activistpost--2020-05-11--Pennsylvania Sheriffs Say They Won’t Enforce Business Shutdown

Cumberland County Sheriff Ronny Anderson says “ I have no intentions of turning local business owners into criminals.
” Resistance is growing against unconstitutional orders from Democrat governors around the country .
Pennsylvania Sheriffs are denouncing Governor Tom Wolf ’ s orders to turn business owners into criminals .
Two local sheriffs say they won ’ t enforce the Pennsylvania governor ’ s COVID-19 mitigation measures .
Sheriff John Zechman of Snyder County and Ernie Ritter of Union County say they won ’ t help the governor turn business owners into criminals .
Cumberland County Sheriff Ronny Anderson made a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Sheriff office would not enforce any order that violates the Constitution .
Our office will stand with the citizens in defense of all our Constitutional Rights !
I have no intentions of turning local business owners into criminals .
Resistance to tyranny starts at the local level .
America will not be conquered without a fight .
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By Daniel Taylor
Cumberland County Sheriff Ronny Anderson says “I have no intentions of turning local business owners into criminals.”
Resistance is growing against unconstitutional orders from Democrat governors around the country.
Pennsylvania Sheriffs are denouncing Governor Tom Wolf’s orders to turn business owners into criminals.
Local media reports:
Two local sheriffs say they won’t enforce the Pennsylvania governor’s COVID-19 mitigation measures. Sheriff John Zechman of Snyder County and Ernie Ritter of Union County say they won’t help the governor turn business owners into criminals.
Cumberland County Sheriff Ronny Anderson made a popular Facebook post that assured citizens that the Sheriff office would not enforce any order that violates the Constitution.
Sheriff Anderson said in part:
Our office will stand with the citizens in defense of all our Constitutional Rights! I have no intentions of turning local business owners into criminals.
The Perry County Sheriff’s office made a similar post:
Resistance to tyranny starts at the local level. America will not be conquered without a fight.
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activistpost--2020-05-11--“What If the Pentagon Skipped 5G?” The Dep’t of Defense Doesn’t Want It and They Aren’t Alone

An increasing number of Americans including doctors , scientists , engineers , public advocates , and elected officials oppose 5G ( see 1 .
2 , 3 , 4 ) .
The Department of Defense also opposes it because they say it really-really-really threatens national security ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
They ’ ve actually been saying that since last year .
Did you know ?
So why on Earth would Americans want to deliberately threaten our national security ?
Recently , some Congress members finally stepped in about DoD opposition and there was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for publishing an article that asks “ What if the Pentagon Skipped 5G ?
” The answer to the headaches and security risks of next-generation mobile communications just might be a technological leap past them .
It ’ s round one of a WWE-equivalent policy fight , and the Federal Communications Commission has beat the Pentagon .
Against DoD objections , the FCC approved a license modification for Ligado Networks to establish a new 5G communications service last month .
And while some Trump administration senior officials hailed this as a boon to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s 5G networks , others rightly argue that it imperils national security .
The solution — next-gen networking without Huawei and without undermining GPS — may lie in yet another nascent technology .
O-RAN , a software-driven network protocol that promises even faster and more secure mobile communications , is attracting private and Congressional interest .
But if the Pentagon wants to hasten O-RAN ’ s arrival , and head off disruption , it needs to act , and fast .
The Federal Communication Commission ( FCC ) is supposed to protect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They were considered to be a corrupt and “ captured ” agency before Trump was elected .
They have become much scarier and opportunistic during his administration .
Despite opposition and warnings , they are using the pandemic as an excuse to speed up 5G installation ( see 1 , 2 .
3 , 4 , 5 ) .
This includes launching tens of thousands of satellites with millions of antennas to blast 5G and WiFi at us from space ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) !
Lawsuits have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from unsafe levels of radiation ( see 1 , 2 ) and of course , 5G ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
5G opposition in the U.S. and worldwide continues to grow because of risks to biological health ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) , cybersecurity ( see 1 , 2 ) , environmental health ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) , privacy ( see 1 , 2 ) , and more .
Many cities and countries have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , issuing moratoriums , passing ordinances , etc .
( see 1 , 2 ) .
A long list of highly respected people and organizations – including the Department of Defense – continues to say 5G isn ’ t worth it .
The FCC continues to ignore them .
What ’ s wrong with this picture ?
Activist Post reports regularly about 5G and other unsafe technology .
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By B.N. Frank
An increasing number of Americans including doctors, scientists, engineers, public advocates, and elected officials oppose 5G (see 1. 2, 3, 4). The Department of Defense also opposes it because they say it really-really-really threatens national security (see 1, 2, 3, 4). They’ve actually been saying that since last year. Did you know? So why on Earth would Americans want to deliberately threaten our national security? Recently, some Congress members finally stepped in about DoD opposition and there was a hearing.
Thanks to Defense One for publishing an article that asks “What if the Pentagon Skipped 5G?”
The answer to the headaches and security risks of next-generation mobile communications just might be a technological leap past them. It’s round one of a WWE-equivalent policy fight, and the Federal Communications Commission has beat the Pentagon. Against DoD objections, the FCC approved a license modification for Ligado Networks to establish a new 5G communications service last month. And while some Trump administration senior officials hailed this as a boon to U.S. firms vying to build the world’s 5G networks, others rightly argue that it imperils national security. […] The solution — next-gen networking without Huawei and without undermining GPS — may lie in yet another nascent technology. O-RAN, a software-driven network protocol that promises even faster and more secure mobile communications, is attracting private and Congressional interest. But if the Pentagon wants to hasten O-RAN’s arrival, and head off disruption, it needs to act, and fast. Read full article
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is supposed to protect the public by regulating the telecom industry. They were considered to be a corrupt and “captured” agency before Trump was elected. They have become much scarier and opportunistic during his administration. Despite opposition and warnings, they are using the pandemic as an excuse to speed up 5G installation (see 1, 2. 3, 4, 5). This includes launching tens of thousands of satellites with millions of antennas to blast 5G and WiFi at us from space (see 1, 2, 3)!
Lawsuits have been filed against them for NOT protecting Americans from unsafe levels of radiation (see 1, 2) and of course, 5G (see 1, 2, 3).
5G opposition in the U.S. and worldwide continues to grow because of risks to biological health (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), cybersecurity (see 1, 2), environmental health (see 1, 2, 3, 4), privacy (see 1, 2), and more. Many cities and countries have taken action against it including banning it, issuing moratoriums, passing ordinances, etc. (see 1, 2).
A long list of highly respected people and organizations – including the Department of Defense – continues to say 5G isn’t worth it. The FCC continues to ignore them. What’s wrong with this picture?
Activist Post reports regularly about 5G and other unsafe technology. For more information, visit our archives and the following websites:
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activistpost--2020-05-12--The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing

No one is safe .
No one is immune .
No one gets spared the anguish , fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state .
That ’ s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda , every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity , every new policeman on the beat , every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye , every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts , every new prison or detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables , every new court ruling that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry , every school that opts to indoctrinate rather than educate , and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government ’ s attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot .
Yes , COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally , physically , and economically , but there are still greater dangers on the horizon .
As long as “ we the people ” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better .
Now there ’ s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies , screening checkpoints , contact tracing , immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely , and snitch tip lines for reporting “ rule breakers ” to the authorities .
If you can ’ t read the writing on the wall , you need to pay better attention .
These may seem like small , necessary steps in the war against the COVID-19 virus , but they ’ re only necessary to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further undermine the Constitution , extend its control over the populace , and feed its insatiable appetite for ever-greater powers .
Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is .
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it ’ s in the name of national security or protecting America ’ s borders or making America healthy again—rest assured , these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you .
The war on drugs turned out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people , waged with SWAT teams and militarized police .
The war on terror turned out to be a war on the American people , waged with warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention .
The war on immigration turned out to be a war on the American people , waged with roving government agents demanding “ papers , please.
” This war on COVID-19 will be yet another war on the American people , waged with all of the surveillance weaponry at the government ’ s disposal : thermal imaging cameras , drones , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So you see , when you talk about empowering government agents to screen the populace in order to control and prevent spread of this virus , what you ’ re really talking about is creating a society in which ID cards , round ups , checkpoints and detention centers become routine weapons used by the government to control and suppress the populace , no matter the threat .
This is also how you pave the way for a national identification system of epic proportions .
Imagine it : a national classification system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways : by gender , orientation , wealth , medical condition , religious beliefs , political viewpoint , legal status , etc .
Are you starting to get the bigger picture yet ?
This is just another wolf in sheep ’ s clothing , a “ show me your papers ” scheme disguised as a means of fighting a virus .
The ramifications of such a “ show me your papers ” society in which government officials are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identify themselves , and subject them to patdowns , warrantless screenings , searches , and interrogations are beyond chilling .
By allowing government agents to establish a litmus test for individuals to be able to exit a state of lockdown and engage in commerce , movement and any other right that corresponds to life in a supposedly free society , it lays the groundwork for a society in which you are required to identify yourself at any time to any government worker who demands it for any reason .
Such tactics quickly lead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with government agents empowered to force anyone and everyone to prove they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books .
It used to be that unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing , they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification .
In other words , “ we the people ” had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves .
Unfortunately , in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to move about freely is being pitted against the government ’ s power to lock down communities at a moment ’ s notice .
And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power , “ we the people ” have been on the losing end of the deal .
Curiously enough , these COVID-19 restrictions dovetail conveniently with a national timeline for states to comply with the Real ID Act , which imposes federal standards on identity documents such as state drivers ’ licenses , a prelude to this national identification system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bringing about a national ID card , the ultimate human tracking device .
Granted , in the absence of a national ID card , which would make the police state ’ s task of monitoring , tracking and singling out individual suspects far simpler , “ we the people ” are already tracked in a myriad of ways : through our state driver ’ s licenses , Social Security numbers , bank accounts , purchases and electronic transactions ; by way of our correspondence and communication devices—email , phone calls and mobile phones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , identification documents , even our clothing .
Add to this the fact that businesses , schools and other facilities are relying more and more on fingerprints and facial recognition to identify us .
All the while , data companies such as Acxiom are capturing vast caches of personal information to help airports , retailers , police and other government authorities instantly determine whether someone is the person he or she claims to be .
This informational glut—used to great advantage by both the government and corporate sectors—has converged into a mandate for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a national ID card that would store information as basic as a person ’ s name , birth date and place of birth , as well as private information , including a Social Security number , fingerprint , retinal scan and personal , criminal and financial records .
A federalized , computerized , cross-referenced , databased system of identification policed by government agents would be the final nail in the coffin for privacy ( not to mention a logistical security nightmare that would leave Americans even more vulnerable to every hacker in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resisted adopting a national ID card for good reason : it gives the government and its agents the ultimate power to target , track and terrorize the populace according to the government ’ s own nefarious purposes .
National ID card systems have been used before , by other oppressive governments , in the name of national security , invariably with horrifying results .
For instance , in Germany , the Nazis required all Jews to carry special stamped ID cards for travel within the country .
A prelude to the yellow Star @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were instrumental in identifying Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland .
Author Raul Hilberg summarizes the impact that such a system had on the Jews : In South Africa during apartheid , pass books were used to regulate the movement of black citizens and segregate the population .
The Pass Laws Act of 1952 stipulated where , when and for how long a black African could remain in certain areas .
Any government employee could strike out entries , which cancelled the permission to remain in an area .
A pass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entry resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of the bearer .
Identity cards played a crucial role in the genocide of the Tutsis in the central African country of Rwanda .
The assault , carried out by extremist Hutu militia groups , lasted around 100 days and resulted in close to a million deaths .
While the ID cards were not a precondition to the genocide , they were a facilitating factor .
Once the genocide began , the production of an identity card with the designation “ Tutsi ” spelled a death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have also helped oppressive regimes carry out eliminationist policies such as mass expulsion , forced relocation and group denationalization .
Through the use of identity cards , Ethiopian authorities were able to identify people with Eritrean affiliation during the mass expulsion of 1998 .
The Vietnamese government was able to locate ethnic Chinese more easily during their 1978-79 expulsion .
The USSR used identity cards to force the relocation of ethnic Koreans ( 1937 ) , Volga Germans ( 1941 ) , Kamyks and Karachai ( 1943 ) , Crimean Tartars , Meshkhetian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 1944 ) and ethnic Greeks ( 1949 ) .
And ethnic Vietnamese were identified for group denationalization through identity cards in Cambodia in 1993 , as were the Kurds in Syria in 1962 .
And in the United States , post-9/11 , more than 750 Muslim men were rounded up on the basis of their religion and ethnicity and detained for up to eight months .
Their experiences echo those of 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were similarly detained 75 years ago following the attack on Pearl Harbor .
Despite a belated apology and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to declare such a practice illegal .
Moreover , laws such as the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) empower the government to arrest and detain indefinitely anyone they “ suspect ” of being an enemy of the state .
You see , you may be innocent of wrongdoing now , but when the standard for innocence is set by the government , no one is safe .
And anyone can be a criminal when it ’ s the government determining what is a crime .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of if , but when .
Remember , the police state does not discriminate .
At some point , it will not matter whether your skin is black or yellow or brown or white .
It will not matter whether you ’ re an immigrant or a citizen .
It will not matter whether you ’ re rich or poor .
It won ’ t even matter whether you ’ re driving , flying or walking .
After all , government-issued bullets will kill you just as easily whether you ’ re a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Government jails will hold you just as easily whether you ’ ve obeyed every law or broken a dozen .
And whether or not you ’ ve done anything wrong , government agents will treat you like a suspect simply because they have been trained to view and treat everyone like potential criminals .
Eventually , when the police state has turned that final screw and slammed that final door , all that will matter is whether some government agent—poorly trained , utterly ignorant and dismissive of the Constitution , way too hyped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and authorized to detain , search , interrogate , threaten and generally harass anyone they see fit—chooses to single you out for special treatment .
We ’ ve been having this same debate about the perils of government overreach for the past 50-plus years , and still we don ’ t seem to learn , or if we learn , we learn too late .
All of the excessive , abusive tactics employed by the government today—warrantless surveillance , stop and frisk searches , SWAT team raids , roadside strip searches , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indefinite detention , militarized police , etc.—started out as a seemingly well-meaning plan to address some problem in society that needed a little extra help .
Be careful what you wish for : you will get more than you bargained for , especially when the government ’ s involved .
In the case of a national identification system , it might start off as a means of tracking COVID-19 cases in order to “ safely ” re-open the nation , but it will end up as a means of controlling the American people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ draconian measures for whatever reason—for the sake of their health , the economy , or national security—remember , you can ’ t have it both ways .
You can ’ t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state .
You can ’ t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship .
You can ’ t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , if you ’ re inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide , beware : there ’ s always a boomerang effect .
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His new book Battlefield America : The War on the American People is available at .
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By John W. Whitehead
“The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York
No one is safe.
No one is immune.
No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.
That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts, every new prison or detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables, every new court ruling that gives government agents a green light to strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry, every school that opts to indoctrinate rather than educate, and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government’s attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot.
Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon.
As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better.
It’s already worse.
Now there’s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities.
If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention.
These may seem like small, necessary steps in the war against the COVID-19 virus, but they’re only necessary to the police state in its efforts to further undermine the Constitution, extend its control over the populace, and feed its insatiable appetite for ever-greater powers.
Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America healthy again—rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
The war on drugs turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with SWAT teams and militarized police.
The war on terror turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention.
The war on immigration turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with roving government agents demanding “papers, please.”
This war on COVID-19 will be yet another war on the American people, waged with all of the surveillance weaponry at the government’s disposal: thermal imaging cameras, drones, contact tracing, biometric databases, etc.
So you see, when you talk about empowering government agents to screen the populace in order to control and prevent spread of this virus, what you’re really talking about is creating a society in which ID cards, round ups, checkpoints and detention centers become routine weapons used by the government to control and suppress the populace, no matter the threat.
This is also how you pave the way for a national identification system of epic proportions.
Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc.
Are you starting to get the bigger picture yet?
This is just another wolf in sheep’s clothing, a “show me your papers” scheme disguised as a means of fighting a virus.
Don’t fall for it.
The ramifications of such a “show me your papers” society in which government officials are empowered to stop individuals, demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless screenings, searches, and interrogations are beyond chilling.
By allowing government agents to establish a litmus test for individuals to be able to exit a state of lockdown and engage in commerce, movement and any other right that corresponds to life in a supposedly free society, it lays the groundwork for a society in which you are required to identify yourself at any time to any government worker who demands it for any reason.
Such tactics quickly lead one down a slippery slope that ends with government agents empowered to force anyone and everyone to prove they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books.
It used to be that unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing, they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification. In other words, “we the people” had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves.
Unfortunately, in this age of COVID-19, that unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government’s power to lock down communities at a moment’s notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power, “we the people” have been on the losing end of the deal.
Curiously enough, these COVID-19 restrictions dovetail conveniently with a national timeline for states to comply with the Real ID Act, which imposes federal standards on identity documents such as state drivers’ licenses, a prelude to this national identification system.
Talk about a perfect storm for bringing about a national ID card, the ultimate human tracking device.
Granted, in the absence of a national ID card, which would make the police state’s task of monitoring, tracking and singling out individual suspects far simpler, “we the people” are already tracked in a myriad of ways: through our state driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, purchases and electronic transactions; by way of our correspondence and communication devices—email, phone calls and mobile phones; through chips implanted in our vehicles, identification documents, even our clothing.
Add to this the fact that businesses, schools and other facilities are relying more and more on fingerprints and facial recognition to identify us. All the while, data companies such as Acxiom are capturing vast caches of personal information to help airports, retailers, police and other government authorities instantly determine whether someone is the person he or she claims to be.
This informational glut—used to great advantage by both the government and corporate sectors—has converged into a mandate for “an internal passport,” a.k.a., a national ID card that would store information as basic as a person’s name, birth date and place of birth, as well as private information, including a Social Security number, fingerprint, retinal scan and personal, criminal and financial records.
A federalized, computerized, cross-referenced, databased system of identification policed by government agents would be the final nail in the coffin for privacy (not to mention a logistical security nightmare that would leave Americans even more vulnerable to every hacker in the cybersphere).
Americans have always resisted adopting a national ID card for good reason: it gives the government and its agents the ultimate power to target, track and terrorize the populace according to the government’s own nefarious purposes.
National ID card systems have been used before, by other oppressive governments, in the name of national security, invariably with horrifying results.
For instance, in Germany, the Nazis required all Jews to carry special stamped ID cards for travel within the country. A prelude to the yellow Star of David badges, these stamped cards were instrumental in identifying Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland.
Author Raul Hilberg summarizes the impact that such a system had on the Jews:
The whole identification system, with its personal documents, specially assigned names, and conspicuous tagging in public, was a powerful weapon in the hands of the police. First, the system was an auxiliary device that facilitated the enforcement of residence and movement restrictions. Second, it was an independent control measure in that it enabled the police to pick up any Jew, anywhere, anytime. Third, and perhaps most important, identification had a paralyzing effect on its victims.
In South Africa during apartheid, pass books were used to regulate the movement of black citizens and segregate the population. The Pass Laws Act of 1952 stipulated where, when and for how long a black African could remain in certain areas. Any government employee could strike out entries, which cancelled the permission to remain in an area. A pass book that did not have a valid entry resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of the bearer.
Identity cards played a crucial role in the genocide of the Tutsis in the central African country of Rwanda. The assault, carried out by extremist Hutu militia groups, lasted around 100 days and resulted in close to a million deaths. While the ID cards were not a precondition to the genocide, they were a facilitating factor. Once the genocide began, the production of an identity card with the designation “Tutsi” spelled a death sentence at any roadblock.
Identity cards have also helped oppressive regimes carry out eliminationist policies such as mass expulsion, forced relocation and group denationalization. Through the use of identity cards, Ethiopian authorities were able to identify people with Eritrean affiliation during the mass expulsion of 1998. The Vietnamese government was able to locate ethnic Chinese more easily during their 1978-79 expulsion. The USSR used identity cards to force the relocation of ethnic Koreans (1937), Volga Germans (1941), Kamyks and Karachai (1943), Crimean Tartars, Meshkhetian Turks, Chechens, Ingush and Balkars (1944) and ethnic Greeks (1949). And ethnic Vietnamese were identified for group denationalization through identity cards in Cambodia in 1993, as were the Kurds in Syria in 1962.
And in the United States, post-9/11, more than 750 Muslim men were rounded up on the basis of their religion and ethnicity and detained for up to eight months. Their experiences echo those of 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were similarly detained 75 years ago following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Despite a belated apology and monetary issuance by the U.S. government, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to declare such a practice illegal. Moreover, laws such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) empower the government to arrest and detain indefinitely anyone they “suspect” of being an enemy of the state.
You see, you may be innocent of wrongdoing now, but when the standard for innocence is set by the government, no one is safe.
Everyone is a suspect.
And anyone can be a criminal when it’s the government determining what is a crime.
It’s no longer a matter of if, but when.
Remember, the police state does not discriminate.
At some point, it will not matter whether your skin is black or yellow or brown or white. It will not matter whether you’re an immigrant or a citizen. It will not matter whether you’re rich or poor. It won’t even matter whether you’re driving, flying or walking.
After all, government-issued bullets will kill you just as easily whether you’re a law-abiding citizen or a hardened criminal. Government jails will hold you just as easily whether you’ve obeyed every law or broken a dozen. And whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, government agents will treat you like a suspect simply because they have been trained to view and treat everyone like potential criminals.
Eventually, when the police state has turned that final screw and slammed that final door, all that will matter is whether some government agent—poorly trained, utterly ignorant and dismissive of the Constitution, way too hyped up on the power of their badges, and authorized to detain, search, interrogate, threaten and generally harass anyone they see fit—chooses to single you out for special treatment.
We’ve been having this same debate about the perils of government overreach for the past 50-plus years, and still we don’t seem to learn, or if we learn, we learn too late.
All of the excessive, abusive tactics employed by the government today—warrantless surveillance, stop and frisk searches, SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, asset forfeiture schemes, private prisons, indefinite detention, militarized police, etc.—started out as a seemingly well-meaning plan to address some problem in society that needed a little extra help.
Be careful what you wish for: you will get more than you bargained for, especially when the government’s involved.
In the case of a national identification system, it might start off as a means of tracking COVID-19 cases in order to “safely” re-open the nation, but it will end up as a means of controlling the American people.
For those tempted to justify these draconian measures for whatever reason—for the sake of their health, the economy, or national security—remember, you can’t have it both ways.
You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you’re inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, beware: there’s always a boomerang effect.
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activistpost--2020-05-12--More Loon-acy: AT&T, Loon Secure Approval for Internet Balloons in 50+ Countries and Regions

Opposition continues to increase regarding satellites and similar vehicles being launched for providing internet coverage from space ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 .
7 , 8 .
9 ) .
Other vehicles are also being sent up into the sky for the same purpose including by Loon – a company that refused to allow a public inspection of their experimental license .
Regardless , business seems to be booming anyway .
Loon has secured fly over approval for its high-altitude internet balloons in more than 50 countries and regions AT & T @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Loon division , whose aim is to provide internet connection using high-altitude internet balloons , or more technically , unmanned aircraft systems ( UAS ) .
The pair are on a mission to deliver connectivity as quickly as possible in disaster-stricken areas , and according to a blog post announcing the partnership , Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth said that AT & T will allow Loon to do so at scale .
“ Under the partnership , we have successfully integrated the Loon system with AT & T ’ s network , ” he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deal because this network integration will extend to AT & T ’ s partners around the world , meaning Loon will be able to provide service to a third-party mobile operator , assuming they have a standard international roaming relationship with AT & T. ” Excuse them as they trash the sky .
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By B.N. Frank
Opposition continues to increase regarding satellites and similar vehicles being launched for providing internet coverage from space (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 8. 9). Other vehicles are also being sent up into the sky for the same purpose including by Loon – a company that refused to allow a public inspection of their experimental license. Regardless, business seems to be booming anyway.
From RCR Wireless:
Loon has secured fly over approval for its high-altitude internet balloons in more than 50 countries and regions AT&T has partnered up with Alphabet’s Loon division, whose aim is to provide internet connection using high-altitude internet balloons, or more technically, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The pair are on a mission to deliver connectivity as quickly as possible in disaster-stricken areas, and according to a blog post announcing the partnership, Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth said that AT&T will allow Loon to do so at scale. “Under the partnership, we have successfully integrated the Loon system with AT&T’s network,” he wrote, “this is a big deal because this network integration will extend to AT&T’s partners around the world, meaning Loon will be able to provide service to a third-party mobile operator, assuming they have a standard international roaming relationship with AT&T.” Read full article
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activistpost--2020-05-12--CASHLESS SOCIETY 2020: Coronavirus Swings Society to “Touch Free” Digital ID and Digital Currency

Many people are warming up to the idea of digital currency in a cashless society due to coronavirus because going touch free is cleaner than cash .
Many businesses are already moving to make digital currency the only form of transaction they will engage in so their customers and their employees feel safe .
In fact , cash has become so dirty that some businesses that remained open in limited ways under the coronavirus lockdown are already turning away customers who have only cash to tender .
“ Touch free ” means virus-free .
Touch-free Cashless safety is being bought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unless they are of the heroic mold — like the forefathers of the United States of America — will embrace almost anything to save themselves .
Given a serious crisis , many will trade away freedoms that were once valued as priceless , though braver folk gave up their lives to attain such liberty for all .
We saw how easily that happened after 9/11 when then President George Bush turned the NSA into the world ’ s biggest black box to house acres of super computers to store all cell-phone calls and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the name of national security — literally the National Security Agency .
No one tried to stop him from spreading the NSA ’ s data collection web into every corner of the internet and telephony .
Almost no one even blinked at the thought until Edward Snowden brought it back to light .
( It was public knowledge long before Snowden spoke out ) .
Even after Snowden , most do not care .
The practice continues .
The FISA warrant system was supposed to protect citizens from government access to those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without a warrant .
We now know that warrant system was incapable of even protecting a future president from privacy intrusion .
Still , almost no one cares .
The practice continues even with the person who was eavesdropped being the president in power who actually can do something to stop it … but hasn ’ t … other than just to rail against it by saying , “ This should not happen to anyone in Amerika.
” So , do not fool yourself into thinking the masses will not trade away some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and security for a little restored safety from a plague-like virus .
Already , citizens are ratting out their neighbors to law enforcement when they see people who dare to think they still have the constitutional right to peaceably and publicly assemble .
Nothing has divided and conquered like the coronavirus ( or our global governments ’ responses to it ) .
People are now the enemy .
All people .
Stand back .
Don ’ t touch , except maybe with a ten-foot pole , since that exceeds minimal social-distancing requirements .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ neighborhoods are safe from the uninfected who can not prove they are uninfected yet who are roaming around and gathering freely without masks , taking liberties that no decent member of society would do in today ’ s COVID world .
You are infected until proven innocent .
Many seem willing to believe there is an invisible medical clause in the constitution that says certain constitutional human rights can be suspended during a public health crisis — such as your right to publicly assemble in order to protest a lockdown that doesn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Apparently , that was only meant as a fair-weather right .
Divided and conquered and turned against each other in fear in this fashion , government ’ s can hope you will not gather to learn what is happening or protest the plans they are forming for limited reunification .
Content is being pulled off the web if it doesn ’ t agree with WHO or the CDC .
While the US government can not do that , it has enlisted private corporations that own our major communications portals to do it on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own the portal .
They don ’ t seem to be resisting the oppressive power of government , as you ’ ll be able to see in a video at the end of this article .
These same people who are ratting out their neighbor ’ s picnic will demand digital currency so they don ’ t have to touch your dirty money either , or they will have nothing to do with you .
Going “ touch free ” is already happening .
We are being taught by government authorities to never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infamous for his power-grab handshake — has said it would be a good thing if that prevails beyond the immediate crisis .
People are the enemy .
Not just some people — all people .
Avoid contact .
Divide and conquer .
MMT has arrived , digital currency is next In my last Patron Post , I described how Modern Monetary Theory arrived on a helicopter to swoop in almost without discussion as the new established economic system of the United States .
Coronavirus prepared a road for MMT ’ s immediate introduction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started doling out limited guaranteed income ( “ stimulus checks ” ) as free money to people the government forced to stop working , while the Federal Reserve is creating that money for the government dole out of nothing but caverns of debt .
Talk now is of increasing the amount from $ 1,200 of free money per taxpayer to $ 2,000 .
MMT was immediately accepted because who is going to turn down free money ?
Nancy Pelosi has , since , moved from this first step more solidly in the direction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of the coronacrisis , it may be time to talk about establishing universal basic income ( MMT on steroids ) as part of our permanent economic system , and not just as emergency relief .
( It didn ’ t take long to start sliding down that slippery slope . )
So , the coronacrisis primed the pump for making MMT the new US longterm fiscal/economic policy .
Those plans are supposedly not big enough to save us all from the coronacrisis , so something much larger and more insidious is already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ move to a central bank digital currency to turn us into a cashless society .
Central banks around the world are already at Zero Interest Rate Policy ( ZIRP ) or negative ( NIRP ) , so more of that isn ’ t going to accomplish much .
As pointed out in previous Patron Posts , members of the Fed have said they ’ re not interested in NIRP as a policy goal ( though ZIRP is already pressuring some bonds into negative territory ) , but the Fed has already started down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ creation in the history of the nation and in the history of global currencies .
Full steam ahead for Fed and country .
That was easy , what comes next ?
I ’ ll show in my next Patron Post how central bank digital currency is already shaping up under the coronacrisis .
( Those posts are available as a thank-you to patrons of this website who pledge , at least , $ 5 a month support . )
Right now , I want to show all readers how ready the public is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easily as it embraced without a thought or any public discussion ( outside of Congress ) … • government storage of all emails and other internet traffic , • global quarantine without any discussion of constitutional rights to assemble in public or freely practice religion .
It ’ s all happening so quickly .
Most of those things rapidly evolved into permanent policy with little or no public discussion , much less any public outcry .
The coronacrisis is virtually guaranteeing the worst is yet to come … this year .
We ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how easily people will embrace digital ID and digital currency The US has become a nation of snowflakes who have shown will readily sacrifice constitutionally free speech just to make nice and feel secure and unthreatened , yet then be all-out mean in attacking anyone who , in acting as if they had a right to free speech , caused offense in order to get that person fired for not following the be-nice code .
People will give up their constitutional right to privacy to feel more secure , too , and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apps , digital ID and digital cash go hand in hand .
Digital cash is the last step , but its already primary in many nations .
In China , you look awkward and backward if you use cash .
Even homeless people aren ’ t so backward as to touch old-fashion cash .
See how prescient the following 2017 newscast was in saying the US would go cashless like China in 2020 : Freedom is usually lost incrementally .
If people will so readily give up a little of their privacy to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from COVID-19 , even when they ’ ve never known anyone who actually died from it , they will readily give up the privacy ( and , more importantly , the autonomy ) that comes with real cash over digital currency .
They ’ ll trust that their governments won ’ t abuse the system … like they never abused FISA warrants .
Democratic governments are already occupying the surrendered ground : The increments are happening so quickly now — because there has been so little resistance so far — that it looks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Digital coronavirus tracking , digital ID and digital currency are all falling into place together … this year .
Here are more links to YouTube videos that show the plethora of nations that are already moving cashless if you want to check them out : ( Even parts of Africa plan to rid themselves completely of paper currency or hard cash by 2022 . )
• What does a cashless future mean ?
| The Economist • Malasia Goes Zero Contact Delivery During Covid Outbreak “ Touch free ” and “ cashless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US retail , but the US is just playing catch-up to global commerce .
Even Africa probably thinks the US is backward .
With the push of coronavirus , this will be the year the US starts to seriously catch up .
As US society reopens with businesses ready for the new touch free world , get ready to re-enter a world where cash is dirty .
You ’ re favorite restaurant may work like this when it reopens : People demand touch-free digital shopping to feel protected from the coronavirus Amazon Go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will play a big role for consumers .
Burger King has started airing ads about making its drive-thrus contactless for both payments and pickups .
Publix , the Florida-based grocery chain , this month said it completed its rollout of tap-to-pay registers at its more than 1,200 locations across the Southeast .
And Walmart , the largest retailer in the world , late last month said it will provide no-contact pickup , delivery and in-store checkout .
There are many uncertainties about how the coronavirus will impact people ’ s health , their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consumer trends have already become so obvious that they suggest a long-lasting shift in people ’ s behavior when the COVID-19 crisis finally departs .
One of them is the move toward contactless transactions… .
Now retailers that remain open are scrambling to respond to this new consumer need .
When thousands of other merchants reopen following the pandemic , they will have to reevaluate how they operate their stores to coax shoppers back .
Where backers once pitched contactless technologies for their convenience , retailers will give them new consideration for their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a huge event in the world , people are going to change their behaviors and a lot of things that have struggled for adoption will get a new push….
” As the federal and state governments start to discuss what reopening the economy will look like , contactless technologies are going to be part of the equation , especially in busy places like transit systems and stadiums… .
Last year , the payment industry widely believed these types of tap-to-pay transit terminals , which also accept Apple Pay and Google Pay in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contactless transactions in the US .
It appears it will likely be the coronavirus instead .
“ I can see consumer behaviors changing for sure from the situation we ’ re in , ” said Linda Kirkpatrick , president of US issuers for Mastercard .
“ When those consumer behaviors change over several months , they tend to stick….
” “ I think there will be an explosion of services and functionalities that will come out in the next few months… .
Necessity is the mother of invention , and there ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” “ Contactless , ” of course , means going to digital currency in some form .
Cash is out , and “ contactless ” or “ touch free ” does not even include digital devices , like cards , that have to make contact with the card reader and/or that require you touch a keypad to enter a pin .
So , it ’ s either your cell phone that only you touch or Bill Gate ’ s digital tattoo or a chip implant .
Think of how perfectly that digital ID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , will work for contactless entrance into sports stadiums as you use it to also prove you ’ re vaccinated .
( And for those who are double amputees , on your forehead . )
The attendant enters your ticket purchase , and you wave your hand under the scanner to authorize the transaction .
Order dinner at a restaurant afterward , and hold out your hand to be scanned by the waiter after the meal .
Buy something at a flea market the next day , and hold out your hand to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ app .
Nobody has to touch any of that dirty cash .
The coronacrisis has shoved us headlong from the realm of mere convenience or curiosity or coolness to the perception of necessity among consumers for safety .
That translates to retailers who want to make sure they get those consumers back by catering to their safety fears and who need to make sure they retain their employees , who also have safety concerns .
Touch-free only works digitally .
Cash is trash in this brave new world .
So , it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chip or nano-tattoo described in my last article designed so that it allows you to merely wave your hand past a scanner to approve a purchase like people in other countries can do .
People in some nations actually find it amusing that the US is so far behind them in implementing digital currency technology — not just in going cashless , but in going to digital implants .
Countries like Sweden have already embraced chip implants in their hands in a move to go cashless .
The process is as easy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far along to digital currency are we ?
How extreme and strange are we willing to go in getting human beings chipped , and how quickly will we get there ?
As one example , Israel ’ s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just said he wants all Israeli children chipped before they go back to school this fall : High-security states like Israel and the US love this stuff — at least at a governmental level .
The prime minister of Israel wants to have all the children in Israel microchipped by this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too close to each other !
Maybe they should also beep if they back up so they don ’ t run over each other .
It ’ s amazing how fear ( mass hysteria now that it has reached this level ? )
is able to make us take the first incremental step in turning our children into little cyborgs .
What kind of parent are you if you don ’ t care about the children ’ s safety ?
Your child might not be allowed in school without a chip ( if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frowned on as a bad parent for having unchipped children .
If things like masks can become matters of intense social conformity to where people in the US now get in arguments over it at grocery stores , so can things like getting your children chipped .
That idea will rapidly progress to further enhancement .
Once the children all beep like nice little robots when they get too close to each other , why not employ a more sophisticated chip that can track them at all times for their security — an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
It could automatically take attendance as each child walks through the school doors and alert the school administration when a child leaves the school grounds during school hours to either keep the child from playing hooky or make her safer from being kidnapped .
Of course , as soon as we think digitizing our children has made them safer , we ’ ll find there are people who hack our kids in order to stalk them .
The coronavirus is turning out to be all it took to get the masses and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made into something like a robot so that digital ID combined with digital cash can go fully mainstream : Visa and Mastercard are on the switch to tap-to-pay .
Using less cash equals more Visa/Mastercard credit or debit transactions , so the coronavirus plays beautifully into their business plans now that cash is considered dirty !
Contactless cards are already available and getting ready for shipment by banks .
With so many stores switching to touch free for cleanliness , cash will not even be accepted as some businesses like restaurants re-open , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with that for health safety .
Those who hold out cash are already being sneered at as vulgar .
Cash won ’ t likely be terminated immediately .
Instead , as more stores move to touch-free systems ( the new retail buzzword ) , customers will become accustomed to being cashless days on end , and more and more stores will switch entirely to digital currency , giving those who prefer cash a lot fewer options .
Sterilizing money , as it turns out is not that easy .
Here ’ s another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concern is over catching COVID-19 from cash : The move to digital currency has gone viral ; so , apparently , has the move toward digital people .
Bloomberg now runs headlines like “ Why Going Cashless Has Added Value in Pandemic Age.
” The article covers all the argument used against cash that I ’ ve covered in my Patron Posts since they began .
We don ’ t need to go back over all of the persuasion now coming out in public .
The purpose of this article is to show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the obstacles .
Gary Cohn , the former Director of the president ’ s National Economic Council , believes the coronacrisis is kicking cash in the butt : Some members of congress are backing the cashless push in a way that will make Bill Gates happy ( or they are doing it because it makes Bill Gates happy ) : Ah , “ the wallet PC ” that Bill Gates promised more than twenty years ago .
Now it is getting pushed into the coronacrisis salvation plan to take on the force of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that can make it happen : Here ’ s how it will work : Maybe they ’ ll even slip a little helicopter MMT into those “ free ” accounts run by the Fed to make them more popular .
I mean , why wouldn ’ t the government decide to do its stimulus checks through its own banker ’ s system , rather than mail all those cumbersome checks that a take so long to get to you .
( See : “ When Will I Get My Stimulus Check ?
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this or become informed about it is being rapidly eliminated by the new Nazi corporatocracy where the interests of major corporations and government are joined to control every aspect of your life , including truth .
The overlords are protecting you at every turn now from fake news and wrong ideas : Don ’ t be surprised if this website just vanishes someday .
It will if people don ’ t stand up and fight this rapid erosion of their constitutional rights as fear overthrows facts .
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By David Haggith
Many people are warming up to the idea of digital currency in a cashless society due to coronavirus because going touch free is cleaner than cash. Many businesses are already moving to make digital currency the only form of transaction they will engage in so their customers and their employees feel safe.
In fact, cash has become so dirty that some businesses that remained open in limited ways under the coronavirus lockdown are already turning away customers who have only cash to tender. “Touch free” means virus-free.
Touch-free Cashless safety is being bought at the cost of liberty
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
Humans, unless they are of the heroic mold — like the forefathers of the United States of America — will embrace almost anything to save themselves. Given a serious crisis, many will trade away freedoms that were once valued as priceless, though braver folk gave up their lives to attain such liberty for all.
National Security Agency Headquarters / Public domain
We saw how easily that happened after 9/11 when then President George Bush turned the NSA into the world’s biggest black box to house acres of super computers to store all cell-phone calls and all data communications moving across the internet in the name of national security — literally the National Security Agency.
No one tried to stop him from spreading the NSA’s data collection web into every corner of the internet and telephony. Almost no one even blinked at the thought until Edward Snowden brought it back to light. (It was public knowledge long before Snowden spoke out). Even after Snowden, most do not care. The practice continues.
The FISA warrant system was supposed to protect citizens from government access to those harvested communications (and other data) without a warrant. We now know that warrant system was incapable of even protecting a future president from privacy intrusion.
Still, almost no one cares. The practice continues even with the person who was eavesdropped being the president in power who actually can do something to stop it … but hasn’t … other than just to rail against it by saying, “This should not happen to anyone in Amerika.”
So, do not fool yourself into thinking the masses will not trade away some more of their constitutional rights to privacy and security for a little restored safety from a plague-like virus. Already, citizens are ratting out their neighbors to law enforcement when they see people who dare to think they still have the constitutional right to peaceably and publicly assemble.
Nothing has divided and conquered like the coronavirus (or our global governments’ responses to it). People are now the enemy. All people. Stand back. Don’t touch, except maybe with a ten-foot pole, since that exceeds minimal social-distancing requirements.
Neighborhood lynch mobs are already making sure neighborhoods are safe from the uninfected who cannot prove they are uninfected yet who are roaming around and gathering freely without masks, taking liberties that no decent member of society would do in today’s COVID world. You are infected until proven innocent.
Many seem willing to believe there is an invisible medical clause in the constitution that says certain constitutional human rights can be suspended during a public health crisis — such as your right to publicly assemble in order to protest a lockdown that doesn’t allow you to publicly assemble! Apparently, that was only meant as a fair-weather right.
Divided and conquered and turned against each other in fear in this fashion, government’s can hope you will not gather to learn what is happening or protest the plans they are forming for limited reunification. Content is being pulled off the web if it doesn’t agree with WHO or the CDC.
While the US government cannot do that, it has enlisted private corporations that own our major communications portals to do it on the basis that they can because they own the portal. They don’t seem to be resisting the oppressive power of government, as you’ll be able to see in a video at the end of this article.
(Hence, Bill Gates’ new plan to mandate implanted digital ID as proof of viral immunity before you can attend public gatherings … or is it just to use viral fear as a way of mandating implanted digital ID for everyone so that you, too, can operate under a Microsoft licensing agreement?)
These same people who are ratting out their neighbor’s picnic will demand digital currency so they don’t have to touch your dirty money either, or they will have nothing to do with you. Going “touch free” is already happening.
We are being taught by government authorities to never shake hands again. Even Trump, infamous for his power-grab handshake — has said it would be a good thing if that prevails beyond the immediate crisis.
People are the enemy. Not just some people — all people. Avoid contact. Divide and conquer.
MMT has arrived, digital currency is next
In my last Patron Post, I described how Modern Monetary Theory arrived on a helicopter to swoop in almost without discussion as the new established economic system of the United States. Coronavirus prepared a road for MMT’s immediate introduction and silent acceptance.
(MMT is where the government creates as much money as it needs to fund anything it wants to do by issuing debt, and the central banks funds all of it. “Helicopter money” is where that money is given to citizens everywhere like cash being thrown out of a helicopter over a city.)
The federal government started doling out limited guaranteed income (“stimulus checks”) as free money to people the government forced to stop working, while the Federal Reserve is creating that money for the government dole out of nothing but caverns of debt. Talk now is of increasing the amount from $1,200 of free money per taxpayer to $2,000.
MMT was immediately accepted because who is going to turn down free money?
Nancy Pelosi has, since, moved from this first step more solidly in the direction of helicopter money by saying that, because of the coronacrisis, it may be time to talk about establishing universal basic income (MMT on steroids) as part of our permanent economic system, and not just as emergency relief. (It didn’t take long to start sliding down that slippery slope.)
Let’s see what works, what is operational and what needs attention…Others have suggested a minimum income, a guaranteed income for people. Is that worthy of attention now? Perhaps so. – Zero Hedge
So, the coronacrisis primed the pump for making MMT the new US longterm fiscal/economic policy. Those plans are supposedly not big enough to save us all from the coronacrisis, so something much larger and more insidious is already in the works. That is a move to a central bank digital currency to turn us into a cashless society.
Central banks around the world are already at Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) or negative (NIRP), so more of that isn’t going to accomplish much. As pointed out in previous Patron Posts, members of the Fed have said they’re not interested in NIRP as a policy goal (though ZIRP is already pressuring some bonds into negative territory), but the Fed has already started down the MMT path with the greatest money creation in the history of the nation and in the history of global currencies.
Full steam ahead for Fed and country. That was easy, what comes next? I’ll show in my next Patron Post how central bank digital currency is already shaping up under the coronacrisis. (Those posts are available as a thank-you to patrons of this website who pledge, at least, $5 a month support.)
Right now, I want to show all readers how ready the public is to embrace going to digital currency as easily as it embraced without a thought or any public discussion (outside of Congress) …
Modern Monetary Theory,
helicopter money for the masses,
bailouts of massive corporations everywhere,
government recordings of all phone calls,
government storage of all emails and other internet traffic,
global quarantine without any discussion of constitutional rights to assemble in public or freely practice religion.
It’s all happening so quickly. Most of those things rapidly evolved into permanent policy with little or no public discussion, much less any public outcry. The coronacrisis is virtually guaranteeing the worst is yet to come … this year. We’re going cashless.
Anecdotal evidence of how easily people will embrace digital ID and digital currency
The US has become a nation of snowflakes who have shown will readily sacrifice constitutionally free speech just to make nice and feel secure and unthreatened, yet then be all-out mean in attacking anyone who, in acting as if they had a right to free speech, caused offense in order to get that person fired for not following the be-nice code.
People will give up their constitutional right to privacy to feel more secure, too, and they are already doing it.
Cameron Karosis usually strives to protect his personal information. But a scary bout of COVID-19 that began last month with headaches and fevers, progressed to breathing problems and led to a hospital visit has now left him eager to disclose as much as possible to help halt the virus’ spread…. Karosis has already shared personal details with Massachusetts health investigators. And if he was asked to comply with a disease-tracking phone app that monitored his whereabouts but didn’t publicly reveal his name and Cambridge street address, he said he’d do that, too. “I’m sick and I’m under a quarantine — hold me accountable for it,” the 27-year-old software salesman said. As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored, in nations rich and poor, authoritarian and free. New systems to track who is infected and who isn’t, and where they’ve been, have been created or extended in China, South Korea and Singapore. And a range of other surveillance systems – some utilizing GPS location data, some gathering medical data – have been debated or piloted in Israel, Germany, the U.K., Italy and elsewhere…. AP
Trackable coronavirus apps, digital ID and digital cash go hand in hand. Digital cash is the last step, but its already primary in many nations.
In China, you look awkward and backward if you use cash. Even homeless people aren’t so backward as to touch old-fashion cash. See how prescient the following 2017 newscast was in saying the US would go cashless like China in 2020:
Freedom is usually lost incrementally. If people will so readily give up a little of their privacy to be tracked to keep the world safe from COVID-19, even when they’ve never known anyone who actually died from it, they will readily give up the privacy (and, more importantly, the autonomy) that comes with real cash over digital currency. They’ll trust that their governments won’t abuse the system … like they never abused FISA warrants.
Democratic governments are already occupying the surrendered ground:
In South Korea, investigators scan smartphone data to find within 10 minutes people who might have caught the coronavirus from someone they met. Israel has tapped its Shin Bet intelligence unit, usually focused on terrorism, to track down potential coronavirus patients through telecom data. One U.K. police force uses drones to monitor public areas, shaming residents who go out for a stroll. – The Wall Street Journal
The increments are happening so quickly now — because there has been so little resistance so far — that it looks more like a landslide of falling rights. Digital coronavirus tracking, digital ID and digital currency are all falling into place together … this year.
Here are more links to YouTube videos that show the plethora of nations that are already moving cashless if you want to check them out: (Even parts of Africa plan to rid themselves completely of paper currency or hard cash by 2022.)
“Touch free” and “cashless” are the new hot words in US retail, but the US is just playing catch-up to global commerce. Even Africa probably thinks the US is backward. With the push of coronavirus, this will be the year the US starts to seriously catch up.
As US society reopens with businesses ready for the new touch free world, get ready to re-enter a world where cash is dirty. You’re favorite restaurant may work like this when it reopens:
Pay at Table – App-free cashless payments
People demand touch-free digital shopping to feel protected from the coronavirus
Coronavirus is making touch-free shopping a necessity“ Amazon Go stores, delivery drones and contactless terminals will play a big role for consumers. Burger King has started airing ads about making its drive-thrus contactless for both payments and pickups. Publix, the Florida-based grocery chain, this month said it completed its rollout of tap-to-pay registers at its more than 1,200 locations across the Southeast. And Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, late last month said it will provide no-contact pickup, delivery and in-store checkout. There are many uncertainties about how the coronavirus will impact people’s health, their jobs and the economy, but some consumer trends have already become so obvious that they suggest a long-lasting shift in people’s behavior when the COVID-19 crisis finally departs. One of them is the move toward contactless transactions…. Now retailers that remain open are scrambling to respond to this new consumer need. When thousands of other merchants reopen following the pandemic, they will have to reevaluate how they operate their stores to coax shoppers back. Where backers once pitched contactless technologies for their convenience, retailers will give them new consideration for their health and safety benefits…. “This is a huge event in the world, people are going to change their behaviors and a lot of things that have struggled for adoption will get a new push….” As the federal and state governments start to discuss what reopening the economy will look like, contactless technologies are going to be part of the equation, especially in busy places like transit systems and stadiums…. Last year, the payment industry widely believed these types of tap-to-pay transit terminals, which also accept Apple Pay and Google Pay in phones, would spark the move to contactless transactions in the US. It appears it will likely be the coronavirus instead. “I can see consumer behaviors changing for sure from the situation we’re in,” said Linda Kirkpatrick, president of US issuers for Mastercard. “When those consumer behaviors change over several months, they tend to stick….” “I think there will be an explosion of services and functionalities that will come out in the next few months…. Necessity is the mother of invention, and there’s a whole lot of necessity right now….” CNet
“Contactless,” of course, means going to digital currency in some form. Cash is out, and “contactless” or “touch free” does not even include digital devices, like cards, that have to make contact with the card reader and/or that require you touch a keypad to enter a pin. So, it’s either your cell phone that only you touch or Bill Gate’s digital tattoo or a chip implant.
Think of how perfectly that digital ID, implanted or tattooed on your hand, will work for contactless entrance into sports stadiums as you use it to also prove you’re vaccinated. (And for those who are double amputees, on your forehead.)
The attendant enters your ticket purchase, and you wave your hand under the scanner to authorize the transaction. Order dinner at a restaurant afterward, and hold out your hand to be scanned by the waiter after the meal. Buy something at a flea market the next day, and hold out your hand to be scanned by someone’s phone app. Nobody has to touch any of that dirty cash.
The coronacrisis has shoved us headlong from the realm of mere convenience or curiosity or coolness to the perception of necessity among consumers for safety. That translates to retailers who want to make sure they get those consumers back by catering to their safety fears and who need to make sure they retain their employees, who also have safety concerns.
Touch-free only works digitally. Cash is trash in this brave new world. So, it will be awfully “helpful” to have the chip or nano-tattoo described in my last article designed so that it allows you to merely wave your hand past a scanner to approve a purchase like people in other countries can do.
People in some nations actually find it amusing that the US is so far behind them in implementing digital currency technology — not just in going cashless, but in going to digital implants. Countries like Sweden have already embraced chip implants in their hands in a move to go cashless. The process is as easy as getting a body piercing:
How far along to digital currency are we?
How extreme and strange are we willing to go in getting human beings chipped, and how quickly will we get there? As one example, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just said he wants all Israeli children chipped before they go back to school this fall:
Cyber experts slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his proposal to “microchip” children who return to schools and kindergartens as the coronavirus lockdown is lifted, Ynet reported on Friday. “I spoke with our heads of technology in order to find measures Israel is good at, such as sensors. For instance, every person, every kid – I want it on kids first – would have a sensor that would sound an alarm when you get too close, like the ones on cars,” the prime minister said. – The Jerusalem Post
High-security states like Israel and the US love this stuff — at least at a governmental level.
The prime minister of Israel wants to have all the children in Israel microchipped by this fall so they beep if they get too close to each other! Maybe they should also beep if they back up so they don’t run over each other.
It’s amazing how fear (mass hysteria now that it has reached this level?) is able to make us take the first incremental step in turning our children into little cyborgs. What kind of parent are you if you don’t care about the children’s safety? Your child might not be allowed in school without a chip (if Israel anyway).
You might be frowned on as a bad parent for having unchipped children. If things like masks can become matters of intense social conformity to where people in the US now get in arguments over it at grocery stores, so can things like getting your children chipped.
That idea will rapidly progress to further enhancement. Once the children all beep like nice little robots when they get too close to each other, why not employ a more sophisticated chip that can track them at all times for their security — an identity chip, unique to each individual?
It could automatically take attendance as each child walks through the school doors and alert the school administration when a child leaves the school grounds during school hours to either keep the child from playing hooky or make her safer from being kidnapped. Of course, as soon as we think digitizing our children has made them safer, we’ll find there are people who hack our kids in order to stalk them.
The coronavirus is turning out to be all it took to get the masses and their leaders past their fear of being made into something like a robot so that digital ID combined with digital cash can go fully mainstream:
Visa and Mastercard are on the switch to tap-to-pay. Using less cash equals more Visa/Mastercard credit or debit transactions, so the coronavirus plays beautifully into their business plans now that cash is considered dirty! Contactless cards are already available and getting ready for shipment by banks.
With so many stores switching to touch free for cleanliness, cash will not even be accepted as some businesses like restaurants re-open, and society will likely largely go along with that for health safety. Those who hold out cash are already being sneered at as vulgar.
Cash won’t likely be terminated immediately. Instead, as more stores move to touch-free systems (the new retail buzzword), customers will become accustomed to being cashless days on end, and more and more stores will switch entirely to digital currency, giving those who prefer cash a lot fewer options.
Sterilizing money, as it turns out is not that easy. Here’s another video showing how wide and extreme the concern is over catching COVID-19 from cash:
The move to digital currency has gone viral; so, apparently, has the move toward digital people.
Going corona cashless is mainstream
Bloomberg now runs headlines like “Why Going Cashless Has Added Value in Pandemic Age.” The article covers all the argument used against cash that I’ve covered in my Patron Posts since they began. We don’t need to go back over all of the persuasion now coming out in public. The purpose of this article is to show us how the coronacrisis is clearing all the obstacles.
Gary Cohn, the former Director of the president’s National Economic Council, believes the coronacrisis is kicking cash in the butt:
For the past five weeks I have not touched a single coin or banknote, instead relying exclusively on electronic payment systems and credit cards that only I touch…. More and more brick-and-mortar stores have shifted to systems where you order ahead, pay on the phone, and pick up kerbside [sic]. – Financial Times
Some members of congress are backing the cashless push in a way that will make Bill Gates happy (or they are doing it because it makes Bill Gates happy):
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) fought very hard behind the scenes to include U.S. digital dollars in the 3rd economic stimulus package for coronavirus, and will continue the fight even though the concept did not make it into the “CARES Act.” His bill, the “Banking For All Act” … would … “require member banks to maintain pass-through digital dollar wallets for certain persons and for other purposes.” Text of the bill is included in his press release … with the description of a “digital dollar” and a “digital dollar wallet.” – Forbes
Ah, “the wallet PC” that Bill Gates promised more than twenty years ago. Now it is getting pushed into the coronacrisis salvation plan to take on the force of law.
And this is the guy that can make it happen:
The source, who spoke to me on background, characterized what were ‘intense negotiations’ during the last week over what would be part of the massive $2 Trillion stimulus package. As the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee and a key Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, Senator Brown’s push for a digital dollar wallet will carry a lot of weight among his colleagues.
Here’s how it will work:
In the Senator’s plan, everyone would be allowed to set up a digital dollar wallet that would be called a ‘FedAccount,’ which would be a free bank account that can be used to receive money, make payments, and take out cash. FedAccounts would be available at local banks and Post Offices, and would have no account fees or minimum balance requirements. Account holders would receive debit cards, online account access, automatic bill-pay, mobile banking, and ATM access at Post Offices.
Maybe they’ll even slip a little helicopter MMT into those “free” accounts run by the Fed to make them more popular. I mean, why wouldn’t the government decide to do its stimulus checks through its own banker’s system, rather than mail all those cumbersome checks that a take so long to get to you. (See: “When Will I Get My Stimulus Check?“)
Your rights are fading fast
Your right to even speak about this or become informed about it is being rapidly eliminated by the new Nazi corporatocracy where the interests of major corporations and government are joined to control every aspect of your life, including truth. The overlords are protecting you at every turn now from fake news and wrong ideas:
Don’t be surprised if this website just vanishes someday. It will if people don’t stand up and fight this rapid erosion of their constitutional rights as fear overthrows facts.
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activistpost--2020-05-12--Bars And Restaurants Allowed To Reopen If They Agree To Snitch On Customers

If you are like me , you are looking forward to finally getting out of your house and maybe having a few drinks or a nice dinner at your local bar or restaurant .
But going out to your local bar or restaurant once the lockdown ends comes with a steep price .
That ’ s because three cities , in Louisiana , Texas and Missouri will only allow non-essential businesses to reopen if they agree to collect customers personal information .
According to NOLA Ready , The Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the city of New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” by forcing bars and restaurants to collect customers ’ personal information .
“ We know everyone is eager to reopen .
It ’ s not going back to normal ; it ’ s what we ’ re calling ‘ the new normal.
’ It will be the data and not the date that drives not only the decision but the phased approach to reopen the City of New Orleans .
Today , we are outlining what those guidelines will be for the City , ” said Mayor Latoya Cantrell .
As Forbes.com @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for bars and restaurants to become government snitches .
Two different articles in Nola.com reveal how DHS and the city of New Orleans plan to use COVID-19 contact tracing as an excuse to record customers ’ personal information .
An article titled , “ Customer logs will be kept under ‘ new normal ’ amid coronavirus in New Orleans ” explains DHS ’ s plans .
Activist Post Recommended Book : Snitch Culture : How Citizens Are Turned Into The Eyes And Ears Of The State Another Nola.com article titled , “ Proposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” warns that forcing businesses to collect customers private information violates the Constitution .
In Travis County , Texas restaurants will do much more than track customers ’ personal information .
According to an article in The Austin Eater , restaurants will track customers personal information and note exactly when they ate , where they ate , and which employees served them .
All restaurants allowing dine-in service and all reopened services with allowed occupancy or capacity of 75 or less are encouraged to maintain an activity log of , as reasonably possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or sit-down customers and employees including the dates and times they were present in the business and the location where they sat or were served if a restaurant or reopened service with seating .
In the absence of a such a log .
How does our government justify forcing businesses to keep detailed logs of who their customers are , what time they ate and what they ate ?
Kansas City forces churches and businesses to snitch on churchgoers and customers A recent article in The New American revealed how the city of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of worship and businesses to track people ’ s personal information .
Mayor Quinton Lucas ’ s 10/10/10 rule states “ that businesses must maintain a record of time of service for customers on the premises in a seated capacity for more than ten ( 10 ) minutes.
” It further states that businesses like Salons can satisfy customer registrations by providing authorities with customers names and appointment times .
Kansas City ’ s 10/10/10 rule also said that religious gatherings like , weddings , funerals , memorial services , and wakes with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ names and personal information collected .
A city FAQ page indicates that businesses must record the names , contact information , and approximate entry/exit time of these customers .
It also said the information must be turned over to the department of public health upon request .
A Kansas City new release titled , “ Re-Opening Guidelines for KCMO Restaurants , Non-Essential Businesses ” revealed that restaurants and businesses have become de facto government spies , keeping personal information of customers for thirty days .
Fortunately , tracking customers ’ personal information is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Today noted , most states are not tracking customers ’ personal information as long as businesses take the necessary health precautions .
It should be noted that at least one more state , Oregon , is considering forcing restaurants to record customers ’ personal information .
Forcing businesses to record the names and personal information of everyone under the guise of COVID-19 is too high a price to pay for going out to your favorite bar or restaurant .
We can not allow DHS and local authorities to use COVID-19 as an excuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of private business snitching .
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By MassPrivateI
If you are like me, you are looking forward to finally getting out of your house and maybe having a few drinks or a nice dinner at your local bar or restaurant. But going out to your local bar or restaurant once the lockdown ends comes with a steep price.
That’s because three cities, in Louisiana, Texas and Missouri will only allow non-essential businesses to reopen if they agree to collect customers personal information.
According to NOLA Ready, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the city of New Orleans are creating a “new normal” by forcing bars and restaurants to collect customers’ personal information.
“We know everyone is eager to reopen. It’s not going back to normal; it’s what we’re calling ‘the new normal.’ It will be the data and not the date that drives not only the decision but the phased approach to reopen the City of New Orleans. Today, we are outlining what those guidelines will be for the City,” said Mayor Latoya Cantrell.
As Forbes.com explains the “new normal” is for bars and restaurants to become government snitches.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced business owners will be required to keep logs of the names and contact information of patrons who enter their establishments once the Big Easy reopens to help with contact tracing—a move that Cantrell called part of the new normal, as New Orleans and Louisiana plan to rollback coronavirus restrictions this month.
Two different articles in Nola.com reveal how DHS and the city of New Orleans plan to use COVID-19 contact tracing as an excuse to record customers’ personal information.
An article titled, “Customer logs will be kept under ‘new normal’ amid coronavirus in New Orleans” explains DHS’s plans.
“Contact tracing just doesn’t involve government alone,” Cantrell said in the Tuesday conference call. Businesses will proactively track the names and the contact information of patrons “as part of the new normal,” Cantrell said.
Activist Post Recommended Book: Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into The Eyes And Ears Of The State
Another Nola.com article titled, “Proposed customer logs raise privacy, logistical concerns” warns that forcing businesses to collect customers private information violates the Constitution.
“They’re asking of restaurants, and they’re asking right now and developing guidelines, that are completely impossible to follow and violate constitutional privacy,” Stephen Perry the head of New Orleans tourism and hospitality sector said.
In Travis County, Texas restaurants will do much more than track customers’ personal information. According to an article in The Austin Eater, restaurants will track customers personal information and note exactly when they ate, where they ate, and which employees served them.
All restaurants allowing dine-in service and all reopened services with allowed occupancy or capacity of 75 or less are encouraged to maintain an activity log of, as reasonably possible, the contact information for all inside or sit-down customers and employees including the dates and times they were present in the business and the location where they sat or were served if a restaurant or reopened service with seating. In the absence of a such a log.
How does our government justify forcing businesses to keep detailed logs of who their customers are, what time they ate and what they ate?
Kansas City forces churches and businesses to snitch on churchgoers and customers
A recent article in The New American revealed how the city of Kansas City, Missouri is forcing places of worship and businesses to track people’s personal information.
As part of its partial reopening of nonessential institutions, Kansas City, Missouri, is now requiring businesses and churches to maintain lists of people who enter their doors.
Mayor Quinton Lucas’s 10/10/10 rule states “that businesses must maintain a record of time of service for customers on the premises in a seated capacity for more than ten (10) minutes.” It further states that businesses like Salons can satisfy customer registrations by providing authorities with customers names and appointment times.
Kansas City’s 10/10/10 rule also said that religious gatherings like, weddings, funerals, memorial services, and wakes with ten or more people should have their names and personal information collected.
A city FAQ page indicates that businesses must record the names, contact information, and approximate entry/exit time of these customers. It also said the information must be turned over to the department of public health upon request.
A Kansas City new release titled, “Re-Opening Guidelines for KCMO Restaurants, Non-Essential Businesses” revealed that restaurants and businesses have become de facto government spies, keeping personal information of customers for thirty days.
Restaurants are strongly encouraged to maintain a log of all customers who spend more than 10 minutes seated at the establishment. Logs are to be kept for 30 days at the establishment before discarding/deleting. Log records will be kept confidential and will only be used to aid efforts to notify customers and staff about potential COVID-19 exposure.
Fortunately, tracking customers’ personal information is not the norm yet. As USA Today noted, most states are not tracking customers’ personal information as long as businesses take the necessary health precautions. It should be noted that at least one more state, Oregon, is considering forcing restaurants to record customers’ personal information.
Forcing businesses to record the names and personal information of everyone under the guise of COVID-19 is too high a price to pay for going out to your favorite bar or restaurant.
We cannot allow DHS and local authorities to use COVID-19 as an excuse to create a “new normal” of private business snitching.
Source: MassPrivateI Blog
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activistpost--2020-05-12--Gates, Airbus, Softbank, and Greg Wyler Spend Billions for Ecologically Disastrous Surveillance Sate

Gates, Airbus, Softbank, and Greg Wyler Spend Billions for Ecologically Disastrous Surveillance Satellites

Astronomers and other experts have not been shy about voicing their opposition to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) allowing companies to send tens of thousands of satellites and other space craft into the sky to blast 5G and WiFi at us ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 .
7 , 8 ) .
Now more unsavory individuals and companies want to send satellites up there as well in order to spy on us .
Almost every corner of the planet will soon be monitored by video surveillance satellites capable of live-streaming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and large enterprises ” — if Bill Gates gets his way .
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is bankrolling a company that is using a $ 1 billion initial equity allocation from investors to plan a network of satellites to provide real-time coverage of almost every location on Earth .
Washington-based company EarthNow plans to launch an army of more than 500 satellites into our atmosphere , providing its users with near instantaneous video feedback with only one second of delay .
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Bill Gates ’ plan to surveil the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Los Angeles police ticketing Malibu surfers for breaking quarantine rules by using the ocean as an example of police state overreach .
Bill Gates isn ’ t the only big player bankrolling the project .
Softbank , Airbus and Greg Wyler are also heavily invested .
The FCC is supposed to protect the public from the telecom industry .
They were a corrupt and “ captured agency ” before Trump was elected and they have become much worse since then ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ) .
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By B.N. Frank
Astronomers and other experts have not been shy about voicing their opposition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowing companies to send tens of thousands of satellites and other space craft into the sky to blast 5G and WiFi at us (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 8). Now more unsavory individuals and companies want to send satellites up there as well in order to spy on us.
From Newspunch:
Almost every corner of the planet will soon be monitored by video surveillance satellites capable of live-streaming coverage of human activity for “governments and large enterprises”— if Bill Gates gets his way.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is bankrolling a company that is using a $1 billion initial equity allocation from investors to plan a network of satellites to provide real-time coverage of almost every location on Earth.
Washington-based company EarthNow plans to launch an army of more than 500 satellites into our atmosphere, providing its users with near instantaneous video feedback with only one second of delay.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Bill Gates’ plan to surveil the entire world, using an example of Los Angeles police ticketing Malibu surfers for breaking quarantine rules by using the ocean as an example of police state overreach.
[…]
Bill Gates isn’t the only big player bankrolling the project. Softbank, Airbus and Greg Wyler are also heavily invested.
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