thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--Appeals Court Rules Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘Extremely Confidential’ Deposition Must Be Made Public

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Accused sex trafficker and ex-girlfriend of the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein , Ghislaine Maxwell , has failed in a court battle to prevent the public release of a 2016 deposition that could shed further light on details about her criminal involvement with the disgraced late financier .
On Monday , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied efforts by Maxwell ’ s attorneys to flip the decision of a lower court that ordered the transcript be unsealed and made public .
According @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 418-page deposition includes “ extremely personal , confidential ” information about her sex life and voluminous details on her dealings with her notorious partner , including flight logs from Epstein ’ s private jets .
The deposition is one component of a larger batch of thousands of files related to Epstein accuser and former “ sex slave ” Virginia Roberts Giuffre ’ s now-settled 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell .
Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation after she was accused by the British socialite of fabricating the sexual abuse allegations against her and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lured her into joining Epstein ’ s ring before grooming her to be sexually abused by him and his “ clients ” when she was only 15 .
“ ( T ) he District Court correctly held that the deposition materials are judicial documents to which the presumption of public access attaches and did not abuse its discretion in rejecting Maxwell ’ s meritless arguments that her interests superseded the presumption of access , ” wrote the appellate court panel .
“ The District Court ’ s order articulated and applied the correct @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the materials to be unsealed , ” the three-judge panel added .
Following her arrest in July , the 58-year-old British socialite was denied bail and placed in prison ahead of her trial in 2021 .
Maxwell faces faces charges of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts ; enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts ; conspiracy to transport minors , and transportation of a minor , with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity ; and two counts of perjury .
She @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engage in sex acts with Epstein by befriending them to ask them about their lives and families while building friendships with the young girls alongside Epstein by taking their victims on social outings or out shopping .
She has pleaded not guilty to assisting Epstein in the recruitment and sexual abuse of three girls between 1994 and 1997 , and of committing perjury by lying about her involvement while under oath .
In a July ruling , U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said that the public has a right to know the contents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outweighs any “ annoyance or embarrassment ” to Maxwell .
Preska did , however , note that some information will remain sealed , including several medical records included in the court filings and the identities of the anonymous women , or “ Jane Does , ” who have accused Epstein of abuse .
Epstein , 66 , was found dead in a lone cell in the special housing unit ( SHU ) of a federal Manhattan prison in New York City while facing a potential prison sentence of up to 45 years on @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Appeals Court Rules Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘Extremely Confidential’ Deposition Must Be Made Public
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
Accused sex trafficker and ex-girlfriend of the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, has failed in a court battle to prevent the public release of a 2016 deposition that could shed further light on details about her criminal involvement with the disgraced late financier.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied efforts by Maxwell’s attorneys to flip the decision of a lower court that ordered the transcript be unsealed and made public.
According to Maxwell’s legal team, the 418-page deposition includes “extremely personal, confidential” information about her sex life and voluminous details on her dealings with her notorious partner, including flight logs from Epstein’s private jets.
The deposition is one component of a larger batch of thousands of files related to Epstein accuser and former “sex slave” Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s now-settled 2015 civil lawsuit against Maxwell. Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation after she was accused by the British socialite of fabricating the sexual abuse allegations against her and Epstein.
Guiffre also alleged that Maxwell lured her into joining Epstein’s ring before grooming her to be sexually abused by him and his “clients” when she was only 15.
“(T)he District Court correctly held that the deposition materials are judicial documents to which the presumption of public access attaches and did not abuse its discretion in rejecting Maxwell’s meritless arguments that her interests superseded the presumption of access,” wrote the appellate court panel. “The District Court’s order articulated and applied the correct legal framework in its individualized review of the materials to be unsealed,” the three-judge panel added.
Following her arrest in July, the 58-year-old British socialite was denied bail and placed in prison ahead of her trial in 2021. Maxwell faces faces charges of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts; enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts; conspiracy to transport minors, and transportation of a minor, with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; and two counts of perjury.
She is accused of grooming multiple minors to engage in sex acts with Epstein by befriending them to ask them about their lives and families while building friendships with the young girls alongside Epstein by taking their victims on social outings or out shopping.
She has pleaded not guilty to assisting Epstein in the recruitment and sexual abuse of three girls between 1994 and 1997, and of committing perjury by lying about her involvement while under oath.
In a July ruling, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said that the public has a right to know the contents of deposition and that this right far outweighs any “annoyance or embarrassment” to Maxwell.
“In the context of this case, especially its allegations of sex trafficking of young girls, the court finds any minor embarrassment or annoyance resulting from Ms. Maxwell’s mostly non-testimony … is far outweighed by the presumption of public access,” she added.
Preska did, however, note that some information will remain sealed, including several medical records included in the court filings and the identities of the anonymous women, or “Jane Does,” who have accused Epstein of abuse.
Epstein, 66, was found dead in a lone cell in the special housing unit (SHU) of a federal Manhattan prison in New York City while facing a potential prison sentence of up to 45 years on charges of pedophilia and sex trafficking.
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--The Rise Of The Cyborgian Consumer

The Rise Of The Cyborgian Consumer

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The Posthuman ( or Transhuman ) Movement was formally established in California in the early 1980s .
A central figure within the movement , Nick Bostrom , declared that Posthumanism holds to the belief that human nature is an improvable structure , and all its capacities can be enhanced through the use of ‘ applied science ’ .
The proposition is that human beings should use technology to transcend the limits of body and mind .
Posthumanists do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as distributed processes within a system .
‘ THE BODY IS OBSOLETE ’ is their battle cry , but the Posthuman seems to be defined by a lack of definition .
Stephen Brown , the doyen of marketing and interpretive consumer research , introduced the term apophasis .
This is a curious choice of word , as it is a theological term which refers to knowing God through negation , or what God is not .
Apophasis is from the ancient Greek , meaning to deny or negate .
The problem seems to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a human being does or performs , but there is a difficulty when it comes to describing what a human being is .
This lays bare the profound incapacity of language to penetrate into the very essence of things .
In other words , to fully express Being , ( I bet humpback whales don ’ t have this problem ) .
To the Posthumanist technocrats , ‘ natural man ’ is a failed project that desperately needs to be improved upon .
But before this can happen radical changes need to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it means to be human .
Traditional accounts of the state of being human are based upon Cartesian worldviews , which regard external reality as objectively recordable and expressed primarily through mathematical laws .
People , as physically isolated thinking mammals , are viewed as necessary consumers within a society that is imagined to be ever abundant and fruitful .
This is the Gaia of Classical thought , an ever-producing cornucopia of unquenchable life .
Consuming this bounty is our essential function , and God-given right .
Not only that , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now theorized to be nothing more than an information processor .
This data collecting ‘ machine ’ , being rational and scientific , is external to the fixed social reality which it continually observes and records .
Posthumanism , conversely , puts the emphasis on socio-cultural and technological contexts , and the individual consciousnesses are but processes within this contextual framework .
These are socially constructed “ hybrid marketplace matrices ” using a variety of social , economic and technological systems to control and manoeuvre the population through their insatiable desire to consume @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society is seen as being porous and amorphous .
Reality becomes protean , as nothing is stable , and it becomes difficult to draw a clear line between the human , the animal and the machine .
This is viewed as a natural societal progression , the next phase of an ever-evolving humanity .
The rational consumer is now replaced by a bio-technological symbiont , or cyborg .
As the “ proto-typical posthumanist consumer ” , the cyborg is seen as the most popular manifestation of the posthuman .
This image contains a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both liberatory and oppressive .
The hope is that it can liberate mankind from organic failures , such as ageing and disease , yet contains the fear of a powerful hierarchical elite of technologized bio-machines lording it over the general unmodified masses .
Yet , the cyborg is a hybrid , a bio-technological chimera , and can not exist without social , economic and technological systems .
It is fundamentally a process ( or even a product ) rather than a Being , a verb rather than a noun .
It has lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the process itself .
A cyborg is a Golem by any other name .
The Golem is one of the oldest legends of artificial creation , barring Hermetic tales of Egyptian magic instilling stone statues with the consciousness of their gods or neters .
Similarly , through the power of Jewish cabbalism , a model of stone or metal could be infused with life ( the root of the word golem is golmi , meaning ‘ unformed limbs ’ ) .
The modern attempt to create consciousness within digital constructs is no different @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the automaton , comparing it favourably with the human body .
In the late 1980s Hans Moravec , a faculty member of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University , proposed that human identity is essentially an informational pattern .
He suggested that this proposition can be demonstrated by downloading human consciousness into a computer , thus proving that machines can become human .
He believed that robots will evolve into a new series of artificial species , starting around 2030 – 2040 .
Almost 30 years later , a large percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology that has become so entwined with the creation of identity that it can no longer be meaningfully separated from the human subject .
In other words , we are in the initial stages of becoming cyborgs .
We may not be physically augmented by technology , but we are beginning to think in the same manner as machines , or the algorithms that run them .
The more we use computers , and spend our valuable time prowling around the internet , the more we embody becoming Posthuman .
We are already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In 1948 , the mathematician Norbert Weiner published a book entitled ‘ Cybernetics : control and communication in the animal and machine ’ .
Here he proposed it was possible to telegraph a human being , imagining that the body can be dematerialised into an informational pattern and rematerialised at a different location .
More recently , molecular biology treats information as the essential code the body expresses , what we know as DNA .
This is termed the ‘ impossible inversion ’ , where information becomes primary and materiality secondary .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that information can circulate unchanged among different material substrates .
“ Beam me up , Scotty ” has become a cultural icon for the global information age .
Information has now come to be conceptualised as an entity in itself , existing separately from the material forms in which it is thought to be embedded .
As such , information can be considered the thoughts of the machine and a biological body is seen as an accident of history rather than an inevitable consequence of material life .
In his book ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , the philosopher Michel Foucault suggested that “ man ” is no more than a historical construct whose era is about to end .
The Posthuman view considers consciousness as an epiphenomenon , an evolutionary by-product or secondary effect .
The physical body is considered as the original prosthesis we , as a species , learned to manipulate .
Extending or replacing the biological body with artificial prostheses is therefore a continuation of an evolutionary process .
This view , in turn , configures the human being to be seamlessly articulated with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no essential demarcation between bodily existence and computer simulation , cybernetic mechanism and biological organism .
Posthumanism does away with the ‘ natural self ’ , rejecting the arguments that the social philosophers Hobbes and Locke constructed about humans being originally in a ‘ state of nature ’ , and therefore owing nothing to society , as that was an after-effect .
Instead , the Posthuman is an amalgamation of diverse components , a material-information entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction .
Indeed , the situation just described seems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elite : Ordo Ab Chao , or order out of chaos .
The beliefs of the Posthumanists appear to reverse the above declaration .
Instead of an ordered reality complete with clearly defined boundaries and roles for the inhabitants of society , they appear to offer an amalgamated mass of ever-changing variables that resemble the protean , but infinitely fecund , primal Chaos that preceded the manifestation of this physical universe .
Is it the intentional creation of a universal Chaos ( alchemically merging mineral with vegetable , namely silicon with carbon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Order can be produced ?
Addendum : it struck me that posthuman is nearly posthumous , and thus denoting the death-knell of the natural human being .
Elva Thompson was born in England in 1947 and moved to Rosebud Lakota reservation in 1987 .
She is the author of the Heartstar Series ; Book One : The Key made of Air , and Book Two : The Gates to Pandemonia .
Her other interests include organic gardening , ancient phonetic languages , sonic sound and their application in the healing arts .
She @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sonic re-patterning using sound , colour , and essential oils .
Elva Thompson is on Amazon Author Central @ amazon.com/author/heartstar

The Rise Of The Cyborgian Consumer
Mick Garnett, Guest
Waking Times
“You don’t take over the world with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical, and invisible.” ~ John Greer – Person of Interest, Season 4, Episode: YHVH
The Posthuman (or Transhuman) Movement was formally established in California in the early 1980s. A central figure within the movement, Nick Bostrom, declared that Posthumanism holds to the belief that human nature is an improvable structure, and all its capacities can be enhanced through the use of ‘applied science’. The proposition is that human beings should use technology to transcend the limits of body and mind. Posthumanists do not see humanity as isolated physical entities but as distributed processes within a system. ‘THE BODY IS OBSOLETE’ is their battle cry, but the Posthuman seems to be defined by a lack of definition.
Stephen Brown, the doyen of marketing and interpretive consumer research, introduced the term apophasis. This is a curious choice of word, as it is a theological term which refers to knowing God through negation, or what God is not. Apophasis is from the ancient Greek, meaning to deny or negate. The problem seems to be that we can happily describe what a human being does or performs, but there is a difficulty when it comes to describing what a human being is. This lays bare the profound incapacity of language to penetrate into the very essence of things. In other words, to fully express Being, (I bet humpback whales don’t have this problem).
I Consume, Therefore I Am
To the Posthumanist technocrats, ‘natural man’ is a failed project that desperately needs to be improved upon. But before this can happen radical changes need to be made to our current conceptions of what it means to be human. Traditional accounts of the state of being human are based upon Cartesian worldviews, which regard external reality as objectively recordable and expressed primarily through mathematical laws.
People, as physically isolated thinking mammals, are viewed as necessary consumers within a society that is imagined to be ever abundant and fruitful. This is the Gaia of Classical thought, an ever-producing cornucopia of unquenchable life. Consuming this bounty is our essential function, and God-given right. Not only that, but the mind, or disembodied consciousness, is now theorized to be nothing more than an information processor. This data collecting ‘machine’, being rational and scientific, is external to the fixed social reality which it continually observes and records.
Posthumanism, conversely, puts the emphasis on socio-cultural and technological contexts, and the individual consciousnesses are but processes within this contextual framework. These are socially constructed “hybrid marketplace matrices” using a variety of social, economic and technological systems to control and manoeuvre the population through their insatiable desire to consume. The boundary between the individual and society is seen as being porous and amorphous. Reality becomes protean, as nothing is stable, and it becomes difficult to draw a clear line between the human, the animal and the machine. This is viewed as a natural societal progression, the next phase of an ever-evolving humanity.
“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.” ~ Donna J. Haraway
The rational consumer is now replaced by a bio-technological symbiont, or cyborg. As the “proto-typical posthumanist consumer”, the cyborg is seen as the most popular manifestation of the posthuman. This image contains a dichotomy, though, as it is both liberatory and oppressive. The hope is that it can liberate mankind from organic failures, such as ageing and disease, yet contains the fear of a powerful hierarchical elite of technologized bio-machines lording it over the general unmodified masses.
Yet, the cyborg is a hybrid, a bio-technological chimera, and cannot exist without social, economic and technological systems. It is fundamentally a process (or even a product) rather than a Being, a verb rather than a noun. It has lost its essential individuality and become subsumed in the process itself. A cyborg is a Golem by any other name. The Golem is one of the oldest legends of artificial creation, barring Hermetic tales of Egyptian magic instilling stone statues with the consciousness of their gods or neters.
Similarly, through the power of Jewish cabbalism, a model of stone or metal could be infused with life (the root of the word golem is golmi, meaning ‘unformed limbs’). The modern attempt to create consciousness within digital constructs is no different.
Ironically, Descartes himself was fascinated by the automaton, comparing it favourably with the human body. In the late 1980s Hans Moravec, a faculty member of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, proposed that human identity is essentially an informational pattern. He suggested that this proposition can be demonstrated by downloading human consciousness into a computer, thus proving that machines can become human. He believed that robots will evolve into a new series of artificial species, starting around 2030 – 2040.
Almost 30 years later, a large percent of human communication is mediated by a technology that has become so entwined with the creation of identity that it can no longer be meaningfully separated from the human subject. In other words, we are in the initial stages of becoming cyborgs. We may not be physically augmented by technology, but we are beginning to think in the same manner as machines, or the algorithms that run them. The more we use computers, and spend our valuable time prowling around the internet, the more we embody becoming Posthuman. We are already well on the way to becoming cyborg.
“Beam me up, Scotty.” Captain James T. Kirk, any original Star Trek episode.
In 1948, the mathematician Norbert Weiner published a book entitled ‘Cybernetics: control and communication in the animal and machine’. Here he proposed it was possible to telegraph a human being, imagining that the body can be dematerialised into an informational pattern and rematerialised at a different location. More recently, molecular biology treats information as the essential code the body expresses, what we know as DNA. This is termed the ‘impossible inversion’, where information becomes primary and materiality secondary.
During our present cultural moment the belief is that information can circulate unchanged among different material substrates. “Beam me up, Scotty” has become a cultural icon for the global information age. Information has now come to be conceptualised as an entity in itself, existing separately from the material forms in which it is thought to be embedded.
As such, information can be considered the thoughts of the machine and a biological body is seen as an accident of history rather than an inevitable consequence of material life. In his book ‘The Order of Things’ (1973), the philosopher Michel Foucault suggested that “man” is no more than a historical construct whose era is about to end. The Posthuman view considers consciousness as an epiphenomenon, an evolutionary by-product or secondary effect. The physical body is considered as the original prosthesis we, as a species, learned to manipulate.
Extending or replacing the biological body with artificial prostheses is therefore a continuation of an evolutionary process. This view, in turn, configures the human being to be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machines. In the Posthuman world there is no essential demarcation between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism.
Posthumanism does away with the ‘natural self’, rejecting the arguments that the social philosophers Hobbes and Locke constructed about humans being originally in a ‘state of nature’, and therefore owing nothing to society, as that was an after-effect. Instead, the Posthuman is an amalgamation of diverse components, a material-information entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction.
Chaos out of Order?
Indeed, the situation just described seems to contradict the oft touted phrase of the elite: Ordo Ab Chao, or order out of chaos. The beliefs of the Posthumanists appear to reverse the above declaration. Instead of an ordered reality complete with clearly defined boundaries and roles for the inhabitants of society, they appear to offer an amalgamated mass of ever-changing variables that resemble the protean, but infinitely fecund, primal Chaos that preceded the manifestation of this physical universe. Is it the intentional creation of a universal Chaos (alchemically merging mineral with vegetable, namely silicon with carbon) from which a new level of Order can be produced?
Addendum: it struck me that posthuman is nearly posthumous, and thus denoting the death-knell of the natural human being.
About the Author
Elva Thompson was born in England in 1947 and moved to Rosebud Lakota reservation in 1987. She is the author of the Heartstar Series; Book One: The Key made of Air, and Book Two: The Gates to Pandemonia. Her other interests include organic gardening, ancient phonetic languages, sonic sound and their application in the healing arts. She is also a medical intuitive and teaches sonic re-patterning using sound, colour, and essential oils. Elva Thompson is on Amazon Author Central @ amazon.com/author/heartstar


thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--Activists Build Their Own Facial Recognition System To ID Bad Cops Who Hide Badges

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“ Beat them at their own game.
” “ Flip the script.
” “ Give them a taste of their own medicine.
” Any of these phrases will apply to the absolutely ingenious measures taken by activists who are creating their own facial recognition systems to identify cops who hide their badges .
As TFTP reported during the George Floyd protests , across the country , in dozens of cities , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the face of angry protests stemming from unchecked police brutality .
Though Floyd ’ s death was the flash point of the unrest , the uprising represented something far deeper — systemic abuse by law enforcement of minorities , the poor , and everyone else not directly connected to the establishment .
Countless incidents throughout this unrest involved officers who could not be identified and as a result of their anonymous instigation and violence , there has been no accountability .
In multiple states , police have been seemingly taking measures to avoid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or covering their badges .
This is in direct violation of most departments ’ policies .
But no politicians , mayors , governors , or mainstream media seem to care .
Cops hiding their identification is ominous for two reasons .
The first reason being that they can enact brutality against the innocent and we do not know who they are to hold them accountable .
The second reason is the fact that anyone can dress up like a cop with no badge number and start doing whatever they want , up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or any other numerous unscrupulous acts .
As we reported at the time , many of these departments appeared to have been given orders from the top down to cover their badge numbers and remove their name plates .
This is not acceptable and thanks to a self-taught programmer , Christopher Howell , it no longer has to be .
Howell created a program that identifies cops who were permitted by their supervisors to cover their names while responding to protests .
Because Portland made it illegal to use facial recognition against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to using his software .
However , as the NY Times reports , Portland ’ s mayor , Ted Wheeler , told Mr. Howell that his project was “ a little creepy , ” but a lawyer for the city clarified that the bills would not apply to individuals .
The Council then passed the legislation in a unanimous vote .
This self-taught computer programmer has since created a system that has led to flipping the script on police accountability .
Howell is not alone in his pursuit of identifying anonymous cops who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retribution .
Colin Cheung , a protester in Hong Kong , had developed a tool to identify police officers using online photos of them .
His technology was so effective that the Chinese government arrested him for it .
As the Times reports , Paolo Cirio published photos of 4,000 faces of French police officers online for an exhibit called “ Capture , ” which he described as the first step in developing a facial recognition app .
He collected the faces from 1,000 photos he had gathered from the internet and from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Other folks are getting on board as well .
If the state is willing use facial recognition on innocent citizens , they shouldn ’ t be surprised with the cameras and software begin pointing back at them .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state .
Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project .
Follow @ MattAgorist on Twitter , Steemit , and now on Minds .
**This article ( Activists Build Their Own Facial Recognition System To ID Bad Cops Who Hide Badges ) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission .
**

Activists Build Their Own Facial Recognition System To ID Bad Cops Who Hide Badges
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
“Beat them at their own game.” “Flip the script.” “Give them a taste of their own medicine.” Any of these phrases will apply to the absolutely ingenious measures taken by activists who are creating their own facial recognition systems to identify cops who hide their badges.
As TFTP reported during the George Floyd protests, across the country, in dozens of cities, cops were doling out unprecedented violence in the face of angry protests stemming from unchecked police brutality. Though Floyd’s death was the flash point of the unrest, the uprising represented something far deeper — systemic abuse by law enforcement of minorities, the poor, and everyone else not directly connected to the establishment. Countless incidents throughout this unrest involved officers who could not be identified and as a result of their anonymous instigation and violence, there has been no accountability.
In multiple states, police have been seemingly taking measures to avoid this accountability by removing their name tags or covering their badges. This is in direct violation of most departments’ policies. But no politicians, mayors, governors, or mainstream media seem to care.
Cops hiding their identification is ominous for two reasons. The first reason being that they can enact brutality against the innocent and we do not know who they are to hold them accountable. The second reason is the fact that anyone can dress up like a cop with no badge number and start doing whatever they want, up to and including inciting violence, detaining people, or any other numerous unscrupulous acts.
As we reported at the time, many of these departments appeared to have been given orders from the top down to cover their badge numbers and remove their name plates. This is not acceptable and thanks to a self-taught programmer, Christopher Howell, it no longer has to be.
Howell created a program that identifies cops who were permitted by their supervisors to cover their names while responding to protests.
“I am involved with developing facial recognition to in fact use on Portland police officers, since they are not identifying themselves to the public,” Howell told the NY Times.
Because Portland made it illegal to use facial recognition against the police, Howell had some barriers to using his software. However, as the NY Times reports, Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, told Mr. Howell that his project was “a little creepy,” but a lawyer for the city clarified that the bills would not apply to individuals. The Council then passed the legislation in a unanimous vote.
“There’s a lot of excessive force here in Portland,” Howell told the NY Times. “Knowing who the officers are seems like a baseline.”
This self-taught computer programmer has since created a system that has led to flipping the script on police accountability.
“This was, you know, kind of a ‘shower thought’ moment for me, and just kind of an intersection of what I know how to do and what my current interests are,” he said. “Accountability is important. We need to know who is doing what, so we can deal with it.”
Howell is not alone in his pursuit of identifying anonymous cops who can dole out violence without fear of retribution.
Colin Cheung, a protester in Hong Kong, had developed a tool to identify police officers using online photos of them. His technology was so effective that the Chinese government arrested him for it.
As the Times reports, Paolo Cirio published photos of 4,000 faces of French police officers online for an exhibit called “Capture,” which he described as the first step in developing a facial recognition app. He collected the faces from 1,000 photos he had gathered from the internet and from photographers who attended protests in France.
Other folks are getting on board as well. If the state is willing use facial recognition on innocent citizens, they shouldn’t be surprised with the cameras and software begin pointing back at them.
About the Author
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
**This article (Activists Build Their Own Facial Recognition System To ID Bad Cops Who Hide Badges) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission.**


thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--Oxycontin Producer Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges For Role In Opiate Crisis

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OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for the role that it played in the ongoing opiate crisis .
On Wednesday , Justice Department officials said that the company will be pleading guilty as part of a settlement worth over $ 8 billion .
In the settlement , Purdue will pay $ 225 million directly to the government and will give up an additional $ 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forfeiture .
The company also faces a $ 3.54 billion criminal fine , but this money may not be collected due to bankruptcy .
Purdue also owes $ 2.8 billion in damages to cover lawsuits that victims have brought against the company .
The company will be pleading guilty to three federal charges , including conspiracy to defraud the United States and violating federal anti-kickback laws .
The company admitted to pushing doctors to prescribe more opioids than they would have otherwise .
As part of the plea deal , the company will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knowingly and intentionally conspired and agreed with others to aid and abet ” the dispensing of medication from doctors “ without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice , ” according to a copy of the plea agreement obtained by the Associated Press .
These charges are separate from the investigation against the Sacklers , the wealthy family that owns the company .
They are still the target of an ongoing criminal investigation .
As a part of the agreement , Purdue will admit that it obstructed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ misleading information about the drug and its addictive properties .
The settlement promises to change the nature of Purue Pharma for good , by turning it into a public benefit company , which means that it will be governed by a trust that prioritizes public health instead of profit .
Furthermore , the Sackler family would not have any involvement in the new company .
In a recent letter , 38 Democratic members of Congress and other advocates wrote to Attorney General William Barr asking him to hold the company fully accountable for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deals .
“ Millions of American families impacted by the opioid epidemic are looking to you and your Department for justice .
Justice for the sleepless nights spent worrying about sons and daughters trapped in the grip of substance use disorder , justice for the jobs lost and the lives ruined , and justice for the lives of loved ones lost to overdoses .
If the only practical consequence of your Department ’ s investigation is that a handful of billionaires are made slightly less rich , we fear that the American people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Department to provide accountability and equal justice under the law , ” the letter stated .
Purdue is the first opioid maker to plead guilty to serious criminal charges because they were the largest and most profitable , but there are many other companies in the industry who took part in the same actions , and many of those companies are currently under investigation for their involvement in the opiate epidemic .

Oxycontin Producer Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges For Role In Opiate Crisis
John Vibes, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges for the role that it played in the ongoing opiate crisis. On Wednesday, Justice Department officials said that the company will be pleading guilty as part of a settlement worth over $8 billion.
In the settlement, Purdue will pay $225 million directly to the government and will give up an additional $2 billion to the government through criminal asset forfeiture. The company also faces a $3.54 billion criminal fine, but this money may not be collected due to bankruptcy. Purdue also owes $2.8 billion in damages to cover lawsuits that victims have brought against the company.
The company will be pleading guilty to three federal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and violating federal anti-kickback laws. The company admitted to pushing doctors to prescribe more opioids than they would have otherwise.
As part of the plea deal, the company will admit it violated federal law and “knowingly and intentionally conspired and agreed with others to aid and abet” the dispensing of medication from doctors “without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice,” according to a copy of the plea agreement obtained by the Associated Press.
These charges are separate from the investigation against the Sacklers, the wealthy family that owns the company. They are still the target of an ongoing criminal investigation.
As a part of the agreement, Purdue will admit that it obstructed the Drug Enforcement Administration by reporting false and misleading information about the drug and its addictive properties.
The settlement promises to change the nature of Purue Pharma for good, by turning it into a public benefit company, which means that it will be governed by a trust that prioritizes public health instead of profit. Furthermore, the Sackler family would not have any involvement in the new company.
In a recent letter, 38 Democratic members of Congress and other advocates wrote to Attorney General William Barr asking him to hold the company fully accountable for their actions, without cutting them any deals.
“Millions of American families impacted by the opioid epidemic are looking to you and your Department for justice. Justice for the sleepless nights spent worrying about sons and daughters trapped in the grip of substance use disorder, justice for the jobs lost and the lives ruined, and justice for the lives of loved ones lost to overdoses. If the only practical consequence of your Department’s investigation is that a handful of billionaires are made slightly less rich, we fear that the American people will lose faith in the ability of the Department to provide accountability and equal justice under the law,” the letter stated.
Purdue is the first opioid maker to plead guilty to serious criminal charges because they were the largest and most profitable, but there are many other companies in the industry who took part in the same actions, and many of those companies are currently under investigation for their involvement in the opiate epidemic.
By John Vibes | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


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The Global Takeover Is Underway

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The World Economic Forum public relations video above , “ 8 Predictions for the World in 2030 , ” short as it may be , offers a telling glimpse into what the technocratic elite has in store for the rest of us .
This includes : For decades , war and the threat of war has enriched the technocratic elite and kept the population going along with their agenda .
War and physical attacks have been repeatedly used to foist ever more draconian restrictions upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Patriot Act , rammed through in the aftermath of 9/11 , is just one egregious example .
Today , pandemics and the threat of infectious outbreaks are the new tools of war and social control .
For years , Gates has prepared the global psyche for a new enemy : deadly , invisible viruses that can crop up at any time.1,2 And the only way to protect ourselves is by giving up old-fashioned notions of privacy , liberty and personal decision-making .
We need to maintain our distance from others , including family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even in our own homes and during sex .
We need to close down small businesses and work from home .
We need to vaccinate the entire global population and put stringent travel restrictions into place to prevent the potential for spread .
We must track and trace everyone , every moment of the day and night , and install biometric readers into everyone ’ s bodies to identify who the potential risk-carriers are .
Infected people are the new threat .
This is what the technocratic elite wants you to believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convince a shocking ratio of the global population of this in just a few short months .
If you ’ re unfamiliar with the term “ technocracy , ” be sure to go back and listen to my interview with Patrick Wood , author of “ Technocracy Rising : The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation ” and “ Technocracy : The Hard Road to World Order.
” You can also learn more on Wood ’ s website , Technocracy.news .
Two of the last pieces of the totalitarian takeover will be the transition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IDs .
With that , enforcement of social rules will be more or less ensured , as your finances , indeed your entire identity , can easily be held hostage if you fail to comply .
Just think how easy it would be to automate it such that if you fail to get your mandated vaccine , or post something undesirable on the internet , your bank account becomes unavailable or your biometric ID won ’ t allow you entry into your office building .
An August 13 , 2020 , article3 on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefits of a central bank digital currency ( CBDC ) .
There ’ s general agreement among experts that most major countries will implement CBDC within the next two to four years .
An all-digital currency system also plays into social engineering , as it can be used to incentivize desired behaviors , very similar to what China is doing with their social credit system .
For example , you might get a certain amount of digital currency but you have to buy a certain item or perform a particular task within a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe that these new CBDCs will be very similar to existing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin , but they would be seriously mistaken .
Bitcoin is decentralized and a rational strategy to opt out of the existing central bank controlled system , while these CBDCs will be centralized and completely controlled by the central banks .
If you have been intrigued about investing in Bitcoin as a safer alternative to the stock market , but just didn ’ t know how or understand the process , the video below is an excellent introduction on how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funds .
My favorite crypto exchange is Kraken , which has far lower fees than Coinbase .
While I mention Gates a lot , he ’ s not acting alone , of course .
It just so happens that as you trace the connections between the decision-makers of the world , you ’ ll find him in an astonishing number of places .
For example , In October 2019 , Gates co-hosted a pandemic preparedness simulation for a “ novel coronavirus , ” known as Event 201 , along with the Johns Hopkins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Economic Forum .
The event eerily predicted what would happen just 10 weeks later , when COVID-19 appeared .
Gates and the World Economic Forum , in turn , are both partnered4 with the United Nations which , while keeping a relatively low profile , appears to be at the heart of the globalist takeover agenda .
Gates is also the largest funder of the World Health Organization — the medical branch of the U.N. , while the World Economic Forum is the social and economic branch of the U.N. Other key partners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the globalists agenda include:5 The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is the Technocratic Agenda In decades past , the technocrats , the global , mostly unelected , elite that steer the management of nations worldwide , called for a “ new world order.
” Today , the NWO has been largely replaced with terms like “ the Great Reset , ” 6 “ the Fourth Industrial Revolution , ” 7 and the slogan “ Build Back Better.
” 8 All of these terms and slogans refer to the same long-term globalist agenda to dismantle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a global governance by unelected leaders , and the reliance on technological surveillance rather than the rule of law to maintain public order .
As expressed by Matt Hancock , the British Minister for Digital , Culture , Media & Sport , during a speech before the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2017:9 If you listened to my interview with Wood , you will recognize the technocratic elements of Hancock ’ s speech : the focus on technology — in particular artificial intelligence , digital surveillance and Big Data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for ) — and the digitization of industry ( which includes banking ) and government , which in turn allows for the automation of social engineering and social rule ( although that part is never expressly stated ) .
Then there ’ s the direct reference to professor Klaus Schwab , chairman of the World Economic Forum .
Schwab is also highlighted in the June 29 , 2020 , Technocracy.news article,10 “ The Elite Technocrats Behind the Global ‘ Great Reset , ” which reads , in part:11 The U.N. ’ s central @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to miss once you start looking .
As reported by the U.N. ’ s Department of Global Communications April 22 , 2020 , in an article about climate change and COVID-19:13 Here too , we see the technocratic agenda shining through .
As described by Wood ( see interview hyperlinked above ) , technocracy is an economic system based on the allocation of energy resources , which necessitates social engineering to control the population and the technological infrastructure to automate this control .
Rather than being driven by supply and demand and free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which companies are told what resources they ’ re allowed to use , when , and for what , and consumers are told what they are allowed to buy — or rather , rent , judging by the World Economic Forum video above .
If you need something , you ’ ll be allowed to rent it .
You probably won ’ t even own the clothes on your back .
Everything will be “ fair ” and “ equitable.
” There will be no need for hard work , ingenuity or higher-than-average @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — with the exception of the technocrats themselves , of course .
And in true social engineering fashion , they tell us we will be “ happy ” in our 24/7 enslavement to boot .
It ’ s important to realize that one way by which this globalist plan is being pushed forward is through the creation of new global laws .
Gates already wields powerful influence over global food and agriculture policy , in addition to his influence over global health and technology ( including banking and digital IDs ) .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back better ” plan , specifically calls for all nations to implement “ green ” regulations as part of the post-COVID recovery effort .
It sounds like a worthwhile endeavor — after all , who doesn ’ t want to protect the environment ?
But the end goal is far from what the typical person envisions when they hear these plans .
The end goal is to turn us into serfs without rights to privacy , private ownership or anything else .
To get an idea of just how dystopian a future we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s international patent14 WO/2020/060606 for a “ cryptocurrency system using body activity data.
” The international patent was filed June 20 , 2019 .
The U.S. patent office application,15 16128518 , was filed September 21 , 2018 .
As explained in the abstract:16 The U.S. patent application includes the following flow chart summary of the process:17 This patent , if implemented , would essentially turn human beings into robots .
If you ’ ve ever wondered how the average person will make a living in the AI tech-driven world of the future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer .
People will be brought down to the level of mindless drones , spending their days carrying out tasks automatically handed out by , say a cellphone app , in return for a cryptocurrency “ award.
” I don ’ t know about you , but I can think of better , more enjoyable ways to spend my time here on Earth .
I ’ ve mentioned the World Economic Forum multiple times already in this article , and it , along with the U.N. , is at the heart of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Canadian Truth blog post,18 “ World Economic Forum Wheel of Evil ” : The blog post includes the following illustration , created and released by the World Economic Forum , showing the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it .
If you go to the original site for the illustration,19 you ’ ll also find listings of publications , videos and data relating to all of these facets .
In short , the pandemic is being used to destroy the local economies around the world , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come in and “ rescue ” debt-ridden countries .
As mentioned earlier , the price for this salvation is your liberty .
The World Economic Forum will , through its financial bailouts , be able to effectively control most countries in the world .
And , again , one of the aspects of the technocratic plan is to eliminate nation borders and nationalism in general .
There ’ s a lot more that could be said on this , but I ’ ve already covered many of the different aspects of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ COVID Symptoms of Power : Tech Billionaires Harvest Humanity , ” “ Tech Billionaires Aiming at a Global Currency , ” “ Harvard Professor Exposes Surveillance Capitalism , ” “ How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible ” and “ US Surveillance Bill 6666 : The Devil in the Details.
” None of it is pleasant reading , but it ’ s important to understand where we ’ re headed .
We no longer have the luxury of sticking our heads in the sand and waiting for the bad news to pass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economic gap between average people and the wealthy elite , with billionaires raking in trillions of dollars in mere months.20,21 Without the competition from small businesses , large multinational companies have been allowed to gobble up business , expanding both their wealth and their influence , while extreme poverty has risen for the first time in two decades.22 If you think the Great Reset and the Green New Deal are going to even out this financial disparity and turn the world into an equitable Utopia , you ’ re bound to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t about creating a better world for the average person .
Microsoft ’ s patent illustrates what the plan heralds for us .
Medical Tyranny Will Get Worse if We Let It The medical tyranny and censorship of anti-groupthink that has emerged full-force during this pandemic are also part and parcel of the Great Reset .
After all , if they won ’ t allow you to own anything , and they want to put biosensors into your body to turn you into a cryptocurrency mining minion , do you really think they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medical decisions for yourself ?
Over the past several months , Gates has made the media rounds discussing the need to silence dissenting views and information about the virus , it ’ s treatment and the vaccines being made .
According to a survey cited by RT,23 less than half of all Americans now say they would not take the COVID-19 vaccine even if they were paid $ 100 to do it .
There are good reasons for this hesitancy , as trials are starting to reveal serious side effects .
For Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ six different COVID-19 vaccines , this is no small problem .
In an October 2020 interview , Gates urged American health officials to start “ thinking about which voices will help reduce the hesitancy , so we can get a level of vaccination that really has a chance of stopping ” the pandemic.24 Despite the risks associated with these novel mRNA vaccines , which have never before been approved for human use , and despite the fact that children and adolescents have a minuscule risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now calling for children to be added to the COVID-19 trials.25 Hopefully , the number of parents willing to offer up their children as guinea pigs will be few .
In closing , keep in mind that technocracy is inherently a technological society run through social engineering .
This is why there ’ s such a strong focus on “ science.
” Anytime someone dissents , they ’ re therefore accused of being “ anti-science , ” and any science that conflicts with the status quo is declared “ debunked science.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technocrats deem true .
Logic , however , will tell you that this can not be so .
Science is never settled .
Science is never one-sided .
Science can be wrong .
Getting to the truth demands that an issue be looked at from many different angles .
Over the past year in particular , scientific inquiry and inquisitiveness has been censored and stifled to an astonishing degree .
If we allow it to continue , the end result will be devastating .
We must keep pushing for transparency and truth .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ personal liberty .
Do not allow yourself to be bullied into silence by those who counter your objections with “ anti-science ” or “ conspiracy-theory ” slurs .
The future of mankind is at stake .
Be brave .
Resist tyranny .

The Global Takeover Is Underway
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
The World Economic Forum public relations video above, “8 Predictions for the World in 2030,” short as it may be, offers a telling glimpse into what the technocratic elite has in store for the rest of us. This includes:
“You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” Instead, you’ll rent everything you need, and it’ll be delivered by drone right to your door. “The U.S. won’t be the world’s leading superpower” — Instead, a handful of countries will dominate together. “You won’t die waiting for an organ donor” — Rather than transplanting organs from deceased donors, custom organs will be 3D printed on demand. “You’ll eat much less meat” — Meat will be “an occasional treat, not a staple, for the good of the environment and our health.” As detailed in many previous articles, this is a foolhardy idea, not just for health reasons but also environmental ones. Integrating livestock is a foundational aspect of successful regenerative farming that can solve both food shortages and environmental concerns at the same time. For a refresher, see “Top 6 Reasons to Support Regenerative Agriculture.” “A billion people will be displaced by climate change” — As a result, countries will have to prepare to welcome more refugees. “Polluters will have to pay to emit carbon dioxide” — To eliminate fossil fuels, there will be a global price on carbon. Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discussed this in a recent interview. Rather than promoting organic and regenerative farming, the technocratic elite are pushing something called zero-budget natural farming. Bill Gates is part of this scheme. As explained by Shiva, the wholly unnatural setup works something like this: The state takes out large loans, which are then divvied out to farmers to grow food for free. The farmers make their money not by selling their crops, but by trading their soil carbon rate on the global market. Basically, carbon is being turned into a tradeable commodity, replacing the actual farm output of grains and other crops. Farmers with higher carbon in their soil will make more money than those with carbon-poor soil. Meanwhile, they’ll make nothing from the crops they grow. “You could be preparing to go to Mars” — Scientists “will have worked out how to keep you healthy in space,” thus opening up the possibility of becoming a space-faring race and colonizing other planets. “Western values will have been tested to the breaking point.”
Pandemics Are a Tool of Social Control
For decades, war and the threat of war has enriched the technocratic elite and kept the population going along with their agenda. War and physical attacks have been repeatedly used to foist ever more draconian restrictions upon us and remove our liberties. The Patriot Act, rammed through in the aftermath of 9/11, is just one egregious example.
Today, pandemics and the threat of infectious outbreaks are the new tools of war and social control. For years, Gates has prepared the global psyche for a new enemy: deadly, invisible viruses that can crop up at any time.1,2 And the only way to protect ourselves is by giving up old-fashioned notions of privacy, liberty and personal decision-making.
We need to maintain our distance from others, including family members. We need to wear masks, even in our own homes and during sex. We need to close down small businesses and work from home. We need to vaccinate the entire global population and put stringent travel restrictions into place to prevent the potential for spread.
We must track and trace everyone, every moment of the day and night, and install biometric readers into everyone’s bodies to identify who the potential risk-carriers are. Infected people are the new threat. This is what the technocratic elite wants you to believe, and they’ve succeeded to convince a shocking ratio of the global population of this in just a few short months.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “technocracy,” be sure to go back and listen to my interview with Patrick Wood, author of “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation” and “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order.” You can also learn more on Wood’s website, Technocracy.news.
A New Digital Currency System Underway
Two of the last pieces of the totalitarian takeover will be the transition to an all-digital currency linked to digital IDs. With that, enforcement of social rules will be more or less ensured, as your finances, indeed your entire identity, can easily be held hostage if you fail to comply.
Just think how easy it would be to automate it such that if you fail to get your mandated vaccine, or post something undesirable on the internet, your bank account becomes unavailable or your biometric ID won’t allow you entry into your office building.
An August 13, 2020, article3 on the Federal Reserve website discusses the supposed benefits of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). There’s general agreement among experts that most major countries will implement CBDC within the next two to four years.
An all-digital currency system also plays into social engineering, as it can be used to incentivize desired behaviors, very similar to what China is doing with their social credit system. For example, you might get a certain amount of digital currency but you have to buy a certain item or perform a particular task within a certain timeframe.
Many uninformed people will believe that these new CBDCs will be very similar to existing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but they would be seriously mistaken. Bitcoin is decentralized and a rational strategy to opt out of the existing central bank controlled system, while these CBDCs will be centralized and completely controlled by the central banks.
If you have been intrigued about investing in Bitcoin as a safer alternative to the stock market, but just didn’t know how or understand the process, the video below is an excellent introduction on how to do this safely without losing your funds. My favorite crypto exchange is Kraken, which has far lower fees than Coinbase.
The Globalists
While I mention Gates a lot, he’s not acting alone, of course. It just so happens that as you trace the connections between the decision-makers of the world, you’ll find him in an astonishing number of places.
For example, In October 2019, Gates co-hosted a pandemic preparedness simulation for a “novel coronavirus,” known as Event 201, along with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum.
The event eerily predicted what would happen just 10 weeks later, when COVID-19 appeared. Gates and the World Economic Forum, in turn, are both partnered4 with the United Nations which, while keeping a relatively low profile, appears to be at the heart of the globalist takeover agenda.
Gates is also the largest funder of the World Health Organization — the medical branch of the U.N., while the World Economic Forum is the social and economic branch of the U.N. Other key partners that play important roles in the implementation of the globalists agenda include:5
Foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the UN Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation Avanti Communications, a British provider of satellite technology with global connectivity 2030 Vision, a partnership of technology giants to provide the infrastructure and technology solutions needed to realize the U.N.’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. 2030 Vision is also partnered with Frontier 2030, which is a partnership of organizations under the helm of the World Economic Forum Google, the No. 1 Big Data collector in the world and a leader in AI services Mastercard, which is leading the globalist charge to develop digital IDs and banking services Salesforce, a global leader in cloud computing, the “internet of things” and artificial intelligence. Incidentally, Salesforce is led by Marc Benioff, who is also on the World Economic Forum’s board of directors
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is the Technocratic Agenda
In decades past, the technocrats, the global, mostly unelected, elite that steer the management of nations worldwide, called for a “new world order.” Today, the NWO has been largely replaced with terms like “the Great Reset,”6 “the Fourth Industrial Revolution,”7 and the slogan “Build Back Better.”8
All of these terms and slogans refer to the same long-term globalist agenda to dismantle democracy and national borders in favor of a global governance by unelected leaders, and the reliance on technological surveillance rather than the rule of law to maintain public order.
As expressed by Matt Hancock, the British Minister for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, during a speech before the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2017:9
“One of the roles of Parliament is to cast ahead, to look to the horizon, and tackle the great challenges of our time. So, I applaud the creation of the APPG on the fourth industrial revolution, which surely is one of the greatest challenges we face, as a nation, and as a world.
The nature of the technologies is materially different to what has come before. In the past, we’ve thought of consumption as a one-off, and capital investment as additive. Yet put resources into the networks that now connect half the world, or into AI, and the effects are exponential …
I’m delighted to speak alongside so many impressive colleagues who really understand this, and alongside Professor Klaus Schwab who literally ‘wrote the book’ on the 4th Industrial Revolution. Your work, bringing together as you do all the best minds on the planet, has informed what we are doing …
Our Digital Strategy, embedded within the wider Industrial Strategy, sets out the seven pillars on which we can build our success. And inside that fits our 5G strategy, like a set of Russian Dolls.
Our Strategy covers infrastructure, skills, rules and ethics of big data use, cyber security, supporting the tech sector, the digitization of industry, and digitization of government.”
The Great Reset — A Techno-Fascist Recipe
If you listened to my interview with Wood, you will recognize the technocratic elements of Hancock’s speech: the focus on technology — in particular artificial intelligence, digital surveillance and Big Data collection (which is what 5G is for) — and the digitization of industry (which includes banking) and government, which in turn allows for the automation of social engineering and social rule (although that part is never expressly stated).
“The promised Utopia comes with a price — it sets shackles on our personal freedom.”
Then there’s the direct reference to professor Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum. Schwab is also highlighted in the June 29, 2020, Technocracy.news article,10 “The Elite Technocrats Behind the Global ‘Great Reset,” which reads, in part:11
“The UN Agenda 2030 with its Sustainable Development Goals is claimed to ‘ensure peace and prosperity for people and the planet.’ The actions are said to tackle poverty and hunger, bring better health and education, reduce inequalities, and save the oceans, forests and the climate.
Who can argue against such benevolent goals? But the promised Utopia comes with a price — it sets shackles on our personal freedom …
The leading partners of the United Nations Global Goals project reveal the real technocratic agenda that lies behind the polished feel-good façade — it involves a plan to fully integrate mankind into a technological surveillance apparatus overseen by a powerful AI.
The current pandemic scare has been a perfect trigger to kickstart this nefarious agenda … The current COVID-19 crisis is seen by the World Economic Forum and its chairman Klaus Schwab as the perfect trigger to implement their grandiose technocratic plan. Big Tech will come to ‘rescue’ the world.
In June 2020, Schwab declared … the need of a Great Reset to restore order in a world steeped in panic, conflict and economic turmoil:
‘The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century. It has laid bare the fundamental lack of social cohesion, fairness, inclusion and equality. Now is the historical moment in time, not only to fight the real virus but to shape the system for the needs of the Post-Corona era.
We have a choice to remain passive, which would lead to the amplification of many of the trends we see today. Polarization, nationalism, racism, and ultimately increasing social unrest and conflicts.
But we have another choice, we can build a new social contract, particularly integrating the next generation, we can change our behavior to be in harmony with nature again, and we can make sure the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are best utilized to provide us with better lives.’
This techno-fascist recipe will then, in an utmost non-democratic fashion without any public debate or skeptic inquiry, soon be integrated into the agenda of G20 and the European Union — relabeled as the Great Green Deal …
Unsurprisingly, Klaus Schwab fails to mention his own and his cronies’ role in creating this global economic mess in the first place — as it was ‘foreseen’ with stunning accuracy in World Economic Forum’s and Bill Gate’s Event 201 (October 2019) and in the Rockefeller Foundation report12 Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010).”
UN Calls for Nations to ‘Build Back Better’
The U.N.’s central role in the technocratic agenda is hard to miss once you start looking. As reported by the U.N.’s Department of Global Communications April 22, 2020, in an article about climate change and COVID-19:13
“As the world begins planning for a post-pandemic recovery, the United Nations is calling on Governments to seize the opportunity to ‘build back better’ by creating more sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies …
‘With this restart, a window of hope and opportunity opens… an opportunity for nations to green their recovery packages and shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, safe and more resilient,’ said UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa in her International Mother Earth Day message … It is therefore important that post-COVID-19 stimulus packages help the economy ‘grow back greener’ …
As Governments approve stimulus packages to support job creation, poverty reduction and economic growth, UNEP will help Member States ‘build back better,’ and capture opportunities for leap-frogging to green investments in renewable energy, smart housing, green public procurement and public transport — all guided by the principles and standards of sustainable production and consumption. These actions will be critical to fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Here too, we see the technocratic agenda shining through. As described by Wood (see interview hyperlinked above), technocracy is an economic system based on the allocation of energy resources, which necessitates social engineering to control the population and the technological infrastructure to automate this control.
Rather than being driven by supply and demand and free enterprise, this system is one in which companies are told what resources they’re allowed to use, when, and for what, and consumers are told what they are allowed to buy — or rather, rent, judging by the World Economic Forum video above.
If you need something, you’ll be allowed to rent it. You probably won’t even own the clothes on your back. Everything will be “fair” and “equitable.” There will be no need for hard work, ingenuity or higher-than-average intelligence. Everyone will be the same — with the exception of the technocrats themselves, of course. And in true social engineering fashion, they tell us we will be “happy” in our 24/7 enslavement to boot.
The Encroaching Dystopia
It’s important to realize that one way by which this globalist plan is being pushed forward is through the creation of new global laws. Gates already wields powerful influence over global food and agriculture policy, in addition to his influence over global health and technology (including banking and digital IDs).
The Great Reset, or the “build back better” plan, specifically calls for all nations to implement “green” regulations as part of the post-COVID recovery effort. It sounds like a worthwhile endeavor — after all, who doesn’t want to protect the environment?
But the end goal is far from what the typical person envisions when they hear these plans. The end goal is to turn us into serfs without rights to privacy, private ownership or anything else.
To get an idea of just how dystopian a future we might be looking at, consider Microsoft’s international patent14 WO/2020/060606 for a “cryptocurrency system using body activity data.” The international patent was filed June 20, 2019. The U.S. patent office application,15 16128518, was filed September 21, 2018. As explained in the abstract:16
“Human body activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system. A server may provide a task to a device of a user which is communicatively coupled to the server. A sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user.
Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user. The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.”
The U.S. patent application includes the following flow chart summary of the process:17
This patent, if implemented, would essentially turn human beings into robots. If you’ve ever wondered how the average person will make a living in the AI tech-driven world of the future, this may be part of your answer.
People will be brought down to the level of mindless drones, spending their days carrying out tasks automatically handed out by, say a cellphone app, in return for a cryptocurrency “award.” I don’t know about you, but I can think of better, more enjoyable ways to spend my time here on Earth.
The World Economic Forum — A Trojan Horse
I’ve mentioned the World Economic Forum multiple times already in this article, and it, along with the U.N., is at the heart of the global takeover agenda. As noted in the Canadian Truth blog post,18 “World Economic Forum Wheel of Evil”:
“ … this is about two things, the implementation of the UN SDG’s [Sustainable Development Goals] and the WEF [World Economic Forum] Fourth Industrial Revolution. End game: total Technocratic lock-down where they control every aspect of our lives and all resources on the planet.”
The blog post includes the following illustration, created and released by the World Economic Forum, showing the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it. If you go to the original site for the illustration,19 you’ll also find listings of publications, videos and data relating to all of these facets.
In short, the pandemic is being used to destroy the local economies around the world, which will then allow the World Economic Forum to come in and “rescue” debt-ridden countries.
As mentioned earlier, the price for this salvation is your liberty. The World Economic Forum will, through its financial bailouts, be able to effectively control most countries in the world. And, again, one of the aspects of the technocratic plan is to eliminate nation borders and nationalism in general.
COVID — Symptoms of Power
There’s a lot more that could be said on this, but I’ve already covered many of the different aspects of the globalists agenda in other articles, including “COVID Symptoms of Power: Tech Billionaires Harvest Humanity,” “Tech Billionaires Aiming at a Global Currency,” “Harvard Professor Exposes Surveillance Capitalism,” “How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible” and “US Surveillance Bill 6666: The Devil in the Details.”
None of it is pleasant reading, but it’s important to understand where we’re headed. We no longer have the luxury of sticking our heads in the sand and waiting for the bad news to pass.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically widened the economic gap between average people and the wealthy elite, with billionaires raking in trillions of dollars in mere months.20,21 Without the competition from small businesses, large multinational companies have been allowed to gobble up business, expanding both their wealth and their influence, while extreme poverty has risen for the first time in two decades.22
If you think the Great Reset and the Green New Deal are going to even out this financial disparity and turn the world into an equitable Utopia, you’re bound to be disappointed. The globalist plan isn’t about creating a better world for the average person. Microsoft’s patent illustrates what the plan heralds for us.
Medical Tyranny Will Get Worse if We Let It
The medical tyranny and censorship of anti-groupthink that has emerged full-force during this pandemic are also part and parcel of the Great Reset. After all, if they won’t allow you to own anything, and they want to put biosensors into your body to turn you into a cryptocurrency mining minion, do you really think they’re going to let you make medical decisions for yourself?
Over the past several months, Gates has made the media rounds discussing the need to silence dissenting views and information about the virus, it’s treatment and the vaccines being made.
According to a survey cited by RT,23 less than half of all Americans now say they would not take the COVID-19 vaccine even if they were paid $100 to do it. There are good reasons for this hesitancy, as trials are starting to reveal serious side effects.
For Gates, who is funding no fewer than six different COVID-19 vaccines, this is no small problem. In an October 2020 interview, Gates urged American health officials to start “thinking about which voices will help reduce the hesitancy, so we can get a level of vaccination that really has a chance of stopping” the pandemic.24
Despite the risks associated with these novel mRNA vaccines, which have never before been approved for human use, and despite the fact that children and adolescents have a minuscule risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, vaccine proponents like Dr. Paul Offit are now calling for children to be added to the COVID-19 trials.25 Hopefully, the number of parents willing to offer up their children as guinea pigs will be few.
In closing, keep in mind that technocracy is inherently a technological society run through social engineering. This is why there’s such a strong focus on “science.” Anytime someone dissents, they’re therefore accused of being “anti-science,” and any science that conflicts with the status quo is declared “debunked science.”
The only science that matters is whatever the technocrats deem true. Logic, however, will tell you that this cannot be so. Science is never settled. Science is never one-sided. Science can be wrong. Getting to the truth demands that an issue be looked at from many different angles.
Over the past year in particular, scientific inquiry and inquisitiveness has been censored and stifled to an astonishing degree. If we allow it to continue, the end result will be devastating.
We must keep pushing for transparency and truth. We must insist on medical freedom and personal liberty. Do not allow yourself to be bullied into silence by those who counter your objections with “anti-science” or “conspiracy-theory” slurs. The future of mankind is at stake. Be brave. Resist tyranny.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-23--Study: 1,000 Potential Alien Star Systems Could Be Watching Us From Afar

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Motivated by the “ Pale Blue Dot ” NASA photo researchers are asking the question , could other planets be looking at us just like we ’ re looking at them ?
A study of Earth ’ s “ solar neighborhood ” has found that over 1,000 different systems have the perfect angle to view Earth .
The infamous “ Pale Blue Dot ” photograph was suggested by astronomer Carl Sagan who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take a picture of Earth from nearly four billion miles away .
The new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , seeks to find out how many different exo-planet systems with alien life could be watching us .
Ironically , the research comes from the Cornell ’ s Carl Sagan Institute .
The studies co-author Lisa Kaltenegger stated their list focuses on main-sequence stars similar to our own sun .
These solar systems may contain exoplanets , Earth-like worlds sitting in the habitable zone for life .
All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million light-years of Earth , close enough to see our world ’ s chemical traces according to the researchers .
“ Let ’ s reverse the viewpoint to that of other stars and ask from which vantage point other observers could find Earth as a transiting planet , ” Kaltenegger , the director of Cornell ’ s Carl Sagan Institute said in a press release .
“ If observers were out there searching , they would be able to see signs of a biosphere in the atmosphere of our Pale Blue Dot… and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brightest of these stars in our night sky without binoculars or telescopes.
” What makes this listing of 1,004 star systems novel and significant is they all sit in Earth ’ s elliptic orbit or the plane of the planets orbit around our Sun .
Exoplanets traveling along this same path would be able to see the Earth according to the researchers .
To foreign observers , Earth would be a transiting planet that passes in front of its sun as the observer looks at distant stars .
Theoretically , these exoplanets would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sun , which sounds like a marvelous sight .
“ Only a very small fraction of planets will just happen to be randomly aligned with our line of sight so we can see them transit , ” co-author Joshua Pepper of Lehigh University says .
“ But all of the thousand stars we identified in our paper in the solar neighborhood could see our Earth transit the sun , calling their attention.
” “ If we ’ re looking for intelligent life in the universe , that could find us and might want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adds .
“ We ’ ve just created the star map of where we should look first .
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Study: 1,000 Potential Alien Star Systems Could Be Watching Us From Afar
Justin MacLachlan, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
Motivated by the “Pale Blue Dot” NASA photo researchers are asking the question, could other planets be looking at us just like we’re looking at them? A study of Earth’s “solar neighborhood” has found that over 1,000 different systems have the perfect angle to view Earth.
The infamous “Pale Blue Dot” photograph was suggested by astronomer Carl Sagan who implored that the Voyager 1 space probe take a picture of Earth from nearly four billion miles away. The new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, seeks to find out how many different exo-planet systems with alien life could be watching us. Ironically, the research comes from the Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute.
The studies co-author Lisa Kaltenegger stated their list focuses on main-sequence stars similar to our own sun. These solar systems may contain exoplanets, Earth-like worlds sitting in the habitable zone for life. All of the prospective systems are within 300 million light-years of Earth, close enough to see our world’s chemical traces according to the researchers.
“Let’s reverse the viewpoint to that of other stars and ask from which vantage point other observers could find Earth as a transiting planet,” Kaltenegger, the director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute said in a press release. “If observers were out there searching, they would be able to see signs of a biosphere in the atmosphere of our Pale Blue Dot… and we can even see some of the brightest of these stars in our night sky without binoculars or telescopes.”
What makes this listing of 1,004 star systems novel and significant is they all sit in Earth’s elliptic orbit or the plane of the planets orbit around our Sun. Exoplanets traveling along this same path would be able to see the Earth according to the researchers.
To foreign observers, Earth would be a transiting planet that passes in front of its sun as the observer looks at distant stars. Theoretically, these exoplanets would be able to see Earth crossing the Sun, which sounds like a marvelous sight.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-23--First Medical Marijuana Businesses Open in Missouri

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Last weekend , the first medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Missouri despite federal prohibition .
Retail medical marijuana sales kicked off in the Show-Me State last Saturday with the opening of two dispensaries run by N ’ Bliss in the St. Louis area .
Another dispensary opened Monday in the Kansas City area .
Missouri legalized medical marijuana through a ballot measure in 2018 .
Under the law , the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services was tasked with establishing a licensing structure for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medical cannabis .
Patients can grow up to six marijuana plants ; a licensed caretaker can cultivate up to 18 .
Doctors can recommend medical cannabis for any condition they see fit ; there is no specific list of qualifying disorders .
According to Marijuana Moment , the state has licensed 192 retailers to date .
Over 65,000 Missourians have registered with the state ’ s medical access program .
Under the federal Controlled Substances Act ( CSA ) passed in 1970 , the federal government maintains complete prohibition of marijuana .
Of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ constitutional authority to ban or regulate cannabis within the borders of a state , despite the opinion of the politically connected lawyers on the Supreme Court .
If you doubt this , ask yourself why it took a constitutional amendment to institute federal alcohol prohibition .
Despite federal prohibition , Missouri legalized medical marijuana .
This removes one layer of law punishing the possession and use of marijuana in the state , even though federal prohibition remains in effect .
This is significant because FBI statistics show that law enforcement makes approximately 99 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not federal law .
When states stop enforcing marijuana laws , they sweep away most of the basis for 99 percent of marijuana arrests .
Furthermore , figures indicate it would take 40 percent of the DEA ’ s yearly-budget just to investigate and raid all of the dispensaries in Los Angeles – a single city in a single state .
That doesn ’ t include the cost of prosecution .
The lesson ?
The feds lack the resources to enforce marijuana prohibition without state assistance .
Missouri joins a growing number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nullifying it in practice .
Colorado , Washington state , Oregon and Alaska were the first states to legalize recreational cannabis , and California , Nevada , Maine and Massachusetts joined them after ballot initiatives in favor of legalization passed in November 2016 .
Michigan followed suit when voters legalized cannabis for general use in 2018 .
Vermont became the first state to legalize marijuana through a legislative act in 2018 .
Illinois followed suit in 2019 .
With 34 states including Missouri allowing cannabis for medical use , the feds find themselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t enforce prohibition anymore .
The lesson here is pretty straightforward .
When enough people say , ‘ No !
’ to the federal government , and enough states pass laws backing those people up , there ’ s not much the feds can do to shove their so-called laws , regulations or mandates down our throats .
Michael Maharrey [ send him email ] is the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center , where this article first appeared .
He proudly resides in the original home of the Principles of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blog archive here and his article archive here .
He is the author of the book , Our Last Hope : Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty .
You can visit his personal website at MichaelMaharrey.co .

First Medical Marijuana Businesses Open in Missouri
Michael Maharrey, Activist Post
Waking Times
Last weekend, the first medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Missouri despite federal prohibition.
Retail medical marijuana sales kicked off in the Show-Me State last Saturday with the opening of two dispensaries run by N’Bliss in the St. Louis area. Another dispensary opened Monday in the Kansas City area.
The dispensaries reportedly opened to long lines.
Missouri legalized medical marijuana through a ballot measure in 2018. Under the law, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services was tasked with establishing a licensing structure for the cultivation, testing and sale of medical cannabis. Patients can grow up to six marijuana plants; a licensed caretaker can cultivate up to 18. Doctors can recommend medical cannabis for any condition they see fit; there is no specific list of qualifying disorders.
Brenda Dougherty told ABC News marijuana helps her manage chronic pain.
“I don’t want to take any more pills,” she said. “I know this will help. To be quite honest, I have tried it and, yes, it does help.”
According to Marijuana Moment, the state has licensed 192 retailers to date. Over 65,000 Missourians have registered with the state’s medical access program.
EFFECT ON FEDERAL PROHIBITION
Under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) passed in 1970, the federal government maintains complete prohibition of marijuana. Of course, the federal government lacks any constitutional authority to ban or regulate cannabis within the borders of a state, despite the opinion of the politically connected lawyers on the Supreme Court. If you doubt this, ask yourself why it took a constitutional amendment to institute federal alcohol prohibition.
Despite federal prohibition, Missouri legalized medical marijuana. This removes one layer of law punishing the possession and use of marijuana in the state, even though federal prohibition remains in effect. This is significant because FBI statistics show that law enforcement makes approximately 99 of 100 marijuana arrests under state, not federal law. When states stop enforcing marijuana laws, they sweep away most of the basis for 99 percent of marijuana arrests.
Furthermore, figures indicate it would take 40 percent of the DEA’s yearly-budget just to investigate and raid all of the dispensaries in Los Angeles – a single city in a single state. That doesn’t include the cost of prosecution. The lesson? The feds lack the resources to enforce marijuana prohibition without state assistance.
A GROWING MOVEMENT
Missouri joins a growing number of states increasingly ignoring federal prohibition, and nullifying it in practice.
Colorado, Washington state, Oregon and Alaska were the first states to legalize recreational cannabis, and California, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts joined them after ballot initiatives in favor of legalization passed in November 2016. Michigan followed suit when voters legalized cannabis for general use in 2018. Vermont became the first state to legalize marijuana through a legislative act in 2018. Illinois followed suit in 2019.
With 34 states including Missouri allowing cannabis for medical use, the feds find themselves in a position where they simply can’t enforce prohibition anymore.
The lesson here is pretty straightforward. When enough people say, ‘No!’ to the federal government, and enough states pass laws backing those people up, there’s not much the feds can do to shove their so-called laws, regulations or mandates down our throats.
About the Author
Michael Maharrey [send him email] is the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center, where this article first appeared. He proudly resides in the original home of the Principles of ’98 – Kentucky. See his blog archive here and his article archive here. He is the author of the book, Our Last Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty. You can visit his personal website at MichaelMaharrey.co.