lewrockwell--2020-04-23--‘The Bill of Rights Is Above My Pay Grade’

The loss of liberty is at hand .
Every day in America , mayors and governors — not one of whom is constitutionally or lawfully empowered to author laws and assign punishments for their noncompliance — are imposing new standards of behavior that nullify liberty in the name of public safety .
I have been writing about this since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States — about the consequences to personal liberty in a free society that are inevitable when those in whose hands we have reposed the Constitution for safekeeping have failed us .
Their failures have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Theodore and Woodrow : ... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 9.25 Take the governor of New Jersey , for example .
In a television interview with my Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson last week , Gov .
Philip Murphy uttered the words “ the Bill of Rights is above my pay grade.
” He then went on to confess that he had not considered the effect of his restrictive executive orders on the Bill of Rights .
His orders are similar to those in other states , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ words — born in ignorance .
Here is the backstory .
The Constitution requires that every office holder and government employee in the land — from the president to a public school janitor , from a governor to a police recruit — take an oath to support the Constitution .
Murphy took that oath when he became the governor of New Jersey in January 2018 .
The Constitution includes its 27 amendments , the first 10 of which have been referred to , since 1791 , as the Bill of Rights .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Madison to restrain the federal government from infringing upon natural rights , the personal freedoms that are integral to our humanity and which form the fabric of American values .
The 14th Amendment , enacted in 1868 , generally imposes the Bill of Rights upon the states .
Hence , even though the First Amendment reads , in part , “ Congress shall make no law… ” abridging the freedoms of peaceable assembly , petitioning the government , following religious beliefs and exercising free speech and press , today , that language is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shall infringe upon those freedoms .
This is Constitutional Law 101 .
It is inconceivable that Murphy does not know this .
If his comment to my colleague was intended as a joke , it was a sick one .
The governor ’ s agents have utterly trampled the rights of my fellow New Jerseyans to assemble peacefully , to tell the governor what they think of him and to ask God to intercede in this madness .
Constitutional Chaos : ... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price : $ 0.25 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In Murphy ’ s New Jersey , one can sit in a car and wait in line at McDonald ’ s for an order of paper-wrapped cheeseburgers and fries , but one can not sit in a car and wait in line to pick up cellophane-wrapped palms from a box in a Catholic church parking lot on Palm Sunday .
Nor can one sit in a car in a line at a town square — the quintessential venue for expressing political beliefs and grievances with the government — and shout , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Murphy .
That ’ s because the governor and his folks have told local and state police — many of whom I know hate doing this because they believe in the Bill of Rights — that their job is to disperse people , no matter the reason for their gathering .
Let ’ s give the governor his due .
He says , correctly , that it is his job to protect the health , safety and welfare of all persons in New Jersey .
The Tenth Amendment reserves that right and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power — to the states .
Stated differently , the courts have ruled that the states never ceded away police power to the federal government when they joined the Union .
But all state power must be exercised subject to individual natural rights protected by the U.S. Constitution .
In New Jersey ’ s case , natural rights are also protected by the New Jersey Constitution .
So , Murphy is profoundly wrong if he thinks that New Jersey ’ s police power can trump the federal- and state-protected and constitutionally enumerated rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his efforts to make light of that or to evade confronting it show that he is unfit for office .
When I have made these arguments on Fox , I am often met with the view that it is Murphy ’ s job — like that of all governors — to balance personal liberty and public safety , and we should give him the benefit of the doubt .
That balance argument is a red herring made to seduce the unwary .
Suicide Pact : The Radi ... Napolitano , Andrew P. Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2.84 What is the relationship of liberty to safety in a free society ?
It is not balance .
King George III claimed he was balancing the rights and safety of the colonists in 1776 .
The relationship between liberty and safety is bias — a bias in favor of liberty .
Liberty is the default position because liberty is the birthright of every person .
Government doesn ’ t grant us our liberty .
Free people grant the government its powers .
We enumerate those powers and impose restraints on their exercise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose hands we have reposed that Constitution to comply with it .
Thomas Jefferson knew this when he characterized our rights as “ inalienable ” in the Declaration of Independence .
And Madison knew it when he crafted the Ninth Amendment so as to bar the government from denying or even disparaging natural rights too numerous to enumerate .
If Murphy does not know this , he is unfit for office .
He is also unfit for violating his solemn public oath and the public trust and for trampling human freedom .
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The loss of liberty is at hand.
Every day in America, mayors and governors — not one of whom is constitutionally or lawfully empowered to author laws and assign punishments for their noncompliance — are imposing new standards of behavior that nullify liberty in the name of public safety.
I have been writing about this since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States — about the consequences to personal liberty in a free society that are inevitable when those in whose hands we have reposed the Constitution for safekeeping have failed us. Their failures have also been a violation of law. Theodore and Woodrow: ... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $9.25 (as of 12:15 UTC - Details)
Take the governor of New Jersey, for example. In a television interview with my Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson last week, Gov. Philip Murphy uttered the words “the Bill of Rights is above my pay grade.” He then went on to confess that he had not considered the effect of his restrictive executive orders on the Bill of Rights. His orders are similar to those in other states, yet his are — by his own words — born in ignorance.
Here is the backstory.
The Constitution requires that every office holder and government employee in the land — from the president to a public school janitor, from a governor to a police recruit — take an oath to support the Constitution. Murphy took that oath when he became the governor of New Jersey in January 2018. The Constitution includes its 27 amendments, the first 10 of which have been referred to, since 1791, as the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights was written by James Madison to restrain the federal government from infringing upon natural rights, the personal freedoms that are integral to our humanity and which form the fabric of American values. The 14th Amendment, enacted in 1868, generally imposes the Bill of Rights upon the states.
Hence, even though the First Amendment reads, in part, “Congress shall make no law…” abridging the freedoms of peaceable assembly, petitioning the government, following religious beliefs and exercising free speech and press, today, that language is universally accepted as commanding that no government shall infringe upon those freedoms. This is Constitutional Law 101.
It is inconceivable that Murphy does not know this.
If his comment to my colleague was intended as a joke, it was a sick one. The governor’s agents have utterly trampled the rights of my fellow New Jerseyans to assemble peacefully, to tell the governor what they think of him and to ask God to intercede in this madness. Constitutional Chaos: ... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $5.01 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
I have seen some of this. In Murphy’s New Jersey, one can sit in a car and wait in line at McDonald’s for an order of paper-wrapped cheeseburgers and fries, but one cannot sit in a car and wait in line to pick up cellophane-wrapped palms from a box in a Catholic church parking lot on Palm Sunday.
Nor can one sit in a car in a line at a town square — the quintessential venue for expressing political beliefs and grievances with the government — and shout, in unison, what one thinks of Phil Murphy.
That’s because the governor and his folks have told local and state police — many of whom I know hate doing this because they believe in the Bill of Rights — that their job is to disperse people, no matter the reason for their gathering.
Let’s give the governor his due. He says, correctly, that it is his job to protect the health, safety and welfare of all persons in New Jersey. The Tenth Amendment reserves that right and the power to exercise it — called police power — to the states. Stated differently, the courts have ruled that the states never ceded away police power to the federal government when they joined the Union.
But all state power must be exercised subject to individual natural rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. In New Jersey’s case, natural rights are also protected by the New Jersey Constitution. So, Murphy is profoundly wrong if he thinks that New Jersey’s police power can trump the federal- and state-protected and constitutionally enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights. And his efforts to make light of that or to evade confronting it show that he is unfit for office.
When I have made these arguments on Fox, I am often met with the view that it is Murphy’s job — like that of all governors — to balance personal liberty and public safety, and we should give him the benefit of the doubt. That balance argument is a red herring made to seduce the unwary. Suicide Pact: The Radi... Napolitano, Andrew P. Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $2.84 (as of 04:15 UTC - Details)
What is the relationship of liberty to safety in a free society? It is not balance. King George III claimed he was balancing the rights and safety of the colonists in 1776.
The relationship between liberty and safety is bias — a bias in favor of liberty. Liberty is the default position because liberty is the birthright of every person. Government doesn’t grant us our liberty. Free people grant the government its powers. We enumerate those powers and impose restraints on their exercise in the Constitution and require everyone in whose hands we have reposed that Constitution to comply with it.
Thomas Jefferson knew this when he characterized our rights as “inalienable” in the Declaration of Independence. And Madison knew it when he crafted the Ninth Amendment so as to bar the government from denying or even disparaging natural rights too numerous to enumerate.
If Murphy does not know this, he is unfit for office. He is also unfit for violating his solemn public oath and the public trust and for trampling human freedom.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-04-23--Techno-Tyranny: How the US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill an Orwellian Visi

Techno-Tyranny: How the US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill an Orwellian Vision

LAST YEAR , A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION CALLED FOR THE US TO ADOPT AN AI-DRIVEN MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FAR BEYOND THAT USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENSURE AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE .
NOW , MANY OF THE “ OBSTACLES ” THEY HAD CITED AS PREVENTING ITS IMPLEMENTATION ARE RAPIDLY BEING REMOVED UNDER THE GUISE OF COMBATING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS .
Last year , a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can “ address the national security and defense needs of the United States ” discussed in detail the “ structural ” changes that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to ensure a technological advantage over China , according to a recent document acquired through a FOIA request .
This document suggests that the U.S. follow China ’ s lead and even surpass them in many aspects related to AI-driven technologies , particularly their use of mass surveillance .
This perspective clearly clashes with the public rhetoric of prominent U.S. government officials and politicians on China , who have labeled the Chinese government ’ s technology investments and export of its surveillance systems and other technologies as a major “ threat ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” 1984 ( Signet Classics ) George Orwell Best Price : $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 In addition , many of the steps for the implementation of such a program in the U.S. , as laid out in this newly available document , are currently being promoted and implemented as part of the government ’ s response to the current coronavirus ( Covid-19 ) crisis .
This likely due to the fact that many members of this same body have considerable overlap with the taskforces and advisors currently guiding the government ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and efforts to use technology to respond to the current crisis .
The FOIA document , obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) , was produced by a little-known U.S. government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence ( NSCAI ) .
It was created by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) and its official purpose is “ to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence ( AI ) , machine learning , and associated technologies to comprehensively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the United States.
” The NSCAI is a key part of the government ’ s response to what is often referred to as the coming “ fourth industrial revolution , ” which has been described as “ a revolution characterized by discontinuous technological development in areas like artificial intelligence ( AI ) , big data , fifth-generation telecommunications networking ( 5G ) , nanotechnology and biotechnology , robotics , the Internet of Things ( IoT ) , and quantum computing.
” However , their main focus is ensuring that “ the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ artificial intelligence , machine learning , and other associated technologies related to national security and defense.
” The vice-chair of NSCAI , Robert Work – former Deputy Secretary of Defense and senior fellow at the hawkish Center for a New American Security ( CNAS ) , described the commission ’ s purpose as determining “ how the U.S. national security apparatus should approach artificial intelligence , including a focus on how the government can work with industry to compete with China ’ s ‘ civil-military fusion ’ concept.
” The recently released NSCAI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Chinese Tech Landscape Overview.
” Throughout the presentation , the NSCAI promotes the overhaul of the U.S. economy and way of life as necessary for allowing the U.S. to ensure it holds a considerable technological advantage over China , as losing this advantage is currently deemed a major “ national security ” issue by the U.S. national security apparatus .
This concern about maintaining a technological advantage can be seen in several other U.S. military documents and think tank reports , several of which have warned that the U.S. ’ technological advantage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Buy New $ 55.99 The U.S. government and establishment media outlets often blame alleged Chinese espionage or the Chinese government ’ s more explicit partnerships with private technology companies in support of their claim that the U.S. is losing this advantage over China .
For instance , Chris Darby , the current CEO of the CIA ’ s In-Q-Tel , who is also on the NSCAI , told CBS News last year that China is the U.S. ’ main competitor in terms of technology and that U.S. privacy laws were hampering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this regard , stating that : In another example , Michael Dempsey – former acting Director of National Intelligence and currently a government-funded fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations – argued in The Hill that : In fact , the national security apparatus of the United States is so concerned about losing a technological edge over China that the Pentagon recently decided to join forces directly with the U.S. intelligence community in order “ to get in front of Chinese advances in artificial intelligence.
” This union resulted in the creation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , which ties together “ the military ’ s efforts with those of the Intelligence Community , allowing them to combine efforts in a breakneck push to move government ’ s AI initiatives forward.
” It also coordinates with other government agencies , industry , academics , and U.S. allies .
Robert Work , who subsequently became the NSCAI vice-chair , said at the time that JAIC ’ s creation was a “ welcome first step in response to Chinese , and to a lesser extent , Russian , plans to dominate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ losing ” technological advantage to China have also been voiced by the NSCAI chairman , Eric Schmidt , the former head of Alphabet – Google ’ s parent company , who argued in February in the New York Times that Silicon Valley could soon lose “ the technology wars ” to China if the U.S. government doesn ’ t take action .
Thus , the three main groups represented within the NSCAI – the intelligence community , the Pentagon and Silicon Valley – all view China ’ s advancements in AI as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Silicon Valley ’ s case , threat to their bottom lines and market shares ) that must be tackled quickly .
AUKEY Car Phone Mount ... Best Price : $ 17.59 Buy New $ 19.99 In the May 2019 “ Chinese Tech Landscape Overview ” presentation , the NSCAI discusses that , while the U.S. still leads in the “ creation ” stage of AI and related technologies , it lags behind China in the “ adoption ” stage due to “ structural factors.
” It says that “ creation ” , followed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” are the three phases of the “ life cycle of new tech ” and asserts that failing to dominate in the “ adoption ” stage will allow China to “ leapfrog ” the U.S. and dominate AI for the foreseeable future .
The presentation also argues that , in order to “ leapfrog ” competitors in emerging markets , what is needed is not “ individual brilliance ” but instead specific “ structural conditions that exist within certain markets.
” It cites several case studies where China is considered to be “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ differences in these “ structural factors.
” Thus , the insinuation of the document ( though not directly stated ) is that the U.S. must alter the “ structural factors ” that are currently responsible for its lagging behind China in the “ adoption ” phase of AI-driven technologies .
Chief among the troublesome “ structural factors ” highlighted in this presentation are so-called “ legacy systems ” that are common in the U.S. but much less so in China .
The NSCAI document states that examples of “ legacy systems ” include @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and card payments , individual car ownership and even receiving medical attention from a human doctor .
It states that , while these “ legacy systems ” in the US are “ good enough , ” too many “ good enough ” systems “ hinder the adoption of new things , ” specifically AI-driven systems .
Another structural factor deemed by the NSCAI to be an obstacle to the U.S. ’ ability to maintain a technological advantage over China is the “ scale of the consumer market , ” arguing that “ extreme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In other words , extreme urbanization results in more people using online or mobile-based “ on-demand ” services , ranging from ride-sharing to online shopping .
It also cites the use of mass surveillance on China ’ s “ huge population base ” is an example of how China ’ s “ scale of consumer market ” advantage allowing “ China to leap ahead ” in the fields of related technologies , like facial recognition .
In addition to the alleged shortcomings of the U.S. ’ “ legacy systems ” and lack of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NSCAI also calls for more “ explicit government support and involvement ” as a means to speed up the adoption of these systems in the U.S .
This includes the government lending its stores of data on civilians to train AI , specifically citing facial recognition databases , and mandating that cities be “ re-architected around AVs [ autonomous vehicles ] , ” among others .
Other examples given include the government investing large amounts of money in AI start-ups and adding tech behemoths to a national , public-private AI taskforce focused on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Canon TS5120 Wireless ... Buy New $ 138.79 With regards to the latter , the document says “ this level of public-private cooperation ” in China is “ outwardly embraced ” by the parties involved , with this “ serving as a stark contrast to the controversy around Silicon Valley selling to the U.S. government.
” Examples of such controversy , from the NSCAI ’ s perspective , likely include Google employees petitioning to end the Google-Pentagon “ Project Maven , ” which uses Google ’ s AI software to analyze footage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to renew its Maven contract as a result of the controversy , even though top Google executives viewed the project as a “ golden opportunity ” to collaborate more closely with the military and intelligence communities .
The document also defines another aspect of government support as the “ clearing of regulatory barriers.
” This term is used in the document specifically with respect to U.S. privacy laws , despite the fact that the U.S. national security state has long violated these laws with near complete impunity .
However , the document @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. should be altered so that what the U.S. government has done “ in secret ” with private citizen data can be done more openly and more extensively .
The NSCAI document also discusses the removal of “ regulatory barriers ” in order to speed up the adoption of self-driving cars , even though autonomous driving technology has resulted in several deadly and horrific car accidents and presents other safety concerns .
Also discussed is how China ’ s “ adoption advantage ” will “ allow it to leapfrog the U.S. ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AI medical diagnosis ” and “ smart cities.
” It then asserts that “ the future will be decided at the intersection of private enterprise and policy leaders between China and the U.S. ” If this coordination over the global AI market does not occur , the document warns that “ we [ the U.S. ] risk being left out of the discussions where norms around AI are set for the rest of our lifetimes.
” [ 1080p HD & Audio Comp ... Buy New $ 459.99 The presentation also dwells considerably on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology ] are not the domestic Chinese and US markets , ” but what it refers to as the NBU ( next billion users ) markets , where it states that “ Chinese players will aggressively challenge Silicon Valley.
” In order to challenge them more successfully , the presentation argues that , “ just like we [ view ] the market of teenagers as a harbinger for new trends , we should look at China.
” The document also expresses concerns about China exporting AI more extensively and intensively than the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crossing borders ” by helping to build facial databases in Zimbabwe and selling image recognition and smart city systems to Malaysia .
If allowed to become “ the unambiguous leader in AI , ” it says that “ China could end up writing much of the rulebook of international norms around the deployment of AI ” and that it would “ broaden China ’ s sphere of influence amongst an international community that increasingly looks to the pragmatic authoritarianism of China and Singapore as an alternative to Western liberal democracy .
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LAST YEAR, A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION CALLED FOR THE US TO ADOPT AN AI-DRIVEN MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FAR BEYOND THAT USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENSURE AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. NOW, MANY OF THE “OBSTACLES” THEY HAD CITED AS PREVENTING ITS IMPLEMENTATION ARE RAPIDLY BEING REMOVED UNDER THE GUISE OF COMBATING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS.
Last year, a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can “address the national security and defense needs of the United States” discussed in detail the “structural” changes that the American economy and society must undergo in order to ensure a technological advantage over China, according to a recent document acquired through a FOIA request. This document suggests that the U.S. follow China’s lead and even surpass them in many aspects related to AI-driven technologies, particularly their use of mass surveillance. This perspective clearly clashes with the public rhetoric of prominent U.S. government officials and politicians on China, who have labeled the Chinese government’s technology investments and export of its surveillance systems and other technologies as a major “threat” to Americans’ “way of life.”
1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details) In addition, many of the steps for the implementation of such a program in the U.S., as laid out in this newly available document, are currently being promoted and implemented as part of the government’s response to the current coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. This likely due to the fact that many members of this same body have considerable overlap with the taskforces and advisors currently guiding the government’s plans to “re-open the economy” and efforts to use technology to respond to the current crisis.
The FOIA document, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), was produced by a little-known U.S. government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). It was created by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its official purpose is “to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States.”
The NSCAI is a key part of the government’s response to what is often referred to as the coming “fourth industrial revolution,” which has been described as “a revolution characterized by discontinuous technological development in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), big data, fifth-generation telecommunications networking (5G), nanotechnology and biotechnology, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing.”
However, their main focus is ensuring that “the United States … maintain a technological advantage in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other associated technologies related to national security and defense.” The vice-chair of NSCAI, Robert Work – former Deputy Secretary of Defense and senior fellow at the hawkish Center for a New American Security (CNAS), described the commission’s purpose as determining “how the U.S. national security apparatus should approach artificial intelligence, including a focus on how the government can work with industry to compete with China’s ‘civil-military fusion’ concept.”
The recently released NSCAI document is a May 2019 presentation entitled “Chinese Tech Landscape Overview.” Throughout the presentation, the NSCAI promotes the overhaul of the U.S. economy and way of life as necessary for allowing the U.S. to ensure it holds a considerable technological advantage over China, as losing this advantage is currently deemed a major “national security” issue by the U.S. national security apparatus. This concern about maintaining a technological advantage can be seen in several other U.S. military documents and think tank reports, several of which have warned that the U.S.’ technological advantage is quickly eroding. Digital Electronic Cas... Buy New $55.99 (as of 02:44 UTC - Details)
The U.S. government and establishment media outlets often blame alleged Chinese espionage or the Chinese government’s more explicit partnerships with private technology companies in support of their claim that the U.S. is losing this advantage over China. For instance, Chris Darby, the current CEO of the CIA’s In-Q-Tel, who is also on the NSCAI, told CBS News last year that China is the U.S.’ main competitor in terms of technology and that U.S. privacy laws were hampering the U.S.’ capacity to counter China in this regard, stating that:
“[D]ata is the new oil. And China is just awash with data. And they don’t have the same restraints that we do around collecting it and using it, because of the privacy difference between our countries. This notion that they have the largest labeled data set in the world is going to be a huge strength for them.”
In another example, Michael Dempsey – former acting Director of National Intelligence and currently a government-funded fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations – argued in The Hill that:
“It’s quite clear, though, that China is determined to erase our technological advantage, and is committing hundreds of billions of dollars to this effort. In particular, China is determined to be a world leader in such areas as artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and synthetic biology. These are the industries that will shape life on the planet and the military balance of power for the next several decades.”
In fact, the national security apparatus of the United States is so concerned about losing a technological edge over China that the Pentagon recently decided to join forces directly with the U.S. intelligence community in order “to get in front of Chinese advances in artificial intelligence.” This union resulted in the creation of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), which ties together “the military’s efforts with those of the Intelligence Community, allowing them to combine efforts in a breakneck push to move government’s AI initiatives forward.” It also coordinates with other government agencies, industry, academics, and U.S. allies. Robert Work, who subsequently became the NSCAI vice-chair, said at the time that JAIC’s creation was a “welcome first step in response to Chinese, and to a lesser extent, Russian, plans to dominate these technologies.”
Similar concerns about “losing” technological advantage to China have also been voiced by the NSCAI chairman, Eric Schmidt, the former head of Alphabet – Google’s parent company, who argued in February in the New York Times that Silicon Valley could soon lose “the technology wars” to China if the U.S. government doesn’t take action. Thus, the three main groups represented within the NSCAI – the intelligence community, the Pentagon and Silicon Valley – all view China’s advancements in AI as a major national security threat (and in Silicon Valley’s case, threat to their bottom lines and market shares) that must be tackled quickly. AUKEY Car Phone Mount ... Best Price: $17.59 Buy New $19.99 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
TARGETING CHINA’S “ADOPTION ADVANTAGE”
In the May 2019 “Chinese Tech Landscape Overview” presentation, the NSCAI discusses that, while the U.S. still leads in the “creation” stage of AI and related technologies, it lags behind China in the “adoption” stage due to “structural factors.” It says that “creation”, followed by “adoption” and “iteration” are the three phases of the “life cycle of new tech” and asserts that failing to dominate in the “adoption” stage will allow China to “leapfrog” the U.S. and dominate AI for the foreseeable future.
The presentation also argues that, in order to “leapfrog” competitors in emerging markets, what is needed is not “individual brilliance” but instead specific “structural conditions that exist within certain markets.” It cites several case studies where China is considered to be “leapfrogging” the U.S. due to major differences in these “structural factors.” Thus, the insinuation of the document (though not directly stated) is that the U.S. must alter the “structural factors” that are currently responsible for its lagging behind China in the “adoption” phase of AI-driven technologies.
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Chief among the troublesome “structural factors” highlighted in this presentation are so-called “legacy systems” that are common in the U.S. but much less so in China. The NSCAI document states that examples of “legacy systems” include a financial system that still utilizes cash and card payments, individual car ownership and even receiving medical attention from a human doctor. It states that, while these “legacy systems” in the US are “good enough,” too many “good enough” systems “hinder the adoption of new things,” specifically AI-driven systems.
Another structural factor deemed by the NSCAI to be an obstacle to the U.S.’ ability to maintain a technological advantage over China is the “scale of the consumer market,” arguing that “extreme urban density = on-demand service adoption.” In other words, extreme urbanization results in more people using online or mobile-based “on-demand” services, ranging from ride-sharing to online shopping. It also cites the use of mass surveillance on China’s “huge population base” is an example of how China’s “scale of consumer market” advantage allowing “China to leap ahead” in the fields of related technologies, like facial recognition.
In addition to the alleged shortcomings of the U.S.’ “legacy systems” and lack of “extreme urban density,” the NSCAI also calls for more “explicit government support and involvement” as a means to speed up the adoption of these systems in the U.S. This includes the government lending its stores of data on civilians to train AI, specifically citing facial recognition databases, and mandating that cities be “re-architected around AVs [autonomous vehicles],” among others. Other examples given include the government investing large amounts of money in AI start-ups and adding tech behemoths to a national, public-private AI taskforce focused on smart city-implementation (among other things). Canon TS5120 Wireless ... Buy New $138.79 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
With regards to the latter, the document says “this level of public-private cooperation” in China is “outwardly embraced” by the parties involved, with this “serving as a stark contrast to the controversy around Silicon Valley selling to the U.S. government.” Examples of such controversy, from the NSCAI’s perspective, likely include Google employees petitioning to end the Google-Pentagon “Project Maven,” which uses Google’s AI software to analyze footage captured by drones. Google eventually chose not to renew its Maven contract as a result of the controversy, even though top Google executives viewed the project as a “golden opportunity” to collaborate more closely with the military and intelligence communities.
The document also defines another aspect of government support as the “clearing of regulatory barriers.” This term is used in the document specifically with respect to U.S. privacy laws, despite the fact that the U.S. national security state has long violated these laws with near complete impunity. However, the document seems to suggest that privacy laws in the U.S. should be altered so that what the U.S. government has done “in secret” with private citizen data can be done more openly and more extensively. The NSCAI document also discusses the removal of “regulatory barriers” in order to speed up the adoption of self-driving cars, even though autonomous driving technology has resulted in several deadly and horrific car accidents and presents other safety concerns.
Also discussed is how China’s “adoption advantage” will “allow it to leapfrog the U.S.” in several new fields, including “AI medical diagnosis” and “smart cities.” It then asserts that “the future will be decided at the intersection of private enterprise and policy leaders between China and the U.S.” If this coordination over the global AI market does not occur, the document warns that “we [the U.S.] risk being left out of the discussions where norms around AI are set for the rest of our lifetimes.” [1080p HD & Audio Comp... Buy New $459.99 (as of 02:27 UTC - Details)
The presentation also dwells considerably on how “the main battleground [in technology] are not the domestic Chinese and US markets,” but what it refers to as the NBU (next billion users) markets, where it states that “Chinese players will aggressively challenge Silicon Valley.” In order to challenge them more successfully, the presentation argues that, “just like we [view] the market of teenagers as a harbinger for new trends, we should look at China.”
The document also expresses concerns about China exporting AI more extensively and intensively than the U.S., saying that China is “already crossing borders” by helping to build facial databases in Zimbabwe and selling image recognition and smart city systems to Malaysia. If allowed to become “the unambiguous leader in AI,” it says that “China could end up writing much of the rulebook of international norms around the deployment of AI” and that it would “broaden China’s sphere of influence amongst an international community that increasingly looks to the pragmatic authoritarianism of China and Singapore as an alternative to Western liberal democracy.”
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lewrockwell--2020-04-23--Crackdown Lockdown Downtown: Fiddling Case Numbers While Rome Burns

In today ’ s episode of CDC/WHO holds the world hostage and builds a new wing on its mystical temple of lying science , while trance-induced billions stare at their TV sets for the latest fabrications , we begin here— Author Michael Fumento sets off an explosion in his recent article on the failure of epidemic models : “ ’ The … crisis we face is unparalleled in modern times , ’ said the World Health Organization ’ s assistant director , while its director general proclaimed it ‘ likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based on a CDC computer model projection predicting as many as 1.4 million deaths from just two countries.
” “ So when did they say this about COVID-19 ?
Trick question : It was actually about the Ebola virus in Liberia and Sierra Leone five years ago , and the ultimate death toll was under 8,000.
” Well , look , the CDC and WHO have to stay in business , right ?
They can ’ t allow a fallow period of no pandemics .
They HAVE TO predict dire consequences .
Otherwise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ budgets .
It ’ s a fight for bureaucratic survival , and if millions or billions of people have to lose their jobs and income and freedom in the process , so be it .
Here is a key paragraph from the CDC ’ s latest brain-twisting definition of a COVID case .
As you ’ ll see , it allows the counting of cases where no confirmatory diagnostic test has been done on a patient at all .
Have to inflate those numbers , right ?
How else can an agency justify @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 14 , 2020 , CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths…A confirmed case or death is defined by meeting confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19 .
A probable case or death is defined by i ) meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19 ; or ii ) meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence ; or iii ) meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID19.
” If you spend too long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phrase and term in that definition , you might find yourself in the labyrinth of a psych ward .
But it IS obvious that a COVID case without a confirming diagnostic test is being welcomed on board .
“ Sure , why not , join the party.
” Meanwhile , out front , on television , and quietly in the Oval Office , petty bureaucrat , numbers massager , and interim president of the United States of Crackdown Lockdown , Anthony Fauci , can switch case numbers up and down and sideways .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to his heart ’ s content .
All in all , his job is keeping the public health gravy train moving , while covering the caboose ( ass ) of that train .
Fauci , New England Journal of Medicine , February 28 , 2020 , “ Navigating the Uncharted ” : Dyson Cyclone V10 Abso ... Best Price : $ 379.99 Buy New $ 439.15 “ If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases , the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 % .
This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza ( which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1 % ) or a pandemic influenza ( similar to those in 1957 and 1968 ) … ” In case there is any doubt , those “ pandemic influenza seasons ” of 1957 and 1968 did NOT result in any lockdowns .
People went outdoors .
They mingled .
They sat in stadiums .
They went to their jobs .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reason Magazine : “ Jake Tapper asked Fauci how many COVID-19 cases the United States can expect to see , ‘ To be honest with you , we don ’ t really have any firm idea , ’ Fauci said .
‘ There are things called models .
And when someone creates a model , they put in various assumptions .
And the model is only as good and as accurate as your assumptions…Looking at what we ’ re seeing now , ’ Fauci said , ‘ we ’ re going to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States , and it is reasonable to expect ‘ between 100,000 and 200,000 ’ deaths .
But he cautioned that ‘ I just don ’ t think that we really need to make a projection , when it ’ s such a moving target , that you can so easily be wrong and mislead people.
’ Deborah Birx , coordinator of the White House ’ s COVID-19 task force , yesterday cited similar but somewhat less alarming estimates , saying ‘ between 80,000 and 160,000 , maybe even potentially 200,000 people , ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States.
” Uh huh .
Right .
Sure .
Bad flu season .
Really bad flu season .
Millions of cases .
Between 80,000 and 200,000 thousand dead in the US .
Depends on the definition of a COVID case and how jacked up the numbers are .
Depends on which computer model and projection is used .
Depends on whether the talking heads decide it ’ s a day for tough love or just plain tough .
Either way , some version of fiction is going to run like sewer water @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Christmas and birthday and Thanksgiving all rolled into one for the CDC and WHO .
They ’ ve finally gotten what they wanted , all through the parade of AIDS , West Nile , SARS , bird flu , Swine Flu , Zika , and the terrorist smallpox scare : Aulinx 110V 36W UV Lam ... Buy New $ 139.99 And as I ’ ve said from the beginning , the key moment was the Chinese Regime locking down 50 million people overnight .
That was the signal and the model and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , so we can do it , too.
” All hype , all theater , all the time .
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In today’s episode of CDC/WHO holds the world hostage and builds a new wing on its mystical temple of lying science, while trance-induced billions stare at their TV sets for the latest fabrications, we begin here—
Author Michael Fumento sets off an explosion in his recent article on the failure of epidemic models: “’The … crisis we face is unparalleled in modern times,’ said the World Health Organization’s assistant director, while its director general proclaimed it ‘likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.’ This was based on a CDC computer model projection predicting as many as 1.4 million deaths from just two countries.”
“So when did they say this about COVID-19? Trick question: It was actually about the Ebola virus in Liberia and Sierra Leone five years ago, and the ultimate death toll was under 8,000.”
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Well, look, the CDC and WHO have to stay in business, right? They can’t allow a fallow period of no pandemics. They HAVE TO predict dire consequences. Otherwise, some people might start questioning their budgets. It’s a fight for bureaucratic survival, and if millions or billions of people have to lose their jobs and income and freedom in the process, so be it.
Here is a key paragraph from the CDC’s latest brain-twisting definition of a COVID case. As you’ll see, it allows the counting of cases where no confirmatory diagnostic test has been done on a patient at all. Have to inflate those numbers, right? How else can an agency justify its existence?
“As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths…A confirmed case or death is defined by meeting confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19. A probable case or death is defined by i) meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19; or ii) meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence; or iii) meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID19.”
If you spend too long trying to decipher the meaning of every phrase and term in that definition, you might find yourself in the labyrinth of a psych ward. But it IS obvious that a COVID case without a confirming diagnostic test is being welcomed on board. “Sure, why not, join the party.”
Meanwhile, out front, on television, and quietly in the Oval Office, petty bureaucrat, numbers massager, and interim president of the United States of Crackdown Lockdown, Anthony Fauci, can switch case numbers up and down and sideways. He can shovel it high and deep to his heart’s content. All in all, his job is keeping the public health gravy train moving, while covering the caboose (ass) of that train.
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“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968)…”
In case there is any doubt, those “pandemic influenza seasons” of 1957 and 1968 did NOT result in any lockdowns. People went outdoors. They mingled. They sat in stadiums. They went to their jobs.
Fauci, March 30, 2020, Reason Magazine: “Jake Tapper asked Fauci how many COVID-19 cases the United States can expect to see, ‘To be honest with you, we don’t really have any firm idea,’ Fauci said. ‘There are things called models. And when someone creates a model, they put in various assumptions. And the model is only as good and as accurate as your assumptions…Looking at what we’re seeing now,’ Fauci said, ‘we’re going to have millions of cases’ in the United States, and it is reasonable to expect ‘between 100,000 and 200,000’ deaths. But he cautioned that ‘I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection, when it’s such a moving target, that you can so easily be wrong and mislead people.’ Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House’s COVID-19 task force, yesterday cited similar but somewhat less alarming estimates, saying ‘between 80,000 and 160,000, maybe even potentially 200,000 people,’ could be killed by COVID-19 in the United States.”
Uh huh. Right. Sure. Bad flu season. Really bad flu season. Millions of cases. Between 80,000 and 200,000 thousand dead in the US. Depends on the definition of a COVID case and how jacked up the numbers are. Depends on which computer model and projection is used.
Depends on whether the talking heads decide it’s a day for tough love or just plain tough. Either way, some version of fiction is going to run like sewer water out of their mouths.
It’s Christmas and birthday and Thanksgiving all rolled into one for the CDC and WHO. They’ve finally gotten what they wanted, all through the parade of AIDS, West Nile, SARS, bird flu, Swine Flu, Zika, and the terrorist smallpox scare: Aulinx 110V 36W UV Lam... Buy New $139.99 (as of 02:28 UTC - Details)
MASS IMPRISONMENT OF THE POPULATION.
And as I’ve said from the beginning, the key moment was the Chinese Regime locking down 50 million people overnight. That was the signal and the model and the “breakthrough.” “They did it, so we can do it, too.”
All hype, all theater, all the time.
SOURCE:
* https://issuesinsights.com/2020/04/18/after-repeated-failures-its-time-to-permanently-dump-epidemic-models/
* https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
* https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387
* https://reason.com/2020/03/30/as-trump-imagines-2-2-million-deaths-from-covid-19-in-the-u-s-a-top-federal-disease-expert-cautions-against-believing-worst-case-scenarios/
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-04-23--Human Lab Rats: the US Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments

I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first , and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception .
Now this isn ’ t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat .
Such crises can—and are—manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers .
As such , it is possible for the virus to be both a genuine menace to public health and a menace to freedom .
Yet we can ’ t afford to overlook the fact that governments the world over , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ untold horrors upon the world in the name of global conquest , the acquisition of greater wealth , scientific experimentation , and technological advances , all packaged in the guise of the greater good .
Battlefield America : T ... John W. Whitehead Best Price : $ 10.95 Buy New $ 18.80 While the U.S. government is currently looking into the possibility that the novel coronavirus spread from a Chinese laboratory rather than a market , the virus could just as easily have been created by the U.S. government or one of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government , which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike .
For instance , did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from “ Asian meat markets ” as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses ?
The cannibalistic experiments involve killing cats and dogs purchased from Colombia , Brazil , Vietnam , China and Ethiopia , and then feeding the dead remains to laboratory kittens , bred in government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infected with a disease and then killed .
It gets more gruesome .
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been removing parts of dogs ’ brains to see how it affects their breathing ; applying electrodes to dogs ’ spinal cords ( before and after severing them ) to see how it impacts their cough reflexes ; and implanting pacemakers in dogs ’ hearts and then inducing them to have heart attacks ( before draining their blood ) .
All of the laboratory dogs are killed during the course of these experiments .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are being treated like lab rats by government agencies .
“ We the people ” have also become the police state ’ s guinea pigs : to be caged , branded , experimented upon without our knowledge or consent , and then conveniently discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects .
Back in 2017 , FEMA “ inadvertently ” exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters , paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism response sessions .
In 2015 , it was discovered that an Army lab had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labs and defense contractors for a decade .
Rveal | 2-Pack UV Sani ... Buy New $ 129.00 While these particular incidents have been dismissed as “ accidents , ” you don ’ t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation ’ s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals , injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins .
At the time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners , mental patients , and poor blacks .
In Alabama , for example , 600 black men with syphilis were allowed to suffer without proper medical treatment in order to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis .
In California , older prisoners had testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts implanted in them to test their virility .
In Connecticut , mental patients were injected with hepatitis .
In Maryland , sleeping prisoners had a pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In Georgia , two dozen “ volunteering ” prison inmates had gonorrhea bacteria pumped directly into their urinary tracts through the penis .
In Michigan , male patients at an insane asylum were exposed to the flu after first being injected with an experimental flu vaccine .
In Minnesota , 11 public service employee “ volunteers ” were injected with malaria , then starved for five days .
In New York , dying patients had cancer cells introduced into their systems .
In Ohio , over 100 inmates were injected with live cancer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prisoners at a reformatory prison were also split into two groups to determine how a deadly stomach virus was spread : the first group was made to swallow an unfiltered stool suspension , while the second group merely breathed in germs sprayed into the air .
And in Staten Island , children with mental retardation were given hepatitis orally and by injection to see if they could then be cured .
Sundown Organics Respo ... Buy New $ 14.94 ( $ 0.50 / Count ) As the Associated Press reports , “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the U.S. pharmaceutical and health care industries , accompanied by a boom in prisoner experiments funded by both the government and corporations .
By the 1960s , at least half the states allowed prisoners to be used as medical guinea pigs … because they were cheaper than chimpanzees.
” Moreover , “ Some of these studies , mostly from the 1940s to the ’ 60s , apparently were never covered by news media .
Others were reported at the time , but the focus was on the promise of enduring new cures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were treated.
” How many government incursions into our freedoms have been blacked out , buried under “ entertainment ” news headlines , or spun in such a way as to suggest that anyone voicing a word of caution is paranoid or conspiratorial ?
Unfortunately , these incidents are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the atrocities the government has inflicted on an unsuspecting populace in the name of secret experimentation .
For instance , there was the U.S. military ’ s secret race-based testing of mustard gas on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NPR reports , “ All of the World War II experiments with mustard gas were done in secret and weren ’ t recorded on the subjects ’ official military records .
Most do not have proof of what they went through .
They received no follow-up health care or monitoring of any kind .
And they were sworn to secrecy about the tests under threat of dishonorable discharge and military prison time , leaving some unable to receive adequate medical treatment for their injuries , because they couldn ’ t tell doctors what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the CIA ’ s MKULTRA program in which hundreds of unsuspecting American civilians and military personnel were dosed with LSD , some having the hallucinogenic drug slipped into their drinks at the beach , in city bars , at restaurants .
As Time reports , “ before the documentation and other facts of the program were made public , those who talked of it were frequently dismissed as being psychotic.
” NutriFlair Vitamin K2 ... Buy New $ 13.99 ( $ 0.16 / Count ) Now one might argue that this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today is different from the government of yesteryear , but has the U.S. government really changed ?
Has the government become any more humane , any more respectful of the rights of the citizenry ?
Has it become any more transparent or willing to abide by the rule of law ?
Has it become any more truthful about its activities ?
Has it become any more cognizant of its appointed role as a guardian of our rights ?
Or has the government simply hunkered down and hidden its nefarious acts and dastardly experiments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obfuscations ?
Has it not become wilier , more slippery , more difficult to pin down ?
Having mastered the Orwellian art of Doublespeak and followed the Huxleyan blueprint for distraction and diversion , are we not dealing with a government that is simply craftier and more conniving that it used to be ?
Consider this : after revelations about the government ’ s experiments spanning the 20th century spawned outrage , the government began looking for human guinea pigs in other countries , where “ clinical trials could be done more cheaply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were infected with syphilis , “ apparently to test whether penicillin could prevent some sexually transmitted disease.
” In Uganda , U.S.-funded doctors “ failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study… even though it would have protected their newborns.
” Meanwhile , in Nigeria , children with meningitis were used to test an antibiotic named Trovan .
Eleven children died and many others were left disabled .
The more things change , the more they stay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Buy New $ 19.97 ( $ 0.06 / Count ) Case in point : back in 2016 , it was announced that scientists working for the Department of Homeland Security would begin releasing various gases and particles on crowded subway platforms as part of an experiment aimed at testing bioterror airflow in New York subways .
The government insisted that the gases released into the subways by the DHS were nontoxic and did not pose a health risk .
It ’ s in our best interests , they said , to understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attack might spread .
And look how cool the technology is—said the government cheerleaders—that scientists can use something called DNATrax to track the movement of microscopic substances in air and food .
( Imagine the kinds of surveillance that could be carried out by the government using trackable airborne microscopic substances you breathe in or ingest . )
Mind you , this is the same government that in 1949 sprayed bacteria into the Pentagon ’ s air handling system , then the world ’ s largest office building .
In 1950 , special @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off the coast of Norfolk and San Francisco , in the latter case exposing all of the city ’ s 800,000 residents .
In 1953 , government operatives staged “ mock ” anthrax attacks on St. Louis , Minneapolis , and Winnipeg using generators placed on top of cars .
Local governments were reportedly told that “ ‘ invisible smokescreen [ s ] ’ were being deployed to mask the city on enemy radar.
” Later experiments covered territory as wide-ranging as Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas .
In 1965 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took aim at Washington ’ s National Airport , followed by a 1966 experiment in which army scientists exposed a million subway NYC passengers to airborne bacteria that causes food poisoning .
And this is the same government that has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests—GPS devices , surveillance , nonlethal weapons , etc.—and used it against us , to track , control and trap us .
So , no , I don ’ t think the government ’ s ethics have changed much over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taken its nefarious programs undercover .
The question remains : why is the government doing this ?
The answer is always the same : money , power and total domination .
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The mindset driving these programs has , appropriately , been likened to that of Nazi doctors experimenting on Jews .
As the Holocaust Museum recounts , Nazi physicians “ conducted painful and often deadly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without their consent.
” The Nazi ’ s unethical experiments ran the gamut from freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia , tests to determine the maximum altitude for parachuting out of a plane , injecting prisoners with malaria , typhus , tuberculosis , typhoid fever , yellow fever , and infectious hepatitis , exposing prisoners to phosgene and mustard gas , and mass sterilization experiments .
The horrors being meted out against the American people can be traced back , in a direct line , to the horrors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , following the second World War , the U.S. government recruited many of Hitler ’ s employees , adopted his protocols , embraced his mindset about law and order and experimentation , and implemented his tactics in incremental steps .
Sounds far-fetched , you say ?
Read on .
It ’ s all documented .
As historian Robert Gellately recounts , the Nazi police state was initially so admired for its efficiency and order by the world powers of the day that J. Edgar Hoover , then-head of the FBI , actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Edmund Patrick Coffey , to Berlin in January 1938 at the invitation of Germany ’ s secret police , the Gestapo .
The FBI was so impressed with the Nazi regime that , according to the New York Times , in the decades after World War II , the FBI , along with other government agencies , aggressively recruited at least a thousand Nazis , including some of Hitler ’ s highest henchmen .
All told , thousands of Nazi collaborators—including the head of a Nazi concentration camp , among others—were given secret @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Project Paperclip .
Subsequently , they were hired on as spies , informants and scientific advisers , and then camouflaged to ensure that their true identities and ties to Hitler ’ s holocaust machine would remain unknown .
All the while , thousands of Jewish refugees were refused entry visas to the U.S. on the grounds that it could threaten national securi Adding further insult to injury , American taxpayers have been paying to keep these ex-Nazis on the U.S. government ’ s payroll ever since .
And in true Gestapo fashion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the whistle on the FBI ’ s illicit Nazi ties has found himself spied upon , intimidated , harassed and labeled a threat to national security .
As if the government ’ s covert , taxpayer-funded employment of Nazis after World War II wasn ’ t bad enough , U.S. government agencies—the FBI , CIA and the military—have since fully embraced many of the Nazi ’ s well-honed policing tactics , and have used them repeatedly against American citizens .
It ’ s certainly easy to denounce the full-frontal horrors carried out by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ despotic regime such as Nazi Germany , but what do you do when it ’ s your own government that claims to be a champion of human rights all the while allowing its agents to engage in the foulest , bases and most despicable acts of torture , abuse and experimentation ?
When all is said and done , this is not a government that has our best interests at heart .
This is not a government that values us .
Perhaps the answer lies in The Third Man , Carol Reed ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Orson Welles .
In the film , set in a post-WW II Vienna , rogue war profiteer Harry Lime has come to view human carnage with a callous indifference , unconcerned that the diluted penicillin he ’ s been trafficking underground has resulted in the tortured deaths of young children .
Challenged by his old friend Holly Martins to consider the consequences of his actions , Lime responds , “ In these days , old man , nobody thinks in terms of human beings .
Governments don ’ t , so why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever seen any of your victims ?
” asks Martins .
“ Victims ?
” responds Limes , as he looks down from the top of a Ferris wheel onto a populace reduced to mere dots on the ground .
“ Look down there .
Tell me .
Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever ?
If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped , would you really , old man , tell me to keep my money , or would you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to spare ?
Free of income tax , old man .
Free of income tax — the only way you can save money nowadays.
” As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , this is how the U.S. government sees us , too , when it looks down upon us from its lofty perch .
To the powers-that-be , the rest of us are insignificant specks , faceless dots on the ground .
To the architects of the American police state , we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is how the government can justify treating us like economic units to be bought and sold and traded , or caged rats to be experimented upon and discarded when we ’ ve outgrown our usefulness .
To those who call the shots in the halls of government , “ we the people ” are merely the means to an end .
“ We the people ” —who think , who reason , who take a stand , who resist , who demand to be treated with dignity and care , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become obsolete , undervalued citizens of a totalitarian state that , in the words of Rod Serling , “ has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time .
It has refinements , technological advances , and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.
” In this sense , we are all Romney Wordsworth , the condemned man in Serling ’ s Twilight Zone episode “ The Obsolete Man.
” “ The Obsolete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a government that views people as expendable once they have outgrown their usefulness to the State .
Yet—and here ’ s the kicker—this is where the government through its monstrous inhumanity also becomes obsolete .
As Serling noted in his original script for “ The Obsolete Man , ” “ Any state , any entity , any ideology which fails to recognize the worth , the dignity , the rights of Man…that state is obsolete.
” How do you defeat a monster ?
You start by recognizing the monster for what it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @

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I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception.
Now this isn’t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat. Such crises can—and are—manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers. As such, it is possible for the virus to be both a genuine menace to public health and a menace to freedom.
Yet we can’t afford to overlook the fact that governments the world over, including the U.S. government, have unleashed untold horrors upon the world in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good. Battlefield America: T... John W. Whitehead Best Price: $10.95 Buy New $18.80 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details)
While the U.S. government is currently looking into the possibility that the novel coronavirus spread from a Chinese laboratory rather than a market, the virus could just as easily have been created by the U.S. government or one of its allies.
After all, grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike.
For instance, did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from “Asian meat markets” as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses?
The cannibalistic experiments involve killing cats and dogs purchased from Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia, and then feeding the dead remains to laboratory kittens, bred in government laboratories for the express purpose of being infected with a disease and then killed.
It gets more gruesome.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been removing parts of dogs’ brains to see how it affects their breathing; applying electrodes to dogs’ spinal cords (before and after severing them) to see how it impacts their cough reflexes; and implanting pacemakers in dogs’ hearts and then inducing them to have heart attacks (before draining their blood). All of the laboratory dogs are killed during the course of these experiments.
It’s not just animals that are being treated like lab rats by government agencies.
“We the people” have also become the police state’s guinea pigs: to be caged, branded, experimented upon without our knowledge or consent, and then conveniently discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects.
Back in 2017, FEMA “inadvertently” exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters, paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism response sessions. In 2015, it was discovered that an Army lab had been “mistakenly” shipping deadly anthrax to labs and defense contractors for a decade. Rveal | 2-Pack UV Sani... Buy New $129.00 (as of 02:29 UTC - Details)
While these particular incidents have been dismissed as “accidents,” you don’t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation’s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins.
At the time, the government reasoned that it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners, mental patients, and poor blacks.
In Alabama, for example, 600 black men with syphilis were allowed to suffer without proper medical treatment in order to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis. In California, older prisoners had testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts implanted in them to test their virility. In Connecticut, mental patients were injected with hepatitis.
In Maryland, sleeping prisoners had a pandemic flu virus sprayed up their noses. In Georgia, two dozen “volunteering” prison inmates had gonorrhea bacteria pumped directly into their urinary tracts through the penis. In Michigan, male patients at an insane asylum were exposed to the flu after first being injected with an experimental flu vaccine. In Minnesota, 11 public service employee “volunteers” were injected with malaria, then starved for five days.
In New York, dying patients had cancer cells introduced into their systems. In Ohio, over 100 inmates were injected with live cancer cells. Also in New York, prisoners at a reformatory prison were also split into two groups to determine how a deadly stomach virus was spread: the first group was made to swallow an unfiltered stool suspension, while the second group merely breathed in germs sprayed into the air. And in Staten Island, children with mental retardation were given hepatitis orally and by injection to see if they could then be cured.
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Moreover, “Some of these studies, mostly from the 1940s to the ’60s, apparently were never covered by news media. Others were reported at the time, but the focus was on the promise of enduring new cures, while glossing over how test subjects were treated.”
Media blackouts, propaganda, spin. Sound familiar?
How many government incursions into our freedoms have been blacked out, buried under “entertainment” news headlines, or spun in such a way as to suggest that anyone voicing a word of caution is paranoid or conspiratorial?
Unfortunately, these incidents are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the atrocities the government has inflicted on an unsuspecting populace in the name of secret experimentation.
For instance, there was the U.S. military’s secret race-based testing of mustard gas on more than 60,000 enlisted men. As NPR reports, “All of the World War II experiments with mustard gas were done in secret and weren’t recorded on the subjects’ official military records. Most do not have proof of what they went through. They received no follow-up health care or monitoring of any kind. And they were sworn to secrecy about the tests under threat of dishonorable discharge and military prison time, leaving some unable to receive adequate medical treatment for their injuries, because they couldn’t tell doctors what happened to them.”
And then there was the CIA’s MKULTRA program in which hundreds of unsuspecting American civilians and military personnel were dosed with LSD, some having the hallucinogenic drug slipped into their drinks at the beach, in city bars, at restaurants. As Time reports, “before the documentation and other facts of the program were made public, those who talked of it were frequently dismissed as being psychotic.” NutriFlair Vitamin K2 ... Buy New $13.99 ($0.16 / Count) (as of 04:37 UTC - Details)
Now one might argue that this is all ancient history and that the government today is different from the government of yesteryear, but has the U.S. government really changed?
Has the government become any more humane, any more respectful of the rights of the citizenry?
Has it become any more transparent or willing to abide by the rule of law? Has it become any more truthful about its activities? Has it become any more cognizant of its appointed role as a guardian of our rights?
Or has the government simply hunkered down and hidden its nefarious acts and dastardly experiments under layers of secrecy, legalism and obfuscations? Has it not become wilier, more slippery, more difficult to pin down?
Having mastered the Orwellian art of Doublespeak and followed the Huxleyan blueprint for distraction and diversion, are we not dealing with a government that is simply craftier and more conniving that it used to be?
Consider this: after revelations about the government’s experiments spanning the 20th century spawned outrage, the government began looking for human guinea pigs in other countries, where “clinical trials could be done more cheaply and with fewer rules.”
In Guatemala, prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were infected with syphilis, “apparently to test whether penicillin could prevent some sexually transmitted disease.” In Uganda, U.S.-funded doctors “failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study… even though it would have protected their newborns.” Meanwhile, in Nigeria, children with meningitis were used to test an antibiotic named Trovan. Eleven children died and many others were left disabled.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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The government insisted that the gases released into the subways by the DHS were nontoxic and did not pose a health risk. It’s in our best interests, they said, to understand how quickly a chemical or biological terrorist attack might spread. And look how cool the technology is—said the government cheerleaders—that scientists can use something called DNATrax to track the movement of microscopic substances in air and food. (Imagine the kinds of surveillance that could be carried out by the government using trackable airborne microscopic substances you breathe in or ingest.)
Mind you, this is the same government that in 1949 sprayed bacteria into the Pentagon’s air handling system, then the world’s largest office building. In 1950, special ops forces sprayed bacteria from Navy ships off the coast of Norfolk and San Francisco, in the latter case exposing all of the city’s 800,000 residents.
In 1953, government operatives staged “mock” anthrax attacks on St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Winnipeg using generators placed on top of cars. Local governments were reportedly told that “‘invisible smokescreen[s]’ were being deployed to mask the city on enemy radar.” Later experiments covered territory as wide-ranging as Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas.
In 1965, the government’s experiments in bioterror took aim at Washington’s National Airport, followed by a 1966 experiment in which army scientists exposed a million subway NYC passengers to airborne bacteria that causes food poisoning.
And this is the same government that has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests—GPS devices, surveillance, nonlethal weapons, etc.—and used it against us, to track, control and trap us.
So, no, I don’t think the government’s ethics have changed much over the years. It’s just taken its nefarious programs undercover.
The question remains: why is the government doing this? The answer is always the same: money, power and total domination. Resveratrol Supplement... Buy New $21.95 ($0.37 / Count) (as of 02:49 UTC - Details)
It’s the same answer no matter which totalitarian regime is in power.
The mindset driving these programs has, appropriately, been likened to that of Nazi doctors experimenting on Jews. As the Holocaust Museum recounts, Nazi physicians “conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent.”
The Nazi’s unethical experiments ran the gamut from freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia, tests to determine the maximum altitude for parachuting out of a plane, injecting prisoners with malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis, exposing prisoners to phosgene and mustard gas, and mass sterilization experiments.
The horrors being meted out against the American people can be traced back, in a direct line, to the horrors meted out in Nazi laboratories. In fact, following the second World War, the U.S. government recruited many of Hitler’s employees, adopted his protocols, embraced his mindset about law and order and experimentation, and implemented his tactics in incremental steps.
Sounds far-fetched, you say? Read on. It’s all documented.
As historian Robert Gellately recounts, the Nazi police state was initially so admired for its efficiency and order by the world powers of the day that J. Edgar Hoover, then-head of the FBI, actually sent one of his right-hand men, Edmund Patrick Coffey, to Berlin in January 1938 at the invitation of Germany’s secret police, the Gestapo.
The FBI was so impressed with the Nazi regime that, according to the New York Times, in the decades after World War II, the FBI, along with other government agencies, aggressively recruited at least a thousand Nazis, including some of Hitler’s highest henchmen.
All told, thousands of Nazi collaborators—including the head of a Nazi concentration camp, among others—were given secret visas and brought to America by way of Project Paperclip. Subsequently, they were hired on as spies, informants and scientific advisers, and then camouflaged to ensure that their true identities and ties to Hitler’s holocaust machine would remain unknown. All the while, thousands of Jewish refugees were refused entry visas to the U.S. on the grounds that it could threaten national securi
Adding further insult to injury, American taxpayers have been paying to keep these ex-Nazis on the U.S. government’s payroll ever since. And in true Gestapo fashion, anyone who has dared to blow the whistle on the FBI’s illicit Nazi ties has found himself spied upon, intimidated, harassed and labeled a threat to national security.
As if the government’s covert, taxpayer-funded employment of Nazis after World War II wasn’t bad enough, U.S. government agencies—the FBI, CIA and the military—have since fully embraced many of the Nazi’s well-honed policing tactics, and have used them repeatedly against American citizens.
It’s certainly easy to denounce the full-frontal horrors carried out by the scientific and medical community within a despotic regime such as Nazi Germany, but what do you do when it’s your own government that claims to be a champion of human rights all the while allowing its agents to engage in the foulest, bases and most despicable acts of torture, abuse and experimentation?
When all is said and done, this is not a government that has our best interests at heart.
This is not a government that values us.
Perhaps the answer lies in The Third Man, Carol Reed’s influential 1949 film starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. In the film, set in a post-WW II Vienna, rogue war profiteer Harry Lime has come to view human carnage with a callous indifference, unconcerned that the diluted penicillin he’s been trafficking underground has resulted in the tortured deaths of young children.
Challenged by his old friend Holly Martins to consider the consequences of his actions, Lime responds, “In these days, old man, nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, so why should we?”
“Have you ever seen any of your victims?” asks Martins.
“Victims?” responds Limes, as he looks down from the top of a Ferris wheel onto a populace reduced to mere dots on the ground. “Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax — the only way you can save money nowadays.”
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this is how the U.S. government sees us, too, when it looks down upon us from its lofty perch.
To the powers-that-be, the rest of us are insignificant specks, faceless dots on the ground.
To the architects of the American police state, we are not worthy or vested with inherent rights. This is how the government can justify treating us like economic units to be bought and sold and traded, or caged rats to be experimented upon and discarded when we’ve outgrown our usefulness.
To those who call the shots in the halls of government, “we the people” are merely the means to an end.
“We the people”—who think, who reason, who take a stand, who resist, who demand to be treated with dignity and care, who believe in freedom and justice for all—have become obsolete, undervalued citizens of a totalitarian state that, in the words of Rod Serling, “has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.”
In this sense, we are all Romney Wordsworth, the condemned man in Serling’s Twilight Zone episode “The Obsolete Man.”
“The Obsolete Man” speaks to the dangers of a government that views people as expendable once they have outgrown their usefulness to the State. Yet—and here’s the kicker—this is where the government through its monstrous inhumanity also becomes obsolete. As Serling noted in his original script for “The Obsolete Man,” “Any state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man…that state is obsolete.”
How do you defeat a monster? You start by recognizing the monster for what it is.
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