Big Brother

'Swedes Are Implanting Microchip Vaccine Passports. It Won’t Stop There"

https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/2...crochip-vaccine-passports-it-wont-stop-there/

Quotes from article in color Blue:

Last week, the world glimpsed a future in which vaccine passports are implanted under the skin. A viral video from South China Morning Post profiled a Swedish start-up hub, Epicenter, that injects its employees with microchips.

Naturally, some Christians see the Mark of the Beast. In a sane world, the idea of having your hand chipped to access public goods or private property—to receive a mark in order to “buy, sell, or trade”—should alarm anyone, regardless of religious persuasion. The same goes for using an implanted brain-computer interface to access the digital realm, as Elon Musk plans to do with Neuralink.

Yet for a growing fringe, this invasive tech isn’t just desirable. It’s already normal. Presently, some 5,000 Swedes use implanted radio frequency identification (RFID) chips to open doors, pay cashless, present medical records, access concert venues, and ride public transportation. According to Ars Technica, as of 2018 an estimated 50,000-100,000 people worldwide have microchip implants, primarily in their hands.

A 2019 analysis in Nature reported about 160,000 people have deep brain stimulation devices implanted in their heads. Currently, this is only done out of necessity to treat disorders like epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, or even addiction and depression. Of these devices, only 34 are true brain-computer interfaces. However, with current advances in technology, enormous injections of capital, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) recent approval, that number will rapidly climb.

Since the first human-grade RFID implant was patented in 1997, followed by FDA approval in 2004, subdermal microchips have become just another device in a growing cyborg toolkit. Drawing on that cache, the Internet of Bodies paradigm has gained enormous traction among the medical establishment. At the extreme end, the concept of natural-born humanity is to be abolished.

For more than six decades, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded Human 2.0 projects, with particular interest in brain-computer interfaces. Citing these and many other human-machine hybrids, the World Economic Forum’s chairman Klaus Schwab recently spelled out his vision of civilizational transformation. His widely read books—“The Fourth Industrial Revolution” (2016) and “The Great Reset” (2020)—both describe inexorable progress toward total technocracy.

The same idea emerges in a 2019 government analysis by Policy Horizons Canada, entitled “Exploring Biodigital Convergence.” According to the authors, “Digital technology can be embedded in organisms [and today] biotechnology may be at the cusp of a period of rapid expansion—possibly analogous to digital computing circa 1985.” Its success will hinge on sweeping surveillance.

The document goes on to describe tracking chips, wearable bio-sensors, internal organ sensors, Web-connected neurotech, swallowable digital pills—merging body and brain with the digital beehive.
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Though it was expected , it still is a bit troubling to see people so readily fall into the ranks of big brother government and believe and do what their government tells them . After what we have seen out of the masses over the last couple of years , quickly wearing their masks , and running out to get a shot of unknown consequences , I can easily believe they would just as readily get microchips for brains or scan bars put under their skin just as long as those idiot politicians instructed them to . This compliance by the masses to let themselves be controlled by big brother is progressing at an astonishing rate .

 

Benevolent government:

"Former paralympian tells MPs veterans department offered her assisted death"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted-death-macaulay-1.6671721

"Testifying in French, she said she has been fighting for a home wheelchair ramp for five years and expressed her concerns about the assisted dying offer in a recent letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"'I sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and that they [Veterans Affairs] offered me MAID [Medical Assistance In Dying] and would supply equipment,' said Gauthier.

"Retired corporal Christine Gauthier, who competed for Canada at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics and the Invictus Games that same year, spoke before the House of Commons veterans committee and agreed to provide a copy of the letter.

"'With respect to me, I have a letter in my file, because I had to face that as well,' said Gauthier, referring to the debate about veterans being offered the option of medical assistance in dying (MAID).

"'I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying,' said Gauthier who first injured her back in a training accident in 1989.

"Testifying in French, she said she has been fighting for a home wheelchair ramp for five years and expressed her concerns about the assisted dying offer in a recent letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau."

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html

 

"Aussie Cops Ask Neighbors To Rat Out 'Anti-Government, Anti-Police, Or COVID-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists'"

https://www.zerohedge.com/political...nment-anti-police-or-covid-vaccine-conspiracy

"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. [emphasis Old Gzr]

"'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."

 

"World Economic Forum cancels Twitter, directs followers to Chinese social media apps"

https://dossier.substack.com/p/world-economic-forum-cancels-twitter

"Prior to its upcoming conference in Davos next month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) appears to have joined the cancel campaign against Twitter, taking to recommending Chinese state-controlled social media apps to 'follow along' with Davos Man into the future.

"To stay up to speed with all that is happening within the invite-only doors of the ruling class confab, the WEF recommends following along through a handful of social media sites. They include the U.S.-based narrative-compliant Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, along with the Chinese social media apps TikTok WeChat, and Weibo. Twitter, which has freed itself from the grasp of the WEF-endorsed censorship-compliant social apps, is no longer included.

"Through its founder Klaus Schwab and partner organizations, the WEF has a very cozy relationship with the Chinese government. Davos recently revealed that their China office now has 40 full time staffers. Moreover, every year in Beijing, the WEF hosts its 'Annual Meeting of the New Champions,' which facilitates partnerships between international businesses and the Chinese Community Party. In 2018, the CCP awarded Klaus Schwab with its China Reform Friendship Medal, a medal for non-Chinese people who do the CCP’s bidding overseas.

"Davos 2023 will feature Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, on stage. First reported by The Dossier, he will appear at an event titled 'Tackling Harm in The Digital Era.'

"In case you missed it, The Dossier has obtained an early, partial list of both events and confirmed speakers for Davos 2023. On the agenda for the 2023 conference includes event titles such as Why We Need Battery Passports, Leading The Charge Through Earth’s New Normal, A Living Wage For All, Enabling An Equitable Transition, and Beyond The Rainbow: Advancing LGBTQ+ Rights, among others.

"The Bird App has faced a ferocious cancel campaign following its change of management. Elon Musk’s pledge to turn Twitter into a free speech platform has met major resistance from the institutional corporate and governmental ruling class. Several WEF partners, such as BlackRock, have joined the attacks against Twitter, boycotting the platform in protest of its 'content moderation' policies. It should come as no surprise that the ruling class’s favorite narrative and ideas shop for technocratic tyranny has come after Twitter, given that the latter app is now serving as the one major global social media platform for open debate and dialogue."

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The international collectivists LOATHE truth-tellers. Elon Musk had better watch out. Those who not kneel before god government often get "disappeared".
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"New Minnesota law could place you on govt bias registry if you say COVID-19 came from China"

https://www.oann.com/newsroom/new-m...registry-if-you-say-covid-19-came-from-china/

"House File 181, a proposed amendment to Minnesota law, would record alleged bias occurrences even when they are not regarded as crimes. The St. Cloud Times reported that the legislation, which was proposed in January, would permit people to report suspected bias-related incidents such as claimed slurs, racial bias, and verbal assaults that would not be included in the yearly list of official hate crimes prepared by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

"Legislation of this nature could pose a serious threat to freedom of speech and religious freedom, according to Representative Walter Hudson (R-Minn.)."
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"Ballooning AI-driven facial recognition industry sparks concern over bias, privacy: ‘You are being identified'"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ballo...ndustry-concern-bias-privacy-being-identified

"One expert said that in some locations, like airports, surveillance systems are also recording citizens' conversations.

"A significant expansion in Artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed to catch criminals, but experts express concern about the impact on personal privacy and data.

"According to the Allied Market Research data firm, the facial recognition industry, which was valued at $3.8 billion in 2020, will have grown to $16.7 billion by 2030.

" 'When you go to the airport, you are being recorded, you are being videoed from the moment that you cross onto that property throughout your entire experience and until you leave on the other end of that, that is all happening from a video perspective," Palmer said. "It's also happening from an audio perspective, which people often are unaware that their conversations are actually being recorded in many situations as well.' "
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Avoiding facial recognition systems:





Cloaking images on electronic devices:



"How Fashion Designers Are Outsmarting Facial Recognition Surveillance"

 

"Canada: 'Pride' vs. Freedom"

June 17, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/canada_pride_vs_freedom.html

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In times like these -- especially during “Pride Month” -- it’s uplifting to encounter someone like Bill Whatcott, who has won against a tyrannical government pushing LGBT madness.

Canada has been even more militant than the U.S. against citizens who push back against that ruthless agenda. Canada has no First Amendment. And its “Charter Rights” that should guarantee free speech are easily ignored.

On July 3, 2016 the annual Toronto Gay Pride Parade took place. It was one of the foulest imaginable. It included blasphemous anti-Christian imagery, groups of completely naked men marching in front of young children, and much more. Prominent parade marchers included Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Premier of Ottawa, and the Attorney General of Canada.

Bill Whatcott and several friends registered to march in the parade under the name “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association.” They dressed in head-to-toe green bodysuits. As they marched, they handed out 3,000 “safe sex packets” to onlookers.

Inside each packet was a folded two-sided flyer that included medical-related information, graphic images of the medical consequences of homosexual behavior, and positive religious messages. It also denounced the prominent political figures for their public pro-homosexual activism.


If Bill and his friends had done this in any U.S. “gay pride” parade, they would just be banned from future parades and the officials would complain to the media. But this was Canada.

A month after the parade, some prominent homosexual activists held a press conference announcing the lawsuit in the press gallery of the national Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. They announced they had filed a $104 million civil lawsuit charging Whatcott and his supporters with “defamation, conspiracy, and intentional infliction of mental suffering.”

The purpose of the $104 million claim, they said, was to “smoke out” and extract monetary damages from the wealthy financial backers of Bill and his group. They assumed that Bill was being bankrolled by a cabal of big right-wing donors -- because that’s how the Left does things. But in fact, the “Gay Zombies” accomplished their mission on a shoestring budget, funded by the participants themselves. (Bill freely admitted his role, but refused to name the others -- who are unknown to this day).

As the lawsuit dragged on, it become clear that there were no “wealthy right-wing donors” to go after. In 2019, after three years of effort, the gay activists dropped the lawsuit.

But as that lawsuit was dying, the Ontario government decided to jump into the fight. In June 2018 (two years after the parade incident!), the Ottawa attorney general formally charged Bill with the crime of “inciting hatred” under Canada’s criminal code.

The AG then issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Bill, who was living in Alberta. In Canada, that kind of warrant is reserved for very serious crimes like murder. They could have just called him or contacted his lawyer. So Bill travelled to Calgary to turn himself in at the local police station -- while supporters (including well-known Pastor Art Pawlowski) protested outside.

Bill was held in custody for four days while being transported to Toronto. Calgary police denied him food and his blood pressure medicine for 24 hours. He was also denied sleep for 24 hours.

At the bail hearing the prosecution insisted on a gag order to protect gays “from psychological harm.” Bill refused those terms, and the judge finally ruled in Bill’s favor.

Bill was then fired from his truck-driving job (the company refused to give a reason) and was “banned for life” from using GoFundMe to raise money.

Bill fought back. John Rosen, the most prominent criminal defense attorney in Canada, agreed to represent him -- if Rosen could get a government subsidy (since Bill had no money). Rosen is a true “liberal” -- he does not necessarily agree with Bill’s opinions, but he believes in free speech. Rosen was granted the subsidy, and he got to work.

Then came COVID. Criminal trials across Canada for drug offenses, property crimes, and even sexual assaults were simply cancelled. But not Bill’s trial. The government was determined to convict him

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Old Geezer: I can't quote all of the government prosecution madness, so please read the entire article to understand how mentally ill the Canadian government behaved regarding this case.

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On Dec. 10, 2021, the judge delivered his 23-page verdict: Not guilty! After five years and enormous expense to the government, the effort failed.

But Bill’s ordeal wasn’t over. Two weeks later, on Dec. 24, 2021, the AG filed paperwork to appeal the “Not guilty” verdict!

The U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment prohibits putting a person on trial twice for the same crime. In Canada, if a court acquits a defendant, the prosecution can appeal and try to convict him again.

On January 5, 2022, AG’s office filed its 45-page formal appeal. It appears to basically be a gay-activist approach to attempt to discredit the judge’s decisions during the trial and his ultimate ruling.

On May 16, 2022, Attorney Rosen filed a detailed 37-page response. It meticulously debunks all the AG’s reasons for appeal and demonstrates that the judged acted properly in every instance.

The appeals trial will take place this month -- on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

Attorney Rosen and his staff have put months of work and expense into preparing for this trial, though Rosen’s government subsidy does not extend to the appeal. The money to pay for it will come from whatever Bill can raise. This work would normally cost at least $100,000. But they are willing to charge half their rate. The case could theoretically go all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.

As we all know, the wealthy donors of the Left generously fund all their criminal legal cases -- from Antifa’s destruction, to illegal aliens’ crimes, and everything else in between. But there are no wealthy conservatives willing to fund our side -- as the J6 defendants have found out. It’s no different in Canada.

LifeSiteNews has set up a funding page for Bill. Over the last several months he has raised about $21,000 from individual supporters. Bill Whatcott -- and John Rosen -- are doing God’s work. Any donations to Bill would be greatly appreciated.
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For non-Americans, the USDA stands for the United States Department of Agriculture. Looking out for America's farmers ... not.


"USDA Buys .40 Caliber Submachine Guns! Why Are Federal Agencies Arming Themselves!!"

 

"Google-Facebook-Twitter are unelected censors of America"

https://thecitizen.com/2019/04/23/google-facebook-twitter-are-unelected-censors-of-america/

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A majority of colleges and universities, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has enacted speech codes, restrictions that seem to metastasize in the night. The idea has been implanted that speech that is found offensive by anyone, especially anyone who claims victim-group status, amounts to violence — an idea contradicted by both logic and experience. Offenders are punished by an ever-metastasizing corps of administrators, who now nationally outnumber college and university teachers.

The fact is that Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and whoever is running Twitter these days have allowed their firms to become the unelected censors of America and much of the world. The increasing criticism and hostility they’ve encountered should not surprise them given we live in a nation where most people still believe in free speech, even if many who run campuses don’t.

Speech bans are not the only bad idea that has spread from campuses to poison the larger society. College and university admissions departments’ surreptitious use of racial quotas and preferences has been matched by corporate HR departments. The campus kangaroo courts encouraged by the Obama Education Department’s “guidance” have their equivalents in post-campus life.

Currently, Harvard’s alleged anti-Asian quotas are being challenged in court. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has ditched the Obama “guidance” and, after thorough investigation, advanced regulations to protect the interests of both accusers and those accused.

Those are encouraging signs that the host society can fight back against the infections festering in its campus wing. It needs to fight back against the campusfication suppression of free speech as well.

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God government

The government owns your children and your grandchildren.

"Critically ill UK teen in legal fight with NHS"

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66673511

A critically ill 19-year-old and her family are fighting the NHS in court over plans to stop more treatment and proceed instead with end-of-life care.

The former A-level student wants to go to Canada for an experimental therapy which she believes might help her rare genetic condition.

The hospital says she is "actively dying" - she needs a ventilator to help her breathe and is fed through a tube.

It will be up to the UK's Court of Protection to decide her future.

A hearing will decide whether NHS doctors continue to treat her.

Despite all the physical difficulties ST has, she is able to communicate with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists.

ST has said: "I want to die trying to live. We have to try everything."

She wanted to make that decision for herself, but the court has ruled she cannot.

ST's Christian family say they will continue to fight her case and have put in an application seeking existing reporting restrictions to be lifted so that they can publicise their daughter's situation and raise money for her treatment.

In a statement via their solicitor, the family said: "We are shocked to be told by the judge that our daughter does not have capacity to make decisions for herself after all the experts have said that she does. We are very distressed by this injustice, and we hope that, by Jesus's grace, this will be corrected on appeal."


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God government has spoken! Damn the will of the parents! Damn the will of the patient! Damn religion! God government determines who lives and who dies! Submit to your betters!

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Even if the family were willing to pay for this themselves, god government blocks them. In the case of this girl, she wishes to seek treatment in Canada, not the U.K..

The U.K. government is unimaginably too large and too powerful. That government is invalid and is an overt enemy of the Sacred Liberty of the people. Hopefully, SHTF events will annihilate centralized governments. It is far past time for a severe reckoning.

If I get killed, so what. I've lived my days. It is time for freedom to return to the people. I curse Big Brother and all of those who prop it up. They spit in the face of their Creator.

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Olde Geezer...

Many of us here in America are woefully ignorant about something concerning both the government in the UK and Canada...and this concerns jurisdiction at law....

People in the UK and Canada are Subjects...not Citizens with rights. These People have privileges granted by the Sovereign and these privileges can be revoked and or modified at the will of the Sovereign.

This is a huge difference in Rights from God....and Limited Government.

This also explains the mess that Canada is in and why it is so....with their form of Sovereign or Un Limited Government. Many Canadians are very unhappy with the direction their central government is taking.....the same direction our government is trying to go here in the USA.


This is also where and to what our leadership is trying to steer the USA...into making us subjects and not citizens ...Un Limited Government.
I also submit to the Readers/members here ...that this is why both the US Constitution and History are not well taught in public schools if taught at all..

We are not to know about Limited Government as envisioned by the founders...but instead all about the Kardashians and or ESPN and whatever nonsense is to be used and misused to keep us distracted, unthinking, and living in what many think is Disneyland....it is none of these.


Be warned these Ishmaelites who would deceive us about our history and heritage from God....and replace is with man made Feudaliam.....royalty corporate oligarchy.......a dual standard...and without most of us even knowing it is happening..


Be Warned.....this Ukrainian war is going very badly for the corporate oligarchy running NATO and the US Government..

Watch carefully for signs that they will stop the war or .......commit us in America to deeper involvement to the point of US troops on the ground...fighting directly against the Russians....to keep the money and power flowing unto them....and their internationalist world religion...

Remember something about these internationalists.......they have no loyalty to a nation or people...but only to their power and profit......their internationalist religion if you like...
And this religion goes way back into antiquity....


Watcherchris
Not an Ishmaelite.

 

Sorry lonewolf...the UK parliament has been bought ...just as has our Congress and Presidency.

Suggest you read the works of one of your Prime Ministers from some time back in the 1860s named Benjamin Disraeli wherein he speaks of the real government of the UK consisting of people who's names very very few have ever heard...and do not know. These people and or groups are the controllers of your Parliament....and our Congress and Presidency....on an International Scale.....Other Governments too.

I think his book was titled Coningsby...


Remember what Winston Churchill said in writing to his mother....wherein he stated...

I have joined the religion of wise men...I have joined the religion of Disraeli..

And I am not speaking here of the Hebrew religion.



It is the same here in America.....as we are woefully ignorant of so much of our history ...or for that matter ..any history.....


It ought not to be this way...


Oh...and before I forget lonewolf....the English Civil War set a precedent for us here in America of which even our own government does not want us to ever know....or even be aware that the English even had a very very bloody Civil War......

One of those important things our own government does not want us to know and this Precedent was set for us by an Englishman.......over a hundred years before our founding and Declaration of Independence.

We are to be kept in the dark about this precedent by our own government.



Watcherchris
Not an Ishmaelite.

 

Here's what will happen to you if you dare take photos of Maui fire damage. If you'll remember, a grass fire on the Hawaiian island of Maui caused the town of Lahaina to burn.

The "wildfires" (any other term is considered to be supporting a conspiracy) were so hot that cars' aluminum components melted, caused glass to melt.

The "wildfires" were so hot that they didn't incinerate trees. Wait ... What?!... Trees weren't burned, yet cars melted?!!!!!!!! Plastic items were left unmelted -- large plastic trashcans sitting beside residences that got turned into gray ash -- yet metal melted. Expensive real estate was left standing, but the properties of Native Hawaiians got zapped.

Note that the police blocked roads that were exits for the locals to get out of town. The charred bodies of families were found in incinerated cars.

Here's a fellow who has been reporting from the Lahaina area. He has satellite uplink capability, whereas the regular internet services have not been restored. Internet down, media won't report, police harassment, ..., kinda odd. Very odd given that hundreds of children are missing.

In this video, this local fellow (has stopped his real estate business to report) had the audacity to pull off a public road (taxpayer funded) and start filming damage. Uh oh! The police get involved. Seems some local dictate makes free speech illegal.

 

"UK Passes ‘Online Safety Bill’ Creating Vast List of Content Moderation Requirements"

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023...vast-list-of-content-moderation-requirements/

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The UK has passed its much-debated Online Safety Bill, a titanic piece of internet regulation that has been debated and amended by the country’s Parliament for years.

Nearly 300 pages long, the bill creates a vast list of content moderation requirements for tech companies that wish to operate in the UK. The government’s own estimates show that the bill’s reach will go far beyond the biggest tech titans, with more than 20,000 small businesses likely to be affected.

The bills passage was welcomed by Imran Ahmed, head of infamous Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the organization behind Joe Biden’s “disinformation dozen” smear against critics of COVID-19 policies.

Former U.S. State Department official and online freedom campaigner Mike Benz condemned the bill’s passage, saying it would grant too much power to the “sprawling” UK deep state.

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About what happened on Maui....is that not similar to what happened in Paradise, California a bit over a year ago.???


Remember me making statements to the effect that Nuclear Weapons are become obsolete????


Are we looking at Ishmaelites at work.....a type of modern Urban Renewal.????


Watcherchris
Not an Ishmaelite.

 

Me, I don't even begin to understand all of the strange sh## that's going on.

As a person raised by the older generations (not a prepper by heart, but by environment), I'm just gonna keep on "prepping". Don't know any other ways of going about things in this world. Seen too many downs vs. ups to change.

Just dug out some 3+yr. old rice stored via one modality. Wifer is gonna make us up some chicken-&-rice tomorrow evening so that we can test the tastiness. Also, have some stored chicken bullion cubes to test.

Taste-testing, now what's better than that.

Wish I knew more about storing lard. I'm too afraid of it going rancid. Generations past simply killed hogs every year. Never saw my paternal grandmother store lard, so I'd have to go with online techniques. That's not comforting. Not seeing my own kin doing something gives me moment of pause, overt distrust. Putting back Spam (bacon flavored) is as close to this as I've known. I'll pay to have something done exceptionally well. Homey trusts Spam.
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Chatting to an American friend yesterday (Zoom), he's 44, his wife is 36 and expecting their first child. Her family is Italian and as soon as she gets her Italian/EU passport they're leaving the USA for Italy; they don't want their child going into the American education system.

He considers himself a patriot but said to me "America is broken". Her EU passport means they can move with little or no red tape and selling their three properties means they'll land with over $1m...they are lucky.

I've noticed this last year or so more and more Americans coming on the expat forums looking for help with visa applications.

 

Finally took time to watch the video Olde Geezer.....

What I saw is similar to what I remember of Paradise, Kalifornia..and I think we will be seeing a repeat of this kind of thing.....again..somewhere in the USA wherein Urban Renewal of potentially prime real estate will be needed ...after rebuilding behind a major disaster. Property going dirt cheap after the disaster...

This is the new form of Urban Renewal...whereas in the olde days they would move in the lowest common denominator in people to destroy an neighborhood...and lower prices...and then come in later to buy up for pennies on the dollar..

And land is a premium commodity in Hawaii.....in Japan too....etc etc etc..

Ishmaelites run wild....

Thanks for posting the video....


My non Ishmaelite .02,
Watcherchris

 

There are still public schools offering pre-university courses in high school. Usually these are ed. systems found in red states where dumbed-down graduation paths are minimal. Advanced math, chemistry, and physics are still offered.

However, MOST of Amerika's education system is dumbed-down for the sake of the Woke "inclusiveness" thing. Many universities have the same in order to graduate those students who are unqualified to enter university much less graduate. Medical schools are now going pass/fail in the first two years so that minority students they allowed to enter can get by. Massive tutoring programs are in place to try to get these students to pass their board exams. White and Asian students must have QPAs of at base minimum 3.6 / 3.8 to even have their applications reviewed. The standards are far less for black applicants.
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Ishmaelites run wild.....

We know this by the confusion of the Double Standards....

Do you know the name of the author of confusion....by name??????

This will tell us the name of the god of the Department of Education and the government financing them.

When did our government switch gods and tell no one they had done this???


I can prove this again in other ways/manners.



My non Ishmaelite .02,
Watcherchris

 

I don't know, man. I hope that somewhere kids are learning what they need to learn.

Wokism is getting damaged here in the U.S. due to those who are responsible for over half of all violent crime. In urban areas, whites are increasingly afraid to be near blacks. They don't want to get hurt.

In Europe, there's a growing fear of migrants. Women fear being sexually attacked. Fear re-wires the brain.
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From what I'm told education in Spain is still strict and focused with parents being actively involved with their child's education giving homework help etc. Spain is still family focused; not that many elderly nursing homes here, families still look after their elder members...its just what they do.

Please watch and listen to this

 

I like the guy in the video. "Telling it like it is." No wishy-washiness there.

I'm happy for the Spanish people. A long-time coworker was stationed in Spain for a few years. He told me of his perceptions. Pride can go too far and become a burden on the soul; however, one must have some pride else be attacked. The human body itself could be said to have pride. The human immune system is a killing machine. That's Divine Engineering. Therefore, I estimate that Spain's pride is working for the betterment of that nation.

If people don't protect their own children, what will they protect?!

Many Amerikan urbanites don't take enough time for the proper raising of their children, thus we have these societal swamps filled with monstrous reptiles. All the little fishies are just so much food.
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Maui Church had half of the metal roof's center was melted / cut with precision -- like some directed energy beam did it. Center interior wooden beam support blown down. Melted metal dripped onto church floor / center isle. Whatever directed beam/force that caused this cut didn't ignite entire church, thank goodness. Note that a Catholic church was also left standing even though everything around it had been preternaturally consumed into char and dust.

 

"Elon Musk: Soros ‘Hijacked’ U.S Cities without Changing Any Laws"

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-soros-hijacked-us-cities-without-changing-any-laws/

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Twitter/X boss Elon Musk has warned the public about leftist billionaire George Soros’ plot to control the American justice system.

He explained how leftists “completely controlled” Twitter before he bought it and transformed it into X.

According to the tech entrepreneur, the Left had weaponized the social media platform against political opponents and anyone who disagreed with the official government narrative.

Musk likened the old Twitter to the Russian state media outlet “Pravda.”

“The degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public,” Musk said.

“Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats.

“That’s because old Twitter was fundamentally controlled by the far-left.”

Far-left elites in Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley, along with so-called “fact checkers,” unelected bureaucrats, and the FBI, were able to conduct mass censorship campaigns from within Twitter, Musk said.

In the conversation with Rogan, Musk then explains George Soros’ massive bet on funding city and state district attorney elections nationwide.

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"Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records"

https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/

"A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality.

"According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.

"The DAS program, formerly known as Hemisphere, is run in coordination with the telecom giant AT&T, which captures and conducts analysis of US call records for law enforcement agencies, from local police and sheriffs’ departments to US customs offices and postal inspectors across the country, according to a White House memo reviewed by WIRED. Records show that the White House has provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure—a maze of routers and switches that crisscross the United States.

"In a letter to US attorney general Merrick Garland on Sunday, Wyden wrote that he had 'serious concerns about the legality' of the DAS program, adding that 'troubling information' he’d received 'would justifiably outrage many Americans and other members of Congress.' That information, which Wyden says the DOJ confidentially provided to him, is considered 'sensitive but unclassified' by the US government, meaning that while it poses no risk to national security, federal officials, like Wyden, are forbidden from disclosing it to the public, according to the senator’s letter.

"There is no law requiring AT&T to store decades’ worth of Americans’ call records for law enforcement purposes. Documents reviewed by WIRED show that AT&T officials have attended law enforcement conferences in Texas as recently as 2018 to train police officials on how best to utilize AT&T’s voluntary, albeit revenue-generating, assistance.

"In 2020, the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets published hundreds of gigabytes of law enforcement data stolen from agencies around the US. A WIRED review of the files unearths extraordinary detail regarding the processes and justifications that agencies use to monitor the call records of not only criminal suspects, but of their spouses, children, parents, and friends. While DAS is managed under a program devoted to drug trafficking, a leaked file from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) shows that local police agencies, such as those in Daly City and Oakland, requested DAS data for unsolved cases seemingly unrelated to drugs.

"In one instance, an officer with the Oakland Police Department asked for a 'Hemisphere analysis' to identify the phone number of a suspect by analyzing the calls of the suspect’s close friends. In another, a San Jose law enforcement officer asked the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center to identify a victim and material witness in an unspecified case. One officer, soliciting information from AT&T under the program, wrote: 'We obtained six months of call data for [suspect]'s phone, as well as several close associations (his girlfriend, father, sister, mother).' The records do not indicate how AT&T responds to every request.

"Leaked law enforcement files further show that a range of officials—from a US Postal Service inspector to a New York Department of Corrections parole officer—participated in DAS training sessions. Other participants include port authorities and members of US Immigration & Customs Enforcement, National Guard, and California Highway Patrol, alongside scores of smaller agencies.

"The collection of call record data under DAS is not wiretapping, which on US soil requires a warrant based on probable cause. Call records stored by AT&T do not include recordings of any conversations. Instead, the records include a range of identifying information, such as the caller and recipient’s names, phone numbers, and the dates and times they placed calls, for six months or more at a time. Documents released under public records laws show the DAS program has been used to produce location information on criminal suspects and their known associates, a practice deemed unconstitutional without a warrant in 2018.

"The White House has provided at least $6.1 million in discretionary funding to the DAS program since 2013, according to a two-page memo authored last year by White House officials. An internal HIDTA 'participant guide' reviewed by WIRED shows that HIDTA funding exceeded $280 million in 2020 alone. It remains unclear how much HIDTA funding is spent to support AT&T’s vast collection of American call records.

"The DAS program echoes multiple dragnet surveillance programs dating back decades, including a Drug Enforcement Agency program launched in 1992 that forced phone companies to surrender records of virtually all calls going to and from over 100 other countries; the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program, which the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals deemed illegal in 2014; and the Call Details Records program, which suffered from 'technical irregularities' leading the NSA to collect millions of calls it was “not authorized to receive.”


"Unlike these past programs, which were subject to congressional oversight, DAS is not. A senior Wyden aide tells WIRED the program takes advantage of numerous 'loopholes' in federal privacy law. The fact that it’s effectively run out of the White House, for example, means it is exempt from rules requiring assessments of its privacy impacts. The White House is also exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, reducing the public’s overall ability to shed light on the program.

"Because AT&T’s call record collection occurs along a telecommunications 'backbone,' protections enshrined under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act may not apply to the program."
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Old Gzr: One of the internationals for whom I worked back during the Cold War did a massive amount of work for the American military. OK, so the Soviets monitored our comm. They had one specific building in D.C. the two top floors of which were dedicated to comm interception, filtering, and storage. That place captured as much intel as it could from comm up and down the eastern seaboard. Could we keep that from happening? No. What to do? In as much of our comm as we could, we'd insert key words; ex. "NORAD", whatever, something/anything they might wish to intercept. In doing so, their equipment would track everything. Most all of what we communicated was everyday sh##, i.e. worthless as teets on a boar hog. If they wanted to eat communications, well then, we'd just fire-hose it down their throats. If you can't stop Big Brother, you can at least overwhelm him with garbage. Me, I want the deep state dead.

 

Computer call analysis has been around thirty plus years listening for key 'trigger' words, but if your behaving yourself whats to worry about.

 

The Germans "behaved themselves" and followed that sawed-off mental runt, Adolf Hitler and his crew.

And that's what we're talking about here in these current days.

Big Brother doesn't come into power instantly. Cancers form over time. Some take years even decades to morph from cell dysplasias into malignancies. Same for societies and their governance. Little by little, bit by bit, a government grows larger, it grows in power. Those within government, especially those who have that will-to-power worm inside them, seek and succeed in cajoling, hypnotizing, then controlling the masses. These monsters use tax dollars to turn the people into government-check addicts.

The masses become sheeple and simply "obey their betters". They shut-up and take it.

Totalitarian states would be rare were people to have the courage and the self-sufficiency to tell their government to "go take a hike" when their government begins to exhibit morbid obesity and hubris.

Hitler was a joke. The Germans should have laughed at him, not followed him. If Hitler had never been born, some other mental mutant would have come to power. Why? Because the Germans had been conditioned for generations to follow "the rules". They all wanted to behave like good little children.

The majority of the Jews of Germany and Poland followed the rules and thus got on the trains without a fight. Only a few thousands fought back. Trouble was that they had been disarmed. Had a significant number fought back, the NAZIs would likely have still wiped them out; however, those fighters would had died with dignity, not like lambs to slaughter. Too, they would have constituted a third front for the NAZI regime.

Internal guerrilla warfare is a fanged beast for any government to fight. These warriors drain the power out of totalitarian regimes. Internal partizans gut resources and make any external war/wars more difficult to fight.

The totalitarian regime must dedicate soldiers and materiel to attempt to stop the ongoing internal sabotage raids. Just digging-up railroad lines is a crippler. Historic example with which I'm VERY familiar: My people during the American Civil War were known as "The Bridge Burners". In the South, we killed Confederates for president Lincoln. We smuggled escaped slaves out of the South. The Confederacy had to send in cavalry troops to attempt to stop our sabotage raids. We weren't able to cripple the Confederacy of course, but we sure did manage to draw-down their resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Tennessee_bridge_burnings

You do your best. Many will be killed, but what choice does one have when government wants to rape your soul?! You fight. We're all going to die one day, yet one can live an honorable life in what time he has. Never back down.

History teaches that we humans have two conditions. We fear the government or the government fears us. I've said this innumerable times. People have stated this, known this, for millennia.

The human species is insufficiently evolved, so such is the dark truth of the matter. Give almost any human too much power over other people and that human will start to morph into an ugly thing. It might take a while, but the corruption of the soul will begin.

God bless the souls of the Jewish Resistance fighters during the years of the Holocaust!

"Armed Jewish Resistance: Partisans"

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/armed-jewish-resistance-partisans

"Despite minimal support and even antisemitic hostility from the surrounding population, thousands of Jews battled the Germans in eastern Europe. Resistance units emerged in over 100 ghettos in Poland, Lithuania, Belorussia, and Ukraine. Jews resisted when the Germans attempted to establish ghettos in a number of small towns in eastern Poland in 1942. Revolts took place in Starodubsk, Kletsk, Lachva, Mir, Tuchin, and several other towns. As the Germans liquidated the major ghettos in 1943, they met with armed Jewish resistance in Krakow (Cracow), Bialystok, Czestochowa, Bedzin, Sosnowiec, and Tarnow, as well as a major uprising in Warsaw. Thousands of Jews escaped from the ghettos and joined partisan units in nearby forests. Jews from Minsk, for example, established seven partisan fighting units. Jews from Vilna, Riga, and Kovno also formed resistance units.

"In western Belorussia, western Ukraine, and eastern Poland, family camps were established in which Jewish civilians repaired weapons, made clothing, cooked for the fighters, and assisted Soviet partisan operations. As many as 10,000 Jews survived the war by taking refuge with Jewish partisan units. The camp established by Tuvia Bielski in the Naliboki Forest in 1942, for example, gave refuge to more than 1,200 Jews.

"There were even uprisings in the killing centers of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz during 1943-1944.

"In France, the "Armée Juive" (Jewish Army), a French Jewish partisan group, was founded in Toulouse in January 1942. Composed of members of Zionist youth movements, the Jewish Army operated in and around Toulouse, Nice, Lyon, and Paris. Its members smuggled money from Switzerland into France to assist Jews in hiding, smuggled at least 500 Jews and non-Jews into neutral Spain, and took part in the 1944 uprisings against the Germans in Paris, Lyon, and Toulouse. "Solidarité," a Jewish Communist unit, also carried out attacks on German personnel in Paris. Many Jews joined the general French resistance as well.

"In Belgium, a combined Jewish and non-Jewish resistance unit (also named "Solidarité") derailed a deportation train in April 1943. On July 25, 1942, Jewish resisters attacked and burned the files of the organization that the Nazis had forced on the Jews of Belgium. Jews were also active in the Dutch and Italian underground movements."
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Today, Jewish people are buying guns in response to the antisemitism and anti-Zionist movements growing here in what's left of America. After the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel just this past month, people who hate Israel, many who hate Jewish people in general, are coming out of the closet, they're marching in the streets. Jewish students are being confronted, threatened, even physically attacked on university campuses. Synagogues are having to hire armed guards or having to assign Synagogue members as armed guards to protect worshipers on the Sabbath. Man oh man, this isn't right. They shouldn't be put through another Holocaust. How sick! My dad and his brother fought the d###ed NAZI pukes -- they were almost killed. Their injuries stuck with them for life. Screw the National Socialists!!!

The current regime in the White House is only marginally supporting Israel. In Congress, anti-Zionist members are pressuring the White House to stop what support it does show for Israel ... after Israel suffered a sub-human attack against its citizens. These monsters slaughtered not only Jewish people, but Christians, fellow Muslims, and even foreign workers.

Imagine if you were a Jewish person (I'm not, but intellectually I attempt to put myself in their shoes), wouldn't the dark events currently happening in Western nations remind you of the anti-Jewish environment of the 1930s?! It sure would me. I'd readily arm a Jew with a rifle and ammunition were he in need of such. I've rifles to spare (they may be old or of an old technology, but hey, it's something). This current Amerikan regime is labeling those with conservative or Libertarian political beliefs "far-Right extremists". Being an observant Christian can get you a file with the FBI. If you're not a "good little boy" or a "good little girl", then you are the enemy.

Welcome to the world of Big Brother.
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"Parents Who Refuse to Let Their Kids Go Trans Could Face 7 Years in Prison"

https://modernity.news/2024/01/10/p...r-kids-go-trans-could-face-7-years-in-prison/

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“Proposals published on Tuesday state that actions designed to “change or suppress” another individual’s gender identity, causing them physical or psychological harm, would become illegal under the radical law,” reports the Telegraph.

It would mean that if parents try to stop their child “dressing in a way that reflects their sexual orientation or gender identity,” they could face criminal sanctions even if they believe they are acting in the child’s best interests.

Actions deemed to be “coercive” or “controlling” in attempting to stop the child wanting to go trans would be illegal even if performed with “a desire to help or protect the person.”

People in Scotland who question radical transgender activism are routinely targeted by the authorities.

A 50-year-old mother was charged with a ‘transphobic hate crime’ and faces up to two years in prison after she retweeted an image of a suffragette ribbon.

Men who commit vile sexual attacks on women and children and then identify as women to avoid male prisons are also protected by the state.

Last year, former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said transgender criminals convicted for raping women are women, despite them being biological men.

In the same month, the Scottish government refused to remove a transgender rapist from a female prison despite his conviction for raping two women when he was a biological male.

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Oh my ... what a shocker. I knew without reading the article that you had to be talking about the UK, before I even got down to Nicola Sturgeon's name. Absolutely insane.

I'm so glad I won't be alive in another 50 years. Mind you, if everything goes belly up, I don't think the focus will be on all this gender crap. There is that.

 

"Bret Weinstein Exposes the World Health Organization’s Dark Agenda"

 

National Socialists keep clamping down on the freedom of speech. Only collective thought will be tolerated. Submit or go to prison.

"WEF: EU Chief Von Der Leyen Demands Censorship of ‘Industrial Scale Disinformation’ at Davos"

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...-of-industrial-scale-disinformation-at-davos/

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At the opening of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for increased cooperation between governments and private businesses to enact tech censorship in the face of “industrial scale disinformation”.

Following in the example of WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab’s ‘Global Risk Report’, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen used her address in Davos on Tuesday to highlight the supposed risks of allowing the free flow of information in light of the alleged threat of “disinformation and misinformation”.

Mrs von der Leyen said that the need to combat disinformation is “more important than ever” given that 2024 will be the largest election year in the history of the world, with 41 per cent of the global population, an estimated 3.2 billion people — including more than 450 million in the EU — set to head to the polls this year.

“Like in all democracies, our freedom comes with risks. There will always be those who try to exploit our openness, both from inside and outside. There will always be attempts to push us off track, for example with disinformation and misinformation,” she said.

Despite left-wing globalists often touting themselves as the stewards of democracy, this appears to only apply so long as citizens vote the way they want. Indeed, longtime Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt declared following Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday that “democracy fighting for survival” and warned: “Window closing for Europe too!”

Much like in the United States, where voters are increasingly dissatisfied with the globalist governance of President Joe Biden, there has been a groundswell of support for populism in Europe, where right-wing parties are expected to make significant gains in the June European Parliament elections.

Yet, similarly to the attempts to block Trump from the ballot by left-wing legal activists, there has also been calls in Germany, for example, to ban the surging populist right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to “protect” democracy from the voters.

Going into the election year, Brussels will have also have more censorship powers at its disposal than ever. The EU president highlighted the Digital Services Act (DSA) instituted by Brussels at the end of 2022 and is set to come into full force next month. The DSA vastly expanded the censorship powers of the European Union to police so-called ‘hate speech’ and disinformation.

Starting in February, social media companies and websites will face fines of up to six per cent of their global revenue if they fail to comply with the speech restrictions. In addition, platforms also face the possibility of being banned entirely from the bloc under the new regulation.

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"The War On Free Speech: Is Really A War On The Right To Criticize The Government"

https://www.southfloridasuntimes.co...-war-on-the-right-to-criticize-the-government

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Absolutely, there is a war on Free Speech. To be more accurate, however, the war on Free Speech is really a war on the right to criticize the government. Although the right to speak out against government wrongdoing is the quintessential freedom, every day in this country, those who dare to speak their truth to the powers-that-be find themselves censored, silenced or fired.

Indeed, those who run the government don’t take kindly to individuals who speak truth to power.

In fact, the government has become increasingly intolerant of speech that challenges its power, reveals its corruption, exposes its lies and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.

This is nothing new, nor is it unique to any particular presidential administration.

For instance, as part of its campaign to eradicate so-called “disinformation,” the Biden Administration likened those who share “false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories and other forms of mis-dis-and-mal-information” to terrorists. This 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.

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Conservative members of Congress are attempting to get the word out about how the biden regime is targeting citizens it considers enemies of their socialist "utopian" state. Big Brother is using your taxes to rape you of your fundamental right to enjoy sacred Liberty vouchsafed unto you by your Creator. Rather meets the criteria for defining the anti-Christ, if you ask me ... and tens of millions of other Americans.

I'm glad that younger generations are catching on. University Jewish students are finding out the hard way about the once-hidden antisemitism rife at their schools. Poor and minority Americans are watching jobs go to illegal immigrants. Urban liberals are increasingly fearful of living in Democrat controlled cities where robbery and murder rates are like third-world countries. I feel zero sorrow for liberal urbanites. I want them to stay put and deal with the hell they themselves voted into being.

Welcome to the USSA.

"Federal Government Flagged Transactions Using Terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for Financial Institutions"

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/p...sactions-using-terms-maga-and-trump-financial

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January 17, 2024
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveal that the federal government flagged terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for financial institutions if Americans used those phrases when completing transactions. Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela's or Dick's Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans' private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI's respect for fundamental civil liberties.

In light of these revelations, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has requested transcribed interviews from Peter Sullivan, Senior Private Sector Partner for Outreach in the Strategic Partner Engagement Section of the FBI, and Noah Bishoff, former Director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

"The Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained documents indicating that following January 6, 2021, FinCEN distributed materials to financial institutions that, among other things, outline the 'typologies' of various persons of interest and provide financial institutions with suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement. These materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like 'TRUMP' and 'MAGA' to 'search Zelle payment messages' as well as a 'prior FinCEN analysis' of 'Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators.' According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of 'extremism' indicators that include 'transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel to areas with no apparent purpose,' or 'the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.' In other words, FinCEN urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.

"In addition, the Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained documents showing that FinCEN distributed slides, prepared by a financial institution, explaining how other financial institutions can use MCC codes to detect customers whose transactions may reflect 'potential active shooters, [and] who may include dangerous International Terrorists / Domestic Terrorists / Homegrown Violent Extremists ("Lone Wolves").' For example, the slides instruct financial institutions to query for transactions using certain MCC codes such as '3484: Small Arms,' '5091: Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies,' and the keywords 'Cabela's,' and 'Dick's Sporting Goods,' among several others. Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus—and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights—FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans' private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN's respect for fundamental civil liberties.

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"Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon to Target Dissenting Books"

by Jonathan Turley

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/...zon-on-suppressing-sales-on-dissenting-books/

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The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday revealed yet another facet of the Biden Administration’s sprawling censorship system that targeted dissenting books. It appears that, as with social media companies, it succeeded in getting the company not to promote disfavored books.

Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan revealed on X that the White House was directly involved in the censorship campaign. That includes a 2021 email from one Biden official asking to discuss “the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?”

Amazon in turn appears to ask only how high the Biden White House wants it to jump on censorship: “s the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books, or are they more concerned about search results/order (or both)?”

After the meeting, Amazon confirmed in an email that it was actively doing what the government demanded in suppressing sales by not promoting disfavored books: “As a reminder, we did enable Do Not Promote for anti-vax books whose primary purpose is to persuade readers vaccines are unsafe or ineffective on 3/9, and will review additional handling options for these books with you.”

This effort notably parallels demands from Democratic leaders who have called for enlightened algorithms to frame what citizens access on the internet. In 2021, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) objected that people were not listening to the informed views of herself and leading experts. Instead, they were reading views of skeptics by searching Amazon and finding books by “prominent spreaders of misinformation.”

It is important to keep in mind that these efforts at censorship targeted scientists who have been vindicated in many of their objections to policies and claims of the government. For example, a new scientific review by 12 researchers from leading universities found little support for the claims that masks reduced Covid exposures.

The closing of schools and businesses was also challenged by some critics as unnecessary. Many of those critics were also censored. It now appears that they may have been right. Many countries did not close schools and did not experience increases in Covid. However, we [the U.S.] are now facing alarming drops in testing scores and alarming rises in medical illness among the young.

Again, the objection to the censorship system is not that all of these views are correct, but that the public was being actively hampered in reading or hearing opposing views.

The new emails also show direct federal efforts supporting censorship. I testified at the first hearing by the special committee investigating the censorship system. I warned that there was ample evidence of a system based on “censorship by surrogate” where government agencies used academic and media allies to silence those with opposing views.

Despite the determined opposition by Democratic members and the Biden Administration, the investigation has revealed a wide array of grants to academic and third party organizations to create blacklists or to pressure advertisers to withdraw support for conservative sites. The subjects for censorship ranged from election fraud to social justice to climate change.

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