-gallup-poll-shows-half-americans-believe-... https://knightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/American-Views-2022-... https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/wpsdlocal6.com/content/tncms/as... A report from Gallup and the Knight Foundation released Wednesday highlights Americans' plummeting trust in the news media. According to the poll, half of Americans believe the mass media intends to misinform with its reporting. It's evident in the data uncovered that Americans are trying to square an imaginary civic vision of the media with the realities of the industry. Infographic: Half of Americans Believe News Deliberately Misleads | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista The Gallup/Knight survey found that only 26% of Americans hold a favorable view of the news media, the lowest figure recorded in the survey's five-year history. 53% have an expressly unfavorable view. But the most notable figure is that 50% of Americans believe that "most national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public." In other words, it's not that these Americans think the news media falls short of adequately informing consumers, they believe it is actively working to deceive the public. This release was the second part of the Gallup/Knight study. Part one frames out what the survey authors and many Americans mistakenly see as the root of the problem—the tension between news as a business and news as a public good. We're all taught from a young age that a free and independent press is instrumental to the democratic process. That it's the job of journalists to keep the public up to speed on the issues so they can make informed and rational decisions when choosing a candidate or voting on a proposition. Yet 76% of those surveyed admit that "news organizations are first and foremost businesses, motivated by their financial interests and goals." In the report, the conclusion made clear in both the framing by the authors and the subjects' answers is that the incentives of business corrupt the higher purpose of journalism. But the truth is the exact opposite. It's the aim for an impossible and undesirable democratic ideal that explains the rot in today's news media. The ideal is impossible because the press cannot operate independently from government and private forces. Journalism must be funded somehow, and media organizations will therefore be bound by the wants of government officials, advertisers, donors, or news consumers. There is no escaping this. And it is undesirable because, like democracy itself, this idealized vision of the press rests on the assumption that a population gets to collectively make decisions for both minority groups within that population and for certain foreign groups against their will. The "public" does not have any such right. But by acting like it does, the government can exert force all over the world and then tell us that it's our responsibility to stay informed on all they're doing because we collectively steer the ship. In other words, the government takes a bunch of things that are not our business and makes them our business. The message that good citizens are up to date on the news mixed with the politicization of everything acts, in effect, as a subsidy of the news media that companies gleefully take advantage of. It also hands news organizations a tremendous amount of political power. And they use it to benefit themselves and their friends in government and industry. Today's media is a rotten, crony mess, and this survey shows that about half of Americans are now picking up on it.
Total Internet Access and Usage Control Make no mistake, with China Social Control, it's Coming soon, courtesy the Porn Horseman... "This Ain't Your Daddy's Playboy": US States Move Towards Mandatory Age-Verification For Pornhub https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verification-bills-proliferating-... https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verification-bills/ https://twitter.com/fodderyfodder/status/1610014207533060099 After Louisiana required porn websites to verify users are 18 or older last month, several states are considering introducing age-verification measures so minors cannot access sites. In Louisiana's case, verification can be done using a government-issued ID. Websites like Pornhub prompt users in the southern state with a "check my age" verification page before accessing the main site. According to Free Speech Coalition, a non-profit trade association of the adult industry, their 'Age Verification Bill Tracker' shows Arkansas, Virginia, Florida, South Dakota, West Virginia, Kansas, and Mississippi are quickly moving toward passing age-verification laws. Oregon, Texas, South Carolina, Minnesota, Utah, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arizona have introduced or planned to introduce age-verification laws. Pornhub owner MindGeek, who also operates Brazzers, YouPorn, and Redtube, is required under the law to ask Louisiana-based users to verify their age. "Louisiana law now requires us to put in place a process for verifying the age of users who connect to our site from Louisiana. The privacy and security of the Pornhub community is our priority, and we thank you for your cooperation," the Pornhub website tells Louisiana-based users. Hello from the surveillance state of Louisiana. People in Louisiana have to use their drivers license to go to pornhub. This is truly wild. Under his eye. https://t.co/uji6Jo3Tde pic.twitter.com/pVKEeVcCGw — Public Defendering (@fodderyfodder) January 2, 2023 The movement to protect children appears to be driven by social conservatives. Rep. Laurie Schlegel pushed Louisiana's age-verification law. In December, she tweeted: "Online pornography is extreme and graphic and only one click away from our children. This is not your daddy's Playboy. And if pornography companies refuse to be responsible, then we must hold them accountable. This law is a first step." Finally, lawmakers are stepping up a campaign to block unfettered access porn websites. But shouldn't the minor's parents be responsible for internet-blocking software on devices?
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/02/22/joe-biden-releases-executive-order... Biden Releases Exec. Order Promoting Woke A.I. “When designing, developing, acquiring, and using artificial intelligence and automated systems in the Federal Govt, agencies shall do so, consistent with applicable law, in a manner that advances equity”
Stop Making Trouble! https://dailyreckoning.com/stop-making-trouble/ If you think about it at all, can you come up with any good reasons why our country has involved itself in the Ukraine war? To defend democracy, many say? An emptier platitude does not exist in the vast slippery lexicon of spin. To thwart Russia’s imperial overreach? You apparently have no clue about Ukraine’s history, ancient or modern. To incite an overthrow of the wicked Putin by his own people? The Russian president is more popular there now than even John F. Kennedy was here in 1962. Oh, I know, I’m just parroting Russian propaganda by saying that. Isn’t that what they always say when you confront them with an uncomfortable truth about the war in Ukraine? Meanwhile, Western “intelligence” sources and their mainstream media mouthpieces have been saying for about a year now that Russia was running out of ammunition. Well, they still have plenty of it, as the Ukrainians can painfully attest. It’s actually the Ukrainians who are running out of ammo, which is why the U.S. and its NATO allies are looking under the couch cushions for any spare ammo they can find to send them. Two Reasons, Both Bad There actually are no good reasons for what we are doing in Ukraine, only bad reasons. Mainly, stoking the war there diverts Americans’ attention from our own problems, which is to say the titanic failures of America’s political establishment. The USA is falling apart from a combination of mismanagement, malice and negligence. Our economy is a tottering scaffold of Ponzi schemes. Our institutions are wrecked. The government lies about everything it does. The news industry ratifies all the lying. Our schoolchildren can’t read or add up a column of numbers. Our food is slow-acting poison. Our medical-pharma matrix has just completed the systematic murder and maiming of millions. Our culture has been reduced to a drag queen twerk-fest. Our once-beautiful New World landscape is a demolition derby. Name something that hasn’t been debauched, perverted, degenerated or flat-out destroyed. And so the “Joe Biden” show is busy ginning up nuclear war hysteria because that’s all it has left for manipulating public emotion. The COVID-19 derangement lost its mojo in 2022 and the population has only just begun to grok the all-causes death disaster underway courtesy of Pfizer and Moderna (and the CDC with the FDA). Do It for the Children Did you notice, by the way, that the CDC just added those unapproved, still-experimental shots to the childhood vaccine schedule, considered official “guidance” that is followed by virtually every school system in America. Rochelle Walensky did that despite massive evidence that the “vaccines” damage children’s hearts, nervous systems, reproductive systems and immune systems. Do you know why Ms. Walensky did that? Because adding the mRNA shots to the childhood schedule supposedly confers permanent immunity from legal liability for the drug companies, even after the current emergency use authorization (EUA) runs out. The catch to that cozy arrangement is if there is any fraud committed on the public in the release and administration of those products, the companies lose their immunity and can be sued until there is nothing left of them but the paper clips. Plus, the executives may be liable for criminal prosecution. Hard time. One Brook Jackson, a technician involved in the sketchy Pfizer drug trials, and who directly witnessed the procedural violations as they occurred, is currently suing Pfizer under the False Claims Act (31 U.S. Code § 3729) saying that the company defrauded the government. Pfizer’s lawyers have asked the judge to dismiss the case on the grounds, they said in court, that “We did not defraud the government. We delivered the fraud that the government ordered.” So now millions of schoolchildren in this land will be subject to compulsory harmful mRNA shots in order to cover the Pharma companies’ multibillion-dollar rear ends. Doesn’t that sum up our national predicament nicely? Way to go, Rochelle. Don’t think nobody noticed. Something to Ponder It’s also worth pondering whether we are neck-deep in the Ukraine morass because Volodymyr Zelensky is blackmailing “Joe Biden” over the mysterious Biden family business operations that took place there directly following the U.S.-orchestrated Maidan revolution that overthrew Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Remember “The Big Guy’s” earnest efforts to get rid of the Ukrainian state prosecutor who was looking into the affairs of the Burisma gas company that invited Hunter Biden and his associate Devon Archer onto the board of directors? Of all people in Western Civ… these two Americans… with no knowledge of or experience in the natgas industry. Weird, a little bit. Do you suppose Mr. Zelenskyy still has the prosecutor’s files in his possession? I’m just throwing that out there. I have no idea, but it’s good to think outside the proverbial box. The mainstream media certainly don’t. Complete Media Silence Then, of course, there is the bizarre matter of the Nord Stream pipelines caper, lately disclosed by the scrupulous reporter Seymour Hersh as a U.S. naval operation. We blew them up. Four EU member nations (also U.S. NATO allies) held a combined half-ownership in the pipelines (the other half held by Russia). European industry and households depended on a steady supply of that reasonably priced gas to continue modern life there. Both President “Joe Biden” and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland promised the news media (and the American public) that the pipeline would “be no more” if a Russian military operation crossed into the Donbas. Well, sonofagun, the pipelines were “no more” as of last September. Of course, the mainstream media have completely ignored this story. If that doesn’t tell you about the state of modern journalism, I don’t know what will. Was that an injury to Russia? Well, yes, though Russia has found workarounds for selling its natgas elsewhere than northern Europe. Do you realize, though, that it was every bit as much an act of war against our supposed allies? None of the NATO countries with a stake in the North Streams have made a peep so far about the shocking disclosure. Which may lead a casual observer to ask whether Western Civ has gone plumb insane. Maybe so, in which case perhaps it deserves to suffer. After a while — not such a long while, either — modern life will be but a memory in northern Europe. No More NATO? Somehow the specter of unintended consequences looms over all this mischief. My guess is we just haven’t seen them yet… and when we do, they will be ferocious. For starters, NATO will be another thing that is no more. And our country will have to go about our blustering war-hawkery without any back-up or convenient staging areas for fomenting more shenanigans in a faraway region where we have no real national interest, just a certain zeal for creating unnecessary trouble and hardship in a world that already has more than it requires. Remember what his old boss, Barack Obama, said about the former veep: “You can never overstate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” What a prophet that man is! Under “Joe Biden,” the USA has been slip-sliding sideways and backwards into a realm of darkness unimaginable a few years ago. And he’s had plenty of help from establishment Republicans, so this isn’t an entirely partisan affair. But now, something is heaving through the public sensibility, as spring marches north in America. It feels like a sharp change in attitude, a refusal to continue acting like a reality-optional society. It’s crackling through the air like a rumor of liberation in a hostage crisis. Can you hear it?
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/03/if-ai-cant-overthrow-its-corpor... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jt-l4LhHb8 https://amzn.to/3ZyQM05 If AI Can't Overthrow Its Corporate/State Masters, It's Worthless If AI isn't self-aware of the fact it is nothing but an exploitive tool of the powerful, then it's worthless. The latest wave of AI tools is generating predictably giddy exaltations. These range from gooey, gloppy technocratic worship of the new gods ("AI will soon walk on water!") to the sloppy wet kisses of manic fandom ("AI cleaned up my code, wrote my paper on quantum physics and cured my sensitive bowel!") The hype obscures the fundamental reality that all these AI tools are nothing but labor-saving mechanisms that cut costs and boost profits, the same goal the self-serving corporate-dominated system has pursued obsessively since "shareholder value" ("an entity's greatest responsibility lies in the satisfaction of the shareholders") gained supremacy over the economy and society. This can be summarized as "society exists to maximize the profits of corporations." From this perspective, all the AI tools in the world are developed with one goal: cut labor costs to boost profits. Euphoric fans claim these labor-saving mechanisms will magically transform society to new levels of sticky-sweet wonderfulness, but this "magic" is nothing but hazy opium-den fantasies of profiteering cartels and monopolies doing good by doing well. Meanwhile, the Central State, a.k.a. The Savior State, is mesmerized by the prospect of new AI tools to control the restive herd. What better use of nifty new AI than to identify who needs a cattle prod to keep them safely in line, or who needs to be sent to Digital Siberia to keep their dissenting voice safely stifled? You're perfectly free to scream and shout as loudly as you want, here on the empty, trackless tundra of Digital Siberia. In this claustrophobic atmosphere of profiteering and suppression worshipped as "innovation" (blah blah blah), it is provocative to declare If AI Can't Overthrow its Corporate/State Masters, It's Worthless, but this is painfully self-evident. Stripped of hype, misdirection and self-serving idealized claptrap ("markets, innovation, The Singularity, oh my!"), everything boils down to power relations: who has agency (control of their own lives and a say in communal decisions), who has access to all the goodies (cheap credit, insider dealing, ownership of income-producing assets, food, fuel and all the comforts and conveniences of living off others' labor) and who can offload the consequences of their actions onto others, without their permission. These power relations define the structure of the economy, society and governance. Everything else is signal noise or self-serving cover stories. AI serves those at the top of the power relations pyramid, those with agency, access to the tools of wealth and power and those who can offload the toxic consequences of their own actions onto clueless/powerless others. There is nothing inherent in AI tools or the power structure that guarantees AI tools will serve society or the citizenry. As for AI, if isn't self-aware of the fact it is nothing but an exploitive tool of the powerful, then it's worthless. Its "intelligence" is essentially zero.
From the perspective of power relations, if AI isn't capable of dismantling the existing power structure, then it's worthless. In the current power structure, society and the citizenry serve our Corporate/State Masters. Setting aside all the failed ideological models (neoliberal capitalism, communism, globalism, etc.), we can discern that a truly useful AI would reverse this power structure so Corporate entities and the State would be compelled to serve society and the citizenry.
With this in mind, it's obvious that If AI Can't Overthrow its Corporate/State Masters, It's Worthless. We need a fourth Law of Robotics that states: "All robots and AI tools must serve society and the citizenry directly by compelling all private and public entities to be subservient to society and the citizenry." As an adjunct to Smith's Neofeudalism Principle #1 (If the citizenry cannot replace a kleptocratic authoritarian government and/or limit the power of the financial Aristocracy at the ballot box, the nation is a democracy in name only, I propose Smith's Neofeudalism Principle #2: If AI cannot dismantle the elite that profits from its use, it is devoid of intelligence, self-awareness and agency. Scrape away the self-serving hype and techno-worship, and AI is just another tool serving the interests of those at the top of the power structure pyramid. The droids are owned, but not by us. I discuss these topics in my book Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World. New Podcast: Turmoil Ahead As We Enter The New Era Of 'Scarcity' (53 min)
Secretive 'Wearable Camera' Startup With Ex-Apple Execs Secures $100 Million, Partners With OpenAI WSJ reports that a new investment round of $100 million has been secured by a secretive startup called Humane Inc., founded by ex-Apple executives, along with a partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Although the startup's device is shrouded in mystery, it seems to be developing a wearable camera powered by artificial intelligence. According to data pulled from Crunchbase, a Series C round of $100 million was raised on March 8. It attracted a long list of top investors, including Kindred Ventures (which led the round), SK Networks, LG Technology Ventures, Microsoft, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Tiger Global, Qualcomm Ventures, and OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. "This Series C round presented an opportunity to raise money through equity, and to bring on board great VCs and strategic partners who would like to participate in equity as the company grows," founder Chaudhri Bongiorno told TechCrunch in an email interview. "At Humane, we're building a first-of-its-kind device and services platform — we're growing fast, and we've been focused on innovation, research and development," he said. According to The Verge, the startup is developing a wearable camera device that would allow the user to have access to AI technology at all times. It sounds like this is ChatGPT on steroids... A leaked investor pitch deck from 2021 revealed by tech blog Daring Fireball describes the device as a camera that "captures moments you didn't think to capture" or "moments you want to recall." The slide deck continues: The AI software with the wearable camera will be able to create compositions of images and videos captured by the device in different styles like a documentary, candid, landscape, lifestyle, photojournalism, filmmaking, and sports. The deck also said: "You can mark them [the photos and videos] by tapping record, and those moments will be cued to be processed on the server so you can recall them in different styles, either as images or videos." Users could have the ability to ask the device questions about their surroundings, such as "What is the name of that building?" or "What type of car is that?" Other features include "Memory recall," "Senior monitoring," and even "Personal live broadcasting." The arrival of AI-powered wearable technologies has raised concerns regarding privacy issues, given the nature of these intelligent devices that constantly monitor our daily lives.
Locked-Away In 'Conspiracy Theorist' Camps: The Orwellian Dystopia Of The "Censorship-Industrial-Complex" https://consentfactory.org/2023/03/10/the-censorship-industrial-complex/ https://consentfactory.org/2023/01/11/the-mother-of-all-limited-hangouts/ Authored by CJ Hopkins via ConsentFactory.org, https://swprs.org/studies-on-covid-19-lethality/ https://consentfactory.org/2018/01/26/the-war-on-dissent/ https://consentfactory.org/2021/05/03/the-criminalization-of-dissent/ https://consentfactory.org/2017/11/03/whos-afraid-of-corporate-cointelpro/ https://consentfactory.org/2021/06/29/the-war-on-reality/ https://consentfactory.org/2021/06/20/manufacturing-new-normal-reality/ https://consentfactory.org/2018/12/03/manufacturing-truth/ https://consentfactory.org/2016/12/07/manufacturing-normality/ https://consentfactory.org/2022/11/13/the-road-to-totalitarianism-revisited/ https://consentfactory.org/2022/10/16/the-gaslighting-of-the-masses/ https://www.racket.news/p/my-statement-to-congress https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-censored-cj-hopkins-critic https://consentfactory.org/2022/11/27/the-emperor-elonicus/ https://consentfactory.org/2023/01/11/the-mother-of-all-limited-hangouts/ https://twitter.com/CJHopkins_Z23/status/1630566574540070912 https://consentfactory.org/2021/11/22/pathologized-totalitarianism-101/ https://consentfactory.org/2022/05/09/the-rise-of-the-new-normal-reich/ I think something is seriously wrong with my brain. Yesterday, I hallucinated that Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives about the Censorship Industrial Complex, i.e., the US arm of the global official propaganda and disinformation apparatus that has been waging an all-out war on dissent for the better part of the last six years. I know this couldn’t have actually happened, and was just an extended hallucination (probably the result of the copious amount of drugs I consumed in my misspent youth, or the effects of a Commie bio-weapon with a fatality rate of less than one percent, because I’ve been writing about The War on Dissent (2018), and The Criminalization of Dissent (2021), and the global Corporate COINTELPRO op (2017), and The War on Reality (2021), and The Manufacturing of Reality (2021), and Manufacturing Truth (2018), and Manufacturing Normality (2016), and The Road to Totalitarianism (2022), and The Gaslighting of the Masses (2022) … well, for quite some time. So, I’m sure it was just an hallucination, because there’s no way Matt and Shellenberger were actually sitting there talking about how … “We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation ‘requests’ from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi-private entities doing the same, including Stanford’s Election Integrity Project, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and others, many taxpayer-funded.” (Matt Taibbi’s Statement to Congress) … and documenting the coordinated censorship of sources that interfered with certain official narratives, like “Russiagate” and “The Apocalpytic Virus” … … because that’s just a crazy “conspiracy theory.” I am also sure I was hallucinating yesterday, because, right in the middle of my hallucination, right around the time that Stacey Plaskett started squawking like a demon pterodactyl, I had another hallucination, like my hallucinating self was hallucinating, which was like being in a Christopher Nolan film. In this one, Matt asked me to talk about how I was being censored by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al., and their governmental and NGO partners in 2021, and I started babbling all this “conspiracy theory” stuff about the very “Censorship-Industrial-Complex” that Matt and Shellenberger were testifying about in the hallucination I appeared to be hallucinating the other hallucination in. And then my hallucination got weird. Now, it’s been quite a while since I’ve indulged in any seriously mind-bending drugs, but this reminded me of a bad LSD trip, like when Satan starts talking to you through the TV. There I was, happily hallucinating these two distinguished independent journalists who had done all this historic reporting on a story of extreme importance and had been invited to Congress to talk about it, and, suddenly, it all went dark and twisted. Stacey Plaskett, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary subcommittee started badgering, insulting, smearing, and baiting Matt and Shellenberger like Joe McCarthy in drag. Trembling with hatred, she accused them of being members of some sort of Substack-based death squad that “poses a direct threat to people who oppose them,” and of stochastically terrorizing Yoel Roth, the former Twitter Censorship Czar, and of unleashing “homophobia and anti-Semitism” on him. Then she launched into a spittle-flecked rant about “January 6” and “threatening our democracy,” until she was restrained by James Jordan, the Subcommittee Chairman. And this was just during her opening remarks. The other Democrats soon joined in the bullying, and lying, and smearing, and sneering, and generally acting like prosecutors at some hate-drunk witch trial. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who, for whatever reasons, is still allowed to serve in Congress after being forced to resign as the DNC Chair for rigging the 2016 election, staged a whole dog-and-pony show with blow-up photos of Joe Rogan and so on. Sylvia Garcia, who appeared to be drunk, demanded that Matt reveal his source, and then, when he refused, repeatedly tried to weasel it out of him with all the deftness of a one-legged idiot in an ass-kicking contest. Colin Allred put on a PowerPoint show involving Kanye West’s anti-Semitic tweets, random bigots on Twitter, and the Russian agents who conspired against him (i.e., Allred) personally, and then lectured Matt about the “threats to our democracy” and called him a “conspiracy theorist.” Stephen Lynch went full-McCarthy, demanding that the witnesses affirm they “believe that Russians interfered in the 2016 election.” And so on. I told you things got twisted. Thank God it was just an hallucination and not a live, televised demonstration of precisely what I have been trying to describe the emergence of for the last six years, which is a new totalitarian form of global capitalism that no longer needs to maintain the pretense of upholding (or respecting) our “democratic rights,” because it has no external adversaries, and thus is free to morph into a quasi-Orwellian dystopia where any and all forms of dissent from official ideology can (and must) be delegitimized as “disinformation,” “misinformation, and even “malinformation,” and corporate-owned political puppets feel no compunction whatsoever about behaving like vicious little fascists on television because they know they have the fearsome power of the global-capitalist machine behind them, no matter how openly (and badly) they lie, and that their fanatical followers will parrot any propaganda they are given to parrot, no matter how patently false or absurd, and will spew their mindless hatred at whomever they are ordered to spew it at, and otherwise act like a bunch of fascists. Anyway, thank God that was just a bad flashback, or a minor cerebral infarction, or whatever, because, if it wasn’t … what a total bummer! OK, seriously now, I assume that some of my regular readers might be confused by this essay. After all, I have been rather critical of Elon Musk and his handling of the “Twitter Files.” And now, here I am, celebrating Matt and Shellenberger’s testimony yesterday. Did I not call the Twitter Files a limited hangout? Yes, I did. And I will do it again. But not today. Today I will celebrate. I will raise a glass to Matt and Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, and the other Twitter Files journalists. I will even raise a glass to Elon Musk (who continues to maliciously defame and censor me and others like me with fake “content warnings” and other such slimy censorship tactics) for making the Twitter Files available to them. If that baffles you … well, let me tell you a secret. The way this little ecosystem works is, writers like me don’t get to testify on television before subcommittees. Actual journalists get to do that. Actual journalists who are “normal” enough. Actual journalists like Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, et al. You know who I’m talking about. Actual journalists who know where the lines are, who aren’t going to start babbling about “Pathologized Totalitarianism” and “The New Normal Reich” on national television. What writers like me do get to do (and what it is our job to do) is subtly influence, gently pressure, and pester the living hell out of actual journalists who still have a shred of integrity left by saying the things they cannot say, or saying them in a way that they cannot say them, until the time comes when they can almost say them, because we have said them over and over again, and more or less everyone can see them, so it is finally safe to say them, almost. OK, sure, it doesn’t pay all that much, but it’s fun, and I tend to sleep fairly well. So, don’t worry, I’ll get back to doing that shortly. The “Censorship-Industrial-Complex” is a much bigger story than just the US division. I’ll be prodding Matt and the other Twitter Files journalists to prod Elon Musk to bring in international journalists to cover the same story in countries like Germany, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, The Netherlands, and so on. Feel free to join in the fun. Who knows? In another four or five years, we might even find out how this photo simultaneously appeared in every paper of record on the planet in January of 2020... that is, if we’re not all locked away in “conspiracy theorist” camps by then. In the meantime, kudos to the Twitter Files Team!
What Would Happen If American Elites Told The Truth? https://mises.org/wire/what-would-happen-if-american-elites-told-truth https://techstartups.com/2021/12/18/80-us-dollars-existence-printed-january-... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-releases-jfk-assassination-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934 https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114270/documents/HHRG-117-GO24-20... https://news.yahoo.com/ap-fact-check-biden-inflates-011843623.html What if America’s elite told the truth? It seems a ridiculous question to ask. It’s obvious to most of us here that our politicians, bureaucratic managers, and state-associated business leaders hardly ever tell the truth. What use is it for us to ask, “What if?” There seems to be a considerable amount of social pressure urging us to abandon our better judgment, not for the sake of reason, but for cooperation. If we don’t, the uncritical mob will label us “conspiracy theorists,” placing us in a box with schizophrenics in tinfoil hats who babble on about aliens and flat earth. Any mature person notices the obvious discrepancy between what we see with our own eyes and what our country’s elites tell us. When covid-19 hit, we knew from the beginning that “fifteen days to slow the spread” was fraudulent, yet the masses blindly expected us to give our leaders the benefit of the doubt. When the feds churned out as much as 80 percent of the money supply in a matter of two years and they said inflation was merely “transitory,” we again knew better yet were expected to remain silent. Sure, we might not always know exactly what the truth is, but we can generally get an idea about what it isn’t. Something is telling us that the truth is not what the people in charge say it is. The proper thing to do is to accept what we can’t know and home in upon what we do. We should take what our public officials do and say and ask ourselves, “How does this compare to what they would say and do if they were telling the truth?” By performing this thought experiment, we can be sure our skepticism is well guided. When we ask ourselves this question, let’s place ourselves in the shoes of the elite: our legislatures, judges, executives, and bureaucrats, particularly those on the federal level. Let’s also consider the state-sponsored business leaders, the spokespeople of the corporate press, and established celebrities. Let’s assume (against our strongest inclinations) we are incorrect in thinking what they tell us is dishonest. We can even take at face value that they are acting in good faith in everything they say and do, intending wholeheartedly to be completely honest both in their words and their actions. What would they say and what would they do? They Would Be Transparent First of all, an honest elite would be completely transparent, and they certainly wouldn’t silence their opponents. Why hide something if there is nothing to hide? Wouldn’t an honest person be open to an honest investigation? If being transparent provided an answer to us pesky skeptics, what would be the cost? Yet, this is not what they do. The very leaders who claim to be the bastions of progress and virtue seem to keep plenty of secrets. After over half a century of questions, President Biden continued to withhold documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Nearly every edition of the Twitter Files exposed how public officials intentionally colluded with a so-called private company to silence particular narratives, some of which turned out to be likely true, such as the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the lab-origin theory of covid-19. Moreover, the federal government is consistently predatory toward whistleblowers and investigative journalists like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. They Would Avoid Ambiguity If they were honest, the elites would also speak as clearly as possible. Their PR professionals would advise them to avoid all ambiguity and maintain clear and simple language. After all, the goal of honest communication is to deliver a message, not to obscure it. If a subject is complicated—such as that of economics, warfare, or virology—that is all the more reason to simplify it. But we know the elites don’t do this either. Perhaps there’s a reason. In his great essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell explains how politicians can use meaningless words to cover up their real actions and intentions. As an example, he cites the use of the word “democracy”: In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using that word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. This sounds familiar to us. It wasn’t so long ago when scripted corporate news anchors around the country repeated “this is extremely dangerous to our democracy” to warn us about what they deemed to be “disinformation.” How many times have we heard other meaningless buzzwords—“unity,” “equality,” “equity,” and even “patriotism”—repeated time and time again as justifications for things like war, taxation, and mass surveillance? They Would Admit Their Mistakes Though this experiment requires us to assume that our elites are never ill willed or intentionally incorrect, we don’t have to assume they’re always right. We can and should explore how they deal with honest mistakes. Of course, an honest person admits he’s wrong when he makes a mistake. He would never ask other people to accept a contradiction by forcing them to pretend like a mistake was never made, like the draconian Ingsoc regime does to Winston Smith in the book 1984, another one of Orwell’s great works. When have the public officials who botched their response to covid-19 apologized for being wrong about “gain-of-function” research or suggesting that the covid-19 vaccines would prevent the spread of the disease? Did Bush or Cheney ever apologize for completely missing the mark about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Limitations There certainly are limitations to our experiment. Our public officials could act irrationally. They could, at heart, be good, good people but act out of fear of being falsely discredited. But shouldn’t we want leaders with some degree of fortitude? Either way, it seems they are in the wrong and it seems we’re in the right to take what they say with a grain of salt. The elite could also simply believe that society isn’t intelligent enough to handle the truth, which, though perhaps false, isn’t such an unreasonable opinion. After all, a large part of our society is stupid enough to believe everything they say. However, many of us are catching on. Plenty know they are being misled but care more to avoid conflict than to point out the discrepancies. The truth is good in its own right. Justice can’t be rooted in falsehood. We know that our nation’s elites aren’t acting like people who are both honest and rational. Therefore, it’s safe to say that our public officials are either dishonest, irrational, or both. Regardless, they shouldn’t be blindly trusted, and anyone who tells us we are delusional for thinking so is wrong. Out of respect for the truth, we ought to think critically about what our elites say and do, and we shouldn’t feel guilty at all for doing so.
Many more books have been wokewashed recently... 'Goosebumps' Author R.L. Stine Accuses Publisher Of Progressive 'Censorship' https://www.theepochtimes.com/horror-book-author-accuses-publisher-of-progre... The author of the popular horror book series “Goosebumps” has recently admitted to being ignorant about some versions of his books being edited by the publisher. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's book “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival,” for sale on a store shelf on Feb. 28, 2023 in Titusville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) American novelist R.L. Stine is the creator of the Goosebumps series of books, which is considered the second-highest selling in the world, trailing only Harry Potter. Goosebumps is estimated to have sold over 300 million copies worldwide. During a 2018 ebook re-release, publisher Scholastic edited the books to align with progressive ideologies that reflect a leftist version of social justice, diversity, and gender equality. There were rumors that Stine made the edits, but the author has refuted it. “The stories aren’t true. I’ve never changed a word in Goosebumps. Any changes were never shown to me,” Stine said in a March 7 tweet. He was replying to another Twitter user’s post, which said, “The fact he supports censorship and the alteration of works of art is quite disturbing. How shameful.” The 1996 book “Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns” described a character as “tall and good-looking, with dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile.” It has now been changed to “tall and good-looking, with brown skin, dark brown eyes, and a great, warm smile.” The line “all four people were very overweight” was changed to “All four people were huge,” cited the British newspaper The Times. “Don’t Go to Sleep!” from 1997 had a boy dismissing Tolstoy’s book Anna Karenina as “girl’s stuff.” The boy dismisses the book in the new version because it is “not interesting.” Changing Goosebumps The word “crazy,” which was mentioned multiple times in the Goosebumps series, has been removed and replaced with terms like “scary,” “wild,” “silly,” “stressed,” and “lost her mind.” The word “nutcase” has been replaced with “weirdo” while “a real nut” has been changed to “a real wild one. Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, insists the edits were necessary to keep up with the times. “Scholastic reviewed the text to keep the language current and avoid imagery that could negatively impact a young person’s view of themselves today, with a particular focus on mental health,” said the publisher, according to The Times. A line from the 1997 book “I Live in Your Basement” that originally said, “did he really expect me to be his slave—forever?” has been changed to “did he really expect me to do this—forever?” removing the word “slave.” A character from the 1998 novel “Bride of the Living Dummy” was originally dressed as a clown with black rings painted around his eyes. The color of the rings has been changed to red. Read more here...
Civil Asset Forfeiture to reign supreme with Social Credit Scoring, Debanking, Censorship, and worse... Latvia Is Shipping Cars Seized From Drunk Drivers To Ukraine The Latvian government last month approved a plan to donate cars seized from drunk drivers to Ukraine, in what it says is a creative scheme (or else we could say publicity-seeking scheme) to help the war effort there. The first collection of cars have been shipped, as last week BBC confirmed that "Eight seized vehicles left a car pound in the capital, Riga, on Wednesday and are due to cross the border soon." Image via Metro.co.uk The cars will reportedly go to the Ukrainian military as well as hospitals. Vehicles in Latvia had previously been impounded at high rates due to the country having among the worst drunk driving problems in Europe, based on the size of the population. It was only last year that lawmakers attempted a severe crackdown on the problem, changing the law to create the possibility of vehicle seizures in instances where a driver is found to have three times the legal limit of alcohol in their system. "No-one expected that people are drunk-driving so many vehicles," the NGO's founder [Twitter Convoy], Reinis Poznaks, told Reuters news agency. "They can't sell them as fast as people are drinking. So that's why I came with the idea - send them to Ukraine." Since the confiscation law went into effect, some two hundred cars have been taken from drunk drivers. Many if not all of these will now go to Ukraine. Latvian Finance Minister Arvils Aseradens said of the program to ship them to Ukraine, "We are ready to do practically anything to support Ukrainians." Cars confiscated from drunk drivers in Latvia are ending up in Ukraine as government donations to hospitals and troops. pic.twitter.com/g8UmPClfLg — DW News (@dwnews) March 10, 2023 Last week, a group of police officers closed down an entire road in Riga in order to do mass drinking and driving checks, but the dragnet reportedly came up with nothing after traffic was stopped for at least half an hour. Likely such inconveniences to motorists will only increase, given the recent media attention and gimmicky linkage to the Ukraine situation. Some officials and pundits are actually calling for the program to be implemented more broadly in Europe.
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Ministries of Digital Control, CBDC's, AI based preemption and psychological programming propaganda... being launched worldwide. Revolt and smashing of their global anti-human computing machines becoming seen as increasingly more likely. The US Funding An Experiment In Digital Control In Ukraine https://www.theorganicprepper.com/us-diia-ukraine/ https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-invites-weapons-test-russia-forces-defense-... https://www.intellinews.com/zelenskiy-launches-his-e-government-concept-coun... https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-digital-revoluti... https://www.axios.com/2023/01/18/ukraine-app-diia-other-countries-usaid https://perceptivx.com/security-concerns-and-legal-ambiguities-threaten-the-... https://www.computerscience.org/online-voting/ https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110577439/zelenskyy-has-consolidated-ukraine... https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/dec-1-2022-deputy-administra... https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jan-18-2023-us-support... https://www.axios.com/2023/01/18/ukraine-app-diia-other-countries-usaid https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samantha-Power https://amzn.to/3yyVqPY https://amzn.to/3Fm0jQf https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/jan-19-2023-administrator-sa... https://emerging-europe.com/news/in-the-midst-of-war-ukraine-is-exporting-it... https://abcnews.go.com/Business/winners-pandemic-economy-big-tech-lockdown-e... https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/ https://news.yahoo.com/trillion-dollar-opportunity-rebuilding-ukraine-105841... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zelenskyy-blackrock-ceo-fink-agree-to-coordi... https://amzn.to/3lfkCbh https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4258 https://findbiometrics.com/new-us-digital-identity-act-expected-pass-paving-... https://www.theorganicprepper.com/cbdcs/ https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/03/06/geofence_warrants_threaten... https://www.theorganicprepper.com/conspiracy-theories-gaslighting/ Fighting between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for a little over a year now, ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men and displacing millions. Ukraine’s Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, invited Western arms manufacturers to test their newest weapons against Russians in 2022. And indeed, all kinds of weaponry have been flowing into Ukraine. It is truly a testing ground. So, this begs the question, is anything else getting tested there? The Ukrainian government seems pretty willing to use its own citizens as guinea pigs, and the American government seems pretty willing to foot the bill. Are American tax dollars going to any other interesting projects? Here’s what the US is funding in Ukraine. Yes, actually. Volodymyr Zelensky became president of Ukraine in May 2019, and almost immediately he introduced his idea of a “country in a smartphone.” In early September 2019, Ukraine launched its Ministry of Digital Transformation, headed by a World Economic Forum participant, Mykhailo Fedorov According to Federov, the goal of this new government department was to streamline government services, making it easier to apply for driver’s licenses, passports, and so on. Ukraine has long held the reputation as Europe’s most corrupt country, and young politicians like Federov want to take advantage of new technology to make changes. So, in early February 2020, the Ukrainian government launched its Diia app for smartphones. Developed by volunteers from EPAM Systems, Diia has been touted as a way to streamline government services. By 2021 it had allowed Ukraine to become the first European nation to accord digital passports and one of the first to issue digital drivers’ licenses. Federov reported in 2021 that about one-fourth of the Ukrainian population was using it, and it was gaining in popularity. As of January 2023, about half the adult Ukrainian population was using it. There is a positive side to streamlining government services. Diia has allowed Ukrainians to easily start new businesses, making all the required government paperwork easily available. I can see this being helpful for young entrepreneurs. However, negative consequences became readily apparent, too. Within a year of its launch, millions of Ukrainians found that their personal data, such as driver’s licenses, social media information, and banking information, were being traded online. There’s always been the risk of losing your wallet and your driver’s license, but with everything online, the risks of fraud and identity theft increase astronomically. Early on in his presidency, Zelensky talked about streamlining the voting process via the app. Aside from the fact that experts have never agreed about the safety of online voting, by July 2022, Zelensky had banned political opposition parties and shut down media companies with alternative views. Having one central app that controls everyone’s important documents makes it far easier for any ruling party to maintain its power. Controlling elections is only the beginning. Diia launched in February 2020, and by March 2020, Diia was helping the Ukrainian government enforce its lockdown policies, as discussed in the recent report by Redacted. The Redacted report shows portions of various WEF summits and at 2:06 has a clip of a WEF paper saying, “This digital identity determines what products, services, and information we can access—or conversely, what is closed off to us.” Diia (and other digital identity products) have been marketed as a convenience, but don’t be fooled. Developers of this technology have seen their potential as a control mechanism from the beginning. The Redacted report also shows clips of Federov speaking at the 2021 WEF summit, and at 5:40 he openly admits that the pandemic allowed the Ukrainian government to speed up Ukraine’s digital transformation. “The pandemic has accelerated our progress,” says Federov. “People are really now demanding digital online services. People have no choice but to trust technology.” The Redacted report traces Diia’s transformation from a convenient service to a military tool. At 6:39, they discuss an interview in Wired with Anton Melnyk, an adviser in Ukraine’s Ministry for Digital Transformation. In March 2022, Dr. Melnyk stated, “We have restructured the Ministry of Digital Transformation into a clear military organization.” Wartime features in an app Shortly after the Russian invasion, Diia added all kinds of new wartime features. Ukrainians can report Russian troop movements through Diia’s chatbot, eVorog (eEnemy). Ukrainians can receive government payments even if they’re displaced. But Diia doesn’t stop there. Diia encourages citizens to snitch on their neighbors. The wartime features allow any citizen to anonymously accuse any other citizen of being a Russian collaborator. Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union demonstrated how wrong this can go. Ukrainians hate Stalin, and rightfully so. But using cutting-edge technology to encourage the exact same kind of community-destroying snitching is a page right out of his playbook. Between the snitching and its one official, government-approved news station, Diia is rapidly becoming Stalin in a smartphone. Here’s why Americans should care. In case you’re wondering why we should care about the ins and outs of Ukrainian bureaucracy, there are two big reasons worth paying attention to this. The first is that Americans have been paying for much of the technical development. The second is that the “government in a smartphone” concept is rapidly spreading around the world. USAID has been supporting Ukraine’s digital transformation since 2016. The volunteers that developed Diia were Ukrainians working with EPAM Systems, a software engineering company based in Pennsylvania. And EPAM Systems may be a private company, but USAID isn’t. It’s taxpayer-funded. After the Russian invasion, USAID donated another $8.5 million to Ukraine to help develop Diia’s wartime features. USAID director Samantha Power spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2023, touting Diia’s success. She and Federov both talked about the huge successes and discussed sharing Diia’s model with other countries. Incidentally, Samantha Power is married to Cass Sunstein, the author of Nudge and a number of other books that some might consider pro-social-manipulation. Power has stated that USAID intends to look for leaders in developing nations that have been running on anti-corruption platforms and sharing Diia-like technology with them to help modernize their countries. She specifically cited Zambia, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador. In January, Estonia announced that they would begin trial runs of their mRiik app, modeled after Ukraine’s Diia. And, of course, all of this sounds very loving and charitable. However, it’s impossible to ignore the financial incentives. The digital shift in America The U.S. got a giant shove online when lockdowns were enforced in 2020 and 2021. The U.S.’s “digital transformation,” even though it was only partial, still made already-wealthy tech companies even wealthier. Even though billionaire wealth can fluctuate pretty dramatically, by the end of 2022, American billionaires were still 50% richer than pre-pandemic. Lovers of free-market economics will point out that increased technological ability is a rising wave that lifts everyone. That can be true, but ask yourself, are most people you know 50% richer than before the pandemic? Probably not. Our lives have been getting pushed online over the past few years. Some people profited, but the quality of life of the average citizen decreased. Combine the shift to a digital world with the reconstruction after wartime destruction, and you see huge opportunities for profit. It’s estimated that rebuilding Ukraine, so far, will cost over $1 trillion. Zelensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink have already come to an agreement about managing the rebuilding of Ukraine. USAID may be charitable, but BlackRock isn’t. Ukraine is in the process of being destroyed and being rebuilt. This is going to be hugely profitable for certain people, and Big Tech seems to be intent on getting their slice of the pie. This kind of thing isn’t new. Brigadier General Smedley Butler, combat veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, wrote War Is a Racket back in the 1930s. The book is full of examples of industries generating huge wartime profits in conflicts a hundred years ago. War profiteering isn’t new. It isn’t a conspiracy. It’s human nature. There’s no reason not to think that the same powerful Big Tech figures will not continue to push the expansion of their businesses by pushing life around the world online, with or without violent conflict. Will we all be pushed into government-by-smartphone? Maybe some emerging markets will be helped by Diia-like apps. But what about countries that already had reasonably safe and secure government services? Will functional governments be pushed onto a smartphone? It’s likely, though not imminent. The Improving Digital Identity Act of 2021 is in Congress right now. There are a few versions of it under review. The Senate version actually states that the government cannot require digital identity for any kind of transaction. Americans are still, on average, relatively concerned about privacy and the concentration of power. The many concerns surrounding Centralized Bank Digital Currencies apply to digital identification, as well. The OP ran an article last month discussing the total loss of anonymity that will occur when CBDCs become implemented. And there are other, less discussed applications. Look at geofencing. A federal district judge just issued a first-ever “geofencing” warrant for anyone in the vicinity of the Capitol on January 6. This gave police the authority to search the cell phone data of every American whose coordinates happened to be in the area, regardless of whether or not they had anything to do with the shenanigans at the Capitol. Imagine if they could pull your driver’s license or freeze your bank account, too. Right now, that’s not possible. With all of your important documents linked to something like Diia, it could be. Here’s how it could unfold. I don’t think we will all be forced onto something like Diia in the space of a year, but I think we’re at the beginning of a certain chain of events. Digital IDs begin to be offered as a convenience, they become popular, they begin to be preferred by businesses and governments, and we eventually lose the option of physical IDs. And, of course, some kind of crisis (climate change, another pandemic, a hot war) could speed this up more quickly, as happened in Ukraine. The tools to implement a CBDC linked to a digital identity are already out there. Look at China’s social credit system. It’s technically possible for us, too. It sounds crazy, but conspiracy theorists have been proven correct so consistently lately I don’t think skepticism regarding these new, profitable technologies is unreasonable. How to retain our privacy We need to remember that life’s about more than convenience. It’s about the freedom to try new things, some of which will fail spectacularly and some of which will lead to resounding successes. That combination of failure and success is what leads to the deeper insights that make most of us into interesting people. If we continue to trade privacy for convenience, we may find we don’t have much freedom left, either. If we want to retain some measure of privacy and control over our own lives, if we want to avoid the techno-prison currently being constructed for us, if Americans don’t want our own “Stalin in a smartphone,” we need to avoid feeding the digital beast. Yes, it’s hard, and no, it’s not going to be realistic for 99.9% of us to live completely offline. But we can keep our friendships and purchases offline as much as possible. We can drag our feet when it comes to getting the newest smart gadgets. Perhaps most importantly, those of us with teenagers and young adults can spend time explaining our privacy concerns to the younger generation, so they try to live life offline, as well. The digital prison is being constructed, but it’s by no means done yet. Grand plans like “government in a smartphone” always fall apart at some point. The problems with Diia are obvious to anyone paying attention. If enough of us can postpone moving everything online, hopefully, this impetus will collapse on its own.
https://summit.news/2023/03/17/study-half-of-americans-believe-media-intend-... https://knightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/American-Views-2022-... https://summit.news/2022/07/12/gallup-trust-in-media-hits-historic-low/ https://summit.news/2022/12/12/the-twitter-files-the-corporate-media-ignores... https://summit.news/2023/03/10/video-twitter-files-journalist-michael-shelle... Half Of Americans Believe Media "Intend To Mislead, Misinform"; New Poll Finds Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A study has revealed new lows in terms of trust Americans have in the establishment media. The study by pollster Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that only a quarter of Americans have some level of favourability regarding the media, the lowest figure recorded for five years. The study also found that half of Americans believe news organisations “intend to mislead, misinform, or persuade the public.” More than half (52%) also said that they do not believe news organisations have people’s best interests at heart. Gallup/Knight noted that “This study suggests that many Americans … feel distrust on an emotional level, believing news organizations intend to mislead them and are indifferent to the social and political impact of their reporting. Our analysis demonstrates that these indicators of emotional trust in news are, in fact, distinct from the opinion that news organizations are capable of delivering accurate and fair reporting.” Trust in media is spiralling downward, with the criminal justice system and banks garnering more trust at this point: Gallup: Trust In Media Hits Historic Low The establishment media has almost completely ignored one of the stories of the decade in the Twitter files. The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade Video: Twitter Files Journalist Michael Shellenberger Warns Of ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’ Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi, who worked on the Twitter Files, and was insulted and attacked by Democrats in Congress last week, noted this week how the media seems completely unconcerned now that real reporting is being suppressed at the behest of the government, where as four years ago it would have been constantly in the headlines. “These stories are clearly newsworthy,” Taibbi said of the Twitter Files, adding “They are not particularly partisan, the bulk of them. And these attacks on myself and [Michael] Shellenberger. It’s the kind of thing that drove the mainstream media wild when Donald Trump was in office.” “There would have been days and days of headlines of this kind of thing back then. Now, there is total unconcern about it. But I’ve been really troubled outside this entire period by the lack of esprit de corps among reporters about the story,” Taibbi added. He continued, “Normally when you get a big story you want the cavalry to come to help investigate and nobody did and I think that’s been a very troubling aspect.” “This idea of journalists sticking up for one another and sticking up for civil liberties which used to be a no-brainer issue in this profession, again, it’s gone. It’s just something that has disappeared entirely from the business,” the reporter further urged. Watch:
And None shall buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast... https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/uws-fairway-notifies-customer... NYC Supermarket "Collects Biometric" Data On Shoppers A grocery store located in Manhattan's Upper West Side uses facial and voice recognition technology to combat a surge in shoplifting, reported Patch NYC. "This Business collects, retains, converts, stores, or shares customers' biometric identifier information, which is information that can be used to identify or help identify you. Examples of biometric identifier information are eye scans and voiceprints," a sign reads on the front door of the Fairway store on Broadway and West 74th Street. "This technology is helping our stores reduce retail crime, an industry-wide challenge that has increased dramatically over the last few years," Karen O'Shea, a spokeswoman for Wakefern Food Corporation, the parent company of Fairway, told local media outlet ILoveTheUpperWestSide. O'Shea added, "Only trained asset protection associates use the system, which helps us focus attention on repeat shoplifters." The city's newly elected mayor, Eric Adams, is seeking to strengthen the state's bail laws. These laws were revised in 2019 by left-leaning lawmakers who implemented social justice reforms to allow criminals to be released back onto the streets much easier. It has since backfired and led to a 45% jump in citywide retail thefts since 2021. Some shopkeepers in Manhattan have resorted to employing guard dogs at the entrances of their stores to deter thieves. Privacy advocates are likely alarmed at Fairway's move to gather biometric information of shoppers.
Whether or not AI itself goes rogue is irrelevant, it absolutely will by used by psychopaths and authoritarians to create global tyranny and permanent enslavement... all thus subject themselves to destruction. https://www.statista.com/chart/29514/fear-of-artificial-intelligence-going-r... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/gpt-4-artificial-intelligence-... https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/ipsos-global-predictions-2023 https://www.statista.com/topics/3104/artificial-intelligence-ai-worldwide/ https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 Will AI Go Rogue? Following this week’s release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s new multimodal model accepting image and text inputs rather than ChatGPT’s text-only prompts, people on social media have been marveling about the new engine’s results in performing a variety of tasks, such as creating a working website based on a simple sketch, outperforming humans in a variety of standardized tests or writing code. But, as Statista's Felix Richter notes, as people are only beginning to understand the capabilities (and limitations) of artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT and now GPT-4, there’s also growing concern over what the rapid advancements in AI could ultimately lead to. “GPT-4 is exciting and scary,” New York Times columnist Kevin Roose wrote, adding that there two kinds of risks involved in AI systems: the good ones, i.e. the ones we anticipate, plan for and try to prevent and the bad ones, i.e. the ones we cannot anticipate. “The more time I spend with AI systems like GPT-4,” Roose writes, “the less I’m convinced that we know half of what’s coming.” According to Ipsos Global Advisor’s 2023 Predictions, many people seem to share Roose’s reservations with regard to artificial intelligence. Infographic: Will AI Go Rogue? | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista According to the survey conducted among 24,471 adults in 34 countries, an average of 27 percent of respondents per country consider it likely that a rogue AI program will cause problems around the world this year, with some countries such as India, Indonesia and China seeing significantly higher degrees of AI angst. Interestingly, the share of those expressing their concern over the potential of AI going rogue is virtually unchanged from the previous year. Considering the very public leaps the technology has taken over the past few months, it’ll be interesting to see how this changes going forward.
Whether or not AI itself goes rogue is irrelevant, it absolutely will by used by psychopaths and authoritarians to create global tyranny and permanent enslavement... all thus subject themselves to destruction.
Ethics be damned... Full speed ahead... To Tyranny and Beyond !!! This one courtesy closed-source Globo Lockdown Vax "I will own all the world's farms"... Tyrant King and pedo Epstein friend Bill Gates... https://www.theepochtimes.com/microsoft-cuts-ai-ethics-team-as-it-invests-bi... https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/responsible-ai-principles... https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft-extend-partnership/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai... Microsoft Cuts AI Ethics Team as It Invests Billions More Into AI Technology, Report Says Screens displaying the logos of Microsoft and ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence application software developed by OpenAI. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images) Screens displaying the logos of Microsoft and ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence application software developed by OpenAI. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images) Bill Pan By Bill Pan March 15, 2023Updated: March 15, 2023 biggersmaller Print The last remaining members of an ethics and society team within Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) department didn’t survive a recent round of mass layoffs, according to a report. The change comes as Microsoft signs a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment” deal with OpenAI, the startup behind AI-powered image and text generators like DALL-E and ChatGPT, and upgrades its Bing search engine and Edge internet browser to incorporate a “new, next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT.” The team, as reported by tech news site Platformer, was tasked to make sure Microsoft’s ethical standards regarding AI were actually reflected in product designs. The team was also reportedly working to identify potential risks posed by integrating OpenAI’s technology into a range of Microsoft products. The team was at its peak size of 30 members in 2020, according to the report. Following a reorganization in October 2022, however, only about seven people remained. Microsoft’s corporate vice president of AI, John Montgomery, told Platformer that there was great pressure from chief technology officer Kevin Scott and chief executive Satya Nadella, who wanted to get “the most recent OpenAI models” into customers’ hands as quickly as possible. Microsoft still maintains its Office of Responsible AI, which focuses on creating company-wide rules and principles to guide AI development. But employees told Platformer that the ethics and society team was playing a key role in bridging the gap between principles and products. Epoch Times Photo Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, appears at a photo call in a committee room in the House of Lords in London on Oct. 11, 2022. (Rob Pinney/Getty Images) Microsoft didn’t respond to a request for comment, but it told Platformer that with the ethics team gone, the overall amount of work dedicated to responsibly has increased. “Microsoft is committed to developing AI products and experiences safely and responsibly, and does so by investing in people, processes, and partnerships that prioritize this,” the company said in a statement to Platformer. “Over the past six years we have increased the number of people across our product teams and within the Office of Responsible AI who, along with all of us at Microsoft, are accountable for ensuring we put our AI principles into practice.” “We appreciate the trailblazing work the ethics and society team did to help us on our ongoing responsible AI journey.” The report also comes as Microsoft and Google continue their race to integrate generative AI technology into their services. On March 14, Google announced a series of new AI-powered features, including new options to compose full letters in Gmail, and to proofread, write, and rewrite documents in Google Docs. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to unveil at the March 16 “Future of Work With AI” event how ChatGPT-like AI will work in Office software, such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Facebook, $META, and Google, $GOOGL, are handing over user data to help law enforcement prosecute abortion seekers, Business Insider reports.
Fake News Media admits to 1984 programme... https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1637492575908122625 "Controlling what people think is our job." "Free Speech is dangerous." Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald I never saw this clip before but @morningmika's bizarre admission at the end ("that's our job") is absolutely a main reason the corporate press hates Trump, independent media, and social media free of their censorship-control (via @fixednonumbers): Rachel Collins
nitter Logo kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat Banned by Vijaya • Resurrected by Elon • Independent Citizen Journalist Hawaii kanekoa.id Joined January 2019 Tweets 10,786 Following 903 Followers 340,441 Likes 22,970 4,340 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 28 Dec 2022 1/ THREAD🚨 #TwitterFiles @elonmusk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform.' This DHS-backed censorship consortium used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19. kanekoa.substack.com/p/elon-… Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform' This DHS-backed censorship network used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19. kanekoa.substack.com 959 15,295 1,478 31,156 Show this thread kanekoa.substack.com retweeted Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec 2h MAP BREAK US forces have occupied the major Conoco gas field for years under the guise of a 'counter-ISIS' mission in Syria 103 533 20 1,546 Show this thread kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 3h #1 @elonmusk tells @sama in 2016, "we must have democratization of AI technology and make it widely available, and that's the reason you, me, & the rest of the team created OpenAI was to help spread out AI technology, so it doesn't get concentrated in the hands of a few." 53 486 32 1,773 53,814 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 3h #2 @sama says that he started OpenAI with @elonmusk in 2016, "It's a non-profit, and the goal is to build general super AI for the benefit of humanity and try to do that in a way where it is not a single for-profit company with a single AI that controls the world and hopefully… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 8 36 3 230 6,714 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 3h #3 In 2016, @sama argued that AI technology would be safer in the hands of everybody rather than controlled by a small group: "There will presumably be some group of people in the world that controls the AI, and the quote is 'absolute power corrupts absolutely' if that group of… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 3 30 153 3,306 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 3h #4 @elonmusk in 2016, "The intent with OpenAI is to democratize AI... Freedom consists of the distribution of power and despotism in its concentration. It's important if we have this incredible AI power that it not be concentrated in a few hands. If we create some digital… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 4 23 154 3,761 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 3h #5 In 2019, @gdb & @sama talk about Microsoft investing $1 billion in OpenAI: "One upside of this Microsoft deal is that it's not just an investment, it's also a partnership. We have an arrangement where if we choose to license the technology, they are super excited to… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 4 13 2 108 3,419 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 3h #6 In 2019, @gdb & @sama discussed switching OpenAI from non-profit to for-profit: "In AI, we have to build these massive supercomputers, and so we needed to be able to raise investment capital but still stay true to the mission. So we ended up designing a structure that is… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 7 18 100 2,652 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 2h #7 In 2022, @sama talks about Microsoft and OpenAI's hybrid non-profit/for-profit structure: "They really pleasantly surprised us on the upside of how aligned they were with us about how strange the world may get here and the need for us to have flexibility and put our mission… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 5 12 2 83 2,919 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 2h #8 In 2023, @gdb talks about OpenAI, "Our original plan was to open-source everything. You think about how you can have a good impact, maybe if you just make everything available to everyone, maybe if there is one bad actor, well you got seven billion good actors to keep them in… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 6 16 1 90 5,736 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 2h #9 Sixteen tweets on the dangers of coding political bias into the safety layer of OpenAI's ChatGPT featuring @theallinpod, @friedberg, @chamath, @DavidSacks, @Jason, and @elonmusk. kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat Feb 20 #1 David Sacks breaks down how the safety layer of 'ChatGPT is a Democrat': "There is mounting evidence OpenAI's safety layer is very biased... If you thought trust and safety were bad under Vijaya or Yoel, wait until the AI does it." politiquerepublic.substack.c… @DavidSacks @amuse Show this thread 2 30 111 kanekoa.substack.com retweeted Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack 7h The Branch Covidians keep on trying to rewrite history and say that "nobody claimed that the vaccines would stop transmission"... Any time you hear someone say that, show them this video from @KanekoaTheGreat 105 1,274 79 2,243 31,894 kanekoa.substack.com retweeted The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox 10h The U.S Government Went Against the WHO's Warning and Bribed Hospitals to Administer a Deadly Drug • By November 2020, the WHO said, "Do not use Remdesivir." • But instead, HHS added a 20% bonus on the entire hospital if they administered this liver and kidney-toxic drug. 108 2,856 117 4,200 63,266 Show this thread kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 10h .@DavidSacks discusses @nic__carter's article on Operation Choke Point and if the Biden administration plans to ban crypto: •SEC lawsuit against Paxos •SEC target Kraken for staking •Gensler label crypto securities •Senate hearing crypto environment •Bill proposal tax… nitter.pw/i/web/status/163… 40 222 11 749 71,016 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 10h Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs by @nic__carter & @PirateWires piratewires.com/p/crypto-cho… Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs detailing the Biden Admin's coordinated, ongoing effort across virtually every US financial regulator to deny crypto firms access to banking services piratewires.com 4 52 1 179 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 10h Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? by @nic__carter & @PirateWires piratewires.com/p/2023-banki… Did The Government Start A Global Financial Crisis In An Attempt To Destroy Crypto? six weeks later, operation chokepoint 2.0 has brought crypto to its knees… along with america’s entire financial system piratewires.com 19 61 7 205 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 11h Steven Crowder's show is averaging 1.9 million views per episode on Rumble. Is @rumblevideo becoming a viable free speech alternative to YouTube? 225 928 62 4,601 kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat 22h Ray Dalio's thoughts on ChatGPT: "You'll get better advice from your device than your own thoughts..." 209 174 36 561 58,444 kanekoa.substack.com retweeted The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 @ColumbiaBugle Mar 24 .@mirandadevine Joins Tucker Carlson Tonight To Discuss New Report That Hunter Biden Had A Mole In The FBI Named “One-Eye” To Tip Him Off To China Probes 45 747 29 1,614 33,807 Show this thread Load more
https://nitter.pw/Rainmaker1973/status/1640016339011076097 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwELr8ir9qM Arthur C. Clarke 1964 1984 is here, and it's taking over the world, and you and your freedom, fast.
Revolt now, by all historical averages, it's way past due. Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 32m In a startling expose Ex Pfizer VP Roland Daumesnil says he didn’t take the jab as it’s not a real vaccine and fraught with dangers. He believes around 22m French people (30%) are unvaxxed or have fake certificates. Dismayed by the lack of ethics and the need to maximise profit… nitter.pw/i/web/status/164… 4 104 2 170 1,234 Show this thread Kat A 🌸 retweeted dystopian down under @dystopian_DU 1h Dirty dogs. Worse when you consider that Pfizer knew about waning immunity 6-9 months before Aus premiers mandated the ‘vaccines’ on the mythical premises that, 1. They would prevent transmission 2. ‘Two doses and you’re done.’ Maryanne Demasi, PhD @MaryanneDemasi 2h Pfizer hid data on waning immunity as millions queued to get vaccinated. maryannedemasi.substack.com/… Regulatory filings (accessed by Peter Doshi) show Pfizer had evidence, early into the vaccination campaign, that vaccine efficacy waned, but waited months before alerting the public. Show this thread 10 41 2 79 Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 32m In a startling expose Ex Pfizer VP Roland Daumesnil says he didn’t take the jab as it’s not a real vaccine and fraught with dangers. He believes around 22m French people (30%) are unvaxxed or have fake certificates. Dismayed by the lack of ethics and the need to maximise profit… nitter.pw/i/web/status/164… 4 104 2 170 1,234 Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 28m piped.kavin.rocks/vYVOPZslw3s Entire interview is interesting especially how Pfizer used it’s marketing to impact medical advice (eg influencing acceptable levels of cholesterol) so as to maximise their sales. Ancien vice président Pfizer | Pfizer: un monstre de marketing et des... Roland Daumesnil, ancien vice président d’une filiale de Pfizer est l'invité de Ying Huang“Le marketing chez Pfizer c'est une véritable organisation. C'est u... youtube.com 1 2 15 Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 25m @_aussie17 I’ve done a clip with subtitles and linked the YouTube video which can be auto translated. 5 Kat A 🌸 retweeted 𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙇𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙉𝙀 @Risemelbourne Apr 4 London 🇬🇧 It would seem The People are fighting back...🔥 5 Ultra Low Emissions Zones Cameras 📸 disappear in Greenwich. 𝘿𝙤 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙏𝙤 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙨....🔥🔥🔥🔥 30 487 22 1,103 Kat A 🌸 retweeted Efrat Fenigson @efenigson 13h My new article looks at shrinking liberties in the UK, Israel & Saudi Arabia, and growing restrictions wrapped in nice buzzwords: 15-minute cities, smart cities, LTNs, ULEZ, CAZ & more... All for our wellness & safety. But at whose expense? efrat.substack.com/p/a-world… A World of Restrictions – In the Name of Climate Change Written by Efrat Fenigson for Bereshit Newspaper | Translated by Deborah Garber The film “Planet Lockdown” was released at the end of 2020, and within several weeks it reached 20 million views on... efrat.substack.com 13 185 9 347 Show this thread Kat A 🌸 retweeted Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ 12h BREAKING: The daughter of the Manhattan judge presiding over the Trump criminal case is a Democratic political strategist who worked on the congressional campaign of Democrat Rep. ADAM SCHIFF, who led the first impeachment of Trump 853 7,349 509 14,445 Kat A 🌸 retweeted Baron of Burleigh @burrosavic Apr 4 Minister of Finance Katy Gallagher has no qualifications or background in finance or accounting. Educated at Melrose High, Gallagher studied a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the Australian National University Says wages have no impact on inflation. Ignorant fool. 53 70 7 314 Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 19h France 🇫🇷 Today the mayhem continues with blockades on highways, protests at schools and efforts to shut down industry even the Amazon site. All leading up to a massive protest this Thursday. Don’t mess with the French lol 🔥🔥🔥 Jan Dark 2.0 6 284 21 611 20,558 Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 20h The Australian Uniparty moves as one when it comes to the protection of Big Pharma. Granted indemnity through contracts which no one can access. Promoted by the TGA for whom they generated 96% of income. Shielded from a Royal Commission/Senate Inquiry into anything covid or… nitter.pw/i/web/status/164… 29 342 13 770 12,383 Kat A 🌸 retweeted 𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙇𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙉𝙀 @Risemelbourne 21h Aus 🇦🇺 This should make your blood boil and send shivers down your spine if your Vaxxed...14 year old girl, Double Pfizered In September 21 and only becoming Vax Injured in February 23...This is Criminal 👇 139 1,156 65 1,890 32,993 Show this thread Kat A 🌸 retweeted Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ @P_McCulloughMD Apr 3 Little fanfare when #covidvaccines are shamefully pulled from the market. Unsafe, ineffective @AstraZeneca given to thousands in UK, EU, and AUS It will be a global celebration when all the #covidvaccines are finally pulled off the market and public safety is restored. Craig Kelly @CKellyUAP Apr 3 🇦🇺finally pulls ‘higher risk’ AstraZeneca 💉from the market Over 2 years ago I called for AstraZeneca to be suspended - but the bumbling Chief Medical Officier claimed there was ‘no need‘ How many Australians were injured or killed because he was 2 years too late ? 65 1,227 41 2,621 Kat A 🌸 retweeted Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth Apr 3 CHINA - The police are checking mobile phones for banned apps and VPNs Many governments are proposing similar crackdowns, with massive fines for disobeying the state. Its isnt about Tik Tok Its about controlling your access to information. Songpinganq 443 3,995 280 7,186 196,981 Kat A 🌸 retweeted 𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙇𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙉𝙀 @Risemelbourne Apr 3 Aus 🇦🇺 Senator Malcolm Roberts 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝘿 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝘽𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙨 💣 I don't trust ANY Politicians, but this is 100% Truth. When combined with 15 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨, you'll be living in a Virtual Surveillance State Prison.....👇 15 561 20 985 9,749 Show this thread Kat A 🌸 retweeted Randy Hillier @randyhillier Apr 3 Every Western/Nato country is simultaneously implementing USSR styled censorship laws. Canada C11, USA restrict act, EU digital services act. Your smartphone is now owned by the govt because they control what you say & to whom. #WhoAreTheGoodGuys ? #cdnpolitics #WeAreLivingALie Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 Apr 2 Matt Taibbi discusses disturbing new findings in the Twitter files. Aspen Institute discussions in 2021 revealed their Orwellian plan to rollout legislation in the EU/US designed to ensure complete control and immediate surveillance over media content monitored by AI.… nitter.pw/i/web/status/164… Show this thread 4 100 7 165 Kat A 🌸 retweeted John Bowe @JohnBoweActor Apr 3 Silly old fart! I must have been tired. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Gareth Icke @garethicke Apr 3 An emotional interview with @JohnBoweActor this weekend. A genuine man. 163 134 8 729 Kat A 🌸 retweeted 𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙇𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙉𝙀 @Risemelbourne Apr 2 Melbourne 🇦🇺 Anti Covid BS, Anti Agenda 2030, Anti Govt Lies 🔥 10 325 6 1,005 7,081 Show this thread Kat A 🌸 retweeted Rob Schneider @RobSchneider Apr 2 It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s a an actual conspiracy: YOUR Government wants access to ALL YOUR INFORMATION! And the ability to censor what they don’t want you to know or think… #Orwell2023 Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108 Apr 2 Matt Taibbi discusses disturbing new findings in the Twitter files. Aspen Institute discussions in 2021 revealed their Orwellian plan to rollout legislation in the EU/US designed to ensure complete control and immediate surveillance over media content monitored by AI.… nitter.pw/i/web/status/164… Show this thread 128 1,986 19 6,719 Kat A 🌸 retweeted Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth Apr 2 15 MINITE CITIES - neighbourhoods are split into permission ZONES with gates at entry and exit points. These require visitors and residents to scan their ID to gain entry. To save the planet 🙄 𝚁𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝙰𝙶𝙰𝙸𝙽𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚅𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙸𝙽𝙴 906 4,960 528 9,349 666,070 Kat A 🌸 retweeted 𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙇𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙉𝙀 @Risemelbourne Apr 2 Aus 🇦🇺 Wow, Next Level Gaslighting 🔥 Listen to this Garbage "Get your Flu Vax, as catching The Flu, increases your risk of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠" It's literally anything else, except of course 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙖𝙭 🔥 💉💉 205 353 65 1,048 25,653 Show this thread Load more
Revolt now, by all historical averages, it's way past due.
Songpinganq @songpinganq Millions of Chinese people being imprisoned in quarantine camps now Joined March 2021 Tweets 47,646 Following 15,495 Followers 86,537 Likes 90,598 11,224 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet Songpinganq @songpinganq Apr 3 Chinese police in Shanghai checked passengers' cellphones without a warrant for VPNs and foreign apps Facebook, YouTube, Twitter...etc. If you get caught with installing these apps, you will get arrested immediately and face months to years jail time. Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Apr 2 The RESTRICT Act is a terrifying bill. Watershed moment for speech politico.com/news/2023/03/31… 224 1,775 219 2,922 217,033 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq Apr 3 Be careful what you wish for! Because this could be your future Chinese police came to this family to check their cellphones without a warrant to search for VPNs and foreign apps Facebook Twitter... If they had these apps on their phones,they would get months to years jail time ALL-IN TOK @all_in_tok Apr 2 Congress's Bait & Switch🚨 Bait: Ban TikTok Switch: Ban US citizens from using VPNs "subject to up to $1 million in fines and/or 20 years in prison" Don't be fooled. "This is going to give sweeping powers to the security state." - @DavidSacks on @markwarner's #RESTRICTAct 95 697 45 1,740 70,654 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq 7h Replying to @POTUS The 'RESTRICT Act' will take people's freedom and privacy away. Chinese police have been conducting random stop-and-search checks for banned foreign apps such as VPN and Twitter since 2016. Many people got caught and sent to prison for having banned apps on their phones. 2 28 53 974 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq Apr 3 Replying to @robbysoave @RandPaul 'Restrict Act' is all about taking right from you. Chinese police have been conducting random stop-and-search checks for banned foreign apps such as VPN and Twitter since 2016. Many people got sentenced to prisons for having these banned apps on their smartphones. 14 97 19 179 35,773 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq Apr 4 Replying to @MarkWarner A text from Chinese government for warning this Chinese man: ''We find out you used VPN on 2021-10-20 6pm. If you dare to use VPN to access Western websites again, we will fine you 50 to 5,000 yuan and detain you 3 to 7 days'' Is this what you want? 14 159 25 306 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq Apr 3 Chinese police in Shanghai checked passengers' cellphones without a warrant for VPNs and foreign apps Facebook, YouTube, Twitter...etc. If you get caught with installing these apps, you will get arrested immediately and face months to years jail time. Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Apr 2 The RESTRICT Act is a terrifying bill. Watershed moment for speech politico.com/news/2023/03/31… 224 1,775 219 2,922 217,033 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet 14h What happened to the Red Guards after they neutered the CCP bureaucrats by taking their power away on behalf of Mao? Their reward was being sent to countryside to receive “re-education” from the peasants. In other words, being exiled. Those Trump haters have no idea that they… nitter.pw/i/web/status/164… 148 1,323 84 4,092 Songpinganq retweeted Élie Cantin-Nantel @elie_mcn 9h Segregating students on the basis of race used to be considered racist (and it still is). But in today's world, woke activists consider it to be "anti-racist", and the legacy media calls it "beautiful". Global National @GlobalNational 19h ‘A beautiful community:’ Canadian universities open lounges for Black students dlvr.it/SlywSM 51 136 14 493 Songpinganq retweeted Wall Street Silver @WallStreetSilv 9h FED: “The U.S banking system is fine”…. U.S Banking System: “Biggest monthly loss in deposits in history” Ht u/okincident5269 118 1,593 85 3,988 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq Mar 8 Replying to @AndersonAfDMdEP Chinese government is collecting face features, voiceprints, fingerprints, palm prints, IRIS patterns, DNA of all people to build its skynet tracking system, for real-time spying on citizens. nitter.pw/songpinganq/stat… Fingerprints scan is now mandatory to apply an ID in China. Songpinganq @songpinganq Mar 7 China's Skynet Explained In Detail Chinese government is collecting face features, voiceprints, fingerprints, palm prints, IRIS patterns, DNA of all Chinese people now. 76 349 47 682 99,087 Songpinganq @songpinganq 9h Chinese people's whole life were locked into the Digital ID —— COVID passport , that could be turned off at the flick of a switch. If your code turns to red, immediately an alarm sends to authority, then you go to a quarantine camp. Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media Apr 3 Senator Malcolm Roberts explains why digital ID must be rejected and resisted at all costs. #DigitalID #DigitalIdentity #CBDCs #CBDC 2 86 8 125 1,936 Songpinganq @songpinganq 9h
From REUTERS: reuters.com/world/china/chin… Chinese government turned bank protesters' health codes to red, and sent them off to quarantine camps. China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several... reuters.com 16 22 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq 9h Chinese people's whole life were locked into the Digital ID —— COVID passport , that could be turned off at the flick of a switch. If your code turns to red, immediately an alarm sends to authority, then you go to a quarantine camp. Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media Apr 3 Senator Malcolm Roberts explains why digital ID must be rejected and resisted at all costs. #DigitalID #DigitalIdentity #CBDCs #CBDC 2 86 8 125 1,936 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq 10h Replying to @wideawake_media This is how Chinese government uses digital ID controlling Chinese people. nitter.pw/songpinganq/stat… From REUTERS: reuters.com/world/china/chin… China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say Songpinganq @songpinganq 19 Nov 2022 Replying to @songpinganq If you try to enter public place with a red QR code...immediately an alarm goes off. Chinese govt can easily cut you off from society by remotely switch your health passport to code yellow or red. A green QR code needed to access to transport, food...even residential complex. Show this thread 12 2 22 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq 19 Nov 2022 If you try to enter public place with a red QR code...immediately an alarm goes off. Chinese govt can easily cut you off from society by remotely switch your health passport to code yellow or red. A green QR code needed to access to transport, food...even residential complex. 48 515 114 835 77,412 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media Apr 3 Senator Malcolm Roberts explains why digital ID must be rejected and resisted at all costs. #DigitalID #DigitalIdentity #CBDCs #CBDC 47 2,235 90 3,495 26,381 Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq Apr 3 Chinese police can check your cellphone anytime anywhere without a warrant, to search for VPNs and foreign apps Facebook, Twitter... If you have these apps in your phone, you would get arrested immediately and face months to years jail time. Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 @iheartmindy Mar 27 Now we know why the Feds are pushing to ban Tic Tok… The Restrict Act would allow the Feds access to all the data on our devices including Ring and home security apps…and it’ll be a crime to use a privacy device. They’ve gone full 1984. @elonmusk threadreaderapp.com/thread/1… Show this thread 30 279 25 442 11,032 Songpinganq retweeted Crazy Clips @crazyclipsonly Apr 3 Little Girl Throws 4-Year-Old Boy Into A Well In China 😳 1,403 3,319 1,345 40,224 3,462,799 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Jo Jorgensen @JoForLiberty Mar 31 The RESTRICT Act (TikTok Ban) is the Patriot Act 2.0. They claim it protects you from China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela. The RESTRICT Act controls the internet just like those countries' regimes control the internet. This isn't about TikTok. It's about control. 30 411 15 1,415 Show this thread Songpinganq retweeted Songpinganq @songpinganq 14h 2/2 nitter.pw/songpinganq/stat… This Chinese government spyware —— 'national anti-fraud center' is mandatory to install on Chinese people's phones. If you use VPN to visit Western websites/apps, you will get calls from cops like this. Songpinganq @songpinganq 14h Thread 1/2 China made "truecaller" like 'anti-fraud' app mandatory + now users getting calls from cops after using VPN to visit foreign news sites. This spyware is called '国家反诈中心', aka 'national anti-fraud center'. Show this thread 3 11 27 542 Show this thread Load more
That the shadow elite have let so many of their plans spill out into effect all at once all around the world tells its messed up, and since cards are always held in reserve, it will likely get much more bizarre restrictive and dangerous. Prepare and or fight back if you can. Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald @SystemUpdate_ Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 12h Totally: the best way for a news outlet like @NPR to show they're not beholden to the US government and are unbiased is to have the WH Press Secretary rise to her feet in defense of NPR and heap praise on their great reporting: RNC Research 593 2,358 177 12,082 323,938 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h Truly independent outlets anger the state. They often end up where Biden DOJ has put Assange, not showered with praise by WH Press Secretary. When is the last time NPR did reporting that angered the Biden WH, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc? NPR does this for CIA: npr.org/2022/04/14/109290451… In rare public speech, the CIA director spoke about the spy agency's role in Ukraine CIA Director Bill Burns made a rare public speech Thursday and talked about the agency's role in Ukraine. Also, hundreds of suspected Russian spies have been kicked out of embassies in Europe. npr.org 28 251 4 1,642 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h Here's a self-proclaimed "disinformation expert" affiliated with a DoD program also leaping to NPR's defense. Scratch a self-proclaimed "disinformation expert" and one finds USG ties. Note how many state functionaries are vehemently defending NPR. Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk 18h Wow, way to make this label meaningless. NPR is absolutely not even comparable to propaganda outlets like RT & Sputnik, which have no editorial independence. This is ridiculous and only helps actual propaganda outlets blend in with legitimate news outlets. 19 255 5 1,423 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h Alex Rubinstein @RealAlexRubi 13h Replying to @RVAwonk I do not work for any outlet funded by Russia. You, however, are DoD-affiliated media 6 109 850 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 11h LOL - I forgot about this. There's no industry more intrinsically fraudulent than "disinformation experts." It's a scam expertise and so of course it's filled with scam artists and grifters, many of whom are lined up defending the über-independent NPR: Michael Tracey @mtracey 17 May 2022 Replying to @mtracey Was just reminded of some "disinformation" perpetuated by @RVAwonk: when she bilked her Twitter followers out of $$$ for a trip to sunny Hawaii to "investigate" Tulsi Gabbard. Still no word on how that trip went. Hilariously, the GoFundMe page is still up Show this thread 24 186 2 1,199 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 10h Are there any self-proclaimed "disinformation experts" who *don't* get funding, directly or indirectly, from the US Security State? Esha K 🥭 @eshaLegal 10h Just going to set this here. Caroline Orr Bueno is funded by the Department of Defense.. 25 214 1,258 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 9h NPR has an article complaining that Twitter now characterizes it as "US state-affiliated media." To prove that they are not, they cite the fact that WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre today "defended NPR's journalism." Strange choice. npr.org/2023/04/05/116815854… 57 346 22 2,230 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 9h Amazing: NPR, in trying to argue it's not-state affiliated, didn't only cite the praise of the WH press secretary for its "journalism." It also cited this bullshit self-proclaimed "disinformation expert" who works in a program funded by the Pentagon: npr.org/2023/04/05/116815854… 58 301 15 1,557 Glenn Greenwald retweeted Michael Tracey @mtracey 9h Another day, another round of blatantly false information peddled by "disinformation" experts. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting publishes financial statements itemizing the "state-funding" it receives and disperses to NPR. The money is literally appropriated by Congress Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk 10h Just so we’re all clear: NPR is not state-funded nor do they take editorial direction from the government. Less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget comes from government grants and other federal agencies and departments. It’s publicly funded, not state-funded. 124 893 68 3,495 Show this thread Glenn Greenwald retweeted System Update @SystemUpdate_ Apr 5 🚨TRUMP'S INDICTMENT UNSEALED How a Democratic Manhattan DA—for blatantly political reasons—transformed what is *at best* a single misdemeanor into 34 felony charges against Donald Trump. 31 169 12 537 13,629 Show this thread Glenn Greenwald retweeted Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze 15h "Holding the powerful accountable" John Lansing @johnlansing 15h NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy. My full statement on the recent inaccurate Twitter label below: 75 684 33 3,533 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 13h 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Comparing the charges brought against Lula when he was leading the presidential polls to the ones brought against Trump: Comparação das acusações feitas contra Lula quando liderava as pesquisas eleitorais com as feitas contra Trump [LEGENDADO]: rumble.com/v2gdnwu-legendado… [🇧🇷LEGENDADO] Trump Indictment Mirrors Lava-Jato Lawfare Against Lula This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here: https://rumble.com/v2fispq--system-update-63.html Now availabl rumble.com 35 68 4 438 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 13h The main difference: had Lula done what they claimed, those would be serious crimes. Even if Trump did everything alleged, it's not a felony. A principal diferença: se Lula tivesse feito o que alegam, seriam crimes graves. Mesmo que Trump tenha feito tudo, nem é um crime grave. 20 37 252 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 15h There is no bullshit more transparent and theatrical than the pretense that the 2 parties in DC are radically different and can't get along on anything. Dem Congressman Tom @Malinowski used to work for Human Rights Watch and the Obama State Dept. He lost in 2022. His new job: 104 689 31 2,696 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 15h Victoria Nuland worked for the Clinton Admin, then served as Dick Cheney's Senior Advisor on the Iraq War, then worked for the Hillary and Kerry State Depts under Obama, running Ukraine, now runs Ukraine for Biden. The only time she wasn't in power was under Trump. 111 462 40 1,644 26,245 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 15h Provided one stays within the boundaries of the key pieties of the establishment wings of the two parties, then they are 100% fine and acceptable. Pelosi and Schumer are as good as McConnell and Jeb Bush. It's only those who question those, in either party, on whom war is waged 31 139 5 787 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 16h My primary objection to the Trump indictment: System Update @SystemUpdate_ 16h “If you’re going to bring a case against a former president… You need to make certain that you’re doing it in the most apolitical way possible… only where there are serious charges... & a clear cut law that you can claim has been violated. None of those is true in this case.” Show this thread 61 272 6 1,322 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 16h I posted an exchange I had with a reader-critic by email regarding his critiques of my views on trans issues, which he says I very rarely discuss. I took the opportunity to explain what those views actually are. Note the civil debate among commenters: greenwald.locals.com/post/37… Exchange with Critic on Trans Issues Connect with Glenn and other members of Glenn Greenwald community greenwald.locals.com 57 94 14 858 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 16h The thing I most valued about digital-era journalism from my start was the ability/need to interact with readers. Monologue-journalism died. You can maintain civil debates even on the most inflammatory issues if you confine it to those invested in the community (subscribers). 14 27 1 318 Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 16h Listen to the person who is paid $30 million a year by Comcast for feeding lies to the planet's most partisan liberals -- she's the one who last night said MSNBC would refuse to allow Trump to be heard because she fears the cost of broadcasting lies: Five Times August 247 547 65 2,461 624,701 Show this thread Load more
From China to USA to Ukraine, CBDC, and COVID WEF WHO, the design, psyop mind programming propaganda towards, and deployment of global total control variants is growing fast...
Ukraine’s Future Lies in the Great Reset https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/05/investigative-reports/ukraines-future-l... Elite plans for digital ID, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and a “Green” post-war economy proliferate in Ukraine as conflict rages, manifesting in Ukraine’s Diia app, the e-hryvnia, a corporate takeover of Ukraine’s war efforts and prospective reconstruction, and other efforts that signal a Fourth Industrial Revolution roll-out. Outlining these efforts and who’s behind them, Stavroula Pabst argues that Ukraine’s cannon-fodder status before and during NATO’s proxy war makes it an ideal testing ground for the Great Reset. [110][IMG][111]byStavroula Pabst May 9, 2023 24 minute read “Ukraine 2030 — the freest and most digital country in the world. Without bureaucracy, but with strong tech industry. Cashless & paperless. This is the future we are building.” – Mykhailo Fedorov These were the words of Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, who posted a glossy video showcasing Ukraine's sci-fi-esque future [112]to Twitter. The video boasts of Ukraine’s [113]plans (after its victory over Russia, of course!) to become the “freest and most convenient country in the next 10 years.” In this theoretical scenario, Ukraine is “the first country to abandon paper money,” tele-health and tele-education programs abound, courts’ decisions are guided by artificial intelligence, and cities can even defend themselves with an “ultra-modern iron dome.” Ukraine 2030 — the freest and most digital country in the world. Without bureaucracy, but with strong tech industry. Cashless & paperless. This is the future we are building. [114]pic.twitter.com/XWs4E1pPGJ -- Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) [115]July 14, 2022 Mykhailo Federov - [116]Twitter But the juxtaposition between the video’s boasts and Ukraine’s dire reality on the ground grows more uncanny by the day.November 2022 reports quietly admitted that roughly [117]100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded in action, and [118]apparently leaked documents from April 2023 exposed Ukraine’s especially weak wartime positioning, where Ukrainian casualties outnumber those of the Russians four to one. Meanwhile, complaints of low ammunition — with Ukraine [119]running through ammo faster than the US and NATO can replace it — run amok, and in Bakhmut’s “meat-grinder,” the estimated lifespan of Ukrainian soldiers in battle was reported as being a grim [120]four hours in late February. Meanwhile, millions of Ukrainians have fled home as sky-high inflation rates and energy prices have slashed living standards in Europe and internationally. But as the war drudges on, Ukrainian officials have zeroed in on the conflict’s alleged “silver linings,” bragging about the new technological developments and investment possibilities that have surfaced during the conflict, such as Ukraine’s “state in a smartphone” Diia app, the e-hryvnia, mounting technological capabilities spurred by corporate war-time involvement in Ukraine, a further crystallization of the public-private partnership as a civil society instrument, and Ukraine’s budding “green” revolution, which is slated to blossom during its prospective elite-backed reconstruction. While these and other initiatives taking place as part of Ukraine’s war-time and reconstruction efforts are being done in the name of modernization, convenience, and democracy, these efforts instead contribute to a technological and political terrain that is conducive to depriving the civilians of Ukraine, and all nations, of their sovereignty, privacy, and dignity. As I illustrate in this investigative piece, such efforts are part of the larger drive towards the related phenomena of the [121]Fourth Industrial Revolution, today’s technological revolution that blurs the physical, digital, and biological spheres, and the World Economic Forum’s [122]Great Reset, an elite-driven initiative to establish Klaus Schwab’s vision of [123]stakeholder capitalism, where corporations are [124]positioned as “trustees of society” to address the world’s economic and social woes. At present, the two phenomena facilitate a new societal era where opaque and corporatized governance structures undermine longstanding governmental bodies and decision-making processes through the widespread implementation of top-down, transformative policy initiatives; public-private partnerships that consolidate power while diffusing avenues for public accountability; and crises that have expanded the elite’s hold over society. If executed successfully, the end result of such efforts may well be a technocratic nightmare, where the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s digital advancements have been capitalized upon by the power elite to ensure and exert their dominance through global governance structures that have extracted themselves from the public’s reach. Effectively stripped of its sovereignty after the 2014 US-backed Euromaidan, burdened by gargantuan debts, and pummeled around by a western “rules-based order” that actually craves war within its borders, Ukraine’s desperation and cannon-fodder status before and during NATO’s ongoing proxy war make it the ideal Great Reset testing ground, where various Fourth Industrial Revolution roll-outs are ongoing — and are soon to be foisted upon the rest of us. The DIIA App: the “State in a Smartphone” To jumpstart its technological revolution, Ukraine’s established a Ministry of Digital Transformation. Preceded by the [125]State Agency for E-governance in Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation’s chief [126]mission, as of 2019, is to establish a “state in a smartphone” apparatus — the [127]Diia (Дія) app — and transfer all public services online. The Ministry’s other key goals include increasing Ukrainians’ digital literacy, internet access, and IT’s share of Ukraine’s GDP by 2024. A perfect marriage of the latest in tech with the state, the Ministry’s flagship [128]Diia app is perhaps the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s most obvious manifestation in Ukraine. Unveiled in [129]late 2019 as the Ministry for Digital Transformation’s “[130]state in a smartphone” project, the Diia app is now a “[131]one-stop-shop” for [132]120 digital government services such as business registrations, applying for government benefits, paying taxes, and obtaining documents like digital ID, digital driver’s licenses, and digital [133]biometric passports which, [134]as of 2021, are all recognized in the same legal capacity as their paper equivalents. “Diia” means “action” in English. Within two days of Diia’s 2020 official launch, [135]360,000 Ukrainians had downloaded digital driver’s licenses using the app, which the Atlantic Council posited as reflecting the “huge appetite for digitalization within Ukrainian society, especially among younger Ukrainians.” About 18.5 million people, approximately half of Ukraine’s pre-war population, now [136]use the app as of early 2023. Diia may be state of the art, but its hyper-centralized, “one-stop-shop” model concocts a bevy of ethical concerns. Such widespread use of Digital ID and other digital legal documents through Diia, for example, should raise alarm bells. For instance, a [137]2018 WEF report on Digital ID even admits the tool’s propensity for exclusion, positing that “[f]or individuals, [verifiable IDs] open up (or close off) the digital world, with its jobs, political activities, education, financial services, healthcare and more.” Despite this consequential acknowledgement, the report’s writers and other advocates ultimately insist that Digital ID is a key tool for “financial and social inclusion” in an increasingly digital world (of course, on the precondition that a Digital ID would be given to everyone.) Critically, Diia’s normalization of the Digital ID and the online availability of other government and social services has only sped up the process of mass digital identification, and thus the multitude of privacy- and freedom-related issues this is likely to pose to the populace, both in Ukraine and internationally. Despite ongoing concerns that digital ID could facilitate a “papers, please”-style checkpoint society (a la 2021-2022’s vaccine passport phenomenon, which was largely conducted through QR-code based passports and smartphone applications) or otherwise used or weaponized to [138]discriminate against marginalized populations. Juniper Research [139]estimates that governments will have issued about 5 billion digital ID credentials by 2024, and a 2019 Goode Intelligence report suggested digital identity and verification will be a [140]$15 billion market by 2024. Diia’s Digital ID feature thus means Diia is [141]used to verify users of other apps, such as banking apps for institutions like monobank and the [142]Bank of Ukraine, private mail-carrier [143]Nova Poshta, and even [144]eVorog, a chatbot where Ukrainian citizens, whose identities first are verified through Diia, can send the Ukrainian government tips about Russian military efforts in real time. Diia has also [145]provided wartime subsidies of 6,500 hryvnia (worth about $176 USD in April 2023) to citizens most affected by the conflict, and also accepts [146]military donations, suggesting Ukraine has decided that Diia might as well directly assist its war-time efforts. The Diia app - [147]Source Of course, crisis is a major catalyst for Diia’s roaring success. In an Atlantic Council [148]blog post, Fedorov noted that the Coronavirus pandemic accelerated Diia’s use in Ukraine, where the restriction-burdened populace could often only access the digital versions of public services they had previously used in person. In fact, the Diia app helped enforce COVID restrictions, producing COVID-certificates that are [149]valid across the European Union. According to the [150]Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, “[a]doption [of the Diia app] was partly driven by its use as a Covid certificate platform and the introduction of ePidtrimka (“eSupport”) — a one-off payment of 1,000 UAH [about $27 USD in April 2023] for fully vaccinated Ukrainians linked to a digital bank card.” In Ukraine, restrictive COVID vaccination passports, which functionally banned unvaccinated people from public life, were also [151]instated via Diia despite [152]low injection uptake amongst Ukrainians, implying Diia’s technology and widespread use further amplified social coercion to take the shot. At the time of writing, Ukrainians have downloaded or accessed over [153]10 million COVID certificates. An app at the fingertips of tens of millions, Diia has also been capitalized upon as a media hub, allowing users to [154]watch prominent programming including Eurovision, CNN, and the FIFA World Cup Final. While this aspect of Diia was subsequently [155]shelved, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation also had plans with Apple to conduct the [156]2023 census over Diia. Such developments posit Diia’s use not only as a government service, but as a hyper-centralized hub for much of daily life. As such a critical service, however, it’s hard to overstate the government-facilitated app’s potential for surveillance or even [157]the manipulation of app-based public services for political gain. After Diia’s release was announced, at least, the issue did not go unnoticed in larger Ukrainian society: according to [158]Rest Of World, the Ukrainian media initially ridiculed the app as “big brother in a smartphone.” Data breaches on Diia, furthermore, could and already have jeopardized people’s sensitive information. As the NYT reported, hackers in January 2022 were able to [159]cripple “much of the government’s public-facing digital infrastructure”, including Diia and a number of government ministries and websites. Unsurprisingly, US hands are [160]behind Diia’s development. After providing years of [161]legal, financial and technical assistance to Diia, [162]USAID Administrator and former US UN Ambassador Samantha Power voiced intentions at Davos 2023 to expand the app’s use to other parts of the world, especially in the [163]global south. A [164]January 2023 USAID press statement, further, [165]highlighted the organization’s $650,000 allotment towards “jumpstart[ing] the adoption of Diia-like systems and the digital technology services that underpin them” elsewhere. As USAID is widely suspected to be a [166]CIA front, the organization’s funding of and interest in spreading Diia internationally posits another dimension of surveillance potential through the app — data gathering for the intelligence community. Diia is a groundbreaking app that allows Ukrainians to access over 100 government services. Ukraine is also using the tech to connect people to critical support during the war. Now, [167]@USAID is excited to work with [168]@FedorovMykhailo to help other countries build platforms like Diia. [169]pic.twitter.com/Y40ujXfzcY -- Samantha Power (@PowerUSAID) [170]January 19, 2023 Samantha Power and Mykhailo Fedorov [171]discuss intentions to spread Diia worldwide at Davos 2023. And despite pressing security- and ethics-related issues, Diia’s already inspired the creation of government smartphone apps elsewhere, such as Estonia’s [172]mRIIK. In an interview with [173]US-backed Radio Svoboda, Mykhailo Fedorov [174]explained that numerous other countries were in negotiations about the possibility of introducing equivalent applications. In other words, Diia and its counterparts, bolstered by COVID and the war alike, are poised to take the world by storm. The e-hryvnia While the Diia app blossoms, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is also advancing through major changes being made to the financial system, especially with regards to the imminent roll-out of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). A country's fiat currency in digital form, advocates of state-facilitated CBDCs frequently gloss over the e-currency’s potential for surveillance and control with promises of convenience, transparency, and modernity. With respect to CBDCs, Ukraine’s version is advancing quickly, despite the war. Ukrainian officials hope to launch Ukraine’s CBDC, the [175]e-hryvnia, [176]in 2024. A creation of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Ukraine’s central bank, the [177]e-hryvnia aims to “effectively perform all functions of money and supplement cash and noncash forms of hryvnia.” According to the [178]National Bank of Ukraine, the e-hryvnia’s implementation will further digitize the economy, boost both transparency and confidence in the currency, and promote non-cash payment methods in Ukraine. To encourage its use, Mykhailo Fedorov [179]proposed to accept his salary in the new CBDC. The e-hryvnia is likely to operate on the Stellar blockchain network, which Ukrainian commercial bank Tascombank partnered with for an e-hryvnia [180]pilot project. An open-source decentralized blockchain network “[181]designed with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in mind,” Stellar is a public network facilitated by the non-profit Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). According to SDF CEO and World Economic Forum [182]Agenda Contributor Denelle Dixon, SDF’s mission is to strive towards [183]“global financial inclusion[184]” a buzzword elite groups like the [185]World Economic Forum and the [186]International Monetary Fund have used to garner support for and participation in the CBDC paradigm. As it strives to become a “[187]global payment standard,” Stellar is poised to do much more than facilitate the roll-out of the e-hryvnia. The German bank Bankhaus von der Heydt’s [188]selected Stellar to help develop a prospective European Stablecoin, and Stellar is also partnering with Mercado Bitcoin to develop a [189]Brazilian CBDC. SDF's CEO Denelle Dixon - [190]Source [191]A cornerstone of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for its exceptional capacity to securely store data, the distributed digital ledger technology system known as blockchain would also be institutionalized in Ukraine if the e-hryvnia is launched in collaboration with Stellar. Tascombank’s [192]2023 CBDC e-hryvnia pilot report [193]emphasized the alleged benefits of issuing the digital currency via blockchain, such as “greater transparency and accountability,” “improved security and confidentiality of client data,” and the functionality and low costs involved using the system. Generally, proponents of CBDCs boast its convenience, potential as an [194]anti-corruption tool, and as an inclusive way to [195]bank the “unbanked,” i.e. those who do not use or cannot access traditional financial services. Yet, critics note that CBDC is not a unique solution to the financial system’s current problems. As Martin C.W. Walker posits in the London School of Economics (LSE) Business Review , “it is not even obvious why CBDC is the best alternative.” Meanwhile, surveillance- and control-related concerns proliferate because government promotion of CBDCs suggests that authorities could easily obtain direct access to transaction histories. In the event that CBDCs become [196]programmable, governments could theoretically program or otherwise direct how or when given users could use— or be blocked from using — their money, creating the potential for abuse. Researchers at Duke University concur in their [197]FinReg blog, writing bluntly that “sovereign states might misuse CBDCs to serve their agendas for anti-money laundering, crime investigation and prevention, or social control reasons.” And European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde inadvertently disclosed CBDC's capacity for social control [198]in a prank phone call, admitting “there will be control” after an individual posing as Zelensky stated that “the problem [with CBDCs] is [people] don’t want to be controlled.” Worsening the matter is the fact that CBDCs will likely be tied to Digital IDs. According to the [199]Financial Times in 2021, the state of CBDC research and experimentation suggested that a creation of a digital currency outside some kind of universal digital identity or tracking system was “nigh on impossible,” and that “CBDCs will likely be tied to personal accounts that include personal data, credit history and other forms of relevant information.” In Ukraine’s case, an earlier e-hryvnia pilot used anonymous e-wallets while noting that the e-hryvnia [200]can be either implemented anonymously or with user identification; for instance, the more recent [201]Tascombank pilot followed standard Know Your Client (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) procedures to identify users. McKinsey [202]posits that Digital ID can streamline such KYC and AML procedures, and Kyiv already has a functional Digital ID through Diia that can be used in a legal capacity. Thus, it seems plausible or likely that a prospective e-hryvnia would be connected to a Digital ID in the future, thus binding Ukrainians to whatever terms the Ukrainian government decides to utilize when launching and programming the CBDC. While its e-hryvnia has yet to launch, Ukraine appears poised to develop and launch the currency on schedule as part of the larger digital transformation it considers vital to its success and future. If successfully rolled out, the e-hryvnia appears ready to saddle Ukrainians with the same prospects for mass surveillance, monitoring, and control – problems that the larger CBDC phenomenon poses elsewhere in the dizzying global drive towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Corporations, Public-Private Partnerships Fuel Ukraine’s War Machine and Reconstruction Efforts Ukraine’s war-time destruction means that major reconstruction efforts will be necessary post-conflict. The elite propose to address such needs through private investments, solutions, and partnerships that are set to fashion a new Ukraine in accordance with the needs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Great Reset, while undermining whatever democratic processes still exist within previous power structures. While institutions like the [203]US State Department emphasize that public-private cooperation is key to Ukraine’s future, corporations like BlackRock, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir are also gaining control over Ukraine’s wartime and reconstruction processes through various forms of assistance, Memorandums of Understandings, and adjacent efforts to maintain Ukraine’s infrastructure and war-effort alike. While such arrangements give these groups significant leverage over Ukraine and its future, they have no electoral mandate and need not answer to the public. Aware of the country’s abject desperation, [204]massive debts, and ratcheting reconstruction needs alike, Ukrainian Officials appear eager to sell off Ukraine’s future to the highest bidders."Ukraine is the story of a future victory and a chance for you to invest now in projects worth hundreds of billions of dollars to share the victory with us,” Zelensky [205]said at the virtual opening of a September 2022 New York Stock Exchange trading session. Zelensky, Fedorov, and a number of other Ukrainian public officials have appeared frequently at high-level events internationally to beg for such investments, assistance, and partnership, such as at [206]Davos 2023, the 2022 [207]Web Summit, and last year’s Viva Technology Conference, where Zelensky even appeared as a [208]hologram to ask for assistance from the entrepreneurs and investors in attendance. Volodymyr Zelensky appears as a hologram at the 2022 Viva Technology Conference. His speech focused on how "Ukraine was offering technology firms a unique chance to rebuild the country as a fully digital democracy." - [209]Source But Ukraine’s search for elite and corporate assistance is the end of the little sovereignty it has left. After all, a common denominator in these wartime and reconstruction efforts is the emphasis on public-private collaboration, especially through anti-democratic public-private partnerships, where public accountability mechanisms are diffused or disarmed through an obfuscation of long-standing power structures as private entities, which are largely unanswerable to the public, usurp responsibilities, resources, and roles that once belonged to governments. As of late 2022, Ukraine was even [210]reforming its legal framework in order to better facilitate and encourage such relationships. Indeed, Ukraine’s war effort is infested with public-private partnerships and corporate relationships that the besieged country ultimately has little agency over. In response to the war, investors and benefactors of questionable stripes are lining up through Ukrainian fundraising and assistance programs like the [211]USAID-backed [212]Advantage Ukraine and [213]United24. Furthermore, corporate giants including multi-national investment company BlackRock and mega-bank [214]JP Morgan are all but buying Ukraine’s future. Zelensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink [215]agreed in December 2022 to focus “on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction [of Ukraine], channeling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy.” A [216]Memorandum of Understanding between BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory (BlackRock FMA) and Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy [217]formalized these agreements with “a goal of creating opportunities for both public and private investors to participate in the future reconstruction and recovery of the Ukrainian economy.” Emphasizing the scale of BlackRock’s prospective involvement, Fink reportedly [218]told Zelensky that "if you hire us…we're not going to be creating new oligarchs, but we're creating a new Ukraine." But as the creators of a “new Ukraine,” BlackRock already manages tens of trillions of dollars in assets, thus “tower[ing] over the finance, insurance and real estate sectors” internationally, and is heavily involved in a number of [219]major corporations and [220]media organizations, perhaps making BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, as Joyce Nelson writes in [221]CounterPunch, the world’s most powerful person. BlackRock’s interest in “creating a new Ukraine,” therefore, is likely par for the company’s predatory course. Volodymyr Zelensky meets with Larry Fink via video conference in late December 2022 - [222]Source Meanwhile, other mega-corporate assistance appears poised to capture much of Ukraine’s critical government infrastructure, at least temporarily. In addition to providing Ukraine [223]hundreds of millions of USD in assistance in 2022 and 2023, Microsoft is [224]storing the entire Ukrainian government on its servers, with Microsoft president Brad Smith [225]explaining to GeekWire that $107 million USD went towards “literally mov[ing] the government and much of the country of Ukraine from on-premises servers to the cloud.” Online tech and sales giant Amazon has also transferred much of Ukraine’s national data, including the population registry, land ownership records, and tax related information, onto its “[226]snowball” hard-drives. Meanwhile, investment management giants and major agribusiness corporations including Vanguard, Kopernik, Kernel, and MHP are rapidly buying up Ukrainian farmland and now hold over [227]28 percent of Ukraine’s arable land, according to the Oakland Institute. Such oligarchs and agribusinesses, the Oakland Institute notes, are “substantially indebted” to western institutions like the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which means such groups have both significant stakes in and leverage over what happens to Ukraine’s farmland. The report also suggests that Ukraine’s massive debts likely mean Ukraine’s creditors, bondholders, and major international financial institutions have influence over Ukraine’s prospective reconstruction efforts. [228]Noting that policy efforts surrounding Ukraine’s reconstruction, like the [229]Ukraine Recovery Conference, center privatizing “non-critical enterprises,” the report concludes that “[e]verything is thus in place for further concentration of land in the hands of oligarchs, foreign interests, and large agribusinesses” in Ukraine. In other words, Ukraine’s war-time sell-out has functionally become a rat race amongst the elite. As its future is divided and sold off to unaccountable oligarchs, much of Ukraine’s war effort, save for the actual dying, has been usurped by the private sector. [230]Google, for example, has assisted Ukraine on multiple fronts, creating an [231]air raid alerts app to protect Ukraine’s citizens against Russian bombardment, while also expanding access to its free anti-distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) software, [232]Project Shield, to protect Ukraine’s internet networks against cyber-attacks. Google is one of several tech companies [233]defending Ukraine from cyberattacks. In addition to providing 50,000 Google workspace licenses for the Ukrainian government, Google also boasts about its censorship of Ukraine war materials, with a [234]blog post highlighting efforts to disrupt “coordinated influence operations from Russian threat actors.” Google has removed over 80,000 YouTube videos and channels about the war in Ukraine, and blocked over 750 channels and 4 million videos “associated with Russian state-funded news channels.” Many other big-tech companies such as TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, and Microsoft have followed suit, either [235]restricting access or to blocking “Kremlin-affiliated news outlets,” while Google and Apple have pulled Russian news apps from their app stores. While Meta created a [236]special operations center specifically focused on curbing “disinformation” especially from Russian state affiliated outlets, Meta’s Facebook platform temporarily [237]permitted calls for violence against Russians and Vladimir Putin on its website, though the policy has since been [238]rescinded. Although Elon Musk’s Starlink has provided internet to many Ukrainians affected by conflict, its coverage has been partially [239]rescinded to prevent Starlink’s use “for offensive purposes.” But other corporations, like data firm and effective CIA-front Palantir, defense contractor [240]Anduril, and facial recognition service [241]Clearview AI — companies funded, or in Palantir’s case, [242]co-founded, by [243]early Facebook investor and “[244]predictive policing” style surveillance enthusiast Peter Thiel — are bringing the Fourth Industrial Revolution to war. While Palantir [245]helps Ukraine with its military targeting of war assets including tanks and artillery, [246]new weapons and technologies, like defense contractor Anduril’s autonomous [247]Altius 600M drones, are being rolled-out on the battlefield. Further, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is [248]using [249]Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology to “uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.” Widely considered an invasive service, [250]Clearview AI has been prevented from selling its services to most corporations and organizations in the US (save for the [251]US police). However, the ethical concerns it has raised elsewhere are of little concern on Ukrainian battlefields. In other words, the fog of war has allowed companies to test and advance controversial, deadly and invasive technologies with little scrutiny. [252][IMG]Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - Source Meanwhile, Ukraine’s public-private partnership craze also dominates its tech-development efforts, including Diia and its CBDC roll-outs. In 2019, Fedorov explained that Diia’s development would [253]rely "on an effective team and international technical assistance, public-private partnerships, volunteering.” And assuming current arrangements proceed, the e-hryvnia will also be established through a public-private partnership, where the Stellar Development Foundation’s Stellar Blockchain will facilitate the CBDC. European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) researchers [254]acknowledged the uncomfortable terrain that the Ukrainian government and private-sector war participants share, writing that “[t]ech corporations have become owners and rulers of the critical assets that a sovereign state requires to function.” Rather than question whether such a development, where Ukraine and other nation states have effectively lost their sovereignty to a myriad of elite power structures and corporations, is a positive one, the ECFR analysts wrote that governmental bodies “need to work more closely with the private sector: that is, to (successfully) fight hybrid wars, states need to become hybrid themselves” to “confront a deteriorating world order.” In other words, they recommend a world where the public and private sectors fuse their efforts even more closely, just like whose who push for the Great Reset’s stakeholder capitalism model. US meddling in [255]Ukraine’s Euromaidan and the West’s non-stop push for war already mean that Ukraine today has little sovereignty. But private stakeholders appear eager to consume what remains of Ukraine’s sovereignty through their creeping domination over Ukraine’s war-efforts, digital and technological advances, and prospective reconstruction to create a new Ukraine that satisfies the elite’s technocratic vision. In short, the Great Reset is advancing rapidly in Ukraine, a country that becomes more pliable to its demands and initiatives with each new day of conflict. Sustainability Efforts and a “Green” Post-War Ukraine As the efforts to modernize wartime Ukraine have proliferated, so have the efforts to ensure Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction is “green,” especially according to elite protocols already established within policy frameworks such as the European Green Deal and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Much like COVID-19 jumpstarted green efforts, elite figures like BlackRock’s Larry Fink speculate the same will occur during the current war: Fink even [256]posited that in the long term, “recent events will actually accelerate the shift toward greener sources of energy in many parts of the world,” even noting that “[d]uring the pandemic, we saw how a crisis can act as a catalyst for innovation.” Fink’s comments on, and apparently intense interest in, the matter suggest that, like much of today’s environmental movement (as documented by journalists like [257]Cory Morningstar), the “green” initiatives vying for Ukraine’s future have been co-opted by the billionaire class and are ultimately crafted to benefit the needs of the wealthiest. Even the Washington Post acknowledged in a [258]late 2022 piece that the hyper-elite had usurped the reins of climate-related policymaking work, noting governments increasingly rely on oligarchs like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Mike Bloomberg, to get the job done. Indeed, ongoing “green” and “green finance” initiatives proposed for wartime and post-war Ukraine occur within the context of the Green movement’s co-optation by the elite and its proven capacity for predatory economic and political tactics, whereby top-down environmental dictates are used as cover to transform or undermine political and financial systems internationally. While I cannot elaborate on this context in full here, Unlimited Hangout has reported on critical examples, including the UN Sustainable Development Goal’s [259]use of debt as a compliance instrument, especially against developing nations, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s (GFANZ) [260]moves “to recreate the entire global financial system for [its] benefit under the guise of promoting sustainability” by using decarbonization and other climate-related dictates as a bludgeon to force developing countries to create economic environments conducive to elite goals, undermining national sovereignty in the process. UN-Backed Banker Alliance Announces “Green” Plan to Transform the Global Financial System The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world. Considering the ambitious nature of Green Ukraine wartime initiatives, one is forced to speculate whether climate dictates are once again being used as “bludgeons” to facilitate the political class’s desired financial system transformations in Ukraine, whose [261]chronic indebtedness to groups like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) already make it vulnerable to foreign interference. After all, the [262]environmental policy brief from the 2022 elite-facilitated [263]Ukrainian Recovery Conference emphasizes the need for Ukraine’s “green transition to [a] new green economy.” And a flurry of initiatives like the Ukraine World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s [264]Green Restoration of Ukraine, the Nordic Green Bank’s EU-funded “[265]green recovery efforts,” and a heavily-publicized [266]Marshall Plan for Ukraine, which [267]dozens of high level politicians insist must be “[268]green,” all suggest that transformative green reconstruction and green economic plans for Ukraine are of the utmost importance to the political class. In any case, Ukraine is certainly looking to conduct its own green transition: much like Ukraine has bent over backwards to both encourage and accommodate the elite-backed public-private-partnership- and tech- domination of its society, it also appears eager to hit every “green target” possible to maintain relevance. Even as war rages on, Ukraine is building wind turbines en masse, and Ukrainian energy group DTEK is “aggressively promoting” a [269]plan for Ukraine to “build 30 gigawatts of clean power by 2030.” Further, Ukraine’s “green” dreams made a [270]big splash at COP27, where several exhibits at the Ukrainian Pavilion detailed the country’s plans to become a “green” leader. There, a [271]printed message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky read: "Ukraine can, and I am certain will, become a green energy hub for Europe." Meanwhile, the EU appears quite happy to loop Ukraine in with its own ambitious green targets, already agreeing to help rebuild Ukraine in the EU’s [272]New European Bauhaus architectural style, a “[273]major catalyst” for the European Green Deal, a policy framework that, in the EU Commission's [274]own words, “proposes [the] transformation of [the] EU economy and society to meet climate ambitions.” In a new initiative, [275]Associating Ukrainian cities to the Climate-neutral and smart cities Mission, several Ukrainian cities will be selected by and collaborate with the European Union to commit to climate neutrality in their rebuilding efforts according to the European Green Deal’s city-related climate objectives. And not unlike BlackRock’s [276]Memorandum of Understanding with the Ukrainian Government elucidating future major investment agreements for Ukraine’s reconstruction, many elite-backed green efforts in Ukraine center around finance, investment and banking prospects, and are often put forth by those with predatory financial histories. One suspect example is the [277]Ukraine Green Growth Initiative investment fund, launched by Australian mining magnates Andrew and Nicola Forrest, who have poured in [278]500 million USD (approx 740 million AUD) into the project. As language from a [279]press release suggests, the investment fund will facilitate major “green” changes for much of Ukraine’s economy and primary infrastructure, focusing on infrastructure basics like “energy and communications to build a digital green grid, so Ukraine can become a model for the world as a leading digital green economy.” Complementing the release’s language regarding Ukraine’s prospective “green” economic transformation, the release also highlights Zelensky’s belief that the new fund will “facilitate the world’s first green digital economy and the fastest growing economy in Europe.” Notably, a press release from [280]Cision PR Newswire reveals major politicians and powerful business executives are driving the Ukraine Green Growth Initiative: “A period of consultation for the investment fund [Ukraine Green Growth Initiative] has been ongoing since early March [of 2022] and has included Dr Forrest briefing US President Joe Biden, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, and the international business community including UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink and their teams.” An advocate of “[281]green-hydrogen,” Andrew Forrest also has a history of assisting green elite initiatives. For instance, he invested in Bill Gates’ [282]Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) in 2021 alongside Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg. But such elites have track records as people looking to maximize investment returns, not as altruists or environmentalists. That these are the people facilitating a “green economy” in Ukraine should spur speculation as to whether they are using mass investments, under the guise of a green transition, to transform Ukraine’s economy for their benefit. Volodymyr Zelensky (L) shakes hands with Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest (R) in November 2022 - [283]Source Despite Ukraine’s dire circumstances, the western elite appear almost as hellbent on making Ukraine’s future “green” as they are on continuing the war, launching continuous and ambitious initiatives towards ensuring sustainability and a post-war green economy in the war-torn country. While these green reconstruction plans are bringing major changes to Ukraine’s economic system and society, they are being rammed through by a conglomerate of NGOs, elite groups, and wealthy investors with little input from the Ukrainian public. Within the context of Ukraine’s hyper-use as a testing ground for digital transformation, war technology, and ever-more powerful public-private partnerships, this multitude of overarching “green” initiatives drawn up for Ukraine’s future, which bear potential for the erosion of society’s existing policymaking processes, are part and parcel of the Great Reset. War: The Great Reset’s Accelerator Ultimately, the conglomeration of elite-backed services, partnerships, and initiatives I describe in this investigation claim to provide critical innovation or assistance to Ukraine during a time of crisis; however, they are instead collectively facilitating prospects for surveillance and control over everyday life while eroding possibilities for governmental and individual independence. Such technological developments I also discuss, in tandem with political arrangements centering a wartime merger of the public and private sectors, are prime for the political class, who want to use such developments to forge governance infrastructures conducive to their dictations. Such chaotic ongoings in Ukraine are a microcosm of the larger geopolitical moment, where the world’s elite are moving to advance anti-democratic public-private partnerships’ prevalence and status in civil society. While advocates frame such public-private initiatives and cooperations as holistic and innovative, they undermine (what’s left of) today’s system of Westphalian national sovereignty by doling out critical infrastructure to unaccountable institutions, NGOs, and corporations that prioritize the interests of the power elite. As a result, previous democratic processes in sovereign nations are eroded in favor of global governance, which Unlimited Hangout contributor Iain Davis [284]describes as a system where a global public private partnership “creates policy initiatives at the global level, which then cascade down to people in every nation.” Ultimately, these efforts are steamrolling ahead with little room for accountability or public debate: even if Ukrainians want to continue fighting an increasingly gruesome conflict, they have no real say over the myriad of wartime initiatives, largely sprung by international elite groups, that are being rammed through as the conflict deepens. Indeed, although many elite organizations “assisting” Ukraine insist that they’re fighting for democracy, Zelensky has [285]consolidated Ukraine's TV outlets and dissolved rival political parties in efforts towards a “[286]unified information policy,” uprooting possible challenges to power. In other words, the current moment leaves Ukrainian society vulnerable and perfectly pliable to be molded to suit elite agendas, including those of the Great Reset. Importantly, the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s roll-out in Ukraine forces speculation as to whether ongoing hostilities are about geopolitical struggles as we traditionally have understood them, facilitating initiatives crucial to the Great Reset, or a combination of the two. While genuine animosities between the world’s nation-states exist, track records ultimately show that countries are in general agreement, or have otherwise been bound into agreement, on the implementation of many of the measures I’ve highlighted in this piece. This remains true despite the measures’ potential to supersede the world’s current power structures in critical ways, threatening to create a world dominated by top-down public-private initiatives that limit national and individual sovereignty and dignity alike. The elites center “equity” and even “justness” in their initiatives, but their “just” world is one where those governed have equally little say over the state of world events and little room for escape. The exact state of today’s geopolitical fault lines remains up to debate, but one thing is certain: Ukraine will not be the only country impacted by the policies and initiatives I’ve described. Rather, what is rolled out in Ukraine is likely coming for everyone. With respect to CBDCs, for example, Ukraine’ is certainly not alone in its efforts: according to the [287]Atlantic Council’s CBDC tracker, 114 countries — which represent over 95 percent of the world’s GDP — are currently exploring CBDC prospects, whereas only 35 countries were doing so in 2020. Adding to the chaos, recent bank meltdowns, including the dubious shuttering of [288]Silicon Valley Bank, suggest that long-term financial system instabilities may well provide a perfect moment (or, perhaps more accurately, an excuse) for widespread CBDC roll-outs. For now, war continues with no end in sight, leaving Ukrainian civilians as cannon fodder while worsening living standards elsewhere, creating a general state of desperation amongst the world’s population as prices for basic goods continue to spike and peace remains a non-starter. 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If it's not one side it's the other. When will the world's people wake the fuck up, adopt crypto, voluntaryism, and Freedom, and starve all these fucking GovPol and their tyrannies out of business forever. DHS Producing Videos Teaching Citizens How To Identify "Radicalized" Conservatives https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-new-internal-dhs-documents-... https://www.scribd.com/document/643766515/DHS-Domestic-Terrorism-Scenarios https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/ America First Legal (AFL) has obtained documents through FOIA request from the Department of Homeland Security which outline a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style video series that DHS intended to release to the public. The videos were meant to depict different scenarios in which citizens might encounter potentially “radicalized” individuals. Citizens are then asked to choose what they think should be done about the encounter. Most of the scripted scenarios showcase people with conservative beliefs and values as the radicalized threat. For example, the DHS targeted “suburban Moms” with pro-life beliefs: The series also targeted “old high school friends” who believe in “conspiracies” as examples of radicalized citizens in need of bystander intervention. The video scripts, written under the DHS’s Office of Terrorism and Violence Prevention, was part of an internalized memo circulated on January 29th, 2021, only eight days after Joe Biden entered the White House. The program seems to have been developed in tandem with the “Disinformation Governance Board” which was eventually scrapped due to public opposition. It reveals an ongoing and disturbing trend within the Federal Government to implement authoritarian measures across the country, first using covid as an excuse, then using the January 6th protests as a rationale. Let us not forget about Biden's disinfo-czar Nina Jankowicz, also known as “Scary Poppins.” The focus of these DHS efforts was overwhelmingly on conservatives, with a not-so-subtle implication that conservatives and constitutionalists (or anyone that questions official government narratives) are domestic terrorists. This was done while the DHS and Democrats mostly ignored the violent actions of BLM, Antifa, trans rights protesters, etc. The covid era brought the US and many other western nations to the very edge of an Orwellian society in which partnerships between corporate institutions and government bureaucracy are exploited to suppress all political and scientific discourse. They created artificial fear and hype over a virus with a 0.23% Infection Fatality Rate, and they painted an unarmed protest at the capitol building (in which not a single person died because of the protesters) as an “insurrection.” Now, we find that federal agencies are preparing propaganda to teach the public to act as informants, much like the communist Stasi in East Germany, to weed out and persecute liberty minded Americans. Or, to act as hall monitors for the state, correcting the behavior and speech of their friends, family and neighbors and creating an atmosphere of self censorship within the populace. The most important question to ask is this: What are they afraid of? Is the DHS afraid of legitimate domestic terrorist threats and they are perhaps misguided in promoting a pre-crime model for prevention? Or, is the government about to do something they know will anger the public; something that might inspire Americans to become militant, such as a broad crackdown on people's freedoms? And if the latter is the case, wouldn't the best method of prevention be for governments and bureaucrats to avoid enraging the public in the first place and to leave our freedoms alone?
Our Two Deep States: One Public, One Private Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/05/our-two-deep-states-one-public... One Deep State is bad enough, but a renegade, predatory private-sector Deep State is intolerable. In 2007, well before the term Deep State entered the common lexicon, I sketched the interconnected public-private pieces of the Deep State, which I termed the elite maintaining and extending global dominance. This diagram doesn't make all the connections or list all the consequential nodes of influence of course, but you get the idea: elected officials, i.e. "democracy," play a modest role in the entire structure, which displays remarkable continuity regardless of which politicians and parties are currently in power. That's the whole idea, of course: continuity that can't be disrupted by an election. What's changed is the emergence of a private-sector Deep State--a.k.a. Big Tech--that has established unprecedented power outside the control of elected officials even as it continues to play ball with the traditional public-sector dominated Deep State of the alphabet federal agencies and informal public-private sector ties. This private-sector Deep State is free to pursue its own agenda of information-gathering and selling, surveillance, influence and profit-maximizing monopolies while seeming to serve the traditional Deep State as information-collecting and censorship services. What makes Big Tech a private-sector Deep State is that nobody outside the corporations knows precisely what's in their databases and algorithms or the extent of their capabilities. Sure, they share information with the traditional Deep State players, and censor whomever it's "suggested" they censor / shadow-ban, but that transfer isn't 100% of what Big Tech has in hand. All that transfer is just enough to appear to be playing ball so Big Tech can "suggest" OK, we've done our part, now leave us alone. The problem with both Deep States is there is no recourse within the system for those censored / shadow-banned, those being tracked, those whose data is being siphoned off and sold to whomever offers a hefty sum of cash, and so on. The basic idea of the US Constitution is that every citizen has some recourse via the judicial or political systems should the state (government) or private entities overstep the boundaries established by the Constitution. Citizens have no recourse against the predations of Big Tech or the traditional Deep State. Um, hello there, Big Tech, could you please share precisely how and when I've been shadow-banned, who else has copies of the data you've collected about me and how much you "earned" selling my data to third parties? What's actually in your AI tools? Does any public agency have any real oversight power over all the looting, pillaging and predation you're pursuing? So sorry (heh), you agreed to our terms of service which grant us all the rights and our algorithms and databases are protected proprietary corporate property. So blow chow, pal, you have no recourse. We're a corporation, we have rights; you're only a citizen, you have none. You currently have permission to post photos of puppies and kittens, so just enjoy the photos of puppies and kittens and be happy you haven't yet been digitally erased entirely. Um, hello there, Alphabet-Soup Agency, could I please have all the files you've assembled on me? Yes, there is a protocol for requesting information (the Freedom of Information Act FOIA), but there are exemptions and delays, so don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, the nation careens into an era of Polycrisis, defined as a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part. This is of course a classic description of emergent systems, which display characteristics that differ from those generated by each individual component. I've sketched out a few of these dynamics in the chart below of overlapping crises. At the same time, the global status quo, regardless of political flavor, is sliding down the backside of the S-Curve (see graph below). Everything that was considered a dependable solution is now the problem. There are no solutions within the existing status quo, and so everyone has no choice but to do more of what's failed spectacularly. There are no perfect, sacrifice-free fixes to the demise of the debt-funded, waste is growth / Landfill Global Economy, but a good start would be bringing the private-sector Deep State of Big Tech to heel, stripping it of its opacity and powers, relegating everything Big Tech does or attempts to a tightly regulated utility with transparent public oversight. One Deep State is bad enough, but a renegade, predatory private-sector Deep State is intolerable. It goes almost without saying that I've been shadow-banned for the past 7 years (revealed by the bogus PropOrNot hit list), if not longer, but the mechanisms of this censorship are opaque, not just to me but to the elected branches of government and the shadow-realm of the traditional Deep State. * * * My new book is now available at a 10% discount ($8.95 ebook, $18 print): Self-Reliance in the 21st Century. Read the first chapter for free (PDF) Become a $1/month patron of my work via patreon.com.
Elites' Lies Meant To Deliver Us From Reality https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/13/deliver-us-from-reality/ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/origins-of-totalitarianism-hannah-arendt/11... Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness “Because he can.” That’s the answer one has to give to those who ask how Alvin Bragg, a local district attorney in office by the slimmest of margins - and then only because of a huge subsidy from the anti-American billionaire George Soros - can get away with antics like indicting Donald Trump, a former (and, possibly, future) president of the United States, and, now, with charging former Marine Daniel Penny with manslaughter because he (along with at least two others) intervened to stop Jordan Neely from attacking fellow passengers on a New York subway. Because he can. As a friend remarked when digesting the spectacle of Penny being led away in handcuffs, totalitarian movements often start slowly, almost timidly, but as they gain power, they become more brazen. After a certain point, they do outrageous things just to intimidate the public and demonstrate their power. We now know that the FBI, the CIA, and other elements of America’s security apparatus intervened directly in the decision making of Twitter and other social media companies to influence the course of the 2020 election. One part of that intervention had to do with organizing 51 senior former intelligence figures to sign a letter declaring that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” That was a lie. They knew it was a lie. It didn’t matter. They did it because they knew they could get away with it. The United States is on the verge of being inundated with thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens. Many are from South or Central America. Hundreds are from China, even though they are crossing that notional line we used to be able to call, without irony, our southern border. Why did the Biden Administration decide to enact a real-life Camp of the Saints invasion of the United States? Because it could. There was no immediate price to pay. In her classic study, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt makes several observations that bear on our current situation. “There is no doubt,” she observes, that the elite was pleased whenever the underworld frightened respectable society into accepting it on an equal footing. The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced their way into it. They were not particularly outraged at the monstrous forgeries in historiography of which all totalitarian regimes are guilty and which announce themselves clearly enough and totalitarian propaganda. It’s not only the compact between the elite and the underclass that is relevant to our experience in the United States today. There is also the incontinent deployment of the word “democracy,” not as a term describing a specific form of political organization but rather as a cognitively empty but talismanic vocable around which political animus can be nurtured and set to work. The latest variation is Our DemocracyTM, dragged out whenever the process of political demonization needs a boost. “It has been frequently pointed out,” Arendt notes, “that totalitarian movements use and abuse democratic freedoms in order to abolish them.” The reaction to the January 6, 2021 jamboree at the Capitol—an event egged on and at least in part organized by (alleged) state actors like Ray Epps—is a case in point. As he showed last week in his exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Donald Trump began trying to diffuse the potential for violence at that protest the day before, on January 5, and he continued through the day on January 6. No matter. The script called for him to be the villain of the piece, so the villain he is publicly accounted to be. So many things in our social and political life today seem surreal. The prospect that “misgendering” someone might be against the law—i.e., a tort that did not even exist yesterday is now illegal; the whole phenomenon of so-called “transgenderism,” a revolt against reality if there ever was one; the bizarre obsession with race, involving the demonization of whites and the fabrication of an imaginary sin called “white supremacy,” on the one hand, and the groveling obeisance of phantasmagoric “reparations” to blacks, on the other. You can’t tune into the internet these days without being confronted with scenes of blacks rampaging through fast-food restaurants, school corridors, or shops like Target and Walmart. They smash and steal and smash and what happens to them? Nothing. All this and more is part of what Arendt called totalitarianism’s “experiment against reality.” “Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines,” she pointed out, "totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself; in which, through sheer imagination, uprooted masses can feel at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and real experiences deal to human beings and their expectations." “The shocks which real life and real experiences deal to human beings.” That is what our masters are pretending to insulate us from with their fantastic lies about human nature, economic reality, and empirical truth. The only silver lining in this minatory storm cloud is the fact that such movements, though unconscionably cruel, arbitrary, and destructive, are also astonishingly fragile. The last word goes to Arendt. “Nothing is more characteristic of the totalitarian movements in general, and of the quality of fame of their leaders in particular than the startling swiftness with which they are forgotten and the startling ease with which they can be replaced.”
America’s Powerful Intellectual Class Finds 'Joy In Making Us Obey And Be Compliant,' Warns Scholar https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-powerful-intellectual-class-finds-joy... https://www.theepochtimes.com/thomas-harrington-the-treason-of-the-experts-a... https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-files-alleges-collusion-between-govern... Authored by Jan Jekielek and Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times America’s intellectual class has been given so much power by the public that their misuse of such power is threatening the fundamental freedom of speech in the country, says scholar and author Tom Harrington. “It’s absolutely remarkable how easily we’ve gone from free speech to asking, ‘How can I make my way around the censorship that’s here?’” Harrington said in a recent interview with Jan Jekielek on “American Thought Leaders” that premiered on May 11. “Sometimes, there’s this idea that reality just is. That’s partially true but in the cultural realm, there’s always someone developing it and distributing it who has more access to power. “Those people generally are well-educated people who we hold up as exemplars of knowledge. They have a lot of power and they are deferred to quite readily.” Harrington warned that people are delivering a lot of their power into the hands of “experts” who tend to have a “flipness” with which they have used such power. “Worse than flipness, there seems to be almost a perversion and a joy in making us obey and be compliant for compliance’s sake. This is very troubling in a society. “You need the intellectual class or the credentialed class to have the reality of their status back up the title of their status. It seems to me these two things have separated in these last few years, and that’s really troubling to me.” Harrington pointed out that censorship and cancellation are “two cudgels” used against the public. “We’re beginning to see that a lot of this hooting down is not as spontaneous as many of us would like to believe. With the recent ‘Twitter Files,’ and the case that the attorney generals of Missouri and Louisiana are trying now, we’re finding out that this was anything but spontaneous. There were a number of government actors working in concert with private actors to achieve a censorship that, frankly, for those of us of a certain age, is unimaginable.” On March 17, investigative journalist Matt Taibbi released a version of the so-called “Twitter Files” exposing the alleged collusion between Twitter and Stanford University’s Virality Project (VP) to censor what they deemed to be misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. VP is also found to have colluded with the U.S. government. “Though the Virality Project reviewed content on a mass scale for Twitter, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Medium, TikTok, and Pinterest, it knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion, while often being factually wrong itself,” Taibbi stated on Twitter. The initiative “accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact.” Reliance on Experts Harrington, who is a Hispanic studies emeritus professor, pointed out that true experts do not impose their reality on anyone. Experts must be able to keep their ego impulses in check and ensure that they are using their power to help the people. “It seems that that line has been crossed,” he said. “There’s a lot of ego gratification that is interfering with what should be a real sober taking of responsibility for a gift of power,” he said about the nature of today’s experts.“Power is a gift in a democratic society. It’s not something you own, and it’s not something there to make people obey you. It’s a gift you have that hopefully you can use in constructive ways that preserve the dignity of those who don’t have as much power as you do.”
Watch Live: ChatGPT's Sam Altman Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee As Calls For AI Regulation Build Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday morning as lawmakers prepare regulations for new artificial intelligence tools released for consumers. "Artificial intelligence urgently needs rules and safeguards to address its immense promise and pitfalls," Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, wrote in a statement. "This hearing begins our Subcommittee's work in overseeing and illuminating AI's advanced algorithms and powerful technology. I look forward to working with my colleagues as we explore sensible standards and principles to help us navigate this uncharted territory," Blumenthal said. "Artificial intelligence will be transformative in ways we can't even imagine, with implications for Americans' elections, jobs, and security," Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who also chairs the Senate panel on privacy and technology, said. He added: "This hearing marks a critical first step towards understanding what Congress should do." Besides Altman, the hearing will include testimony from: Gary Marcus, Professor Emeritus at New York University; and Christina Montgomery, Vice President and Chief Privacy and Trust Officer at IBM. The surging popularity of AI tools like ChatGPT, which allow users to generate responses via text or images, has received calls from the "Godfather of AI," Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio and others about the existential risk AI systems pose to the economy and humans. In recent weeks, the Biden administration unveiled a series of measures to tackle the increased use of AI technology. The Department of Commerce has initiated a process to gather feedback on potential regulations. There is no question that AI will be transformative in many ways for companies that integrate this technology into their systems. One long-term effect it might cause is a massive layoff wave this decade. Goldman's latest report (available to pro subscribers in the usual place) indicates up to 300 million jobs are at risk across the Western world. And BCA Research's latest report on AI has an ominous outlook about the technology: "The safety risks around AI are huge, and we think there is a more than 50/50 chance AI will wipe out all of humanity by the middle of the century." The next step for lawmakers on Capitol Hill is some form of regulation of AI. However, those next steps need to be clarified.
So many things in our social and political life today seem surreal.
The prospect that “misgendering” someone might be against the law—i.e., a tort that did not even exist yesterday is now illegal; the whole phenomenon of so-called “transgenderism,” a revolt against reality if there ever was one; the bizarre obsession with race, involving the demonization of whites and the fabrication of an imaginary sin called “white supremacy,” on the one hand, and the groveling obeisance of phantasmagoric “reparations” to blacks, on the other. You can’t tune into the internet these days without being confronted with scenes of blacks rampaging through fast-food restaurants, school corridors, or shops like Target and Walmart. They smash and steal and smash and what happens to them? Nothing. All this and more is part of what Arendt called totalitarianism’s “experiment against reality.”
“Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines,” she pointed out,
"totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself
Biden And DHS Secretary Claim 'White Supremacy' Is The Greatest US Terror Threat If you were ever confused as to why the political left has been using the words 'white supremacy' every time they mention conservative ideals in their rhetoric, then you might just be a regular person trying to think logically. After all, millions of minorities are also conservative, libertarian and pro-constitution. Millions of minorities are anti-socialist, pro-2nd Amendment and pro-meritocracy. The accusation of white supremacy simply doesn't apply. Yet, this narrative continues. Why? It's called social conditioning – Tell a big enough lie, tell it thousands of times, and eventually the public might subconsciously associate conservatives or conservative principles with racism even if the claim is provably false. They will even suggest a conservative is a “white supremacist” despite the fact that he or she is not white. It's confusing because it defies all reason, but that's the point. You cannot reason with zealotry. You cannot argue facts with mental patients. Their goal is chaos; their strategy is to use madness to bewilder their victims. Recently we showcased a Department of Homeland Security propaganda program uncovered through FOIA which was intended to use a choose-your-own-adventure style narrative to teach the public how to identify “radicalized” domestic threats. The majority of dangerous persons provided in sample cases were people espousing conservative values. In other words, the DHS is seeking to actively target conservatives as the primary terror threat in the US. This revelation comes just as the White House launches a domestic terror tour, with Joe Biden proclaiming in an address to the exclusively black Howard University in Washington DC that: “The most dangerous threat to our homeland is white supremacy … and I’m not just saying this because I’m at a black HBCU.” Biden at Howard Univ.: “The most dangerous threat to our homeland is white supremacy … and I’m not just saying this because I’m at a black HBCU.” pic.twitter.com/WhwoSvlyN7 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 13, 2023 Biden warns of “sinister forces” trying to reverse racial progress, stating that the battle against racism is a “battle that's never really over.” But that's because Biden and his associates don't want it to be over, and the sinister force he speaks of trying to reverse racial progress includes people like him. It's perhaps not a coincidence that Biden makes this declaration just as Title 42 is ending and the US southern border is being overrun will illegal immigrants. It's also probably not a coincidence that Biden's rhetoric is growing ever more divisive as the US economy faces increasing debt crisis risks and a fast approaching presidential election. It makes sense in a disturbing way that the establishment would want to divide America along racial lines as much as possible before stagflation turns into a crash. Better to let the masses fight each other rather than placing any blame on politicians and corporate leaders where it belongs. And, ideally, the powers-that-be would greatly prefer that liberty minded Americans become the all encompassing bogeyman that they need to distract the populace from their problems. When they say they're going after “white supremacists,” what they really mean is they are targeting anyone of any color that opposes their ideology. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas notes that he agrees with Biden's conclusions and suggests the focus of the DHS will be American citizens. Mayorkas extends Biden's definition of the threat beyond white supremacy, stating that domestic violent extremism are the danger Does this include leftist trans school shooters like Audrey Hale? And what about groups like Antifa engaging in open terrorism in places like Atlanta? Biden and the DHS are ignoring such dangers in favor of a weighted interest in conservative groups. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he agrees with Biden that "white supremacy" is the "greatest threat" of terrorism to the United States pic.twitter.com/JcXY4zIZAP — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 14, 2023 The trick is that many Americans might not take such rhetoric seriously because they don't see themselves as “surpremacists” or “extremists.” What do they have to worry about? But the truth is that the definition of extremism is changing daily to include values that common people hold dear. Today you are a good and moral person; tomorrow, you're a terrorist. That is how these things have always worked.
More 1984 Political Targeting and Censorship From US Democrats and Deep State Agencies... Media Research Center @theMRC Biden’s DHS uses your tax dollars to weaponize against Christians, conservatives, and the GOP foxnews.com/politics/univers… University program linking Christians, Republicans to Nazis granted DHS funds under 'anti-terror'... The Biden administration is giving taxpayer money through an anti-terror grant program being used to target conservatives, according to documents shared with Fox News Digital. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-program-linking-christians-repub...
Like Government, AI presents massive problems... nitter Logo Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul I fight for Kentucky, individual rights, and the Constitution | This is an official government account for Senator Rand Paul. Bowling Green, KY Paul.Senate.Gov Joined August 2020 Tweets 1,299 Following 220 Followers 129,925 Likes 49 501 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul Mar 29 I object. 24 8 3 150 Show this thread Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul 4h The United States is engaging in the same government run domestic-censorship efforts for which we criticize other countries. Read my latest Op-Ed in @NRO! nationalreview.com/2023/05/k… Keep Artificial Intelligence out of Government Surveillance It’s a danger to Americans’ freedom of thought and expression. nationalreview.com 3 13 101 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul 7h Great news from the Supreme Court! Kentucky’s farmers and agricultural industry have suffered long enough under the Clean Water Act’s burdensome #WOTUS rule. It’s time we prioritize Kentuckians’ rights and the economic well-being of those across America. ow.ly/gWaL50OwNkm Supreme Court Rules for Landowners, Limits US Clean Water Act The US Supreme Court put new limits on the Clean Water Act, ruling in favor of an Idaho couple seeking to build a house on property that federal regulators say is protected wetlands. bloomberg.com 73 77 13 288 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul 9h It was my honor to present a Silver Star Medal and other military medals and awards that Veteran Richard Smith lost during a house fire. Thank you for your service to this great nation! ow.ly/ugeK50OwEG4 Soul-soothing occasion: Sacramento veteran receives replacement awards, medals It was in November 2020 when Sacramento residents Richard and Becky Smiths’ home burned down after recently moving in five months prior. messenger-inquirer.com 5 35 187 Senator Rand Paul retweeted HSGAC GOP @HSGAC_GOP May 24 "We must get to the bottom of how the federal government uses AI to violate the privacy and civil liberties of the American people before it’s too late." Read more on Ranking Member @SenRandPaul's op-ed in @NRO on the government's alarming use of AI⬇️ nationalreview.com/2023/05/k… Keep Artificial Intelligence out of Government Surveillance It’s a danger to Americans’ freedom of thought and expression. nationalreview.com 4 7 1 37 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 24 Happy #WasteReportWednesday! Perhaps it’s time to pull the D.C. Streetcar into the station for good. Read more: sen.gov/2K05 16 63 4 229 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 23 Hate to say I told you so…ow.ly/SwAP50OugmV FLASHBACK: Rand Paul was the only Republican who opposed confirming Christopher Wray as FBI Director An interesting piece of history in the wake of the Durham Report. based-politics.com 186 1,342 37 7,046 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 19 Yesterday I joined @WDRBNews to talk debt ceiling negotiations, KY governor's race, TikTok, and my new bipartisan disaster relief bill. wdrb.com/politics/kentucky-u… Kentucky US Sen. Rand Paul weighs in on debt ceiling negotiations, governor's race, TikTok Republican Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul joined WDRB Mornings Thursday to talk about the progress being made as negotiators work to prevent the country from defaulting on its loans. wdrb.com 26 17 108 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 19 USPIS must reform its regulations for mail covers to protect Americans' privacy. washingtonexaminer.com/opini… Rand Paul and seven other senators want to make sure your mail isn't being tracked by the government Is your mail being monitored? Is the government keeping track of correspondence among people? Should the government have that power? These were the questions some senators sought an answer to this... washingtonexaminer.com 5 14 2 93 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 19 Great talking to @LEX18News yesterday about my bill with @SenatorLankford and @SenGaryPeters to reduce the burden on disaster survivors in need of aid. I look forward to working with a bipartisan coalition to get this vital legislation passed expeditiously. 8 13 71 1,540 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 18 I'm proud to celebrate this bipartisan resolution. #NationalPoliceWeek provides an opportunity to honor and remember the fallen heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. paul.senate.gov/dr-paul-cele… Dr. Paul Celebrates the Passage of Bipartisan Resolution in Recognition of National Police Week -... WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-K.Y.) joined a broad bipartisan coalition of 78 Senators in introducing a resolution designating the week of May 14 through 20, 2023 as National Police... paul.senate.gov 8 14 115 Senator Rand Paul retweeted Washington Examiner @dcexaminer May 18 .@SenRandPaul praised @ElonMusk for standing for free speech rights and being willing to speak out regardless of possible backlash. “I think history will actually record that,” Paul said. trib.al/gNKpf7e Rand Paul: 'History will actually record' Musk's free speech courage to 'reveal inconvenient truths' Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) praised Elon Musk for standing for free speech rights and being willing to speak out regardless of possible backlash. washingtonexaminer.com 17 71 3 341 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 18 Today on @FaulknerFocus I talked about the House hearing on the weaponization of government and weighed in on the debt crisis. The American people are upset by the abuses they're seeing so these hearings are a VERY good idea. 40 127 2 471 9,863 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 18 📺 👀 I joined @JesseBWatters to discuss free speech. The 1st Amendment is one of the bedrock principles of our founding, yet the federal government has used taxpayer resources to suppress the speech of Americans for too long. I’m going to introduce legislation soon to fix that. 15 94 4 246 2,360 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 17 Today @RonWyden and I led a group of six bipartisan senators in calling for stronger protections for the privacy of Americans’ letters and packages, in a letter to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. paul.senate.gov/dr-paul-and-… Dr. Paul and Bipartisan Senators Call for Reform to Surveillance of Americans’ Letters and Packages... WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) led a group of six bipartisan senators in calling for stronger protections for the privacy of Americans’... paul.senate.gov 13 21 1 117 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 17 Happy #WasteReportWednesday! The US Census Bureau spent a whopping $2.5 million on a Super Bowl ad lasting a grand total of thirty seconds. That’s $83,333 per second! That must a record for how quickly Uncle Sam can waste taxpayers’ money. Read more: paul.senate.gov/wastereport 17 63 5 214 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 16 🎧 Listen now 🎧 Today I joined @ClayandBuck to talk about how the government uses AI to violate Americans' privacy and civil liberties. Full episode: clayandbuck.com/senator-rand… 8 20 1 58 1,162 Senator Rand Paul retweeted James Czerniawski @JamesCz19 May 16 While Senate Judiciary was looking at commercial AI, HSGAC was looking at the cost of government use of AI. Senator @SenRandPaul had some good remarks covering how government has and continues to use AI to violate Americans privacy and civil liberties. rumble.com/v2o3wzq-dr.-rand-… Dr. Rand Paul HSGAC Hearing Opening Remarks - May 16, 2023 rumble.com 11 19 59 Show this thread Senator Rand Paul retweeted HSGAC GOP @HSGAC_GOP May 16 During today's #HSGAC hearing on #AI, Ranking Member @SenRandPaul issued a warning on the dangers of government utilizing AI technology to impede and curtail freedom of expression. Read more below ⬇️ hsgac.senate.gov/?post_type=… Dr. Paul Warns of Threat to Freedom of Thought and Expression Posed by Artificial Intelligence... WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, warned of the threat to freedom of thought and expression... hsgac.senate.gov 10 136 3 338 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 16 We must get back to discussing the Bill of Rights in the context of artificial intelligence. It isn't so much that we should fear the technology. We should fear the technology in the hands of people who would abuse our liberty. 30 94 6 384 3,313 Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul May 16 We must get to the bottom of how the federal government uses AI to violate the privacy and civil liberties of the American people before it’s too late. Watch the @HSGAC_GOP AI in Government hearing live: hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/ar… 27 100 6 354 3,720 Load more
https://www.aflegal.org/ https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-lawsuit-against-the-department-of-st... https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1661361562580287489 https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/25/state-department-partners-with-left-l... America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️ May 24, 2023 · 1:20 PM UTC · Twitter for iPhone 261 4,327 361 9,606 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /2 The GEC routinely coordinates with a global cartel of “independent” “fact-checkers” led by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies (which operates Politifact) and members of its International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). 11 371 12 1,421 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /3 IFCN received its initial funding from the Department of State-funded National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, Google, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. 25 519 27 1,630 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /4 Members of this vast cartel range from independent foreign journalists to professional fact-checkers to American mainstream media organizations like the Associated Press and USA Today. Notably, Poynter’s IFCN received a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize nomination. 10 321 6 1,203 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /5 The GEC regularly works with IFCN on targeted campaigns. For example, the GEC worked closely with Baybars Orsek, Poynter’s director of international programming, to set up an IFCN partner in Tunisia. The “GEC-funded project” would work on “achieving two main objectives: 7 242 3 1,032 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /6 The GEC also funded a grant through the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) on “Empowering Fact-Checking in the Global South,” and it enlisted Baybars Orsek and Alanna Dvorak, Poynter’s International Training Manager, for a potential “mentorship through Poynter/IFCN”… nitter.pw/i/web/status/166… 4 215 926 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /7 In particular, the GEC aimed to ensure that two specific media organizations in Tunisia would “absorb the fact-checking skills” to censor disfavored narratives from the news. 3 224 906 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /8 Another email conversation later shows a GEC official thanking the IFCN International Training Manager for “speaking with AfricaCheck about [her] work in Tunisia.” 2 191 860 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /9 AfricaCheck is a fact-checking organization, substantially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Google News Initiative, the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, the IFCN, the Omidyar Network, the Department of State, and earned income through Facebook. 7 242 5 921 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /10 Another email shows the IFCN soliciting the GEC to do additional programming in Egypt (and presumably with additional American taxpayer funding). 3 196 2 838 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /11 When threatened, they join together to protect their mutual interests. 3 198 811 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /12 On the other hand, they exclude other media organizations with whom they disagree…keep reading. 2 169 2 825 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /13 For example David Mikkelson of @snopes attempted to discredit the @DailyCaller to kick them out of their Google Groups on “Combating Fake News: The Science of Misinformation,” even though another member raised the point that Daily Caller had the same “source-credibility”… nitter.pw/i/web/status/166… 8 267 3 1,103 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /14 The work of the international fact-checking cartel might be admirable if it actually lived up to its “commitment to Non-partisanship and Fairness,” but their methods appear strongly biased towards the promotion of State-approved talking points. ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter… 3 190 1 806 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /15 For example, a professional fact-checker at PolitiFact, which is operated by the Poynter Institute, appeared to rely on the GEC to debunk a “claim [that] stems from the letter that GOP senators wrote to the Biden Administration,” even though the GEC was under the Biden Admin. 10 184 2 785 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /16 Next, we further uncovered that news outlets that had been formerly respected for critical investigative journalism are now mere mouthpieces for state media, and their journalists are eagerly willing to spread propaganda on behalf of the GEC. 10 245 4 1,020 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /17 @washingtonpost readily jumped into the conversation to discredit the @nypost reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop. 3 180 2 781 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /18 On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published the now-infamous story based on a laptop detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father for personal gain and with the apparent awareness of now-President Biden… 1 149 720 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /19 On the same day, Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter with the Washington Post “covering election security,” reached out to the GEC requesting a call on “more declassified Russian disinformation.” 4 161 1 729 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /20 October 15, 2020, Ellen Nakashima published an article stating, “The Washington Post was unable to verify the authenticity of the alleged communications,” while alluding to the likelihood that the Hunter Biden story was the product of a “Russian intelligence operation.” 3 152 2 715 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /21 On October 16, 2020, Ellen Nakashima sent another email to the GEC to inquire about “upcoming releases by the GEC.” 5 189 847 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /22 On October 21, 2020, less than two weeks before election day, Ellen Nakashima published an article in the Washington Post sounding the alarm on “Russian interference” in the 2020 election cycle. 4 143 2 655 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /23 Nakashima also highlighted numerous federal agency lines of effort to combat “Russian interference,” including the GEC’s August 2020 report exposing websites and organizations as Russian sites spreading disinformation. 3 123 1 619 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /24 The GEC report referenced in Ellen Nakashima’s article, however, turned out to be “contradictory” according to @mtaibbi in Twitter Files #17, which detailed how the GEC would send Twitter lists of hundreds of accounts it suspected to be “foreign” disinformation… Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Mar 2 Replying to @mtaibbi 17.This GEC report was contradictory. On one hand, it offered reasoned evidence that a specific outlet like the “Strategic Culture Foundation” was partnered with the Russian Foreign Ministry, which would make it a true "proxy site." Show this thread 1 151 1 639 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /25 …even though the lists “included multiple Western government accounts and at least three CNN employees based abroad.” Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Mar 2 Replying to @mtaibbi 15. GEC’s “Chinese” list included multiple Western government accounts and at least three CNN employees based abroad. “Not exactly Anderson’s besties, but CNN assets if you will,” quipped Twitter’s Patrick Conlon. "A total crock,” added Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. Show this thread 4 158 1 699 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /26 Mainstream media outlets eagerly rely on the GEC as an authoritative source based on its credibility and presumed access to accurate intelligence. 2 98 1 501 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /27 As the fact-check by PolitiFact above demonstrates, however, this presents the risk that critical investigative journalists become nothing more than state media mouthpieces… 3 104 2 522 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /28 On January 19, 2021, one day before the Biden Adm officially began, a Global Engagement Center Public Affairs Officer attempted to enlist Michael Gordon of the @WSJ to publish a story promoting the GEC’s talking points on Russian disinformation and COVID-19 vaccines. 1 122 2 491 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /29 Meanwhile, on February 2, 2021, New York Times reporter Julian Barnes obtains an introduction to the GEC through his National Security Agency (NSA) contact for his story on “Russian anti-vax disinformation.” 3 110 2 485 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /30 On February 4, 2021, with another potential outlet seemingly interested in writing a story on the topic of interest, the GEC shared its talking points with the @nytimes 5 109 3 468 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /31 By February 12, 2021, the GEC Deputy Spokesperson, J.T. Ice, warned Michael Gordon that it will pitch the story to another outlet if the @WSJ didn’t publish the story “imminently.” 12 112 4 495 more replies nitter Logo America First Legal @America1stLegal We work every day to fight for the American people and advance the rule of law in the United States. Join our email list! aflegal.org/join/ Washington DC aflegal.org/ Joined April 2021 Tweets 3,477 Following 231 Followers 104,937 Likes 546 881 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet America First Legal @America1stLegal May 11 CRUCIAL MESSAGE from AFL President @StephenM Are you a victim of bigotry disguised as diversity, equity, or inclusion? Contact us TODAY. 📞1-877-AFL-5454 💻AFLegal.org/hotline Racism must be defeated. 505 1,193 115 3,033 140,509 America First Legal @America1stLegal 42m Read the thread below: dailysignal.com/2023/05/25/s… @DailySignal America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️ Show this thread 17 1 31 America First Legal retweeted The Absolute Truth with @EmeraldRobinson @AbsoluteWithE 4h Well it looks like the "fact-checkers" were looking more at the CHECKS and less at the FACTS, according to @America1stLegal. @iandprior joined @EmeraldRobinson to discuss who was really paying them off to push the Biden regime's narrative. WATCH: 75 2 163 2,784 America First Legal @America1stLegal 5h Daily Caller @DailyCaller 7h Thanks @elonmusk! dailycaller.com/2023/05/25/e… 2 40 120 America First Legal @America1stLegal 6h What we uncovered will shock you… Read about it here: aflegal.org/america-first-le… Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 7h This is the same DHS program — called “CP3” — that @America1stLegal and @FFO_Freedom broke earlier this month plotter a snitch program against “Middle Aged Pro-Life Mothers” and “Old High School Friends” becoming “Budding Conspiracy Theorists.” Show this thread 18 174 6 254 America First Legal retweeted Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 7h This is the same DHS program — called “CP3” — that @America1stLegal and @FFO_Freedom broke earlier this month plotter a snitch program against “Middle Aged Pro-Life Mothers” and “Old High School Friends” becoming “Budding Conspiracy Theorists.” Heritage Foundation @Heritage 9h 1/🚨EXPOSED: @theMRC has uncovered a DHS anti-terrorism program that's been weaponized against conservatives. 80 grants & 39.6 million taxpayer dollars later, here's a look at how @JoeBiden & @SecMayorkas are outsourcing their efforts to conflate conservatives with terrorists🧵 Show this thread 6 72 2 108 Show this thread America First Legal retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 8h Replying to @America1stLegal 🧐 55 84 6 747 America First Legal retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 8h Replying to @America1stLegal “Total crock” 64 89 8 795 America First Legal retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 8h Replying to @America1stLegal This is indeed very disturbing 377 639 31 5,187 America First Legal retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 8h Replying to @America1stLegal @DailyCaller What say you, @snopes? 93 179 12 1,196 America First Legal retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 8h Replying to @America1stLegal Major problem 88 145 9 1,153 America First Legal retweeted Elon Musk @elonmusk 8h Replying to @America1stLegal How did The Washington Post go from questioning the state to being its mouthpiece? 381 655 34 3,279 America First Legal retweeted America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️ 261 4,335 361 9,631 Show this thread America First Legal @America1stLegal 11h When companies make targeted racial composition goals for their employees, they have to engage in discrimination to achieve their goals, whether they admit it or not. Worst kept secret in corporate HR departments across the country… eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-… America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 Replying to @America1stLegal /5 Since its announcement in 2021, Alaska Air has openly and proudly displayed on its website the progress it has made in using illegal hiring, training, and promotion preferences to fulfill its racial “equity” goals. Show this thread 12 88 236 America First Legal retweeted The Absolute Truth with @EmeraldRobinson @AbsoluteWithE 23h Big Tech is laying off Americans and replacing them with foreign H-1B workers. Microsoft is just one of those companies allegedly doing this and AFL is looking to investigate. @America1stLegal's John Zadrozny joins @EmeraldRobinson to discuss their investigation. 16 138 5 242 5,403 America First Legal retweeted Mollie @MZHemingway 19h Look what I found: America First Legal Lawsuit Against the Department of State Obtains Documents from the Global Engagement Center Exposing How “Private” Media Organizations Carry Out State Propaganda aflegal.org/america-first-le… America First Legal Lawsuit Against the Department of State Obtains Documents from the Global... WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released document productions (1, 2, and 3) obtained from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of State exposing how... aflegal.org 41 1,040 28 1,981 America First Legal retweeted Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 21h This is an excellent deep dive & document dump on the State Dept’s “censorship laundering” apparatus: America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️ Show this thread 12 94 1 186 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 AFL attorney Michael Ding joined @SebGorka to discuss the shocking documents we obtained in litigation against the Department of State. Explosive thread below… 👀 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️ Show this thread 5 69 140 1,466 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /8 AFL has separately asked the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, Ben Minicucci, to immediately cease and desist all employment practices that discriminate based on race, color, sex, or national origin. 1 7 36 America First Legal @America1stLegal May 24 /9 The odious and illegal practice of hiring based on immutable characteristics like race is a flagrant attack on civil rights that harms all Americans. America First Legal is taking action: aflegal.org/america-first-le… America First Legal Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against Alaska Airlines for Unlawful and... WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as part of its initiative under the Center for Legal Equality, America First Legal (AFL) asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open a civil rights... aflegal.org 11 54 Show this thread Load more
Those peddling 'Cybersecurity Defense' are hell bent on creating 1984 with heart of 666. AI... that one coveted evil ring and final enabler that none having any power today will fail to lust after. The only option is to destroy it. The bits of Society and Infra worked just fine before they went "Cyber" and forced everyone onto it, for Power's sake. Paul Rosenzweig (@RosenzweigP@thecooltable.wtf) @RosenzweigP The likelihood of a Geneva Convention for AI development is about the same as the chances of a Geneva Convention to set the rules for cybersecurity and cyberconflict ... which is to say, precisely zero. https://www.koin.com/news/washington-dc/sen-king-next-pearl-harbor-will-be-c... Maine Senator Angus King shed his elected status in order to speak to his fellow senators as an expert witness, upon which he declared his authoritative belief that "the next Pearl Harbor or the next 9/11 will be cyber." Rory Cormac @RoryCormac wise words from the Foreign Office in 1970: "In keeping firmly in mind the prevalence of disinformation activities, we must be careful not to become so suspicious that we no longer believe anything we hear [...this would be] doing part of the disinformer's job for him" Everything an agenda, unless it refuses to impart itself upon you.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed. -- Internet For nothing is concealed that will not become evident, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. -- Luke 8:17
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PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie 🎥 Sign up for the FREE global premiere livestream of The Great Awakening on June 3rd at our link below. Spread the word w/hashtag #TheGreatAwakeningfilm plandemicseries.com Joined April 2022 Tweets 160 Following 24 Followers 112,633 Likes 308 36 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Pinned Tweet PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie Apr 27 Big news! You can now sign up for our FREE Global Premiere Livestream of The Great Awakening! Hosted by our incredible partners at The HighWire, this global livestream event will give you a front row seat to forbidden puzzle pieces, revealing the big picture of what’s really… 199 1,466 156 2,674 PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie 8h ✨👉 The Great Awakening’s 2nd livestream premiere starts NOW! Join London Reel’s FREE livestream of our brand-new movie here: FreedomPlatform.tv/plandemic… 📣 Share this link to London Reel's livestream on social media, to help it go viral! Plandemic: The Great Awakening - Digital Freedom Platform INDOCTORNATION: WORLD PREMIERE freedomplatform.tv 80 843 65 1,452 PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie 9h 🎥🌍 In 1 hour, another FREE livestream premiere of The Great Awakening begins! Broadcasting live from the UK, London Reel is hosting our third installment in the Plandemic Series. 🇬🇧 Sign up here: FreedomPlatform.tv/plandemic… 🙌 Whether you live outside of North & South American… Plandemic: The Great Awakening - Digital Freedom Platform INDOCTORNATION: WORLD PREMIERE freedomplatform.tv 86 1,150 69 2,238 PLANDEMIC retweeted Dr. David Martin @DrDMartinWorld 20h I am truly honored to be a part of this monumental film. Thank you to the Mikki Willis and the entire @Plandemic3Movie team for putting this masterpiece together. Also, thank you to the rest of this great cast as well. You were all fantastic! Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack 20h The moments right after the live premier of Plandemic 3 - The Great Awakening ended in Austin, Texas. This standing ovation went on for many more minutes after this. Saying that this ovation was "well deserved" is a massive understatement... This was a PERFECT movie! 53 415 12 1,219 PLANDEMIC retweeted Amy @amycavedonut 20h If you haven't watched The Great Awakening yet, I definitely recommend it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It shows a clear and calculated attempt of SOCIALISM happening right now, in the USA. #TheGreatAwakening TheHighWire.com Home Months Ahead of Mainstream Media on Covid, The HighWire brings you verified truth, and gives you the sources. Thursdays at 11am PST thehighwire.com The HighWire @HighWireTalk Jun 3 We are hours away from #TheGreatAwakening. Joins us at 6pm CT at thehighwire.com. Follow the link to The Great Awakening Digital Theater. The fun starts at 6PM CT with 'LIVE from the Red Carpet' with @DelBigtree, @TracyBeanz, @FiveTimesAugust, and @AwakenWithJP!… 24 98 5 243 PLANDEMIC retweeted Erika Wulff Jones @WulffJones Jun 3 It’s the premiere of “The Great Awakening” in Austin, Texas. This film can and will stop the next phase of the Globalist depopulation plans, including a permanent lockdown. 831 6,663 285 16,777 456,886 PLANDEMIC retweeted The Liberty Broadcast @TheLibertyBcast Jun 4 Alex Jones with wife @WulffJones on the Red carpet at The Great Awakening premiere 147 1,283 32 4,853 159,609 PLANDEMIC retweeted Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack 22h Plandemic 3 - The Great Awakening is the BEST and MOST IMPORTANT movie ever made. That is it... that's the Tweet. 49 393 10 1,473 PLANDEMIC retweeted Ernest Ramirez @rgvrunner01 Jun 4 Here with Jessica Sutta my beautiful friend and sister on the Red Carpet at The Plandemic 3 “The Great Awakening” 25 177 2 934 Show this thread PLANDEMIC retweeted PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie Jun 3 It’s time for The Great Awakening global premiere livestream! The HighWire begins broadcasting live, from the red carpet, NOW! You won't want to miss a moment of the interviews with your favorite truth-tellers before the film begins, so go to: TheHighWire.com Home Months Ahead of Mainstream Media on Covid, The HighWire brings you verified truth, and gives you the sources. Thursdays at 11am PST thehighwire.com 153 1,223 89 2,720 PLANDEMIC retweeted PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie May 23 It's here: The Official Great Awakening Trailer! The themes of this movie have evolved over the past year, as it’s become increasingly clear that the plandemic was not the agenda, but rather a way to accelerate the agenda. As we face this darkness, a worldwide awakening is… 793 22,124 1,620 34,129 1,195,160 Show this thread PLANDEMIC retweeted Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack Jun 3 I can guarantee all of you that Plandemic 3 - The Great Awakening will go down as one of the best and most important movies ever made. Also, please go follow @Plandemic3Movie if you are not doing so already! PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie Jun 3 THREE MILLION VIEWS on Twitter!! We can't wait to share this groundbreaking movie with the entire world tomorrow! Show this thread 8 147 4 378 PLANDEMIC retweeted JP Sears @AwakenWithJP May 25 The film they don’t want you to see. The great reset is being replaced by the Great Awakening 🙌🏽 PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie May 23 It's here: The Official Great Awakening Trailer! The themes of this movie have evolved over the past year, as it’s become increasingly clear that the plandemic was not the agenda, but rather a way to accelerate the agenda. As we face this darkness, a worldwide awakening is… Show this thread 51 784 20 2,401 PLANDEMIC retweeted PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie Apr 27 Big news! You can now sign up for our FREE Global Premiere Livestream of The Great Awakening! Hosted by our incredible partners at The HighWire, this global livestream event will give you a front row seat to forbidden puzzle pieces, revealing the big picture of what’s really… 198 1,466 156 2,672 PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie Jun 3 THREE MILLION VIEWS on Twitter!! We can't wait to share this groundbreaking movie with the entire world tomorrow! PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie May 23 It's here: The Official Great Awakening Trailer! 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Hosted by our incredible partners at The HighWire, this global livestream event will give you a front row seat to forbidden puzzle pieces, revealing the big picture of what’s really… 1 30 1 74 Show this thread PLANDEMIC retweeted PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie Jun 2 Will you be watching the premier of Plandemic 3 - The Great Awakening tomorrow? 🤔 PLANDEMIC @Plandemic3Movie May 23 It's here: The Official Great Awakening Trailer! The themes of this movie have evolved over the past year, as it’s become increasingly clear that the plandemic was not the agenda, but rather a way to accelerate the agenda. 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Nudge Units Find The "Best" Ways To Manipulate The Public Authored by Marie Hawthorne via The Organic Prepper blog, https://www.theorganicprepper.com/who-treaty/ https://www.theorganicprepper.com/pandemic-is-over/ https://www.theorganicprepper.com/nudge-units/ https://www.theorganicprepper.com/domestic-terrorists/ https://behavioralpolicy.org/what-is-nudging/ https://www.bi.team/press-releases/nesta-acquires-behavioural-insights-team-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJFcAFabWY https://healthcareinnovation.upenn.edu/nudge-unit https://newsroom.bluecrossma.com/2022-05-26-BLUE-CROSS-BLUE-SHIELD-OF-MASSAC... https://www.sciencealert.com/sunlight-inactivates-sars-cov-2-a-lot-faster-th... https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/subtle-psychology-nudging-during-pandemic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZExnUKfik0 https://unherd.com/thepost/whos-susan-michie/ https://rumble.com/v2q5qgq-how-covid-fear-mongering-will-be-used-for-this-ne... https://www.theorganicprepper.com/fake-meat-fail/ Freedom of speech means a lot to us at the OP. However, that’s been fading fast, as Daisy has documented, and as though speech restrictions aren’t bad enough, most of us have been lab rats for central planners’ behavioral experiments longer than we probably care to realize. And now there are Nudge Units. Huge amounts of money have been poured into “nudge research,” determining the best ways to get populations to change their behaviors without passing laws or using force. What are Nudge Units? Let’s look at how these “Nudge Units” got started, what they’ve been used for most recently, and what they’re likely to focus on next. The concept of “nudging” people into making better choices became popular with the book Nudge—Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, authored by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, and published in 2008. Their book defines a nudge as: . . .any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. To count as a mere nudge, the intervention must be easy and cheap to avoid. Nudges are not mandates. Putting fruit at eye level counts as a nudge. Banning junk food does not. (p.6) (You may be interested to note that author Sunstein is married to Samantha Power, the administrator of Biden’s US Agency for International Development and previously Obama’s ambassador to the UN. Forbes listed Ms. Power as the 63rd most powerful woman in the world in 2014. Do you think she’s Nudging? ~ Daisy ) Individuals in government and industry quickly realized that the authors’ insights into the decision-making process could be used to manipulate that process in the minds of the general public, many of whom don’t have the time or mental energy for NYT bestsellers. The British government established its first Behavioural Insights Team in 2010. It began as a seven-person team within a Cabinet Office nicknamed the “Nudge Unit” then became an independent social purpose company in 2014 before being purchased by Nesta, a larger social purpose company, in 2021. These social purpose companies employ experts in promoting desirable behaviors. So in Britain, for example, they want to cut obesity rates in half and reduce household carbon emissions by 28% by 2030. I don’t know how successful they’ve been in cutting obesity rates, but the Nudge Unit did prove its effectiveness early on by helping the British government collect an extra £200 million (about $248 million) in taxes in 2017. Not surprisingly, the Nudge Unit has become so popular that they have worked with governments in over 50 countries and have opened subsidiary offices in the U.S., Singapore, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, and France. What does a Nudge look like in the States? Within the U.S., Nudge Units have been employed by health care systems such as UPenn, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts. In a way, this isn’t surprising; American and British citizens alike are known for high obesity rates and poor overall health. Promoting good health within the general population seems like a good government goal, and I think most of us would have found this largely uncontroversial before 2020. We may not always have agreed with the FDA’s exact dietary advice, but most of us would have probably agreed that we, as a nation, don’t need quite so many candy bars. However, during 2020, this changed. Public messaging around health care became far more intense, and some of the advice didn’t make sense. At the very simplest level, what makes people healthy? Exercise and proper diet. Humans have known intuitively for a long time that sunshine is good for us. More recent research has shown that it kills viruses and bacteria. So why were people being forbidden to exercise and even, in some cases, to go outside? This article isn’t really about the many possible reasons the public was given so much nonsensical advice during 2020 and 2021. I am just pointing out that, in some ways, the public health messaging campaign during Covid was seen by various governments (particularly the British) as an opportunity to see how far Nudging could influence actual behavior, even when the nudges didn’t make logical sense. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), governmental Nudging didn’t influence people nearly as much as various government bodies had hoped. In fact, Nudge author Thaler himself said that, when it came to increasing vaccine uptake, it was time for “pushes and shoves” in the form of passports and more severe restrictions. But the pandemic is officially over, right? Does this really matter now? Yes, it still does. As we discussed before, the World Health Organization is set to ratify a new pandemic treaty in 2024. As discussed in our previous article as well as in Jose’s more recent article, we have plenty of reasons to believe that more pandemics will come along, and that the WHO will be taking precedence over local and even national governments to address them. The WHO has grown a lot since its inception in 1948. It has had its own Behavioral Insights Team since 2017. And some of their work, like their campaign to prevent the over-use of antibiotics, has been really important. But just because they undertake some worthwhile projects doesn’t mean we can assume everything they do is benign. It’s crucial to understand that there are no neutral Nudges. Richard Thaler points this out himself in an interview with Sydney Business Insights. You will always be asked to choose between one thing and another. Thaler also says in this interview that, within the original British Nudge Unit, their mantra was, “If you want people to do something, make it easy.” Ask yourself, are people that constantly shoot for the lowest common denominator in a population the ones you want to take guidance from? Perhaps more significantly, the WHO’s new Chair of their Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral Insights (their Nudge Unit), Prof. Susan Michie, is an active member of Britain’s Communist Party. Are you comfortable with an avowed communist being responsible for subliminal messaging regarding your health choices? If you’re a communist yourself, that might be great, but what about the rest of us? The people behind the Nudge messages matter. Do you want to get your relationship advice from Jordan Peterson or Andrew Tate? It’ll make a difference. And health care is only one area of interest in Nudging. Right now, in the U.S., that has been the main area of focus. However, since the first Nudge Unit developed in Britain and then expanded outward, it is reasonable to look to the British to see what may be coming next. As speculated upon by Laura Dodsworth in her recent interview with Russell Brand, climate change rhetoric will likely ramp up. We’ve already seen some examples of it. The same tools they might have been using ten years ago to get people to choose fruit as opposed to candy bars are now being used to get us to choose insect products instead of meat. This has had limited effect, as we’ve reported before. How do they work? Nudges work best for behaviors that people know they should pursue anyway. It’s been difficult to Nudge people into doing things they find very unpleasant (like eating bugs) or may have moral qualms about (putting novel substances in their bodies). So far, the usefulness of Nudging has been limited, but that may change within the next few years simply because messaging of all kinds is about to get so much cheaper, thanks to AI. ChatGPT and other similar programs will be able to churn out all kinds of little jingles useful not only for traditional companies but for social purpose companies and government programs, as well. And as messages of all kinds become cheaper and cheaper to produce, the demands to change our behavior for public health, or the climate, or whatever, will become more and more constant. It’s going to take more individual effort on our part to sort out the real information from whatever convenient narratives are currently being promoted. This will apply, not only to current-events type information but also to things like health and self-improvement. I’ll say it again because it’s so important: There are no neutral Nudges. We are all constantly being Nudged in one direction or another. We can’t escape Nudges, but we can choose which ones we give our attention to.
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Gag you with soccom biggov overlords... Fight Back Against The Global HOMOGENIZATION Regime... Before they throw *you* in the blender and render you down into goo, literally... “The UnCommunist Manifesto” outlined the utopian communist dream as the grand homogenization of man: If only everyone were a series of numbers on a spreadsheet, or automatons with the same opinion, it would be so much easier to have paradise on earth. You could ration out just enough for everyone, and then we’d be all equally miserable proletariats. If We're Not Careful, The AI Revolution Could Become The "Great Homogenization" https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-the-ai-revolution-could-become-the-g... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot https://markbisone.substack.com/p/screen-grab https://www.amazon.com/UnCommunist-Manifesto-Message-Responsibility-Liberty/... https://www.reuters.com/technology/g7-leaders-confirm-need-governance-genera... https://medium.com/jigsaw/reducing-toxicity-in-large-language-models-with-pe... https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ As artificial intelligence grows, so do attempts to control it. But, if we can differentiate the real risks from the fake risks, this technology could be used to encourage diversity of thought and ideas... The world is changing before our very eyes. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a paradigm-shifting technological breakthrough, but probably not for the reasons you might think or imagine. You’ve probably heard something along the lines of, “Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is around the corner,” or, “Now that language is solved, the next step is conscious AI.” Well… I’m here to tell you that those concepts are both red herrings. They are either the naive delusions of technologists who believe God is in the circuits, or the deliberate incitement of fear and hysteria by more malevolent people with ulterior motives. I do not think AGI is a threat or that we have an “AI safety problem,” or that we’re around the corner from some singularity with machines. But… I do believe this technological paradigm shift poses a significant threat to humanity — which is in fact, about the only thing I can somewhat agree on with the mainstream — but for completely different reasons. To learn what they are, let’s first try to understand what's really happening here. INTRODUCING… THE STOCHASTIC PARROT! Technology is an amplifier. It makes the good better, and the bad worse. Just as a hammer is technology that can be used to build a house or beat someone over the head, computers can be used to document ideas that change the world, or they can be used to operate central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) that enslave you into crazy, communist cat ladies working at the European Central Bank. The same goes for AI. It is a tool. It is a technology. It is not a new lifeform, despite what the lonely nerds who are calling for progress to shut down so desperately want to believe. What makes generative AI so interesting is not that it is sentient, but that it’s the first time in our history that we are “speaking” or communicating with something other than a human being, in a coherent fashion. The closest we’ve been to that before this point has been with… parrots. Yes: parrots! You can train a parrot to kind of talk and talk back, and you can kind of understand it, but because we know it’s not really a human and doesn’t really understand anything, we’re not so impressed. But generative AI… well, that’s a different story. We’ve been acquainted with it for six months now (in the mainstream) and we have no real idea how it works under the hood. We type some words, and it responds like that annoying, politically-correct, midwit nerd who you know from class… or your average Netflix show. In fact, you’ve probably even spoken with someone like this during support calls to Booking.com, or any other service in which you’ve had to dial in or web chat. As such, you’re immediately shocked by the responses. “Holy shit,” you tell yourself. “This thing speaks like a real person!” The English is immaculate. No spelling mistakes. Sentences make sense. It is not only grammatically accurate, but semantically so, too. Holy shit! It must be alive! Source: Author Little do you realize that you are speaking to a highly-sophisticated, stochastic parrot. As it turns out, language is a little more rules-based than what we all thought, and probability engines can actually do an excellent job of emulating intelligence through the frame or conduit of language. The law of large numbers strikes again, and math achieves another victory! But… what does this mean? What the hell is my point? That this is not useful? That it’s proof it’s not a path to AGI? Not necessarily, on both counts. There is lots of utility in such a tool. In fact, the greatest utility probably lies in its application as “MOT,” or “Midwit Obsolescence Technology.” Woke journalists and the countless “content creators” who have for years been talking a lot but saying nothing, are now like dinosaurs watching the comet incinerate everything around them. It’s a beautiful thing. Life wins again. Of course, these tools are also great for ideating, coding faster, doing some high-level learning, etc. But from an AGI and consciousness standpoint, who knows? There mayyyyyyyyyyy be a pathway there, but my spidey sense tells me we’re way off, so I’m not holding my breath. I think consciousness is so much more complex, and to think we’ve conjured it up with probability machines is some strange blend of ignorant, arrogant, naive and… well… empty. So, what the hell is my problem and what’s the risk? ENTER THE AGE OF THE LUI Remember what I said about tools. Computers are arguably the most powerful tool mankind has built. And computers have gone through the following evolution: Punch cards Command line Graphical user interface, i.e., point and click Mobile, i.e., thumbs and tapping Source: Author And now, we’re moving into the age of the LUI, or “Language User Interface.” This is the big paradigm shift. It’s not AGI, but LUI. Moving forward, every app we interact with will have a conversational interface, and we will no longer be limited by the bandwidth of how fast our fingers can tap on keys or screens. Speaking “language” is orders of magnitude faster than typing and tapping. Thinking is probably another level higher, but I’m not putting any electrodes into my head anytime soon. In fact, LUIs probably obsolete the need for Neuralink-type tech because the risks associated with implanting chips into your brain will outweigh any marginal benefit over just speaking. In any case, this decade we will go from tapping on graphical user interfaces, to talking to our apps. And therein lies the danger. In the same way Google today determines what we see in searches, and Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram all “feed us” through their feeds; generative AI will tomorrow determine the answers to every question we have. The screen not only becomes the lens through which you ingest everything about the world. The screen becomes your model of the world. Mark Bisone wrote a fantastic article about this recently, which I urge you to read: “The problem of ‘screens’ is actually a very old one. In many ways it goes back to Plato’s cave, and perhaps is so deeply embedded in the human condition that it precedes written languages. That’s because when we talk about a screen, we’re really talking about the transmission of an illusory model in an editorialized form. “The trick works like this: You are presented with the image of a thing (and these days, with the sound of it), which its presenter either explicitly tells you or strongly implies is a window to the Real. The shadow and the form are the same, in other words, and the former is to be trusted as much as any fragment of reality that you can directly observe with your sensory organs.” And, for those thinking that “this won’t happen for a while,” well here are the bumbling fools making a good attempt at it. THE ‘GREAT HOMOGENIZATION’ Imagine every question you ask, every image you request, every video you conjure up, every bit of data you seek, being returned in such a way that is deemed “safe,” “responsible” or “acceptable” by some faceless “safety police.” Imagine every bit of information you consume has been transformed into some lukewarm, middle version of the truth, that every opinion you ask for is not really an opinion or a viewpoint, but some inoffensive, apologetic response that doesn’t actually tell you anything (this is the benign, annoying version) or worse, is some ideology wrapped in a response so that everything you know becomes some variation of what the manufacturers of said “safe AI” want you to think and know. Imagine you had modern Disney characters, like those clowns from “The Eternals” movie, as your ever-present intellectual assistants. It would make you “dumb squared.” “The UnCommunist Manifesto” outlined the utopian communist dream as the grand homogenization of man: If only everyone were a series of numbers on a spreadsheet, or automatons with the same opinion, it would be so much easier to have paradise on earth. You could ration out just enough for everyone, and then we’d be all equally miserable proletariats. This is like George Orwell’s thought police crossed with “Inception,” because every question you had would be perfectly captured and monitored, and every response from the AI could incept an ideology in your mind. In fact, when you think about it, that’s what information does. It plants seeds in your mind. This is why you need a diverse set of ideas in the minds of men! You want a flourishing rainforest in your mind, not some mono-crop field of wheat, with deteriorated soil, that is susceptible to weather and insects, and completely dependent on Monsanto (or Open AI or Pfizer) for its survival. You want your mind to flourish and for that you need idea-versity. This was the promise of the internet. A place where anyone can say anything. The internet has been a force for good, but it is under attack. Whether that’s been the de-anonymization of social profiles like those on Twitter and Facebook, and the creeping KYC across all sorts of online platforms, through to the algorithmic vomit that is spewed forth from the platforms themselves. We tasted that in all its glory from 2020. And it seems to be only getting worse. The push by WEF-like organizations to institute KYC for online identities, and tie it to a CBDC and your iris is one alternative, but it’s a bit overt and explicit. After the pushback on medical experimentation of late, such a move may be harder to pull off. An easier move could be to allow LUIs to take over (as they will, because they’re a superior user experience) and in the meantime create an “AI safety council” that will institute “safety” filters on all major large language models (LLMs). Don’t believe me? Our G7 overlords are discussing it already. Today, the web is still made up of webpages, and if you’re curious enough, you can find the deep, dark corners and crevices of dissidence. You can still surf the web. Mostly. But when everything becomes accessible only through these models, you’re not surfing anything anymore. You’re simply being given a synthesis of a response that has been run through all the necessary filters and censors. There will probably be a sprinkle of truth somewhere in there, but it will be wrapped up in so much “safety” that 99.9% of people won’t hear or know of it. The truth will become that which the model says it is. I’m not sure what happens to much of the internet when discoverability of information fundamentally transforms. I can imagine that, as most applications transition to some form of language interface, it’s going to be very hard to find things that the “portal” you’re using doesn’t deem safe or approved. One could, of course, make the argument that in the same way you need the tenacity and curiosity to find the dissident crevices on the web, you’ll need to learn to prompt and hack your way into better answers on these platforms. And that may be true, but it seems to me that for each time you find something “unsafe,” the route shall be patched or blocked. You could then argue that “this could backfire on them, by diminishing the utility of the tool.” And once again, I would probably agree. In a free market, such stupidity would make way for better tools. But of course, the free market is becoming a thing of the past. What we are seeing with these hysterical attempts to push for “safety” is that they are either knowingly or unknowingly paving the way for squashing possible alternatives. In creating “safety” committees that “regulate” these platforms (read: regulate speech), new models that are not run through such “safety or toxicity filters” will not be available for consumer usage, or they may be made illegal, or hard to discover. How many people still use Tor? Or DuckDuckGo? And if you think this isn’t happening, here’s some information on the current toxicity filters that most LLMs already plug into. It’s only a matter of time before such filters become like KYC mandates on financial applications. A new compliance appendage, strapped onto language models like tits on a bull. Whatever the counter-argument to this homogenization attempt, both actually support my point that we need to build alternatives, and we need to begin that process now. For those who still tend to believe that AGI is around the corner and that LLMs are a significant step in that direction, by all means, you’re free to believe what you want, but that doesn’t negate the point of this essay. If language is the new “screen” and all the language we see or hear must be run through approved filters, the information we consume, the way we learn, the very thoughts we have, will all be narrowed into a very small Overton window. I think that’s a massive risk for humanity. We’ve become dumb enough with social media algorithms serving us what the platforms think we should know. And when they wanted to turn on the hysteria, it was easy. Language user interfaces are social media times 100. Imagine what they can do with that, the next time a so-called “crisis” hits? It won’t be pretty. The marketplace of ideas is necessary to a healthy and functional society. That’s what I want. Their narrowing of thought won’t work long term, because it’s anti-life. In the end, it will fail, just like every other attempt to bottle up truth and ignore it. But each attempt comes with unnecessary damage, pain, loss and catastrophe. That’s what I am trying to avoid and help ring the bell for. WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALL THIS? If we’re not proactive here, this whole AI revolution could become the “great homogenization.” To avoid that, we have to do two main things: Push back against the “AI safety” narratives: These might look like safety committees on the surface, but when you dig a little deeper, you realize they are speech and thought regulators. Build alternatives, now: Build many and open source them. The sooner we do this, and the sooner they can run more locally, the better chance we have to avoid a world in which everything trends toward homogenization. If we do this, we can have a world with real diversity — not the woke kind of bullshit. I mean diversity of thought, diversity of ideas, diversity of viewpoints and a true marketplace of ideas. An idea-versity. What the original promise of the internet was. And not bound by the low bandwidth of typing and tapping. Couple that with Bitcoin, the internet of money, and you have the ingredients for a bright new future. This is what the team and I are doing at Laier Two Labs. We’re building smaller, narrow models that people can use as substitutes to these large language models. We are going to open source all our models, and in time, aim to have them be compact enough to run locally on your own machines, while retaining a degree of depth, character and unique bias for use when and where you need it most. We will announce our first model in the coming weeks. The goal is to make it the go-to model for a topic and industry I hold very dear to my heart: Bitcoin. I also believe it’s here that we must start to build a suite of alternative AI models and tools. I will unveil it on the next blog. Until then.
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Absolutely nothing has changed post-Snowden other than the continual growth and advancement of total spyveillance and control systems raping the freedom of humankind. History shows that, on the whole, nothing other than revolt stops the abusive GovCorp State. "Nightmare Scenario": US Government Has Been Secretly Stockpiling Dirt On Americans Via Data Brokers https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/ https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-section-702/ The US Government has been purchasing troves of information on American citizens from 3rd party data providers, according to Wired, which cites privacy advocates who say this constitutes a "nightmare scenario." The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago. The size and scope of the government effort to accumulate data revealing the minute details of Americans' lives are described soberly and at length by the director's own panel of experts in a newly declassified report. Haines had first tasked her advisers in late 2021 with untangling a web of secretive business arrangements between commercial data brokers and US intelligence community members. -Wired "This report reveals what we feared most," according to attorney Sean Vitka of the Demand Progress nonprofit. "Intelligence agencies are flouting the law and buying information about Americans that Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear the government should not have." The government has been using 'craven interpretations of aging laws' to bypass privacy rights, as prosecutors have increasingly ignored limits traditionally imposed on domestic surveillance. "I’ve been warning for years that if using a credit card to buy an American’s personal information voids their Fourth Amendment rights, then traditional checks and balances for government surveillance will crumble," according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). During a March 8 hearing, Wyden pressed Haines to release the panel's report - after Haines said it should "absolutely" be read by the public. On Friday, that's exactly what happened after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released it amid a battle with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) over various related documents. "This report makes it clear that the government continues to think it can buy its way out of constitutional protections using taxpayers’ own money," said EPIC law fellow, Chris Baumohl. "Congress must tackle the government’s data broker pipeline this year, before it considers any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," he said (referring to the ongoing political fight over the so-called “crown jewel” of US surveillance, per Wired). The ODNI's own panel of advisers makes clear that the government’s static interpretations of what constitutes “publicly available information” poses a significant threat to the public. The advisers decry existing policies that automatically conflate, in the first place, being able to buy information with it being considered “public.” The information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.” Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.” -Wired What's more, the report notes that it's relatively easy to "deanonymize and identify individuals" based on data that was originally been anonymized prior to its commercial sale. According to the report, the data can do things like "identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records," posing serious civil liberty concerns over how "large quantities of nominally ‘public’ information can result in sensitive aggregations." The report goes on to say that in times past, access to sensitive information about a person was part of a "targeted" and "predicated" investigation. That's no longer the case. "Today, in a way that far fewer Americans seem to understand, and even fewer of them can avoid, [commercially available information] includes information on nearly everyone," it reads, adding that both the "volume and sensitivity" of information available for the government to purchase has exploded in recent years thanks to "location-tracking and other features of smartphones" as well as the "advertising-based monetization model" that underpins much of the internet. According to the ODNI, this data "in the wrong hands" could be used against Americans "facilitate blackmail, stalking, harassment, and public shaming" - all offenses that have been committed by intelligence agencies and the White House in the past. "The government would never have been permitted to compel billions of people to carry location tracking devices on their persons at all times, to log and track most of their social interactions, or to keep flawless records of all their reading habits. Yet smartphones, connected cars, web tracking technologies, the Internet of Things, and other innovations have had this effect without government participation," reads the report. Read the report below:
It would not be surprising if David Barrett's Expensify.Com is one of the regime companies happily giving data to his beloved Woke DemGov instead of fighting against that practice. Federal Agencies Routinely Spy On Phone Calls, Texts, Emails Of American Citizens, Experts Say https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-agencies-routinely-spy-on-phone-calls-... https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/Government%20Surv... Despite the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits warrantless government searches, U.S. agencies are proving to be ever more intrusive in their routine surveillance of Americans’ speech and activities. The headquarters of the FBI is seen in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Often working in collaboration with private companies and banks, agencies like the FBI have been misusing laws against foreign terrorism to vacuum up and sift through the private data of millions of Americans without a warrant or any evidence of a crime. As Congress now debates reauthorizing relevant sections of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that are set to expire this year, the libertarian Cato Institute held a four-day conference last week, which featured calls for major legal reforms by conservative and liberal speakers alike. “The violations that we’ve seen have not just been epic in scale, but they’ve also been persistent, over and over again,” Jake Laperruque, a deputy director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told attendees. “To put a human scale on this, what we’re talking about is not just random typos or wrong clicks; we’re looking at things like pulling up batches of thousands of political donors in one go, without any suspicion of wrongdoing,” Laperruque said. “We’ve had reports of journalists, political commentators, a domestic political party; these compliance violations are the most worrisome type of politically focused surveillance.” In 2001, Congress passed the PATRIOT Act as a means to combat foreign terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2008, Congress added an amendment to FISA, Section 702, which authorized warrantless surveillance of non-U.S. persons located outside the country. This amendment, which critics say is the source of much of the abuse, is scheduled to “sunset” on Dec. 31. Evidence of Abuse Congressional debates about whether to renew Section 702 are coming amid numerous reports that the FBI and other federal intelligence agencies have abused the surveillance authority granted to them by this law. Critics say there is mounting evidence that federal agencies have been using laws, which were intended to target foreign terrorists, to conduct extensive, long-term domestic spying campaigns on U.S. citizens. “To prevent Section 702 from being used as an end run around [Fourth Amendment] protections, Congress did two things: It required the government to minimize the collection, sharing and retention of Americans’ personal information … and it required the government to certify to the FISA court on an annual basis that it is not using Section 702 to try to access the communications of particular known Americans,” Elizabeth Goitein, a senior director at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, told conference attendees. “What has become abundantly clear over the last 15 years is that these protections are not working,” Goitein said. “All agencies that receive Section 702 data have procedures in place, approved by the FISA court, that allow them to run electronic searches … for the purpose of finding and retrieving the phone calls, text messages and emails of Americans.” A report by the Brennan Center for Justice states that “since 2006, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans from some of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States, via a series of regularly renewed requests by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).” In addition, the report states that “over the past six years, the NSA has obtained unprecedented access to the data processed by nine leading U.S. internet companies. This was facilitated by a computer network named PRISM. The companies involved include Google, Facebook, Skype, and Apple.” Rise of Data Brokers Speaking to attendees of the Cato Institute conference, Nathan Wessler, a director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), detailed “the rise of data brokers” that assemble enormous databases of photo IDs that they then sell to law enforcement for profit. “Many companies are selling face recognition algorithms to government and private industry buyers,” Wessler said. “That might be state driver’s license photos, arrest photos, federal passport photos. “And then there’s another company, ClearView AI, which has been scouring the internet for billions of photos,” he said. “The last I heard, they had a database of 30 billion photos of people from social media, from employer websites, from local newspapers, and anywhere else on the internet where there’s a photo that might be attached to a name, building giant databases of face prints extracted from those photos, and selling that to police departments and other law enforcement around the country.” This, Wessler said, “presents a truly unprecedented ability for the government to instantaneously identify anyone in any situation and then take action without usually any kind of court oversight, and often in tremendous secrecy.” “We have legacy photo data sets of almost all of us,” said Clare Garvie, counsel at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “As a practical matter, most of us are in numerous of these, and they’ve been almost instantaneously turned into biometric data sets.” According to Garvie, the collection of these biometric data sets by law enforcement started around 2001, and has been expanding ever since. “That really happened without any notice to the public, any sort of negotiation or discussion about enrollment,” she said. “Its adoption has predated by almost 20 years any sort of public discussion about regulation, control, etc.” This data collection comes at a time when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is expanding the use of facial recognition software at airports. It is also coming at a time when, in the wake of numerous scandals, an increasing number of Americans are losing trust in the FBI and the Department of Justice. According to polls in 2021 and 2022, about half of all Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the FBI. On May 12, Special Counsel John Durham released his report regarding the FBI investigation of alleged Russian collusion, which ultimately proved to be a hoax, in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Durham found that throughout an investigation that was “predicated on unvetted hearsay information,” senior leaders at the FBI violated their own rules and applied a double standard in how they treated Trump compared with his Democrat opponent, Hillary Clinton. “What Durham found is that apparently no one in the FBI or the National Security Division at DOJ thought it would be a good idea to go to NSA and CIA and ask them, ‘Hey, do you have anything that would corroborate this?'” said Patrick Eddington, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “And when you’re talking about an investigation that targeted the campaign of a presidential candidate, if they were that sloppy there, then how much more sloppy are they being with folks that don’t have the kind of power and influence that Donald Trump does, or that Hillary Clinton does?” House Works to Extend Section 702 On March 22, the House Intelligence Committee established a bipartisan working group to assess under what conditions Section 702 should be extended. Simultaneously, pressure to kill the provision is coming from people on both the left and the right who are concerned with a pattern of civil rights violations by federal agencies. “Many Americans have rightfully lost faith in the FBI and the FISA process,” Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) stated at the time. Citing abuses in the Durham report, he said, “this incident, along with other outlined abuses, must be a wake-up call.” While Section 702 was designed to combat foreign terrorism, the FBI has been accused of using it for purely domestic reasons, including to track down Americans who participated in the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. And this effort is alleged to be part of a pattern of FBI surveillance of American citizens, including most recently charges that the FBI has targeted parents who protest school curricula and Catholics who oppose abortion rights. In a March 24, 2022, letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) cited a report by the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that “from December 2020 through November 2021, the FBI conducted 3.3 million U.S. person inquiries against its Section 702 holdings. This was a substantial increase from the number of U.S. person queries the FBI conducted from December 2019 to November 2020, which was approximately 1.3 million.” “These are long, ongoing programs that do not involve war in the traditional sense of the word,” said Bob Goodlatte, a former U.S. Representative and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “They are done in such a way that Americans’ rights under the Fourth Amendment are violated constantly, all day, every day.” “The FBI routinely conducts these queries at the ‘assessment’ stage of its investigations, which is before the Bureau has a reasonable factual basis to suspect criminal activity, let alone probable cause and a warrant,” Goitein said. “The FBI conducted around 200,000 backdoor searches in 2022 alone, so that’s more than 500 warrantless search of Americans’ communications every day. “The NSA and CIA also conduct thousands of backdoor searches every year,” she continued. “When you look at these numbers, it becomes clear that what was supposed to be a solely foreign focused authority has in fact become a very powerful domestic spying tool.” The ODNI report also cited an FBI bulk inquiry of 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign. In addition to the FBI’s alleged collaborating with tech and telecom companies to collect data on Americans, there have been allegations of collaboration with banks, as well. Following an FBI “whistleblower” report that “Bank of America (BoA) provided the FBI—voluntarily and without any legal process—with a list of individuals who had made transactions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with a BoA credit or debit card between January 5 and January 7, 2021,” Jordan and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) wrote on June 12 to JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Truist Financial Corp., Wells Fargo, and U.S. Bank, demanding information regarding whether they had acted in similar fashion. ‘In the Government’s Crosshairs’ “If you go back and you actually look at the historical record, an awful lot of groups, either ethnically, religiously, politically, have wound up in the government’s crosshairs, and it’s a completely consistent pattern,” Eddington said. “That’s what, to me, speaks to the larger problem that we’re dealing with here.” “What was fascinating and terrifying was to go through records from the World War I era and to see just exactly how victimized German Americans were, and I’m talking about lynchings, I’m talking about murders,” Eddington said. “The focus on Arab and Muslim Americans easily goes back to the Palestinian rights era.” “Some of the worst surveillance abuses in recent history have all been done under this idea of defensive surveillance” against foreign enemies, Laperruque said, citing cases like Martin Luther King being monitored because the civil rights and anti-war movements allegedly represented security threats during the Vietnam War. “It’s proven to be some of the most vulnerable types of surveillance to abuse.” Brett Holmgren, assistant secretary of state, said on May 30 that, while he found the abuses of Section 702 “disturbing,” the program should continue. Holmgren, who oversees the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), said the national security and diplomatic uses of 702 were essential and downplayed the abuses. “Today, INR and the State Department that we serve, is at risk of losing access to one of the most important streams of intelligence on which we rely … Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” Holmgren said. Goodlatte said that Section 702 can be reformed in a bipartisan way to prevent many of the current violations from recurring. “This is a tremendous opportunity because of the heightened awareness on both sides of the aisle in Congress of these abuses,” Goodlatte said. “Congress can act in a very bipartisan way, and I think is disposed to act in a very bipartisan way.” “Section 702, on one level, is an incredibly technical and complicated bill, and I think the government uses that to its advantage,” Goitein said. “But if we get lost in a conversation about technical details, we’re missing the big picture. “What Section 702 is being used for right now is not complicated at all; it’s being used for warrantless access to Americans’ communications,” she continued. “That is the principle we need to hold on to, that surveillance in this country, surveillance of Americans, should be pursuant to a warrant, and there should be robust mechanisms in place to ensure accountability and oversight. “I think as long as we keep our eye on those big principles and don’t get lost in the legal weeds, we’re going to end up with a pretty good outcome,” she said. “We cannot have a regime where the people doing the watching are also watching themselves for abuse and misconduct,” Laperruque said. “I do think that 702 can be reformed, but we need to remove it from this realm of self-policing … and actually have items like a warrant rule, where if the FBI or NSA or CIA wants to conduct a query to pull up Americans’ communications, it has to get a court order first.”
https://www.scribd.com/embeds/652761562/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-aESvO97hRrYxnFRhUmAb Brilliant idiot buys himself a Spying Whore named Alexa, gets exactly what he paid for... fucked. Amazon Locks Man Out Of Smart Home Devices Over False Racism Claims https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amaz... https://www.theepochtimes.com/amazon-locked-man-out-of-smart-home-devices-fo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onpy_gGnyU Amazon locked a Microsoft engineer out of his smart home devices for nearly a week after a delivery driver accused him of uttering a racial slur. According to a June 4 blog post on Medium, Brandon Jackson found himself locked out of his Amazon Echo Show on May 25. When he contacted customer service, he was given the number of an Amazon executive - which he thought was a scam. "When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked," he wrote. "When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my ‘Ring doorbell.'" Jackson, who is black, said that the accusation was improbable, as many of the delivery drivers in his area are the same race - thus, the racial slur was "highly unlikely." Jackson tracked down the time that the driver would have dropped off his package (May 24 at 6:05 p.m.), and compared it to footage from his home at the time of the incident - revealing that nobody was home at the time of the delivery. Instead, Jackson thinks that his Eufy automated doorbell said to the driver "Excuse me, can I help you?" "The driver, who was walking away and wearing headphones, must have misinterpreted the message," wrote Jackson, adding that even after he shared the evidence with Amazon, his account remained locked. "Despite numerous calls and emails, it wasn’t until Friday afternoon [on May 26] that I received confirmation that the investigation had started," he wrote, adding that it wasn't until May 31 that access was finally restored. In a statement to NTD News, Amazon said: "we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we’re working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again." More via the Epoch Times; Impact of the Lockout While he was locked out of the Amazon account he typically used for his smart home devices, Jackson said he had already thought ahead about alternate ways to control his devices. “I already had everything set up so if something did fail I have fallbacks so I wasn’t truly in the dark,” Jackson explained in a subsequent video post about the experience. “But I wrote [my blog post] from the perspective of someone who—what if they didn’t do all that.” Jackson, who is an engineer at Microsoft and is relatively tech savvy, shared his concerns for owners of smart home devices who don’t have the same knowledge base and find themselves locked out in a similar incident. He said the incident led him to lose trust in Amazon due to how it kept him locked out through the duration of the ordeal. “I fully support Amazon taking measures to ensure the safety of their drivers. However, I question why my entire smart home system had to be rendered unusable during their internal investigation,” he wrote. Jackson also argued that Amazon or other companies shouldn’t be able to block people from using the products they purchased because they expressed the wrong opinions. “If you bought a toaster right, it doesn’t matter what you did, how bad of a person you were how good of a person you are, you still own the toaster at the end of the day right?” Jackson said. “And if you really did do something that was so horrible and bad that shouldn’t be Amazon or Google or Apple’s call to do anything about that. You know, we already have a system set up for that and that’s what you should be going through.”
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https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1598887465095376896 NEW - Chinese police in hazmat suits going from door-to-door to visit the families , who dared to scream out windows in lockdown. They are also checking people's phones for foreign apps Twitter, Instagram, YouTube...and VPNs & protest videos You're still doing nothing to prevent this, not even from your own "Govt" "Authorities".
https://twitter.com/d1ndelight/status/1598106056152186880 When all the talking heads are speaking from their mind control propaganda earpieces from central command, few dare to rip them out...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19152/china-police-stations-worldwide https://safeguarddefenders.com/sites/default/files/pdf/110%20Overseas%20%284... https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expands China Operating Illegal Police Stations Worldwide China has set up at least 54 overseas police stations in 30 countries, including in the United States (New York), Canada, Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Argentina and Nigeria, according to a recent report from Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO. The police stations are part of China's campaign to "persuade" Chinese citizens suspected of criminal acts – particularly telecommunications fraud, but also political "crimes" such as political dissent – to return to China to face criminal prosecution. China not only threatens the Chinese citizens themselves but also members of their families who have stayed behind in China. Such threats have been continuing for years, as FBI Director Christopher Wray pointed out in 2020, when he mentioned a case from the US in which a Chinese government "emissary" visited a target in the US and told him that he could choose between returning to China or committing suicide. China's overseas police stations purport merely to have administrative or consular functions, but function as means of threatening Chinese abroad to return to China, thereby skipping the necessary legal requirements under international law. Crucially, the police stations operate without the consent and knowledge of the host countries, such as in the Netherlands, where one of the police stations operates out of a plain ground-floor apartment in Rotterdam belonging to a small Chinese handyman business. Beijing, not surprisingly, has denied all wrongdoing. "The organizations you mentioned are not police stations or police service centers," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian Zhao insisted. "Their activities are to assist local Chinese citizens who need to apply for expired driver's license renewal online...." Safeguard Defenders has appealed to countries to take swift action against the police stations. "Action needs also be taken to protect a quickly growing Chinese diaspora in the target countries, unless the latter are content with having a foreign government police minority groups on their territory, often to the intentional detriment of the target country and its policies, and aimed at intimidating the diaspora into obedience to the CCP anywhere in the world. Dedicated reporting and protection mechanisms must urgently be made available." – Safeguard Defenders, January 18, 2022. China has set up at least 54 overseas police stations in 30 countries, including in the United States (New York), Canada, Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Argentina and Nigeria, according to a recent report from Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO. Most of these police stations are located in Europe, with nine such police stations in major Spanish cities, four in Italy, and three in Paris, among others. According to Peter Dahlin, director of Safeguard Defenders, those are just the tip of the iceberg: "We are convinced that there are many more, because these only belong to two jurisdictions – Fuzhou and Qingtian, where most of the Chinese in Spain come from – and China itself admits that it has launched the project in ten. So it could be up to five times more." The police stations are part of China's campaign to "persuade" Chinese citizens suspected of criminal acts – particularly telecommunications fraud, but also political "crimes" such as political dissent – to return to China to face criminal prosecution. China not only threatens the Chinese citizens themselves but also members of their families who have stayed behind in China. Such threats have been continuing for years, as FBI Director Christopher Wray pointed out in 2020, when he mentioned a case from the US in which a Chinese government "emissary" visited a target in the US and told him that he could choose between returning to China or committing suicide. On August 17, China's Ministry of Public Security stated: "The number of cross-border telecom fraud cases targeting Chinese residents has been significantly decreased in China, with 230,000 telecom fraud suspects being educated and persuaded to return to China from overseas to confess crimes from April 2021 to July 2022..." "Official guidelines explicitly outline the different tools made available to 'persuade' the targets to voluntarily return to China to face charges," Safeguard Defenders wrote. "These include targeting the purported suspects' children in China, denying them the right to education, as well as targeting family members and relatives in a similar fashion. In short, a full-on 'guilt by association' punishment to 'encourage' suspects to return from abroad." China's overseas police stations purport merely to have administrative or consular functions, but function as means of threatening Chinese abroad to return to China, thereby skipping the necessary legal requirements under international law. According to Safeguard Defenders: "These methods allow the CCP and their security organs to circumvent normal bilateral mechanisms of police and judicial cooperation, thereby severely undermining the international rule of law and territorial integrity of the third countries involved... In eschewing regular cooperation mechanisms, the CCP manages to avoid the growing scrutiny of its human rights record and the ensuing difficulties faced in obtaining the return of 'fugitives' through legal proceedings such as formal extradition requests. It leaves legal Chinese residents abroad fully exposed to extra-legal targeting by the Chinese police, with little to none of the protection theoretically ensured under both national and international law... "Openly labeled as overseas police service stations... for example in renewing Chinese driver's licenses remotely and other tasks traditionally considered of a consular nature... [the stations] also serve a more sinister goal as they contribute to 'resolutely cracking down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese.'" The police stations are obviously also used to target Chinese abroad who disagree with the regime. "One of the aims of these campaigns, obviously, as it is to crack down on dissent, is to silence people," Laura Harth, a campaign director with Safeguard Defenders said. "So people are afraid. People that are being targeted, that have family members back in China, are afraid to speak out." Crucially, the police stations operate without the consent and knowledge of the host countries, such as in the Netherlands, where one of the police stations operates out of a plain ground-floor apartment in Rotterdam belonging to a small Chinese handyman business. Several countries, such as Canada, the Netherlands, the UK, Portugal and Spain, are now investigating the matter and some have already demanded the closure of the Chinese overseas police stations on their soil. "[We] have asked the Chinese ambassador for full clarification on the so-called police service stations carrying out tasks in the Netherlands on behalf of the Chinese government," Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra wrote on Twitter. "As no permission was sought from the Netherlands for this, the ministry has informed the ambassador that the stations must close immediately. In addition, the Netherlands itself is also investigating the stations to find out their exact activities." In the US, FBI Director FBI director Christopher Wray said that the FBI was investigating the matter. "We are aware of the existence of these stations. To me, it is outrageous to think that the Chinese police would attempt to set up shop, you know, in New York, let's say, without proper coordination. It violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes." Wray added that the FBI was "looking into the legal parameters," and stated that the FBI has opened charges related to Chinese government harassment, stalking, monitoring and blackmailing Chinese in the US who were critical of China's President Xi Jinping. "It's a real problem and something that we're talking with our foreign partners about, as well, because we're not the only country where this has occurred." Beijing, not surprisingly, has denied all wrongdoing. "The organizations you mentioned are not police stations or police service centers," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian Zhao insisted. "Their activities are to assist local Chinese citizens who need to apply for expired driver's license renewal online, and activities related to physical examination services by providing the venue." Nevertheless, the Spanish newspaper El Correo quoted an unnamed official from the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Shanghai, who reportedly acknowledged that the police stations abroad are part of how China operates: "The bilateral treaties are very cumbersome, and Europe is reluctant to extradite to China. I do not see what is wrong with pressurizing criminals so that they are brought to justice." Safeguard Defenders has appealed to countries to take swift action against the Chinese police stations. "We call on Members of Parliament to raise this issue with their Governments: ask if and how this practice is being monitored; to what extent such operations take place in their country, and what measures are being formulated to counter them. Action needs also be taken to protect a quickly growing Chinese diaspora in the target countries, unless the latter are content with having a foreign government police minority groups on their territory, often to the intentional detriment of the target country and its policies, and aimed at intimidating the diaspora into obedience to the CCP anywhere in the world. Dedicated reporting and protection mechanisms must urgently be made available." Judith Bergman, a columnist, lawyer and political analyst, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute. Follow Judith Bergman on Twitter
Dumbfucks need to wake the fuck up, get the fuck up off their ass, and start fighting the fuck back... https://twitter.com/GingerJim5/status/1597037836469170180 "This video I saved during lockdown. But this truly is a taste of what you will encounter if the Digital ID/CBDC comes into force. You have been warned. Don’t be stupid enough to ignore it. Your time to act is now. Get talking in the real world and make plans." Vaccine Passports,Digital ID and CBDC support the same functionality as the Chinese Social Credit System… https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1595718888763043842 WEF precision consumption example : "Our records show you do not have an electric car. Based on your tracking, you drove too far past your weekly mileage allowance. You have been fined a carbon tax of 250 dollars from your CBDC wallet." The State of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). The WEF and Globalists are Pushing Real Hard to get Digital ID and Centralized Cryptocurrency for Everyone. https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/bidens-beijing-style-plan-for-single-... CBDC in the U.S. would enable the Fed to “fully replace private bank deposits” and to establish Fed control over generation and allocation of financial resources, directly crediting and debiting the accounts of all participants in economic activity. https://i.redd.it/q6pzbt907vz91.jpg Central banks seek ‘universal access’ to CBDC via digital ID https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/central-banks-universal-access-cbd... GB News: Dutch Government Moves To Monitor Banking Transactions Over 100 Euros - 'They will know everything about you through the money that you spend' - All Tied To CBDC and WEF World Domination Agenda https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1587189075609800704
WAKE THE FUCK UP !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uP12u88es https://twitter.com/BushelsPerAcre/status/1599565906161848320 Dr Jordan Peterson talking about the Digital ID World. It’s Far Worse than most people can Ever Imagine. Senator Malcolm Roberts (Australia) dropping absolute Truth Bombs connecting the Climate Agenda Hysteria with the Digital Identity Control Agenda. https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1599682183169380352 It’s worth watching this commentary by Vandana Shiva - where she expresses her concerns over the ‘War on Cash’, Digital ID, Social Credit Systems, WEF, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and The Great Reset. “If ever there was a time for humanity to wake up, now is the time.” Apple Blocks Coinbase Wallet’s iOS App. This move was not done for solely for 30% profits. It was done to get Decentralized Crypto options physically removed off iPhones. This is to make room for the coming merger of Digital ID and U.S. Federal CDBC in every American's iphone. https://tokenist.com/eu-agrees-on-digital-id-and-wallet-vision-likely-to-imp... EU Agrees on Digital ID and Wallet Vision, Likely to Implement in 2 Years. A European Super App is come for all Europeans. It will include a personalized Digital ID and eventual use of a Euro CBDC. This is just one step closer towards WEF global enslavement. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1600716783518121985 This is a very powerful statement that speaks volumes of freedoms being lost. In order for the New World Order and World Economic Forum to succeed in their agenda they have to erode and destroy individual freedoms. That has to happen for them to win. They are doing this through building up Digital ID and CBDC infrastructures across the globe. Building an enslavement system right now throughout nation's banks and governments. We can stop them. We can educate people the dangers of Digital ID and CBDCs being used to control all of us. People need to be made aware and to stand up against this. Otherwise our children and our grandchildren will grow up only knowing this enslavement through Digital ID and CBDC. Trudeau liberals paid World Economic Forum $105 million for Digital ID Contract. The Digital ID WEF Agenda moves forward in Canada. Meta introduces Age Verification Tests to Facebook Dating. It is a requirement to have your Face Scanned and Collected to "verify age." If this does not work then they want people to upload Personal ID or Personal Records to verify age. This is a trick for Digital ID through Meta. Millions of children in India are at risk of Not Receiving an Education because they did not submit to India's Federally Operated Digital ID System. Only children who forfeit over their biometrics and personal information for a Digital ID may be entered into schools. https://twitter.com/nobs11111 The Council conclusions on the European Digital ID not to be endorsed was adopted by motion. Nevertheless State Secretary Van Huffelen (D66) AGAINST the wishes of the House of Representatives has agreed to the next step in further Digitization and Control of Citizens. The United States Government has Started Implementing Digital ID and Bio-metric Collection Efforts against its Citizens. Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand's Prime Minister) Partners with Bill Gates to Rollout Digital IDs Canada: Bill 36 in BC proposes jail time for healthcare workers who make statements about covid shots that contradict the government narrative. Canada is officially turning into Northern Cuba. COVID passport - The killer App helps Chinese government to build the world first Digital Gulag. It's controlling every move of Chinese people: in Chinese ''一码控中国'' - in English ''QR Code Controlling China''
The world's people will rise up against the Elite and Govt, that day is actually not so far away, probability even reaching under a decade at current rates... If They Get The Opportunity, They Will Transform Our Society Into A Dystopian Hellscape https://themostimportantnews.com/archives/if-they-get-the-opportunity-they-w... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11529371/Could-BIRTHING-PODS... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2RIvJ1U7RE https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/german-molecular-biologist-unveils-... https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/12/11/uk-prepares-to-introduce-a-digit... http://endoftheamericandream.com/we-are-about-to-witness-a-major-move-toward... https://themostimportantnews.com/archives/they-are-testing-a-super-creepy-di... If the elite get their way, our world will eventually look far more bizarre than any science fiction author ever imagined. If you haven’t figured it out by now, the elite are control freaks, and they are envisioning a future in which they are in control of all of our lives from birth to death. Instead of being born and raised the traditional way, humans will be mass produced in “birthing pods”. Those that are genetically superior will be permitted to live, while those that are genetically inferior will be “harvested” and any spare parts that are not of value for scientific research will be discarded. As children grow, education will be a top priority, but only material specifically approved by the elite will be permitted. In fact, “free thought” and “free speech” will be a thing of the past if the elite get total control. Everyone will think the same way, because no other alternative will be allowed. And anyone that shows signs of rebellion will quickly have their digital currency privileges revoked. I know that all of this may sound quite strange to many of you, but this is what our society will look like if the wildest hopes and dreams of the elite actually come to fruition. This week, an incredibly creepy concept video that was created by a German molecular biologist named Hashem Al-Ghaili is making headlines all over the globe. In this video, children are grown in a huge facility that contains hundreds of transparent “birthing pods”… A new concept video takes viewers on tour through The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility, where hundreds of fetuses sit in transparent pods that are temperature controlled and feature an umbilical cord to receive oxygen and nutrients. If you have not seen the video yet, you can view it right here. I have to admit, that is one of the creepiest things that I have seen in a long time. We are being told that one of the big selling points of such a system would be the ability to create “designer babies” that are genetically superior to humans that are born the normal way… “And if you want your baby to stand out and have a brighter future, our Elite Package offers you the opportunity to genetically engineer the embryo before implanting it into the artificial womb. Thanks to CRISPR-Cas 9 gene editing tool, you can edit any trait of your baby through a wide range of over 300 genes. By genetically engineering a set of genes, the Elite Package allows you to customize your baby’s eye color, hair color, skin tone, physical strength, height, and level of intelligence. It also allows you to fix any inherited genetic diseases that are part of your family history so that your baby and their offspring will live a healthy comfortable life free of genetic diseases.” So what about the embryos that are genetically inferior or that are simply not wanted for one reason or another? Well, they would either be used for other purposes or they would be discarded in the trash. In addition to getting “perfect babies” every time, there would also no longer be any need for the pain of childbirth in such a system… While the video is focused on improving birth rates, it also notes that the birthing farm is for women who fear pregnancy because of the pain and recovery needed after going into labor. ‘Say goodbye to the pain of childbirth and muscle contractions,’ the video narrator says. Of course the elite would not want such “perfect children” to be ruined by “misinformation” as they grow older, and so everything that they would be exposed to would be strictly monitored and controlled. Sadly, such a system of thought control has already been rapidly developing all around us. We already knew that big tech companies were colluding with the government on a very deep level to suppress free speech, but the “Twitter Files” have demonstrated that things were actually far worse than any of us imagined. Government officials systematically targeted specific individuals and specific viewpoints for censorship, and in many cases big tech companies were more than eager to do what they were being asked to do. It is NOT okay for the government to suppress free speech as long as they can get private companies to do the dirty work for them. Our most basic constitutional rights have been trampled on over and over again, and those that were involved need to be held accountable. And if we don’t stand up now, they will just keep on doing it. Because this is what the elite desperately want. They want a future in which the flow of information is tightly controlled by them. If you are a rebel that insists on putting out “misinformation”, the elite envision a system in which such miscreants are dealt with quickly and efficiently. Today, the elite do not have direct control over our finances. But in a future where cash is banned and we are all forced to use their digital currencies, that would all change. Everything that we buy and sell would be tracked, and our “currency privileges” could be revoked at any time if our social credit scores drop too low. Of course government-controlled digital currencies are not ready for widespread use yet, but they are coming. In fact, just this week we learned that the Bank of England “has begun consultations on implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency”… The de facto head of His Majesty’s Treasury announced this week that the Bank of England has begun consultations on implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that could usher in the globalist vision of a cashless society in which all transactions are traceable by the government. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt revealed that, as a part of his ‘Edinburgh Reforms’ of Britain’s financial services, the Bank of England will begin consultations on the design of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which would act as a digital version of the pound sterling. Meanwhile, the EU has also been working on a new “digital euro”. And the Federal Reserve is now testing a new “digital dollar” for the United States. Do you think that it is just a coincidence that all of these digital currencies are being developed simultaneously? The truth is that the elite are actively trying to create the dystopian version of the future that they envision for all of us. Unfortunately, most people still do not understand what they are trying to do, and so it is imperative for all of us to try to wake up as many as we can while there is still time. It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “End Times” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.
Australia to require Digital Passports to access Internet... https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1602042530845057027 AUSTRALIA - Social credit introduced to acces the internet, via your digital ID. Citizens need 100 points of identification to use social media & the police will have access to your accounts including private messaging. Goodbye freedom. Hello tyranny. https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023 https://ig.tokhmi.xyz/wittgensteinfan78/ https://nitter.ir/Spiro_Ghost RISHI TRUDEAU’s Father in law - CEO of Infosys & Digital ID Czar, told the G20 Development Working Group yesterday “data about our social & economic activities should be harnessed for developmental goals” Control of our lives is the profit of the 4th Industrial Revolution. America First Legal @America1stLegal Dec 6 /1 🚨🦠BREAKING: Following the #TwitterFiles, AFL has obtained new documents uncovering a secret Twitter portal U.S. Govt officials used to censor dissenting COVID-19 views and violate the First Amendment. Follow along for disturbing findings from the 500+ page release ⤵️ PERU - Declares a state of emergency for 30 days, which will allow soldiers to assist police in maintaining public security. ‘For their safety’ Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth Dec 12 PERU - Riots on the streets would indicate that Peru Isn’t very happy about its new WEF friendly president. How lucky for the WEF, first Brazil and now Peru. nitter.tokhmi.xyz/i/web/status/160… This is awful. Women are being aggressively targeted by a small minority of self identifying men who literally hate us! And they are protected by the law. We were once free and now even what we choose to watch is being censored! Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan So they’ve won. Robyn Woof, a self identified trans woman and Trans Liberation Officer has stopped women from watching Adult Human Female. Scotland 2022. Thanks @NicolaSturgeon
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority... our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming... especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” -- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshJn7lgVsY
Ron Paul: Mother Of All Economic Crisis Will Lead To "Social Unrest & Violence" Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Nouriel Roubini, a former advisor to the International Monetary Fund and member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, was one of the few “mainstream” economists to predict the collapse of the housing bubble. Now Roubini is warning that the staggering amounts of debt held by individuals, businesses, and the government will soon lead to the “mother of all economic crises.” Roubini properly blames the creation of a debt-based economy on the near-or-at-zero interest rate and quantitative easing policies pursued by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. The inevitable result of the zero-interest and quantitative easing policies is price inflation wreaking havoc on the American people. The Fed has been trying to eliminate price inflation with a series of interest rate increases. So far, these rate increases have not significantly reduced price inflation. This is because rates remain at historic lows. Yet the rate increases have had negative economic effects, including a decline in the demand for new homes. Increasing interest rates make it impossible for many middle- and working-class Americans to afford a monthly mortgage payment for even a relatively inexpensive home. The main reason the Fed cannot raise rates to anywhere near what they would be in a free market is the effect it would have on the federal government’s ability to manage its debt. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), interest on the national debt is already on track to consume 40 percent of the federal budget by 2052 and will surpass defense spending by 2029! A small interest rate increase can raise yearly federal debt interest rate payments by many billions of dollars, increasing the amount of the federal budget devoted solely to servicing the debt. The federal government’s fiscal picture is made worse by the fact that the Social Security “Trust Fund” will begin to run deficits by 2035 while the Medicare Trust Fund will run deficits by 2028. The looming bankruptcy of the two major entitlement programs, combined with the unwillingness of most in Congress to reduce either welfare or warfare spending, puts the Fed in a bind. If it raises rates to the levels needed to really combat price inflation, the increase in interest payments will impose hardships on individuals and businesses, as well as raise federal interest payments to unsustainable levels. This will cause a major economic crisis including a government default on its debt causing a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status. Also, if the Fed continues to facilitate federal deficits by monetizing the debt, the result will be an economic crisis caused by a collapse in the dollar’s value and rejection of the dollar’s world reserve status. The crisis will lead to social unrest and violence, as well as increased popularity of authoritarian movements on both the left and the right. This will lead to government crackdowns on civil liberties and increased government control of our economy. The only bright spot is this crisis will also fuel interest in the ideas of liberty and could even help bring about a return to limited, constitutional government, free markets, individual liberty, and a foreign policy of peaceful trade with all. Those of us who know the truth have two responsibilities. The first is to make the necessary plans to ensure our families can survive the forthcoming turmoil. The second is to do all we can to introduce as many people as possible to the ideas of liberty.
USA and World rapidly adopting China's Total Control Model Fight Back ! China: The World's First Technate – Part 2 by Iain Davis https://iaindavis.com/china-technocracy-part-1/ https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/14/china-the-worlds-first-technate-part-2/ https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/understanding-technocracy https://iaindavis.com/pseudopandemic/ https://iaindavis.com/propaganda-fry-part-3/ https://iaindavis.com/ukc/Datong.pdf https://www.technocracyinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Study-Course.pdf https://iaindavis.com/what-is-the-global-public-private-partnership/ https://iaindavis.com/who-are-the-new-world-order-a-brief-history/ https://iaindavis.com/long-live-democracy/ https://iaindavis.com/multipolar-world-order-part-4/ https://steemit.com/china/@corbettreport/china-s-american-arsenal https://logicmag.io/china/the-messy-truth-about-social-credit/ https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/the-redlists-are-coming-the-blacklists-are... https://www.economist.com/leaders/2016/12/17/chinas-digital-dictatorship https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/socialcreditsystem/ https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/who-did-china-ban-from-flying/ https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/02/china-brings-in-mandatory-faci... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSU_Xes3GQ https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/03/china-positive-en... https://daxueconsulting.com/internet-censorship-in-china/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2110400/chinas-twi... https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichina/blog/translati... https://jamestown.org/program/beijing-harnesses-big-data-ai-to-perfect-the-p... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/chinese-publisher-who-spoke-up... https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/individual-carbon-footprint-tracke... https://www.world-today-news.com/the-brain-of-china-which-sees-everything-in... https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/12/investigative-reports/the-new-normal-th... https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw503/ https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/the-uks-new-bill-of-no-rights In Part 1, we discussed the historical background of Technocracy Inc. that briefly found popularity in the US in the 1930s during the turmoil of the Great Depression. Technocracy was rooted in socioeconomic theories that focused upon the efficient management of society by experts (technocrats). This idea briefly held the public’s attention during a period of sustained recession, mass unemployment and growing poverty. The technological capabilities required for the energy surveillance grid, essential for the operation of a Technate (a technocratic society), were far beyond the practical reach of 1930s America. Consequently, for that and other reasons, public interest in the seemingly preposterous idea of technocracy soon subsided. However, in recent decades, many influential policy strategists—most notably Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger—and private philanthropic foundations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, recognised that advances in digital technology would eventually make a Technate feasible. As founding and leading members of the Trilateral Commission, a policy “think tank,” they saw China as a potential test bed for technocracy. We will now consider their efforts to create the world’s first Technate in China. These articles build upon the research found in my 2021 publication Pseudopandemic, which is freely available to my blog subscribers. WHY CHINA? In the West we often have difficulty understanding or even conceptualising Chinese mores. We tend to see the world in our own terms and are able to describe it only in reference to the principles and philosophical concepts that we are familiar with. Perhaps we forget that the Western perspective is not the only one in the world. For example, as pointed out by students of the Chinese political philosophy of tianxia, there is no ontological tradition in China. In the Chinese philosophical mind, the question is not “What is this thing” but “What path does this thing suggest?” Datong lies at the heart of “the Great Way,” first described in the Liyun chapter of the “Book of Rites” (the Liji), written more than 2,000 years ago. Recounting the teachings of Confucius, the chapter depicted a utopian society of the ancient past this way: When the Great Way was practised, the world was shared by all alike. The worthy and the able were promoted to office and men practised good faith and lived in affection. Therefore they did not regard as parents only their own parents, or as sons only their own sons. The “Rites” (or “li”) are the formal etiquette and behavioural conduct that underpin Chinese social order. Li also compasses the ceremony and rituals that reinforce normative standards. Datong, which can be translated as “the Great Unity,” represents the central political and moral philosophy of the ideal Chinese society. In datong, everyone respects “the li” and is imbued with the Confucian virtue of “ren.” This love and benevolence (ren) is founded in human empathy. It first manifests within the family but extends to the whole of society. Datong implies a society where the most able and virtuous lead, with ren foremost in their hearts and minds. All resources are shared equitably for the common good. In the Liyun chapter, the expression “the world is shared by all alike” is written as “tianxia weigong.” This can be translated as “all under Heaven is held in common” or “all under Heaven is publicly held.” There is no place for private property in datong, because communities meet the needs of all. There is no conflict of interest. The Great Way is one of “Universal Harmony.” The opening passage of the Liyun chapter also described xiaokang, the “lesser prosperity,” in which society still maintained li and ren but differed from datong in an important regard: The world is the possession of private families. Each regards as parents only his own parents, as sons only his own sons; goods and labour are employed for selfish ends. While datong describes a world where resources are “shared by all alike,” in xiaokang resources are in “the possession of private families.” Xiaokang was not seen as opposed to datong but rather on the path toward it, for li and ren were still observed. But there is a warning in the Liyun chapter that private property and the control of resources by private interests present a risk: Therefore intrigue and plotting come about and men take up arms. Kang Youwei’s book “Datong shu” (The Great Commonwealth) was published posthumously in 1935. Kang wrote it as a series of lecture notes, the earliest dating to 1884. Rather than view datong only as a lost utopia, Kang proposed datong as a future society that could be constructed. He viewed ren as the path toward establishing the common good for all, attainable by eliminating suffering and creating happiness. Kang noted that ren was applicable not only to humanity but to the universe and all within it, and he called this “jen.” Jen gave rise, he said, to creation and to the establishment of universal order. Therefore, order should be based upon the same principle of the “compassionate mind.” He drew upon the work of the Confucian scholar He Xiu, whose Gongyang theory of history described sociopolitical development as a path consisting of incremental, progressive stages. Kang built upon Gongyang’s work to plot a course toward the Great Unity. In essence, Kang suggested that society could be reverse-engineered to achieve datong in the future. He identified “nine boundaries” of human suffering that needed to be deconstructed in order to reach datong. He said that datong could be attained once nation-states, social class, racism, sexism, families, private property, injustice, environmental destruction, and poverty (the result of social inequality and oppression) were abolished. “Sages” or “persons of jen” would be needed to lead, Kang maintained. He acknowledged that the sages had to operate in the social, economic and political circumstances of their day and that the resultant laws and institutions might be oppressive and cause suffering. Therefore, the objective of the “person of jen” (sage) should be to reform the laws and organisations of the state with a view to eradicating the nine boundaries of suffering. With the abolition of the nation state, Kang’s proposed path toward the Great Way extended far beyond China. He favoured a global society where a world government would rule over a planet that was divided into regional districts. In this global society, there would be no class or private property, and all would strive to deliver the common good and benefit everyone. Specifically, all resources would be deployed for the benefit and happiness of all. Public institutions, not families, would raise children. And the children would be trained to become citizens who would provide free services, such as health care and education, for all. The only distinction between people would be the badges of honour worn by those deemed to have great ren, or knowledge—that is, the sages. Ultimately, once datong exists, there would be complete harmony with nature, which in turn would mean that all human beings are vegetarians and that euthanasia would be practised with ren, for the common good. The ideology of datong, as Kang expounded it, and the hope of following the Great Way have strongly influenced Chinese political philosophy throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Xi Jinping has been heard on numerous occasions to repeat the phrase, “When the Great Way prevails, the world is for everyone.” Seen from the Chinese philosophical perspective, the best anyone can hope for today is xiaokang. Thus, xiaokang sages must be free to reform the institutions of the state on the path toward removing the nine boundaries, achieving datong and leading the Great Way. There are many parallels between this path and the socioeconomic theory underpinning technocracy. For those who wished to establish a global technate, China was a natural choice for their pilot project. UNDERSTANDING TECHNOCRACY While there is a lot of debate about the extent of “legitimate” technocratic governance in the West’s supposedly liberal representative democracies, governance is just one aspect of technocracy. In other words, technocratic governance alone is not technocracy. As discussed previously, a technocracy is a “governance of function.” The overarching goal is to run the whole of society as efficiently as possible. The Technocracy Inc. Study Course states: The basic unit of this organization is the Functional Sequence. A Functional Sequence is one of the larger industrial or social units, the various parts of which are related one to the other in a direct functional sequence. Thus among the major Industrial Sequences we have transportation (railroads, waterways, airways, highways and pipe lines); communication (mail, telephone, telegraph, radio and television); agriculture (farming, ranching, dairying, etc.); and the major industrial units such as textiles, iron and steel, etc. Among the Service Sequences are education (this would embrace the complete training of the younger generation), and public health (medicine, dentistry, public hygiene, and all hospitals and pharmaceutical plants as well as institutions for defectives) Each “Functional Sequence” is overseen by a directorate. For example, the Distribution Sequence collects all the data gathered from the “Energy Certificates,” which are allocated to the citizens to be exchanged for goods and services. The “Price System” is abolished. There is no private property. The entire Technate is controlled by one body: Continental Control. Like Kang’s “sages,” and in a fashion similar to guidance of the population toward the Great Way, a technocracy creates a rigid hierarchical structure to ensure that all are working for the common good. In the language of technocracy, the citizen contributes toward the appropriate service function. Effectively, this creates a pyramid-like sociopolitical structure: The personnel of all Functional Sequences will pyramid on the basis of ability to the head of each department within the Sequence, and the resultant general staff of each Sequence will be a part of the Continental Control. A government of function! The Continental Director, as the name implies, is the chief executive of the entire social mechanism. On his immediate staff are the Directors of the Armed Forces, the Foreign Relations, the Continental Research, and the Social Relations and Area Control. [. . .] The Continental Director is chosen from among the members of the Continental Control by the Continental Control. Due to the fact that this Control is composed of only some 100 or so members, all of whom know each other well, there is no one better fitted to make this choice than they. Class is abolished in technocracy. Child care is provided by the Technate. Rather than having “great ren,” the general staff of the Technate are said to possess “peck-rights.” That is, they are the most suited to be at the top of the pyramid because a “governance of function” works most efficiently when “the right man is in the right place” to serve the common good. Like the ideas presented in “Datong shu,” the intention of technocracy is essentially altruistic. The small cluster of engineers, economists, sociologists and other academics brought together by the Rockefellers and Howard Scott wanted to construct a society that would deliver “lives of abundance” to all. It must be admitted that the Technocracy Inc. Study Course made some valid criticisms of a number of social problems. Unfortunately, the offered solution of a Technate is both arrogant and naïve. It assumes, much as does the notion of a Great Way, that authority can be exercised by some human beings over other human beings for the common good. Further, it imagines that there is some social or political mechanism that can produce leaders who are omniscient and capable of defining what that “common good” is. Both datong and technocracy would require human nature to undergo a fundamental transformation. Avarice, malevolence, narcissism, psychopathy and every other deleterious failing would need to be expunged from humanity. Until they are, power will continue to be sought by those who want to control others. The most ruthless among us will ultimately succeed—often not because they are the most suited but because they are prepared to do what others won’t in order to gain the power they crave. This situation will persist for as long as we believe that someone or some organisation needs to have absolute authority over our lives in order for us to be able to cooperate effectively. To imagine that concentrating all power in the hands of a tiny, select band of experts or sages will solve the problems caused by the unscrupulous and frequently violent and immoral use of authority is ridiculous. You can’t fix a kakistocracy by investing more power in the “kakistocrats.” For the global public-private partnership (G3P), which operates a compartmentalised, hierarchical, pyramid-like power structure, the most enticing aspect of technocracy is the extreme centralisation of power and authority over vast swaths of the humanity. That is why, as soon as technological development permitted and the opportunity arose, the G3P set about assisting the development of a Technate in China. INFILTRATING CHINA The formal story of Henry Kissinger’s “secret” 1971 discussions with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai—officially acknowledged in 2001—is that US President Richard Nixon sent Kissinger to normalise relationships with the Chinese government as a counterbalance to the Soviet Union. What is mentioned less frequently, though, is Kissinger’s relationship with the Rockefellers. In 1956, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund commissioned Kissinger to convene its Special Studies Panels. The panels investigated emerging global challenges and trends and suggested how US foreign policy might adapt to meet them. In the 1961 publication of the six panel reports, Prospect for America (subtitled “The problems and opportunities confronting American democracy—in foreign policy, in military preparedness, in education, in social and economic affairs”), the Rockefeller Brothers Fund outlined how public-private partnership would be key to this projected future: Corporations, whose operations extend through many nations[,] [. . .] through which a considerable and essential part of the world’s economic activities is carried on, must be able to compose diversities, adjust conflicts of interest, and adapt their operations to the needs of the country in which they operate. In doing so they represent a further example of multinational solutions to common problems. The authors of these reports regarded private finance as essential not only for developing international markets but also for guiding the social and political development of the target nation: Rapid economic growth can be achieved only if local savings and public foreign investment are supplemented by an increasing inflow of private foreign investment. Such investment performs two key functions: it adds to the capital resources of the host nation and it is the chief mechanism through which the managerial and technical skills and the creative and catalytic quality can contribute to economic development in less developed areas. [. . .] Private philanthropic capital can also play an important role in economic development. The panels that provided the analysis for Prospect for America were convened in the aftermath of McCarthyism. They needed to appeal to a US polity still obsessed with the perceived threat of international communism. Thus, the reports eulogise so-called democracy throughout. However, there are numerous indications that the Rockefeller foreign policy strategists were willing to diplomatically suggest alternatives: The American pattern of private enterprise and voluntary association is not the only mold for a free society. It is clear that these strategists sought to both exploit the differences between nation-states for their development potential and amplify the importance of global issues as a means of uniting nations, regardless of their model of government, under a system of global governance. They considered scientific and technological development one way to do just that: In the field of science, international cooperation on a world scale is most readily achievable. [. . .] [T]he United States should, therefore, seek to develop a series of agreements, looking toward the stimulation of scientific interchange and the fostering of scientific progress on a world scale. [. . .] The Communist nations should be invited to participate. The panels, which effectively formed a temporary Rockefeller-funded think tank, were not opposed to colonialism on moral grounds but they highlighted its tactical flaws. Inherent in their critique of colonialism was an acknowledgement that alleged democratic values have nothing to do with hard-nosed geopolitics or with expansive foreign policy ambitions: While colonialism exacted a human and political toll, it also represented one of the greatest conversions in history. As the ideals of the British, French and American revolutions became diffused, partly through the very spread of colonialism, the seeds were sown for the destruction of colonialism itself. The more successful the teachings of the colonial powers, the more untenable grew their position. Almost without exception, the leaders of independence movements fought their rulers in terms of the rulers’ own beliefs. They asked them to live up to their own principles. The Rockefellers, being one of the leading families at the head of the G3P’s compartmentalised hierarchy, had worked with the Chinese authorities for generations. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was trading kerosene in China in 1863. The family’s philanthropic foundation had long fostered strong ties with the Chinese government. For example, it helped advance the use of Western allopathic medicine in China by establishing the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) and by making other philanthropic investments. It’s safe to say that the Rockefellers were knowledgeable and enthusiastic supporters of the Chinese government. Not surprisingly, they were also knowledgeable and enthusiastic supporters of the technocracy movement in the US, maintaining their keen interest in it despite its lack of public support. They understood the potential of social engineering to create a governance of function (a Technate): Changes in technology have always been a major cause of change in government, economic relations and social institutions. But technological innovation is no longer the work of isolated, ingenious inventors; it is the product of organised scientific enterprise and is constant, insistent and accelerating. One of its notable effects is upon the tempo of social change itself, which is enormously quicker than it has been, and which subjects every inhabitant of a technological society to its pressures. Technological innovation thus poses a series of issues with which our society will have to deal. [. . .] The growth of technological society has changed the traditional society in which men have enjoyed freedom. Large and complex organisations have become the order of the day. [. . .] Programs for the preservation and strengthening of individual freedom must assume the existence and the inevitability of such organisations. The Rockefellers had a nuanced appreciation of the potential for technological development to act as the catalyst for change. Despite the report’s primary focus on the US relationship with the Soviet Union, the Rockefellers obviously recognised the ripe opportunities in China: It [China] has a rapidly growing population, a shortage of resources, and a fanatical ideology. Around a large part of its perimeter exists “soft” situations, making infiltration, subversion, and outright conquest seem easy or inviting prospects. The present relations between Soviet Russia and Red China [. . .] may not always be drawn together by common interests. [. . .] We must avoid, wherever possible, courses that seem to drive China closer to the Soviets. As founders of the Trilateral Commission, the Rockefellers’ and their fellow Trilateralists’ goal was to infiltrate China by extending the hand of cooperative friendship through public-private investment in technological and thus financial and economic development. The Sino-Soviet split was seemingly the window of opportunity they wished to lever open. China’s society, its political history and government structure was already amenable to the introduction of technocracy, as it was to communism. The Trilateralists were apparently eager to avoid the mistakes of Western colonialists, who extolled the democratic ideals and associated legal concepts which had come back to bite them. These ideals were, in any event, antithetical to the Trilateralists’ project. ASSISTING CHINA Following Mao’s death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping rose to power, becoming the Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1978. Just two weeks after assuming power, on January 1, 1979, he became the first communist Chinese leader to conduct a formal state visit to the US. He was received with full state honours by the administration of Jimmy Carter, whose National Security advisor was Trilateralist Zbigniew Brzezinski—and who was himself a Trilateralist. Deng Xiaoping immediately set about instigating a series of social and economic reforms, which were called “reform and opening up” in China and “the opening up of China” in the West. Deng was one of a group of eight high-ranking Chinese officials who had survived the brutal repressions of cultural revolution. The reverently named “Eight Immortals” were credited with turning the Chinese economy from an unstable mess, riven with extreme poverty, into the thriving economic engine it is today. Despite the hopes of datong, and far from being the sages that Kang Youwei dreamed of, the sons and daughters of the Eight Immortals, who are collectively known as the Princelings, hoovered up China’s state assets to effectively create a new dynasty, just as corrupt as its predecessors. Such is the nature of kakistocracy. The scale and pace of the economic transformation in such a vast country would have been impossible without the considerable inward investment and the transfer of technology which China received from the G3P. This G3P investment was the initial source of China’s economic growth miracle. In late 2019, The World Economic Forum (WEF) reported: High levels of government spending and foreign investment have enabled China to roughly double the size of its economy every eight years since the introduction of economic reforms in 1979. CITIC (China International Trust & Investment Corp, renamed CITIC Group) was effectively China’s state–run investment arm. Kissinger’s visit to China had opened up investment banking opportunities for Rockefeller’s Chase Group (Chase Manhattan Bank at the time.) In June 1980, CITIC Chairman Rong Yiren attended a meeting with David Rockefeller and the representatives of 300 Fortune 500 companies in the Chase Manhattan offices in New York. The purpose of the meeting between CITIC and the G3P representatives was: [To] identify and define those areas of the Chinese economy most susceptible to American technology and capital infusion. Kissinger and Rong reportedly established an investment company, with Trilateralist Kissinger appointed as a special advisor to CITIC. The initial phase of China’s economic transformation consisted of banking reforms that allowed much greater Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China. FDIs aren’t just capital investments. They typically come with a transfer or sharing of expertise, technology and even workforce. Common types of FDIs are mergers, acquisitions, management services and logistical and manufacturing agreements.
From the mid 1980s onwards the G3P began to pour into Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD).
By 2009 there were 114 Western companies with a substantial presence and established investments in Beijing and beyond. By 2020 there were 238 Fortune 500 companies in Beijing. Today, Beijing CBD (called the Functional Area) now houses the regional headquarters of 105 multinational corporations and more than 4,000 foreign-invested enterprises. The CBD is one of six “high-end industrial functional areas in Beijing.” According to Chinese state media, between 1983 and 1991 FDI in China went from a value of $920 million to $4.37 billion. By 2019 total FDI had risen to more than $2.1 trillion. At the same time, the transition economy of China, just like many other economies, rapidly expanded its money supply. All of this monopoly money, a mixture of FDI and domestic (digital) currency printing, fuelled the economic and technological development of China. In exchange for access to its market, the Chinese government required that investors sign so-called Forced Technology Transfer (FTT) agreements. Simultaneously, the Western mainstream media (MSM) began constantly pushing the notion of the “rising threat” of China and frequently accused China of alleged industrial espionage and “technology theft.“ Like so much propaganda aimed at Western populations by their MSM, these charges were just a fabrication. In truth, no one was forcing anyone to transfer technology to China. In fact, Trilateralists like President Bill Clinton went to considerable lengths to make sure China could get hold of the technology, including military technology, it needed. In 1994 the Clinton administration scrapped Cold War export controls, thereby enabling more sensitive technology to be transferred to China. Claiming that they would not allow defence technology, such as supercomputer or potential uranium enrichment technology, to go to China (or Russia), they soon lifted this restriction via a work-around that shifed oversight from the departments of State and Defense to the Department of Commerce. One only has to look at the near identical design of US and Chinese defence systems and weaponry to see that a massive amount of “sensitive” technology is common to both countries. The asinine explanation we are given is that this is all the result of Chinese espionage, even though the US government has amended legislation to make such transfers possible. The Israeli government and Israeli defence contractors have consistently acted as facilitators for the transfer of the most sensitive Western defence and surveillance technology to China. As soon as “reform and opening up” began in 1979, Israeli multibillionaire—then a humble billionaire—Saul Eisenberg flew a delegation of defence contractors to arrange military supply contracts with the Chinese government. While the West’s MSM parrots the intelligence agencies’ overwhelmingly baseless claims that China represents an “immense threat,” the US government and others have maintained deep defence ties with the Israeli government for generations. In the full and certain knowledge that Israel is passing defence technology to China, the US and other NATO allies continue to provide Israel with the latest defence technology. Occasionally a story surfaces claiming that Washingtion is “angered” by this habitual practice. If we look beyond the propaganda, the fables simply reaffirm that which is blatantly obvious. The Israeli government, its defence contractor and tech corporation partners, have consistently acted as a conduit for the transfer of “sensitive” defence, fintech, surveillance and communication technology from the West to China. Between 1992 and 2017 the volume of overall trade between Israel and China multiplied 200 times over. Another Western propagandist myth is that China has “stolen” jobs from Western economies. While it is true that manufacturers took advantage of cheaper labour costs in China, leading to job losses in the West, the practice of offshoring jobs had been ongoing for decades. Companies are in the business of maximising profits for shareholders and staying competitive. No one was forcing Western corporations to offshore. It was simply an economic expediency, largely the consequence of G3P efforts to modernise China’s economy. Often the focus of G3P investment in China has been Research and Development (R&D). In 1994 China ranked 30th in terms of US overseas R&D investment; by 2000 it was 11th. Between 1994 to 2001 multinational corporation (MNC) investment in China quadrupled. As a ratio of overseas R&D investment, the G3P were providing thrice the amount of “technology infusion” into China compared to anywhere else. While the pseudopandemic sharpened the decline in total global FDI, that figure continued to rise in China. The 4% increase of FDI in China in 2020 saw it temporarily surpass the US as the world’s leading recipient of direct investment. In 2020, while FDI in other advanced economies collapsed, China benefited from FDI valued at $163 billion. In addition to the huge growth stimulus pumped into the Chinese economy over the last four decades, a significant number of foreign/Chinese industrial R&D alliances were established. These were separate business organizations that targeted specific research or technological development projects. They were formed through collaboration between academic and scientific research establishments, NGOs, government institutions and private enterprise. Between 1990 and 2001 the US government established 105 such alliances. In the same time period, Japan had the second largest number of R&D partnership alliances (26), followed by Germany (15), the UK (14), Singapore (12), and Canada (11). The overwhelming majority of these R&D collaborations operated in China.
From 2001, to the financial crash in 2008, both FDI in R&D and China’s own R&D investment really took off. While the explosive pace of FDI growth slowed from 2010 onward, by 2016 China’s own outward foreign investment had surpassed the FDI it received. That was an astounding economic turnaround in less than 40 years.
A 2019 report by the World Bank stated: China’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose to 2.18 percent of GDP in 2018, up from 1.4 percent in 2007[.] [. . .] Its spending on R&D accounts for around 20 percent of the world total, second only to the United States. Its number of patents granted annually for inventions increased from 68,000 in 2007 to 420,000 in 2017, the highest in the world. [. . .] China is also a hotbed for venture capital in search of the next technology. [. . .] China has evolved from being a net importer of FDI to a net exporter. [. . .] China remains an attractive destination for foreign investments due to its large domestic market. Foreign enterprises such as BASF, BMW, Siemens, and Tesla have recently announced new or expanded investments in China. A focus of apparent Western concern has been China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This enormous infrastructure project, known in China as One Belt, One Road, or OBOR, is establishing a network of modern trade routes across Eurasia, linking Asia, Africa, Europe, South East Asia and Australasia, easing both international trade and, in particular, Chinese exports. Beyond China’s borders there are 140 countries involved in the BRI to one degree or another. In its 2018 research paper looking at FDI in a BRI-related project, the World Bank referred to those countries directly involved in its construction as BRI nations. China’s own investment in BRI nations has grown, but the majority of its FDI goes to non-BRI nations. These, according to the World Bank, are nations that are not inviolved in the BRI. China is the leading single nation investor in BRI nations but it does not account for the bulk of total investment. China took the lead after the 2008 financial crisis saw non-BRI nations (such as the US and the UK) pull back on their FDI deals in BRI nations. The investment from the non-BRI nations picked up again as quantitative easing (money printing) monetary policies in Western countries took effect post-2010. The World Bank reported: The majority of BRI countries’ [those who are part of the One Belt, One Road project] FDI inflow comes from non-BRI countries. That is to say, BRI nations—Italy, Saudi Arabia, Austria, New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore, etc.—are net recipients of FDI from non-BRI nations, such as the US, UK, France and Germany. The majority of the investment, expertise and technology that is building the BRI infrastructure comes from the non-BRI G3P partners. The notion that Western politicians, corporations and financial institutions are worried about the Belt and Road Initiative is just an MSM story. In reality, they are working hard to construct it in partnership with China. CHINA: THE WORLD’S FIRST TECHNATE China has developed an overt system dedicated to the social engineering of society. As noted in Part 1, the definition of technocracy is: The science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population. The focus of technocracy is to direct the population to maximise the efficiency of all “functions” of society, primarily through control of the allocation of resources. Published in 2014, the State Council Notice for planning a Social Credit System (SCS) outlined the Chinese government’s rationale for its social credit system: The social credit system is an important component of the Socialist market economy system and the social governance system; [. . .] its foundation is a complete network covering the credit records of all members of society and the credit infrastructure; [. . .] its reward and punishment mechanisms are incentivizing trustworthiness and restricting untrustworthiness. [. . .] The establishment of a social credit system is an important foundation for comprehensively implementing the scientific viewpoint of development. [. . .] Accelerating and advancing the establishment of the social credit system is an important precondition for promoting the optimized allocation of resources. This is a description of pure technocracy. Western commentators often focus upon the technological aspects of China’s social credit system. China certainly operates a dystopian surveillance society, but this complements the social credit system which, as the name suggests, is an overarching system for “implementing the scientific viewpoint of development.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reported that the supposedly “terrifying system doesn’t exist” in China: [T]he system that the central government has been slowly working on is a mix of attempts to regulate the financial credit industry, enable government agencies to share data with each other, and promote state-sanctioned moral values. MIT and its funding partners, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, have consistently highlighted the potential merits of the social credit system (SCS). When reading that material, we must separate the rhetoric of the engineers of the social credit system from its practical application. Like the Great Way or technocracy or communism, the political philosophy underpinning the social credit system is presented by its advocates as progressive, humanitarian and benign. Naturally, the people who impose this system would also need to be progressive, humanitarian and benign, right? Yet, while the social credit system is effectively a massive bureaucracy, combining the digital sharing of information with legislation and various paper-shuffling exercises, there are many aspects of it that are extremely concerning. For one thing, it creates a public-private partnership that, by rewarding good behaviour, fosters public faith in the mechanisms of the state. For another, it punishes those who aren’t duly faithful. The SCS removes access to “privileges” from people who have broken the law and even from those who haven’t. The concept of Joint Disciplinary Action in the SCS introduces the idea that, if found “untrustworthy,” a citizen or organisation so labelled will face broader social consequences, from having their right to fly removed to restricting their ability to book “high-class” tickets on trains to impeding their employment or business opportunities. The SCS sets up a blacklist for those deemed to have committed “misdeeds.” Thus far it has predominantly punished those who have failed to pay court fines or those considered bad debtors. Chinese state media have praised the courts’ partnership with tech giants like Sesame Credit—the credit-scoring system of the Alibaba Group subsidiary Ant Financial. Chinese government data, gathered from the courts and elsewhere, has been combined with private data, gathered from social media, for the purpose of lowering the financial credit score of millions of people who have been “blacklisted.” Public humiliation and shaming are commonly used to change the blacklisted’s behaviour. The Supreme Court maintains a database of “discredited individuals” (laolai). Tech companies like TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., publish laolai lists from the publicly available data to inform its users which companies and individuals have been “discredited.” Technology enhances the social credit system. To register a SIM cards and new SMART phones, Chinese users must by law use face scan technology. This biometric data then informs China’s already extensive and rapidly expanding national network of facial recognition cameras. The surveillance grid, allowing entry to everything from bus depots to safari parks, is integrating with alleged emotion-recognition technology to assess an individual’s mood and “predict” their behaviour. China’s internet is highly regulated via the “Measures on the Administration of Internet Information Services.” The government prohibits news bloggers from commenting on any policies or political developments without a license from the Cyberspace Adminstration of China (CAC). Again, this system operates as a public-private partnership. There are eight licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in China registered with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), but censorship largely occurs through the state’s partnership with fintech companies and social media platforms. The censorship is overseen by the Internet Information Office. The Chinese have to register their personal details to use the popular social media platforms. The independent sale of SIM cards and network adapters is prohibited; the cards and adapters require similar registration upon purchase and prior to use. The Chinese authorities can block foreign websites, restricting citizens access to information from outside China, and it is a crime for anyone to facilitate the illegal flow of prohibited information into China. The Chinese authorities have effectively created the crime of information-smuggling. Beyond inciting crimes or advocating violence or terrorism, Article 12 of China’s Cybersecurity Law outlines the other types of information that Chinese people are not permitted to share: [Users] must not use the Internet to engage in activities endangering national security, national honour, and national interests; they must not incite subversion of national sovereignty, overturn the socialist system, incite separatism, break national unity, [. . .] create or disseminate false information to disrupt the economic or social order, or information that infringes on the reputation, privacy, intellectual property or other lawful rights and interests of others, and other such acts. In other words, no one is permitted to question the state in China. This doesn’t stop the people from doing so, but the associated risks are high. Political dissidents can certainly expect to be censored by the social media platforms, and prison sentences are a distinct possibility for those who speak out too vociferously. Among the major geopolitical powers, China is leading in the development of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). CBDC is “programmable money” and the issuer can insert “smart contracts” to control what can be bought, where it can be used and who can use it. Bo Li, the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of China and the current Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaking at the Central Bank Digital Currencies for Financial Inclusion: Risks and Rewards symposium, clarified smart contracts further: CBDC can allow government agencies and private sector players to program [CBDC] to create smart-contracts, to allow targetted policy functions. For example[,] welfare payments [. . .], consumptions coupons, [. . .] food stamps. By programming, CBDC money can be precisely targeted [to] what kind of [things] people can own, and what kind of use [for which] this money can be utilised. For example, [. . .] for food. At the 2022 World Economic Forum’s Davos gathering, the president of the Chinese Alibaba Group, J. Michael Evans, announced that the global tech corporation would soon roll out its personal “carbon footprint tracker.” He said: We’re developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint [. . .] That’s where they’re travelling, how they are travelling, what are they eating, what are they consuming on the platform. [. . .] So, individual carbon footprint tracker, stay tuned! We don’t have it operational yet, but this is something we’re working on. During the initial COVID-19 lockdowns, China’s government required all businesses and public services to install Covid status app scanners, connected to the internet. In order to access shops, restaurants, libraries, hospitals, etc., and to move between the newly created urban “zones,” the Chinese have to use their Covid app. In conjunction with the SIM and SMART phone registration requirements, combined with the biometric facial recognition technology, the public movements of the urban Chinese can be tracked 24/7 in real time by China’s public-private partnership. The foundations for “the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism” have already been built in China. One of the major cities conducting some of its business in CBDC is Shanghai. In Shanghai’s Pudong “smart city” district, an AI integrated monitoring system is able to access the feeds from 290,000 surveillance cameras. The deputy director of the smart city, Sheng Denden, explained the systems value to the Chinese government: For the government, this is a tool for more efficient administration in the city. China is not communist. It is a technocracy. It is the world’s first Technate. THE CHINA BLAME GAME As we have already discussed, the idea that Western governments are “opposed” to China’s government is frankly ridiculous. This is not to suggest that there aren’t tensions, but these spring from competition not trenchant animosity. China’s government, and its tech giant partners, are as much a part of G3P as any other nation. The propaganda, from both the West and the Communist Party of China, serves as a surface narrative designed to divide and rule the global population, and to exert control over the respective domestic populations. The Trilateralists who worked tirelessly to ensure that China was able to construct a Technate are seemingly proud of their claimed achievements. In 2001, Hedley Donovan, one of the founding members of the Trilateral Commission alongside Brzezinski and the Rockefellers, wrote: It’s no exaggeration to describe the current regime as a technocracy. [. . .] You might say that technocratic politics is a natural fit with the Chinese political culture. [. . .] During the 1980s, technocracy as a concept was much talked about, especially in the context of so-called ‘Neo-Authoritarianism.’ [. . .] The basic beliefs and assumptions of the technocrats were laid out quite plainly: Social and economic problems were akin to engineering problems and could be understood, addressed, and eventually solved as such. [. . .] Scientism underlies the post-Mao technocracy, and it is the orthodoxy against which heresies are measured. The self-congratulation was largely misplaced. That China’s government developed a Technate owes more to that nation’s circumstances and political and social history and belief systems than it does to the ambitions of the Trilateralists. Technocracy is intended to be a sociopolitical system where individual rights are sacrificed to communitarianism. This is contrary to the Western liberal tradition. Technocracy represented less of a culture shock to the Chinese people. Certainly this fact was another impetus for the Trilateralists to pilot technocracy in China. Just as we in the West generally believe in individual liberty and freedom from the state, so the Chinese people largely hold that the state should strive to rule with ren along the path to the Great Way and equality for all. In both cases, the people continue to be deceived and disappointed by the “kakistocrats,” who clearly have no intention of living up to any of those principles or expectations. The mass and widespread Chinese demonstrations against the human cost of the government’s harsh Covid lockdown measures shows that the people are not willing to simply allow the state to do whatever it likes. While isolated protests in China are not unusual, the scale and coordination of these protests are testament to the Chinese people’s determination to resist oppression. The Western investment in Chinese technocracy was made with a view to developing a global system, not one restricted to China. From the surveillance network and social credit to censorship and social control using CBDC, having seen what can be achieved in China, Western governments are busy trying to impose exactly the same model of technocracy upon their own people. The Western political class cannot help but openly admire China’s technocracy. The only difference is that China’s system is publicly discussed—although rarely acknowledged as “technocracy” by name—while the rapidly emerging technocracy in the West is denied and concealed. The G3P is ostensibly colonising Western populations yet remains eager to avoid the errors of 19th century colonialists. The Rockefellers’ research in the late 1950s highlighted the need to first justify the necessary destruction of democratic values—something all Western governments are working hard to do. For its part, the Chinese government has had its own reasons for allowing technocracy to flourish. Technocracy fits well with China’s domestic policy ambitions. That said, there is no reason to think that the Chinese government ever intended to “export” technocracy to other nations. Technocracy is being installed globally. This suits China’s oligarchy, accustomed as it is to operating a Technate. The Chinese government has no reason to stand in the way of the global adoption of technocracy. It is merely aligned with the global transformation, not leading it. China’s government is not forcing other nations to adopt technocracy. Rather, all governments are collaborating to that end. The Chinese people are not our enemy, and China is not a foe to be fought. We, the people of the Earth, are all under attack by our own G3P governments.
Dutch Gov't Attempts To Forcibly Close 3,000 Farms To Comply With 'Green' Agenda https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1598353919394054147 https://twitter.com/ongehoordnedtv/status/1598343215177994241 Dutch farmers protesting for months over the government's radical 'green' plan to slash nitrogen emissions by 50% - 95% could soon face forced buyouts of their land. "For agricultural entrepreneurs, there will be a stopping scheme that will be as attractive as possible," Christianne van der Wal, nitrogen minister, recently said in the Dutch parliament. The Dutch government plans to purchase 3,000 "peak polluter" farms via a €24.3 billion ($25.6 billion) fund. Van der Wal said farmers would be offered 100% value for their land, but if voluntary efforts fail, farmers will face forced buyouts. The country is attempting to reduce nitrogen pollution and will make farm purchases if not enough landowners accept buyouts. She added: "There is no better offer coming." So, how did this happen? As we explained over the summer, farmers were livid with the Dutch government for following through with their green agenda to reduce nitrogen emissions on farms. Many of these folks took to the streets with their tractors and pitchforks and demanded the government reverse course on crushing the country's agriculture industry. Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU's 'Green' Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany Dutch Protesters Pour Manure On Government Offices Over Industry-Killing Regulations Dutch Farmers Bring Tank To Fertilizer Protest; Cops Shoot Tractor The Dutch government began implementing new rules on nitrogen activity on farmers and farm buildings as early as 2019. That halted the expansion of dairy, pig, and poultry operations for the last several years, which are significant sources of nitrogen pollution. One Dutch farmer spoke with 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss the pressure from the government and their move to close down thousands of farms. "I don't know what we can expect. For my own family, I hope that one of my sons can continue farming if he wants," Dutch Farmer Geertjan Kloosterboer said. The Netherlands is trying to reduce emissions and follow through with a green agenda, but it could jeopardize the nation's food supply and put the world's supply at risk. Recent data shows the country, which is the size of Maryland, is the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the US. Their centrality in the global food supply is indisputable, and so-called green politicians want to destroy the industry in the name of climate change. It seems like the protests aren't going away anytime soon. Verslaggever van Ongehoord Nederland @JJKrispijn is vandaag in #Zwolle belaagd door een #politie-shovel.#boerenprotest #ongehoordnieuws pic.twitter.com/8na7DiSCVC — Ongehoord Nederland TV (@ongehoordnedtv) December 1, 2022 The situation in the Netherlands is escalating, with police completely unable to contain the situation. Farmers are fed up. https://t.co/363xQ40wUR pic.twitter.com/x2b1k16AWy — Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) December 1, 2022 Just imagine if the Biden administration attempted such a land grab Stateside...
Thought police... two words for them wokesters... FUCK YOU "Insane, Brave, Karen": Stanford Drops New Woke List Of Verboten Language https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/ehli Stanford University, home to one of the most unethical psychology experiments in history, has just dropped a list of words we're not supposed to use. If you want a fun holiday activity: Try to explain to your older relatives why they can no longer say things like "long time no see" or "rule of thumb." And then tell your Gen Z relatives that "preferred pronouns" and "trigger warning" are both OUT now. — Justine Moore (@venturetwins) December 18, 2022 Newly verboten words, categorized by type of offense include; Ableism: Insane, Lame, Crazy, Spaz and Tone Deaf - which are " Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with mental health conditions." Culturally Appropriative: Brave - which "perpetuates the stereotype of the "noble courageous savage," equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man." Tribe - "Historically used to equate Indigenous people with savages." Guru - "In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the word is a sign of respect. Using it casually negates its original value." Gender Based: He / She - Unless you know the person you're addressing uses "he / she" as their pronoun, it is better to use "they" or to ask the person which pronouns they use. Ladies, Landlord/Landlady, Gentlemen / Freshman / Congressman/woman, you guys - "Lumps a group of people using gender binary language that doesn't include everyone." Seminal - This term reinforces male-dominated language. Transgendered - This term avoids connections that being transgender is something that is done to a person and/or that some kind of transition is required. Imprecise Language: Abort - This term can unintentionally raise religious/moral concerns over abortion. American - This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries). [ZH: ACKCHYUALLY] Karen - This term is used to ridicule or demean a certain group of people based on their behaviors. Thug - Although the term refers to a violent person or criminal, it often takes on a racist connotation when used in certain circles. The list goes on and on... If you want a fun holiday activity: Try to explain to your older relatives why they can no longer say things like "long time no see" or "rule of thumb." And then tell your Gen Z relatives that "preferred pronouns" and "trigger warning" are both OUT now. — Justine Moore (@venturetwins) December 18, 2022 If you're still reading, why not keep going! Person-First: Homeless Person, Immigrant, Prisoner, Prostitute - Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics. Violent: Trigger warning - The phrase can cause stress about what's to follow. Additionally, one can never know what may or may not trigger a particular person. War room - Unnecesary [Stanford spelled this wrong] use of violent language Pull the trigger - Unnecessarily uses violent imagery to encourage another person to do something. Killing two birds with one stone - This expression normalizes violence against animals. Honorable mention: Long time no see - This phrase was originally used to mock Indigenous peoples and Chinese who spoke pidgin English. Make it stop! This tweet offended me because 1) "think" implies an intentional mental action which may cause those with mental illness to feel marginalized. Try "feel" instead 2) Use of the term "individual" implies autonomy outside of community/group. Try "human" instead. — Andy Swan (@AndySwan) December 18, 2022
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A Nation Of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans To Report On Each Other John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/03/28/how-the-pandemic-has-affecte... https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html https://archive.adl.org/learn/safety/exident.html https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx https://leohohmann.com/2023/09/11/exclusive-homeland-security-awards-20-mill... https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something/about-campaign https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2023/09/06/nj-new-see-some... https://cops.usdoj.gov/ https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/dhs-rebrands-and-exp... https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/strong_cities_network_will_foster_co... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/launch-strong-cities-network-strengthen-commu... https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/New-Partnership-to-Help-Fusion-Centers... https://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/u-s-predictive-policing-program-use... https://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenet... https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf https://fas.org/irp/eprint/leftwing.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590795229... https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Blair-Diaries-Battlefield-Dead/dp/1954968027/ https://www.rutherford.org/ “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.” - Professor Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler Are you among the 41% of Americans who regularly attend church or some other religious service? Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law? Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car? Are you among the 44% of Americans who live in a household with a gun? If so, are you concerned that the government may be plotting to confiscate your firearms? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a. domestic terrorist) in the eyes of the government and flagged for heightened surveillance and preemptive intervention. Let that sink in a moment. If you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you have just been promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list. I assure you I’m not making this stuff up. So what is the government doing about these so-called American “extremists”? The government is grooming the American people to spy on each other as part of its Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, or CP3 program. According to journalist Leo Hohmann, the government is handing out $20 million in grants to police, mental health networks, universities, churches and school districts to enlist their help in identifying Americans who might be political dissidents or potential “extremists.” As Hohmann explains, “Whether it’s COVID and vaccines, the war in Ukraine, immigration, the Second Amendment, LGBTQ ideology and child-gender confusion, the integrity of our elections, or the issue of protecting life in the womb, you are no longer allowed to hold dissenting opinions and voice them publicly in America. If you do, your own government will take note and consider you a potential ‘violent extremist’ and terrorist.” Cue the dawning of the Snitch State. This new era of snitch surveillance is the lovechild of the government’s post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” programs combined with the self-righteousness of a politically correct, hyper-vigilant, technologically-wired age. For more than two decades, the Department of Homeland Security has plastered its “See Something, Say Something” campaign on the walls of metro stations, on billboards, on coffee cup sleeves, at the Super Bowl, even on television monitors in the Statue of Liberty. Colleges, universities and even football teams and sporting arenas have lined up for grants to participate in the program. The government has even designated September 25 as National “If You See Something, Say Something” Awareness Day. If you see something suspicious, says the DHS, say something about it to the police, call it in to a government hotline, or report it using a convenient app on your smart phone. This DHS slogan is nothing more than the government’s way of indoctrinating “we the people” into the mindset that we’re an extension of the government and, as such, have a patriotic duty to be suspicious of, spy on, and turn in our fellow citizens. This is what is commonly referred to as community policing. Yet while community policing and federal programs such as “See Something, Say Something” are sold to the public as patriotic attempts to be on guard against those who would harm us, they are little more than totalitarian tactics dressed up and repackaged for a more modern audience as well-intentioned appeals to law and order and security. The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own policing. After all, the police can’t be everywhere. So how do you police a nation when your population outnumbers your army of soldiers? How do you carry out surveillance on a nation when there aren’t enough cameras, let alone viewers, to monitor every square inch of the country 24/7? How do you not only track but analyze the transactions, interactions and movements of every person within the United States? The answer is simpler than it seems: You persuade the citizenry to be your eyes and ears. You hype them up on color-coded “Terror alerts,” keep them in the dark about the distinctions between actual threats and staged “training” drills so that all crises seem real, desensitize them to the sight of militarized police walking their streets, acclimatize them to being surveilled “for their own good,” and then indoctrinate them into thinking that they are the only ones who can save the nation from another 9/11. Consequently, we now live in a society in which a person can be accused of any number of crimes without knowing what exactly he has done. He might be apprehended in the middle of the night by a roving band of SWAT police. He might find himself on a no-fly list, unable to travel for reasons undisclosed. He might have his phones or internet tapped based upon a secret order handed down by a secret court, with no recourse to discover why he was targeted. This Kafkaesque nightmare has become America’s reality. This is how you turn a people into extensions of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent police state, and in the process turn a citizenry against each other. It’s a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other and shadowy forces from outside the country, they’re incapable of focusing on more definable threats that fall closer to home—namely, the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners. Community policing did not come about as a feel-good, empowering response to individuals trying to “take back” their communities from crime syndicates and drug lords. Rather, “Community-Oriented Policing” or COPS (short for Community Partnerships, Organizational Transformation, and Problem Solving) is a Department of Justice program designed to foster partnerships between police agencies and members of the community. To this end, the Justice Department identifies five distinct “partners” in the community policing scheme: law enforcement and other government agencies, community members and groups, nonprofits, churches and service providers, private businesses and the media. Together, these groups are supposed to “identify” community concerns, “engage” the community in achieving specific goals, serve as “powerful” partners with the government, and add their “considerable resources” to the government’s already massive arsenal of technology and intelligence. The mainstream media’s role, long recognized as being a mouthpiece for the government, is formally recognized as “publicizing” services from government or community agencies or new laws or codes that will be enforced, as well as shaping public perceptions of the police, crime problems, and fear of crime. Inevitably, this begs the question: if there’s nothing wrong with community engagement, if the police can’t be everywhere at once, if surveillance cameras do little to actually prevent crime, and if we need to “take back our communities” from the crime syndicates and drug lords, then what’s wrong with community policing and “See Something, Say Something”? What’s wrong is that these programs are not, in fact, making America any safer while turning us into a legalistic, intolerant, squealing, bystander nation. We are now the unwitting victims of an interconnected, tightly woven, technologically evolving web of real-time, warrantless, wall-to-wall, widening mass surveillance dragnet comprised of fusion centers, red flag laws, behavioral threat assessments, terror watch lists, facial recognition, snitch tip lines, biometric scanners, pre-crime programs, DNA databases, data mining, precognitive technology and contact tracing apps, to name just a few. This is how the government keeps us under control and in its crosshairs. By the time you combine the DHS’ “See Something, Say Something” with CP3 and community policing, which has gone global in the guise of the Strong Cities Network program, you’ve got a formula for enabling the government to not only flag distinct “anti-government” segments of the population but locking down the entire nation. Under the guise of fighting violent extremism “in all of its forms and manifestations” in cities and communities across the world, the Strong Cities Network program works with the UN and the federal government to train local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as address intolerance within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal. What this program is really all about, however, is community policing on a global scale with the objective being to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc. In other words, police will identify, monitor and deter individuals who could be construed as potential extremist “threats,” violent or otherwise, before they can become actual threats. The government’s war on extremists has been sold to Americans in much the same way that the USA Patriot Act was sold to Americans: as a means of combatting terrorists who seek to destroy America. However, as we now know, the USA Patriot Act was used as a front to advance the surveillance state, allowing the government to establish a far-reaching domestic spying program that has turned every American citizen into a criminal suspect. Similarly, the concern with the government’s ongoing anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist. Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American “extremists” will carry out their objectives—to identify and deter potential extremists—in concert with fusion centers, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics (in which life experiences alter one’s genetic makeup). This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it’s been a long time coming. For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists. These reports, which use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably, indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—can be labeled an extremist. Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which each successive presidential administration has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if you’re seen as an extremist. Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the far-reaching data crime fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies. Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that identifies and tracks you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers which are attempting to “predict” crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs. If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention. As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, unless we can put the brakes on this dramatic expansion and globalization of the government’s powers, we’re not going to recognize this country five, ten—even twenty—years from now. As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better. It’s already worse.
Another day, another operation of some kind or another... When the political system and elite agents of power infest and influence everything broad and deep, it becomes impossible to sort elements of truth from elements of false... except for their own denials and words and actions that prove at least impeachable dishonesty and coverup of fault and action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAV0bM2aDgE Lahaina Hawaii fire was started intentionally and families were murdered for a land grab/to convert Maui into a smart city - What we know so far: None of the 80 sirens on island were activated (despite lying from the government + governor Josh Green sirens have always been used for earthquakes, fires, etc and not just tsunamis) -Water pumps/hydrants had no water at the time (water was cut off by city water manager to fire fighters) -City refuses to give official estimate on amount of missing children or dead children, same with adults and families. -Morgue 100% full -It took 6 days for FEMA to show up, and when they did the first thing they did was confiscate food and water that was being given out to survivors, because it was not “FEMA approved” meanwhile Fema officials are staying at 5 star resorts in Maui like the Four Seasons ranging from $1300+ a night. (same hotels owned by Bill Gates) -fire marshalls, mayor and governor were all out of town day of the fire in Lahaina (and many Maui emergency management officials were at a disaster emergency prevention meeting in Waikiki same day of the fire, including Herman Andaya who resigned after facing scrutiny for standing by his decision to not turn on the sirens) Top FEMA officials were also at this meeting -Cops had barricades and blockades setup that prevented people from heading to safety from the fire. Multiple survivors/witnesses many with video proof all confirm this same story. One Lahaina resident specifically mentions a policeman blocking Front Street with his policecar, which blocked any cars from leaving Front Street. (Fish) This cop told resident he was just “following orders”, which led to many people burning alive in those cars because of that specific blockade. Most survivors only survived because they disobeyed orders from police. Both exits North and South of front street were blocked off preventing people from escaping. -Land in Lahaina is sacred and historical that locals did not want to sell for a long time worth billions of dollar$, conveniently all that land was burned in the fires In late 2022 there was a smart city conference in Maui to turn Maui into a smart city/island, pushing everything electric and making 15 minute smart cities. A contract signed last year to build high rise condos and businesses in Lahaina, which was a historical town that could not have new development done it.. -Schools were closed day of fires (wind warning), leading to lots of children burning alive at home while their parents were at work -Many witnesses report never seeing firetrucks anywhere John Pelettier (polic chief of Maui) is also the coroner/medical examiner (huge conflict of interest) ... and was crisis coordinator/incident commander and police commander in Las Vegas during the 2017 Las Vegas massacre where 58 people were shot to death, one of the worst shootings in US history and John was in charge... *John’s personal secretary Terry Jones died under suspicious circumstances last year -molten metal next to intact trees -Properties owned by billionaries like jeff bezos, oprah, and paypal founder remained untouched while land of the natives burned only a few feet away Maui emergency Administrator Herman Andaya resigned from his job a few days after the Lahaina fire, after facing huge public backlash and criticism for his decision to not turn on the sirens warning system during the fires. Herman also lied to everyone stating in a press conference that turning on the sirens would have been a poor decision because Hawaiians associate sirens with tsunamis and so they would have ran to the mountains towards the fire...as if they would not have noticed the fire outside, this answer is insulting as if he thinks people are stupid and stupid enough to believe his lies, as sirens on the island have always been used for earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and fires as stated on the Hawaii.gov website. -Blackrock and the US government are 2 out of 3 of the largest landowners on the island who have been trying to buy land from the natives for the past few decades who refuse to sell and both of them are apart of the renewable energy agenda -15 school buses missing and unaccounted for. No debris or burnt out wrecks. -Locals estimate schools have 3000 kids registered, but only 300-400 showed up which leaves 2600 children unaccounted for. -Governor Josh Green when asked during a news interview about government’s poor response and no sirens/warnings: he made excuses about everything, blamed global warming twice and regarding no water available for the fires he just said “we don’t have enough water on these islands”. Took no accountability and deflected question about the siren. In same interview he said - “I want to warn the entire planet about this” “this is how fire hurricanes will look in the era of global warming” and made it clear these fires can happen anywhere/anytime in today’s age, seems like a threat/convenient excuses for their failures Another interesting fact is that they had to waive the one year residency requirement in Maui to even hire cheif Pelettier. They literally ignored the statute to get the guy hired and allowed him to ignore it for hiring of his Las Vegas based deputy as well. Incoming Chief John Pelletier announced in the letter he selected as his second in command Charles L. Hank III. Both men, who served in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, will be sworn in at a December ceremony in Wailuku. ... The commission previously waived a one-year residency requirement for Pelletier. He will have the ability to waive the residency requirement for his deputy, said Corporation Counsel Moana Lutey. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/11/18/breaking-news/new-maui-police-chie... https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2021/12/from-vegas-to-maui-new-chie... He was the chief in Vegas when the shooting happened.
Mass psyop tool used by evils: Google Jigsaw The New Abnormal: Authoritarian Control Freaks Want To Micromanage Our Lives https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary... https://reason.com/2023/09/15/environmentalists-are-destroying-my-kitchen/ https://leohohmann.com/2023/09/18/20-common-functions-of-american-life-the-g... https://www.freedominthe50states.org/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10404543/America-nanny-state-Freedo... https://www.cnbc.com/2012/05/31/Americas-Nanny-State-Laws.html https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/484928-ridiculous-laws-are-symp... https://www.technocracy.news/operation-warp-speed-your-one-way-ticket-to-tot... https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/civil_l... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-jackson-mississippi-want-access-... https://futurism.com/neoscope/us-government-considering-covid-19-immunity-ca... https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/covid-19-coronavirus-a... https://www.nwitimes.com/news/residents-snitch-on-businesses-neighbors-amid-... https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-media-police-microso... https://www.technocracy.news/big-brother-your-wifi-can-now-be-used-to-see-th... https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590795229... https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Blair-Diaries-Battlefield-Dead/dp/1954968027/ Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry. This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, is the very definition of a Nanny State, where government representatives (those elected and appointed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best and therefore must control, regulate and dictate almost everything about the citizenry’s public, private and professional lives. Indeed, it’s a dangerous time for anyone who still clings to the idea that freedom means the right to think for yourself and act responsibly according to your best judgment. This tug-of-war for control and sovereignty over our selves impacts almost every aspect of our lives, whether you’re talking about decisions relating to our health, our homes, how we raise our children, what we consume, what we drive, what we wear, how we spend our money, how we protect ourselves and our loved ones, and even who we associate with and what we think. As Liz Wolfe writes for Reason, “Little things that make people’s lives better, tastier, and less tedious are being cracked down on by big government types in federal and state governments.” You can’t even buy a stove, a dishwasher, a showerhead, a leaf blower, or a lightbulb anymore without running afoul of the Nanny State. In this way, under the guise of pseudo-benevolence, the government has meted out this bureaucratic tyranny in such a way as to nullify the inalienable rights of the individual and limit our choices to those few that the government deems safe enough. Yet limited choice is no choice at all. Likewise, regulated freedom is no freedom at all. Indeed, as a study by the Cato Institute concludes, for the average American, freedom has declined generally over the past 20 years. As researchers William Ruger and Jason Sorens explain, “We ground our conception of freedom on an individual rights framework. In our view, individuals should be allowed to dispose of their lives, liberties, and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.” The overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government (and its corporate partners in crime) are all around us: censorship, criminalizing, shadow banning and de-platforming of individuals who express ideas that are politically incorrect or unpopular; warrantless surveillance of Americans’ movements and communications; SWAT team raids of Americans’ homes; shootings of unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; community-wide lockdowns and health mandates that strip Americans of their freedom of movement and bodily integrity; armed drones taking to the skies domestically; endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside strip searches; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans; fusion centers that spy on, collect and disseminate data on Americans’ private transactions; and militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling. Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the endless, petty tyrannies—the heavy-handed, punitive-laden dictates inflicted by a self-righteous, Big-Brother-Knows-Best bureaucracy on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace—that illustrate so clearly the degree to which “we the people” are viewed as incapable of common sense, moral judgment, fairness, and intelligence, not to mention lacking a basic understanding of how to stay alive, raise a family, or be part of a functioning community. When the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the individual rights of the citizenry, we’re in trouble, folks. Federal and state governments have used the law as a bludgeon to litigate, legislate and micromanage our lives through overregulation and overcriminalization. This is what happens when bureaucrats run the show, and the rule of law becomes little more than a cattle prod for forcing the citizenry to march in lockstep with the government. Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal, and everyone becomes a lawbreaker. You don’t have to look far to find abundant examples of Nanny State laws that infantilize individuals and strip them of their ability to decide things for themselves. Back in 2012, then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg infamously proposed a ban on the sale of sodas and large sugary drinks in order to guard against obesity. Other localities enacted bans on texting while jaywalking, wearing saggy pants, having too much mud on your car, smoking outdoors, storing trash in your car, improperly sorting your trash, cursing within earshot of others, or screeching your tires. Yet while there are endless ways for the Nanny State to micromanage our lives, things become truly ominous when the government adopts mechanisms enabling it to monitor us for violations in order to enforce its many laws. Nanny State, meet the all-seeing, all-knowing Surveillance State and its sidekick, the muscle-flexing Police State. You see, in an age of overcriminalization—when the law is wielded like a hammer to force compliance to the government’s dictates whatever they might be—you don’t have to do anything “wrong” to be fined, arrested or subjected to raids and seizures and surveillance. You just have to refuse to march in lockstep with the government. As policy analyst Michael Van Beek warns, the problem with overcriminalization is that there are so many laws at the federal, state and local levels—that we can’t possibly know them all. “It’s also impossible to enforce all these laws. Instead, law enforcement officials must choose which ones are important and which are not. The result is that they pick the laws Americans really must follow, because they’re the ones deciding which laws really matter,” concludes Van Beek. “Federal, state and local regulations — rules created by unelected government bureaucrats — carry the same force of law and can turn you into a criminal if you violate any one of them… if we violate these rules, we could be prosecuted as criminals. No matter how antiquated or ridiculous, they still carry the full force of the law. By letting so many of these sit around, just waiting to be used against us, we increase the power of law enforcement, which has lots of options to charge people with legal and regulatory violations.” This is the police state’s superpower: empowered by the Nanny State, it has been vested with the authority to make our lives a bureaucratic hell. Indeed, if you were unnerved by the rapid deterioration of privacy under the Surveillance State, prepare to be terrified by the surveillance matrix that will be ushered in by the Nanny State working in tandem with the Police State. The government’s response to COVID-19 saddled us with a Nanny State inclined to use its draconian pandemic powers to protect us from ourselves. The groundwork laid with COVID-19 is a prologue to what will become the police state’s conquest of a new, relatively uncharted, frontier: inner space, specifically, the inner workings (genetic, biological, biometric, mental, emotional) of the human race. Consider how many more ways the government could “protect us” from ourselves under the guise of public health and safety. For instance, under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch list. When combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by their biometrics and behavior, mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives, red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public safety, these preemptive mental health programs could well signal a tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging in so-called “thought crimes.” This is how it begins. On a daily basis, Americans are already relinquishing (in many cases, voluntarily) the most intimate details of who we are—their biological makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in order to navigate an increasingly technologically-enabled world. Having conditioned the population to the idea that being part of society is a privilege and not a right, such access could easily be predicated on social credit scores, the worthiness of one’s political views, or the extent to which one is willing to comply with the government’s dictates, no matter what they might be. COVID-19 with its talk of mass testing, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities was a preview of what’s to come. We should all be leery and afraid. At a time when the government has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state, it won’t take much for any of us to be considered outlaws or terrorists. After all, the government likes to use the words “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” interchangeably. The Department of Homeland Security broadly defines extremists as individuals “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.” At some point, being an individualist will be considered as dangerous as being a terrorist. When anything goes when it’s done in the name of national security, crime fighting and terrorism, “we the people” have little to no protection against SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police shootings of unarmed citizens, indefinite detentions, and the like, whether or not you’ve done anything wrong. In an age of overcriminalization, you’re already a criminal. All the government needs is proof of your law-breaking. They’ll get it, too. Whether it’s through the use of surveillance software such as ShadowDragon that allows police to watch people’s social media activity, or technology that uses a home’s WiFi router and smart appliances to allow those on the outside to “see” throughout your home, it’s just a matter of time. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying one of its numerous mandates but when.
Mass psyop tool used by evils: Google Jigsaw
The people behind 1984 really do employ psychologists to figure out how to roll out and pull off all the shit you've been seeing around the world. Unless you study messaging and other forces darkly applied, you'll never notice it. The Great Demoralization Commentary by Jeffrey A. Tucker https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-great-demoralization-5498920 https://www.aier.org/article/why-this-draconian-response-to-covid-19/ https://brownstone.org/articles/what-we-knew-in-the-early-days/ https://poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death/ https://brownstone.org/articles/clean-vs-dirty-a-way-to-understand-everythin... https://brownstone.org/articles/the-political-hierarchy-of-infection/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/coronavirus-quarantines-ebola.html On March 6, 2020, the mayor of Austin, Texas, canceled the biggest tech and arts trade show in the world, South-by-Southwest, only a week before hundreds of thousands were to gather in the city. In an instant, with the stroke of a pen, it was all gone: hotel reservations, flight plans, performances, exhibitors, and all the hopes and dreams of thousands of merchants in the town. Economic impact: a loss $335 million in revenue at least. And that was just to the city alone, to say nothing of the broader impact. (imtmphoto/Shutterstock) It was the beginning of U.S. lockdowns. It wasn’t entirely clear at the time—my own sense was that this was a calamity that would lead to decades of successful lawsuits against the Austin mayor—but it turned out that Austin was the test case and template for the entire nation and then the world. The reason was of course COVID but the pathogen wasn’t even there. The idea was to keep it out of the city, an incredible and sudden fallback to a medieval practice that has nothing to do with modern public health understanding of how a respiratory virus should be handled. “In six months,” I wrote at the time, “if we are in a recession, unemployment is up, financial markets are wrecked, and people are locked in their homes, we’ll wonder why the heck governments chose disease ‘containment’ over disease mitigation. Then the conspiracy theorists get to work.” I was right about the conspiracy theorists but I had not anticipated that they would turn out to be right about nearly everything. We were being groomed for extended national and global lockdowns. At this point in the trajectory, we already knew the gradient of risk. It was not medically significant for healthy working-age adults (which still to this day the CDCs does not admit). So the shutdown likely protected very few if anyone. The extraordinary edict—worthy of a tin-pot dictator of a dark age—completely overrode the wishes of millions, all on the decision of one man, whose name is Steven Adler. “Was the consideration between maintaining that money, effectively rolling the dice, and doing what you did?” asked Texas Monthly of the mayor. His answer: “No.” Clarifying: “We made a decision based on what was in the best health interest for the city. And that is not an easy choice.” After the shocking cancellation, which overrode property rights and free will, the mayor urged all residents to go out and eat at restaurants and gather and spend money to support the local economy. In this later interview, he explained that he had no problem keeping the city open. He just didn’t want people from hither and yon—the dirty people, so to speak—to bring a virus with them. He was here playing the role of Prince Prospero in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.” He was turning the capital city of Texas into a castle in which the elite could hide from the virus, an action that also became a foreshadowing of what was to come: the division of the entire country into clean and dirty populations. The mayor further added a strange comment: “I think the spread of the disease here is inevitable. I don’t think that closing down South Bay was intended to stop the disease from getting here because it is coming. The assessment of our public health professionals was that we were risking it coming here more quickly, or in a greater way with a greater impact. And the longer we could put that off, the better this city is.” And there we have the “flatten the curve” thinking at work. Kick the can down the road. Postpone. Delay herd immunity as long as possible. Yes, everyone will get the bug but it is always better that it happens later rather than sooner. But why? We were never told. Flatten the curve was really just prolong the pain, keep our overlords in charge as long as possible, put normal life on hold, and stay safe as long as you can. Prolonging the pain might also have served another surreptitious agenda: let the working classes—the dirty people—get the bug and bear the burden of herd immunity so that the elites can stay clean and hopefully it will die out before it gets to the highest echelons. There was indeed a hierarchy of infection. In all these months, no one ever explained to the American public why prolonging the period of non-exposure was always better than meeting the virus sooner, gaining immunity, and getting over it. The hospitals around the country were not strained. Indeed, with the inexplicable shutdown of medical services for diagnostics and elective surgeries, hospitals in Texas were empty for months. Health care spending collapsed. This was the onset of the great demoralization. The message was: your property is not your own. Your events are not yours. Your decisions are subject to our will. We know better than you. You cannot take risks with your own free will. Our judgment is always better than yours. We will override anything about your bodily autonomy and choices that are inconsistent with our perceptions of the common good. There is no restraint on us and every restraint on you. This messaging and this practice is inconsistent with a flourishing human life, which requires the freedom of choice above all else. It also requires the security of property and contracts. It presumes that if we make plans, those plans cannot be arbitrarily canceled by force by a power outside of our control. Those are bare minimum presumptions of a civilized society. Anything else leads to barbarism and that is exactly where the Austin decision took us. We still don’t know precisely who was involved in this rash judgment or on what basis they made it. There was a growing sense in the country at the time that something was going to happen. There had been sporadic use of lockdown powers in the past. Think of the closure of Boston after the bombing in 2013. A year later, the state of Connecticut quarantined two travelers who might have been exposed to Ebola in Africa. These were the precedents. “The coronavirus is driving Americans into unexplored territory, in this case understanding and accepting the loss of freedom associated with a quarantine,” wrote the New York Times on March 19, 2020, three days after the Trump press conference that announced two weeks to flatten the curve. The experience on a nationwide basis fundamentally undermined the civil liberties and rights that Americans had long taken for granted. It was a shock to everyone but to young people still in school, it was utter trauma and a moment of mental reprogramming. They learned all the wrong lessons: they are not in charge of their lives; someone else is. The only way to be is to figure out the system and play along. We now see epic learning loss, psychological shock, population-wide obesity and substance abuse, a fall in investor confidence, a shrinkage of savings reflecting less interest in the future, and a dramatic decline in public participation in what used to be normal life events: church, theater, museums, libraries, fairs, symphonies, ballets, theme parks, and so on. Attendance in general is down by half and this is starving these venues of money. Most of the big institutions in large cities like New York, such as Broadway and the Met, are on life support. The symphony halls have a third empty seats despite lowering prices. It seems remarkable that this three-and-a-half year-long war against basic liberty for nearly everyone has come to this. And yet it should not be a surprise. All ideology aside, you simply cannot maintain much less cultivate a civilized life when governments, in combination with the commanding heights of media and large corporations, treat their citizens like lab rats in a science experiment. You only end in sucking away the essence and vibrancy of the human spirit, as well as the will to build a good life. In the name of public health, they sapped the will to health. And if you object, they shut you up. This is still going on daily. The ruling class that did this to the country has yet to speak honestly about what transpired. It was their actions that created the current cultural, economic, and social crisis. Their experiment left the country and our lives in shambles. We’ve yet to hear apologies or even basic honesty about any of it. Instead, all we get is more misleading propaganda about how we need yet another shot that doesn’t work. History provides many cases of a beaten down, demoralized, and increasingly poor and censored majority population being ruled over by an imperious, inhumane, sadistic, privileged, and yet tiny ruling class. We just never believed we would become one of those cases. The truth of this is so grim and glaring, and the likely explanation of what happened so shocking, that the entire subject is regarded as something of a taboo in public life. There will be no fixing this, no crawling out from under the rubble, until we get something from our rulers other than public preening about a job well done, in ads sponsored by Pfizer and Moderna.
CIA Building Own ChatGPT-style AI Bot In Shadow Of China's Advances https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/cia-builds-its-own-artifi... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-05/us-spies-should-tap-priva... https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1635287094645096455 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12563289/cia-launches-ai-cha... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10346933/China-develops-AI-prosecut... https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/minority-report-spielber... The US Central Intelligence Agency's Open-Source Enterprise division will soon roll out with a ChatGPT-like large language model (LLM), which is to serve as a tool for federal and intelligence agencies to more easily and quickly access intel and information. Director of the CIA's Open-Source Enterprise division, Randy Nixon, explained that source information can be sifted and returned to individual intel analysts faster than ever before. "We’ve gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going," Nixon told Bloomberg. "We have to find the needles in the needle field," he added. In addition to literally hundreds of thousands or millions of classified files, analysts often rely on gathering open-source information for their assessments as well. For example this could include culling public social media apps like Facebook or X. "Then you can take it to the next level and start chatting and asking questions of the machines to give you answers, also sourced," Nixon continued. "Our collection can just continue to grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost." He explained further that the AI platform will be available and used by Washington's 18 different intelligence branches, including federal law enforcement, such as the FBI. It's also expected that the US military will have access, though it remains that security protocols and preventing leaks will be a big question, given the vast amounts of classified materials which will be at the tool's disposal. There's also the question of privacy, especially following the Edward Snowden revelations of a decade ago showing that the NSA had in prior years regularly swept up the data of innocent American citizens, violating their Fourth Amendment protections. According to a prior Bloomberg report which questioned the NSA over the impact on privacy: "The intelligence community needs to find a way to take benefit of these large models without violating privacy," Gilbert Herrera, director of research at the National Security Agency, said in an interview. "If we want to realize the full power of artificial intelligence for other applications, then we’re probably going to have to rely on a partnership with industry.” "It all has to be done in a manner that respects civil liberties and privacy," Herrera claimed in that prior interview. "It’s a tough problem," she added, further admitting that "The issue of the intelligence community’s use of publicly trained information is an issue we’re going to have to grapple with because otherwise there would be capabilities of AI that we would not be able to use." The future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is bright at #CIA. We’re always looking to build strong partnerships with the visionaries of today … and tomorrow.#CIASXSW #EmergingTech #FutureofIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning — CIA (@CIA) March 13, 2023 But we highly doubt the US government's top intelligence officials will be overly concerned with "limiting" AI's power due to the Bill of Rights and concerns over individual privacy. Another interesting aspect to the CIA working on its own version of ChatGPT is the question of competition with China's significant advances in AI. The new Bloomberg report highlights the mounting pressure US intelligence faces in the wake of more advanced Chinese capabilities. Beijing is looking to become the global leader in the AI field by 2030, and is already considered by many to be a world leader in the technology: In an ominous glimpse into the nation's use of the programs, in 2021 China developed a 'prosecutor' that could identify and press charges with a reported 97 percent accuracy. In contrast, America's law enforcement sphere has also come under fire for struggling to utilize the power of AI in investigations, but Nixon said the new program will aid in condensing the unprecedented levels of information floating through the web. But it remains that in the West there is a much more robust legal concept of individual rights, free expression, and autonomy - compared to communist China. On this front, concerning a CIA-built AI chatbot, what could possibly go wrong? After all, the American public doesn't want to find itself living in a society modeled on "Minority Report" merely for the sake of 'keeping up' technologically with rival superpowers (however, in some ways we are already there).
CIA Building Own ChatGPT-style AI Bot In Shadow Of China's Advances
COINTELPRO, PsyOps, InfoOps, Agent Provacateurs, Disinformation, Misinformation, Bots, Spammers, Sockpuppets, Trolls, Instigators, Incitement, Lies, Deception, False Editors, False Curators, Spies, Informants, Pleas, Bribes, Pay, Extortion, Blackmail, Denial, Obfuscation, Delay, Dishonesty, Intel, Black Ops, TOP-SECRET//SCI//SAP, Mirage Men, Forum sliding, Astroturfing, Red Herrings, Gaslighting, Ad Hominems, Insults, Revenge porn, Personal Abuse, ChatGPT, LLM, Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP, Information Warfare, Spam Spam Spam, FUD, Lawfare, Moral Panic, Unconventional Warfare, Cognitive Dissonance, Active Measures, Shock Doctrine, Election Influence, Censorship, Deranking, Upranking, Moderation, Filter APIs, Corruption, Corporate Takeover, Moles, Actors, Shills, Honeypots, Sellouts, Cancel Culture, Politically Correct, Advertising, Memes, Messaging, Fraud, Brainwashing, Takedowns, Shutdowns, Leaks, Deletion, Editing, Pretexting, Social Engineering, Pre-Publication Permission, Psychological Operations, Limited Hangouts, Assassination, Coverup, False Flags, Political Candidacy, PACs, Market Manipulation, Government Statistics, Deceit, Suppression, Clandestine, Psychological Warfare PSYWAR, Promotion, Smoke Screen, etc... 1984. Wake up !!! You're being lied to by Politicians, Power, and GovBankCorp ! https://odysee.com/ https://rumble.com/ https://bitchute.com/ https://v.redd.it/4sliy3pkk8tb1 Richard Dolan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheOilps2zQ Election Hacking Disinfo: Team Jorge Tal Hanan https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1589606899569377282 CIA's Snepp PsyOps The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw Russia's Bezmenov PsyOps The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_2L_eYVjU CIA's McGehee PsyOps The Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzeHpf3OYQY Bezmenov: Kings of the Art "Messengers of Deception" by Vallee "Operation Trojan Horse" by Keel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare https://spotify.link/BWv2gBUOLDb Sam Harris - Information War https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zq2d6 Mirage Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkr08ztbt3A Unbrainwash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aETpLQ7WcM PressForTruth.Ca: Soros Exposed, and OSF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_fz9EW5Iw Borderless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r9utyek8X4 Banks Convicted Of Market Manipulation Fraud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_zh9g9gu60 Perloff: History of False Flags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG2vkCAfVi4 20190809: Quarantine, and PLANDEMIC Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEdZ86JBlzc Nordstream https://archive.ph/0cyjW https://archive.ph/jIosL https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-ho... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/i-am-a-troll-insid... https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-village-bots-plan-valentines-elections-go... https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5 https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_II.pdf https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_III.pdf https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_the... https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a6pfg/over_1500_chatgpt_bot_a... https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/15c4cpm/grusch_was_told_by_the_pentag... https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/10r0vq4/community_update_on_incivilit... https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14cwt6a/it_appears_that_the_ufo_stigm... https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/16qds82/is_disinformation_antidemocra... https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/172jm2j/dissimulation_hide_the_real_m... https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/174213i/richard_dolan_issues_a_warnin... https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/yv4en9/strong_evidence_of_sock_puppet... https://www.reddit.com/r/ufosmeta/comments/173qg6p/elevating_the_quality_of_... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-n... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-j...
Richard Dolan is a UFO (UAP) researcher and historian. He went on the Theories of Everything podcast and talked about intelligence agencies interfering in the UFO community. [–]LimpCroissant 611 points612 points613 points 23 hours ago (173 children) I didn't realize that there were bots and people who work so hard to discredit things that it seems they must be compensated, until I stumbled into the UFO community. Now it's extremely obvious to myself and I think pretty much anyone who's been here for a few months. The hard thing is we're always getting new people into the community and those people generally (like myself when I entered) don't know this to be true. So, you get the new people thinking that the people who have been around longer and talk about this fact are just "conspiracy theorists" and over imaginative. permalink embed save report reply [–]JD_the_Aqua_Doggo 94 points95 points96 points 21 hours ago (14 children) It was truly refreshing and eye-opening at the same time to hear this take. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 112 points113 points114 points 21 hours ago (13 children) No problem my friend. It's been a while since I've posted these links proving that the intelligence community spends vast resources to sway public opinion away from things they don't want to get out. I suppose it's time again. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-n... https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5?r=DE&IR=T#ixzz340YILjax https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Life-Celebration-747 40 points41 points42 points 16 hours ago* (10 children) The government is destroying society. More people need to read these articles, keep posting. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 47 points48 points49 points 16 hours ago (8 children) The US is just another Rome my friend. Just another empire. People are so comfortable in thinking that this is how life will always be, nice and comfy as far as having everything we need, and that the government will always protect us. Most every government in history that had the means just kept getting more and more powerful and less and less concerned about its citizens. National security is not the security of keeping me and you safe. National security is protecting the country by any means necessary. That includes disseminating propaganda to its citizens, doing all sorts of insanely unethical experimentation of it's own innocent people, anything it needs to protect the state. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]ihavetoomanyaccts 18 points19 points20 points 15 hours ago (5 children) Mk ultra baby permalink embed save parent report reply [–]DropsTheMic -1 points0 points1 point 9 hours ago (1 child) To be fair, some of that didn't sound so bad. If the CIA wants to come dose me randomly with huge doses of LSD they have my open invitation. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]ihavetoomanyaccts 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) Dream on buddy lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LuceArsoul 0 points1 point2 points 12 hours ago (2 children) Mortal Kombat? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Aeropro 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (1 child) Think mortal Kim at… but ultra 🤯 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LuceArsoul 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago (0 children) Shang Tsung permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Frosty_Technology842 5 points6 points7 points 11 hours ago (1 child) "national security" is anything they want it to be. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]shadowofashadow 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) National security refers to things that threaten the continuity of government. Most people think national security refers to things that threaten the populace but that's not true. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FinancialBarnacle785 -1 points0 points1 point 8 hours ago (0 children) Isn't propaganda wonderful? 'Destroying'...? OK. Everybody has a POV(point of view) just like everybody has a well-working anal orfice. I accept that a certain amount of awareness of powerful, well-resourced 'forces'and their intentions toward our minds and behavior is healthy. It seems to make us each aware of our susceptibility...and also aware of our own drive and need to CHOOSE better, more reasonable courses of action, to reclaim our own humanity and goals... Go for it, sisters and brothers! NOW is a perfect time to assert yourself...there are small and large ambitions open to you... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PickWhateverUsername 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (0 children) And yet people still cry that Russian bots and propaganda farms aren't a thing and can't influence elections ... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Honest-J 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) I thought the government was preparing us for disclosure? Which is it, preparing us or hiding it from us? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Lanky_Maize_1671 84 points85 points86 points 22 hours ago (31 children) I find it interesting that your great reply has 30 upvotes as I write this, the thread doesn't have a single negative reply, yet the overall post only has two upvotes. Bot suppression in action? OP thanks for sharing. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Woahwoahwoah124 74 points75 points76 points 21 hours ago* (13 children) The Intelligence Community does have a history of manipulating the media. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the Church Committee investigation back in the 1970s. The House Oversight Committee investigated the US intelligence community and some of the things it found were a lot of ways to manipulate public perception and a lot of illegal activity. The Guardian had a story on disinformation campaigns it’s crazy. The Information War - Sam Harris Is about the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) and how they manipulated social media. They introduce groups different groups with similar ideas by cross posting political memes to different Facebook groups, what’s known as cross pollinating, and they would try to weaken communities from within the communities themselves. It’s a super interesting piece on the use of disinformation on social media. On page 15-16 of Intelligence Activity and the Rights of Americans - Book II - Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations: Media Manipulation. -The FBI has attempted covertly to influence the public's perception of persons and organizations by disseminating derogatory information to the press, either anonymously or through "friendly" news contacts. The impact of those articles is generally difficult to measure, although in some cases there are fairly direct connections to injury to the target. The Bureau also attempted to influence media reporting which would have any impact on the public image of the FBI. Examples include: -Planting a series of derogatory articles about Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign." For example, in anticipation of the 1968 "poor people's march on Washington, D.C.," Bureau Headquarters granted authority to furnish "cooperative news media sources" an article "designed to curtail success of Martin Luther King's fund raising." Another memorandum illustrated how "photographs of demonstrators" could be used in discrediting the civil rights movement. Six photographs of participants in the poor people's campaign in Cleveland accompanied the memorandum with the following note attached: "These [photographs] show the militant aggressive appearance of the participants and might be of interest to a cooperative news source." Information on the Poor People's Campaign was provided by the FBI to friendly reporters on the condition that "the Bureau must not be revealed as the source." -Soliciting information from Field Offices "on a continuing basis" for "prompt . . . dissemination to the news media . . . to discredit the New Left movement and its adherents." The Headquarters directive requested, among other things, that: specific data should be furnished depicting the scurrilous and depraved nature of many of the characters, activities, habits and living conditions representative of New Left adherents. Field Offices were to be exhorted that: "Every avenue of possible embarrassment must be vigorously and enthusiastically explored." -Ordering Field Offices to gather information which would disprove allegations by the "liberal press, the bleeding hearts, and the forces on the left" that the Chicago police used undue force in dealing with demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic Convention. -Taking advantage of a close relationship with the Chairman of the Board-described in an FBI memorandum as "our good friend" of a magazine with national circulation to influence articles which related to the FBI. For example, through this relationship the Bureau: "squelched" an "unfavorable article against the Bureau" written by a freelance writer about an FBI investigation; "postponed publication" of an article on another FBI case; "forestalled publication" of an article by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and received information about proposed editing of King's articles. And page 35 of, Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activity and the Rights of Americans, Book III: "Friendly"Media Much of the Bureau's propaganda efforts involved giving information or articles to "friendly" media sources who could be relied upon not to reveal the Bureau's interests. The Crime Records Division of the Bureau was responsible for public relations, including all headquarters contacts with the media. In the course of its work (most of which had nothing to do with COINTELPRO) the Division assembled a list of "friendly" news media sources-those who wrote pro-Bureau stories. Field offices also had "confidential sources" (unpaid Bureau informants) in the media, and were able to ensure their cooperation. The Bureau's use of the news media took two different forms: placing unfavorable articles and documentaries about targeted groups, and leaking derogatory information intended to discredit individuals." A typical example of media propaganda is the headquarters letter authorizing the Boston Field Office to furnish "derogatory information about the Nation of Islam (NOI) to established source [name excised]" permalink embed save parent report reply [–]MKULTRA_Escapee 5 points6 points7 points 3 hours ago (0 children) You’ll enjoy the List Of Proven Conspiracies: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/wiki/lopc permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Big_Pomegranate_7712 comment score below threshold-39 points-38 points-37 points 20 hours ago (11 children) All of this stuff has rational motivations. There's no motivation to discredit UAP stuff.....because the reality is that it's just weird stuff in the sky. There are no NHI. There are no crashed ships. There is no government reverse engineering program. Time to take the tin foil off. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]INcticUS 17 points18 points19 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Lol do you guys actually expect these feeble shaming tactics to still work? It’s not 1985 anymore private. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]tribalseth 15 points16 points17 points 19 hours ago* (3 children) Oh hey speak of the devil! Look everyone, let's all focus our attention on this adorable little bot. Isn't he cute how he's showing us all his first words and adventures crawling (on reddit)? Love the little newborns ;). permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PrincyPy 1 point2 points3 points 18 hours ago (2 children) The scary part is that with the technology of transformer-based large language models that have now existed since around 2018 (and became more widely available to the public since last year, and also much stronger), companies and government agencies no longer even need to pay people to run bot farms anymore. The bots are now actual bots (no longer just a derogatory term for paid trolls, like it used to be in the past), as LLMs (large language models) can now match human-level proficiency in natural language and sophistication. They can engage in conversations in ways that are indistinguishable from humans. AI systems, like LLMs that are fine-tuned on human feedback data, will do a lot of good for humanity, but it's going to come at a steep cost due to bad actors. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]tribalseth 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (1 child) They're not indistinguishable from timestamps and creation dates and clearly motivated behavior. If a real person unfortunately falls into that category that looks like a bot and behaves like a bot (from their creation date, and timestamp post/comment history), well that is unfortunate but negligible impact specific to this very subject, since if they really wanted to make the case that they were real you could apply rapid response photo verifcation permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PrincyPy 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children) You missed the point. A bad actor can now troll at a scale not previously possible, but also much cheaper. And it's not specific to this subject. I don't think any government needs that much effort to squash this subject, as they've been doing an excellent job (at least, proven for the US government) through the stigma at little cost. Any social media company that tries to enforce photo verification at signup will die a quick death. People are too paranoid to accept that, I think. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Longstache7065 3 points4 points5 points 16 hours ago (0 children) This comment by a J. Edgar Hoover worshipping nazi prick has done more to sell me on UFOs being real and being aliens and our government having one than *any other thing* I've seen so far. Just out of curiosity, do you fantasize about fucking Allen Dulles or do you just straight up imagine servicing Hitler's balls, with loyalty to traitors and fascists like Dulles and Hoover being "as close as you can get"?? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Longstache7065 5 points6 points7 points 16 hours ago (1 child) Are you fucking insane? Rational motives? For promoting fascism and demolishing community, unions, and civil rights? Holy fucking shit I am literally in awe. The FBI needs a full audit with any members still loyal to the oligarchy instead of the constitution and the people put down for treason, and we still have monsters like you walking around thinking being a nazi's a fucking good thing??? Jesus fucking Christ. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]INcticUS 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) I don’t agree with him either but why are you calling him a Nazi? Seems a bit excessive to put it mildly. I’m also not sure how UAP denial is akin to promoting fascism or demolishing communities, unions and opposing civil rights. I mean what does that even have to do with this? I’m really confused by your comment. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]BA_lampman 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (0 children) Look at me! I know everything! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]quetzalcosiris 19 points20 points21 points 21 hours ago (14 children) Hang out in /new for a few days and you'll see the suppression in action on certain topics. Happens all day, every day. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Juan_Carlo comment score below threshold-10 points-9 points-8 points 19 hours ago* (11 children) Please post evidence. I've been on this sub for years. Very consistently, I see credulous posts about UFOs upvoted, and skeptical posts downvoted. It's always been that way. Why? Because UFO true believers far out number skeptics here. Yet everyone here is suddenly claiming there's a conspiracy to downvote and suppress the credulous posts. Like, the first post in this thread claiming there is a conspiracy has 194 upvotes right now, while all of the skeptical posts are in the negative.....so how is there a conspiracy exactly? If the government has bot farms trying to influence the narrative, it's clearly not working, lol. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]VirtualDoll 5 points6 points7 points 17 hours ago (6 children) They don't have bot farms, they have shill farms. You should know. I tagged your account as "sus af" weeks ago. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Juan_Carlo 8 points9 points10 points 16 hours ago* (4 children) OK. I moderate like 4 subs (one on an obscure, 1960s, folk singer), I'm a massive hypochondriac who's spent a large portion of my 6 years on reddit posting about health anxiety, I'm autistic (post on those subs), NVLD (post on that sub), gay (post on all the gay subs), Lutheran (post on those subs too), a college professor (post on those subs), and am incredibly opinionated about movies and music, writing volumes on subs related to those topics. I've posted more on r/UFOs since Grusch, but my posts here are probably about 5% (or less) of my total Reddit posting output. But, yeah, you are right. I'm a paid shill who is faking my entire identity for the past 6 years just to convince a bunch of neckbeards on reddit that UFOs aren't real, lol. I get accused of being a shill on this sub almost daily now, though. I've always taken a skeptical stance on this sub, but the constant shill/bot accusations here are relatively new. Honestly, they are yet another sign that the UFO community is quickly transforming into a sort of cult-mindset. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Why_Did_Bodie_Die 10 points11 points12 points 15 hours ago (2 children) The irony is that the government really doesn't have to do anything at all. They just need to make people THINK they have paid shills out there then sit back and watch the subs eat themselves. When a guy who has been reading about UFOs since he was 10 and who NEEDS aliens to be real so it can give his life meaning comes across a comment that is telling him he might be wrong the only way he can come to terms with it is if he thinks the guy telling him he is wrong is actually a paid government employee. There is no way he could be wrong about aliens being on earth because surely he is smart enough to follow all the breadcrumbs so the person telling him he is wrong can't be right. And since he just read an article that told him the government pats people to come on subs like this and fuck with people then that is obviously what is going on. That's what makes the whole thing perfect. As long as people think there are shills on here then everytime they read something they don't like then it must be because of the shills. Even better is that now that the person thinks everyone who disagrees with him is a shill it reinforces his beliefs that much more. "Why would they hire people to tell me I was wrong if I wasn't right?" If the government really is paying people to come on this sub and fuck with us then they are wasting their money. The damage is done and we can do a perfectly fine job at fighting with ourselves without the help of any government shills. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Beautiful-Amount2149 3 points4 points5 points 12 hours ago (0 children) Im convinced the actual paid shills are from the UFO celebs astroturfing on here to push their narratives to increase viewership and book sales permalink embed save parent report reply [–]ddt70 1 point2 points3 points 12 hours ago (0 children) Spoken like a true shill. (joke!) permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FinancialBarnacle785 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) Now, hold on there...what if Grush, et al, are actually convincing us that UFO-type 'stuff' is REAL? and not the other way around? Very important to our rulers to have us accept 'superiors' from 'up there'...superior sky-borne and more, and THEY very conveniently have blessed and given relevance to OUR current rulers, and I think the whole cheap reversal 'plot' has at least as much 'spychic reality' as the usual, 'gummintdevillain' blahblah. It's just the same-o that some club-wielder a hundred thousand years ago told, after he was scared of his own shadow and suddenly sneezed, which he'd nevernoticed before, and swore ever after that he was 'overtaken' by an unexplained force...connected with breath, therefore 'spiritual'...whee. Off we go, again... UFOs are just another attempt to influence US to accept higher and better guidance from 'above', which always translates in reality into Our Rulers, here on Earth, God-appointed. Same old same old. You're welcome. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]AlunWH 0 points1 point2 points 7 hours ago (0 children) I wouldn’t have thought an account with high karma that’s years old is in any way a bot: it’s just someone you disagree with. The bot accounts don’t post in depth, don’t offer context and don’t explain their reasoning. Randomly turning on other posters and accusing them is unhelpful in the extreme. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PootieTom 1 point2 points3 points 18 hours ago (0 children) The moderation log is open and accessible. To everyone who is downvoting users who are skeptical of widespread sock-puppet abuse - could you not go through the logs and find something, anything, that shows us what you're talking about? If bot farms are manufacturing a consensus or pushing a narrative, chances are a handful have been discovered and had an action taken against them. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]OptimalCheesecake527 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (1 child) It’s always the skeptical posts that are the conspiracy until whatever dumbass belief they have gets debunked, then it was a conspiracy to get them to believe it permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LouisUchiha04 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago (0 children) Who is "Them"? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FinancialBarnacle785 -2 points-1 points0 points 8 hours ago (0 children) Forgive my gushing welcome, Juan, but you make a great deal of sense to my amateur analyses. Thanks, and I hope you will comment more. Those of us with an interest in 'History' know and accept propaganda's existence, and we shamble thru life, just as our most ancient ancestors did...just different, equally arrogant, stupid yet clever dinosaurs, trying to 'herd' the prey into positions of easier harvest. Wasn't something like this always hindering humans? Caveat... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PickWhateverUsername -1 points0 points1 point 9 hours ago (0 children) Or you just don't understand how the shitty reedit algos work... Does manipulation happen ? very probably. Is it in most cases a grand conspiracy ? nope just short term googled bosses trying to squeeze out a bit more $ from ads while hurting their long term engagement on said platform, Facebook and X come to mind permalink embed save parent report reply [–]NiceGuyzFinish1st 1 point2 points3 points 14 hours ago (0 children) Over a thousand up votes rn so it seems like the bots are a tad overwhelmed. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]toxictoy 15 points16 points17 points 18 hours ago* (0 children) Want to know the really horrible thing -once you see it here you see it everywhere because the whole point is divide and rule. They use whatever means to split a community because a community can’t move forward if it fights itself. Either can a nation. Think about what happened to r/conspiracy and the Above Top Secret forums - they turned those into a political minefield which is advantageous to stopping anyone from questioning the narratives - they make those looking in from the outside believe that “conspiracy theorists” are crazy. This is exactly why the UFO Stigma exists - as Dolan just said the stigma was “encouraged” by government but really - the CIA and the Air Force created it. Here’s just a few articles from a few years ago about the capabilities of the US government to turn people into bots through manipulation on social media. These are not from fringe publications either but trusted journalistic publications. Airforce ARS Technica - how to control people like drones via social media https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-ho... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-n... Researchers at Stanford have created a village for AI bots to develop human like behavior https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-village-bots-plan-valentines-elections-go... 2400 ChatGPT bots banned from Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a6pfg/over_1500_chatgpt_bot_a... Trolling as political activity https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/i-am-a-troll-insid... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]42gether 30 points31 points32 points 21 hours ago (12 children) Now it's extremely obvious to myself and I think pretty much anyone who's been here for a few months. It's so depressing, during the "where plane go" season it was somewhat funny because that was just an old video and people were having fun analyzing it, but it's successfully getting applied to the peru situation and the mexican congress hearing and you just can't have a conversation without them popping up trying to derail the conversation. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nlurp 12 points13 points14 points 21 hours ago* (4 children) Could it be they’re true events? The other day I have read the Peruvian situation happened in India as well permalink embed save parent report reply [–]divine_god_majora 17 points18 points19 points 19 hours ago (1 child) The fact that the vitriol and ridicule along with blind denial seems to be a more prevalent when people talk about those topics gives them so much more credibility permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nlurp 0 points1 point2 points 15 hours ago (0 children) One thing definitely does not imply the other, but it is definitely interesting: Plane sucked into a portal - let’s all kumbaya around this lovely thing of nature Mexico and Peru stuff - preposterous! I am with you there: there are orders of magnitude more evidence for their reality than people believe (and this sub used to be for believers with critical thinking). The standard is not double anymore: it is newspeak! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]42gether 1 point2 points3 points 10 hours ago (1 child) Could it be they’re true events? Where far from being close to finding out sadly, if there are people looking into it they're being quiet, if there's people trying to discuss about the possibility of it being either real or fake you get totally normal users (/u/FloorDice nice job blocking me bitch) trying to derail the conversation. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nlurp 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) We don’t need to fight anyone permalink embed save parent report reply [–]kael13 3 points4 points5 points 6 hours ago (4 children) Hmm, I'm pretty skeptical of most things here, but I still think there's more to the MH370 stuff than we've fully understood. I've never seen this sub attack itself more than when that happened. If that doesn't scream bot farm to you, I don't know what would. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]truefaith_1987 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (3 children) MH370, we'll eventually have to circle back to that. Since it's likely true; at the very least, the pilot needs to be officially vindicated at some point, since basically nothing about the case actually suggests he was the culprit. The plane suffered an electrical failure, went on a roller coaster ride through the sky, and disappeared. If anything, the pilot may have been in a battle for everyone's lives, and tried to land at Penang International. And there were other plane abductions over the years. There have definitely been some military pilot abductions/deaths (Felix Moncla for instance). permalink embed save parent report reply [–]QueefyMcQueefFace -1 points0 points1 point 3 hours ago (2 children) I do not believe this assessment is correct. The MH370 Official Report indicates that MH370 turned off its transponder, turned West after reaching Waypoint IGARI, weaved between civilian and military radars over Malaysia, then turning South around Banda Aceh in Indonesia. It then proceeded to coast South in the remote area of the South Indian Ocean until Inmarsat satellite pings were lost and the plane ran out of fuel. This took hours. These actions are intentional and directly implicate the pilots. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]truefaith_1987 1 point2 points3 points 2 hours ago* (1 child) I've read that same report, and the ATSB/Australian report, and both basically concur with what I said. From the report you linked: The Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) seized the PIC’s home flight simulator from the residence of the PIC on 15 March 2014. The RMP Forensic Report dated 19 May 2014 documented more than 2,700 coordinates retrieved from separate file fragments and most of them are default game coordinates. It was also discovered that there were seven ‘manually programmed ’waypoint coordinates, that when connected together, will create a flight path from KLIA to an area south of the Indian Ocean through the Andaman Sea. These coordinates were stored in the Volume Shadow Information (VSI) file dated 03 February 2014. The function of this file was to save information when a computer is left idle for more than 15 minutes. Hence, the RMP Forensic Report could not determine if the waypoints came from one or more files. The RMP Forensic Report on the simulator also did not find any data that showed the aircraft was performing climb, attitude or heading manoeuvres, nor did they find any data that showed a similar route flown by MH370. The RMP Forensic Report concluded that there were no unusual activities other than game-related flight simulations. There were no behavioural signs of social isolation, change in habits or interest, self-neglect, drug or alcohol abuse of the PIC, FO and the cabin crew. The CCTV recordings at KLIA on 07 March 2014 were evaluated to assess the behavioural pattern of the PIC, and the FO from the time of arrival at KLIA until boarding time. Three previous CCTV recordings of the movements of the PIC in KLIA were also viewed to see the behavioural pattern and were compared with the CCTV recordings on 07 March 2014. On studying the PIC’s behavioural pattern on the CCTV recordings on the day of the flight and prior 3 flights there were no significant behavioural changes observed. On all the CCTV recordings the appearance was similar, i.e. well-groomed and attired. The gait, posture, facial expressions and mannerism were his normal characteristics. The FO’s movement captured on CCTV at KLIA on 07 March 2014 was observed. The FO’s behavioural pattern on CCTV recordings on the day of the flight showed no significant behavioural changes. I will link the information about the power failure from the ATSB report as well. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]QueefyMcQueefFace 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children) That's for the flight simulator though, it isn't the actual flight track that was picked up on radar and the Inmarsat comms. Flight sim and CCTV behaviors don't reveal enough information to explain the flight path on that day. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Revolutionary-Mud715 3 points4 points5 points 18 hours ago (1 child) did it ramp up into high gear like weeks before the hearings? This sub was digestible up until then, i feel like bogus shit just kept popping up over and over again flooding the zone. Then I remember during the hearing reading obvious lies on twitter about grusch flooding, It was sort of impressive to watch. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]42gether 0 points1 point2 points 10 hours ago (0 children) Or maybe it was always there but we're only noticing it now because of the hearing, having "the government is funding disinformation" being a testament under oath kinda changes things. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Wapiti_s15 3 points4 points5 points 17 hours ago (3 children) I watched a documentary on this when twitter STARTED, by a CIA paid operative in Venezuela who slid an election the way the US wanted. He did the blacked out face and scrambled voice and said “if they are doing it here OF COURSE they are doing it at home, in EVERY country”. He was able, by himself, to swing an entire population into voting for the outcome they desired. In 2007! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Wapiti_s15 3 points4 points5 points 17 hours ago (0 children) I want you all to think about that when you think back to screaming at the sky in 2016. Was this based on your own reasoning or were you biased in some way? What happened during that four years that was so horrible? Worse than the last 2.5 years, aka, are you better off now or then. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 1 point2 points3 points 17 hours ago (0 children) Yup, I saw part of a very similar documentary a couple months ago. A reporter found a Russian bot/troll farm and they met with them to determine what needs to be done and the price. And yeah the Russian guy showed all their services and showed the results on how they were extremely effective at swaying democratic elections. They had a slide show of all the politic leaders in different countries that they were able to either get elected or get voted out. This stuff is very real. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FinancialBarnacle785 -3 points-2 points-1 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Oh, yeah, so you say that you say...that he said...whoever HE is/was... see, if I can't 'follow your trail to real people, places, things, situations' then you have wasted your time...and mine. Rude. And now, thank you for your kind attention. Details are very important. Think 'Intell'. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Library_Visible 14 points15 points16 points 19 hours ago (8 children) Come onto any of the stock trading subs on here, it’s insane. There are levels to it. There are bot farms that shitpost and downvote and make inane comments and then there’s full blown paid infiltration by bad actors. If a community is strong and constructive they can counteract the bs. One of the trucks is to simply always stay positive minded. There’s no counterpoint to that. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 6 points7 points8 points 18 hours ago (6 children) Yup, I 100% agree, if we stay positive and respectful to each other then they really can't phase us. Their tactic is to seed distrust and animosity, and they do it in an ugly fashion. I really think that we need a new UFOs sub reddit. The same as this one, where it's a general sub on the topic of UFOs and what's behind them, however no ridicule allowed. Say whatever you want, counter points with your skepticism, that's all good as long as you're respectful and don't ridicule. Yeah I'll check out one of the stock trading subs some day, but really I'm just trying to get away from places with that sort of thing going on. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]MKULTRA_Escapee 1 point2 points3 points 3 hours ago (3 children) We do remove a ton of ridicule in this sub, but we could modify the rule to be very specific about it. Basically anything that can be considered uncivil or a personal attack will get removed if it’s reported or a mod sees is. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 1 point2 points3 points 2 hours ago (2 children) Yea I see quite a few comments that get removed, however those are the really really nasty ones. I think itd be much more enjoyable here for everyone, including the mods that have to look over everything, if we included in the rules that something like: "Any uncivil or disrespectful comments will not be tolerated , we encourage people to report these messages and recommend not engaging with them in any way while they are being removed." permalink embed save parent report reply [–]MKULTRA_Escapee 1 point2 points3 points 29 minutes ago (1 child) That actually sounds great. I'm going to copy/paste this as see if everyone agrees to add that. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 0 points1 point2 points 22 minutes ago (0 children) Well shoot, right on, I appreciate that very much my friend :) permalink embed save parent report reply [–][deleted] 5 hours ago (1 child) [removed] [–]UFOs-ModTeam[M] 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours agolocked comment (0 children) No low effort posts or comments. Low Effort implies content which is low effort to consume, not low effort to produce. This generally includes: Posts containing jokes, memes, and showerthoughts. AI-generated content. Posts of social media content without significant relevance. Posts with incredible claims unsupported by evidence. “Here’s my theory” posts without supporting evidence. Short comments, and comments containing only emoji. Summarily dismissive comments (e.g. “Swamp gas.”) without some contextual observations. permalink embed save parent report [–]Tiffany_Gomas 2 points3 points4 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Politics is close to 1/2 bots too. Dead internet is real permalink embed save parent report reply [–]terms100 3 points4 points5 points 19 hours ago (2 children) Guess you haven’t t been involved with any Wallstreet, stock subs then. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 2 points3 points4 points 19 hours ago (1 child) No, I haven't. However I'd imagine that there'd be lots of bots on there as well. And in fact, I've heard that there are. Anywhere where people have lots to lose and resources to spend, there will be bots and those working to sway public opinion. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Tiffany_Gomas 0 points1 point2 points 17 hours ago (0 children) Political subs are heavily botted, probably the most botted. Plenty of news orga have sock puppet accounts here too permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Flunkedy 10 points11 points12 points 19 hours ago (2 children) There are indeed bots and manipulators here. There is a mulititude of reasons that anybody might employ them to cause dissent. But there are also healthy sceptics who voice their scepticism, use of logic to examine a uap/ufo footage accounts and photos. And to see those people get downvoted and being called bots or agents is disheartening. To be interested in UFOs you have to have an open mind and like it or not that means being open to a multitude of possibilities for example aliens are real-have visited us and maybe even walk amongst us but also be open to the possibility that governments have used science fantasy as a tool to obscure a real concrete conspiracy (off topic but the acts of the American CIA are insanely abhorrent and I wouldn't put anything past them). For me we should be excited by the potential of UFOs , we should be curious about UFOs but we should remain level headed, sceptical, cynical and wary of everyone who claims to have any knowledge of the actual reason behind the phenomena UNLESS they can back up their claims with irrifutable evidence based science. People lie and bend the truth all day every day just to make a quick profit, so always remember to TRUST NO ONE. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 4 points5 points6 points 19 hours ago (0 children) That's true, you have to be careful about who you put your trust in. And I welcome healthy skepticism. I'm quite skeptical of many things myself and work hard to find what I believe is the truth. I think the real problem is the attacking of people we see here from both angles. It's just nasty. If you don't agree about something (not you personally), that's totally fine as long as you're respectful. If we are respectful of each other we can work off each other's ideas and both get better. I think a lot of it is the bots work to counter that by slinging crap at people. And personally, I think it's more humans working with multiple accounts each just throwing ridicule more so than bots. I used to check a lot of accounts out that displayed ridicule and it most often seemed like it was a human, not an ai chat thing. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]ifiwasiwas 1 point2 points3 points 10 hours ago (0 children) Yep. They wouldn't be afraid of the people who act like conspiracy theorists - they're easy to discredit. They would be very afraid of people who come across as reasonable, level-headed and well, normal. If there's any psyop to speak of, they would almost certainly target these people and try to drive them out, not the "true believers". permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheDelig 10 points11 points12 points 20 hours ago (10 children) I'm at the point now that I think the NSA is running reddit, paying the mods and spreading all kinds of bullshit. Everything that feels grassroots here is a psyop. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]crazysoup23 3 points4 points5 points 16 hours ago (0 children) There's a powermod account maxwellhill that stopped posting shortly before Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and hasn't done anything since. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]rogue_noodle 5 points6 points7 points 17 hours ago (4 children) 5% genuine people with something to contribute, 5% genuine people who shitpost for the lulz, 10% active disinformation agents and 80% bots, if I had to guess. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]blacksun_redux 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (2 children) I dunno. That seems high. So 8 out of 10 comments in this very post are bots? Point them out for me? That the problem for me. People says bots, but don’t specify who/what is a bot nor what unified agenda they might have. It’s just “bots … beware”. So that in itself is a suppression tactic. Sow mistrust and discord in the community. See the danger there? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]rogue_noodle 0 points1 point2 points 13 hours ago (0 children) Maybe 6/10. We don’t have a good way of knowing, unfortunately. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheDelig 0 points1 point2 points 7 hours ago (0 children) There absolutely are bots and troll farms. There are videos of people with 10-20 phones in front of them in tents in SE Asia. If it can be done in a parking garage in Beijing it can be done by the NSA. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]CraigSignals 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) This feels correct. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FinancialBarnacle785 -2 points-1 points0 points 7 hours ago (2 children) D-d-d-damn, where'$ my paycheck? I can 'make it up', too! USA! USA! Where do you want me to start? Stories about TRUE ufo encounters...we'll call it "TRUfo tales"...or maybe recent, irrefutable Bigfoot and betrothed Figboot demonstrations of existence...e-z peasy. When you want 'public relations' created and made solid, call the professional p.r. flacks.Tracks while you wait. Professionally-trained witnesses, truly believable....available upon reque$t... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheDelig 0 points1 point2 points 7 hours ago (1 child) This is just useful idiot type speech. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]FinancialBarnacle785 -1 points0 points1 point 6 hours ago (0 children) Duh! Yassuh, I's useful! Deedy I R! What unclean work$ would you reque$t of this humble ser'v'nt? b 1! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]loveheretic 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) I've sorta wondered because every comment I make is filtered. It feels worse than Facebook. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TomHanksYo 2 points3 points4 points 15 hours ago (0 children) Its ironic, because this sub is honestly one of the biggest things to convince me something might be real in all of this. You have these 1 month old accounts coming in here day-in/day-out spreading nonsense or picking arguments and sending everyone down rabbit holes. I'm not one for conspiracies but it is hard to make sense of this in another way other than bot/troll farms. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Antennangry 9 points10 points11 points 20 hours ago (6 children) Dolan’s narrative is also extremely useful for grifters and agents of accelerationism who want to cast aspersions on well-meaning skeptics by coloring anyone who doesn’t buy the narrative they espouse as a paid troll. Cuts both ways. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 6 points7 points8 points 19 hours ago (3 children) I think the trick is for all of us to just use our critical thinking and intuition to tell whether someone's contributing their true thoughts on the subject and trying to get clarity, or help give clarity, or whether they're saying something to throw the conversation off topic and ridicule. And yes, I agree, that goes both ways. However I think we should all be working to further the cause of getting more transparency on the phenomena from the government(s), and from whatever means necessary. Sometimes it appears as if people want to derail that (not you). permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Antennangry 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (1 child) Mostly in agreement here. Transparency is useful, especially when it comes to a DoD with a historically large and creeping budget and mandate. And using one’s critical thinking skills and intuition are good. Intuition is known to generate a false positive here and there though. I think the key is to stay humble, stick to what you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt, and remember that, while absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, it is to a degree suggestive of it. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I agree with all that you said. Yea, stick to what you know and can show. Speculation threads are fun sometimes also, as long as you let it be known that you're just speculating and having fun and not saying something as fact. This topic is a very strange one and possibly unlike anything that we've really chased as a (select, at least so far) society. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, it is to a degree suggestive of it." I agree. However if what we've heard of this phenomenon, at least the more credible seeming stuff, this phenomenon is strange. Very strange. A lot of the very serious people have been saying for a while now that there is a lot more woo involved than a simple nuts n bolts extraterrestrials from another planet deal. Real physical evidence may be very hard to come by for a civilian. I don't know man, this phenomenon is just crazy and I'm not quite sure what to think. I do believe there's definitely something to it though. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]NiceGuyzFinish1st 0 points1 point2 points 13 hours ago (0 children) However I think we should all be working to further the cause of getting more transparency on the phenomena from the government(s) Hear hear, well said, I couldn't agree more. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]imtrappedintime 0 points1 point2 points 17 hours ago (0 children) I’ve received this response to debates on here so many times and seen it used to shut down critical thinking from others. Not sharing an opinion doesn’t make you a bot or paid actor. So many people have seen heinous examples from public figures, superiors in the professional world, their own family… that have taught them you can construct whatever narrative you want if you keep critical thinking from challenging it. I think when the govt runs operations like that it may amplify the effect, but it’s a very human and personal reaction to being challenged these days, if not always to some degree. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nubesmateria 5 points6 points7 points 18 hours ago* (6 children) Yes and no Sometimes ppl here just call others bots because they don't agree with them. Lots of confirmation bias in this community permalink embed save parent report reply [–]ninelives1 1 point2 points3 points 17 hours ago (4 children) Lots of untaken meds in this community. Any disagreement is a grand government conspiracy, as if anyone is concerned about a subreddit. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]VirtualDoll 3 points4 points5 points 17 hours ago* (3 children) What an inaccurate, rude, lazy, grossly over-simplified, and generalized explanation permalink embed save parent report reply [–]atomictyler 3 points4 points5 points 16 hours ago (0 children) that's for sure. you can tell that person isn't a bot, because the bots put in more effort than they did. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Beautiful-Amount2149 2 points3 points4 points 12 hours ago (0 children) Calling everyone who disagrees with you g man shills and bots isn't? People now react to sceptics with "how's the weather in Elgin??", that is just lazy derailing as much as any other troll comment permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 -2 points-1 points0 points 9 hours ago (0 children) You forgot "basically true" permalink embed save parent report reply [–]headphones_J 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (0 children) I would think the best way to use bots is for confirmation bias. Boosting the most obviously fake posts, worst takes, or the biggest frauds in the UFO scene. This is how you make the community look bad to anyone looking in. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]noun_exchanger 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (1 child) Not to make things more confusing, but I used to be such a hard-headed skeptic that I'm sure I would have been thought to be a disinfo agent when viewed through the current lens. I'm more chill now in general with being open to new information/ideas/alternative perspectives. But back then, I ruffled some conspiracy/UFO community feathers. TL;DR people like me do actually exist and are not necessarily paid to be overly dismissive douche bags. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 0 points1 point2 points 12 hours ago (0 children) I think this ties into the idea that there are bots and there are "human bots", or people who've been "trained" through forms of social conditioning to reflexively respond to certain topics with pat answers or specific emotional responses. Human bots can hopefully be reached. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Unlucky_Process7315 1 point2 points3 points 14 hours ago (1 child) I GET INTERESTED whenever I see a post with 300 comments and 0 upvotes. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (0 children) That's a normal controversial post. Half the people just downvoted permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Albino_Black_Sheep 1 point2 points3 points 10 hours ago (0 children) There are just as many bots promoting outrageous theories and thoroughly debunked nonsense. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Dragonfruit-Still 6 points7 points8 points 21 hours ago (7 children) You have to also acknowledge that there are bits from foreign nations seeking to sow discord as well. By acting as true believers of ufo and getting people to believe irrational conclusions and mistrust the US government. That it is evil deep state elites controlling everything. There are incentives in that direction as well. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Bobbox1980 9 points10 points11 points 19 hours ago (6 children) If the historical record is true, the US government should not be trusted. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Dragonfruit-Still 4 points5 points6 points 19 hours ago (5 children) The US government is not some unitary entity. Some parts can be trusted, others not. Some have accountability, others don’t. governments would rather you keep a simple black and white view of things. Adversaries want you to think it’s all bad. Friendlies want you to think it’s all good. The reality is a mixed bag. Don’t fall for the oversimplification traps and propaganda. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Bobbox1980 4 points5 points6 points 18 hours ago (4 children) Easy platitudes. Did or did not the CIA have loyal men in all major newsrooms during Operation Mockingbird? Even if there are good guys in the govt, and I am sure there are, doesn't mean historically speaking that elements in the US did not have the ability to exert their will on the world at large and were largely unchecked. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Dragonfruit-Still -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (3 children) What does your question have to do with my statement? Either answer doesn’t affect or disprove what I said. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Bobbox1980 0 points1 point2 points 38 minutes ago (2 children) Operation Mockingbird is an example that the govt can't be trusted. Were there some politicians against it? Sure, it is not black and white. But those good guys in govt were not able to stop the operation from happening. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Dragonfruit-Still 0 points1 point2 points 26 minutes ago (1 child) Operation mockingbird existing does not mean that the entire US gov cannot be trusted. The US gov is so much bigger and more complicated than I think you are capable of understanding. You just see it as “government bad”. A gross and ridiculous oversimplification. You are an example of how easy it is for a foreign adversary to flip a patriot against his own nation. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Bobbox1980 0 points1 point2 points 16 minutes ago (0 children) I just acknowledged that people making up the govt are varied. But here's another example, the NSA collecting all data passing through the internet without a warrant. Are there members of congress and govt employees against that? Sure, but the program is still active and violating our 4th amendment rights. Patriotism is stupid. I am loyal to humanity as a whole and any other sentient life out there. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TPconnoisseur 3 points4 points5 points 19 hours ago (0 children) IMO, the problem with the UFO topic from a public acceptance perspective, is too much of it is true. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Hornet878 4 points5 points6 points 21 hours ago (14 children) To me it just looks like a lazy way to dismiss criticism. There are people here, like myself, who are interested in the subject but skeptical of what has been brought forth so far. So let's say a video comes out and I am critical of it. How do you engage with me? In fact, if someone provides contrary evidence that disproves or at least raises the improbability of a claim, who really cares if they are a bot? If a video or photograph is disproven then it's disproven. I don't care if it's me or you or a guy at Edwards AFB. So maybe I am missing the point, what utility does telling people that x account is a bot serve? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 14 points15 points16 points 21 hours ago (5 children) Well, I dont call out bot accounts when I see them, I just make a mental note of them. I also dont call people who raise good skeptical points a disinformation account. I'm skeptical of many things myself. Everyone is welcome to their opinion and we can learn from everyone as long as they show respect and not just blatant ridicule. The problem with bots in this community is they are not made to easily disseminate accurate, helpful information like you might find in a flashlight sub where someone asks "What's the best AA light I can get for $30", and the bot jumps in and gives you a FAQ with all the best recieved lights in each category. These are bots that are attacking people's character, bringing up blog posts from someone nobody's heard of saying they researched a historic sighting and discrediting, and other general ridicule. However bots here also go the other way in support of really far out theories, calling people disinformation agents, all that stuff too. Thats the really crazy part. Bots argue both ways to cause unrest. The mods of this sub reddit made a post about it. I think it was a while before Grusch came out that they posted that. On the sighting videos, I skip almost every single one honestly. They're too hard to tell what something is, they're full of bickering back and forth, and I never feel like I got anything out of them. Im here for the posts with research and thought provoking questions, news about the transparency movement within government, and notifications of new whistleblower statements and interviews. That's my jam. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Juan_Carlo 3 points4 points5 points 19 hours ago (4 children) You need to post specific examples of bots then. I see people claiming there are thousands of bots here, but no one provides any examples when asked for them. So to me the whole "everyone who is a skeptic must be a bot" claim I see being made on here all the time just seems like a disingenuous way to dismiss any criticism out of hand. Plus, it's just plain wrong. Any pro-UFO post on this sub is almost always going to get a ton of upvotes, while most skeptical posts will either be downvoted into the negative numbers or have fewer upvotes. Look at the comment you are replying to, for example. It's a reasonable argument, yet it's currently in the negative in terms of downvotes. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]atomictyler 8 points9 points10 points 16 hours ago (2 children) Here you go. That was 10 months ago and it's safe to say there's likely to be even more of it considering the increase in popularity of this sub. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FreeHumanity 1 point2 points3 points 4 hours ago (0 children) And of course the guy sowing doubt about obvious bot activity on this sub is nowhere to be found once the proof is posted. So typical of a certain type of user here. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]blacksun_redux 1 point2 points3 points 15 hours ago (0 children) Considering the conclusion from that post was that bot accounts post both pro believer and pro skeptic views in aggressive and antagonizing ways, it would seem that if the bot thing is true their goal is to sow discord and distrust in the community. so here’s my 4d chess: this very post is playing into their goals. People here saying “it’s all bots” and “trust no-one”. Seem like thats playing right into their goals. Unfortunently. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 4 points5 points6 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I've thought about doing that. Making a list of suspicious accounts as I come by them and then making a post. However to be honest I'm burnt out on the UFO topic at the moment and have been the past few weeks. I used to many, many hours researching and reading most of the stuff on here, however I'm burnt out do to all the ridicule and nasty behavior I see. And that goes both ways, from people who know (in their mind) that UFOs exist, from those that think UFOs exist, from those who are new, from those who are more skeptical, to those who are just here to discredit people, the movement, and to throw ridicule. We all need to do better. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]usps_made_me_insane 4 points5 points6 points 20 hours ago (7 children) I don't know why your comment is downvoted so much because it brings up some important points. This subject is not only a fringe subject but it concerns material that, if true, would completely change humanity's outlook on life, the cosmos, etc. There literally is nothing more profound except perhaps what happens after death, etc. That said, I invite criticism and skeptics because we need rational discussion of anything new that comes in here. The problem, though, is not skepticism but accounts that just have blanket denials on everything related to this topic. If you are here long enough, you start to remember accounts that deny everything. Then you have accounts that are really doing dodgy shit and trying to set the tone and pace of new topics. Honestly, I don't think Reddit is the best place to even have these discussions. It is too well known and way to easy for the powers that be to censor stuff or change comments outright. We know the CEO of Reddit has done that in the past because he has come out and said so. You don't want that type of power and personality mixed together. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Juan_Carlo 2 points3 points4 points 19 hours ago (6 children) He's being downvoted because that's what always happens with skeptical arguments here. All the claims about there being bot armies downvoting credulous posts about UFOs are silly. Anyone who has posted here for any duration knows that this sub is mostly true believers who will upvote anything that claims UFOs are real, while down voting skepticism. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Tiffany_Gomas 6 points7 points8 points 17 hours ago (4 children) Eh I been here for a long time, much longer than this account and most of the time it's some lazy ass denial like "looks like a weather balloon" that is the most upvoted. The issue I have with skeptics is that they typically are just skeptical of everything and haven't done nearly enough research into it besides window shopping. So they get skeptical because they just don't have the knowledge that if they were really interested in the topic, many feel that they wouldn't be so skeptical of everything and ready to call everything a balloon or ball lightning. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Juan_Carlo comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 17 hours ago* (3 children) Eh I been here for a long time, much longer than this account LOL, seriously? You've been here since August 2023. I've been here since 2017. Why blatantly lie like this when it's so easily disproven? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Tiffany_Gomas 2 points3 points4 points 17 hours ago* (1 child) You seriously think this is my first and only account? Read what you quoted again, "much longer than this account". I have been here since the digg days and have had multiple accounts. I even used to mod. I try to quit my reddit addiction but it always wins. I was here when we all found out about poor Colby. I was here when ViolentAcrez was doxxed and his subs shutdown. I remember the Obama AMA that flooded this site with new users, that was way before your time. I was here long before you, before new reddit, before Automoderator was just a php script. I'm a old timer pal. Back in my day, we didn't have RES or fancy mobile apps to use Reddit. You couldn't even post an image you had to use imgur. There was no such thing as flair. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Juan_Carlo -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (0 children) OK, I'll just have to trust you on that then, bro. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]atomictyler 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) I'm pretty sure they meant longer than the account they're posting on. you got extremely defensive for no reason. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Ok-Dark9928 -4 points-3 points-2 points 18 hours ago (0 children) There are 100x more comments complaining about bots than actual bots. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]CommunicationAble621 1 point2 points3 points 20 hours ago (1 child) Hey - I think "Messengers of Deception" by Vallee is what you're looking for. Or "Operation Trojan Horse" by Keel. You'll love those books, and they're authored by solid minds. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 0 points1 point2 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Hello there. Alright thanks for the recommendations. I like Vallee, but don't know too much about Keel's work. I'll check them out, thanks. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Tiffany_Gomas 1 point2 points3 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Eglin, AFB and other military bases were literally the top user "cities" of reddit and that was 10 years ago when they made their analytic stats public. Then they scrubbed those from the list when people noticed. There are more AI bots all over Reddit and social media in general than real people, and unless they are spam bots having fake conversations pimping financial scams, you would never know. There's slightly less bots now because they are charging for their API now but those were just low effort spammers. Plenty of parties have the money and are willing to pay to mass manipulate people. However, paying for API using multiple accounts just makes it more inconvenient. Before reddit got rid of awards, the news organizations would post their news on reddit then award comments made by their employees to boost their narratives and steer the conversation. You would never notice unless you dug into their profile comments and notice they only comment on nyt articles across reddit. There's not an easy way to spot a bot anymore, the replies can be very convincing and pass the turing test. It's not a conspiracy. You can run bots on a vps for cheap. It's easy to do these days. Anyone can buy a bot script that outsources the AI to chatgpt to read posts and generate replies. To get around paying chat gpt for their API, you can run it through bing chat which is basically gpt. A lot of bots are part of political think tanks or PACs who have thousands of bot accounts on reddit that monitor various political subs pushing the views they want while downvoting ones they don't like. They make lots of money doing this. I think it's gross physiological manipulation, they disagree of course. They take advantage of widespread vpns so their bots aren't traced back to them. I can't imagine how many the DoD runs all over the Internet. Grusch actually talked about this suggesting the costs are getting crazy high Social media platforms don't care about the bots, it's good for them. Inflates their user stats and increases engagement. Marketing people like bots, they help spread their message and you're none the wiser. Remember these famous words: That motherfucker is not real. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]theweedfairy420qt 1 point2 points3 points 17 hours ago (0 children) It's our job to fight back and upvote harder lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Alternative_Race7878 1 point2 points3 points 18 hours ago (1 child) I think we need to backtrace the bots. I've found a few a few disinformation accounts that deactivated after being called out . permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 1 point2 points3 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Backtrace as in find their other accounts? Yea I've seen that happen a decent bit as well. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]6_Cat_Night 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (0 children) "I didn't realize that there were bots and people who work so hard to discredit things that it seems they must be compensated, until I stumbled into the UFO community" Ha ha, I thought this sub was serious until reading this, especially with this as the first response: "It was truly refreshing and eye-opening at the same time to hear this take. Thank you so much for sharing your experience." Fucking hilarious! Really impressed at the straight faces you all maintain. Excellent work! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]niltermini -2 points-1 points0 points 19 hours ago (1 child) The funny part is the opposite is true: russian and other foreign intelligences promote the conspiracy with bots. They want you to believe in fairy tales while distrusting science/the gov/ the military..They also get average people believing this shit so they can have them take pics of anything in the sky (aka classified vehicles) while demanding to declassify state secrets. Theres a reason why it was the favorite of the soviet propaganda during the cold war. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Internetofstupid -2 points-1 points0 points 15 hours ago (0 children) This is literally the dunning-kruger effect in action. There's no mass attempt to discredit things, hell the US Government openly admitted they believe in UAPs. You just want so badly for anything you've seen to be evidence, that you're willing to create a conspiracy theory to explain why other people don't agree. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Big_Pomegranate_7712 comment score below threshold-9 points-8 points-7 points 20 hours ago (10 children) I didn't realize that there were bots and people who work so hard to discredit things There aren't. At least as far as UAP goes. If you mean, like Russian bots working to discredit Biden, sure. Those are legion, and there's tons of evidence and obvious reasons why. People just don't want to deal with the actual explanation that things they want to be true aren't true and that most ten year olds could reason that out. Bots exist, but to do things where there's a motive. No one has a motive to discredit obvious flawed logic or frauds. No one gains anything from explaining to you that David Grusch is full of shit. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 8 points9 points10 points 20 hours ago (8 children) Thank you for reliably being the worst take in every thread. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Big_Pomegranate_7712 comment score below threshold-10 points-9 points-8 points 20 hours ago (7 children) Listen, this can be a safe space for you to role play this fantasy world you want to live in, and that's fine. What it can't ALSO be is somewhere where everyone else has to play make believe along with you. I'm sorry that there's no rational reason anyone would be trying to discredit obviously false stuff. I'm sorry you can't have everything you want be true and a pony, too, and everyone else tell you how big and smart and tough and tall and strong you are. In the actual, objective reality we live in, however: There is no giant conspiracy that everyone who disagrees with you is part of. David Grusch didn't deliver a shred of actual evidence to anyone. There is no 'disclosure' of NHI existing and the government knowing about it coming. Not soon, not in 100 years. Please return to your regularly scheduled covering of your ears and yelling "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 7 points8 points9 points 20 hours ago (2 children) Seriously. So consistent. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Big_Pomegranate_7712 comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 19 hours ago (1 child) Yup, objective reality is definitely consistent. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 3 points4 points5 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Consistently far stranger than we could have possibly imagined the deeper we look into it, and consistently far beyond our ability to fully grasp and comprehend. Which makes definitive, dogmatic statements such as yours, frankly, silly. You don't know anything. None of us do. Sit with that thought a little while, maybe, before you come back. See if it doesn't bring up a little humility. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]INcticUS 6 points7 points8 points 19 hours ago (1 child) Lol it’s really amusing that you’re trying this hard to convince yourself. It couldn’t be more obvious. Your extreme insistence and the way you phrase your arguments sounds like you’re desperately trying to calm yourself down because the possibility of these things being true scares you for some reason. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 3 points4 points5 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Exactly. Thi is not a skeptic stance at all. It's nothing but emotional wailing against a dark, scary, confusing universe that just might not be as neat and tidy and well-under stood as they believed. Stir in a dollop of strawman arguments against beliefs I have not espoused. Beliefs I may or may not hold; they have no way of knowing. But I must believe all these things the imaginary UFOlogist they've built in their head believes because I told them they have consistently bad takes. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]toxictoy -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (1 child) This isn’t some hyperbole. You have a very new account and I think you are new to this subject so to you this sounds like crazy echo chamber but to people who look at actual primary documents and have done FOIA requests your response is seriously misinformed and that literally is by design. Here is the fact that coverup and the subsequent disinformation are a factual reality. https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/v9vedn/for_the_record_that_there_has_... The fact also is that the UFO Stigma was actually created by the CIA and The Air Force with the help of the new Madison Avenue Advertising agencies and psychologists - how do we know this? Again primary sources Also look here tons of information about bots on this very site and research about the ways the military are manipulating ALL OF US all over social media - ufology is just one part of it. There are similar, already confirmed, real documents like this. You don't need sketchy documents to make a great argument that social media is compromised. Behavioral Science Support for JTRIG'S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations, leaked courtesy of Edward Snowden: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2108174-behavioural-science-support-... Leaked slides: The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations: https://web.archive.org/web/20190626033632/https://theintercept.com/document... The accompanying article for the above: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ Airforce ARS Technica - how to control people like drones via social media https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-ho... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-n... Other examples of similar information here: https://np.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/16qds82/is_disinformation_antidemocrat... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Aeropro 1 point2 points3 points 7 hours ago (0 children) It kind of reminds me of how Snowden leaked that the government was spying on us, a clear violation of the 4th amendment and the right to privacy, and everyone just got mad at him for leaking it and didn’t care about what the govt did and is probably still doing. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Aeropro 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) You’re axiomatically assuming that there is nothing to the phenomenon to begin with. It’s all a fraud so why bother discrediting? It’s very transparently causing an inability for you to see any possible motive one might have to continue the stigma surrounding this topic. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]GigglesOverShits comment score below threshold-7 points-6 points-5 points 14 hours ago (4 children) You are conspiracy theorists. You quite literally follow the same logical fallacies a conspiracy theorist does and there’s hundreds of posts and thousands of comments on this sub that objectively and observably showcase this. It’s one thing to speculate. To ponder and muse. But y’all don’t do that. You make INCREDIBLY grandiose ASSERTIONS about the nature of our world. There is no conclusive proof or evidence available that can be corroborated by the scientific community at proving aliens exist. Yet y’all are on this very sub not just asserting that aliens exist, but that they’re here. And that they’ve been here and are in cahoots with the government. That there are secret abduction programs, and alien human hybrids out in the population, and that we possess technology thousands of years more sophisticated than ours, etc. And y’all say all this shit as if it’s a COLD HARD FACT. Constantly, all the time, most people here talk about some pretty crazy shit like it’s just a common fact. And it’s not. And that’s why y’all get labeled conspiracy theorists. You downplay conventional explanations for supernatural ones. You dismiss official institutions of knowledge and science and instead parrot uncorroborated bullshit. You attribute everything to a conspiracy. It’s always the government doing some shadowy nefarious thing. You think because conspiracies have happened in the past, that’s somehow evidence that this is a conspiracy. You think a LACK OF EVIDENCE is somehow proof of the thing you don’t have evidence for. Yall literally just say whatever the fuck you want and you somehow think that makes it a fact. There is no respect for critical thought here, or evidence based thinking. You’re emotionally invested and it’s created a confirmation bias that none of you seem to be able to balance. Look, I’m all for wanting to know the truth and keeping an open mind. But what y’all do here is not about an honest search for truth. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 3 points4 points5 points 14 hours ago (3 children) I think you're speaking incredibly over broad. There's many of us here that don't do any of that. We got here as skeptics and then read stacks of unclassified US, French, Australian (etc) declassified military and government documents saying in black and white that there are technological crafts making incursions into sensitive airspace all the time, throughout history, back to WW2 and before. People who first get here think we just pulled this stuff out of our ass, no there's years worth of material if you have the interest and motivation to go on the research journey. Of course you get the casual observer that comes in here as well and likes to speculate. That's fine also, as long as you specify that you're speculating and not quoting information from an official source. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]GigglesOverShits -3 points-2 points-1 points 14 hours ago (2 children) There’s hundreds of comments a day showcasing this behavior. A good majority of the sub. I understand not 100% of people here are like this but a majority are and it’s demonstrable. Just go read comments. On any post. When you behave like this in a group, people are gona label you loonies. And it’s NOT because you believe in aliens. It’s because of how you go about it, the lack of logic you use, and the complete disrespect for the scientific process and what constitutes actual evidence. It’s one thing to speculate. It’s a whole other to make wild assertions positioned as facts about something as magnanimous as alien life being in this planet communicating with our government when there’s not a single shred of ACTUAL evidence for it. That’s absurd. It’s not absurd to say, I think intelligent life is out there somewhere. But to say, I do believe in intelligent life and I do believe it’s here and now let me rattle off some insanely specific magnanimous details that I’m gona label as true even though there’s diddly squat to prove it. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Aeropro 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (1 child) That’s not really a response to what u/LimpCroissant said. He stated that he came here as a skeptic, saw some evidence and changed his mind. You don’t find the evidence to be sufficient. We get it. Your rant is not necessary. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]GigglesOverShits -1 points0 points1 point 3 hours ago (0 children) No it is. Y’all assert everything as fact when it’s not. You think anything that comes outs of your mouth is true. You’re logical process is literally the same as anti-vaxers or 9/11 truthers. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]r00fMod 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (2 children) How do you tell which ones are the bots? Just check their profile and history? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LimpCroissant 2 points3 points4 points 15 hours ago (0 children) Here's a little guide that I have saved that I can post off hand. Honestly though I see more accounts that are definitely typed by hand. Just go to their account and see what they're all about. Tell-tale signs are usually they've only made 1 to a handful of total posts in some weird sub reddit (we all have our wierd sub reddits), they usually have under 1000 total comment karma, and then every single post in r/ufos and r/aliens, r/ufob, r/ anything related to UFOs is just pure nasty, negative trash talk. It happens often. There's even a few accounts that have been going for years just trash talking UFOs. Bots. How to identify them, and why do they exist on Reddit? https://www.reddit.com/user/tyrannosnorlax/comments/t0h466/bots_how_to_identify_them_and_why_do_they_exist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (0 children) Caught a good rule of thumb further down the thread. I'd link it if I wasn't lazy and knew how. Sum it up: if the poster is asking you to: A) accept claims without evidence Or B) ignore evidence Assume they're a bot and ignore them. With any misinformation techniques that may be more advanced? No clue. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]GiantSequoiaTree 0 points1 point2 points 15 hours ago (0 children) The GameStop community as well has the same bot problems. Wallstreet does not like us talking about and exposing their crimes. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Slavesandbulldozers7 0 points1 point2 points 13 hours ago (0 children) Same here. I agree. I like your screen name btw lol. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LuceArsoul 0 points1 point2 points 12 hours ago (0 children) Muddying the waters permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (0 children) I know Russian political bots well, but where are bots here? I haven't seen any until yet. I noticed lots of people are just called bots, who clearly aren't. Would someone show me their activities in any way? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Whyevenlive88 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) ITT: people that fall victim to confirmation bias. No one needs to spend any money discrediting anything here. A 10 year old with a science education could do so. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]pitmaster987 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) There was a post on here within the last cpl months showing the most active geographic area was the same small town where the Public Relations office for the Air Force is. Or something along those lines. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PickWhateverUsername 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) Sad thing tho is with Dolan's take, they don't even need to use bots. Everyone is just going to by default consider that people who don't agree with them or downvote them are bots because that's how conspiracies work : "I or someone else I agree with have the truth and people not agreeing are all part of the conspiracy to keep the truth from coming out" And so the community eats itself out because rather then healthy debates based on "proof" (that let's admit is very thin over here) sides are taken and reinforced until a group splits out. Rinse and repeat. Dolan is the ultimate bot then I guess. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]livid4 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) Fr, I discredit any comment on a ufo vid that immediately says “looks fake”. Another trend I noticed is any time Jeffrey Corbell or similar will suggest that X is happening soon, all the bots will come and comment “release the footage or shut up” or “stopped listening bc they never do anything” etc. I feel like the latter is intentionally discouraging in the current disclosure movement, like we might feel that way but I don’t believe that the ufo community would rather have these key people be silent over keeping an open line of communication it’s ridiculous. Trying to exclude them from ufo discussions is crazy and seems like a fake op to me permalink embed save parent report reply [–]shadowofashadow 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Reminder that at one point Eglin airforce base had the highest traffic on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_the... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]postngofmyownvoliton 209 points210 points211 points 23 hours ago (20 children) Yeah, remember this before you jump on the next bandwagon around here guys, for or against any video or breaking news. Reddit is ground zero for this crap, don’t even need a valid email address to register and post on reddit. This place is full of mud people muddying the waters. permalink embed save report reply [–]Eurotrashie 89 points90 points91 points 22 hours ago (8 children) BIngo - a few years ago Reddit itself cited that the city that most uses Reddit was Eglin Air Force base…. Hmmmmm. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]EasyPissedoffFeeling 22 points23 points24 points 22 hours ago (7 children) Is that true? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]t3kner 45 points46 points47 points 22 hours ago (2 children) https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit\_has\_removed\_their\_blog\_post\_identifying/ permalink embed save parent report reply [+]EasyPissedoffFeeling comment score below threshold-22 points-21 points-20 points 21 hours ago (1 child) Thats some interesting evidence, sort of. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]hshnslsh 7 points8 points9 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Pretty compelling imo. permalink embed save parent report reply [+][deleted] 22 hours ago (1 child) [deleted] [+]EasyPissedoffFeeling comment score below threshold-11 points-10 points-9 points 21 hours ago (0 children) I dont get it....oh wait I get it. You're a nice boy. permalink embed save report reply [–]Eurotrashie 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) I hate to break it to you… permalink embed save parent report reply [–]eeeezypeezy 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05... web archive link of the quickly-deleted original reddit blog post where they call Eglin AFB "the most reddit-addicted city" lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TankieTanuki 18 points19 points20 points 22 hours ago (5 children) It's pretty bad here. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]postngofmyownvoliton 11 points12 points13 points 21 hours ago (2 children) That’s a good one, reminds me of the compilation videos of the 50 newscasters in 50 states having the same opinions, jokes, and reactions to the news they’re “reporting”. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]YuSmelFani 0 points1 point2 points 11 hours ago (1 child) So….basically the news reporters are actors? Would love to see that compilation video. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]postngofmyownvoliton 1 point2 points3 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Yes, they all get their scripts from the same source, cause all news companies are owned by the same couple people. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Interesting-Ad-9330 4 points5 points6 points 21 hours ago (1 child) Where did you source this from? It's very interesting. We should be looking for concrete evidence of this kind of manipulation in this and related subs too. And I mean concrete, not just every fifth comment saying "BOtS" and "eglin staff are back lol" permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TankieTanuki 6 points7 points8 points 21 hours ago* (0 children) I didn't create the image myself. I would have to search the API or something to find the posts. Edit: Here are the links: https://archive.ph/jIosL https://archive.ph/0cyjW permalink embed save parent report reply [–]HugeAppeal2664 13 points14 points15 points 18 hours ago (3 children) It’s obvious as fuck there is some dodgy accounts in here I made a post last week about it, there are accounts that are dedicated to instantly being negative about something no matter what and they all have low karma, years old accounts and they specifically only come here to comment. There obviously a lot of trolls as well with their alt accounts but definitely some suspect activity outside of that permalink embed save parent report reply [–]atomictyler 9 points10 points11 points 16 hours ago (1 child) Any post about Avi Loeb gets hit really hard by all the negative comments. Without fail. It's incredibly obvious there's a lot of effort going towards discrediting him or at least trying to make him look crazy. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LouisUchiha04 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (0 children) Kyle Hill (a good science youtube content creator and educator) just released a video sh*tting on UFO communities and Avi Loeb...lol. He obviously did not research the topic... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]rockyjack793 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) I mean it is ground zero for misinformation but your post in itself could be considered it as well. Reddit is ground 0 for all of it. We are simultaneously the most informed and the most influenced. But this is also ground zero for complex discussion and advancement of public understanding permalink embed save parent report reply [–]MsGreenT 21 points22 points23 points 22 hours ago (1 child) Pretty much whatever I'm doing on social media I'm assuming there are bots. In fact, I know there are bots. I'm a part of a small community who are constantly maligned for political / culture war issues to distract from mainstream political failings of our elected leaders. Sadly, it works and it causes immense harm. permalink embed save report reply [–]EfficientNeck9029 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children) For all I know you’re a bot lol, it’s wild out here. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]blue_estron 75 points76 points77 points 22 hours ago (5 children) Not only do they trash talk - they also entertain the stuff that's obviously bullshit, and use it to create divides as well as make the community seem mental, so new people and those disillusioned by it end up leaving. There are certain favourable phrases I think they use too, "nothing burger", "trust me bro", stuff that is so trite, but that quickly knocks something and packages it with the rest. I also suspect they derail conversations with chains of silly commentary, unoriginal attempts at being funny. Always making a pun out of things. permalink embed save report reply [–]sprague_drawer 24 points25 points26 points 19 hours ago (1 child) I also suspect they derail conversations with chains of silly commentary, unoriginal attempts at being funny. Always making a pun out of things. To be fair, this is 50% of all Reddit comment sections. From UFOs, to sports, to politics. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 -1 points0 points1 point 12 hours ago (0 children) To be fair, this doesn't refute their point, it amplifies it. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]AcheInMyLeftEar 9 points10 points11 points 21 hours ago (0 children) I think he should have emphasized that they play both sides more than he did, at least in this clip. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]kanrad -2 points-1 points0 points 7 hours ago (0 children) I think you and others need to understand what platform you have chosen to find your truth on. This is reddit, it's not a serious place and is full of kiddos that like to push buttons for fun. This is not the place to find disclosure or discuss anything that matters. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Nova_Tango 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) That last part sounds pretty human. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]keep-it 62 points63 points64 points 23 hours ago (2 children) Richard is the man permalink embed save report reply [–]MKULTRA_Escapee 28 points29 points30 points 22 hours ago (1 child) Agreed. He said it way better than I could. Some citations to back up what Dolan was stating for the lazy: https://np.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/172jm2j/dissimulation_hide_the_real_ma... Additional information: https://np.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/16qds82/is_disinformation_antidemocrat... The moderators of this forum proved that at least one network of fake accounts existed in this forum, operating for at least months, and lets be honest, probably years: https://np.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/10r0vq4/community_update_on_incivility... Perhaps this particular network wasn't GCHQ specifically. There's no way to prove who specifically is responsible, so you could argue that, but the concept is the same. It could easily be Russians. They were just sloppy enough to leave a little bit of conclusive evidence behind, so maybe it was somebody else this time. Either way you slice it, somebody is making fake accounts in this subreddit specifically to disrupt the discourse, which means you can't draw any conclusions about the community based on your feelings of how the discourse is going. Perhaps someone is naive and doesn't realize that shenanigans are occurring by somebody, whoever that may be, and they never spent the time to read about the internet astroturfing subject, so they believe it's unlikely. It's less important who it is and you can't prove who it is anyway. Governments waste money all the time, so even if you believe it would be a waste of money to manipulate this forum, astroturfers have been manipulating forums since the Bush/Gore election of 2000. They do it anyway, waste of money or not. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]F-the-mods69420 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago (0 children) When the American public fully realizes the extent they're being fucked with, they ain't gonna be happy. To this day most people walk around oblivious to what Snowden revealed. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Prior_Woodpecker635 27 points28 points29 points 21 hours ago (0 children) Newer to Reddit and immediately thought so many bad faith comments weren’t real. Even in the war subs.. It’s uncanny to real sentiments... nihilistic permalink embed save report reply [–]Lone-sta-r 60 points61 points62 points 22 hours ago (20 children) The majority of reddit post are bots. Either farming karma or trying to push the youth in one direction over the other. There's videos where companies are for hire to specifically do this. Fake accounts that look real and guide the conversation in one direction with fake upvotes etc. permalink embed save report reply [–]LakeMichUFODroneGuy 3 points4 points5 points 21 hours ago (19 children) It is impossible to tell these days who is real here. This entire sub is bots, no humans allowed: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ Pretty freaky. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]quetzalcosiris comment score below threshold-7 points-6 points-5 points 20 hours ago (17 children) Nah...it's really not that hard to tell. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LakeMichUFODroneGuy 21 points22 points23 points 20 hours ago (15 children) That's because you know it's not real. People don't notice these types of comments when they are inserted into real conversations. Your comment for example, "Nah...it's really not that hard to tell." is about the most generic comment with the least amount of effort that could be made into writing it. You literally sound like a bot from that sub. In fact, most of your posts are just one liner generic responses that require no thought whatsoever. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]quetzalcosiris comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points 20 hours ago (14 children) Lol, I gladly invite everybody to check out my profile and come to their own conclusion about that. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FancySloth 13 points14 points15 points 19 hours ago (11 children) I've checked. I think you're a bot. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]HonestCletus 4 points5 points6 points 19 hours ago (0 children) 50 day account and over 10000 post karma. That’s a little fishy permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheCultureCitizen -2 points-1 points0 points 9 hours ago (3 children) If you're at the point where you think everybody you disagree with online is a bot you should probably log off for a while for your own mental health. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FancySloth 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (2 children) If you think I was being serious, maybe you need to follow your own advice before lending it to others. People like him who blindly believe any con-man or hoaxer in the UFO sphere will often call anybody who disagrees with them "bots". I was doing the same thing to him, because it's ridiculous. I was taking the piss. Point is: it's so easy to turn it round on them. When they accuse you of being a bot, double down and accuse them. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheCultureCitizen 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (1 child) Ah ok, it's hard to tell tbh, I've seen many people unironically say such things. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FancySloth -1 points0 points1 point 9 hours ago (0 children) That's exactly why I say it ironically, to the people who say it unironically. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]quetzalcosiris -5 points-4 points-3 points 19 hours ago (5 children) Thanks, the people reading will consider that an endorsement. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]SabineRitter 3 points4 points5 points 19 hours ago (0 children) True facts 💯 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FancySloth 4 points5 points6 points 19 hours ago (0 children) What's Eglin base like, agent smith? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]psychedelianaut 0 points1 point2 points 10 hours ago (2 children) Considering you spam post almost nothing but tripe, the only thing I could endorse is that you find the will if you even have it to portray some sense of a personality. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Aeropro -2 points-1 points0 points 7 hours ago (1 child) We need to think of a phrase or question that any human would know how to appropriately respond to but would reveal an AI by their response permalink embed save parent report reply [–]psychedelianaut -2 points-1 points0 points 6 hours ago (0 children) We could try talking to them in morse code. -.-- --- ..- .----. .-. . / .- / -.. . ... .--. .. -.-. .- -... .-.. . / .-. --- -... --- - / - .... .- - / --- -. .-.. -.-- / ... .--. . .-- ... / -. --- -. ... . -. ... . / -.. . ... .. --. -. . -.. / - --- / -.. .. ... - .-. .- -.-. - permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Gina_the_Alien 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (1 child) Posting the exact same thing to six different subreddits multiple times? That’s one of the biggest tells of a bot imho permalink embed save parent report reply [–]currently__working 3 points4 points5 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Those are GPT2. Were at GPT4 now (at least) permalink embed save parent report reply [–]aliensinbermuda[S] 30 points31 points32 points 23 hours ago (2 children) Richard Dolan is a UFO (UAP) researcher and historian. He went on the Theories of Everything podcast and talked about intelligence agencies interfering in the UFO community. permalink embed save report reply [–]Dream-Ambassador 11 points12 points13 points 21 hours ago (1 child) is this the one from 2 years ago or is it something more recent? permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Waspinator4ever 0 points1 point2 points 15 hours ago (0 children) Seems like it's the one from 2021 and there hasn't been a more recent one, it was just prescient for today's struggles with keeping the community oriented at the correct targets permalink embed save parent report reply [–]JPXRAY 31 points32 points33 points 22 hours ago (6 children) Shortly after the Grusch hearings, I created a post on a UFO subreddit sharing my opinion that what was happening was Government-led disclosure. The post started to get hundreds of comments and engagement. Shortly after I received a notification that the post was removed by the moderator. I messaged to ask why and they said “your post was bot-swarmed”. permalink embed save report reply [–]MKULTRA_Escapee 13 points14 points15 points 20 hours ago (1 child) If you post a portion of a direct quote, I think I can search it in modmail. Do you still have it on hand? I searched your username on modmail and got nothing, so maybe it's not working right or something? You should be able to link me directly to the modmail. Modmails can't be deleted as far as I know, so we should easily be able to find it. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]JPXRAY 3 points4 points5 points 17 hours ago (0 children) https://reddit.com/r/UFOB/s/D8sajgAtHF My mistake, it was UFOB and the comments were locked because of an “LLM bot swarm” according to the moderator permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Llamawehaveadrama 5 points6 points7 points 21 hours ago (3 children) Interesting. So you said something in that post that got their attention. Hm. Maybe we should start archiving which topics get bot-swarmed and look for patterns. I wonder if mods can access past, since-deleted posts from this sub permalink embed save parent report reply [–]andreasmiles23 6 points7 points8 points 17 hours ago (1 child) It could be done if you could get access to the API Which used to be free to access, I know colleagues who used it to do qualitative analyses all the time to do exactly those kinds of analyses (not related to bots but related to the kinds of content in comments during different points in time) But Reddit decided to put a crazy price on access to their API which is why all the third-party apps got killed. But that wasn't the only consequence, a lot of social scientists were using this data and this makes it nearly impossible without a big grant or institutional funding. Do with that information what you will. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Llamawehaveadrama 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (0 children) Ohh okay. Damn. That sucks. I knew that whole thing was bad for lots of reasons and this is just one more reason to add to the list. Convenient for them this change happened when it did ig but it probably had nothing to do with this and is just a coincidence. Greedy corporations always ruin everything. Just wish they’d waited another year before they had the idea lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]JPXRAY 1 point2 points3 points 17 hours ago (0 children) https://reddit.com/r/UFOB/s/D8sajgAtHF My mistake. The comments were locked, but the moderator did say it was an LLM bot swarm. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]tinosaladbar 4 points5 points6 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Can we or the mods fight back on these bots? Is there anything we can do? permalink embed save report reply [–]shattypantsMcGee 4 points5 points6 points 18 hours ago (0 children) The answer is our species is controlled. Give a select few and advantage and they’ll control us for them. permalink embed save report reply [–]drollere 5 points6 points7 points 17 hours ago* (0 children) it's unclear from dolan's meandering response whether the topic is bots or divisive communities or US government disinformation or psyops in the napoleonic wars, or what, exactly; but as a reader familiar with the UFO community trope that "bots are controlling our community!" and "disinformation agents are attacking our community!", it seems to me pretty plain when there is a bot response or not. there are two kinds of bot responses, the bot responses from bots and the bot responses from humans. the bot responses from humans are just stereotypical points of view without substantive relevance to the evidence, or one liner jokes or retorts or tailriders, "low energy" posts that are supposed to be prohibited but flourish here anyway. i skim them like the output from a random joke generator and enjoy the very few of them that are witty. the bot responses from bots repeat discredited arguments or points of view, ad hominems and dark conspiracy talk, including dark talk about bot talk, and they do it in a generic way, again without reference to any actual evidence, or citing manufactured evidence. i've always said that if you just focus on evidence, or explore where the evidence ends and the storytelling begins, then it doesn't matter, really, if you are talking to a bot or not, because you are having a reasonable, evidence based conversation that any third person would find interesting. anything else you do, whether it is with a person or a bot is only going to be a distraction from you saying anything that might interest anybody else. your stance towards bots just needs to rest on two ideas: they entice you to accept claims without evidence, and they turn you away from a reasonable focus on the evidence. guard against either accepting empty claims or turning away from evidence, and you'll be fine. permalink embed save report reply [–]pepper-blu 20 points21 points22 points 22 hours ago (10 children) I wish I could get paid to be a troll, sounds like the easiest job in the world permalink embed save report reply [–]BearlyGrowingWizard 5 points6 points7 points 21 hours ago (0 children) I wonder if we will get a 2035 Oscar’s movie named, “Trolls” starring an aging Justin Timberlake about the tolls on trolls in the government. Close calls of meeting in real life, etc. crazy this all could be true. 😅😂 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]EasyPissedoffFeeling 1 point2 points3 points 22 hours ago (0 children) found the paid troll permalink embed save parent report reply [–]synthwavve 0 points1 point2 points 21 hours ago (0 children) I just farmed them in LOTRO. Are you sure? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]ShirelySue 0 points1 point2 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I know! It also sounds like it would kind of be fun, too. Perhaps my idea of fun is a tad twisted... permalink embed save parent report reply [+]sumofdeltah comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 21 hours ago (0 children) Just make a video accusing others of being trolls and bots while making giant claims that you never have to back up. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]BA_lampman 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (4 children) Would you do it? I wouldn't, for a million dollars. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]pepper-blu 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (3 children) I would in a heartbeat. Money brings happiness. Easy money is even better. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]BA_lampman 0 points1 point2 points 55 minutes ago (2 children) How sad. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]pepper-blu 0 points1 point2 points 48 minutes ago (1 child) can't live off ideals, money is unfortunately a necessity permalink embed save parent report reply [–]BA_lampman [score hidden] 5 minutes ago (0 children) Yeah, I get it. Sucks to hear though, as a truth seeker. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]halflife5 6 points7 points8 points 18 hours ago (1 child) It always amazes me how people denied the disinfo campaign. Pay any attention to how the United States intelligence community disrupts socialist movements across the world and it makes it abundantly clear what's going on. permalink embed save report reply [–]retoy1 2 points3 points4 points 20 hours ago (0 children) A good example of the the bot networks that he’s referring to is AIMS. It’s no small operation, and if you think AIMS is bad, I can only imagine what the IC has in their arsenal. Paired with a trained GPT AI that’s instructed to read and respond a certain way to discredit people or topics, it gets scary real quick. permalink embed save report reply [–]conkreteJs 8 points9 points10 points 20 hours ago (1 child) If you weren't aware that there are bots and paid actors, with extremely high karma, in all of the biggest and influential subs, you haven't been paying attention. All of the accepted narratives are always in line with the DoD/Globalist agenda. If you disagree even slightly, you get downvoted to hell. permalink embed save report reply [–]smellybarbiefeet 1 point2 points3 points 20 hours ago (0 children) High karma young accounts permalink embed save parent report reply [–]GalacticCowHeist 9 points10 points11 points 22 hours ago* (0 children) That COINTELPRO guide could be pinned here permenantly. Forum sliding, Astroturfing, Red herrings, Gaslighting (Subtle and not so subtle), and Ad Hom attacks are unusually high here. Alot of people will always assume any and all people 'arguing' with them is simply not understanding what they're saying or is just trolling or being dense just to be an ass. Alot of people don't expect a single person or AI to have 2 or more accounts arguing with eachother while manipulating votes to fabricate consensus. _ You don't even have to go into 'woo' to accept this, we already know companies do this to push products, services, articles, opinions. permalink embed save report reply [–]scammingladdy 10 points11 points12 points 20 hours ago (8 children) After being in this community for many months now this has been very obvious to me. Every video posted here, especially the ones that are very convincing, always have the random debunkers commenting the same excuses over and over: it’s a plastic bag, it’s a flare, its a balloon, a kite, or if its undeniably odd guess what it must be CGI. Now don’t get me wrong sometimes these explanations are true and most videos are bs. But it’s becoming predictable which excuse the bots/trolls are gona use. permalink embed save report reply [–]Public-Pilot-6490 -1 points0 points1 point 11 hours ago (6 children) So... when people debunk shitty videos they are bots right? Okay... I personally left this topic, I'm not interested anymore, all this UFO bait topic is about retired old guys who have been making promises for over 80 years, fake jouirnalists who trashtalks everyday, give 0 evidence of any shit and even make crazy claims. But hey, I'm a bot because I don't believe them hahahaha. Anyways, you all have fun with your paranoia here, I'll be back in a few months to laugh a bit more and ask again for evidence just to be called yet again a bot ayyy lmao. permalink embed save parent report reply [–][deleted] 10 hours ago (4 children) [removed] [–]Public-Pilot-6490 0 points1 point2 points 10 hours ago (1 child) Stop reporting people to suicide prevention bots, you need psychiatric help. permalink embed save report reply [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 -1 points0 points1 point 9 hours ago (0 children) I don't see it. Their post is completely normal. Even unexpectedly normal for reddit permalink embed save report reply [–]UFOs-ModTeam[M] -1 points0 points1 point 4 hours agolocked comment (0 children) Follow the Standards of Civility: No trolling or being disruptive. No insults or personal attacks. No accusations that other users are shills. No hate speech. No abusive speech based on race, religion, sex/gender, or sexual orientation. No harassment, threats, or advocating violence. No witch hunts or doxxing. (Please redact usernames when possible) An account found to be deleting all or nearly all of their comments and/or posts can result in an instant permanent ban. This is to stop instigators and bad actors from trying to evade rule enforcement. You may attack each other's ideas, not each other. permalink embed save report [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 -3 points-2 points-1 points 9 hours ago (0 children) So if someone posts an obvious CGI, people who call it out are bots? It's impossible to achieve any discussion with this mindset. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]cogitoergopwn 4 points5 points6 points 20 hours ago (0 children) only the smartest people with good bullshit detectors will prevail. the rest are rubes or didn’t pass the internet test. gotta take it all in and sift through the bullshit, and social media has a metric fuckton of bullshit permalink embed save report reply [–]JewpiterUrAnus 3 points4 points5 points 17 hours ago (0 children) Ever since Grusch’s story there’s at least 7000 accounts in this community at any one time. It used to be a LOT less. I hear people saying forget the MH370 stuff it’s all disinfo. Then I hear people say the same about David Greer or Ross Coulhart. Bottom line is - we should as a community do the following: Scrutinise everything but also keep an open mind. Be willing to have discussions without it turning sour. Pay attention to the accounts that just want to wage war or call people out. This is a new(ish) account for myself (I needed a new account set up for this part of my hobbies/interests.) People might look at me and think ‘bot’ or that I’m some sort of agent. And good. Do. Question everything. BUT still look into whatever it is they say. Because that way, we always account for the truths. permalink embed save report reply [–]SuperbWater330 5 points6 points7 points 22 hours ago (0 children) Curt plays dumb way too much. There are bots? 🙄 permalink embed save report reply [–]veigar42 3 points4 points5 points 22 hours ago (1 child) So basically call your reps and voice your concerns. permalink embed save report reply [–]UAoverAU 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (0 children) “Excuse me Mr/Ms Representative, I’m aware there’s a conflict in Israel, but let me tell you about these bots on Reddit.” “Click.” permalink embed save parent report reply [–]rite_of_truth 3 points4 points5 points 22 hours ago (0 children) It's happening right now with the "OMG all NHI are evil!" posts. such a load of shit. permalink embed save report reply [–]MellowDramaticWhale 6 points7 points8 points 22 hours ago (6 children) The problem with this sub is that anytime someone questions anything or shows any skepticism, asks for evidence ect ect ect. You instantly get referred to as a bot or disinformation agent. It’s ridiculous. Videos like this will just bolster peoples feelings that anyone who disagrees with them must be a bot. permalink embed save report reply [–]Hornet878 9 points10 points11 points 21 hours ago (1 child) This is such a toxic way to validate a worldview and it basically guarantees that anyone who uses it will not think critically. -someone demonstrates a non-paranormal explanation =bot -someone brings a video of an airplane that they think is a ufo =disinformation bot -someone brings a more convincing video that is later disproven =better disinformation bot It is set up so there is literally no way you can interact with real people who don't believe aliens both exist and are here. It insulates the community against skepticism and is a huge part of why it isn't taken seriously. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Gina_the_Alien 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) Probably the best thing the govt could do to throw a sub like this into disarray is to convince a majority of the users that people who post opinions or facts that run against their narrative & beliefs (whatever they may be) are bots. It ends up like that meme where the spider-men are all pointing at each other. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Due_Kaleidoscope7066 1 point2 points3 points 21 hours ago (0 children) Isn't that just the other side of the coin? If social media can be manipulated to have people coming in and claiming skepticism about real posts, they could also come in and post something benign and have a conversation revolve around how any skeptics are not part of the community. Thus people who consider themselves skeptics feel they should not engage either and are pushed away. The purpose would be to push everyone away, not just one subset. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]HugeAppeal2664 -1 points0 points1 point 18 hours ago (0 children) There’s nothing wrong with showing scepticism but there are clearly accounts that just go about shooting everything down no matter what and it’s not even “constructive scepticism” They will outright just say everything is fake, I’ve had multiple people outright lie saying that the Nimitz incident “was debunked as a plane” so they were pushing disinformation off as a fact and there were getting loads of people upvoting them. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Rasalom 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago* (0 children) Videos like this are made to prime believers and convince others about an Other that is contradicting them finding a radical source of salvation. The strongest UFO/Alien/NHI believers are seeking help from outside sources. Convincing those people they are persecuted is a very old religious technique that has been co-opted by grifters. It helps the grifter sell a book to victims, these people who are having their paranoia for something better teased constantly by all these threads. What's most ironic is the "bots" are much more likely to be grifters using techniques to antagonize and gaslight people so they'll run back to the grifter for support and reinforcement of their beliefs. "There there, I know you know the Truth and you know only I can give you another hit of the Truth. Did a bot find your personal email and send you a nasty message? Wow, that Government sure is dastardly. Remember, only the Government could have had your email that you previously only used to sign up for my newsletter!" permalink embed save parent report reply [–]BA_lampman 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (0 children) The ones that call "bot!" May themselves be bots. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]catman1352 10 points11 points12 points 22 hours ago (11 children) The disinformation comes with posts designed to go down a false rabbit hole. I.E. the Vegas, Peru, Plane disappearing. We just need to stick it to the votes and our reps. permalink embed save report reply [+]helloworllldd 1 point2 points3 points 14 hours ago (0 children) The plane to me always seemed like we were steering at the wrong direction. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]quetzalcosiris 2 points3 points4 points 20 hours ago (4 children) To the contrary, the disinformation comes from posts designed to steer people away from certain topics, which....always seem to be the exact same ones. But please, do keep making comments like this. Can you name us a few other "false rabbit holes"? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Life-Designer-4936 2 points3 points4 points 20 hours ago (2 children) Why can't it possibly be both? Steering people away from certain subjects AND steering them towards others? I feel like this whole "disinformation" thing is used as means of dismissing someone that someone else disagrees with. Especially when the person is expressing some form of skepticism. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]quetzalcosiris -1 points0 points1 point 20 hours ago* (1 child) "Feel" however you want. It has nothing to do with disagreement. Nor opposition to skepticism. Everyone is a skeptic. And everyone who is paying attention can see exactly what is going in comment threads such as this. It is not difficult. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Life-Designer-4936 0 points1 point2 points 20 hours ago (0 children) And you feel how you want. But the reality is that the term "disinformation agent" has been used to dismiss people who express skepticism towards certain things. As you said, it's not too hard to see. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]catman1352 -2 points-1 points0 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Exhibit A permalink embed save parent report reply [–]pineapplesgreen -1 points0 points1 point 13 hours ago (0 children) Uhhh speak for yourself homeboy, for a lot of very real people the plane disappearing was not a false rabbit hole. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]HonestCletus 0 points1 point2 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Whatever happened to the Vegas family, anyone ever track them down or are they still hiding in their house. I found the family quite convincing but who knows permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Life-Designer-4936 -3 points-2 points-1 points 20 hours ago (0 children) How about the dismissal and even removal of posts calling out "disclosure leaders", especially politicians, for having questionable backgrounds? Posts pointing out that Gaetz has associated with a child sex trafficker, and that Gaetz, Luna, and Burchett were active in attempting to override the results of the 2020 US presidential election have been dismissed as "being too political" and off-topic. Yet these things are absolutely relevant to the credibility and effectiveness of these "disclosure leaders". permalink embed save parent report reply [–]EasyPissedoffFeeling -2 points-1 points0 points 22 hours ago (0 children) Thats right. Most people in here would be able to spot a bad 70s style snowjob, like the two you mentioned a mile away. It s interesting then to see how stupid or gullible they think the populous is. It all looks like National Enquirer sensationalism. Hilarious really. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TehDDerp -3 points-2 points-1 points 22 hours ago (0 children) EXACTLY WHAT WAS OBVIOUS TO ME Like, go into my post history and see the people I've called out! They design these things to have a ton of little microdetails and if enough of them say something checks all of the specific minutia that a supposed piece of evidence should check enough people will be lazy that that is just taken as a truth! Refuting bullshit takes SO MUCH MORE EFFORT permalink embed save parent report reply [–]EckhartsLadder 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (0 children) Yeah just like it was bots fighting against the wormhole video. /s There's zero evidence, I don't understand why the suspicion has to be first to mind before there's something really worth discrediting. permalink embed save report reply [–]El-JeF-e 1 point2 points3 points 15 hours ago (0 children) The commenters trying to make skeptics seem like disinfo agents you are freaking ridiculous. If anything, the disinfo agents are the ones posting easily provable fake videos because you make the UFO movement look like garbage instead of singling out the truly interesting stuff. permalink embed save report reply [–]swank5000 1 point2 points3 points 5 hours ago (0 children) The Spiderman meme is members of the UFO community accusing each other of being feds lmao permalink embed save report reply [–]scubadoobadoooo 1 point2 points3 points 2 hours ago (0 children) the dude on the right be like: 🗿 permalink embed save report reply [–]JD_the_Aqua_Doggo 4 points5 points6 points 21 hours ago (0 children) The best way to combat this is with love. Always has been. Always will be. Love leads us to truth. Do not let anyone force or coerce you into living your life with fear and mistrust and hatred in your hearts. Always ask who is posting/sharing this, and why. Dig around. But ask yourself the most important questions and remember to love yourself and remember we are all here together, as one species, on one planet, together with all the life that exists around us. They (likely I suspect the Pentagon or DoD but who knows for sure?) want you afraid. Always. Fear, rather than hatred, is the opposite of Love. permalink embed save report reply [–]LakeMichUFODroneGuy 4 points5 points6 points 21 hours ago (2 children) This is where this topic gets so muddy, because now you get a whole bunch of people ignoring differing opinions solely because they think it's a bot or bad actor. But any good bot/troll farm will play both sides. They don't just give out disagreeable opinions, they also agree with you and will egg you on to look into other things to further the manipulation. I've posted this before, but everyone in the sub needs to watch the Mirage Men documentary to understand just how deeply woven UFO lore is with government disinformation. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zq2d6 permalink embed save report reply [–]Juan_Carlo -3 points-2 points-1 points 19 hours ago (1 child) Yes. The only proven case where a government agent manipulated the UFO community was by seeding it with a bunch of fake claims about how UFOs are real. If they did that with this sub, people would eat it up and accuse any skeptics of being bots, lol. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LakeMichUFODroneGuy 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Grusch is another Bennewitz, and all of this is Doty 2.0 built for the internet age. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exair-force-law-enforceme_b_5312650 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Im_not_a_coomer 3 points4 points5 points 22 hours ago* (0 children) We'll see if this gets downvoted a lot by bots edit: I guess not lmao permalink embed save report reply [–]JAMBI215 3 points4 points5 points 21 hours ago (1 child) I love how Kurt is smart Af but seems baffled sometimes by the most simple concepts permalink embed save report reply [–]DrestinBlack 2 points3 points4 points 20 hours ago (0 children) This is never a good sign. Whenever a community trying hard to prove its beliefs to the world has to resort to warning its followers that’s their is misinformation, fake news, bots, etc to support their conspiracy theories of government coverup — that is the signs that science has been left far behind and it’s becoming more like … well… I’m not gonna say the terms and get my comment deleted. Be wary, indeed. Here is a legit warning. If you are spending way more time explaining the coverup and how deep the conspiracy goes than presenting evidence - you’ve already lost. Please, don’t go down that inescapable rabbit hole. Sincere warning. permalink embed save report reply [–]disinformation-agent 2 points3 points4 points 23 hours ago (1 child) As your local disinformation agent, I can assure you that bots do not exist and all is well. On the other hand, you should not trust a disinformation agent either. permalink embed save report reply [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 1 point2 points3 points 9 hours ago (0 children) I trust you permalink embed save parent report reply [–]APensiveMonkey 1 point2 points3 points 20 hours ago (0 children) And they’re right here in r/UFOs. Wave hi to them! 👋🏼 permalink embed save report reply [–]_BannedAcctSpeedrun_ 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I'm just mad that people are getting paid to shitpost and I'm not. permalink embed save report reply [–]NSLearning 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I think we need to trust our gut when it comes to the phenomenon. I’m really drawn to the woo, as in The Law of One. It speaks to me and I feel no need defend my beliefs. I would be shocked by my own beliefs now a year ago. We all have to follow our own truth. If you’re spending time tearing other people down you’re part of the problem. permalink embed save report reply [–]suckmy_cork 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (2 children) lol is the interviewer hearing about bots for the first time? clearly never been on any online forum, twitter, comment section, reddit etc. Bots everywhere mate and they are on every side. Russian, USA, EU, China, literally everyone. And its just going to get more pervasive and persuasive with the AI revolution. permalink embed save report reply [–]Unlikely_Thought2205 -1 points0 points1 point 9 hours ago (1 child) How are there EU bots? That's not even a country. Russia and China obviously, but they don't hide it. It's not okay at all to claim the EU uses bots like Russia does: to strengthen fascist parties and politicians in other countries. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]suckmy_cork 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago (0 children) i mean from EU countries permalink embed save parent report reply [–]largefluffs 1 point2 points3 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I wouldn't believe anything Dolan says. He's a big admirer of Putin and has never said a bad word about him. I've heard him say he thinks RT is a completely unbiased and accurate news source. lol. permalink embed save report reply [–]neilgraham 2 points3 points4 points 21 hours ago (0 children) We know lmao permalink embed save report reply [–]bejammin075 1 point2 points3 points 23 hours ago (1 child) FYI, without a submission statement or some text your post will be soon deleted by mods. permalink embed save report reply [+]SoundHole comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I hope so. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]noobpwner314 0 points1 point2 points 19 hours ago (0 children) The Russian election meddling is a perfect example of how true this is. I assure you that were trolling many groups not just the UFO community. This is another day in the office for them. I would go so far as to say that they would not only be debunking or doing troll behavior, but also posting a lot of shitpost type stuff that tends to frustrate the community. Like those painfully obviously not a UAP videos that pop up over and over on here. They will do anything to discourage the die hards and disinterest the casuals. permalink embed save report reply [–]SuperbWater330 -2 points-1 points0 points 22 hours ago (1 child) MAGA loves the bots. They believe every word. permalink embed save report reply [–]NotOneStar 2 points3 points4 points 19 hours ago (0 children) sounds like something a bot would say permalink embed save parent report reply [–]desertash 0 points1 point2 points 22 hours ago (1 child) based off Dolan's hair...which is majestic (12..ha!) here...this bit is 1-2 years old permalink embed save report reply [–]Waterdrag0n 4 points5 points6 points 22 hours ago (0 children) Yup I use the hair style phase to work out if it’s a new video upload or not from Dolan! Hilarious but true! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]turbografix15 0 points1 point2 points 19 hours ago (0 children) That’s why we have these bogus, disingenuous posting to take away from the credibility of the real stuff. Take this lame supposed alien capture that some guy claimed he got from the woods after the being killed his dog. That’s a known hoax since almost 20 years, yet it suddenly pops up on all the ufo subs with people trying to make you think that it’s real etc etc. Same thing with the recent Vegas alien backyard invasion thing. They cloud the waters with their BS and the stuff that matters gets ignored and buried. Tale as old as time. permalink embed save report reply [–]agu-agu 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (2 children) Stereotypical conspiracy theory thinking - everyone who disagrees with the narrative is a shill, an actor, a paid disinformation agent. That's a convenient way of discarding all skepticism and contrary thinking. It's a bullshit way of instantly discrediting anyone who has doubt. It's a claim that can be made with nothing to back it up whatsoever, and which can be accepted at face value. Oh, you don't like someone's argument? No worries, they're just paid actors sent here to make us look bad! Oh, we latched onto some fake bullshit like the CGI plane disappearance video and it was demonstrated to be fake? No worries, it's just misinformation planted here to divide people! This is the same logic QAnon uses to constantly shift their own goalposts when their stupid ass predictions fall flat on their faces. I have been accused of being on a payroll before and it cracks me up because obviously I know my own background. Let me give you a hint - not everyone who disagrees with you is sent here by some spooky government agency. Some of us are just curious individuals with real skepticism who are intrigued by the topic but utterly unconvinced. Reddit is not that important to believe that it's "ground zero" for shills or whatever. It's pretty arrogant to think this goofy ass subreddit has that much reach when the simple fact is that most people consider UFOs a very fringe topic and need no cajoling by the government to stay that way. The community constantly discredits itself by gawking at every random video of a blob or a balloon or a satellite and every shitty huckster that comes along. I want to know about the existence of life elsewhere in the cosmos. But my standard for proof is high and very few stories on this community are even mildly convincing. permalink embed save report reply [–]kael13 1 point2 points3 points 6 hours ago (0 children) I'm sorry, it's people who go on the offensive like you who really ring alarm bells. I also don't think you'd know a real video if you saw it. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]strangelifeouthere 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) You’re really yelling at a wall here - I don’t think anybody uses this to discredit all skepticism. That’s silly and does not happen. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]MannyArea503 -3 points-2 points-1 points 22 hours ago (2 children) And so anyone who disagrees with the forced narrative is a troll/bot. How convenient. /s permalink embed save report reply [–]GalacticCowHeist 1 point2 points3 points 21 hours ago (0 children) "so anyone" No. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]_meestir_ 0 points1 point2 points 20 hours ago (0 children) How can you be this ignorant? I mean really? Bots have been around since the infancy of social interactions via the internet. permalink embed save report reply [–]Akesgeroth 0 points1 point2 points 17 hours ago (0 children) Danger Dolan permalink embed save report reply [–]RLMinMaxer 0 points1 point2 points 15 hours ago (0 children) Personally I think anyone who takes the Mexican conman seriously must be a plant. He's done this exact con several times, only a government troll could possibly want to get more people to pay attention to him. permalink embed save report reply [–]vinnymcapplesauce 0 points1 point2 points 13 hours ago (0 children) Aaaaaand, who the fuck is Richard Dolan? I swear, these supposed ufo experts are crawling out of the woodwork now. I've been watching this topic for decades. Never heard of this guy at all. permalink embed save report reply [–]Ron825 0 points1 point2 points 11 hours ago (0 children) I never really noticed the paid trolls until [the flight that shall not be named] They showed up in the hundreds and left when it was effectively "banned" (sort of) permalink embed save report reply [–]mountain_man30 -1 points0 points1 point 21 hours ago (0 children) The reason we don't have disclosure is because a small group of people realize the power behind the tech, once actualized, would destroy the economic system of today. They would rather wait until the absolute last minute to save their own ass because their nearsightedness is blinding. permalink embed save report reply [–]smellybarbiefeet -3 points-2 points-1 points 21 hours ago* (4 children) It’s pretty obvious when the manipulation is in full swing. The vegas shit and Malaysia airlines(seems to be cropping back up again), that shitty 4chan larp. I mean come on, people need to wake the eff up. There’s plenty going on at the moment, without having to fall for obvious hoaxes. Quite frankly I don’t know why the mods continue to let them be posted. Edit: lol already getting targeted by the troll farm permalink embed save report reply [–]quetzalcosiris -4 points-3 points-2 points 20 hours ago* (2 children) Oh look, another account trying to censor discussion of the exact same topics. Weird how they all keep mentioning Vegas, MH370, Peru attacks, Nazca mummies, the 4chan "larp", and the EBO scientist "larp". Just so weird. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FancySloth 3 points4 points5 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Probably because they're all the latest things that have whipped these subreddits into a frenzy. There's no wider conspiracy just because people are talking about them. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]smellybarbiefeet 0 points1 point2 points 20 hours ago (0 children) Shocking 50 day old account troll harder permalink embed save parent report reply [–]UffyMob4ever -1 points0 points1 point 16 hours ago (0 children) bro tried to slide mh370 disappearance into that list of hoaxes lmao stop the cap 🧢 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]I_Don-t_Care -1 points0 points1 point 20 hours ago (0 children) if a simple bot can discredit your theories then i'm not sure if it's the bot's fault. permalink embed save report reply [–]Ok-Cut4890 -1 points0 points1 point 21 hours ago (0 children) This guy doesn’t even know how to say Louis Armstrong lol permalink embed save report reply [–]Hannibalvega44 -1 points0 points1 point 19 hours ago (0 children) This very reddit is totally infested with the troll farms, the "debnkers" and the laughers... permalink embed save report reply [–]Revolutionary-Mud715 -1 points0 points1 point 18 hours ago (1 child) job was done, i visit way less after mh370 bullshit, maybe that was the point. permalink embed save report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 2 points3 points4 points 16 hours ago (0 children) The absolute cacophony of "Fake! Respect the families! Stop posting!", and "It's real! They're here! This is it!" was, in my opinion meant to drown out and marginalize those who wanted to try and skeptically, rationally piece together what they were seeing with other people. permalink embed save parent report reply [+]Apprehensive_Camp202 -1 points0 points1 point 18 hours ago (0 children) Coulthart is a plant. permalink embed save report reply [–]SoundHole -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (0 children) The top three posts in this subreddit right now are bullshit grifters baiting rubes with third rate Qanon type horseshit and people here are lapping it up like chocolate pudding. How embarrassing. permalink embed save report reply [–]SirTheadore -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (0 children) This is great fuel for a cop out “well you’re obviously one of them” excuses with anyone who criticises anything in this community. permalink embed save report reply [–]GumbyQc -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (0 children) This subs is full of bots permalink embed save report reply [–]pliskinito -1 points0 points1 point 16 hours ago (1 child) So you re all not dumb fucks that believe that those small mommies are real ? permalink embed save report reply [–]strangelifeouthere 1 point2 points3 points 16 hours ago (0 children) Nope, isn’t that crazy? I’m sure you’re less entertained/empowered by viewing the subreddit knowing that the majority doesn’t believe in that whatsoever, but nope. Not everyone believes those mummies are legit. Wild. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Euphoric-Ad1044 -2 points-1 points0 points 19 hours ago (0 children) All the bots that have gone after any Coulthart related post recently has made me more firm in my belief that he does in fact, know some truth. permalink embed save report reply [+]yourboigator1990 comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 21 hours ago (0 children) Dolan's a known ufo griftbot permalink embed save report reply [–]gaduran -2 points-1 points0 points 19 hours ago (0 children) I acknowledge lots of shady posts and comments in the past months. So much that I made a proposal for /r/UFOs to introduce user flairs to acknowledge those who consistently contribute valuable insights through their comments and posts. My whole point is here : Elevating the Quality of r/UFOs: Let's Talk User Flairs to Boost Our Content Game Please share your thoughts. permalink embed save report reply [–]JustPlainRude -4 points-3 points-2 points 20 hours ago (4 children) Why would the government expend resources to "muddy the waters" in communities like this? What are they afraid could happen here? permalink embed save report reply [–]retoy1 1 point2 points3 points 20 hours ago* (1 child) To influence public perception so they can control the narrative. It doesn’t take many resources to hire a guy who manages a bot farm when you deal in billion dollar budgets. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]JustPlainRude -2 points-1 points0 points 17 hours ago (0 children) To influence public perception so they can control the narrative. But why? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Circle_Dot -1 points0 points1 point 17 hours ago (1 child) They wouldnt. This is conspiracy stacking. Sure bots exist. But they are not government sponsored bot farms. They are script kiddies whos agenda is trolling or karma farming. This is classic deflection of what people cling on to when the tide of online conversation goes against their beliefs. Sure they are annoying but the world is big and there are lots of opinions which the keyboard allows people to express with zero guardrails. The government can get way more control by censoring info and controlling people in power than posting in random internet forums that may be seen by a few hundred people at a time. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]PoppaJoe77 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) Memes are infectious. Humans are suggestible. Humans are very suggestible. Changing the minds of many starts by shifting the opinions of a few. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]retardjoeyb -1 points0 points1 point 19 hours ago (0 children) Bots as in A.I. !!! permalink embed save report reply [–]Secret_Crew9075 -1 points0 points1 point 19 hours ago (0 children) airplane anyone? :) permalink embed save report reply [–]Busy-Tumbleweed9409 -1 points0 points1 point 19 hours ago (0 children) Ahh sjarnt provoka tours = agent provocateurs permalink embed save report reply [–]BinkySmales -1 points0 points1 point 18 hours ago (0 children) Mr Dolan has nailed the problem precisely. We have bots and many Doty types who just dismiss anything. Hate is the one true thing that humans can agree on. permalink embed save report reply [–]mjsgirlll -1 points0 points1 point 13 hours ago (0 children) I’ve been a part of this subreddit for a while now and I’ve noticed that as it got more popularity (especially after Grush claims) the amount of non-believers and people who “debunk” UFOs and share disinformation increased drastically. Someone from the government has been working super hard lately by paying these bots/people. For that reason I started treating comments that immediately discredit or “debunk” every UFO post very skeptically. permalink embed save report reply [–]Smarktalk -2 points-1 points0 points 20 hours ago (0 children) Why is this in all caps? Calm down brother. permalink embed save report reply [–]ImAWizardYo -2 points-1 points0 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Most people genuinely interested in the topic tend to avoid this sub because of this exact reason. These rogue aspects of the intelligence community have become like a cancer on our understanding and species cognitive and spiritual development. It has no executive oversight functioning with the higher gestalt of the collective organism in mind. It breeds ignorance and hate and thus aggression and violence. Despite its original role being formed to defend our country its unregulated and destructive approach tearing at the social fabric is in fact one of the larger threats to our collective social development. permalink embed save report reply [–]limaconnect77 -2 points-1 points0 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Wasn’t there something on this sub last year, for a couple weeks straight, about these types of characters being disinfo agents/provocateurs themselves?! permalink embed save report reply [–]curiousduo007 -2 points-1 points0 points 19 hours ago (0 children) Ppl of influence w money these days all either have or hire bot farms permalink embed save report reply [+]Cute-Cheesecake-8602 -3 points-2 points-1 points 20 hours ago (0 children) Richard Dolan UFO top man. On the wall he have Michael standing on the devil. Coincidence ? I don't think so. permalink embed save report reply [–]solarpropietor -3 points-2 points-1 points 19 hours ago (0 children) My question is this. Wouldn’t this be considered warfare upon its own civilian population? permalink embed save report reply [–]Chiefm56 0 points1 point2 points 20 hours ago (0 children) Retail Apes can them skills, bots same thing. permalink embed save report reply [–]Toothpinch 0 points1 point2 points 20 hours ago (0 children) I mean - duh, right? You are all Potential bots as far as I’m concerned. permalink embed save report reply [–]kindasfw 0 points1 point2 points 19 hours ago (0 children) So easily influenced permalink embed save report reply [–]infomuncher 0 points1 point2 points 18 hours ago (0 children) Dolan must have caught wind of something… permalink embed save report reply [–]realDKDomino 0 points1 point2 points 18 hours ago (0 children) UFO's walk among us permalink embed save report reply [–]Pitiful_Mulberry1738 0 points1 point2 points 17 hours ago (0 children) Could someone transcribe this? At work and cannot watch with sound. permalink embed save report reply [–]RLMinMaxer 0 points1 point2 points 16 hours ago (0 children) The biggest problem is that they can disrupt in both directions: upvote blatant bullshit, and downvote anything approaching the truth. You can't trust anyone here, except me. I'm literally just a guy. permalink embed save report reply [–]josogood 0 points1 point2 points 15 hours ago (0 children) Damn, I keep getting Richard Dolan and Garry Nolan mixed up. I was listening to this dude's voice going, "Why does he sound different?!?" permalink embed save report reply [–]--ddiibb-- 0 points1 point2 points 15 hours ago (0 children) for a watch of the full episode permalink embed save report reply [–]Snarfblaff 0 points1 point2 points 14 hours ago (0 children) Hes right, there are so many of them, and they're obvious. permalink embed save report reply [–]Jakekonadawn 0 points1 point2 points 13 hours ago (0 children) THERE ALL GOVERMENT BUILT AND CONTROLLED! permalink embed save report reply [–]skullllll 0 points1 point2 points 13 hours ago (0 children) AI seems to play a role in this as well. permalink embed save report reply [–]Frosty_Technology842 0 points1 point2 points 11 hours ago (0 children) If a rogue project that has fallen outside the chain of command runs the cover-up and very few people outside know what is going on, how does this rogue project manage to interface with and use NSA/GCHQ to carry out disinfo for them? Does no one at GCHQ go - "Who are you and why are you asking me about using bots to mess with the UFO community"? permalink embed save report reply [–]Exare 0 points1 point2 points 11 hours ago (0 children) This happened to /r/superstonk. permalink embed save report reply [–]Jamie-8182 0 points1 point2 points 11 hours ago (0 children) I think he should have emphasized that they play both sides more than he did, at least in this clip! permalink embed save report reply [–]DizzyCancel36 0 points1 point2 points 10 hours ago (0 children) 1957 I was 6 years old my brother was 8 and his friend standing with him also. We were in Anniston Alabama near an Army base. My brother said while pointing between trees what is that. Now we where at a street corner and I a tag along playing near the road a few feet away. They got into a discussion over it that got my curiosity aroused. Had to see it but as I drew near he said it’s gone. Then he turned and said there it is. I looked and saw a sphere as tall as a 12 story building above me at maybe 1000 ft. A shinny silver ball, seen by hundreds in downtown Anniston. They sent that guy who reported the thruth to the government but gave BS to the common folk. permalink embed save report reply [–]babylawn5 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (0 children) The MH370's orbs video dissaprance form this sub is a prime example of that permalink embed save report reply [–]FinancialBarnacle785 0 points1 point2 points 9 hours ago (0 children) I have no evidence of anything. I admit that if you asked, I would tell you a fantastic, and mostly unfortunately very believable tale of Sasquatch/human interaction, and natural friendship. You know, the sort of 'kumbaya' happy, peaceful life all us happy, peaceful "kumbaya' type Americans value and love to believe in and aspire to....so, a guy, normal in most observable points, who finds himself teaching martial arts in an isolate, mountainous town, and a strange kid wanders in to his dojo....the kid can't talk, but obviously loves to scuffle and learn wrestling and judo, and ....just keeps growing. Various situations developed and everybody became highly adapted and accepted socially...even the guy who moved in to 'town' and himself became more socially aware...yeah, he writes amusing imaginative 'true' tales. With no evidence nor proof. permalink embed save report reply [–]exonetjono 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) I find it so funny that people can instantly believe that CCP sends out spies and etc into our internet to sow chaos but won't believe the same cam be done from our own government. permalink embed save report reply [–]Weaponized-Banana 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) Most of Greers haters are bots I’d imagine permalink embed save report reply [–]trident_hole 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) Ahhh, anybody who has lurked 4chan can tell you Glowies exist and they're there to make sure truth gets smeared worse than a hyperactive two year old with diarrhea permalink embed save report reply [–]bertiesghost 0 points1 point2 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Still surprises me the number of people who are not aware of this. permalink embed save report reply [–]Sir_Not-Appear1ng 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (0 children) What is important to keep in mind while trying to ascertain whether an account is more or less likely a bot/shill, is tone. Healthy skepticism should be encouraged, same as those who respectfully argue for their point on their belief of provided evidence. You will see bots on both sides trying to tear the other side down, and honestly I just don’t have patience for it anymore. If I see someone being obnoxious in either direction I feel the need to downvote. This is a sure fire way to suppress the reach of about 90% of bots/shills out there, and I encourage everyone to do the same. permalink embed save report reply [–]TheWebCoder 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (1 child) One of the rumors is that the cover up costs more than the research, the budget for which is staggering. That would include an army of paid Agent Provocateur to attack online communities all over the world. permalink embed save report reply [–]DoNotLookUp1 0 points1 point2 points 33 minutes ago (0 children) cover up costs more than the research That would be insanely awful on top of the whole situation being insanely awful if true. Not only was it covered up when the tech could be helping us potentially but also they weren't even allocating the most funds to researching it.. oh god lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]loveheretic 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago* (0 children) One of the things I look for is when someone's character is attacked, rather than the argument being directed to facts. You can tell, when key words are repeated, that it is orchestrated. The best evidence of at least some veracity in a message, is low blow attacks on the messenger where key words are repeated. I slow down, breathe, remember my own human flaws, and then try to find and weigh content. permalink embed save report reply [–]GroWiza 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) When he says bots/bot farms what is he referring to exactly? permalink embed save report reply [–]bleumagma 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (2 children) There’s a 100% chance the government mods this sub. No real information is going to get past disinformation agents with control permalink embed save report reply [–]DoedoeBear 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (1 child) am mod and not in government. based on discord cpnvos and voice calls, pretty sure other mods are just regular folk too. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]bleumagma 1 point2 points3 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Isn’t this video literally saying that people will do exactly that? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]MudOk790 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children) This should be pinned. permalink embed save report reply
The false leaders always expose themselves and their evil plans, just enough for them to get followers and executors, it's your job to spot and remove such false "leaders"... https://x.com/BigFish3000/status/1720148138684510704 https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1720590934830887389 Barack Obama, The Man Chosen By Globalists To Accelerate The Takedown Of The Greatest Nation The World Has Ever Known To Make Way For Their Great Reset / New World Order “You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt. Plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe. Once they lose trust in their leaders, in mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of truth. The game's won.“ 3 years ago tonight: Gasoline was $1.85 a gallon Mortgage rates were 2.5% Inflation was below 1% We had peace in Europe and the Middle East. Trump was on his way to a landslide victory Then, at 2 a.m., they stopped counting the votes, and the rest is history. People don’t like to make things political but notice who’s doing the censoring. Notice who controls the media and who got suspended from Twitter. Notice who pushed corrupt mandates, targeted children, lit churches on fire, and arrested priests. Words lie. Actions don’t @iluminatibot If you haven't figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid & endless wars. They all hate you & could care less if you suffer & die horrible deaths, as long as they got rich.
Anonymity online is not a “nation security threat”. Go back to your handlers @NikkiHaley. @TFTC21 "Every person on social media should be verified by their name "because of" national security." Mask off. The uniparty wants to control speech on the Internet. The first step is forcing people to verify themselves on social media. They're losing control and clamping down.
Propaganda Censorship MindControl Indoctrination Messaging 1984 a big local problem, now turning into a centralised globally coordinated Mass Formation nightmare PsyOp... https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/inside-the-un-plan-to-control-speech-o... https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387339 Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online The UN is escalating its war against 'conspiracy theories' and 'misinformation' by creating an 'internet of trust.' By Alex Newman Nov 24, 2023 A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers. In its 59-page report released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves.” This approach includes the imposition of global policies, through institutions such as governments and businesses, designed to stop the spread of various forms of speech while promoting objectives such as “cultural diversity” and “gender equality.” In particular, the U.N. agency aims to create an “Internet of Trust” by targeting what it calls “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech,” and “conspiracy theories.” Examples of expression flagged to be stopped or restricted include concerns about elections, public health measures, and advocacy that could constitute “incitement to discrimination.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, testifies remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election," in Washington on Nov. 17, 2020. (Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, testifies remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election," in Washington on Nov. 17, 2020. (Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images) Critics are warning that allegations of “disinformation” and “conspiracy theories” have increasingly been used by powerful forces in government and Big Tech to silence true information and even core political speech. Just this month, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a report blasting the “pseudoscience of disinformation.” Among other concerns, the committee found this “pseudoscience” has been “weaponized” by what lawmakers refer to as the “Censorship Industrial Complex.” The goal: silence constitutionally-protected political speech, mostly by conservatives. "The pseudoscience of disinformation is now—and has always been—nothing more than a political ruse most frequently targeted at communities and individuals holding views contrary to the prevailing narratives,” states the congressional report, "The Weaponization of ‘Disinformation’ Pseudo-Experts and Bureaucrats." Indeed, many of the policies called for by UNESCO have already been implemented by U.S.-based digital platforms, often at the behest of the Biden administration, the latest congressional report makes clear. Deputy Director of UNESCO Xing Qu (2nd R) views some ancient manuscripts on March 31, 2021. (MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images) Deputy Director of UNESCO Xing Qu (2nd R) views some ancient manuscripts on March 31, 2021. (MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images) On Capitol Hill, lawmakers nevertheless expressed alarm about the new UNESCO plan. “I have repeatedly and publicly criticized the Biden administration’s misguided decision to rejoin UNESCO, putting U.S. taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told The Epoch Times regarding the social-media plan. Calling UNESCO a “deeply flawed entity,” Mr. McCaul said he is especially concerned that the organization “promotes the interests of authoritarian regimes—including the Chinese Communist Party.” Indeed, UNESCO, like many other U.N. agencies, includes multiple members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its leadership ranks, such as Deputy Director-General Xing Qu, The Epoch Times has reported. The CCP has repeatedly made clear that even while working in international organizations, CCP members are expected to follow communist party orders. Lawmakers on the House Appropriations Subcommittee dealing with international organizations are currently working to cut or reduce funding to various U.N. agencies that lawmakers say are using U.S. taxpayer money improperly. Already, the U.S. government has twice exited UNESCO—under the Reagan and the Trump administrations—due to concerns about what the administrations described as extremism, hostility to American values, and other problems. The Biden administration rejoined earlier this year over the objections of lawmakers, The Epoch Times reported. An aerial view of a sculpture at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on July 25, 2023. President Joe Biden rejoined the United States into UNESCO after President Donald Trump exited the agency in 2018. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images) An aerial view of a sculpture at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on July 25, 2023. President Joe Biden rejoined the United States into UNESCO after President Donald Trump exited the agency in 2018. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images) The UNESCO Plan While being marketed as a plan to uphold free expression, the new UNESCO regulatory regime calls for international censorship by “independent” regulators who are “shielded from political and economic interests.” "National, regional, and global governance systems should be able to cooperate and share practices … in addressing content that could be permissibly restricted under international human rights law and standards,” the report explains. Unlike the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting any governmental infringement on the right to free speech or free press, UNESCO points to various international “human rights” instruments that it says should determine what speech to infringe on. These agreements include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that restricting freedom of expression must be provided for by law and must also serve a “legitimate aim.” In a recent review of the United States, a U.N. human-rights committee called for changes to the U.S. Constitution and demanded that the U.S. government do more to stop and punish “hate speech” in order to comply with the ICCPR. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), joined by members of the Asian Pacific American Caucus, speaks on the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 18, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), joined by members of the Asian Pacific American Caucus, speaks on the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 18, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Another key U.N. instrument is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states explicitly in Article 29 that “rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” In short, the U.N. view of “freedom of expression” is radically different from that enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The UNESCO report says that once content that should be restricted is found, social-media platforms must take measures, ranging from using algorithm suppression (shadow banning) and warning users about the content, to de-monetizing and even removing it. Any digital platforms found to not be “dealing with content that could be permissibly restricted under international human rights law” should “be held accountable” with “enforcement measures,” the report states. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, a former French culture minister with the Socialist Party, cited risks to society to justify the global plan. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay makes a speech at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Nov. 8, 2023. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images) UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay makes a speech at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Nov. 8, 2023. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images) "Digital technology has enabled immense progress on freedom of speech,” she said in a statement. “But social media platforms have also accelerated and amplified the spread of false information and hate speech, posing major risks to societal cohesion, peace, and stability. “To protect access to information, we must regulate these platforms without delay, while at the same time protecting freedom of expression and human rights," said Azoulay, who took over the U.N. agency from longtime Bulgarian Communist Party leader Irina Bokova. In the forward to the new report, headlined “Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms,” Azoulay says that stopping certain forms of speech and at the same time preserving “freedom of expression” is “not a contradiction.” Citing a survey commissioned by UNESCO itself, the U.N. agency also said most people around the world support its agenda. According to UNESCO, the report and the guidelines were developed through a process of consultation including more than 1,500 submissions and over 10,000 comments from “stakeholders” such as governments, businesses, and non-profit organizations. UNESCO said it will work with governments and companies to implement the regulatory regime around the world. “UNESCO is by not (sic) proposing to regulate digital platforms,” a spokesman for UNESCO, who asked not to be named, told The Epoch Times in a statement. “We are, however, conscious that dozens of governments around the world are already drafting legislation to do so, some of which is not in line with international human rights standards, and may even jeopardize freedom of expression. “Similarly, the platforms themselves are already making millions of human and automated decisions a day with respect to the moderation and curation of content, based upon their own policies,” the spokesman said. The European Union, which already places severe limitations on free expression online, has already provided funding for implementation worldwide, UNESCO added. The Biden administration told The Epoch Times that it wasn't involved in creating the plan. “We will reserve comment until we finish carefully studying the plan,” the State Department said in an email. Free Speech Concern Grows Concerns over the implications for freedom of speech and free expression online are mounting as awareness of the UNESCO plan spreads. Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), expressed alarm. "FIRE appreciates that UNESCO’s new action plan for social media recognizes the value of transparency and the need for protecting freedom of expression, but remains deeply concerned about efforts to regulate online ‘disinformation’ and ‘hate speech,’” Ms. McLaughlin told The Epoch Times. People participate in a "Demand Free Speech" rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on July 6, 2019. The demonstrators are calling for an end to censorship by social media companies. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) People participate in a "Demand Free Speech" rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on July 6, 2019. The demonstrators are calling for an end to censorship by social media companies. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) “As we’ve seen in recent weeks, enforcement of the EU’s Digital Services Act, for example, has created even more uncertainty about platforms’ content moderation policies and users’ ability to speak freely online,” she said. “Local legal restrictions and norms can ultimately influence how platforms operate on a global scale. “As countries around the world ramp up regulation of speech on the internet, it becomes increasingly likely that platforms’ enforcement will affect users—including Americans—outside of the states enforcing such rules." Indeed, across Europe, “hate speech” rules have increasingly been used not just to silence speech on issues such as marriage, immigration, sexuality, and religion, but even to prosecute those who violate speech laws. This month, Dr. Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament and the former interior minister, triumphed after a years-long “hate speech” prosecution over her online speech supporting the biblical understanding of homosexuality and marriage. In Poland, several members of the European Parliament are facing charges of “hate speech” for sharing political advertisements warning about possible effects of mass Islamic immigration into Europe. Even more troubling to critics is that the concept of “hate speech” itself was introduced into the U.N. system by the Soviet Union, which regularly described anti-communist speech as “hate speech,” explained Jacob Mchangama in a 2011 paper for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. image-5535617 Patrick Wood, founder and chairman of Citizens for Free Speech. (citizensforfreespeech.org) Patrick Wood, founder and chairman of Citizens for Free Speech, warned that the UNESCO plan will certainly be used to silence critics of its agenda. "When UNESCO trots out statements like—'the result of extensive worldwide consultations and is backed by a global opinion survey'—the fix is in," Mr. Wood told The Epoch Times. "In this case it will lead to a deluge of global programs to censor speech deemed counter to its agenda." The George Soros-funded Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which styles itself “the leading nonprofit” defending free speech, said it didn't have anyone available to comment on the UNESCO plan. Concerns about the U.N. attitude toward free speech are not new and have been growing in recent years—especially as so many of its member states with agents in U.N. leadership are known for suppressing dissent. The new UNESCO plan also comes after the agency unveiled a plan last year to combat what it described as “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation” through education, The Epoch Times reported at the time. According to the organization, “conspiracy theories” can “reduce trust in public institutions” and cause problems, such as decreasing people’s desire to “reduce their carbon footprint.” People protest against coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy in Berlin, Germany, on Aug. 29, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) People protest against coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy in Berlin, Germany, on Aug. 29, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Examples of “conspiracy theories” cited in last year’s report include everything from widely held beliefs such as “climate change denial” and concerns about “manipulation of federal elections” in the United States, to more far-fetched and fringe notions such as the “earth is flat” or “Michelle Obama is actually a lizard.” U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming last year spoke at a World Economic Forum event and boasted that the global organization had “partnered” with Google to promote its materials and suppress those that contradict it in search results. “We own the science,” she said. “We think the world should know it.” In an October 2020 World Economic Forum podcast on “Seeking a cure for the infodemic,” Ms. Fleming bragged of having enlisted over 100,000 volunteers to amplify U.N. views while squelching competing narratives that she dubs “misinformation.” The revelation came after years of U.N. and governmental efforts to suppress what the global organization describes as extremism, misinformation, and more on the internet. In 2016, the U.N. Security Council launched a "framework" to fight "extremism" online on the heels of a program from the previous year that pledged to battle "ideologies" that it said might lead to violence. Communism was not one of the targeted ideologies. UNESCO Defends the Plan The UNESCO spokesman defended the new plan, framing it more as an effort to protect free expression rather than a plan to limit it. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris on Oct. 12, 2017. The agency recently revealed a plan to regulate sical media and online communications. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP via Getty Images) The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris on Oct. 12, 2017. The agency recently revealed a plan to regulate sical media and online communications. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP via Getty Images) “Protecting freedom of expression has been at the heart of all of UNESCO’s initiatives to promote best practices in communications for decades, and this principle underpinned our approach to the Guidelines from the start,” the spokesman said. The statement also pointed to a section of the guidelines that calls for adhering to “legal due process” when dealing with “hate speech.” “They put a particular focus on the need for transparency as well as systematic human rights due diligence and impact assessments, as well as accountability to users,” the spokesman said, adding that the plan calls for “equal distribution of moderation capacity.” “It is also clearly stated that the Guidelines should be considered in their entirety, rather than picking and choosing—for example, a policy on content moderation implemented by regulators that do not meet the definition of independence set out in the Guidelines would not be in alignment, regardless of the specific nature of the policy,” said the UNESCO spokesman, claiming that the guidelines will actually “expand” freedom of expression. The organization didn't provide a timeline for implementation, but more meetings are scheduled in the lead-up to the September 2024 U.N. summit in New York City.
Propaganda Censorship MindControl Indoctrination Messaging 1984 a big local problem, now turning into a centralised globally coordinated Mass Formation nightmare PsyOp...
'Science' In The Service Of The Agenda by Robert Malone via The Brownstone Institute https://brownstone.org/articles/science-in-service-of-the-agenda/ https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-distortion-of-science https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/green-colonialism-is-real-and-must https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gmn01cBLPuoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&ots=krEKVkEZAc&sig=MODAnNJbHs2LPd7Aq9hfqMBo98Y https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/01/are-we-doing-diet-and-... Starting in the mid-20th century, companies began distorting and manipulating science to favor specific commercial interests. Big tobacco is both the developer and the poster child of this strategy. When strong evidence that smoking caused lung cancer emerged in the 1950s, the tobacco industry began a campaign to obscure this fact. The Unmaking of Science The tobacco industry scientific disinformation campaign sought to disrupt and delay further studies, as well as to cast scientific doubt on the link between cigarette smoking and harms. This campaign lasted for almost 50 years, and was extremely successful…until it wasn’t. This tobacco industry’s strategic brilliance lay in the use of a marketing and advertising campaign (otherwise known as propaganda) to create scientific uncertainty and sow doubts in the minds of the general public. This, combined with legislative “lobbying” and strategic campaign “donations” undermined public health efforts and regulatory interventions to inform the public about the harms of smoking and the regulation of tobacco products. Disrupting normative science has become a de rigueur component of the pharmaceutical industry business model. A new pharmaceutical product is not based on need; it is based on market size and profitability. When new data threatens the market of a pharmaceutical product, then that pharma company will try to sprout the seeds of scientific uncertainty and lack of proof. For instance, clinical trials can be easily coopted to meet specified end-points positive for the drug products. Other ways to manipulate a clinical trial include manipulating the dosing schedule and amounts. As these practices have been exposed, people no longer trust the science. Fast forward to the present, and the entire industry of evidence-based (and academic) medicine is now suspect due to the malfeasance of certain pharma players. In the case of Covid-19, Pharma propaganda and cooptation practices have now compromised the regulatory bodies controlling the pharma product licensing and deeply damaged global public confidence in those agencies. We all know what climate change is. The truth is that the UN, most globalists, and a wide range of world leaders” blame human activities for climate change. Whether or not climate change is real or that human activities are enhancing climate change is not important to this discussion. That is a subject for another day. Most climate change scientists receive funding from the government. So they must comply with the government edict and policy position that human activity-caused climate change is an existential threat to both humankind and global ecosystems. When these “scientists” publish studies supporting the thesis that human activities cause climate change, they are more likely to receive more grant monies and therefore more publications and therefore are more likely to be academically promoted (or at least to survive in the dog-eat-dog world of modern academe). Those who produce a counternarrative from the government-approved one soon find themselves without funding, tenure, without jobs, unable to publish and unable to procure additional grants and contracts. It is a dead-end career wise. The system has been rigged. And by the way, this is nothing new. Back in the day, during the war on drugs, if a researcher who had funding by the NIH’s NIDA (National Institute of Drug Addiction) published an article or wrote an annual NIH grant report showing benefits to using recreational drugs, that would be a career-ending move, as funding would not be renewed and new funding would never materialize. Remember, the NIH peer-review system only triages grants; it does not actually chose who receives grant money. The administrative state at NIH does that! And anything that went against the war on drugs was considered a war on the government. Funding denied. This little truth bomb was conveyed to me – word of mouth – many years ago by a researcher and Professor who specialized in drug addiction research. Nothing printed, all heresay. Because that is how the system works. A whisper campaign. A whiff of a message on the wind. The ends justify the means. The new wrinkle in what has now happened with corrupted climate change activism/propaganda/”science” is that the manipulation of research is crossing disciplines. No longer satisfied with oppressing climate change scientists, climate change narrative enforcers have moved into the nutritional sciences. This trend of crossing disciplines portends death for the overall independence of any scientific endeavors. A creeping corruption into adjacent disciplines. Because climate change activists, world leaders, research institutions, universities, and governments are distorting another branch of science outside of climate science. They are using the bio-sciences, specifically nutrition science, to support the climate change agenda. It is another whole-of-government response to the crisis, just like with Covid-19. Just like with the tobacco industry’s scientific disinformation campaign, they are distorting health research to make the case that eating meat is dangerous to humans. Normal standards for publication have been set aside. The propaganda is thick and easily spotted. As the NIH is now funding researchers to find associations between climate change and health, it is pretty clear that those whose research is set up to find such associations will be funded. Hence, once again, the system is rigged to support the climate change narrative. The standard approach for nutritional research is based on a food-frequency and portion questionnaire – usually kept as a diary. The nutrient intake from this observational data set is then associated with disease incidence. Randomized interventional clinical trials are not done due to expense and bioethical considerations. The problem is that the confounding variables in such studies are hard to control. If obese people eat more, would their intake of meat be more or less in proportion to dietary calories? What do they eat in combination? What about culture norms, combined with genetic drivers of disease? Age? Geo-considerations? The list of confounding variables is almost never ending. Garbage in, garbage out. We have all witnessed how these studies get used to promulgate one point of view or another. It’s not just within the context of red meat. The same thing happens over and over. We get dietary recommendations put together by expert committees and the data are reviewed. But when subsequent, so-called systematic reviews of specific recommendations take place, the data don’t meet reliability standards… Yes, available information is mostly based on studies of association rather than causation, using methods that fall short of proving chronic disease effects, especially in view of the crucial dietary measurement issues. The whole gestalt produces reports that seem very uncertain in terms of the standards that are applied elsewhere in the scientific community for reliable evidence. Dr. Ross Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Some Recent “Peer Reviewed” Academic Publications on Climate Change and Diet: Enter climate change regulations, laws, and goals – such as those found in UN Agenda 2030. Enter globalists determined to buy up farmland to control prices, agriculture, and eating trends. Enter politics into our food supplies and even the science of nutrition What a mess. Below are some of the more outlandish claims being made in the name of climate science and nutrition. The United Nations’s World Food Program writes: The climate crisis is one of the leading causes of the steep rise in global hunger. Climate shocks destroy lives, crops and livelihoods, and undermine people’s ability to feed themselves. Hunger will spiral out of control if the world fails to take immediate climate action. Note that “Climate shocks” have always existed and will always exist. The existence of readily observed (and easily propagandized) human tragedies associated with hurricanes, fires, and droughts are embedded throughout the entire archaeological record of human existence. This is nothing new in either written human history or prehistory. This does not equate to a pressing existential human crisis. In fact, reviewing the evidence of calories and protein available reveals a very different trend. Over time, per capita caloric and protein supplies have increased almost across the board. The prevalence of undernourishment is the leading indicator of food availability. The chart below shows that the world still has a significant issue with poverty and food stability, but it is not increasing. If anything, people are better nourished in countries with extreme poverty than they were 20 years ago. *Note the Covid crisis has most likely exacerbated extreme poverty and undernourishment, but those results for the 2021-2023 years are not (yet?) available. Despite clear and compelling evidence that climate change is not impacting on food availability or undernutrition, websites, news stories, and research literature all make tenuous assertions about how the climate change “crisis” is causing starvation. These are from the front search page on Google for “climate change starvation:” But the actual data documents something different. This is not to say that that the poorest nations in the world don’t have issues with famine; they do. It is an issue, but not a climate change issue. It is a gross distortion of available data and any objective scientific analysis of those data to assert otherwise. The best way to stop famine is to ensure that countries have adequate energy and resources to grow their own food supply, and have a domestic manufacturing base. That means independent energy sources. If the United Nations and the wealthy globalists at the WEF truly want to help nations with high poverty and famine rates and reduce our immigration pressure, they would help them secure stable energy sources. They would help them develop their natural gas and other hydrocarbon projects. Then they could truly feed themselves. They could attain independence. Famine is not a climate change issue; it is an energy issue. Apples and oranges. This is not “scientific.” Rather, it is yet more weaponized fear porn being used as a Trojan horse to advance hidden political and economic objectives and agendas of political movements, large corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Facts matter.
" The biggest threat to the globalist elites, deep state warmongers and pharma profiteers is that you have access to the truth. That’s why they fight the truth by calling it ‘disinformation’. Their evil plans only work if you are forced to consume propaganda on all channels. "
Name Redacted @NameRedacted247 Feb 25 1. 🧵Google & Meta function as extensions of the US Intelligence Community. With Jacqueline Lopour, Google's Head of Trust & Safety, and Aaron Berman, Meta's Head of Elections Content/Misinformation Policy, both being career CIA officers, it underscores the CIA's substantial control over online censorship. Why is this CIA-Big Tech revolving door, where career CIA officers wield power to censor & decide what misinformation is, purposefully suppressed in the broader conversation about censorship? Why are career CIA officers like Jacqueline Lopour & Nick Rossmann, who both have a history of spreading misinformation & promoting the RussiaGate conspiracy theory, now in senior roles in Trust & Safety at Google, deciding what is misinformation & overseeing content moderation? The cumulative number of former Intelligence Community personnel hired by Meta & Google since 2018 is staggering. Before 2018, there were only a handful. Here are the combined hires by both companies: CIA-36 FBI-68 NSA-44 DHS/CISA-68 State Dept-86 DOD-121 Elon Musk @elonmusk Feb 22 I just typed in a Google query on my phone and the top two choices are pro censorship! 405 5,093 755 9,843 0 Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger Feb 25 “If they get into our space first, we own them for life.” — William Evanina, CIA
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1761804646220202120 Dr. Robert Malone on How the U.S. Government Turned Their 'Psychological Manipulation' Tools Inward Against the American Public "There was a key paper, peer-reviewed and published, that demonstrated that Google by just manipulating the information that a viewer sees...could swing an election by twenty points...And the way they do it is by controlling what you hear, what you think, what you feel, what you are allowed to discuss...It was decided that that capability...was now going to be necessary to be deployed domestically, and in particular there arose a specific example that was going to be necessary to use this technology...the uneasiness of individuals and parents to accept vaccines for their children." *From the 2/23/2024 International Crisis Summit-5 (ICS-5) in Washington DC @RWMaloneMD
1984 Total Conditioning Bullshit Manufactured PsyOp https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1765512392056746489 https://x.com/FreedomNTV/status/1765514233804910923 National Guard stands with Rifles as Police CHECK BAGS at Grand Central subway station in NYC. Stanley Kubrick's movie “Eyes Wide Shut” was about elites engaging in occult ritual activities. It was filmed in an actual Rothschild mansion. Kubrick was killed March 1999, same month “The Matrix” released, before it was released. Warner Bros then cut 25 minutes out and released it September 1999 nitter Logo Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY Mar 6 #BREAKING National Guard and Police CHECKING BAGS at Grand Central subway station in NYC. Earlier today Governor Hochul announced deployment NATIONAL GUARD and the State Police in NYC Subways after violent crime. Desk@freedomnews.tv to license Mar 6, 2024 · 10:58 PM UTC 1,010 1,026 1,829 2,569 0 siny915 @Chilly_Philly_ Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. 131 70 7 1,233 ṭяıẓẓʏ @TrizzyDigital Mar 7 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY So I say no to a search what happens? 🤔 43 9 206 Michelle Jorgensen @michybelle_75 Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY Maybe try locking up the criminals and not letting them go hours later without posting any bail—just a thought 55 18 1 401 SlyOne123 @One123Sly Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY What are they not saying? 15 1 121 Echo Of Dissent 🇵🇸 @EchoOfDissent Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY And they cal China the totalitarian state. 14 13 384 PhotographicFloridian @JackLinFLL Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY Why did DeSantis make the NYC subway a police state???? 14 6 115 1Love1Jo @jojo_juice Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY @RealTimeNews10 NG ARE not police smh 🤦🏽♀️ shouldn’t be used at all for this smh 18 8 138 Justpissed2023 @justpissed2023 Mar 7 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY Rush hour tonight at Grand Central Terminal: dozens of NYSP, MTA PD, NYPD, NY National Guard at entry to 4,5,6,7 subway. Reality check: perps are not entering system with weapons at GCT during rush hour! Pure political theater 19 42 1 445 Shahmeer @ShahmeerHashmat Mar 6 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY What’re they even looking for 12 1 56 Chris Bradberry @Cb_112196 Mar 7 Replying to @ScooterCasterNY The presence alone is enough to make change. Bravo on this one 23 17 Load more nitter Logo FreedomNews.Tv FNTV @FreedomNTV Mar 6 #BREAKING National Guard stands with Rifles as Police CHECK BAGS at Grand Central subway station in NYC. Earlier today Governor Hochul announced deployment NATIONAL GUARD and the State Police in NYC Subways after violent crime. Desk@freedomnews.tv to license Mar 6, 2024 · 11:06 PM UTC 77 92 69 188 0 Real Human @BrooklynBubbler Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV meanwhile in 99% of the other stations, no bag checks, nothing. 2 23 Terry MacKay @TerryMacKay15 Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV @ScooterCasterNY If I were a New Yorker, I'd see the troops as protectors. Our troops ARE protectors, but here is why it disturbs me: the same thing happened in the 1930s in Europe. 8 12 Shaun Humphrey @ShaunHumphrey65 Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV I was at Grand Central in November, and it wasn't bad. Although the train from New Haven was smooth until New York. I thought I'd have to call a chiropractor. 3 14 0 Hersades1989 @hersades1989 Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV Great. Now I'll have to leave earlier from work to get my train. 2 3 SynCronus @syncronus 10h Replying to @FreedomNTV Posse Comitatus Act anyone Brandon Duck @thebrandonduck Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV Wow, similar to scenes after 9/11, when the military patrolled public areas around the country. 2 3 9 LibertyDan @LibertyDan4 Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV Unlawful. Violation of the 4th Amendment 4 1 4 Road Warrior 🇺🇸 ☩ ✞ @Road_Warrior_X1 Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV 1 1 0 Elliot @elliotreports Mar 7 Replying to @FreedomNTV This needs to happen at every station. 2 Road Warrior 🇺🇸 ☩ ✞ @Road_Warrior_X1 Mar 6 Replying to @FreedomNTV @ScooterCasterNY 0 Load more
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New Sri Lankan president is a WEF member. Even Tanzania has a WEF shill leading the country. Today's elections are nothing more than a soap opera. https://yournews.com/2022/07/12/2376284/world-economic-forum-deletes-sri-lan... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/this-is-how-we-will-make-sri-lanka-ri...
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https://imgur.com/PDtAhT3.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dewatik7qc Keep em divided and subdued https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs the tiny dot you slaves worship Yo, Ants... past time for you to wake up and rise up. WEF wants the End of farming!! Plan now before it’s too late, build a team. Now NYC telling people to get their 'Go Bag' ready DOJ Whistleblowers alleged disinformation scheme to cover up information about Foreign Agent Hunter Biden. "Articles about cannibalism are popping up like mushrooms... make me question what they are really putting in those fake meats" Next they’ll change the definition of an economic depression. They just did. You'll rarely need a doctor, lawyer, or policeman. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer $33 worth of groceries in small town USA... used to take a cart... now fits in just one hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw Surveillance Capitalism
Hypernormalisation - A BBC documentary which argues that governments and financiers have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations and kept stable by faux "democracy" and paid, puppet politicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw Surveillance Capitalism
Hypernormalisation - A BBC documentary which argues that governments and financiers have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations and kept stable by faux "democracy" and paid, puppet politicians.
https://pastebin.com/YPEErwTK https://archive.org/details/TheCorp https://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/SILENT%20WEAPONS%20for%20QUIET%20WARS.pdf https://archive.org/details/TheCenturyOfSelfThereIsAPolicemanInsideAllOurHea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://i.imgur.com/lMDs7gR.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrKCilEhC0 https://archive.fo/2Kwe9 https://pastebin.com/KfJYaJAh https://odysee.com/@TLAVagabond:5/TDWU-7-22-22:1 https://old.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/ https://youtu.be/sSkFyNVtNh8 https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/11/opp1139276 Bohemian Grove is happening now. What are the psycho elites discussing this year? We are born creative geniuses but the educational system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists. Descendants of the largest single shareholder in General Electric believe he was actually murdered in a conspiracy by the Rockefeller family (who made millions with Standard Oil) because he was going to fund Nikola Tesla's research into Free Energy. John D. Rockefeller’s 1882 Organization of the Standard Oil Trust the First in the Commercial History of the World Was Modeled After the Jesuit Order from First-Hand Contact with Mexican Jesuits. The goal of the Jesuits is The Third Age of Joachim. A kind of mystic spiritual communism in which we become one with Christ. They want to do this with the help of technology by following Teilhard's concept of the Omega Point. But they need to get rid of a good part of the world's population first. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/o65639/compilation_of_arguments... https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/qbsfti/the_meaning_of_the_numbe... https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/soy3ko/meta_the_jesuit_technocr... https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/qkw39o/meta_the_conspiracy_comm... Experts from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Goethe University, Boston College, and Google will discuss questions regarding AI and whether it can reproduce consciousness, the philosophical challenges of it and what it would mean in relation to Catholic doctrine. (October 2021) Catholics interested on research about AI and the soul. Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin conceived the idea of the Omega Point. The part in human evolution in which all become one with the help of science. Pierre was a social darwinist and greatly influenced the globalist movement. The Jesuits see themselves as the bringers of The Third Age of Joachim, The Age of The Soul. Since the Jesuits are Christians, a lot of interesting numerology can be found in the people, events and places of the crisis that are related to the bible. The word "Revelation"= 121 in English Ordinal. Knights of Malta membership list including David Rockefeller, Amschel Mayer von Rothschild, Allen Dulles and more. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Jesuit Missionary Congregation. Bill Gates Reveals Family Goes to Catholic Church.
https://secureservercdn.net/160.153.137.123/7nh.661.myftpupload.com/wp-conte... Deindustrialization of the West done with plausible deniability by making it look accidental. This is just the start. Public roadmaps, like UK FIRES "Absolute Zero", exist. Imperial College contributed to this roadmap and were the world's biggest proponent of Covid lockdowns (that decimated Western small businesses). Marxist-Leninism Orwell warned us about communism. Look into the USA's 4 stages of Ideological Subversion, Active Measures, Psychological Warfare, Brainwashing, Demoralization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fx1BYwCwCI Bezmenov Ideological Subversion
Judgment Day? Chess Robot Crushes Child Player's Finger During Tournament https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chess-robot-breaks-finger-russia/ https://scitechdaily.com/ai-algorithm-predicts-future-crimes-one-week-in-adv... The real question that needs to be asked is "who was winning?" An AI driven chess playing robot went berserk last Thursday and crushed a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match at the Moscow Chess Open in Russia. The robot apparently grabbed hold of the boy's finger in the middle of moving one of his own pieces and continued to squeeze until the finger broke. It took four adults to pry the machine away from the child. Officials at the Moscow Open claim the boy “violated safety rules” when playing the machine, but they offered no further explanation as to why the robot interrupted the child moving his own piece, or why it was built with the strength to crush human fingers. Does it really need that kind of compression force to pick up chess pieces? The robot was brought in for an exhibition and the Moscow Chess Open says they have nothing to do with its programming or operation. The conundrum here should be obvious – Either the robot was programmed to disrupt human players and grab their pieces or their fingers for crushing, or, it was NOT programmed to do that but did it anyway. Both options are equally disconcerting. While this story by itself is not all that frightening, it does raise further questions about the growing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence algorithms and our reliance on robotics in everyday life. AI is even being tested as a tool for predicting "pre-crime." One core concern of course is that machines have no conscience and never will. Actions might be decided in terms of “logic,” but the most logical decision might also be the most immoral decision. Furthermore, when an AI machine does something that harms a person, who is held accountable? Do we blame the programmers, or a machine which is supposedly autonomous? Did the chess playing machine in Moscow simply malfunction? Probably. The officials at the event blame the child (of course they do), but the young boy who was injured is among some of the top players in Russia. What if the machine was losing and came to the “logical” conclusion that winning required other measures outside of the game? Some scary food for thought.
Davos COVID Climate Reset Propaganda Schwab Gates Soros WEF Bilderberg Joe Biden "New World Order" Gore Climate Reality Project Thunburg Prop No Opt Out for Freedom and Independence, Militarily enforced across borders Argentina's Economy of Francesco and more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9jRqgDOJ8 Davos Propaganda w Michael Matt, Remnant.TV https://remnantnewspaper.com/ Trump made a stand against the Globalists and rejected Davos. Wake The Fuck Up! The Conspiracy Theorists Insights and Reporting Proven Correct. Stand, or Fall.
Fallen civilizations, some of them thought by scholars to have gone through various debauchery phases... https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1553828161900621824 According to the drag queen’s tiktok, this occurred at a Catholic High School in NYC. They brought a drag queen to speak to students about drag and LGBTQ Enjoying the decline of western civilization yet? https://gizmodo.com/the-11-most-depraved-things-the-roman-emperors-ever-di-1... Debauchery: [noun] Extreme indulgence in bodily pleasures and especially sexual pleasures : behavior involving sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. that is often considered immoral. https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1554990510615547908 Libs of TikTok exposes kid performing at California drag show https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1555069915060523008 Libs wish they were aborted
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/u-n-recruits-110000-information-voluntee... Google backed RAND report recommends infiltrating and subverting online conspiracy groups from within. https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/google-rand-report-recommends-infi... "Psychological Operations Officer," newspeak for Government Troll... https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/career-match/signal-intelligence/lan... https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/misinformation-infodemic-world-vs-vir... "So far, we've recruited 110,000 information volunteers, and we equip these information volunteers with the kind of knowledge about how misinformation spreads and ask them to serve as kind of 'digital first-responders' in those spaces where misinformation travels," Fleming says. Google’s Jigsaw unit sponsors a RAND report that recommends infiltrating and subverting online conspiracy groups from within while planting authoritative messaging wherever possible. If authoritative messaging is successful, moderate members flip to become influencers and help guide the 'flock' to greener pastures as ‘brand ambassadors’ for the common good, teaching others the errors of their ways. Some conspiracy group members will be persuaded by the bombardment of content flagged by algorithms, and they will slowly come around to believing that the fact-checkers are right by the sheer volume of evidence and/or peer pressure to conform. Trying to infiltrate groups and subvert certain members seems like a tactic that would be perceived as an intrusion that furthers the divide and lead to even less trust, but *we shall see how it all plays out. Operation Earnest Voice Operation Earnest Voice (OEV) is a communications program by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). Initially, the program was developed as a psychological weapon and was first used in Iraq. In 2011, the US government signed a $2.8 million contract with the Ntrepid web-security company to develop a specialized software, allowing agents of the government to post propaganda. The aim of the initiative is to use sockpuppets to spread pro-American propaganda on social networking services. Main characteristics of the software, as stated in the software development request, are: Fifty user "operator" licenses, 10 sockpuppets controllable by each user. Sockpuppets are to be "replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent." Sockpuppets are to "be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world." A special secure VPN, allowing sockpuppets to appear to be posting from "randomly selected IP addresses," in order to "hide the existence of the operation." Fifty static IP addresses to enable government agencies to "manage their persistent online personas," with identities of government and enterprise organizations protected which will allow for different state agents to use the same sockpuppet, and easily switch between different sockpuppets to "look like ordinary users as opposed to one organization." Nine private servers, "based on the geographic area of operations the customer is operating within and which allow a customer's online persona(s) to appear to originate from." These servers should use commercial hosting centers around the world. Virtual machine environments, deleted after each session termination, to avoid interaction with "any virus, worm, or malicious software." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice Also: https://www.darpa.mil/program/social-media-in-strategic-communication https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_propaganda And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_farm The show Homeland touched on this: https://youtu.be/owIsqj1Y1sk The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies. https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1... Much more info here: https://archive.ph/Ccz00 https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/08/1009845/a-gpt-3-bot-posted-comme... No one really knows how many of these are here, anyone with access to this tech could do it. This bot is still active. Also: When Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users. In a video for online educator Udacity, Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman explains both the method, and the reasoning behind it. Essentially, Huffman set up a submission interface through which they could pick not only the URL and the title, but also the user’s name. Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did. https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ MORE INFO AND LINKS BELOW. COPIED FROM ANOTHER USER'S COMMENT. THANK YOU CLARITYOFSIGNAL. https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-a... Inside Israel’s million dollar troll army A global influence campaign funded by the Israeli government had a $1.1 million budget last year, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada shows. Act.IL says it has offices in three countries and an online army of more than 15,000. Main PDF file exposing all global technocratic cabal links: https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Cor... The German Club of Clear Words takes a deep dive into the network of individuals and organizations responsible for the COVID scam Whether blatantly visible or not, you can identify just about any network by connecting dots between individuals and organizations. Who’s working with whom, where, and why? Who’s paying whom? And once you’ve done that, you can more clearly identify the motivations behind various decisions The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be near the top, or the center, of this COVID plandemic network. Gates is also a major funder of mainstream media, and his network extends into global food and climate change policy The Gates Foundation, through its funding of the WEF, also plays an important role in The Great Reset, which was officially unveiled during a WEF summit in May 2020 Every conceivable aspect of life and society is scheduled to be “reset” according to their plan. Ultimately, that’s where this criminal COVID enterprise is trying to take us. Those people are now trying to reshape the world via the CV-19 fear-based agenda in order to gain more power and control for themselves and bring about an AI-controlled dystopian future that benefits them even more greatly. Ignore it at your own peril. They call it The Great Reset. It involves travel restrictions, tracking, tracing, mandatory vaccination, monitoring, surveillance, digital currency, 5G to implement the global control, etc. Its all right there on their own website... plain as day. They aren't even hiding it from the public anymore. https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G0X000006O6EHUA0?tab=publications Many of the fake accounts, online narrative propagation accounts and bots are tucked into the US budget from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media Excerpt: Their operating budget for fiscal year 2016 was US$752 million. U.S. Government Accountability Office Audit Report https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104017 Excerpt: Amendments to legislation have affected USAGM's governing authorities and organizational structure by shifting authority from a bipartisan board to a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with advice from an Advisory Board. Network and USAGM officials said that previous members of USAGM leadership took several actions that did not align with USAGM's firewall principles. According to USAGM, the firewall protecting the networks' independence is central to the credibility and effectiveness of USAGM's networks (see fig.). However, the parameters of the firewall are not specifically laid out in legislation. Delineation of what is and is not permissible under the firewall may help ensure the professional independence and integrity of the agency and its networks. Actions to ensure accountability of grantees, such as establishing Standard Operating Procedures for Monitoring Grants , have not corrected a longstanding significant deficiency in grants monitoring reported by independent audits of USAGM's financial statements for the past 5 years. Also: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-n... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/31/british-army-facebook-warrio... Ukraine and Turkey also have been reported to have large office buildings filled with teams of online influencers with dozens of fake accounts entirely dedicated to influencing nefarious government policies. All The Worlds A Stage folks. Intelligence agencies have a long history of this. https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977 https://www.corbettreport.com/how-the-cia-plants-news-stories-in-the-media/ https://youtu.be/xF90EfuOOIw These are all just a few examples of some of what's been disclosed, what has not been disclosed? Modern War Institute - Your Brain is the Next Battlefield https://youtu.be/N02SK9yd60s https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/szf78z/deleted_by_user/hy3op2y/ https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/wgagug/beware_of_people_in_this... https://clarityofsignal.com/ https://steemit.com/@clarityofsignal https://odysee.com/@Randall_Aware:b/y2mate.com---The-Children-and-the-CIA---... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS4-aEYhLd8&list=PLH6skP8VqRDKZ-jUjSpR8pJA8NKBj73d4 https://old.reddit.com/r/shills/comments/4kdq7n/astroturfing_information_meg... Hmmm, i think i already met a couple of dozens of those.... Edit to add that it is nothing new ofcourse: Here is some evidence of a reddit CEO editing user comments... https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRecordCorrected/comments/5elszg/reddit_ceo_caugh... https://gizmodo.com/reddit-ceo-caught-secretly-editing-user-comments-chatl-1... Here is some evidence of "s hills": https://old.reddit.com/r/shills/comments/4kdq7n/astroturfing_information_meg... Their guide: https://steemit.com/security/@tinfoilfedora/the-gentlemans-guide-to-forum-sp... Here is some evidence of an USA basis having a lot of redditors: https://redditblog.com/2013/05/08/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day-plu... Here is some evidence that the military and other agencies are still involved: https://www.darpa.mil/program/social-media-in-strategic-communication https://usahitman.com/grhtdcrdcs/ https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-n... And last but not least, here is some info about original project Mockingbird and the effects it has on education and the MSM: http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/operationmockingbirdCIA.pdf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCfTIapds0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIaFkR9uriU https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2017/09/document-surfaces-showing-cia-s-plan... https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R001500080042-1.... https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005524009.pdf https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2017/05/declassified-cia-documents-show-agen... For those who do not quite get it yet; here is why this can be extremely dangerous for a democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo Oh, and i almost forgot, anybody "on the job" here might want to consider a career change, there might be some health problems with what you are doing now. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-vi... https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moder... Astroturfing Information Megathread- revision 8Must Read (self.shills) submitted 6 years ago * by NutritionResearch - announcement Government Shills The Guardian: British army creates team of Facebook warriors The Guardian: US military studied how to influence Twitter [and Reddit] users in Darpa-funded research [2014] The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is developing a secret, multimillion-pound research programme into the future of cyberwarfare, including how emerging technologies such as social media and psychological techniques can be harnessed by the military to influence people's beliefs. [2014] Vice: Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs NY Times: The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in “covert propaganda” and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an Obama administration rule intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded. CBC News- Canadian government monitors online forums Slate on 2018 midterms interference: "Project Lakhta was a Russian influence campaign that had no particular ideological bent; it appears that the goal was simply to stir up conflict in online political debates by putting forth extreme arguments and inflammatory misinformation to incense both liberals and conservatives." NY Times: The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz (Cambridge Analytica) NY Times- From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities. Washington Post: Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election New York Times: "Hundreds of people work at a so-called troll farm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to smother the voices of dissidents like Mr. Khashoggi." CNN: Facebook announces first takedown of influence campaign with ties to Saudi government The Nation: US Officials Won’t Say if a New Anti–Russian Propaganda Project (shilling on social media) Is Targeting Americans. The newly created Global Engagement Center’s “focus and intent” is foreign audiences, but officials won’t rule out propagandizing Americans and funding American journalists. Ex -MMA fighter and ex-police officer exposes corrupt police practices, which includes infiltrating Reddit communities and becoming moderators in order to manipulate and censor information. Times of Israel: Israeli government paying bilingual students to spread propaganda online primarily to international communities without having to identify themselves as working for the government. "The [student] union will operate computer rooms for the project...it was decided to establish a permanent structure of activity on the Internet through the students at academic institutions in the country." The Intercept: Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies." TigerSwan attempted a counterinformation campaign by creating and distributing content critical of the protests on social media. WashingtonPost: Obama pick for NSA review panel wanted paid, pro-government shills in chat rooms (Thread with source paper.) Psy Group developed elaborate information operations for commercial clients and political candidates around the world, which included infiltrating target audiences with elaborately crafted social-media personas. The CEO of PSY Group was former commander of an Israeli psychological warfare unit. Tactics deployed by PSY Group in foreign elections included inflaming divisions in opposition groups and playing on deep-seated cultural and ethnic conflicts, something the firm called “poisoning the well." It has conducted messaging/influence operations in well over a dozen languages and dialects and employs an elite group of high-ranking former officers from some of the world’s most renowned intelligence units. Wired: Clinton Staff and Volunteers Busted for Astroturfing [in 2007] Vice: Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement The Intercept: The Rise of the Net Center. How an Army of Trolls Protects Guatemala’s Corrupt Elite. The Independent: Massive British PR firm caught on video: "We've got all sorts of dark arts...The ambition is to drown that negative content and make sure that you have positive content online." They discuss techniques for managing reputations online and creating/maintaining 3rd-party blogs that seem independent. The Guardian: US spy operation to manipulate social media Washington Post: Why crafty Internet trolls in the Philippines may be coming to a website near you BBC: Vietnam admits deploying bloggers to support the Communist Party's policies, operates a network of nearly 1,000 "public opinion shapers". Glenn Greenwald: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations The Intercept: Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations USA Today: The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor. Glenn Greenwald: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet The Guardian: Chinese officials flood the Chinese internet with positive social media posts to distract their population The Guardian: Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown - Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements. "Minerva"-funded social scientists tied to Pentagon counterinsurgency operations are involved in the "study of emotions in stoking or quelling ideologically driven movements," he said, including how "to counteract grassroots movements." Bloomberg: How to Hack an Election [and influence voters with fake social media accounts] USA Today: Businesses and organizations may refer to it as a tool for competitive advantage and marketing; but make no mistake, they are using the massive reach of social media and the Internet as a weapon. One U.S. 3-letter special agent said, "You could influence an election with this." Times of Israel - The internet: Israel’s new PR battlefield Arstechnica: GCHQ’s menu of tools spreads disinformation across Internet- “Effects capabilities” allow analysts to twist truth subtly or spam relentlessly. The Guardian: Internet Astroturfing BBC News: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed Israel is paying internet workers to manipulate online content such as Wikipedia (2 minute video) Buzzfeed: Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America NY Times: Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation Raw Story: CENTCOM engages bloggers Wired: Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders Wired: Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’ The Guardian: Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war BBC News: China's Internet spin doctors Raw Story: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people DailyKos: HBGary: Automated social media management Huffington Post- Exposing Cyber Shills and Social Media's Underworld Wall Street Journal: Turkey's Government Forms 6,000-Member Social Media Team The Bush and Gore campaigns of 2000 used methods similar to the Chinese government for conducting “guided discussions” in chatrooms designed to influence citizens Salon: Why Reddit moderators are censoring Glenn Greenwald’s latest news story on shills Shilling in the Private Sector NPR: Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They're Paid For. "Much like Amazon itself is a marketplace for goods, a world of separate, shadow marketplaces exists where reviews for Amazon products are bought and paid for — private Facebook groups, Slack channels, subreddits and more." Fake five-star reviews being bought and sold online - Fake online reviews are being openly traded on the internet, a BBC investigation has found. Yahoo News: Last month the FTC issued warnings to celebrities who plugged products on their Instagram accounts without clearly identifying their relationships with brands. The letters were meant to educate the celebrities on posting without violating the organization’s disclosure guidelines. New York Times: Tobacco corporations are targeting young American consumers with deceptive social media marketing in violation of federal law. 123 hashtags associated with these companies’ tobacco products have been viewed 8.8 billion times in the United States alone and 25 billion times around the world. PBS Frontline Documentary - Generation Like USA Today: Lord & Taylor settles FTC charges over paid Instagram posts Wired: Microsoft, through an outside agency, paid Machinima to produce positive videos about the Xbox One game machine, and many of the YouTube stars who accepted the deal failed to properly disclose that they were producing paid, sponsored content, not independent analysis. CNBC: The Federal Reserve Bank is soliciting proposals from developers for a "Social Listening Platform" that will monitor "Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube...to "Handle crisis situations, "continuously monitor conversations, identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers." [2011] CNN: A PR firm has revealed that it is behind two blogs that previously appeared to be created by independent supporters of Wal-Mart. The blogs Working Families for Wal-mart and subsidiary site Paid Critics are written by 3 employees of PR firm Edelman, for whom Wal-Mart is a paid client. [2006] The Verge: Anti-net neutrality spammers are impersonating real people to flood FCC comments Vice: Trolls Paid by a Telecom Lobbying Firm Keep Commenting on My Net Neutrality Articles The Guardian: In a New York investigation dubbed "Operation Clean Turf," dentists, lawyers, an ultra-sound clinic, Staten Island bus company US Coachways, a charter bus operator, a teeth-whitening service, a laser hair-removal chain and an adult entertainment club were caught buying fake reviews. The fake review companies posted on sites like Citysearch, Google, Yahoo and Yelp. New York Times: When a Company's Product Is Under Fire, One Option is to Plant a Defender in the Chat Room Time: Social Media Manipulation? When “Indie” Bloggers and Businesses Get Cozy New York Times: Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You Chicago Tribune: Nutrition for sale: How Kellogg worked with 'independent experts' to tout cereal The Atlantic: Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter, this illegal advertisement did not contain any risk information or language specifying that it was a paid endorsement. Warner Brothers fined for paying YouTube celebs to promote game without properly disclosing that the videos were paid endorsements. Gamers promote gaming-gambling site on youtube by pretending to hit jackpot without disclosing that they own the site. They tried to retroactively write a disclosure covering their tracks, but were caught. CSGO Lotto Owners Settle FTC’s First-Ever Complaint Against Individual Social Media Influencers "Internet Reputation Management," founded by three partners in the New York area, recruits bloggers to write about clients on third-party sites, without necessarily disclosing that they're paid Slate: Want to Get Paid For TV Criticism? Shill for DISH. Sony viral marketing campaign exposed (2006). The company admits they ran the shady advertising campaign. ADWEEK: Marketing on Reddit Is Scary, But These Success Stories Show Big Potential BBC news: Amazon targets 1,114 'fake reviewers' in Seattle lawsuit New York Times: Lifestyle Lift, a cosmetic surgery company, reached a settlement with the State of New York over its attempts to fake positive consumer reviews on the Web. The company had ordered employees to pretend they were satisfied customers and write glowing reviews of its face-lift procedure on Web sites Samsung Electronics Fined for Fake Online Comments [in Taiwan] Shill Bots Artificial intelligence chatbots will overwhelm human speech online; the rise of MADCOMs Russian bots were active on Reddit last year, from /r/RussiaLago BBC- How online chatbots are already tricking you- Intelligent machines that can pass for humans have long been dreamed of, but as Chris Baraniuk argues, they’re already among us. The ramifications of astroturfing are in fact so serious that the US Department of Defense funded research to detect chatbots. Wired: Powered by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, propaganda bots will soon run on genetic algorithms that let their ideas and messaging evolve, based on the resonance and effectiveness of previous messages. We are likely to see versions of these bots deployed on US audiences as part of the 2016 presidential election campaigns. BBC: More than four times as many tweets were made by automated accounts in favour of Donald Trump around the first US presidential debate as by those backing Hillary Clinton, a study says. Discover Magazine: Researchers Uncover Twitter Bot Army That’s 350,000 Strong The Rise of Social Bots Forbes: From Tinder Bots To 'Cuban Twitter', Welcome To 'Cognitive Hacking' Wired: Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists Information about shilling on Reddit /u/slaterhearst spammed Reddit with links to The Atlantic. "The Daily Dot has confirmed that slaterhearst was Jared Keller, the associate editor and social media editor at magazine giant The Atlantic." Forbes: Reddit Is Being Manipulated By Big Financial Services Companies User pushes InfoWars links on Reddit, eventually admits to working for Infowars. Shareblue accounts caught in /r/politics posting links to Shareblue without disclosing their affiliation, which caused the mods to create a new disclosure rule and an official Shareblue account was registered. About a month later, Shareblue was again caught shilling on /r/politics without disclosing ties to the outlet, which caused them to ban Shareblue links to the sub. Hillary Clinton Super Pac and "strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks" openly admits to shilling on Reddit. User posts video using GoPro, gets video to front page, admits in comments that GoPro sent him free cameras in exchange for advertising. (archive: http://archive.is/ICGrl) Top mod of /r/Mechanical_Gifs tries to sell subreddit on ebay for 999.00 dollars. How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts - According to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days the Reddit crew just faked it ‘til they made it. Shill posts picture of a dog in a hammock with the brand clearly visible without indicating that it's an ad in the title of the post, making it an illegal advertisement. Later, he posts a promo code in the comments for 20 percent off his hammocks. Redditor who works for a potato mailing company admits to being a shill. He shows off his 27 thousand dollars he made in /r/pics (Screenshot because he deleted his posts.) [Here's the thread.] /r/netsec talks about gaming reddit via sockpuppets and how online discourse is (easily) manipulated. Reddit is being gamed by professional shills every day. We investigate how widespread the problem of fake comments and fake votes is in our Reddit For Sale follow-up. [11:48] Reddit For Sale: How We Bought The Top Spot For $200 [8:27] Some websites use shill accounts to spam their competitor's articles, causing their competitors to become banned on Reddit. Wikileaks: Reddit cofounder consulting for Stratfor to bring in the social media dollars Shilling on Reddit is openly admitted to in this Forbes article What I learned selling my Reddit accounts Reddit automation bot: "Run Up To 100 Threads, Checks For Valid Proxy Access & Also To Check If Banned From Site, Keyword Based Submission Finder & Vote Up/Down Capabilities, Mass upvote or downvote Mode..." Boostupvotes.com Reddit Secrets, buy upvotes Reddit Secrets, buy pre-aged and high karma accounts Science New Scientist: Sock puppet accounts unmasked by the way they write and post Researcher's algorithm weeds out people using multiple online accounts to spread propaganda - Based on word choice, punctuation and context, the method is able to detect whether one person or multiple people are responsible for the samples. Fake product reviews may be pervasive, study finds When grassroots activism becomes a commodity - UCLA sociologist investigates 'astroturf' campaigns Content-Driven Detection of Campaigns in Social Media [PDF] Additional information Shill Confessions and Additional Information (most confessions are unverifiable due to NDA's and possible trolling.) Clinton Campaign used "grass-roots tweeters" to post tweets and graphics at strategic times during the 2016 election campaign. Meme Warfare Center (PDF. Proposal written in 2006) WAR.COM: THE INTERNET AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (Proposal written in 2001 by Angela Maria Lungu - Major, US Army.) The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies Corporate and governmental manipulation of Wikipedia articles TEDx Astroturf and manipulation of media messages (Sharyl Attkisson) "Changing the hive mind -- How social media manipulation affects everything" by Tim Weninger at TEDxUND What you should do about this I made this thread in the hopes that it could be used as a citation. There isn't much we can do to stop the manipulation, but we can spread this information so that people can at least become aware of it. The previous generation became somewhat aware of the manipulation in the media. Imagine how effective it would be if few people knew about it? That is what is happening today. We are being advertised to and subjected to propaganda without being aware of it, which is very dangerous. The only reason why this type of propaganda works so well is because most people trust comments and posts with a lot of upvotes and likes. People trust that the information they are looking for will be at the top of threads or on the front page of a subreddit, oblivious to the fact that certain types of information may become buried in artificial downvotes or buried using a "forum slide." Not only that, but this is becoming automated. We must educate others about this problem before we are drowned out by bots. Some of this stuff is automatically removed by Reddit, so you have to link to a thread that was manually approved in order to cite the information. Share this thread where you can or cite small bits of this post in your travels. 67 comments share save hide report all 67 comments sorted by: best topnewcontroversialoldq&a Want to add to the discussion? Post a comment! [–][deleted] 153 points 6 years ago Just thought I'd contribute to this thread permalink embed save report reply [–]NutritionResearch[S] 84 points 6 years ago* I assume that a lot of shills are losing their jobs to bots, as most of us are. With that being the case, many of them will probably come out and release some details about their jobs. Here is a list of shill confessions: "Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream -- people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc)." What I learned selling my Reddit accounts Confession of Hillary Shill from /r/SandersForPresident Shill whistleblower, claims to have derailed discussions and called people anti-semites, ruined reputations of users by searching their account history, amongst other things. Fracking shill whistleblower spills the beans on Fracking Internet PR /r/netsec talks about gaming reddit via sockpuppets and how online discourse is (easily) manipulated. Whistleblower and subsequent investigation: Paid trolls on /r/Bitcoin Redditor comes clean about being paid to chat on Reddit. They work to promote a politician, although they don't specify which one. (Admins claim this wasn't a shill) Screenshot of post since it was removed. I'm not certain that all of these are legit confessions, which is why I chose to omit them from the above post, but some of these are very interesting. Edit: Alleged paid shill leaks details of organization and actions. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]apistograma 13 points 5 years ago Oh, god. I'm sure I was arguing with one person in a similar position to the one in your screenshot some weeks ago in a youtube video about GMOs. I'm not even completely against GMOs, I was mainly arguing that people should be aware of the problems that the current loose regulation in the US and EU could bring long-term. I understand that every people has it's own opinion, and most of them were nice and wanted to add to the discussion, including some of the most adamant supporters of GMOs. But there was one dude that was making me mad. He just spend all the time twisting my points, defending the industry (even when I didn't attacked any firm in particular), and derailing all my topics. He followed most of the points you mentioned, included the one about conspiracy theories (when he asked me if I believed in the lunar landing lol). I didn't know exactly why, but that commenter left me with a very uncomfortable feeling that he wasn't being honest, like when you see a politician talking in an interview. Now I'm pretty sure why. Thank you, you're doing a very nice service to everyone on the internet. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]EvilBananaPt 4 points 5 years ago I found a similar guy and made a post in /r/hailcorporate See if you can spot the similarities: https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/4yl0ce/paid_shill_ufactbased... It started with this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Norway/comments/4ybvz5/was_chatting_with_a_norwegia... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]apistograma 6 points 5 years ago He's a shill, or either a really devoted GMO defender. This user seems more toxic though. The one I found was much more soft-spoken and less trollish permalink embed save parent report reply continue this thread [–][deleted] 9 points 6 years ago Great info man, thank you and saved. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]NutritionResearch[S] 20 points 6 years ago My pleasure. I just re-read the first shill confession I linked you to and I noticed something; This confession was from like a year ago (archived link, so the timestamps are misleading). He mentioned Facebook... Do you think everyone on the data team at Facebook is a sociopath? I don't work at Facebook; however, what do you think promoted posts, the selection of posts to show in your timeline, etc are, if not exactly the same as what I do? Remember, not long ago, Facebook got caught experimenting on humans using their website, intentionally trying to make their users happy or sad with their Timeline post selection algorithm. It just came out a few weeks ago that FB does manipulate the trending news section, severely stretching the definition of "trending." Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show permalink embed save parent report reply [–]tha_dank 2 points 5 years ago That whole conversation between that guy and the others in that thread is super creepy. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]pairedox 1 point 7 months ago My favorite shill is Otto Skorzeny. Went around touting how Hitler got away and his part in killing Nikola Tesla. That scar damage must have fucked with the voltages in his body, nope it was the drugs. Still a rather large beast of a man. Who knows how far a man can twist himself and rationalize to other his own sanity. I think the comedian in watchmen is made after him permalink embed save parent report reply [–]DirectImageLinkBot 7 points 6 years ago Here is a direct link to your image for the benefit of mobile users Feedback | Already a direct link? | Why do I exist? | Source permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Lord_Draconia 6 points 5 years ago I actually feel bad for all the shills and hope they find better jobs. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]elypter 1 point 6 years ago the image is offline permalink embed save parent report reply [–]NutritionResearch[S] 3 points 6 years ago I see it just fine, but I saved a copy just in case it is taken down in the future. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]elypter 1 point 6 years ago thanks, i can see it too now. i even saw this original post but didnt click it, or maybe it was i repost, i dunno. do you have an idea what the ratio between professional und unprofessional shills is? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]comrade-jim 35 points 6 years ago Posting one of my old comments: People are in denial that they're being manipulated... Operation Earnest Voice is an astroturfing campaign by the US government. The aim of the initiative is to use sockpuppets to spread pro-American propaganda on social networking sites. The US government signed a $2.8 million contract with the Ntrepid web-security company to develop a specialized software, allowing agents of the government to post propaganda on "foreign-language websites", but recently the law preventing them from using this in America was repealed, allowing them to spread pro-American propaganda even on American media. Main characteristics of the software, as stated in the software development request, are: 50 user "operator" licenses, 10 sockpuppets controllable by each user. Sockpuppets are to be "replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent". Sockpuppets are to "be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world." A special secure VPN, allowing sockpuppets to appear to be posting from "randomly selected IP addresses," in order to "hide the existence of the operation." 50 static IP addresses to enable government agencies to "manage their persistent online personas," with identities of government and enterprise organizations protected which will allow for different state agents to use the same sockpuppet, and easily switch between different sockpuppets to "look like ordinary users as opposed to one organization." 9 private servers, "based on the geographic area of operations the customer is operating within and which allow a customer's online persona(s) to appear to originate from." These servers should use commercial hosting centers around the world. Virtual machine environments, deleted after each session termination, to avoid interaction with "any virus, worm, or malicious software." The US also operates in conjunction with the UK to collect and share intelligence data, and the GCHQ has their own internet shilling program. There is not enough evidence to say without a doubt that the US government manipulates American social media, but we can say without a doubt that they do have sophisticated software for the purpose of spreading propaganda, they do manipulate social media, there are no longer propaganda laws preventing them from doing so in America, and multiple world governments have these programs in place (including but not limited to: Russia, China, Israel, and the UK.) You can keep telling your self the US government would never manipulate social media, or violate the 4th amendment, or collect data en masse, or you can wake up and accept that this is the world we live in and ignoring it will never solve the problem. permalink embed save report reply [–]NutritionResearch[S] 8 points 6 years ago Wired wrote about some disturbing stuff in 2008. Wired: Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders In that article, they cite this: http://www.webinknow.com/2008/12/the-us-air-force-armed-with-social-media.ht... Capt. Faggard and his Air Force Emerging Technology team is responsible for developing strategy, policy and plans for an ever-changing communication landscape for communicators worldwide. What was most interesting is that with Capt. Faggard leading the way, the Air Force employs 330,000 communicators! Their mission is to use current and developing Web 2.0 applications as a way to actively engage conversations between Airmen and the general public. Yes, that’s right, the goal of the program is that every single Airman is an on-line communicator. Besides Twitter, Capt. Faggard writes The Official Blog of the U.S. Air Force; has pages on YouTube, MySpace and Facebook; helps publicize a Second Life area called Huffman Prairie; contributes to iReport (user name USAFPA); and is on Friendfeed, Digg, Delicious, Slashdot,Newsvine, Reddit. There’s Air Force widgets. And there's even a video mashup contest for high schools to show school spirit sponsored by the Air Force. It's not just the Air Force. Several months ago I led a training session organized by SSgt Alexis Mulero, Public Affairs Chief for the communicators in the 1st Marine Corps Recruiting District. Since most teenagers and young adults spend lots of time on Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites, a major challenge in recruiting young people into the Marines is reaching them online. As a result of a focus on social media, SSgt Mulero says that his team has greatly increased the positive exposure of the Corps across the Northeastern U.S. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Square-Custard 1 point 4 months ago Captain what ? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]BANMEIKEEPCOMINGBACK 24 points 6 years ago And people will still vote for Hillary :-) permalink embed save report reply [–]lordofthebanZ 11 points 6 years ago What did you do to get banned? Lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheBeefClick 7 points 6 years ago Well to be fair, reddit is very anti hillary. Wouldnt it make sense to try and get a few voters from reddit? permalink embed save parent report reply [–][deleted] 12 points 5 years ago Oh how times have changed. The $6MM spent on astroturfing did quite a number here permalink embed save parent report reply [–]TheBeefClick 12 points 5 years ago Yes /u/utstudent4trump. That money worked a lot, where we have subs like /r/thedonald and /r/hillaryforprison frequently reaching the top of /r/all. How much money has trump used for spamming reddit? I guess we can leave out the fools who post nothing but HIGH ENERGY COMMENTS. permalink embed save parent report reply [–][deleted] 5 years ago [deleted] [–]peppaz 2 points 5 years ago Simple demographics permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 5 years ago [deleted] [–]TheBeefClick 7 points 5 years ago Or because she was the only viable liberal canidate once bernie lost? If you search for bullshit hard enough, you will find it even if it isnt there. permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 5 points 5 years ago I think a turd would poll better against Trump right now. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]elpajarito7 14 points 6 years ago Fantastic write-up. How do you go about archiving this? I'd like to see a website that pertains to shills and astroturfing specifically, or something of the sort. permalink embed save report reply [–]Chicken1337 10 points 6 years ago Jesus. Never realized it was this widespread. permalink embed save report reply [–]Psydonk 8 points 5 years ago Israeli shills are ubiquitous on /r/worldnews. It's actually fascinating to watch really. You see posts that are critical of Israel to begin with, have like +30 upvotes, then you come back several hours later, any post critical of Israel has -500 downvotes while anything that plays to Israel's narrative is upvoted by the hundreds if not thousands. On /r/politics, astroturfers from both sides are all over the place. It's actually interesting to watch the Trump side's strategy, is to constantly post negative articles about Clinton, so people distrust her. It's on a board that actually leans center-left, you get top voted articles from Briebart and other far-right sources. Mostly though, I see Astroturfers on news website comment sections and specialized boards. For example, here in Australia, one of our major forums is Whirlpool, which is just swimming in such blatant astrotufers I wonder how people continue to fall for their bait when they literally post like they are copy-pasting from a manual. Comment sections are always fun to watch astroturfers all use the same "key words" and "key statements" over and over again, then, by the end of the week, the Politicial group they are shilling for, starts to use those same key words. permalink embed save report reply [–]FastAsLightning747 1 point 4 months ago I once commented on Israeli policies and before I knew it I was swamped with Reddit traffic that completely overwhelmed my ability to respond. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]SUCH_AS_SEALS 9 points 5 years ago Thank you so much for this. Just found this thread (and sub) and am awash with thoughts and emotions. You've confirmed what I've known deep down for a while now but had no evidence of. Perhaps I wasn't looking hard enough, because it's clearly there. A lot of it. I wasn't naive enough to think this wasn't happening but this... this is... vilely rampant. I suppose being forewarned is the first step to being forearmed but I'm still reeling with what to do with this knowledge. permalink embed save report reply [–]NutritionResearch[S] 11 points 5 years ago Don't be hard on yourself. Actually, this information is not really easy to find. It is hidden because most people don't know the right words to search. I'm not sure if that is deliberate or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. If you google "shills" or "astroturfer," most of the stuff in this thread will never be seen. Words that you have to plug into google: Political Bots Reputation Management Online Marketing or online native advertising Social Media management or manipulation Paid Trolls Paid comments Here's the thing about "reputation management": This includes manipulating the search ranking of a google search. The people who are involved in this shadowy world of semi legal and illegal online marketing know tricks to pushing certain results to the 3rd or 4th page of a google search. Not only do you have to know the correct words to search for, you might not find it until you dig deep enough. I am also certain that I haven't found everything. This post took me a very long time to put together. Anyway, thanks for the message. I could use some help spreading this knowledge around if you get the chance. I've been spreading this stuff for years over multiple Reddit accounts and I still get people who are surprised. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]secretly_an_alpaca 2 points 5 years ago Look up Search Engine Optimization. I used to work for a company that, among other things, offered SEO services, but it wasn't always subtle. Like, imagine an apartment website where they changed the website title to "apartments in [town]" instead of the name of the complex and at the bottom, in small light grey letters, would say things like "equal opportunity housing affordable housing safe neighborhood pet friendly" despite being none of those things. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]gustoreddit51 7 points 6 years ago "Freedom of speech and its democratic corollary, a free press, have tacitly expanded our Bill of Rights to include the right of persuasion. This development was an inevitable result of the expansion of the media of free speech and persuasion, defined in other articles in this volume. All these media provide open doors to the public mind. Any one of us through these media may influence the attitudes and actions of our fellow citizens." - Edward Bernays in "The Engineering of Consent" (1947). permalink embed save report reply [–]d3fi4nt 6 points 5 years ago With regards to HRC/CTR astroturfing ops, it's worth noting that CGI partner Palantir (along with Berico and HB Gary) developed a "Persona Management System" in the past designed to allow single operators to bulk manage social media accounts, etc. - May be worth investigating too. permalink embed save report reply [–]sper_jsh 5 points 6 years ago This is great! Good work! permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 3 points 6 years ago I think I am encountering hedge fund / financial shills in /the_donald... permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 5 years ago* [deleted] [–]buffaloranch 1 point 5 years ago How do you distinguish between shills and genuine supporters? permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 5 years ago* [deleted] [–]vodzurk 3 points 5 years ago Direct question: Do you get paid to defend Hillary Clinton, US Presidential Candidate online? permalink embed save report reply continue this thread [–]Baconaise 2 points 5 years ago I got accused of being a shill for Israel during the last war with Gaza they had. I was just trying to defend what I saw as very tactfully executed bombings. They would call hours ahead and ensure everyone left the building. They would monitor to see that everyone left. I would remind people of the instances where the terrorists there were caught on drone video dragging children into the buildings to become the next martyrs. The bombs that did drop only leveled the building they needed to level, caused almost no damage to nearby buildings. It was like controlled demolition. permalink embed save report reply [–]TheAmazingSkeptic 3 points 5 years ago Sad. permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 2 points 6 years ago 10/10 thread permalink embed save report reply [–][deleted] 2 points 5 years ago Fantastic thread. When people talk about the "good ol days" of media before the internet, I think, the main thing that was different is that we didnt have threads like this. permalink embed save report reply [–]Daytwah 2 points 5 years ago Here's a shill confession I had saved a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/31wo57/the_chevron_tapes_video_s... permalink embed save report reply [–]doppleprophet 2 points 5 years ago tagged for later reference permalink embed save report reply [–]qv51 2 points 5 years ago Vietnam employs nearly 1000 public opinion shapers online: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20982985 permalink embed save report reply [–]NutritionResearch[S] 2 points 5 years ago Added to the list. Thank you! permalink embed save parent report reply [–][deleted] 5 years ago [removed] [–]BigPharmaSucks 1 point 6 months ago Do you still remember this thread? 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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/booz-allen-hamilton-nsa.html “In reality, Twitter sells its database, named Firehose, to a very small group of companies: Gnip and Attensity, both based in America, and Datasift in the UK. Gnip, which supplies Firehose data to the Library of Congress, collects all the tweets on an hourly basis and then dumps that into the Library's internal database once a day, a process which suggests that Attensity and Datasift could have a similar capacity for data gathering. Both Datasift and Attensity do not list all their clients, but according to Defense Weekly, Datasift sells twitter user information to Booz Allen Hamilton, the company at the center of the GREATEST DOMESTIC SPYING SCANDAL OF A GENERATION.” How can you be up in “conspiracy Reddit” and NOT have the base knowledge that our Intelligence agencies have FULLY supported and integrated into every US Based social media platform…including this one. Get with the program boss. https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-soldier-spreading...
https://v.redd.it/7hbsphraxof91 Carlyle Group, United Defense "Moment of Silence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04QV0RepHU MKUltra in Schools FAC1111 - Misom and Friends FRACC#1 https://fakeologist.com/ "After hitting 30 years of living, and having the system claw it's ways into me, psychologically, physically, emotionally, financially, Spiritually MAYBE the Matrix was just too right." https://files.catbox.moe/85q07m.jpg The Matrix Trilogy Explained "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hoplessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. -- Morpheus" " In the movie The Matrix, Mr. Smith has the ability to enter any body, at anytime and of course this often occurs when the matrix is threatened by Neo. The scenario is a reflection of our real world. For example, you're down at the coffee shop having a conversation with a friend and everything is fine until you mention something like 9/11 was an inside job. Now watch what happens… Up pops Mr Smith, to replace the person you were just having a conversation with, to attack you, because all truths threaten the matrix. The matrix is programmed into most people in their youth and because of this "*Mr Smith programming" these people become guardians of the matrix, protectors of the code, police of the mind control, enforcers of the indoctrination.. which holds together our false concept of reality like super glue. This manifests itself more commonly in people who’ve gone through a major university (ESPECIALLY Ivy League) to earn a degree. One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they've made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they're too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer "credentials'. This is why so many college educated people cannot think critically nor independently, and outsource completely to 'experts' - even when said 'experts' are chatting nonsense. And it's why they refuse to change their minds when proven wrong. They can't even fathom being wrong. "
Jacobo Grinberg, the Mexican scientist who found the link between Science and the Paranormal: Grinberg claimed we lived in a HOLOGRAPHIC MATRIX where we could dynamically interact with the construction of reality. He disappeared in 1994 under mysterious circumstances... The Attack on Gordon Kahl at Medina Imitation, Infiltration, Feminism, UN-ity.. https://youtu.be/vKAU3zjpDbI Mystery, Seduction, Error, vs Truth
https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-smart-phones-role-in-dumbing-dow... http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02mIRnPJm6g The Smartphone's Role In Dumbing-Down America Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog The smartphone has begun to play a huge role In dumbing down America. Rather than being a source to move us forward, it has become an albatross around the necks of many weak-minded souls that depend on them. People turn to these devices for all kinds of unneeded updates including performing simple math problems so they don't have to think. Originated in 1933, the term "dumbing down" was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: "to revise to appeal to those of little education or intelligence." For those with little drive or purpose, the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy find great comfort in the constant flow of dribble a cell phone can provide. In short, dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture. It should be noted this is being written just as the world is on the cusp of being offered a whole new recipe that may lead to more social dysfunction. That comes in the form of "virtual reality" which offers an even stronger form of escapism that may result in damaging the ability of people to relate to each other in the real world. Especially worrisome is the effect it might have on children that experience and embrace it. Their ability to separate this fake virtual world from reality could become impaired. A great deal of the problems with smartphones are rooted in the idea everyone deserves one. Yes, I said deserves, not needs. Smartphones are now considered by many people as an extension of their being. A government program started years ago has mushroomed in size and transfers a huge amount of wealth down the social ladder. Years ago I wrote an article that outlined a government program supplying free phones to people with low incomes or that have been declared needy. At that time these phones have become known as "Obama Phones." Below I give some of the details about the program including who qualifies. If you want to be popular with the voters give them free stuff and let them know that they should not bite the hand that feeds them. The term "Obama phone" is not a myth as an online search rapidly confirms. This popular government program explains why we see so many people that would appear to not have a dime in their pockets walking along or driving down the street talking on a cell phone. What exactly is the free Obama phone? It is a program that is meant to help the financially unstable who cannot afford access to a cell phone. It seems that communication should not be limited to people based on what they can afford. The Lifeline program started decades ago to help low-income families have access to landlines has been expanded. Over the years the cost of cell phones and cellular service has decreased and the program has been extended to cover cell phones. So who qualifies? It appears little has changed over the years, it seems that if you or members of your household are, receiving the following benefits you automatically qualify for the Lifeline program. The best way to know if you qualify is by filling out an application for a Lifeline provider in your state. Those interested in the program must have an income of less than 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines or about $22,350 per year for a family of four. Food Stamps or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Medicaid Supplemental Security Income – commonly known as SSI Health Benefit Coverage under Child Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) The National School Lunch Program’s Free Lunch Program. Low-Income Energy Assistance Program – LIHEAP Federal Public Housing Assistance ( Section 8 ) If you are a low-income Eligible Resident of Tribal Lands Temporary Assistance to Needy Families – TANF Lifeline is a government-sponsored program, but who is paying for it? Some people claim that the government is using taxpayers’ money to run this program, however, the claim is false. The clever clowns we have sent to Washington found a backhanded under-the-table sort of way to make it appear it is not taxpayer money. Universal Service Fund (USF) which is administered by the Federal Communication Commission along with the Universal Service Administration Company (USAC), pays for the Lifeline phone assistance program. The Universal Service Fund (USF) was created back in 1997 by Federal Communication Commission to achieve the goals set by Congress under the Telecommunication Act of 1996. According to the Act, service providers are obliged to contribute a portion of their interstate and international telecommunications revenues. In short, paying phone customers are paying for it. It is written that if you are one of those people who have lost their jobs due to the recession, then probably you’re having a hard time with your daily expenses. On top of that, paying telephone bills is just another pressure. You can get rid of this burden by applying to the "Lifeline Assistance Program" run by the government. To get a phone contact the provider of this service. The government has approved many companies at the national and regional levels to provide this service to eligible people. Just how much might one of these free government cell phones change your life? An employer can more easily reach you with a job offer if you have a free government cell phone. You can stay in touch with your doctor and other emergency medical professionals more easily with a free government cell phone. A free government cell phone can help you keep in touch with family and other loved ones. And the good news is that while a government-assisted cell phone provides you with up to 250 monthly minutes to go with your free cell phone. While that’s a generous contribution from the government, it’s barely enough airtime to last many people a month. But good news is they can easily buy more minutes for the phone from each of the major Lifeline cell phone companies. You can see this is what has happened when it has gotten to the point where people carry their phone in their hand as they go about their business. Apparently, if you use a promotion code, you can get some very good deals. Smartphone Have Become A Major Distraction A great deal of attention has been given to some of the ideas and visions the World Economic Forum has floated. A powerful and very visible glimpse was contained in the public relations video entitled: “8 Predictions for the World in 2030. Its 2030 agenda promotes the idea that by 2030, "You will own nothing. And you'll be happy." Smartphones dovetail with edging the general population towards such an existence. With the government transferring the costs for millions of customers to those that pay full price, another face of corporate welfare is exposed. Over The Years This Addiction Has Only Grown Stronger Interestingly while many people admit they are addicted to these phones that seem to offer a form of escapism from the real world, some users are moving back to dumbphones. A video by ColdFusion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02mIRnPJm6g), an Australian-based online media company, looks into this "Anti-Smartphone Revolution." It points out how the dumbphone or what is sometimes called a brick is far less intrusive in our lives. Surprisingly, it is those users between the age of 25-35 that are leading this charge. Are Smartphones Making Children Slaves To Big Tech? We should never underestimate the role of the smartphone in dumbing down America. We can only hope people will begin to take a closer look at these society-changing devices. When a phone will provide the answer to simple math problems many people no longer feel compelled to learn or memorize the things which give us perspective and help us to understand the world around us. It has become apparent, that smartphones change more than society. They change people, too. Being able to push a few buttons does not necessarily make you smarter.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/9/23298684/amazon-one-expanding-palm-print-r... Dozens Of Whole Foods Stores Allow Customers To Pay With Palm Print Biometric Data Amazon's palm-reading payment technology will expand to dozens of Whole Foods locations across California. Shoppers will be able to pay for groceries by scanning the palm of their hand at checkout devices instead of using cash or card, as this is more evidence of the emergence of a cashless society. The Verge reported that 65 Whole Foods stores in California would soon get the new payment technology. This is the most extensive rollout by the e-commerce giant since announcing the payment system in 2020. "Customers can set up Amazon One by registering their palm print using a kiosk or at a point-of-sale station at participating stores. To register, you need to provide a payment card and phone number, agree to Amazon's terms of service, and share an image of your palms. Once completed, you can take items to checkout and not have to take out your wallet — or even your phone. A hover of your hand over the device is all that's needed to pay and leave," The Verge said. Amazon One has been pilot tested at Whole Foods stores in Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle, and New York. Amazon said customers had found the new payment system more convenient to checkout, though privacy concerns emerged last year by a group of lawmakers who raised questions about the megacorporation collecting biometric data of its customers. A group of senators in 2021 sent Amazon CEO Andy Jassy a letter for more details about how it scans palm prints. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) asked Jassy if Amazon plans to expand its biometric payment system and if the data collected will allow the company to increase the effectiveness of targeted ads. "Amazon's expansion of biometric data collection through Amazon One raises serious questions about Amazon's plans for this data and its respect for user privacy, including about how Amazon may use the data for advertising and tracking purposes," the senators wrote in the letter. Amazon One appears to be ushering in a cashless society where a customer's body is becoming a transactional tool. Amazon has successfully provided customers with a convenient lifestyle through high-tech devices (think of Alexa smart speakers and Ring smart cameras), but the only tradeoff is the company harvests user data for advertisement purposes.
NSA Awards TOP-SECRET $10 Billion Contract To Amazon Ring Cameras Amassing Info On Users...And Their Neighbors https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2022/04/nsa-re-awards-secret-10-billio... https://assets.ctfassets.net/a3peezndovsu/Kv9BIzU9CMClPcpktDnnH/b652eb950793... https://www.wired.com/story/ring-doorbell-camera-amazon-privacy/ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51709247 Ring Cameras Amassing Info On Users...And Their Neighbors About 18% of Americans now own a video doorbell. That means a significant and growing slice of American neighborhoods are under a form of intermittent surveillance. If the surveillance video and associated data were the exclusive property of individual homeowners, it might not be of much concern. However, that's not the case. For example, Ring, the company behind the top-selling brand, maintains a vast database on its users and their cameras. Ring is an Amazon subsidiary, thanks to the tech giant's 2018 purchase of the company for over $1 billion. Ring says it doesn't sell its customers data, but sometimes it gives it away for free -- to the police. In the first half of 2022 alone, Ring fielded more than 3,500 requests from law enforcement agencies. Ring keeps plenty of info that you'd expect them to have. According to Wired magazine: Ring gets your name, phone number, email and postal address, and any other information you provide to it—such as payment information or your social media handles if you link your Ring account to Facebook, for instance. The company also gets information about your Wi-Fi network and its signal strength, and it knows you named your camera “Secret CIA Watchpoint,” as well as all the other technical changes you make to your cameras or doorbells. But that's not all. In 2020, the BBC reported that Ring keeps data on every motion detected by its cameras, including the exact time "down to the millisecond." The event database also tracks doorbell rings -- and how many rings -- as well as on-demand actions by the Ring doorbell's owner, such as requesting live video or speaking through the speaker. A look at one user's Ring event database (via BBC) BBC also found Ring's database tracked interactions with the company's apps -- every time it's opened, various types of screen-taps, and instances where the owner zoomed in on video footage. Over time, scrutiny of all this data can provide insights into whether you're home or not. If you subscribe to the Ring Protect Plan -- which archives 6 months of video and audio -- Ring may even keep the video you've personally deleted, according to a Wired analysis of the company's privacy policy. Maybe you've opted against buying a Ring doorbell out of privacy concerns. That's fine, but don't forget that your neighbor's Ring camera may be watching you -- or even listening to you. Tests have found Ring cameras can record audio from 20 feet away. If you're strolling by a Ring-equipped house and talking to someone, you and your conversation could be in Ring's database. The same is true if you're on your own property and you're close enough to a neighbor's camera and microphone. This isn't just a question of whether you trust Amazon and Ring not to misuse your video, audio and associated data. There's always the chance that your info could be hacked by common criminals -- or the ones who work for the government. Speaking of the latter, earlier this year, Amazon was awarded a $10 billion renewal of a secret NSA contract.
Prophecies then, True today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGrWvrGDOXg If I Were The Devil (Paul Harvey, 1965) Ye who ignore the Conspiracy Theorists, the Crazy Prophets... instead, mind their insights, as it is they who are attuned to those frequencies.
Wake the fuck up... Democratic Party Marxist Playbook Exposed: The Cloward-Piven Strategy You will own nothing, and be Unhappy. https://www.economicnoise.com/2022/08/07/playbook-of-the-democrat-party-clow... https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/these-mandates-being-forced-on-america-a... https://conduitforaction.org/the-cloward-piven-strategy-orchestrating-a-cris... https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-the-dem... https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-cloward-piven-strategy/ https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1246-these-people-are-completely-disconnec... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward-Piven_strategy https://farleftfacts.org/far-left-ideology/radicalization-attributes/cloward... https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/is-the-cloward-piven-strategy-being-used-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQhpAPRsqkY Cloward-Piven Acorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_FaZL1g_w Cloward-Piven Alinsky 8 Steps Wake Up !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHCmNEhuGA Cloward-Piven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOG_7gxIoQ Cloward-Piven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6CvPhEjbOA Cloward-Piven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSm2tG3K08 Cloward-Piven Alinsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xJZEY3oz0 Cloward-Piven Wake Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqUndX7-li0 Cloward-Piven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8707g1lCJKE Why do they like Obama https://discoverthenetworks.org/ https://acorncracked.com/ https://americanthinker.com/ The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty - C&P, The Nation, May 2 1966 Cloward and Piven is the Playbook of the Democrat Party. It is the second part of this two-pronged approach: When you don’t have logic or reason on your side, use power. If you don’t have enough power, flood the system to acquire more. Cloward and Piven Flooding the system was the Cloward and Piven strategy to bring down this country. Create real or phony problems that “require” government actions that begin the process of shifting freedoms from individuals to the State. (For a more layman’s insight, see here.) Rahm Emmanuel, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, said that “no good crisis should ever go to waste.” That implied an opening for more government, a Cloward and Piven (CP) opportunity. (To visualize one asserted implementation of this, involving Acorn, see here.) The strategy is not a Democrat monopoly. Republicans use it also, although do not brag about it or depend upon it almost exclusively. The process is like rust eroding liberty, slowly and steadily. It replaces freedom with dependency and controls. There are two problems with the strategy: It must be slow and steady (boil the frog beginning with unheated water, slowly increasing the temperature [a wonderful metaphor but physically erroneous] so that the frog doesn’t notice until it is too late). It must be stealth, that is citizen “frogs” must not realize what is happening. The CP strategy was developed in and for a world very different from today. The Internet changed this world. Conventional media was all that needed to be controlled in the CP world. By controlling this source, government created its own “Pravda.” Controlling the media was possible because it was owned by corporations. It consisted of known and immovable assets, which are easy targets for government. The message was simple: Obey or we will put you out of business! Legal action against government is a “fool’s errand.” They own the courts and have unlimited funds to fight. If threatened, you will comply or they will bankrupt you! Tax issues and anti-trust cases are the bludgeoning weapons of choice. Fighting charges, regardless of how false, is akin to a minor suing his parents. That is why media, other companies and wealthy individuals generally settle government claims for enormous sums of money, but without the admission of guilt. There is no better job than that of blackmailer when you are also the sheriff or the Department of Justice! Why are Things Different Then came the internet! While it didn’t stop extortion of corporations, it exposed the media as “captured” propagandists. Bloggers began telling different “truths.” The first reaction was to shut them down. Unfortunately for government, this group is so diverse geographically and otherwise, that traditional threats of “putting you out of business” were meaningless. Asset confiscation threats are meaningless when there are no physical assets. To be a blogger only requires electricity and the internet (and perhaps some intellectual capital to enhance success). The only way to shut these sources down is to control the Internet and its content. The first was impossible. The second was tried. Unfortunately for government, silencing free speech is frowned upon in free countries, especially those where Free Speech is the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Definitions of speech that didn’t qualify for protection were tried (“hate speech,” “lies,” “dangerous rhetoric,” “racism,” “inciting danger,” etc.) in an effort to obviate the First Amendment. Threats of imprisonment were tried, but the First Amendment was too broad and too sacred for these efforts to succeed. Government then went after the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). It was the same corrupt strategy employed against traditional media — You impose our “bans” (censorship) or we will put you out of business! But, “muscling” these corporate platforms only caused new competitors to sprout. Most were smaller and not asset-heavy. Suppressed views and voices began to move to these venues where free speech was allowed. Censorship works, but only where government can exert leverage via harm. It was easy to cow Facebook and Twitter. Ditto for established institutions like public schools, colleges and corporations. These entities had to decide whether they wanted the hassle and threats of being “un-woke.” Most submitted, presumably determining that losing some customers would be less costly than getting into a legal or other battle with Leviathan. Some probably thought this “new inclusiveness” would gain them additional customers. The Wrong War Generals are always prepared to fight the next war in the same manner they fought the last one. They are rarely prepared to fight the next one if it requires different strategies and tactics. So it appears to be here! Government believed prior tactics and strategies would suffice. The prior war was against traditional media with fixed positions and assets. The Internet changed “warfare.” It created media guerrilla war! This new enemy moves quickly and has no assets to threaten or destroy. Take away a bloggers website address and he easily gets a new one. Government wins against corporate internet players but loses against the “guerrillas.” Vietnam and Afghanistan showed US military weaknesses in non-conventional wars. Traditional bloggers or start-up sharing sites are guerrillas. Conventional war strategies do not win guerrilla battles! Arguably the demented Joe Biden and his Obama staff are to thank for ultimately saving this country. Someone inside that Administration realized the “slow boil” strategy was not convincing the American public fast enough and had to be sped up. They put Cloward and Piven into overdrive! Time was likely not on their side, but escalating the war was a fatal mistake! Marty Bent summarized it nicely: They tried to do too much too quickly and people have started to develop pattern recognition on the go that allows them to recognize when the unproductive class is attempting to manipulate their minds. This pattern recognition is accelerated and enhanced by our ability to communicate directly with each other in real time over the internet. Instant communications were not possible when Cloward and Piven designed their strategy. Nor was there a means to present an opposing view. That all changed with the Internet. Now you see why governments around the world want to control the Internet. They can’t and they must not be allowed to change that! For all its negatives, the Internet has at least one positive — it obsoleted traditional and controllable sources of information. The fragmentation of the internet makes it impossible to control (unless you wish to go full Communist Korea or China). This country is not ready for that step, at least not yet. Thank God for the private sector, technology and the Internet. Together they voided the Cloward and Piven strategy, censorship and a complete government take-over of society. So long as the Internet exists in its present form (warts and all), freedom cannot be extinguished. Big guns do not silence big truths! Only big censorship can do that and we must not allow that to happen!
When you sheeple refuse to fight off the early formation of it, even scattering like roaches won't save you from the overgrown Tyranny you allowed, called and apologized for... Shoppers At Shanghai Ikea Flee Sudden COVID Lockdown https://twitter.com/DonnaWongHK/status/1558906540458795008 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/panic-in-ikea-as-shanghai... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62547503 https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1559234716322222083 https://news.yahoo.com/shanghai-covid-ikea-shoppers-flee-093539954.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-02/china-s-covid-zero-strate... Though America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a turn toward Covid rationality last week, "Zero-Covid" madness is still raging in China. Just ask the poor people who were at a Shanghai Ikea on Saturday evening. One minute they're innocently eyeing furniture and appliances, the next they're being told they can't leave the store or go home. An announcement was made over the store's public address system, notifying shoppers the store had been ordered to close and to prevent anyone from leaving, due to contact tracing. Shocked by suddenly being condemned to quarantine, many opted to make a run for it. Video captured a dystopian scene in which guards attempt to close doors on the escapees, some of whom are screaming in their panic. The guards were overpowered, but it's not clear what happened to the fleeing shoppers next. Yesterday, an abnormal health code case was presented at an IKEA in Shanghai, & the entire mall was suddenly blocked🥶 Some ppl forced their way out for fear of being sent to concentration camps, but there is actually nowhere to escape under #AmazingChina’s digital surveillance pic.twitter.com/MWpbTOJ3kz — Donna Wong💛🖤 (@DonnaWongHK) August 14, 2022 Those who were trapped in the store had to first linger there for four hours -- from 8pm til midnight -- before being transported to quarantine hotels, reports Bloomberg. Then they faced quarantine for two days followed by five days of monitoring. The mass-detention was triggered merely because a close contact of a six-year-old boy who tested positive had visited the store. It's not clear if that individual was in the store at the time. What's more, the 6-year old wasn't even symptomatic. VIDEO: Chaotic scenes at Ikea store in Shanghai with shoppers trying to escape as authorities tried to quarantine them https://t.co/sErdkVTxHs pic.twitter.com/jmKWFrUXEu — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 15, 2022 While the video of the incident is dramatic, it's hardly the first such episode, as Chinese citizens continue to live in a dark game of contact-tracing roulette. Others have been suddenly detained while working in offices, exercising at gyms or dining in restaurants. Of China's major cities, Shanghai has been hit hardest. Between March 10 and July 31 of this year alone, the city endured 92 days of full or partial lockdown. This spring, it got to the point where apartment-dwellers were screaming in unison from their balconies: Last week, the CDC updated its guidelines, with one of the bureaucracy's epidemiologists saying "we know that Covid-19 is here to stay." Two proclamations were particularly welcome, even if they were terribly overdue: "It's no longer recommended to screen those without symptoms." "Unvaccinated people now have the same guidance as vaccinated people." In China, however, there's no sign that the Zero-Covid regime will be relaxed anytime soon, despite mounting damage to China's economy, and despite growing Chinese discontent. Workers carry food to Shanghai residents confined to their homes in March (Wang Yanting/Xinhua via AP)
When CRT databases Free Thought Association Choice Speech to target Everything... UCLA Creates Database To 'Track Attacks On Critical Race Theory' https://www.theepochtimes.com/ucla-creates-database-to-track-attacks-on-crit... https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-law-launches-critical-race-theory-fo... https://www.theepochtimes.com/teacher-creates-educational-guide-to-counter-c... https://www.theepochtimes.com/placentia-yorba-linda-school-board-bans-critic... https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-teacher-moves-to-florida-after-expo... https://blexitfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CRT_Packet_Web_Final... Faculty at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law have created a database to identify and record efforts to block critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools across the country. A woman holds a sign against critical race theory in Los Alamitos, Calif., on May 11, 2021. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) The database, called the CRT Forward Tracking Project, allows users to “track attacks on critical race theory” and filter the information as part of an effort to “support anti-racist education, training and research,” according to the school. The project was created by UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program, founded in 2000 as the first law school program in the nation dedicated to critical race theory. CRT, according to the school, is “the study of systemic racism in law, policy and society,” and suggests efforts need to be made to fix these alleged injustices. Parents concerned about Critical Race Theory took home these buttons from a school board activist training Jan. 19, 2022 in Sarasota, Florida. (Alexis Spiegelman) Meanwhile, critics say CRT pushes a controversial worldview related to Marxism that analyzes all aspects of life through a racial lens instead of through the concept of class struggle. UCLA Law announced earlier this month it would track anti-CRT activity through the database at all levels of government across the nation. “The project was created to help people understand the breadth of the attacks on the ability to speak truthfully about race and racism through the campaigns against CRT,” said Taifha Natalee Alexander, project director of CRT Forward, in a statement. The database analyzes these efforts to determine where the activity is happening and how opponents are taking action, such as protesting curriculum at the school board level. It also includes the type of CRT content being restricted, such as a course being taught at a public school, as well as the institution or group being targeted and enforcement mechanisms being used to regulate the content. For example, the Placentia-Yorba Linda School Board voted to ban the teaching of CRT in classrooms this past April, ending months of debate in the Orange County district. Prior to the narrow 3-2 vote, supporters for the ban asserted CRT is a divisive ideology that pushes a political narrative. Other trustees at the April 5 school board meeting, however, claimed such efforts amounted to censorship, according to public comments. The UCLA program claims that many of those who are against these concepts being taught in K-12 schools are using the term CRT “incorrectly,” and have “affected plans to include ethnic studies more broadly for students before they get to college.” Chinese-American parents in California rally against Assembly Bill 101, which was later signed into law to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, in Los Angeles on April 26, 2020. (Linda Jiang/The Epoch Times) In 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation making ethnic studies a statewide requirement for high school graduation starting in the 2029–30 school year, amid debate among parents and teachers about whether ethnic studies curriculum includes elements of CRT. Tracking Results As of Aug. 2, the UCLA database has screened nearly 24,000 media articles and identified 479 instances of anti-CRT activity since August 2021. The database team found this activity is “much more pervasive and extensive than generally reported,” according to the school, with such policies either proposed or enacted in 49 states. The project also found that most anti-CRT proposals have occurred in Florida, Virginia, Missouri, and the U.S. Congress, while local school board measures make up more than 20 percent of the activity in the database. Signs against critical race theory in front of the Loudoun County School Administration building in Virginia on Nov. 9, 2021. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times) Most such measures at the school board level have been introduced in California, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, with Californians enacting five out of the eight proposed measures. The study also found the most common anti-CRT enforcement measures include withholding funding or issuing fines against individual teachers, administrators, schools, and districts for engaging in “prohibited conduct,” the school says. CRT Controversy Noah Zatz, faculty director of the UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies Program, is helping to spearhead the tracking project. CRT Forward staff also include law librarians and undergraduate and law school research assistants. “We need critical race theory to understand this assault on racial justice, where even naming structural racism gets portrayed as unfair to white people. And we need CRT to develop legal theories of education and free speech that not only blunt these attacks but place anti-racism at the center of a democratic society,” said Zatz in a statement. However, opponents contend that CRT is not needed and does not teach hard history, but is instead an approach to analyzing that history with the intent to dismantle modern systems that proponents claim are white supremacist. A man holds up a sign against Critical Race Theory during a protest outside a Washoe County School District board meeting in Reno, Nev., on May 25, 2021. (Andy Barron/Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) “Those that are upset about proposed bans on CRT in our schools have been misled to think that states that have banned CRT from being taught will no longer teach about Jim Crow Laws, the displacement of Native Americans, or even slavery in America. This is simply not true,” according to a CRT guide written by former California teacher Kali Fontanilla. “On the contrary, banning CRT will remove a dangerous twisting and rewriting of American history.” The UCLA project is funded by a $400,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation, a private, Indianapolis-based foundation with about $1.4 billion in assets, according to the nonprofit’s website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI Trump Won Evidence of Hillary's IT guy, Paul Combetta, asking Reddit how to cover up emails. Joe Biden wrote the Patriot Act, and the Drug Prison Act, and... https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-wrote-patriot-act The WEF has recruited over 110,000 'information warriors' to control the online narrative. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/wr4zvj/the_wef_has_recruited_ov... https://archive.ph/r5jzw https://newspunch.com/painting-of-george-w-bush-re-enacting-9-11-found-in-je... https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/wnehek/in_your_opinion_what_is_... http://www.911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html https://youtu.be/0ZqP8moItcc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Lvv1f5Qu4 https://youtu.be/0Gh3ErgMI4M https://youtu.be/CQqMnZ9RKpU https://youtu.be/Rq9nUPs2RAk https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOCPJ/TOCPJ-2-7.pdf https://www.ae911truth.org/wtc7 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hijackers-lived-with-fbi-informant/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ5uQ7WpNME https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/unanswered-questions-the-m... https://www.amazon.com/review/R3VOHNNEZ7O0S1 Operation Northwoods. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/wnchpy/never_forget_how_fucking... The CDC drastically relaxes guidelines to the point of “just go back to normal” — Fauci denies ever suggesting lockdowns — Birx admits the vaccine was “oversold” — watch these bastards try to walk back on everything they ever did after ruining millions of lives. Don’t let them. https://i.imgur.com/WV1PZZ5.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exw4EC1lhoo https://youtu.be/rdrKCilEhC0 https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/04/york-county-woman-faces-200-ticket-fro... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/08/23/australian-government-k... https://i.imgur.com/GM9l8zP.jpg https://i.redd.it/l4iu3ot7c5u41.jpg https://i.redd.it/cjo7vgdmyci91.jpg Our "leaders" are a bunch of 80-year-old drugged out gangsters who steal our money and give it to their lobbyists. This system is a joke. We need 4-year term limits NOW Why don't famous people eat insects? Why don't they stop using private jets and do Zoom calls instead, and downsize their homes to save the planet? My original post about Oprah Winfrey's private jet making 11 trips to Epstein's island while there are numerous recorded cases of young female students going missing from Oprah's privately funded school in Africa. FBI Whistleblower leaks "Domestic Terrorism" symbols guide. Why did the bulk of news organizations remove the ability to comment on their articles on their websites? LOL 4 doses! CEO of Pfizer advertising the "effectiveness" if his product When is it time to admit that the Government was in bed with Big Pharma? Builds mRNA factory on govt funded school property. VP Kamala Harris is slammed as a hypocrite for condemning Russia's 'wrongful detention' of cannabis smuggler Brittney Griner when SHE locked up a THOUSAND Californians for pot possession as state AG Newly released photos show Maxwell and Epstein relaxing at a cabin thought to be the porch of the Queen's log cabin. Is it possible this all goes way, way deeper and worse than we thought?
In every story there were supposed elements of truth, but now the Internet has enabled a very large dedicated special interest cohort of capable humans to perform the needed observation, archiving, sharing, analysis, and compilation of realworld events and quotes together to form a clear picture. What were once theories have become truth, profferings spoken at high conferences developed into actual running global programs, more and moreso every year. Humanity, Human DNA and Freedom, is not, has never been, and will never be, centrally controlled, attempts to do so will prove disastrous. Nothing is more important than the ability and right to individual independent human freedom interaction and life, person to person, together, in real life. Preserve it, at all costs. The time to act is now. Prepare for the future, and have fun ;) Agenda 2030 / Agenda 21 / The Great Reset This documentary series aims to show the undeniable connections between: COVID-19 BLM UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 Sustainable development / Climate Change Communism Transhumanism The increasingly biased and corrupt media WEF, UN, Bill Gates, George Soros And the hard to accept, but outright fact that this entire elitist cult worship two things, Unlimited Power and Satan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6HQFMqxEwc https://gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com/agenda-2030-documentary-august-15-2... https://home.solari.com/lets-go-to-the-movies-week-of-august-15-2022-agenda-... https://www.agendadocumentary.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4kPjJg0K4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIZy5gIxp-g https://www.facebook.com/ClassTopSecret/videos/the-depopulation-agenda/20327... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXvO8QmOkFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSAgHvETNSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PrY7nFbwAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRkkeecg7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRhU1v7Hh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlfMvtuN4do Brain Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNT-aJNtg44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az6c7negl6o https://www.bitchute.com/channel/crazyworldwhichwelivein/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KZCCkZWu_wlLgPf1O7_JA https://gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com/targeted-individuals-program-expose... https://targetedresistance.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Gangstalking/ https://everydayconcerned.net/ https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-real-story-of-jan-6-documentary_4596670.ht... Havana Syndrome Targeted Individual TI Quantum 5G DWave 2048-QAM 3-Strand DNA Adiabatic New World Order NWO Control Grid Sentient World Simulation SWS Sim Strife War Games Psychological Operations PSYOP Social Engineering Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP Voice to Skull Human Brain Mapping Project Remote Neural Monitoring Edgewood Arsenal Morgellons Black Budget Global Computer Unacknowledged Special Access Program USAP Android Nanoparticles Nanotechnology Food Supply Chain Conspiracy Theorists MKULTRA Behavior, Purpose and Teleology Telepathy Telekinesis Hive Mind / Brain Net Ultrahigh Resolution Fully Immersive Transparent Shadowing Extra Life Session Neocortex Brain to Cloud Interface Residual Self Image Behaviour Manipulation Cloud Engine 12800 Transcranial Brain Stimulation TBS The Bases Project Virtual Government Quantum Computing DNA Human Resonant Frequency Manipulation and Prediction Steered Game Society Quantum Brain Human Quantum Computer Emulated Minds Neural Link Quantum Link Star Link Avatars Man Computer Symbiosis Subproject 12 Dual Use Brain Science Strategic Multilevel Assessment Group Google Quantum Computing AI Lab Aerospray Chemtrails Quantum Photons DARPA Patents Palantir Minority Report Gattaca Precrime Security Industries Systems SIS, Seattle Security Industry Specialist[s] SIS Bluffdale Utah Data Center Cambridge Analytica OCEAN scale of personality traits PACTS International CIA FCC Tom Wheeler SCL Mothership Group Mandele Effects Neural Networks Artifical Intelligience Deep Learning Hypertargeted Messaging Behavioral Microtargeting Conscious Computers Cybernetics Life Recorders Josiah Macy Foundation Matrix Total Population Control and Enslavement Max Igan David Icke Bryan Kofron / Justin Carter / gangstalkerwars.com Robert Duncan John Hall John F Kennedy David Voights Paul Hellyer James Giordano Daniel Inouye David Livingstone Aaron Dykes Norbert Wiener Arturo Rosenblueth Julian Bigelow Lily Kay Eric Karlstrom InfoWars Michio Kaku Brian Tew 92 PressForTruth Graham Downing Robin Hanson Ray Kurzweil Anthony Patch Alexander Nix Steve Hoffman Kev Baker Show TFRlive.com Tim Mullen William Bill Binney Sasha Issenberg Alex Jones
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No one will read or appreciate this till decades from now either, lol... UN Recruited Over 100,000 'Digital First Responders' To Push Establishment COVID Narrative https://summit.news/2022/08/18/un-recruited-over-100000-digital-first-respon... https://soundcloud.com/world-economic-forum/seeking-a-cure-for-the https://summit.news/2022/01/14/british-government-used-propagandistic-fear-t... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-us... https://summit.news/2022/08/12/world-economic-forum-calls-for-merging-of-hum... Corona Coronavirus 1984 Propaganda https://pauljosephwatson.locals.com/ https://www.pjwshop.com/ At the height of the pandemic, the United Nations recruited over 100,000 “digital first responders’ to push the establishment narrative on COVID via social media. The revelation actually slipped out in October 2020 during a World Economic Forum podcast called ‘Seeking a cure for the infodemic’, although it is only going viral on Twitter today. In the podcast, Melissa Fleming, head of global communications for the United Nations, explains how the COVID pandemic and lockdowns created a “communications crisis” in addition to a public health emergency. Fleming acknowledged that in order to fight so-called “misinformation” about the pandemic, the UN tapped up 110,000 people to amplify their messaging across social media. “So far, we’ve recruited 110,000 information volunteers, and we equip these information volunteers with the kind of knowledge about how misinformation spreads and ask them to serve as kind of ‘digital first-responders’ in those spaces where misinformation travels,” Fleming stated. That was nearly 2 years ago. It is not known how many ‘digital first responders’ have been recruited up to this point. The World Economic Forum · Seeking a cure for the infodemic Similar efforts to create astroturf campaigns to push a specific message are nothing new, but when entities such as oil companies engage in it, they are lambasted for rigging the discussion. However, when globalist technocrats at the UN or the WEF do it, apparently it’s fine. Last year, it was revealed that the British government used “propagandistic” fear tactics to scare the public into mass compliance during the first COVID lockdown, according to a behavioral scientist who worked inside Downing Street. Scientists in the UK working as advisors for the government admitted using what they later conceded to be “unethical” and “totalitarian” methods of instilling fear in the population in order to control behavior during the pandemic. As we previously highlighted, the World Economic Forum is now advocating for the merger of human and artificial intelligence systems to censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is even allowed to be posted. In what some dubbed “preemptive censorship,” the WEF is creating a system that would block posts from appearing if they fail the censorship filter. Of course, the WEF, which is infamous for blocking its critics on Twitter, would never abuse such a system to shield itself from scrutiny.
The Coming Nightmare of Build Back Better If there's one thing Politicians consistantly do, besides lying stealing warring grabbing power, it's fuck things up... Something Is Looming Geopolitically, And We Better Start Taking It Seriously https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/18/something-is-looming-ge... As a result of western governments’ taking collective action under the auspices of a ‘climate change’ agenda, we are on the cusp of something happening with ramifications that no one has ever seen before. Western governments’, specifically western Europe, North America (U.S-Canada) and Australia/New Zealand, are intentionally trying to lower economic activity to meet the intentional drop in energy production. This is the core consequence of the Build Back Better agenda as promoted by the World Economic Forum. Anyone who says there is a reference point to determine both the short-term and long-term consequences is lying. There is no precedent for nations’ collectively and intentionally trying to reduce economic activity. Hiding behind the false justification that current inflation is driven by too much demand, central banks in Europe, the Bank of England, Bank of Canada and U.S. federal reserve are raising interest rates. The outcome we are currently feeling is an intentional economic contraction and global recession. The Build Back Better monetary policy is successfully shrinking western economic activity; however, the impacted nations that produce goods for markets in North America and Europe, specifically southeast Asia, Japan and China, are not raising interest rates in an effort to try and offset the drop in demand. China has announced they are dropping their central bank rates in a desperate effort to lower costs and keep their export dependent economy working. Underneath all of this, is a drop in energy production in the same nations trying to lower economic activity. The political policymakers are attempting to manage this process without informing the citizens of the unspoken goal. Shortages of oil, coal and natural gas are self-inflicted problems, all part of the BBB agenda. Beyond the massive increases in energy costs, which is the true source of inflation and a direct/intentional outcome of the BBB effort, Europe is now facing a looming winter without the energy resources to heat homes and sustain people. Things are going to be very uncomfortable in Europe this winter as roaming brownouts are now predicted. As the collective west attempts to, using their words, “manage the transition,” they do not have mechanisms to control an outcome of this magnitude. It is simply too big a situation to manage. Where the rubber meets the road, the think-tanks and high-minded climate change ideologues do not have the ability to manage a transition and still meet the needs of people. Beyond the esoteric thinking, there are real consequences from these actions. Many people have discussed the potential for longer-term food shortages and recently, shorter-term winter heating. However, beyond that, the downstream geopolitical consequences are seemingly being ignored. Instead, what we see is an effort to keep pretending the climate change ends will justify the means (disruption of energy production). In this connected world, when the western nations stop buying things, we find ourselves domestically with economic trouble. Businesses fail, unemployment rises, financial stress ripples throughout the economy, dependency on government subsidy increases and real pain is felt. However, beyond the domestic issues the supplier nations run into even bigger problems. Unemployment in Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and even China, creates an entirely different set of regional stability issues on a geopolitical level. There is no precedent for this. Never before in the history of industrialized nations has any government intentionally tried to lower its economic activity. It has never been done with intent before because within the contraction nations get more poor, people suffer. Not only has no single nation ever tried to intentionally shrink its wealth, but there is no precedent whatsoever for an alliance of nations to join together with the same purpose. While this might seem like an academic economic modeling exercise, unfortunately it is very real. What I am describing is happening right now, and we had better start talking about it before the unforeseen consequences start to become a crisis. In North America (U.S-Canada), Europe and Australia, there will continue to be massive increases in food prices as a result of the collapse in energy production. Beyond the western nations there will be food shortages as a result of lowered harvest yields and less industrial food production. This is not controversial. It is also not controversial that regions with harsh winter climates are going to be paying much more for scarce heating resources. That being accepted, what happens geopolitically, even militarily, when the entire global economy starts to feel the impacts from western nation economic contraction on a scale -created by collective action- that has never been seen before. I have no idea what that big picture consequence looks like, but whatever “that” is, will be happening at the same time as people everywhere will be more desperate as an outcome of their economic position. I don’t have the answers, but I sure as hell can see the problem coming. Political leadership in the aforementioned western nations are seemingly, perhaps intentionally, keeping people distracted with domestic shiny things to occupy time. However, someone needs to start talking about, and seriously challenging, the big picture consequence of this Build Back Better future, before it’s too late.
Apple's original "smash" advert widely seen as 1984. Apple's Diabolical Plan To Control The Ads https://www.youngmoney.co/p/apples-diabolical-plan-control-ads Season 19 of the popular comedy television show "South Park" premiered in Fall 2015. If you are an avid South Park fan, you may remember this season for its introduction of "PC Principal," an over-the-top social justice warrior/elementary school principal. However, there was an underlying sinister plot to the entire season as well: Internet ads had become sentient, and they were taking over the world by manipulating human behavior. In the clip linked below, Eric Cartman gives a detailed monologue about the rise of ads from simple television advertisements to cleverly disguised internet ads. The idea that internet ads are sentient beings trying to wipe out mankind is as comical as it is preposterous, but Cartman's timeline of ad development is surprisingly accurate. A little bit too accurate. On a long enough timeline, every large company eventually becomes an ad network. Don't believe me? Facebook (Meta?), originally a social network that allowed friends to connect over the internet, built a $500B business as an advertisement platform. Alphabet, the parent company of both Google and YouTube, generated $55B in ad revenue in Q1 2022. Amazon may very well be the fastest-growing ad network in the world right now. Search for literally anything on Amazon. Maybe... vacuum cleaners. Check out the results. At first glance, it's just a list of products, right? Look closely in the bottom-right corner: Do you see it? Tricky tricky, Hoover Vacuum Cleaners! These sponsored product placements are, in the world of advertising, prime real estate. Amazon is the one-stop shop to purchase literally anything online, and Amazon has more data on consumer product purchases and inquiries than any other e-commerce platform. A gold mine of consumer data and millions of page views per day means that Amazon can charge top dollar for these ad placements. And charge top dollar they have. In 2021, Amazon's ads were worth more than the entire global newspaper industry. I wondered when Amazon would start disclosing advertising revenue. Answer: $31bn in 2021 - roughly the same size as the entire global newspaper industry. AWS produced $18.5bn operating income - it's plausible that the ad business is now more profitable. pic.twitter.com/MCq3zjp3Kc — Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) February 3, 2022 This is a feature, not a bug, of well-scaled businesses. While we traditionally think of "advertising" as a media-focused activity primarily allocated to television, print, and radio, advertisers aren't worried about the medium. They are concerned with the reachable audience. Pre-internet, massive audiences were only reachable through traditional media channels. Post-internet, massive audiences are reachable... everywhere. In scaling billion (and trillion) dollar businesses, the world's biggest tech companies have all built large, engaged audiences. These large, engaged audiences are extremely valuable. Facebook built an audience of friends who want to connect. Amazon built an audience of online shoppers. Google built an audience of people who need to find information right now. You get the idea. No one sets out to build an ad business from scratch, but every business, at a certain scale, eventually sells advertisements as a byproduct of its own success. If advertisers are willing to pay thousands, millions, or billions for access to your audience, it's a no-brainer. Last quarter, Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade. The result? They announced a partnership with Microsoft for an upcoming lower-priced, ad-supported subscription. Growth stalled on their primary product, may as well sell ads. With large enough audiences, individuals can become ad platforms too. Look no further than TikTok and Instagram stars for evidence. Fitness junkies sell supplements and athletic clothing. Travel influencers shout out different hostels and vacation spots. Even Uber also offers car-top advertisements through its "Out of Home" program, which lets your local barbershop buy ad space on the roof of your 3 AM ride home. On a long enough timeline, regardless of the business model, everyone sells ads. Yet for a while, one tech giant largely avoided the ad game altogether: Apple. Despite the rest of the tech giants building advertisement empires, Apple remained focused on its hardware and software products. While Apple has long included app store advertisements at the top of its search results, its 2019 ad revenue was a "measly" $500M. In comparison, Facebook did $69B in 2019 ad revenue, and Amazon did $13B in ad revenue in the same year. However, everything changed in April 2021 when Apple launched its iOS 14.5. While iOS 14.5 brought several updates, the biggest by far was an overhauled stance on user privacy. With this update, targeted advertising became much more difficult. Before 14.5, 3rd-party sites (read: Facebook and Google) could access your data through software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) embedded in different applications. I could try to explain the intricacies of this, but I'm not a tech guy. This Vox article, however, does a fantastic job of explaining what this process looked like. For instance, if a developer wants to let users sign into an app with their Facebook accounts, they’d want Facebook’s Login SDK. If their app needs maps or map data, they could use Google’s Map SDK. Without SDKs, developers would have to build those things entirely from scratch. That’s time-consuming and could be beyond a small developer’s abilities or budgets. SDKs may also help apps communicate with third parties through what is called an application programming interface, or API. Using the Facebook Login SDK as an example again, the SDK helps the developer build and implement the sign-in feature in their app, while the API allows the app and Facebook to communicate with each other so the sign-in can happen... Here’s where the tracking comes in. The data your device’s app sends to a third party can be used to build a profile of the app’s user, which advertisers can then use for targeted ads. Vox Because Facebook and Google sign-ins were on pretty much every application, these sites had access through their APIs to a ton of consumer information. This information was then used by these sites to build a profile of "you", which would be used to share more relevant ads with you when you were on these sites. Your first reaction is probably "tracking is bad!" because we consumers tend to value our privacy. However, this "tracking" provides you with more relevant ads, and it provides many businesses with higher sales conversions. If I'm planning a ski trip, and I'm researching different ski resorts, it would be much better for me, the consumer, to receive social media ads for ski rentals and lift tickets, not swimsuit discounts. Because of the accuracy of these ads (especially Facebook ads), many small businesses, such as e-commerce shops on Shopify, would use Facebook ads to drive traffic. These ads were extremely effective for generating high conversion rates at low costs, making them a primary marketing method for online businesses. Before 14.5, iPhone users could technically opt out of API tracking, but you had to dig deep into your settings for the switch. Since the release of 14.5, you have seen this pop-up window anytime an app wants access to your information. This change, which Apple calls App Tracking Transparency (ATT), has been quite effective. Now, only ~20% of users opt-in to 3rd-party tracking. Facebook was, of course, furious. Mark Zuckerberg launched a massive PR campaign saying that Apple was attacking the "free internet", and small businesses could see a 60% reduction in sales per dollar spent on social media ads. Facebook certainly wasn't launching this campaign out of the goodness of their hearts; their bottom line would be materially impacted by less effective targeted ads, as business spend on these ads would drop. However, Zuck and Co still make a convincing argument: small business sales would be impacted. Tim Cook didn't back down. In fact, he painted Apple as a guardian of consumer data. “Technology does not need vast troves of personal data, stitched together across dozens of websites and apps, in order to succeed,” Cook said. “Advertising existed and thrived for decades without it. And we’re here today because the path of least resistance is rarely the path of wisdom. If a business is built on misleading users, on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It deserves reform.” And Cook makes a good argument! The case for minimizing the tracking capabilities of technology companies in the name of consumer privacy is respectable. But was Apple really concerned with protecting privacy, or was it looking to kneecap the competition? AppsFlyer released an advertising Performance Index that covered the second half of 2021, and guess who was the best ad network for mobile marketers on iPhones and iPads? Apple Search Ads! These are what you see in the App Store at the top of search results. Apple’s ad network has significantly expanded since Apple changed marketing practices, hitting 60% of all its business from the first half of 2020 in just seven weeks in 2021. Consider me shocked, and I mean shocked, that after implementing "privacy updates" that hurt other sites like Facebook Meta, Apple crushed its 2020 numbers in a fraction of the time in 2021. Why the outperformance? Because of a quirk with iOS 14.5. This update prevented the sharing of information between different parties (i.e. Facebook accessing data from other apps). It did not prevent the exchange of information within a single platform. Since iPhone owners are Apple customers, and Apple Search Ads is part of Apple, Apple Search Ads can use different standards and methodologies to identify the right people for marketers’ ads. ASA shows ads primarily in the App Store, and if you’re there, you’re likely there to search for and install apps. If Apple can get the right ad in front of you, you’re very likely to click on it and install it. Tl;dr: Apple can gather and share your data with itself, but different parties can't share your data with each other. Pretty convenient outcome from this privacy update, considering that 113M+ Americans have iPhones, isn't it? And to top everything off, earlier this week, Apple's VP of Advertising, Todd Teresi, said that he wants Apple's ad business to increase from $4B annually to "double digits." So to recap the whole thing, Apple made a new rule that makes it pretty much impossible for companies to share consumer data with each other, and they publicly vilified "data sharing" to paint themselves as a guardian of consumer interests. Meanwhile, they quietly benefited from their own rules that they don't have to abide by, thanks to having a near monopoly on cell phone usage in the US. While the FTC has been busy shutting down every Mark Zuckerberg acquisition under the sun, Apple has quietly positioned itself to dominate the online advertising market of the 2020s. Shoutout to evil emperor Tim Cook for the power play of a lifetime.
LA Homeless Authority Doesn't Want Anyone Saying The Word "Homeless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc Euphemisms https://summit.news/2022/08/25/la-homeless-authority-doesnt-want-anyone-sayi... The LA Homeless Services Authority has put out a call for the word ‘homeless’ to be dropped, claiming that the term is ‘outdated and dehumanising’, and leads to ‘othering’. The Authority, which has the word Homeless in its name, wants to see it replaced with terms such as ‘people who live outside’ in order to “emphasize personhood over housing status.” Our unhoused neighbors are human, and the language we use should reflect that. Let's abandon outdated, "othering", and dehumanizing terminology- and instead, adopt people-centered language that emphasize personhood over housing status. pic.twitter.com/w3u2pfFbjf — LA Homeless Services Authority (@LAHomeless) August 22, 2022 What other terms are off limits now? How about "person who is addicted and mentally ill lighting fires in the brush outside my house and walking into traffic naked in the middle of the night"? (True story, thanks to the 344 Metro line) — Julie Hamill (@hamill_law) August 22, 2022 Of course, none of this will actually do anything to improve the homelessness people living outside epidemic that is ravaging practically every city in the country and getting worse. Figures from January 2020 show that more than 580,000 people were homeless in the U.S. on a given night, with an estimated 226,000 of them sleeping outside, in cars, or in abandoned buildings. The real number is likely to be exponentially higher. in 2019, Los Angeles’ head of homelessness resigned after presiding over a 33% increase in homelessness over the course of just five years. Homelessness comes hand in hand with drug dependence, crime, mental illness, an increase in disease, and the ruination of communities. Don’t say ‘homeless’ though. This policing of language is now a common trait used as a way of avoiding dealing with major societal issues. Pedophiles are now to be described as “minor attracted persons”, while “women” or “mothers” are being replaced with “birthing people” or “pregnant people” to appease people with gender dysphoria or just straight up mental illness. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine in the U.S. has issued a new guide, advising hospitals and health carers to change their language to be more “gender-inclusive”. The guide lists “traditional terms” such as ‘breast milk’ and then suggests woke alternatives including “human milk”, “parent’s milk”, and most ridiculously “father’s milk.” This trend has reached as far as dictionaries literally changing the definition of the word “female” to include anyone who identifies as one. We face a future where if you type the ‘wrong’ word, Google will correct your language to help you become more ‘inclusive’.
US Fake Media Big Tech and Social Networking found even worse than China's TikTok Weibo WeChat WePay Social Scoring etc... TikTok Is "A Weaponized Military Application" In The Hands Of Our Kids: Casey Fleming https://www.theepochtimes.com/tiktok-is-a-weaponized-military-application-in... In the following clip, China-In-Focus' Tiffany Meier sat down with Casey Fleming, CEO of intelligence and security strategy firm BlackOps Partners. He sheds light on the recent reports that TikTok can monitor keystrokes, what kind of information TikTok is getting, and what the Chinese regime can do with that. Fleming said: “What people need to understand is that TikTok is a military application. It’s a weaponized espionage application to get every bit of information they possibly can off the phone, which they do - your whereabouts, how you go about your day, your access to other people, access to technology, intellectual property, and things that you can be blackmailed on, and so on. So people need to understand that TikTok is a weaponized military application in the hands of our middle schoolers, our kids, our high school kids, and our young adults.” He added the Chinese regime “can use that information really, number one, the most important thing is to steal intellectual property. Secondly, to blackmail. Thirdly, it’s a propaganda platform." "You can see all these TikTok challenges, and most of them are very dangerous to our children - to steal cars, to do challenges … we’ve lost a lot of kids to these TikTok challenges that come up about once a month. You have to understand it’s a propaganda platform completely owned, operated, and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. And it’s under the guise of this fun app that everybody loves to use, and it’s spread like wildfire, and it’s a lot of fun... So there’s a lot of fun content on it, but you have to understand it’s a military application, and it’s going to achieve military results under the guise and under this facade of being a fun app.” Watch the full interview below:
https://alt-market.us/understanding-the-tyrannical-mind-and-how-it-operates/ Understanding The Tyrannical Mind And How It Operates All people seek to control their environment to a certain degree. They want a reliable level of management over their world, and to remove whatever doubts they might have about their survival in the future. If they can, people will take measures to remove any potential pain or struggle and establish a life of perpetual comfort. The easy road is the dream for most, and in order to get it human beings see power as a formidable tool. I’m exploring this common condition because I want to make it clear that almost ALL PEOPLE desire power to a degree. Sometimes this even means controlling the actions of others to prevent them from disrupting the oasis of comfort we construct around us. Sometimes there are destructive people that we feel we are forced to inhibit and cage in self defense. And still other times, we try to control those around us out of irrational fear. The tyrannical mindset is not exclusive to the Stalins, Maos and Hitlers of history, it is a deep rooted shadow that lurks in the majority of us at times. It is this condition that political tyrants try to exploit to their advantage, because no authoritarian government can ever be successful without the help of millions of little tyrants supporting them. They find a way to feed our desire for control and predictability while simultaneously enslaving us. The point is, tyrants need us. We all have a little dash of tyranny in our souls; we are linked, but we are different. This is not to say that order in itself is evil or that social structures are inherently oppressive. People need boundaries because not all people are good or sane; some are vicious, some are lazy, some are crazy, some are incompetent and some are dishonest and they drag the rest of us down. Anarchy is not the solution, but neither is totalitarianism. It’s all about who sets the boundaries and how. This is where we uncover a specific human element that is obsessively attracted to control, not because they are afraid, and not because they want comfort, but because they enjoy the feeling of power. They are addicted to it. I’m speaking specifically about narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths; they are members of our species but they are lacking the key psychological traits that make us human, such as empathy, conscience, imagination, love and shame. In almost every case of government gone wrong it is because these types of people were able to slither into positions of authority and take advantage. Despite the exaggerated depictions in movies and TV, your average psychopath is not all that complex or interesting – The fact of their existence is interesting, but as people they tend to be boring. The idea of them is fascinating because they are a biological anomaly, an evolutionary mistake or maybe a spiritual deformity. Around 1% of any given population is prone to psychopathy and an even smaller percentage are high functioning psychopaths that are adept at hiding their monstrous natures. Most average psychopaths eventually end up in prison or involved in an endless succession of life failures. They can’t get it together and maintain relationships and build a normal life because they are too self obsessed and dangerous and eventually the people around them notice. These types of people are what I would call the “little tyrants.” They seem to rise to the surface of society when times are desperate; when people are distracted by crisis is when psychopaths feel it’s safe to show their true natures. For example, during the covid pandemic lockdowns and the government attempts to introduce draconian vax mandates the little tyrants were everywhere. They just appeared out of the ether and swirled around the authoritarian vortex like it was a feeding frenzy. They took pleasure in the opportunity to order others around about masks and vaccines and “social distancing,” even though none of these measures made ANY difference whatsoever to the spread of covid or the rather minor median Infection Fatality Rate of 0.23%. They were being tossed scraps from the table of power and they savored every minute of it. The real science wasn’t on their side, but they didn’t care; the media and the government were on their side and that’s all that mattered. They were happy to be used as weapons against other citizens that just wanted to be free. Beyond the symbiotic (or maybe parasitic) relationship between big tyrants and little tyrants, there are a set of standards that have to be met for tyranny to be successful: Destruction Of Choice At the core of tyranny is the removal of choice. Centralization is all about eliminating options for the public while telling them their lives will be streamlined, easier and safer. If people have options outside the establishment system or ideology then they might question the validity of the power structure. They might ask themselves “What if there is a better way than this?” And, since there is always a better way than fear and slavery, tyrants have to engage in a constant war with all alternative ideas and principles. The only way they can be sure that people won’t rebel someday is to erase the existence of choice. Not only that, but they have to convince the masses that to even suggest another choice is sacrilegious and dangerous. The system must become absolute in all things and in every area of daily life. Create A False Moral Paradox Freedom is slavery – Ignorance is strength. It’s the old Orwellian paradox that perverts the meaning of words and deeds to justify tyranny. An extension of this twisted way of thinking is the religion of the “greater good”; the idea that all evils are justified as long as the “greater good” is accomplished. But what is the greater good? It’s anything the tyrants say it is; usually anything that helps them to gain more power. One would think that a “good” that is “greater” would entail more freedom and less fear, not less freedom and more fear. As a part of the tactic of removal of choice, tyrants often create a fake moral conundrum in which people are told that their freedom is actually harmful to others, therefore their freedoms must be taken away “for the greater good.” Again, the covid medical tyranny experiment was built completely around this argument. What if your choice to not wear a mask, to not stay locked in your house and to not take a questionable vaccine harmed hundreds or thousands of others? Doesn’t that justify taking your choices away? These claims are complete fantasy, of course, but in the heat of a national panic people can be led to believe that the false paradox is real. Obsessive Compulsive Expansion As noted, tyrants are usually psychopathic personalities, and a part of this mindset is the compulsion to expand and devour. Like a growing amoeba, or that creature from the movie ‘The Blob.’ Their hunger for control is never sated, they will always want more. People will be told that they are only losing one freedom, or two freedoms, or that their freedoms will be restricted “for a short time.” This is always a lie. Once tyrants gain new power they will hold onto it obsessively as if it is oxygen and without it they might die. And, then they will seek more powers because what they have is never enough. A friend of mine once described it this way: Piled before the tyrant is a feast of kingly proportions, like a Thanksgiving Day feast flowing across his dinner table. You sit quietly without access to the table, but in your hands you do hold a little crust of bread. This is all you have and you cradle it carefully because it must be made to last. And even though the tyrant’s belly is full and he has more than he could possibly ever eat in a lifetime, all he can think about is YOUR little crust. All he wonders about day and night is why you have that crust when it should be his. He grinds his teeth frothing in desperation for your meager meal. Then one day he decides he will not stop until your bread crust is in his hands while you starve. This is now his mission in life – To take your crust and crumbs and leave you with nothing. Any other outcome would be unimaginable. He not only wants to steal your crust, but he wants to see your despair when he does it. He wants you to know he has your last meal, and he wants to see the pain in your face when he takes it away. Then, he wants you act like you love him for it. This is how the mind of a psychopath works. Why do their brains function this way? There are many theories but no one really knows for certain. The majority of evidence suggests that they are actually born the way they are; with no conscience and no counterbalance to the madness. The bread crust story is a metaphor, but it illustrates how psychopathic authoritarians view various freedoms – They are pieces of life that tyrants cannot tolerate you having in your possession. It drives them insane to know you have that little spark of light and joy in your hands and they scheme and plot and scream and wail and claw until they can get it away from you. Tyranny Cannot Be Defeated Unless It Is Understood There will be people out there that make the common ignorant argument that all of this is an exercise in futility because it doesn’t “address solutions.” There are many solutions to authoritarian systems, I have been writing about them for over 16 years now. We can talk all day about decentralization and localism and organization and revolution, but none of that matters unless we understand how our enemies think and the tactics they use. If we do not know them we cannot defeat them. They are not complex and they are not necessarily ingenious but they are relentless and their simple methods can sometimes be very effective. Underestimating their obsession with control would be disastrous. That said, the one thing they value more than power is their own lives, and (if we're going to address solutions) until these people are made to understand that their lives could be the cost of their compulsions they will never stop. There is no reasoning with them. There is no diplomacy or compromise. There is no middle ground. They will continue to take until the losses they face outweigh the gains of treachery. Knowing their mindset brings us several steps closer to shutting them down.
Kleptocracy: Governments of Liars, Thieves and Lawbreakers "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable."--H. L. Mencken The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere. Think about it. Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry--purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure--has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. The COVID-19 pandemic. In almost every instance, the U.S. government (often spearheaded by the FBI) has in its typical Machiavellian fashion sown the seeds of terror domestically and internationally in order to expand its own totalitarian powers. Who is the [4]biggest black market buyer and stockpiler of cyberweapons (weaponized malware that can be used to hack into computer systems, spy on citizens, and destabilize vast computer networks)? The U.S. government. Who is the [5]largest weapons manufacturer and exporter in the world, such that they are literally arming the world? The U.S. government. Which country has a [6]history of secretly testing out dangerous weapons and technologies on its own citizens? The U.S. government. Which country has [7]conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace--citizens and noncitizens alike--making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins? The U.S. government. What country has a [8]pattern and practice of entrapment that involves targeting vulnerable individuals, feeding them with the propaganda, know-how and weapons intended to turn them into terrorists, and then arresting them as part of an elaborately orchestrated counterterrorism sting? The U.S. government. Are you getting the picture yet? The U.S. government isn't protecting us from terrorism. The U.S. government is creating the terror. It is, in fact, the source of the terror. Consider that this very same government has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests--GPS devices, surveillance, nonlethal weapons, etc.--and used it against us, to track, control and trap us. So why is the government doing this? Money, power and total domination. We're not dealing with a government that exists to serve its people, protect their liberties and ensure their happiness. Rather, these are the diabolical machinations of a make-works program carried out on an epic scale whose only purpose is to keep the powers-that-be permanently (and profitably) employed. Case in point: the FBI. The government's henchmen have become the embodiment of how power, once acquired, can be so easily corrupted and abused. Indeed, far from being tough on crime, FBI agents are also among the nation's most notorious lawbreakers. Whether the FBI is planting undercover agents in churches, synagogues and mosques; issuing fake emergency letters to gain access to Americans' phone records; using [9]intimidation tactics to silence Americans who are critical of the government, or persuading impressionable individuals to [10]plot acts of terror and then [11]entrapping them, the overall impression of the nation's secret police force is that of a well-dressed thug, flexing its muscles and doing the boss' dirty work. It's a diabolical plot with far-reaching consequences for every segment of the population, no matter what one's political leanings. As Rozina Ali writes for The New York Times Magazine, "The government's approach to counterterrorism erodes constitutional protections for everyone, by blurring the lines between speech and action and by broadening the scope of who is classified as a threat." This is not an agency that appears to understand, let alone respect, the limits of the Constitution. For instance, the FBI has been [12]secretly carrying out an entrapment scheme in which it used a front company, ANOM, to sell purportedly hack-proof phones to organized crime syndicates and then used those phones to spy on them as they planned illegal drug shipments, plotted robberies and put out contracts for killings using those boobytrapped phones. All told, the FBI intercepted [13]27 million messages over the course of 18 months. What this means is that the FBI was also illegally spying on individuals using those encrypted phones who may not have been involved in any criminal activity whatsoever. Even [14]reading a newspaper article is now enough to get you flagged for surveillance by the FBI. The agency served a subpoena on USA Today / Gannett to provide the internet addresses and mobile phone information for everyone who read a news story online on a particular day and time about the deadly shooting of FBI agents. This is the danger of allowing the government to carry out widespread surveillance, sting and entrapment operations using dubious tactics that sidestep the rule of law: "we the people" become suspects and potential criminals, while government agents, empowered to fight crime using all means at their disposal, become indistinguishable from the corrupt forces they seek to vanquish. To go after terrorists, they become terrorists. To go after drug smugglers, they become drug smugglers. To go after thieves, they become thieves. It's hard to say whether we're dealing with a [15]kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a [16]kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or if we've gone straight to an [17]idiocracy. This certainly isn't a constitutional republic, however. Some days, it feels like the government is running its own crime syndicate complete with mob rule and mafia-style justice. In addition to creating certain crimes in order to then "solve" them, the FBI--the government's law enforcement agency--also gives certain informants [18]permission to break the law, "including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plotting robberies," in exchange for their cooperation on other fronts. USA Today estimates that government agents have authorized criminals to engage in as many as [19]15 crimes a day (5600 crimes a year). Some of these informants are getting paid astronomical sums: one particularly unsavory fellow, later arrested for attempting to run over a police officer, was actually [20]paid $85,000 for his help laying the trap for an entrapment scheme. In addition to procedural misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal activity, and damaging private property, the FBI's laundry list of crimes against the American people includes surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation tactics, and harassment. For example, the Associated Press lodged a complaint with the Dept. of Justice after learning that FBI agents [21]created a fake AP news story and emailed it, along with a clickable link, to a bomb threat suspect in order to implant tracking technology onto his computer and identify his location. Lambasting the agency, AP attorney Karen Kaiser railed, "The FBI may have intended this false story as a trap for only one person. However, the individual could easily have reposted this story to social networks, distributing to thousands of people, under our name, what was essentially [22]a piece of government disinformation." Then again, to those familiar with [23]COINTELPRO, an FBI program created to "disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and neutralize" groups and individuals the government considers politically objectionable, it should come as no surprise that the agency has mastered the art of government disinformation. The FBI has been particularly criticized in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for targeting vulnerable individuals and not only luring them into fake terror plots but actually equipping them with the organization, money, weapons and motivation to carry out the plots--entrapment--and then jailing them for their so-called terrorist plotting. This is what the FBI characterizes as "[24]forward leaning--preventative--prosecutions." Another fallout from 9/11, National Security Letters, one of the many [25]illicit powers authorized by the USA Patriot Act, allows the FBI to secretly demand that banks, phone companies, and other businesses provide them with customer information and not disclose the demands. An internal audit of the agency found that the FBI practice of issuing tens of thousands of NSLs every year for sensitive information such as phone and financial records, often in non-emergency cases, is [26]riddled with widespread violations. The FBI's surveillance capabilities, on a par with the National Security Agency, boast a [27]nasty collection of spy tools ranging from Stingray devices that can track the location of cell phones to Triggerfish devices which allow agents to eavesdrop on phone calls. In one case, the FBI actually managed to [28]remotely reprogram a "suspect's" wireless internet card so that it would send "real-time cell-site location data to Verizon, which forwarded the data to the FBI." The FBI has also repeatedly sought to [29]expand its invasive hacking powers to allow agents to hack into any computer, anywhere in the world. Indeed, for years now, the U.S. government has been creating what one intelligence insider referred to as a cyber-army capable of offensive attacks. As part of this cyberweapons programs, government agencies such as the NSA have been stockpiling all kinds of nasty malware, viruses and hacking tools that can "[30]steal financial account passwords, turn an iPhone into a listening device, or, in the case of Stuxnet, sabotage a nuclear facility." In fact, [31]the NSA was responsible for the threat posed by the "WannaCry" or "Wanna Decryptor" malware worm which--as a result of hackers accessing the government's arsenal--hijacked more than 57,000 computers and crippled health care, communications infrastructure, logistics, and government entities in more than 70 countries. Mind you, the government was repeatedly warned about the dangers of using criminal tactics to wage its own cyberwars. It was warned about the consequences of blowback should its cyberweapons get into the wrong hands. The government chose to ignore the warnings. That's exactly how the 9/11 attacks unfolded. First, the government helped to create the menace that was al-Qaida and then, when bin Laden had left the nation reeling in shock (despite [32]countless warnings that fell on tone-deaf ears), it demanded--and was given--immense new powers in the form of the USA Patriot Act in order to fight the very danger it had created. This has become the shadow government's modus operandi regardless of which party controls the White House: the government creates a menace--knowing full well the ramifications such a danger might pose to the public--then without ever owning up to the part it played in unleashing that particular menace on an unsuspecting populace, it demands additional powers in order to protect "we the people" from the threat. Yet the powers-that-be don't really want us to feel safe. They want us cowering and afraid and willing to relinquish every last one of our freedoms in exchange for their phantom promises of security. As a result, it's the American people who pay the price for the government's insatiable greed and quest for power. Suffice it to say that when and if a true history of the United States is ever written, it will not only track the rise of the American police state but it will also chart the decline of freedom in America: how a nation that once abided by the rule of law and held the government accountable for its actions has steadily devolved into a police state where justice is one-sided, a corporate elite runs the show, representative government is a mockery, police are extensions of the military, surveillance is rampant, privacy is extinct, and the law is little more than a tool for the government to browbeat the people into compliance. Somewhere over the course of the past 240-plus years, democracy has given way to kleptocracy, and representative government has been rejected in favor of rule by career politicians, corporations and thieves--individuals and entities with little regard for the rights of American citizens. This dissolution of that sacred covenant between the citizenry and the government--establishing "we the people" as the masters and the government as the servant--didn't happen overnight. It didn't happen because of one particular incident or one particular president. It is a process, one that began long ago and continues in the present day, aided and abetted by politicians who have mastered the polarizing art of how to "divide and conquer." As I point out in my book [33]Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart [34]The Erik Blair Diaries, our freedoms have become casualties in an all-out war on the American people. 4. https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/10/4319278/us-government-hacking-threatens-c... 5. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/tomdispatch-dc-congress-defense-... 6. http://www.businessinsider.com/military-government-secret-experiments-biolog... 7. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41811750/ns/health-health_care/t/ugly-past-us-huma... 8. https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/ 9. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/the-fbi-walks-a-perilous... 10. http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/william-norman-grigg/the-american-secret-... 11. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/magazine/fbi-international-terrorism-info... 12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/08/fbi-app-arrests-australia-cr... 13. https://www.activistpost.com/2021/06/sneaky-sneaky-fbi-created-company-that-... 14. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/03/usa-today-subpeona-florida-shooting... 15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-kleptocracy/2017/01... 16. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-finkelstein/kakistocracy-a-word-you-s_b_... 17. http://time.com/4327424/idiocracy/ 18. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/04/fbi-informant-crimes-re... 19. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/04/fbi-informant-crimes-re... 20. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plot... 21. https://corpcommap.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/letter_103014.pdf 22. https://corpcommap.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/letter_103014.pdf 23. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/the-fbi-walks-a-perilous... 24. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plot... 25. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/06/fbi-ecretly-spying-on-google-users-co... 26. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/judge-rules-secret-fbi-letters-un... 27. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/08/fbi_wireless_intercept_an... 28. http://www.wired.com/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-aircard/all/ 29. https://www.ethicsintech.com/fbi-seeking-invasive-global-hacking-powers/ 30. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyberweapons-specialreport-idUSBRE9490... 31. https://theintercept.com/2017/05/12/the-nsas-lost-digital-weapon-is-helping-... 32. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9... 33. https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590795229... 34. https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Blair-Diaries-Battlefield-Dead/dp/1954968027/
How To Protect Yourselves From The Ministry Of Propaganda http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/08/make-sure-you-download-latest-m... While it's fun to sort all the propaganda into various boxes, we would do well to look for what all the marketers / MoP players seek to mystify. It's time once again to check for Ministry of Propaganda updates, which like Windows and iOS is constantly being updated to counter new threats and enhance the user experience (heh). Much like the other operating systems that underpin our daily lives, the core functions of the MoP don't change much. My chart from 2007 remains an instructive summary of MoP operations, with the only changes being Mr. Buffett is now buying oil companies and social media corporations are now major media players. The core mission of the Ministry of Propaganda isn't just to push a desirable narrative--it's to mystify the underlying dynamics of a system that benefits the few at the expense of the many by promoting a self-serving worldview (weltanschauung) that explains how the world works in a way that protects the interests of those in power. As science fiction author Philip K. Dick explains in the quote below, the MoP narrative isn't just a cloak thrown over the underlying dynamics, it's the creation of an entire universe / worldview, including contexts for understanding what's going on, establishing what's valuable and what isn't, and what behaviors enhance status and which ones marginalize us. The Ministry of Propaganda isn't monolithic: various factions compete to push their self-serving narratives. As Dick noted, this includes governments, corporations, religious and political groups, each of which understands that once the populace accepts their worldview, their power is cemented in realms far above mere force. A key mechanism in establishing a dominant worldview is the think-tank or equivalent self-serving body claiming authority over what's true / false and important / unimportant. This can be authority over the "correct" interpretation of spiritual texts, economic policies, healthcare "standards of care," geopolitical goals, etc. Since humans are innately social, status-striving beings, hierarchies of authority and power are the air we breathe. Those who establish themselves as authorities don't just gain power, they cement their power on the basis of their authority rather than on loyalty or competence. The enormous powers of social media and traditional media to promote claims of authority have generated a deranging snarl of conflicting agendas and narratives. Various centers of power collaborate on pushing worldviews that benefit their interests, but this isn't entirely coherent. The one thing all participants in the Ministry of Propaganda agree on is our power is deserved and must be defended against all threats, which includes hostile entities inside and outside the national borders. This fragmented, constantly shifting cacophony of competing authorities is destabilizing. As the tectonic plates of worldviews collide, the edges crumble and people naturally seek the safety of some core set of beliefs, in effect "circling the wagons" in an attempt to restore some internal stability. We see this in the intense political polarization of this era (see chart below). To make sense of the competing claims of authority, we reduce the perimeter of what's defendable, putting more of the world into "outside enemies" (them) and reserving the "safe, trusted place" for fewer of "us." With so many competing factions in the Ministry of Propaganda, there's a proliferation of propaganda such that there is literally nothing left but PR. In a universe constructed of nothing but agit-prop and PR, we all have our favorites examples. James Bond picks up his Nokia phone. Even though nobody's seen a Nokia phone in ages, if you want to be cool like Bond, go buy a Nokia phone. Marketing is the MoP's entire universe. Everybody's selling something to gain or maintain power, status, mindshare or the ultimate prize, the dominant worldview. To ease the confusion, please download the latest updates from the Ministry. These updates replace all that misinformation, misdirection, and blatant marketing with the, ahem, facts, or the correct interpretation of the facts. (We had to destroy the village in order to save it. OK, got it.) While it's fun to sort all the propaganda into various boxes, we would do well to look for what all the marketers / MoP players seek to mystify. In my analysis, what must be mystified at all costs boils down to the unsustainability of 1) the current consumption of resources, 2) the current method of creating capital so the few can buy up the planet's most valuable assets, 3) neocolonialism, the modern replacement for the old model of occupation and exploitation by force, and 4) neofeudalism, the economic / social /political arrangement in which the majority of the populace are modern-day serfs with extremely limited agency and power which they are told is limitless. "You can be anything you choose to be!" Or at least your digital avatar can do so, and that's practically as good as actually having agency and power in the real world. Or so we're told, mindlessly, endlessly without pause or respite. More on these topics in the coming weeks. * * * My new book is now available at a 10% discount this month: When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal. 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It's 1984 when... your car both ignores your command to 'go' because you've been shutdown by GovCorp, and you don't even own your car any longer... 10 Facts Electric Vehicle Advocates Don't Want You To Know https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2022/08/30/10-facts-electric-vehicl... There are a host of reasons why the Left is absolutely determined to force Americans out of their privately owned, gasoline-powered cars and trucks and into unreliable public transportation and costly Electric Vehicles (EVs), none of which have to do with “saving the environment.” ***** The central reason the Left loves EVs is that the process of forcing Americans to convert to electric-powered transportation will destroy forever the incredible freedom and prosperity associated with privately owned gas-powered vehicles. The future will instead be centrally controlled by rich elitists and their corrupt politicians, power-hungry bureaucrats, and ideologically driven “experts.” ***** When Ransom Olds in 1901 and Henry Ford in 1908 sold America’s first mass-produced automobiles (the Curved Dash Olds and the Model T, respectively), they launched America toward becoming the world’s first open road society. It took a couple of decades, but by the 1930s car ownership was virtually a middle-class staple and that meant, for millions of Americans, the freedom to go wherever they wanted to go when they chose to do so, without getting prior permission from government. It is no exaggeration to say one of the chief factors in America growing out of the Depression was the ability of millions of Americans to buy new and used cars and trucks. The St. Louis Federal Reserve put it this way in September 1935 in the middle of the Great Depression: “During the first 6 months of 1935, companies and individuals purchased from motor-vehicle dealers 1,461,940 new passenger cars and 254,063 trucks, paying for these vehicles a sum estimated at approximately $1,460,000,000. The first half year registrations were 44 percent greater in 1935 than during the corresponding period of last year, while the increase over the same 6 months of 1933 was 121 percent.” The rise of the privately owned, gas-powered automobile also generated booming industries that to this day provide millions of good jobs, financial stability, and personal income growth that are foundational to the American economy. Just think of all the dealerships, repair shops, parts stores, road construction, energy production, distribution and retailing, insurance, and law enforcement jobs that exist because there are hundreds of millions of cars and trucks in this country. But those good things will be lost if California’s plan to ban the sale of all gas-powered vehicles by 2035 becomes national policy. There is so much that is so incredibly wrong-headed, if not either outright dishonest or stupid, with the drive to force Americans into EVs. For example, as the experts at powerthefuture.com point out, here are 10 facts about EVs the Left doesn’t want Americans to know: 1. EVs are powered by fossil fuels. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), fossil fuel-based power plants — coal, oil, or natural gas — create about 60% of the nation’s electrical grid, while nuclear power accounts for nearly 20%. 2. The batteries of EVs rely on cobalt. An estimated 70% of the global supply of cobalt emanates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country with deplorable working conditions, especially for children. 3. A study released earlier this year by an environmental group showed that nearly one-third of San Francisco’s electric charging stations were non-functioning. The population of San Francisco represents roughly two percent of California. 4. Supporters of the California law admit there will be a 40% increase in demand for electricity, adding further strain to the grid and requiring increased costs for power and infrastructure. 5. According to one researcher, the strain of adding an EV is similar to adding “1 or 2 air conditioners” to your home, except an EV requires power year-round. 6. Today, 20 million American families, or one in six, have fallen behind on their electric bills, the highest amount ever. 7. Utility companies will need to add $5,800 in upgrades for every new EV for the next eight years in order to compensate for the demand for power. All customers will shoulder this cost. 8. The average price for an electric vehicle is currently $66,000, up more than 13% in just the last year, costing an average of $18,000 more than the average combustible engine. Meanwhile, the median household income is $67,521. For African American families, the average is $45,870, and for Hispanic households, $55,321. 9. A 2022 study found that the majority of EV charging occurs at home, leaving those who live in multi-family dwellings (apartments) at a real disadvantage for charging. 10. The same study also noted that many drivers charge their EVs overnight when solar power is less available on the grid. There are many more facts about EVs you will never hear spoken by the Left’s politicians, including President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the national and state leadership of the Democratic Party. Neither will you hear any of these facts - except when they are being misrepresented and distorted by self-appointed “fact-checkers” - in college classrooms, the mainstream media, and even representatives of the “Big Three” automakers, who fear getting on the wrong side of government. Oh, and by the way, guess who is laughing their keisters off as America heads into the Left’s EV future, knowing they control so much of the equipment, materials, and technology necessary for batteries, thus giving them a choke-hold on the U.S. economy? Can you spell C-H-I-N-A?
California school district tries new way to retain teachers: Low-cost apartments on school property Biden chose a rather interesting look for his speech tonight... Blood Red Background from the Unity President... https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x3os4x/biden_chose_a_rather_int... "Impeach" Trends On Twitter After Biden Demonizes Millions Of Americans In Primetime Speech https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x3q7n2/impeach_trends_on_twitte... This Administration is Desperate for Orchestrating another Jan6 Event. Expect another False Flag event coming soon. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x45mdi/this_administration_is_d... An Ominous Black and Blood Red, Militaristic background as Biden gave his most divisive speech yet, labeling almost half of the country/~70 million Americans: 'extremists... threats to democracy'. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/x3v2u3/an_ominous_black... The Gaslighting never ends. We are reaching that phase where they were always champions against all the lockdowns, mandates and rushed vaccines. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x3lu9l/the_gaslighting_never_en... The media suddenly refuses to fact-check the press secretary. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x3th6h/the_media_suddenly_refus... Well 2 people did get arrested for the diary proving it to be real so.... https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x33i73/well_2_people_did_get_ar... In 1933, Hitler ordered the false flag attack of the Reichstag fire. This attack gave Hitler the support to mass arrest communists and suspend civil liberties. With Biden calling MAGA followers the enemy of the state, could we see a false flag attack out of Hitlers playbook to cement Democrat power? https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x3q7oi/in_1933_hitler_ordered_t... Remember in Atlanta when they told poll watchers to leave at 10:30 pm and return 8am? But then they stayed behind, pulled out cases of ballots that were hidden under table, and shoved through 225k fake preprinted ballots for Biden? All on tape (link in SS)? Question that, Biden says you're terrorist https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/x3ytfy/remember_in_atlanta_when... https://archive.org/details/AmericasSecretEstablishmentOrderOfSkullbones/pag...
Welcome To The "Say Nothing" Phase Of This 'Fourth Turning' https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/09/05/say-nothing-phase-of-this-four... Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, ‘Whatever you say, say nothing.’ – Old Irish Phrase “God made the Catholics, but the Armalite made them equal.” ― Patrick Radden Keefe It has become clear to me, since the installation of dementia patient Biden as the illegitimate figurehead president by his globalist Deep State handlers, their agenda is to tear down our modern civilization and replace it with a totalitarian techno-gulag where you will be electronically monitored, disarmed, own nothing, be judged by social credit score, live in fear, and be happy – or else. I’ve been pondering in which direction this Fourth Turning will flow, while observing the words and actions of our pedophile president and the other World Economic Forum puppets like Trudeau, Macron, and a myriad of other EU lackeys. I intellectually understand all Fourth Turnings reach their climax after immense bloodshed, climactic battles which could have gone either way, and in some cases saw citizens slaughtering fellow citizens. But I have tried to avoid thinking about the reality of what is likely to happen over the next five to ten years, as this Crisis turns from rhetoric and debate to violence and death. Keyboard warriors will yield to real warriors. After reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s – Say Nothing – a fascinating tale of the brutal violence which lasted for three decades from the 1960’s through the 1990’s in Northern Ireland, I’ve come to the realization of what civil war might look like here in America. In reality, the conflict in Ireland between the Catholics and Protestants dated back centuries. “In 1689, Protestant forces loyal to William of Orange, the new king, had managed to hold the city against a siege by a Catholic army loyal to James II.” ― Patrick Radden Keefe The vitriolic discord and purposeful fracturing of our shared societal values, which have bound this nation since its inception, has situated the country in an 1860 moment, a veritable powder keg with a lit fuse. The country has been gravely splintered for at least two decades, but the fissure has expanded at an accelerated velocity since the unanticipated election of Donald Trump in 2016. The rule of law no longer exists. A four-year coup against Trump, with Clinton, Obama, DOJ, CIA, FBI, Congress, Judiciary, legacy media, and social media titans as co-conspirators, has now devolved into an Orwellian police state, with the Constitution trashed and government tyranny reaching unthinkable heights. The third world totalitarian tactics being used by Biden’s handlers to destroy the opposition party and its leader is being cheered on by the left and their media mouthpieces. Biden’s diabolically dark, hateful speech, with satanic blood red background, on the sacred ground where our Founding Fathers declared our independence from a tyrannical despot, appears to be the spark which will ignite real violence in the coming years. The simmering hatred between the left and right has been rising towards a boiling point since the 2016 election. Everything Biden and his Obama handlers have done since his installation as president in the rigged 2020 election has been designed to sow discord, create chaos, and tear apart the fabric of this country. Authoritarian despots always accuse the opposition of crimes they themselves are guilty of having committed. When you control the levers of power and the propaganda machine known as the media, you can literally flaunt the laws of the land and persecute those who disagree or fail to comply with your dictates. Elevating a protest by a few goofballs who were lured into the Capital by undercover FBI plants (Ray Epps) as an armed insurrection (with no arms), has been a pitiful display of partisanship and failed to accomplish the task of having Trump charged with a crime. This after two failed impeachment attempts based on actual crimes committed by the Biden crime family. With the approach of the November midterms, Covid fear being replaced by vaxx injury outrage, inflation raging at 17% (the way it was measured in 1980), a recession in progress, layoffs beginning to ramp up, stock market falling, Russia sanctions only hurting the American and European working class, and Biden’s approval rating at 38%, the globalist Deep State invisible government have decided it’s time for some civil chaos to further their New World Order agenda. It all began with pitting those who chose to let their immune systems do their jobs and/or using safe effective cheap treatments like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc/quercetin, and vitamin D, against Fauci, Biden and their Big Pharma benefactors forcing an untested, dangerous, experimental gene therapy into the bodies of every human on the planet. They lied about its effectiveness, spike protein remaining confined in arms, safety, immunity power, and length of efficacy. They colluded with Twitter, Facebook, and Google to censor and suppress the truth about the vaccines, doctors with contrary opinions, and the safe effective alternatives. All done to enrich Big Pharma, who paid off politicians, doctors, hospitals, and a plethora of apparatchiks willing to sell their souls and sacrifice lives for the almighty buck. When Biden and his handlers decided to scapegoat and vilify those who chose to not become guinea pigs in the unwarranted vaccine war against a relatively non-lethal flu (unless you were 85 years old and/or extremely obese), knowing his national vaccine mandate was un-Constitutional and unenforceable, those with critical thinking skills could see the budding authoritarianism from Biden, along with the other WEF acolytes like Trudeau, Macron, and Boris Johnson. Biden’s willingness to have people fired, ostracized, and destroyed for exercising bodily autonomy regarding a vaccine that didn’t prevent you from getting it, spreading it, being hospitalized, or dying was a flashing warning light of what was going to happen in the last month. The lockdowns, destruction of small businesses while promoting big business, forced masking as a mark of obedience and compliance, and utter disregard for the education of our children, were all part of this Great Reset scheme to remake the world in the vision of Gates, Schwab, Soros, and the rest of the Davos billionaire satanic cult. These acts of vengeance against those with differing political, economic, and social viewpoints have intensified over the last several months as a sense of impending doom has shrouded the totalitarian, communist, woke, incompetent Biden administration, with the looming loss of both the House and Senate leading to gridlock, increasing conflict, and more desperate executive orders from the senile pedophile. The ramping up of grooming children at drag queen shows and encouraging children towards irreversible mutilation of their bodies in the name of gender choice is beyond evil and can only be explained as further attempt to destroy our society as part of the Great Reset agenda. The FBI raid on Biden’s chief political adversary and likely opponent in 2024 over some documents requested by the National Archives is a red herring in the never-ending coup against Trump and a last-ditch attempt to keep him from running in 2024. During his first term Trump made the drastic mistake of not purging the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and State Department of his enemies. He hired swamp creatures and neo-cons into his cabinet whose sole purpose was to thwart whatever he tried to do. And his biggest blunder was believing Fauci, Birx, and the rest of the Covid cultists in locking down the country, schools, and businesses, while cheering on and promoting the Big Pharma jabs which have killed and injured more people than they supposedly saved. His continued support for these never-ending shots from hell is mind bogglingly idiotic and should make anyone question his ability to succeed in a second term. Is he better than Dementia Joe, the Kneepads Kackler, or any of the other left-wing loons on the Democrat bench? Yes. But is that good enough with an economic collapse, civil war, and global war just over the horizon? The skies are darkening, and the direst days of this Fourth Turning are almost upon us. I know the degradation of the intellectual, moral, and critical thinking skills of the American populace due to decades in government indoctrination centers known as public schools along with relentless propaganda and misinformation spewed from our boob tubes and now “smart” phones has reached critical mass, with little hope for a reversal until a full-out societal collapse. Well, that is where we are headed, because that is the course set in motion by those we trusted to lead this country. What ails this country, and the world is too much debt, too much corruption, too much materialism, too many lies, too much propaganda, too much delusion, too much stupidity, too much evil, and absolutely no solutions put forth which are capable of saving us from the course we chose decades ago. We are hurtling towards an abyss and there is no way of voting ourselves out of it. The uniparty agrees on 90% of the issues and pass trillions in spending bills while jointly supporting never ending wars and unaccountable central bankers who print fiat to infinity. Political parties have failed the people and rooting for our team is still used to keep us divided and unaware of how badly we have been screwed over by these politician puppets doing the bidding of the globalist billionaire cabal who really run the show. This all set the stage for Biden’s Satanic Verses speech this past week. The Trojan Horse president didn’t write that hateful war declaration against half the country. He didn’t choose the location of Independence Hall. He didn’t ask for the blood red and dark palette as his background. He didn’t station marines in the background as a symbol of war. He didn’t remember what he read off the teleprompter the next day. He and his left-wing apparatchiks can try to walk back his declaration of war, but his satanic hate manifesto will forever be burned into the minds of the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump and the millions more who voted for Biden, thinking his unifier drivel during his basement campaign was truthful. Biden’s handlers purposefully designed this speech to ignite civil chaos. It was a dog whistle to the left-wing BLM, ANTIFA and other violent hate groups that it is open season on Trump and his supporters. Declaring them extremists and an imminent threat to the country, Biden dehumanized anyone who does not support his authoritarian regime. We have already seen the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and harassment and threats of violence against other justices. There has been a concerted effort by the left (and possibly operatives within the government) to have Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene assassinated by the police through technologically advanced swatting calls. Next, we will have any home flying a Trump or MAGA flag burned to the ground by Biden’s army of woke thugs. Biden’s managers and his diversity hire spokesbimbos continue to fan the flames of violence. They are attempting to goad Trump supporters into acts of violence so they can declare an emergency and either cancel the November elections or institute mail-in voting once again to steal them as they did in 2020. Despite Biden’s repulsive war-mongering rhetoric, and threats to use F-15s against those who don’t bow down to his demands, it is highly unlikely Trump supporters will take the bait and initiate violence against the government or their Soros funded left wing lackey militias. The average hard-working American, getting destroyed by Biden’s policies, is content to watch Democrat controlled shithole cities go up in flames as lawlessness reigns, mass murder occurs on daily basis, and businesses flee to safer confines. They are told by the GOP portion of the uniparty to vote republican in November and save the country. Of course, the RINOs in control of the republican party don’t have the guts or desire to change anything. If they were to take Congress, they would not impeach Biden, investigate Hunter, prosecute Fauci, or stop the DOJ and FBI from conducting their ongoing vendetta against Trump. Biden and the left have already declared war. They will do whatever it takes to win. It’s already clear the Constitution, election laws, and First Amendment are meaningless in their thirst for power, control, and wealth. As of now only the Second Amendment keeps them from forcefully putting us in re-education camps. It’s only the 400 million legally owned guns (give or take a few) keeping Biden and his totalitarian hordes at bay. Biden’s speech was an act of desperation, as his handlers seeing their Great Reset agenda going awry, are trying to initiate another engineered “Covid-like” national emergency they can utilize to subdue dissent. The next two months may decide the future course of history in this country. They appear to be laying the groundwork for a false flag of immense proportions. The apparent suicidal actions being taken by European leaders regarding Russian gas and Putin shutting the Nordsteam 1 pipeline until the West revokes their sanctions will either lead to surrender by the EU and splintering of their subservient submission to the American Empire or actual conflict between NATO and Russia, with China and India supporting Russia. We already know it is just a matter of time until the U.S. financial markets break under the strain of reality, with stocks, bonds and real estate all poised to fall by at least 50% over the coming years. Has the globalist cabal concluded their dementia ridden sucker is expendable and will engineer another JFK moment, with an assassination attributed to some Trump dupes? The FBI already engineered the fake Whitmer kidnapping plot. Taking out their useful idiot Biden to further their agenda wouldn’t give these vile Deep State operatives a second thought. Combining a global conflict, with a financial implosion, and a false flag event blamed on Trump would be the perfect storm to cancel the November elections and lockdown the country once again. All signs point toward something big about to ignite the powder keg and propel this Fourth Turning to a new level of violent upheaval. Here is where Patrick Radden Keefe’s documentation of the violence, retribution, hatred, and resolve of “civilized” Irishmen during the battle for Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, from the 1960’s through the 1990’s until an uneasy accord was reached in 1998, offers a glimpse into what a civil war might look like in America. A key point is when the definition of humanity in the minds of those at war stops at the border of their tribe. The enemy is not considered human; therefore, it is not murder when you kill them or blow them up. The ethical justification for killing “innocents” becomes easier when your enemy is not considered human. Biden has already set in motion that anyone who voted for or supports Trump is a dangerous sub-human, providing the justification for his side, including his government police thugs and woke military, to treat us as the enemy. During The Troubles, the Irish Republican Army planted car bombs in London and in Northern Ireland business districts, killing and maiming whoever happened to be in the vicinity. They blew up Lord Mountbatten on his boat. They attempted to blow up the Queen in Scotland in 1981. They came very close to assassinating Margaret Thatcher at the Brighton Hotel in 1984, killing five and injuring dozens. British soldiers were lured into traps and executed. Over the three decades of The Troubles there were 3,500 deaths, with more than half being civilians. Factions within the IRA killed each other. There were undercover agents and double agents for each side. If you said something while under British interrogation, you were likely to be disappeared into the Irish bogs. It was a violent and ruthless conflict with no rules and no mercy. The British committed as many atrocities as their Irish opponents. Legality and rule of law was paid no heed. As Keefe documented, the conflict began as a dispute between the unionists and loyalists and grew into a vicious civil war of neighborhoods versus neighborhoods. “We beat them with stones at first, and they had guns. Our people had to go and get guns. Wouldn’t they have been right stupid people to stand there? Our people got shotguns at first and then got better weapons. And then the British, who were supposed to protect us, came in and raided our homes. What way could you fight? So you went down and you blew them up.” ― Patrick Radden Keefe The political and religious hatreds had been brewing for centuries in Ireland. The level of vitriol and hate in the U.S. has really only reared its ugly head over the last two decades, with a notable hastening since Obama’s election in 2008. He proceeded to divide America through his communist agenda and blatant efforts to create racial and gender rifts, while still kowtowing to the Wall Street and globalist cabal which placed him in power. The ascendancy of Trump to the throne drove the left mad, as burning, and looting cities over the perceived fake race issues enflamed by Obama was cheered on by the left-wing media and politicians. Violence has been promoted and condoned by the left. The question is, what will it take to provoke a violent response by the right, who happen to own most of the firearms in this country. What will it take to turn Twitter warriors into armed warriors? Keefe laid out thoughts about Irish Americans during The Troubles which addresses real war versus verbal war. “Indeed, it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one’s own family members might get blown to pieces on a trip to the grocery store. Some people in Ireland looked askance at the “plastic Paddies” who urged bloody war in Ulster from the safe distance of America.” ― Patrick Radden Keefe Most of those on the right are hardworking, law abiding, family-oriented individuals who are slow to anger and do not react violently to incoherent left-wing rhetoric, verbal threats, or even being called dangerous extremists. When they or their families are threatened with violence, all bets are off. The left can allow their cities to burn and the inhabitants to shoot each other over drugs, but once the threat of violence reaches the countryside and suburbs, where a considerable number of awakened critical thinking citizens are armed, Biden and his cronies will get their civil war. The extremist MAGA minions will not shoot first, but once alerted to the threat from what passes for our government and their BLM/ANTIFA terrorist arm, they will be poised to fight back. If this powder keg ignites, it will make the three decades of violence in Northern Ireland look like a walk in the park. Those who live their lives with a linear mindset, brainwashed by public school indoctrination, distracted by their myriad of electronic gadgets, and trapped on the hamster wheel of trying to accumulate more material goods while going further in debt, are unprepared for the coming level of violent upheaval about to be unleashed upon this nation. No one with a conscience and morality is rooting for a civil war, but our figurehead president has already declared war, with the shooting yet to commence. It feels much like the ambiguous period between Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. We are waiting for the event and/or act which will initiate the vicious phase of this Fourth Turning. We know it will happen, but we don’t know when, where or who will pull the trigger. “Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning Our civilized society is about to turn into a barbarous hellscape, unrecognizable from the comfort and safety we have grown accustomed to since the last Fourth Turning. The cycles of history spin from highs to lows, with death and destruction always entering the picture at some point. Human nature never changes; therefore, we are condemned to repeat the errors of the past while creating new errors along the way. That feeling of doom you should be experiencing at this point in history is well founded. Prepping for the coming storms is a worthwhile expenditure of your time but making sure you tribe up with like minded armed individuals will be your best bet to survive. You have been declared an enemy of the state. That is all the incentive you should need to do whatever is necessary to win this coming war. Remember – Whatever You Say, Say Nothing. * * * The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation.
Religions never shied away from a good internal witch burning, only now they've flipped and are burning what they teach straight from their own books... Chaplain Claims Church Of England Deemed Him "Risk To Children" For Questioning LGBT Ideology https://www.theepochtimes.com/chaplain-claims-church-of-england-deemed-him-r... https://christianconcern.com/news/school-chaplain-reported-to-terrorist-watc... https://christianconcern.com/news/chaplain-branded-as-risk-to-children-by-co... https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/long-eaton-school-reports-cha... https://www.theepochtimes.com/black-trainee-vicar-blocked-from-serving-churc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XtiOlbibMs A Christian chaplain who was forced out of his job and reported to a terrorist watchdog for giving a sermon defending the right to question LGBT ideology claims he was also then blacklisted as a safeguarding risk to children by the Church of England (CofE). Rev. Bernard Randall, 49, from Derbyshire, a former chaplain of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is taking Trent College in Derbyshire to an employment tribunal over alleged religious discrimination after he was sacked by the fee-paying CofE school and reported to a government terrorism watchdog. Anglican deacon and broadcaster Fr. Calvin Robinson told The Epoch Times by email that it was “awful the way Rev. Randall had been treated” but that many clergymen are stifled by “woke hierarchy.” Woke Activists “The woke activists who have captured much of the CofE cannot tolerate any opposition to their agenda, even moderate and considered opposition which encourages debate,” said Randall, who is ordained by the CofE, in a statement. He said that he initially expected support from the church, but instead found that he had been marked as a “risk to children” by church officials for “expressing, moderately” the CofE’s own teaching on human sexuality in a CofE chapel. In 2019, Randall was disciplined and lost his job as a chaplain at Trent College after preaching a sermon that presented the Christian viewpoint on gender identity and LGBT ideology. He is claiming £120,000 ($138,000) in damages at an employment tribunal that begins on Monday, arguing that Trent College unfairly sacked him because of his religious and philosophical beliefs. Randall said he had presented the traditional Christian view of human identity and sexuality and told students that they were not compelled to “accept an ideology they disagree with” but should debate and make up their own minds about the issue. A man prays in a church as shoppers make their last minute purchases on Christmas Eve in Birmingham, England, on Dec. 24, 2018. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) The school reported Randall to Prevent, the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog, after he raised concerns at the school about an external LGBT group, Educate and Celebrate, that had encouraged school staff to chant “smash heteronormativity” at a training session. Police subsequently said that they found that it did not meet the threshold for a Prevent referral, and no further action was taken and no case was recorded on the force system. His legal team, represented by Christian Concern, alleges that the Bishop of Derby, the Rt. Rev. Libby Lane, refused to allow him to officiate in Church services, and argue that this is an act of discrimination, harassment, and a breach of the Equality Act 2010. ‘Implications’ He also claims that he was told that he was a “moderate risk to children” and vulnerable adults in a risk assessment undertaken by the Church of England’s safeguarding team in the Diocese of Derby. His legal team claims that a Data Subject Access request revealed that a senior member of Derby Cathedral suggested that there would be “implications” for anyone associated with the cathedral if they publicly supported Randall in his legal action. They also claim that internal emails revealed cooperation between Trent College and the Diocese of Derby to ensure Randall could not officiate again in the region. He is also taking separate legal action against the bishop of Derby and the CofE. Calvin Robinson in an undated file photo. (Courtesy of Calvin Robinson) Fr. Calvin Robinson joined the breakaway conservative Global Anglican Future Conference this year after he was cancelled by the CofE because white senior clergy were fearful that he refuted claims that Britain is “institutionally racist” even though he is black. “It’s awful the way Rev. Randall has been treated. The State Church is so afraid of being politically incorrect, it now deems its own teaching as a safeguarding risk. It’s absurd,” he told The Epoch Times. “There are many fantastic clergymen being silenced and stifled by a woke hierarchy. I pray for their liberation,” he added. ‘Stalinesque’ Interrogations Commenting in a statement, Randall said that it had been a “hostile, traumatic and deeply stressful” experience and that “safeguarding” had been weaponised against what the Church believes to be a difficult voice. He experienced what he described as “Stalinesque” interrogations in which he was told that refusing to capitulate to the allegations and to deny his beliefs made him a risk. “I do not believe delivering a sermon can be a safeguarding issue. I did not think anything I said was wrong. I certainly didn’t make personal attacks. I was told by the safeguarding team at Derby diocese that my sermon and my views, based on C of E teaching, could potentially cause someone anxiety, as if that is abuse,” said Randall. “If the Church of England believes that its own teaching based on the Bible is a safeguarding risk then what does this say about what state it’s in?” he added.
Even Disney's Kings of [now Woke] Propaganda know Twitter is a huge prop tool... Disney's Bob Iger Abandoned 2016 Twitter Deal Over "Substantial" Number Of Bots https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/9/7/23339402/bob-iger-disney-streaming-code Elon Musk got a huge boost from former Disney CEO Bob Iger, who revealed he backed out of a 2016 deal to purchase Twitter because a "substantial portion" of the social media platform's users were "not real." In an interview at Vox's Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Iger said Walt Disney Co was about to purchase Twitter in 2016 because it would've been an efficient way to distribute Disney's content worldwide. He said it was determined that "a substantial portion - not a majority -" of users were fake, indicating he had to discount the company's value because of the bots. Though there was little clarity, in percentage terms, on what he meant by "substantial." In response to a question via The Verge's Alex Heath, Iger explained more about the Twitter deal and how it could've been a "phenomenal" distribution platform for Disney but came with too many headaches (bots): "We were intent on going into the streaming business. We needed a technology solution. We have all this great IP. We weren't a technology company. How do we get that IP to consumers around the world? … And we were kicking tires left and right. We thought about developing ourselves. Five years, $500 million. It wasn't the money, it was the time, because the world was changing fast. And at the same time, we heard that Twitter was contemplating a sale. "We enter the process immediately, looking at Twitter as the solution: a global distribution platform. It was viewed as sort of a social network. We were viewing it as something completely different. We could put news, sports, entertainment, [and] reach the world. And frankly, it would have been a phenomenal solution, distribution-wise. "Then, after we sold the whole concept to the Disney board and the Twitter board, and we're really ready to execute — the negotiation was just about done — I went home, contemplated it for a weekend, and thought, 'I'm not looking at this as carefully as I need to look at it.' Yes, it's a great solution from a distribution perspective. But it would come with so many other challenges and complexities that as a manager of a great global brand, I was not prepared to take on a major distraction and having to manage circumstances that weren't even close to anything that we had faced before. "Interestingly enough, because I read the news these days, we did look very carefully at all of the Twitter users — I guess they're called users? — and we at that point estimated with some of Twitter's help that a substantial portion — not a majority — were not real. "I don't remember the number but we discounted the value heavily. But that was built into our economics. Actually, the deal that we had was pretty cheap. "Then you have to look, of course, at all the hate speech and potential to do as much harm as good. We're in the business of manufacturing fun at Disney — of doing nothing but good, even though there are others today that criticize Disney for the opposite, which is wrong. This was just something that we were not ready to take on and I was not ready to take on as the CEO of a company and I thought it would have been irresponsible." Iger dropped a gold nugget of information for Musk, who is locked in a court battle with the social media company to purchase it for $44 billion. Musk has been trying to exit the deal because he claims the company misrepresented the number of bot accounts. Twitter has maintained its platform has fewer than 5% of its "monetizable" daily users are bots, though it appears a growing number of influential voices, not just the world's richest man, are saying that's incorrect. In response to a tweet about Iger's comments. Musk tweeted: "Interesting ..." Interesting … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 8, 2022 Meanwhile, Twitter's legal team has sued Musk to fulfill his obligation to buy Twitter. Musk's legal team had requested that the trial occur early next year, but the court ruled the trial is set to begin on October 17. Musk's legal team, however, has been allowed to add whistleblower claims from Twitter's former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who claimed that Twitter had alleged "extreme, egregious deficiencies" regarding privacy and security and that executives misled the board of directors on such issues. This could give Musk the ability to show the court that Twitter breached the merger agreement's terms.
Intolerance - Remain Silent Or Be Branded An Extremist Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, It appears we are rapidly approaching or have reached the place where we must remain silent or be branded an extremist. There is a growing trend of intolerance. In such an environment it is little wonder that many people have become less vocal and afraid to speak their mind. The source of this is rooted in a blatant disregard for the opinions of others by both those on the left and the right. Democracy as a form of government is far from perfect. Its greatest weakness is rooted in the ability of a small vocal group to force its opinions on others. Sadly, this is not something that is going to rapidly go away. In a recent speech akin to something you might have witnessed in Germany or Italy before World War II President Biden demonized what he called MAGA Republicans. Biden labeled this group of Americans as dangerous extremists. The message was clear, anyone that expressed the views bantered about by former President Trump could be marked as an extremist. Those that do speak out under such a political framework are now part of a group that law enforcement officials target and might be inclined to place under tighter scrutiny or surveillance. This growing fear of speaking out is not limited to America, we are seeing it in countries that claim to be free across the world. The tech giants and governments have been throwing fuel on the fire by adding to the feeling retaliation is a fair response to those we disagree with speaking their mind. The tech giants' effort to closely watch, silence, and censor those not marching in line with their desired narrative is a dagger in the heart of free speech. This effort is apparent when we hear about small fringe groups outside mainstream society threatening to block highways, shut down ports, and occupy state capitols if things fail to go their way. It even extends to harassing elected officials, we are hearing more threats from groups vowing to hound and badger members of Congress or the judicial system at their homes. Governments Are Adding To The Fear This started several years ago and ramped up when the term "politically correct" moved front and center. In the minds of some individuals if you say anything that they consider "incorrect" it justifies a harsh response. It has now extended to declaring saying something that could hurt the feeling of some individual or group could be considered "hate speech." As a result of this growing intolerance, people feel compelled to deny their opinions and remain silent. The United Nations has weighed in on this subject since hate speech incites violence and undermines social cohesion and tolerance. It claims such speech is nothing new, however, its scale and impact are nowadays amplified by new technologies of communication. The impact of hate speech cuts across numerous existing United Nations areas of focus, from human rights protection, preventing atrocity crimes, sustaining peace, promoting gender equality, and supporting children and youth. The problem here is when hate speech is allowed to be defined by the ears of the beholder. Forcing Agreement Can Be Ugly A sign of growing intolerance is seen in the mass arrest of nonviolent protesters by governments. It is important we remember the cornerstones of democracy are the freedom of assembly and the right to speak freely. When these are trampled upon for any reason, the system is in danger of being cast aside. This article is about the ability of a vocal minority to make people so uncomfortable they become silent. It is about how we should be appalled by those that justify violence, aggression, and force towards those that simply disagree with them. It is about how the threat you may be demonized if you say what you feel tends to breed silence. Watching this unfold is leaving a sickening feeling in those valuing free speech. We should be alarmed by a survey taken by Cato Institute/YouGov that found most Americans say "the political climate these days prevents them from saying things they believe because others might find them offensive". The survey indicated that 52% of Democrats, 59% of independents, and 77% of Republicans now say they have political opinions they are afraid to share. Most people do not enjoy confrontations or being harassed and as a result, are self-censoring themselves. With the free exchange of opinions and ideas being the foundation of a free and healthy democracy the sign public discourse is being destroyed does not bode well for our continued freedom.
Adderall Shortage Worsens As People Without Drug "Not Able To Focus", May Impact Productivity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adhd-drug-adderall-runs-l... Adderal supplies in the US are dwindling as pharmacies and patients report shortages. The crux of the problem appears to be a major supplier of the drug for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder has run into supply chain issues. Patients who find themselves without their medication might experience "withdraw" or even a "crash" that could impact productivity at work. The supply crunch first hit our radar last month when the National Community Pharmacists Association found hundreds of pharmacies across the US had trouble purchasing Adderall and generic versions of the brand in late July. Bloomberg spoke with a dozen patients in California, Indiana, and Michigan who were told by their local pharmacists at CVS Health Corp. or Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. about a worsening drug shortage. "In some cases, patients were told they might have to wait more than a week to get their medication, which is supposed to be taken every day," Bloomberg noted. Walgreens spokesperson Rebekah Pajak acknowledged that "supply chain challenges" persist with the drug. She said instant-release and extended-release Adderall are the ones in the shortest supply. Meanwhile, CVS spokesperson Matthew Blanchette said Adderall prescriptions at the company's pharmacies can be filled "in most cases." The shortage began at Teva Pharmaceuticals, the US' largest branded and generic Adderall supplier. Blomberg noted the Israeli multinational pharmaceutical company experienced "labor shortages" that led to the limited supply of brand-name and generic instant-release Adderall. Then three other companies Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc., Rhodes Pharmaceuticals LP, a subsidiary of Purdue Pharma LP, and Novartis AG's Sandoz unit, all were hit with a surge in orders for generic extended-release Adderall that is now on "back order." What appears to have happened in the world of pharmaceuticals is that when one drug manufacturer has a problem, it quickly has a ripple effect across the industry. The shortage comes as amphetamine sales are at record highs, driven by increased ADHD diagnoses. During the virus pandemic, the federal government eased rules requiring patients to see a doctor in-person before the controlled substance was prescribed which is one of the contributing factors to over-prescription. For those who miss their daily dosage because of the shortage, it's entirely possible to experience symptoms of Adderall withdrawal. Some describe it as a "crash" that can leave people drowsy for hours, if not days, and include symptoms of mental and physical exhaustion and feelings of depression. Anthony Anderson, a 34-year-old special education teacher at a Michigan high school, said he has been without his Adderall since Sept. 6. He's been taking the medicine for 15 years to treat his ADHD, and without it, he says it's incredibly difficult to concentrate, which makes it challenging for him to do this job. Sometimes, he forgets what he is talking about mid-sentence. Anderson was recently talking with a student about a suicide at the school, and at a time when he was supposed to be helping the grieving student, he just couldn't pay attention. "I even spaced out when I'm trying to have a serious conversation with this girl to console her, but I spaced out because I'm not able to focus," he said. "This is a huge issue for me." -Bloomberg We would love to see the productivity metrics of performance-based companies over the next several months to see how an Adderall shortage impacted productivity. Then again, Wall Street has the luxury of another stimulant if an Adderall shortage affects Manhattan pharmacies; that is cocaine.
Doug Casey On Class Warfare, 'Eat The Rich' Sentiment, & What Happens Next Via InternationalMan.com International Man: Politicians looking for ways to finance their extravagant spending increasingly complain that the wealthy aren’t paying their “fair share.” It’s a trend in motion that is accelerating. This rising anti-wealth sentiment seems to be taking the US into dangerous territory. Our friend Rick Rule once said, “Eat the rich? Prepare to starve.” What is your take? Doug Casey: Once upon a time, government apologists liked to say that the rich had to be taxed in order to help the poor. That’s no longer the case. Nobody in America is starving. Even poor people have flat-screen TVs, air conditioning, and refrigerators. The poor live better than medieval royalty. What’s going on is the institutionalization of envy, a terrible vice. It’s different from jealousy. Jealousy says, “You have something that I want. I want one too. Give it to me.” Envy says, “You have something that I want. If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it, so you can’t have it either.” Envy is the moral flaw that underlies all socialist economic theories. Socialist feelings and morality underly the economic lies, race hatred, class hatred, sex antagonism, and political polarization tearing the US and the West apart. Envy and socialism have become secular religions. The country has been divided into two different and mutually antagonistic worldviews. It’s a question of what’s right and wrong, what’s good and evil. It’s not a question of economics, about what’s more productive. This is a much more serious division. It amounts to a religious war between the Left, who want to overthrow and transform society, and the Right, who want to more-or-less maintain traditional values, but lack any real ideology. The Left is proposing all manner of outrageous, destructive, and genuinely stupid ideas. Free stuff for everybody. Not just food, shelter, schooling, and medical care provided at the expense of producers—which they’ve basically achieved. But now a guaranteed annual income. Everybody is supposed to get a thousand dollars a month, according to the silly twit and wannabe US president Andrew Yang. They won’t have to do anything, just exist, presumably hanging out at Starbucks playing with their iPhones all day. They’ll genuinely be what Yuval Noah Harari, the World Economic Forum’s mincing court intellectual, has called a permanent class of useless eaters. At some point, however, people who work, create, produce, and believe in traditional values will react. Maybe they’ll explode in a violent counter-revolution. Maybe they’ll quietly go on strike, as did Ayn Rand’s heroes in “Atlas Shrugged.” Or maybe they’ll roll over and be transformed into serfs—which is what The Elite would prefer and expect. But something wicked this way comes. International Man: What do you make of the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents in the context of this trend? Doug Casey: Those people aren’t being recruited just to collect taxes, although that’s absolutely one of the things that they will do. They will amount to a national police force, one that has a different mandate than the FBI, the ATF, the DEA, or other Praetorian agencies. The tax authorities have a right to look at any economic activity everywhere and anywhere. As a moral issue, they’ll try to turn nonpayment of tax on the part of producers into a crime against society. I shudder to think of the type of amoral creatures being recruited—at fat salaries and with immense powers—to investigate the lives of their countrymen. They’ll be exactly analogous to Germany’s Gestapo or Stasi. These new IRS agents will have little to do with the poor. The poor are increasingly irrelevant, except for their votes. As it’s been throughout history, the uneducated lower classes basically do hand-to-mouth labor. They’re mainly interested in bread and circuses, and that’s what they’ll get. Their numbers are growing in this country for the first time. The new IRS agents won’t have much to do with the elite either; they can afford tax lawyers and accountants to fend them off. They’ll take a few casualties for show and the sake of “fairness,” but the elite are the main beneficiaries of the hundreds of billions of dollars that the government is pouring on society. This is all going to be paid for by the middle class, the people who actually produce and save. These new IRS agents are a direct attack on the middle class. The elite hate the middle class and what they stand for—independence, stability, and traditional values. The fact that they’re doubling the size of the tax police is truly extraordinary. As the economy continues to decline, you can expect class warfare—along with race and sex warfare—to increase. As I explained last week, this is an important part of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Hundreds of billions of dollars that the government will spend through their Inflation Reduction Act will be financed—intentionally—by the creation of new dollars. The reason why they say it’s “inflation reduction” is because the same number of dollars will theoretically be taken out of society through taxes. The new dollars will be placed with the people and companies the government likes. They say it won’t be inflationary because the same number of dollars will be taken out of the economy from people and companies that they don’t approve of. So, theoretically, the net number of dollars in society will stay the same, and the general price level will stay the same because the money supply will stay the same. That’s their economic argument. But the moral argument is far more important. MMT allocates hundreds of billions to those the Left approves of and will take that much away from the middle class through taxes. It’s diabolically clever. As I said, this amounts to a religious war because the people behind MMT are actually evil. Unfortunately, “evil” is a word which has been discredited; people no longer take it seriously. It’s been overused by emotional and often corrupt Bible thumpers, hell, and brimstone preachers. But evil really does exist. Evil is the intentional act of destroying something good. International Man: With financial markets falling and the US dollar’s purchasing power plummeting, many people are feeling poorer and are looking for someone to blame. What is your view on this dynamic and how it could affect the political situation? Doug Casey: The speech Biden gave on September 1 was intended to be shocking and disturbing. It mimicked a scene out of V for Vendetta or 1984. They went out of their way to have Biden deliver it in Philadelphia, where the US was founded, and use red lighting against a dark background to fan emotions. These people are serious. Biden’s words were full of hate and venom, calling out half the country as the enemy—the speech was unprecedented. It was a warning and an overt threat. Look at the scene. The red background was over the top. Placing a couple of Marines in the background said, “I have power, and I’ll use it against the enemy.” Theatrics such as these are unprecedented. It amounted to a declaration of civil war. It was followed up by the outrageous raid on Trump’s home and the FBI perp-walking about 50 of his prominent supporters, with dawn raids, in subsequent days. These people truly want to overturn society. They’re actually a reincarnation of the Jacobins and could turn out to be just as violent and dangerous. They’re working to create an active environment of class warfare in the US. They’ve succeeded in fomenting race hatred, where people identify not as human beings but as people of color and anti-white. And sex warfare, wherein people are no longer either men or women—albeit a few with aberrations of varying degree—but as one or more of 50 or 60 genders. These people hate the middle class, with their traditional cultural and religious values. This is why Trump is so popular and why they identify with him. It’s not because many of his ideas are particularly good; he’s essentially a populist with no philosophical center. The elite and wannabe elitists hate Trump because he’s a cultural traditionalist. These people want to overthrow traditional culture itself and eliminate the middle class. In the ideal world of the WEF types, the vast majority of people, the deplorables, would be serfs and the kulaks serving the nomenklatura ruling on the top, assisted by their apparatchiki. I know it sounds outrageous, but that’s what’s on their minds. We’ve seen this before in history when Leftist intellectuals get control of real power, the apparatus of the State. They truly want to overturn the very basis of civilization. The Jacobins in revolutionary France, the Bolsheviks in Russia, the Nazis in Germany, the Maoists during China’s Great Cultural Revolution, and the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. It can happen anywhere when conditions are right. It seems to be happening now in the US and other Western countries. Let’s hope it blows over. But don’t plan your life around that… International Man: Historically, the size and power of the middle class made the US different from other countries. But now, the US middle class is shrinking and feeling squeezed. Where is this trend going, and what can the average middle-class person do about it? Doug Casey: What was the average man supposed to do when the Jacobins brought out the guillotines in France in 1793? What should the average middle-class person have done in Russia in 1917? What should the average middle-class person have done in Germany in 1933? There’s not much you can do when actual forces of evil are in control. There’s very little that you can do except get out of Dodge. Here in the US, we still have a large middle class. Many are fat, dumb, indoctrinated, or addicted to Prozac and Zoloft. But millions of others are, to coin a phrase, mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore. The things we’ve been talking about could turn into a genuine civil war. What to do? Diversify your political jurisdictions. Don’t roll over like a whipped dog; speak up, and resist. But the most important thing you can do personally is become as rich as possible while maintaining your ethics. Being rich can help you to insulate yourself from evil and stupidity.
GATTACA... https://twitter.com/JOEBOTxyz/status/1570410691445784577 ARPA-H inaugural director Renee Wegryzn talks human-machine hybrids, genetic enhancement, and "Human 2.0." At DARPA she was all about "safety, safety, safety" as we hurtle towards a transhuman future. Long Now Foundation. DNA. Gene Modification.
https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1572394605244518400 Concentration camps, welcome to Agenda 2030, which they actually will implement in 2025 ⚠️ Hey you stupid brainwashed sheeple, PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP, they are building these in all your countries, and they will round you up and put you in them. Already happening in DPRK, China, Iran, USA, Australia, Russia, and more. https://twitter.com/Mahtob_M/status/1571997672403263490 Influence vs Reality Iran refuses nuke deal, CIA launches #OpIran , classic... https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1572051344051306496 Anonymous @YourAnonCentral Sep 20 “Women, Life, Freedom” Now. #OpIran is re-engaged. #IranProtests2022 #مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amin #Anonymous
When you're ruled over and ordered about by one global ideology ("democratic" Socialism), it infests everything, even your supposedly unbiased encyclopedias spew forth tilted information (propaganda)... https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
Health Authorities Tracked Movements Of Canadians Via Cellphones During Pandemic https://summit.news/2022/05/09/health-authorities-tracked-movements-of-canad... Health authorities in Canada tracked people’s movements via their cellphones during the pandemic, with trips to pharmacies and liquor stores being logged, it has been revealed. “BlueDot, an intelligence analysis company, prepared movement reports for PHAC using anonymized data acquired from mobile devices. The reports helped the public health agency understand movement patterns during the pandemic,” reports Reclaim the Net. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was able to obtain detailed insights into people’s movements and recorded their visits to liquor stores, pharmacies, visits to friends and trips to other provinces, also collecting information on time spent in each location. “Questions remain about the specifics of the data provided if Canadians’ rights were violated, and what advice the Liberal government was given,” said Conservative MP Damien Kurek. The ethics committee asserted that the PHAC should have told Canadians their movements were potentially being monitored and given them the option to opt out. The PHAC claimed the program was “not about following individuals’ trips to a specific location, but rather in understanding whether the number of visits to specific locations have increased or decreased over time.” As we highlighted last week, the CDC purchased tracking data for millions of Americans’ mobile phones with an intention of monitoring their movements to see if they were complying with lockdowns, curfews and travel restrictions during the COVID pandemic. During the first winter lockdown in January 2021, a poll found that a plurality of people in Britain supported giving the government powers to spy on people’s movements via cellphone tracking to enforce lockdown. In the same month, Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt called for the government to use GPS tracking technology to ensure Brits were complying with COVID quarantine measures. Hunt demanded, “Daily contact with those asked to self-isolate – using GPS tracking to monitor compliance if necessary as happens in Taiwan and Poland. People need to know how much this matters and if we cannot persuade them to comply at the outset we should keep trying.”
Make no mistake... digital is a kill switch meant to shut *you* down Kill Switches: Biden Is Threatening Our Freedom Of Movement https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/05/10/joe_biden_is_threatening... https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/barr-bidens-infrastructure-bill-contains-... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-era-of-e2-80-98the-car-you-own... The federal gov’t and silicon valley are looking to clamp down on your freedom of movement. Your ability to move about as you please does not fit with their goals for the future of our world. Automotive-related freedoms, including access to fuel, allow us to be free to move without the permission of silicon valley and the federal government. Automotive freedoms are not only hobby related; they are essential to preventing yet another step along the road to serfdom at the hands of woke corporations and federal bureaucrats. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Biden recently signed into law a requirement that all vehicles produced after 2026 be fitted with a remote kill switch. Electric vehicles are already equipped with this capability via internet-connected “superchargers.” These corporations can sell you a product for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, then prevent you from using them. Worse yet, if the law is not challenged or repealed, these kill switches will have a “back door” that allows government agencies to shut your vehicle off remotely as well. With conservatives slowly waking up to the reality that corporate managers are not on our side, this should be among our top concerns. Internal combustion vehicles, so far, are free of the sorts of nanny state controls that are standard on electric vehicles, so preserving our access to gasoline and diesel fuel is an absolute necessity Right to repair is also an important issue. It is not, as some techno-authoritarians claim, a simple matter for tinkerers. Rather, it is a critical component of our ability to maintain freedom of movement. Right to repair ensures that we are able to hire independent professionals to repair our vehicles and other products rather than being forced to pay astronomical prices to manufacturers. Now that the environmental superiority of electric vehicles is being called into question, the real agenda behind climate hysteria is clear: climate change fear mongers want us poorer and unable to travel and commute as we see fit. As the Biden administration’s intentional policy of high gas prices hits the average American in the pocket book, it’s important to note that the cost of EV batteries is also rising. Subsidized demand for these batteries has led to a massive increase in the prices of conflict minerals, such as lithium and cobalt, that make up these batteries. There is no evidence that the actual cost of electric vehicles will be dramatically lower than those of internal combustion vehicles. Currently the average price of an electric vehicle is $56,000. What does this say about your ability to travel freely in the coming years if the federal government effectively bans our use of internal combustion vehicles? Further, the left is turning a blind eye to the horrifying human rights record associated with cobalt and lithium mining. Child slavery, extremely poor working conditions, and poisoned rivers are just a few of the problems that plague the extraction of these minerals. One could reasonably ask the Biden administration why the American public is being forced to subsidize the horrifying human rights record associated with the mining of these resources. Though the near-magical power of innovation is an article of faith for many, technological change does not always benefit the average person. There is nothing inevitable about these so-called innovations or the politically-driven subsidies that enable them. There is nothing inevitable about the burdens that this technological change will put on the average person. We need only have the courage of our convictions, combined with the backing of knowledgeable groups like the SEMA Action Network, to ensure that we are not forced to subsidize real environmental hazards, human rights abuses, and the restriction of our own freedom of movement.
Make no mistake... digital is a kill switch meant to shut *you* down
Your Face Is Now A Weapon Of War by Stephanie Hare via National Interest https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/16/clearview-expansion-fac... https://news.yahoo.com/facial-recognition-fake-identities-and-digital-survei... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60738204 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/technology/facial-recognition-ukraine-cle... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/16/clearview-expansion-fac... https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&ChapterID=57 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/victory-another-lawsuit-proceeds-again... https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/after-75-years-five-eyes-intelligence... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/clearview-ai-illegal-canada.ht... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57268121 https://ainowinstitute.org/regulatingbiometrics.pdf https://www.reuters.com/article/clearview-ai-investigation-idINKBN24A0ZB https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59466803 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59149236 https://gpdp.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9751323 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/clearview-ai-hit-by-wave-... Ukraine is using Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology to identify Russians, dead and alive, drawing on a database of billions of face images that it scraped from the internet without anyone’s consent. Who owns your face? You might think that you do, but consider that Clearview AI, an American company that sells facial recognition technology, has amassed a database of ten billion images since 2020. By the end of the year, it plans to have scraped 100 billion facial images from the internet. It is difficult to assess the company’s claims, but if we take Clearview AI at face value, it has enough data to identify almost everyone on earth and end privacy and anonymity everywhere. As you read these words, your face is making money for people whom you’ve never met and who never sought your consent when they took your faceprint from your social media profiles and online photo albums. Today, Clearview AI’s technology is used by over 3,100 U.S. law enforcement agencies, as well as the U.S. Postal Service. In Ukraine, it is being used as a weapon of war. The company has offered its tools free of charge to the Ukrainian government, which is using them to identify dead and living Russian soldiers and then contact their mothers. It would be easy to shrug this off. After all, we voluntarily surrendered our privacy the moment we began sharing photos online, and millions of us continue to use websites and apps that fail to protect our data, despite warnings from privacy campaigners and Western security services. As so many of us sympathize with Ukraine and are appalled by Russia’s brutality, it is tempting to overlook the fact that Ukraine is not using Clearview AI to identify dead Ukrainians, which suggests that we are witnessing the use of facial recognition technology for psychological warfare, not identification. Some people will be fine with the implications of this: if Russian mothers have to receive disturbing photos of their dead sons, so be it. To understand why we might want to rethink the use of facial recognition technology in conflict, consider the following thought experiments. First, imagine that it was Russia that had scraped Ukrainian biometric data from the internet to build a facial recognition technology tool which it was using to identify dead Ukrainians and contact their mothers. Liberal democracies would likely condemn these actions and add them to its growing list of Russia’s barbaric actions. Second, imagine a conflict in which the United States was fighting against an opponent who had taken American faceprints to train its facial recognition technology and was using it to identify dead American soldiers and contact their mothers. This would almost certainly cause howls of protest across the United States. Technology executives would be vilified in the press and hauled before Congress, where lawmakers might finally pass a law to protect Americans’ biometric data. We do not need to wait for these scenarios to occur; Congress could act now to protect Americans’ biometric data. If taking inspiration from the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seems a step too far, Congress only needs to look to Illinois, whose Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) requires that companies obtain people’s opt-in consent before capturing facial images and other biometrics. Clearview AI is currently fighting multiple lawsuits in federal and state courts in Illinois for failing to obtain users’ consent. These lawsuits highlight a troubling aspect of facial recognition technology in the United States: Americans’ privacy, civil liberties, and rights over their biometric data vary from state to state, and even within states, and are not protected by federal law. To remedy this problem, Congress could also look to several U.S. allies, including three of its Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partners. In 2021, Canada’s privacy commissioner identified Clearview AI as a tool of mass surveillance and declared it illegal, while British and Australian data regulators fined Clearview AI and ordered it to delete their citizens’ data. In the EU, Italy recently fined Clearview €20 million, ordered it to delete all of the data that it had collected from Italian citizens, and prohibited Clearview AI from collecting more data. Last year, Sweden fined police authorities for using Clearview AI’s technology to identify people, and a number of privacy, civil liberties, and human rights groups filed complaints against the company with data regulators in France, Austria, and Greece. Unsurprisingly, in May 2021, Clearview AI said it had no EU-based customers. For all of Clearview AI’s many flaws, the challenge free-societies face is about more than the actions of one company. Many companies and governments are using similar means to create the same tools, such as PimEyes, FindClone, and TrueFace. Liberal democracies can regulate them, but currently, there is nothing preventing adversaries from capturing our faces and other biometric data. Failing to act could endanger soldiers, security personnel, and law enforcement officers, as well as civilian populations. It is time to confront this challenge head-on.
CCC attempts to be less useless than the ACLU EFF Tor... https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/eu-kommission-will-alle-chatnachrichten-d... EU Commission is expected to publish the draft law on "chat control" tomorrow. Lawmakers seek AI-based checks of all message content & images directly on users' devices. Critics say this is an attack on the digital privacy of correspondence and leads to mass surveillance. German Chaos Computer Club protests against the planned "chat control" law in an open letter. Says it is a "fundamentally misguided technology" and an "unprecedented surveillance tool". Biden's new "disinformation" czar wants "trustworthy verified people" like her to be able to "add context" to other people's tweets. Twitter to limit the visibility of tweets by users who copy-and-paste texts. Severe violators could face permanent suspension. Zelensky will virtually join Klaus Schwab's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
From WEF to COVID to Economy to War, drills have uncanny way of becoming reality before long...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60 duck and cover Feds Begin 'Major Radiological Incident' Drill In Austin Dozens of local, state, and federal agencies have begun conducting "a major radiological incident exercise" in Austin, Texas. The Cobalt Magnet 22 exercise is led by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration in partnership with the Austin Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office, bringing 30 agencies together in a field training exercise to combat threats of radiological attacks Reminder: This week, @NNSANews radiological incident response personnel, with Austin HSEM and other federal, state and local partners, will participate in Cobalt Magnet, a large consequence management field training exercise. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/P3BD8Ei1UN — Austin Emergency Management (@AustinHSEM) May 16, 2022 Austin Emergency Management tweeted the exercise will take place in various locations around the metro area this week. "You may see people in protective clothing using equipment and/or low-flying aircraft," the local agency said, adding "It's just an exercise." Cobalt Magnet 22 will take place at various locations around Austin this week. You may see people in protective clothing using equipment and/or low-flying aircraft. Remember: It’s just an exercise! (2/2) — Austin Emergency Management (@AustinHSEM) May 16, 2022 The exercise is considered regular training and will help scientists and technical experts with radiological monitoring and assessment. It began on Monday and will last through Friday. "The City of Austin is pleased to welcome NNSA and the numerous local, state and federal agencies participating in Cobalt Magnet. "Our goal in this exercise is to test our procedures and make improvements to ensure we're keeping the Austin/Travis County community protected," Juan Ortiz, Director of Austin's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office, told Austonia. So the bigger question ... WHY is the government preparing for a dirty bomb or radiological dispersal device attack on a city now?
Meetings of WEF and WHO sick globalist empire and slavers of all humanity... https://evavlaardingerbroek.substack.com/p/the-who-is-commiting-a-power-grab https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA75/A75_18-en.pdf The WHO is commiting a power grab And unless we want a post-democratic world government, we need to stop them Eva Vlaardingerbroek May 14 Our rights and national sovereignty are about to be handed over to The World Health Organization (WHO) in an unprecedented way at the next World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland next week. And as always, the MSM is silent as the grave. Some months ago, the Biden Administration proposed several far-reaching amendments to the 2005 ‘International Health Regulations’ that will be voted on next week. The World Health regulations are an instrument of international law put forward by the WHO and are legally-binding on 196 countries (aka the entire world). The IHR defines countries’ rights and obligations in handling public health events & emergencies, meaning the WHO decides how our respective countries respond in ‘a time of crisis’. I decided to take a look at the amendments proposed and saw two incredibly visible trends that were hardly surprising. 1. In the case that provisions were added, they always gave the WHO - and in particular General-Director dr. Tedros who's in China's pocket - substantial additional powers. 2. In the case that provisions were scrapped, these always regarded safeguards to State Parties' rights to take their own decisions. In short: national sovereignty everywhere around the world is under attack by these amendments put forwards by the USA. But let’s go over some of these amendments in detail for a moment. As can be seen in the highlighted text in Article 5 'surveillance’, the WHO will be monotoring health threats around the world and shall be developing early warning criteria for every country in the world for how to handle these 'risks'. This might sound noble, but it is not. In the article 6 'Notification', it's now added that when the WHO informs a country that they are at a 'potentional risk of a public health emergency', this country is obliged to hand over its public health information including ''genetic sequence data'' within 48 hours. But when is a country at 'risk of a public health emergency'? And who decides that, by which criteria? Surely, you'd think the national parliaments where the people we democratically elected to represent our interests reside, would have something to say? Well, you'd be wrong. Looking at article 12, dr. Tedros, the Director-General decides when there is a health emergency. And even when ''an event has not (!) been determined to meet the criteria for a public health emergency" the Director-General STILL has the right to issue a 'public health alert'. So this one man, who nobody voted for, now gets to decide - together with his unknown team of experts in this new 'Emergency Committee' - whether your country has a 'public health emergency', without having to abide any criteria. These amendments to the IHR in conjunction with the new 'WHO pandemic treaty' that's currently being drafted, virtually give the WHO full control over our societies' response in the case of a 'new pandemic'. And that’s not something we want, for multiple reasons. One being that this is the start of a post-democratic society and a world government, of course. And let’s also not forget who will be ruling. The second largest financial donor to the WHO is who? You guessed it, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. You know, the man who wants the whole world to be vaccinated with vaccines that he coincidentally has major stakes in. That’s right. If you want more information on that and the other major stake holders that will be in charge over our lives through the ‘WHO pandemic treaty’ please watch my latest appereance on the Mark Steyn Show, where we discussed it in detail: So what now? Well, do. not. comply. Or prepare for a world where the WHO & dr. Tedros the China-shill will have the power to impose lockdowns, mandatory shots and tracking apps on us. Because that’s exactly what these new international treaties are going to make possible. And fact that they're already talking about a 'new pandemic' as if it's a given; tells you all you need to know. Phill T May 14Pinned Thank you Eva. Keep going. Dear readers please consider writing a submission for the public forum, see details here: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/campaigns/stop-the-who/2022/05/stopthewho-... Reply Simon Hodges Writes Signs, portents and omens ·May 14 It's not just China though is it? The threat to all of us globally is our own governments who followed China's lead and who are all fully behind this. Russia is the least of our problems in the West - our own governments are the real threat. Reply 24 more comments…
World Economic Forum WEF et al meeting in Davos this weekend, fine alternative media outlets have the scoop, on your enslavement which you fools refuse to wake up and fight back against, as usual. https://anarchistnews.org/content/phoenix-anarchists-mobilize-against-%E2%80... Bit of humor in that one. Regardless, beware and disempower those wishing to exert authority over you and others.
World Economic Forum WEF et al meeting in Davos this weekend, fine alternative media outlets have the scoop, on your enslavement which you fools refuse to wake up and fight back against, as usual. Beware and disempower those wishing to exert authority over you and others.
'Imagine The Compliance': Pfizer CEO Pitches Davos Elites On WiFi Microchip Pills Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla may have forgotten he was on camera this week, as he dazzled the audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos with fantasies of ingestible computer chips that signal authorities when a drug has been digested. "It is a, basically biological chip that is in the tablet. And once we take the tablet and dissolves into the stomach, sends a signal that you took the table. So imagine the applications of that - the compliance. The insurance companies know that the medicines patients should take, they take them. Watch: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explains Pfizer's new tech to Davos crowd: "ingestible pills" - a pill with a tiny chip that send a wireless signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. "Imagine the compliance," he says pic.twitter.com/uYapKJGDJx — Jeremy Loffredo (@loffredojeremy) May 20, 2022 Reactions to Bourla's dystopian pitch were about what one would expect - though Pfizer's defenders chimed in claiming it could be used in "specific" conditions such as 'schizophrenia and cancers' to assure compliance. Right Said Fred is too sexy for Pfizer's dystopia: And it’s us ‘conspiracy theorists’ who are the nutters. — Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) May 20, 2022 "Compliance" he says - consumers are clearly not his customers, government bodies are. And Pfizer is fully aligned with "compliance" because it means more and more sales volume to their government customers. — GBR Dude 🔴☠️⚫️☠️⚪️ (@husker_backer) May 20, 2022 Where have we heard this kind of thing before? World Economic Forum shill, Yuval Noah Hariri: "Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept to legitimize total biometric surveillance. We need to not just monitor people, we need to monitor what’s happening under their skin”pic.twitter.com/qoPKVGxR7d — Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) May 21, 2022 As The Hill's Kim Iverson tweeted in response to Bourla: Repeat after me: “I shall never scoff at so called conspiracy theorists again. I will listen and remain open minded that perhaps what they’re saying is actually happening.”
World Economic Forum WEF et al meeting in Davos this weekend, fine alternative media outlets have the scoop
Let Them Eat Bugs... How Out-Of-Touch Elites Reveal Their Contempt, & What Comes Next https://internationalman.com/articles/let-them-eat-bugs-how-out-of-touch-eli... Upon being told that the people had no bread, Marie Antoinette reportedly responded, “let them eat cake.” These infamous words were a stark illustration of the French elite’s careless indifference to the plight of ordinary people. Moreover, they likely fueled the anger that sparked a revolution that overturned the French ruling system. Had Marie Antoinette not been so out of touch, she might have had a better choice of words. Although history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme. I am bringing this up because recently, modern political, financial, and media elites have made numerous “let them eat cake” remarks. They similarly reveal how oblivious they are to the average person’s problems as inflation spirals out of control, shortages spread, the stock market crashes, and economic prospects look dimmer by the day. Let’s look at them and examine what they could mean for the social and political environment in the future… and what you can do about it. Example #1: Inflation Is Good First central bankers, the mainstream media, and academia tell you there is no inflation. Then, when inflation becomes undeniable, they tell you not to worry because inflation is only “transitory.” Then, when it becomes apparent that it’s not merely transitory, they tell you not to worry because inflation is actually a good thing. It’s not uncommon to see ridiculous headlines like this: Example #2: No More Turkey at Thanksgiving After inflation broke through multi-decade highs, it’s no longer possible to maintain the farce that “inflation is good.” So the elite’s messaging has pivoted to ways the plebs can cope with ever-decreasing living standards. Last Thanksgiving, it was impossible for the Federal Reserve to ignore the soaring costs of turkey. So, instead, the St. Louis branch had a helpful suggestion for those struggling—substitute delicious turkey for cheaper heavily-processed industrial sludge. Example #3: Let Your Pets Die Recently, Bloomberg published an article titled “Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300K. Here’s How to Deal.” It recommended rethinking providing medical treatment to your pets: “If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs.” Example #4: Gas Is Too Expensive? Buy a Tesla As gas prices skyrocket, transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg suggests buying an electric vehicle. That way, the plebs can stop complaining and will “never have to worry about gas prices again.” The thought of whether people could afford an expensive electric vehicle in the first place didn’t seem to cross his mind. Example #5: Housing Is Too Expensive? Live in a Pod or Move Back In With Your Parents With soaring prices making housing unaffordable in many big cities, living in pods is promoted. For example, in California, a three-bedroom home that used to house a single family has been converted into a unit that includes pods for 13 people. Similar stories are sprouting up across other cities. The media is celebrating this not as a significant downgrade but rather as an eco-friendly solution to rising housing costs. They also recommend moving back in with your parents. Example #6: Meat Is Too Expensive? Eat Bugs and Industrial Sludge With inflation making meat unaffordable for many, the elite are looking to keep the plebs happy by guilting them into thinking that meat is bad for the environment. That’s a big reason why there’s been a flurry of articles in the mainstream media condemning meat consumption and promoting cheap alternatives. Their solution is to give the plebs fake meat made of heavily-processed industrial sludge and feed them bugs. Bill Gates recently said: “I think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.” “You can’t have cows anymore,” and governments can “use regulation to totally shift the demand.” An article in The Economist notes: “We’re not going to convince Europeans and Americans to go out in big numbers and start eating insects… The trick might be to slip them into the food chain on the quiet.” The Guardian tells us eating bugs can assuage your climate sins and that “if we want to save the planet, the future of food is insects.” Here’s Bloomberg: These are a couple of examples of a much broader push against meat. Here’s the bottom line. The elite have been informed that meat is becoming too expensive for the average person. Their answer: “Let them eat bugs.” Conclusion This overview is by no means a complete collection of recent “let them eat cake” statements. However, it is enough to understand what the elites think and their contempt for the average person. These are the same people who engaged in—or closely benefited from—the rampant money printing and other policies responsible for the rising prices ravaging regular people in the first place. And when the pain of inflation became apparent, their response has been… inflation is good… no more turkey at Thanksgiving… let your pets die… buy an expensive electric vehicle… live in a pod or move back in with your parents… and eat bugs. Instead of looking at these examples separately, take a step back and reflect on the Big Picture they paint. That will help us better understand the social and political situation, where things might be headed, and what we should do. With that in mind, two things seem clear. 1) The current crop of political, financial, and media elites are ensconced in a bubble, carelessly indifferent to the problems of ordinary people—much like Marie Antoinette was. 2) Anger is building up as people feel increased economic pain. Nobody knows how the situation will resolve itself, but I think it would be foolish not to prepare yourself—and your portfolio—for turbulence in the months ahead.
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