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Some outside thoughts on Covid-19 and Coronavirus


A friend of mine currently on assignment in South Africa just sent me this email.

I’m not saying I totally agree (or disagree) with everything he says, but it’s good food for thought to get your mind thinking.

Here is his email in its entirety as sent me.

“The South African government calls a 21-day curfew, enforced by the police and military a “lockdown.”

In fact, we are witnessing martial law and the nationalization of the economy.

People are panicking and spent much of yesterday’s paycheck stocking up with alcohol and supplies.
The fear is palpable and there is an undercurrent of resentment by those who do not have what others have.
So, with time on my very clean hands, I have been reflecting on the global situation and have realized that what we are witnessing is a colossal failure of imagination.

How?

Security professionals have long known about weapons of mass disruption–minimum casualties but maximum impact on the socio-economic fabric.

Unfortunately, their focus has been on cyber-crime and the need to enhance the resilience of computer systems.
No one really considered the consequences of, or resilience for a workforce struck by panic, quarantine and death.

So, although I am not an economist or a social scientist, I have practiced the craft of intelligence for several years. My job is to connect the dots.

Here goes:

1. During the Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, the Japanese used its bio-weapons of shingella and the plague against the Chinese.

This was not the first time that China had experienced the effects of bio-weapons.

The British had used opium to great effect during the 1860s. Not a bio-weapon specifically, but certainly a weapon of mass disruption which created more than 20 million addicts at the time.

2. After WW2, China started its industrialization program.
They also started a bio-defense program.

In 1985, they signed an international bio-weapons treaty, confirming that they were now a fully-fledged manufacturer of bio-weapons.

The Chinese insisted that such production was for defense purposes, although their program was spread across more than 50 centers throughout the country.

3. In the 1990s, Chinese weapons sales took a dive because the Gulf War had demonstrated the superiority of US weaponry and technology. The Chinese looked at other weapons to fill the gap.

4. Soon, the Chinese started exporting their bio-weapons technology to Iran and other pariah States in the Middle East.

5. In 2003, a coronavirus outbreak named SARS occurred in a province in Southern China.

A vaccine was found and the spread of the disease was controlled. The incident looks remarkably like a test case.

6. In 2005, following the Second Gulf War, genuine Intelligence reports indicated that China had transferred bio-weapons technology to Iran and continued to do so until at least 2010.

7. In 2013, a coronavirus outbreak named MERS occurred in Iran, although the first case was recorded in neighboring Saudi Arabia.

The disease was lethal and the true number of deaths was never released.

Interestingly, no figures about the rate of infection were broadcast to the world population.

Another controlled test case?

8. In 2019, a coronavirus outbreak named COVID occurred in another province in China.

The locations of both coronavirus outbreaks in China (2003 and 2019) were in places that had bio-weapons labs called Institutes of Virology.

Apparently, the head of the Institute in Wuhan had spent a decade at the University of North Carolina studying the coronavirus.

9. The spread of COVID-19 in China was contained with a loss of life similar to the number of US deaths on 9/11.

Initially, reported infection rates were high, although no Victim X was ever identified.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has followed a similar protocol of lock-down (Wuhan has a population of 11 million) but extended it countrywide.

The economies of some of these countries are fragile and upheld largely by cheap Chinese imports.

Think of this as using Rohyphnol on a victim before date raping them. Just don’t think more than you need to about it though. Just sayin’.

10. Consider that there are three types of warfare: conventional, asymmetrical and CBRN.

The Chinese could not take on the US using the first two and lacked the Chemical, Radiological and Nuclear (CRN) capabilities of the third option.

But it had the Biological capabilities.

Therefore, a reasonable conclusion is that China is waging a war against other economies using a weapon of mass disruption.

By understanding this, we can do more than wash our hands of the problem.

Next steps…

1. Send Chinese American intelligence agents back to China to find the smoking gun- proving intent.

2. Hostile takeover of all US firms with more than 20% Chinese equity.

3. Replace Chinese manufacturers with a beneficiation program in Africa.

The continent has the land, the resources and a cost-effective community-based workforce. Many local managers are English or French-speaking.

4. Create a robust supply chain within Africa with shipments by sea and air to all points of the globe, except China.

5. Isolate China diplomatically and cancel all trade agreements. Force the country into isolation.

6. Re-purpose a flu vaccine to restore public confidence, even if a placebo.

In other words, the US should retaliate economically and social media to be used to encourage people to stop panicking.

No one wants a population of beggars reaching out with really clean hands.

Keep safe, Sanitize and Weaponize.”

Okay, that was the end of the email this friend sent me.

As I initially stated, interesting food for thought.

Now your thoughts?

Detect, Deter & Annihilate: How The Police State Will Deal With A Coronavirus Outbreak


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“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it’s indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.”— Terrence Rafferty, New York Times

What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government’s plans for dealing with a coronavirus outbreak?

Read on, and I’ll tell you.

The zombie narrative was popularized by the hit television series The Walking Dead, in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they’re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans.

For a while there, zombies could be found lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc at gun shows, battling corsets in movies such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and running for their lives in 5K charity races.

Understandably, zombie fiction plays to our fears and paranoia, while allowing us to “envision how we and our own would thrive if everything went to hell and we lost all our societal supports.” Yet as journalist Syreeta McFadden points out, while dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties, now they reflect our reality, mirroring how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us.

Indeed, the U.S. government has spent a lot of time and energy in recent years using zombies as the models for a variety of crisis scenarios not too dissimilar from what we are currently experiencing.

For instance, back in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit “that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door.” The CDC, in conjunction with the Dept. of Defense, even used zombies to put government agents through their paces in mock military drills.

Fear the Walking Dead—AMC’s spinoff of its popular Walking Dead series—drove this point home by dialing back the clock to when the zombie outbreak first appears and setting viewers down in the midst of societal unrest not unlike our own experiences of recent years (“a bunch of weird incidents, police protests, riots, and … rapid social entropy”). Then, as Forbes reports, “the military showed up and we fast-forwarded into an ad hoc police state with no glimpse at what was happening in the world around our main cast of hapless survivors.”

Forbes found Fear’s quick shift into a police state to be far-fetched, but anyone who has been paying attention in recent years knows that the groundwork was laid long ago for the government—i.e., the military—to intervene and lock down the nation in the event of a national disaster.

We’re seeing this play out now as the coronavirus contagion spreads.

What we have yet to experience (although it may only be a matter of time) is that the government through the imposition of martial law could pose a greater threat to our safety (and our freedoms) than any virus.

As the Atlantic noted about Fear the Walking Dead: “The villains aren’t the zombies, who rarely appear, but the U.S. military, who sweep into an L.A. suburb to quarantine the survivors. Zombies are, after all, a recognizable threat—but Fear plumbs drama and horror from the betrayal by institutions designed to keep people safe.”

Indeed, zombie fiction perfectly embodies the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.

Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications, track our movements, criminalize our every action, treat us like suspects, and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons?

For years now, the government has been carrying out military training drills with zombies as the enemy. In 2011, the DOD created a 31-page instruction manual for how to protect America from a terrorist attack carried out by zombie forces. In 2012, the CDC released a guide for surviving a zombie plague. That was followed by training drills for members of the military, police officers and first responders.

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As journalist Andrea Peyser reports:

Coinciding with Halloween 2012, a five-day national conference was put on by the HALO Corp. in San Diego for more than 1,000 first responders, military personnel and law enforcement types. It included workshops produced by a Hollywood-affiliated firm in…overcoming a zombie invasion. Actors were made up to look like flesh-chomping monsters. The Department of Homeland Security even paid the $1,000 entry fees for an unknown number of participants…

“Zombie disaster” drills were held in October 2012 and ’13 at California’s Sutter Roseville Medical Center. The exercises allowed medical center staff “to test response to a deadly infectious disease, a mass-casualty event, terrorism event and security procedures”…

[In October 2014], REI outdoor-gear stores in Soho and around the country are to hold free classes in zombie preparedness, which the stores have been providing for about three years.

The zombie exercises appeared to be kitschy and fun—government agents running around trying to put down a zombie rebellion—but what if the zombies in the exercises were us, the citizenry, viewed by those in power as mindless, voracious, zombie hordes?

Consider this: the government started playing around with the idea of using zombies as stand-ins for enemy combatants in its training drills right around the time the Army War College issued its 2008 report, warning that an economic crisis in the U.S. could lead to massive civil unrest that would require the military to intervene and restore order.

That same year, it was revealed that the government had amassed more than 8 million names of Americans considered a threat to national security, to be used “by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law.” The program’s name, Main Core, refers to the fact that it contains “copies of the ‘main core’ or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.”

Also in 2008, the Pentagon launched the Minerva Initiative, a $75 million military-driven research project focused on studying social behavior in order to determine how best to cope with mass civil disobedience or uprisings. The Minerva Initiative has funded projects such as “Who Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why?” which “conflates peaceful activists with ‘supporters of political violence’ who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on ‘armed militancy’ themselves.”

In 2009, the Dept. of Homeland Security issued its reports on Rightwing and Leftwing Extremism, in which the terms “extremist” and “terrorist” were used interchangeably to describe citizens they perceived to be disgruntled or anti-government.

Meanwhile, a government campaign was underway to spy on Americans’ mail, email and cell phone communications. News reports indicate that the U.S. Postal Service has handled more than 150,000 requests by federal and state law enforcement agencies to monitor Americans’ mail, in addition to photographing every piece of mail sent through the postal system.

Fast forward a few years more and local police were being transformed into extensions of the military, taught to view members of their community as suspects, trained to shoot first and ask questions later, and equipped with all of the technology and weaponry of a soldier on a battlefield.

The Obama administration then hired a domestic terrorism czar whose job is to focus on anti-government American “extremists” who have been designated a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda. As part of the government’s so-called war on right-wing extremism, the Obama administration agreed to partner with the United Nations to take part in its Strong Cities Network program, which is training local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism.

Nothing has changed for the better under the Trump Administration.

Those who believe in and exercise their rights under the Constitution (namely, the right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share their political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), continue to be promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.

“We the people” or, more appropriately, “we the zombies” are the enemy in the eyes of the government. This coronavirus merely ups the ante.

So when presented with the Defense Department’s battle plan for defeating an army of the walking dead, you might find yourself tempted to giggle over the fact that a taxpayer-funded government bureaucrat actually took the time to research and write about vegetarian zombies, evil magic zombies, chicken zombies, space zombies, bio-engineered weaponized zombies, radiation zombies, symbiant-induced zombies, and pathogenic zombies.

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However, in an age of extreme government paranoia, this is no laughing matter.

The DOD’s strategy for dealing with a zombie uprising, outlined in “CONOP 8888,” is for all intents and purposes a training manual for the government in how to put down a citizen uprising or at least an uprising of individuals “infected” with a dangerous disease or dangerous ideas about freedom.

Rest assured that the tactics and difficulties outlined in the “fictional training scenario” are all too real, beginning with martial law.

As the DOD training manual states: “zombies [stand-ins for “we the people”] are horribly dangerous to all human life and zombie infections have the potential to seriously undermine national security and economic activities that sustain our way of life. Therefore having a population that is not composed of zombies or at risk from their malign influence is vital to U.S. and Allied national interests.”

So how does the military plan to put down a zombie (a.k.a. citizen) uprising?

The strategy manual outlines five phases necessary for a counter-offensive: shape, deter, seize initiative, dominate, stabilize and restore civil authority. Here are a few details:

Phase 0 (Shape): Conduct general zombie awareness training. Monitor increased threats (i.e., surveillance). Carry out military drills. Synchronize contingency plans between federal and state agencies. Anticipate and prepare for a breakdown in law and order.

Phase 1 (Deter): Recognize that zombies cannot be deterred or reasoned with. Carry out training drills to discourage other countries from developing or deploying attack zombies and publicly reinforce the government’s ability to combat a zombie threat. Initiate intelligence sharing between federal and state agencies. Assist the Dept. of Homeland Security in identifying or discouraging immigrants from areas where zombie-related diseases originate.

Phase 2 (Seize initiative): Recall all military personal to their duty stations. Fortify all military outposts. Deploy air and ground forces for at least 35 days. Carry out confidence-building measures with nuclear-armed peers such as Russia and China to ensure they do not misinterpret the government’s zombie countermeasures as preparations for war. Establish quarantine zones. Distribute explosion-resistant protective equipment. Place the military on red alert. Begin limited scale military operations to combat zombie threats. Carry out combat operations against zombie populations within the United States that were “previously” U.S. citizens.

Phase 3 (Dominate): Lock down all military bases for 30 days. Shelter all essential government personnel for at least 40 days. Equip all government agents with military protective gear. Issue orders for military to kill all non-human life on sight. Initiate bomber and missile strikes against targeted sources of zombie infection, including the infrastructure. Burn all zombie corpses. Deploy military to lock down the beaches and waterways.

Phase 4 (Stabilize): Send out recon teams to check for remaining threats and survey the status of basic services (water, power, sewage infrastructure, air, and lines of communication). Execute a counter-zombie ISR plan to ID holdout pockets of zombie resistance. Use all military resources to target any remaining regions of zombie holdouts and influence. Continue all actions from the Dominate phase.

Phase 5 (Restore civil authority): Deploy military personnel to assist any surviving civil authorities in disaster zones. Reconstitute combat capabilities at various military bases. Prepare to redeploy military forces to attack surviving zombie holdouts. Restore basic services in disaster areas.

Notice the similarities?

Surveillance. Military drills. Awareness training. Militarized police forces. Martial law.

As I point out in my book, Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if there is any lesson to be learned, it is simply this: whether the threat to national security comes in the form of imaginary zombies, actual terrorists, American citizens infected with the coronavirus, or disgruntled American citizens infected with dangerous ideas about freedom, the government’s response to such threats remains the same: detect, deter and annihilate.

Article posted with permission from John Whitehead


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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.

 

Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich


Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.

The billionaire John Catsimatidis used Clearview to surveil shoppers at a grocery store he owns, and to identify a man he saw on a date with his daughter.
Credit…Krista Schlueter for The New York Times

One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain, was having dinner at Cipriani, an upscale Italian restaurant in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, when his daughter, Andrea, walked in. She was on a date with a man Mr. Catsimatidis didn’t recognize. After the couple sat down at another table, Mr. Catsimatidis asked a waiter to go over and take a photo.

Mr. Catsimatidis then uploaded the picture to a facial recognition app, Clearview AI, on his phone. The start-up behind the app has a database of billions of photos, scraped from sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Within seconds, Mr. Catsimatidis was viewing a collection of photos of the mystery man, along with the web addresses where they appeared: His daughter’s date was a venture capitalist from San Francisco.

“I wanted to make sure he wasn’t a charlatan,” said Mr. Catsimatidis, who then texted the man’s bio to his daughter.

Ms. Catsimatidis said she and her date had no idea how her father had identified him so quickly. “I expect my dad to be able to do crazy things. He’s very technologically savvy,” Ms. Catsimatidis said. “My date was very surprised.”

Clearview was unknown to the general public until this January, when The New York Times reported that the secretive start-up had developed a breakthrough facial recognition system that was in use by hundreds of law enforcement agencies. The company quickly faced a backlash on multiple fronts. Facebook, Google and other tech giants sent cease-and-desist letters. Lawsuits were filed in Illinois and Virginia, and the attorney general of New Jersey issued a moratorium against the app in that state.

In response to the criticism, Clearview published a “code of conduct,” emphasizing in a blog post that its technology was “available only for law enforcement agencies and select security professionals to use as an investigative tool.”

The post added: “We recognize that powerful tools always have the potential to be abused, regardless of who is using them, and we take the threat very seriously. Accordingly, the Clearview app has built-in safeguards to ensure these trained professionals only use it for its intended purpose: to help identify the perpetrators and victims of crimes.”

The Times, however, has identified multiple individuals with active access to Clearview’s technology who are not law enforcement officials. And for more than a year before the company became the subject of public scrutiny, the app had been freely used in the wild by the company’s investors, clients and friends.

Those with Clearview logins used facial recognition at parties, on dates and at business gatherings, giving demonstrations of its power for fun or using it to identify people whose names they didn’t know or couldn’t recall.

“As part of the ordinary course of due diligence, we provided trial accounts to potential and current investors, and other strategic partners, so they could test the technology,” said Hoan Ton-That, the company’s co-founder.

Mr. Catsimatidis first heard about Clearview from his friend Richard Schwartz, another founder of the company, who served as an aide to Rudolph W. Giuliani when Mr. Giuliani was mayor of New York. Last summer, Mr. Catsimatidis ran a trial project with Clearview at an East Side Gristedes market. The company used the system to identify known “shoplifters or people who had held up other stores,” Mr. Catsimatidis said.

“People were stealing our Häagen-Dazs. It was a big problem,” he said. He described Clearview as a “good system” that helped security personnel identify problem shoppers.

BuzzFeed News has reported that two other entities, a labor union and a real estate firm, also ran trials with a surveillance system developed by Clearview to flag individuals they deemed risky. The publication also reported that Clearview’s software has been used by Best Buy, Macy’s, Kohl’s, the National Basketball Association and numerous other organizations.

When Clearview first developed its facial recognition service in 2017, Mr. Ton-That and Mr. Schwartz were uncertain about who might pay for it, and they courted a range of clients including real estate firms, banks and retailers. At the same time, Clearview was seeking outside investment. Many of the individuals the company approached got personal logins to the app.

Clearview received a seed investment round of about $1 million in July 2018. Its backers included the billionaire investor Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist David Scalzo and Hal Lambert, an investor in Texas who runs an exchange-traded fund with the ticker symbol “MAGA,” which tracks companies that align with Republican politics.

“I have the app,” Mr. Lambert said in an interview. “I’ve used it to talk about what we’re doing in the space. I show it to friends of mine, potential investors.

“They thought it was amazing,” he added. “They say, ‘How do I get that?’ And I say, ‘You can’t.’”

Mr. Scalzo, the founder of the investment firm Kirenaga Partners, said in an interview that his school-aged daughters enjoyed playing with the app.

“They like to use it on themselves and their friends to see who they look like in the world,” he said. “It’s kind of fun for people.”

A spokesman for Mr. Thiel did not respond to a request for comment.

When Clearview was seeking its Series A round of funding, which was completed in 2019, the start-up contacted a number of venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures. Access to the app was offered as a perk, according to people familiar with the company’s fund-raising attempts.

Doug Leone, a billionaire partner at Sequoia, was given a login, according to three people with knowledge of Clearview’s operations. But his account was revoked when Sequoia declined to invest. A spokeswoman for Sequoia declined to comment.

In September, Ashton Kutcher, the actor turned venture capitalist, described an app much like Clearview during a YouTube series called “Hot Ones,” in which guests are interviewed while eating spicy chicken wings.

“I have an app in my phone in my pocket right now. It’s like a beta app,” Mr. Kutcher said. “It’s a facial recognition app. I can hold it up to anybody’s face here and, like, find exactly who you are, what internet accounts you’re on, what they look like. It’s terrifying.”

Mr. Kutcher did not respond to a request for comment.

Clearview AI (Artificial Intelligence)


“Independently verified for accuracy.”

“An independent panel of experts reviewed and certified Clearview for accuracy and reliability.”

So WHO EXACTLY, in detail, is this independent panel of experts  that certified Clearview then?

If you’re going to be open and transparent, then do so the full and complete route.

What is the method and model for how the company scrapes images?

How is it that Clearview can bend consumer privacy acts to appear legal?

How is it that Clearview provides and  explains that its collection is shared to law enforcement, security and anti-human trafficking professionals and yet doesn’t explain how it intends to comply with consumer privacy acts laws?

How is it that Clearview is also allowing third-party providers use of their search tools?

And don’t tell me that it’s a temporary addendum or similar suggestion that Clearview is going through a security penetration testing for their ability to assess their own accuracy and verification of cybersecurity performance because that’s a load and it will personally insult me.

And also don’t ‘enlighten’ me by way of informing via response that Clearway collects no data, information, names, cross-reference, etc., because that’s NOT what I’ve mentioned or touched bases on here.  But only God and Clearview would really know that information anyway and Clearview is not about to EVER acknowledge that.

What appears clear to me is that the database Clearview is building is available to far more people than It is acknowledging and that there are future, as-yet-announced plans for that photo collection.

What about other bits of code that hint at features under development that references voice search options, apps that will allow police to take photos of those run through the database and private search modes through surface-level access, all of which Clearview provides absolutely no further detail or descriptions about with Clearview providing faceprints to police departments and elsewhere through sales for profits pinpoints?

EXACTLY why the need for privacy laws like the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, which requires consent, have been instituted and need to be instated everywhere else.  Because of greedy people like the owners of Clearview who have absolutely NO regard for people’s privacy and the state to which such enterprises will help to usher in future dystopian societies.  Period.

Clearview is patently SECRETLY collecting all this through retaining a mass surveillance database to be used, disclosed and analyzed at the whims of an unaccountable company.  The threat to Constitutional rights and the Republic is too great.

The public’s unauthorized participation in this should not come with the price tag of their privacy.

And remember you big wig attorneys for the company, because of course you will twist and tilt everything said here, that devil you bring in today will be the same devil your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will also have to deal with.  NOTHING comes free brainiacs.  NOTHING.

If Clearview is so honest, self-serving and good for society, then why has it not ever released a full list of agencies that use its product?

Just face the truth Clearview and attorneys.  Clearview represents a breach of privacy more extreme than anything any technology company has ever produced.  Again.  PERIOD.

You’re all children of satan and you will all kneel before God in the future and be forced to answer for these atrocities, and atrocities they are, and be judged to that exact accountability.  Third time.  PERIOD.

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Can’t Be Both. Just Can Not!


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Just Another Form Of Human Slavery


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We have gone from freedom to slavery, from sovereign to serf on the great Federal Manor via the 14th Amendment. All due in large measure to the treachery and deception of words by the United States Supreme Court.

If you have wondered why all of your “patriot friends” continually warn you about being a slave, but were afraid to ask — this post is for you. And while you old-timers won’t learn anything new from reading this article, you’ll appreciate the simplicity and clarity of the author’s explanation.
 

You Don’t Own Yourself — the Federal Reserve Does

For a while I have been receiving e-mails from a good friend who has asked me to investigate something weird about the Birth Certificates. He wanted me to take a look at them because they have certain numbers and other things printed on them that need an explanation.

When I looked at my own Birth Certificate, I noticed it was a copy of the original. So I went through old boxes and baby books that my Mom had saved before she died and found what I was looking for — my original Birth Certificate. It was brittle and yellowed with decades of age but — wow — it was NOT the original!

What I have learned since is kind of like discovering that you are part of the Matrix. It seems none of us have our original Birth Certificates — they are all copies. And the copies have a serial number on them, issued on special Bank Bond paper and authorized by “The American Bank Note Company.” Huh?

The truth is stranger than fiction. But here it is:

It seems that back in 1913 the United States was short of cash. World War I had depleted the treasury and there were several really bad financial panics — in 1907 especially — so the country needed to print more money than it had as equity to restore confidence in the money supply and get the economy back on its feet.

President Enacts Currency Law | From SOVEREIGN to SERF - SERFS-UP.NETWhen you or I need more money, we use something as collateral and go to a bank for a loan. When a country needs more money it has to go somewhere also. But in 1913 there wasn’t anywhere to go. So the US created the Federal Reserve Act. This established a private central bank (The Federal Reserve Bank) that would regulate the amount of money the US government was allowed to borrow and put in circulation. It also would expect to be repaid, like any bank, with interest.

After only 20 years things went from bad to worse. During Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, in 1933, the US was unable to pay its debt. The county was bankrupt. The private banks that made up the Federal Reserve demanded their money and Roosevelt responded. He had to use the only thing left of any value to pay the banks and continue doing business with them — the citizens of our country. Us!

Exactly how all this was orchestrated is too lengthy to be addressed here, but this much can be told. The original birth or naturalization record for every U.S. Citizen is on file in the official records in Washington, D.C. (you get to keep a copy!) and the property and assets of every living U.S. Citizen is pledged as collateral for the National Debt!

Within two weeks and three days each Certificate of Live Birth is to be filed in Washington D.C. Evidence reveals that there is even a Federal Children Department established by the Shepherd/Townsend Act of 1922 under the Department of Commerce that appears to be involved in this process in some way. Every citizen is given a number (the red number on the Birth Certificate) and each live birth is valued at from 650,000 to 750,000 Federal Reserve dollars in collateral from the Fed.

This kind of makes you feel a little different when you look at Federal Reserve Chairman, Bernanke, doesn’t it?

OK. Let’s take a pause to look at the Birth Certificates [below.] You will see the red numbers and you will see the fact that it is, in reality, a “Bank Note.” Congratulations — you and I are commodities!

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Names in “ALL CAPS” on Birth Certificates

Since the early 1960s, State governments have issued Birth Certificates to “persons” with legal fictional names using “ALL CAPS” names. This is not a lawful record of your physical birth, but rather the acknowledgement of the “birth” of the juristic, all-caps name. It may appear to be your true name, but since no proper name is ever written in all caps (either lawfully or grammatically) it does not identify who you are. The Birth Certificate is the government’s self-created document of title for its new property — you and me! In a way, it makes us a kind of corporation whose company name is the same as our real name, but written in ALL CAPS. This “corporation” then generates taxes and wealth over its lifetime and in this way repays the collateral that Uncle Sam borrowed from the Federal Reserve.

Remember that “Bond” thing printed on the bottom of the certificate?

Bond. I a: A usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as fulfill the obligations of a contract) . . with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person . . to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety. lb: One who acts as a surety. 2: An interest-bearing document giving evidence of a debt issued by a government body or corporation that is sometimes secured by a lien on property and is often designed to take care of a particular financial need. — Ibid. — Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law (1996).

Banknote. A kind of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender. Along with coins, banknotes make up the cash or bearer forms of all modern money.

Birth certificates are a form of securities called “warehouse receipts.” The items included on a warehouse receipt, as described at §7-202 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the law which governs commercial paper and transactions, which parallel a birth certificate are:

  • the location of the warehouse where the goods are stored…(residence)
  • the date of issue of the receipt…..(“Date issued”)
  • the consecutive number of the receipt…(found on back or front of the certificate, usually in red numbers)
  • a description of the goods or of the packages containing them…(name, sex, date of birth, etc.)
  • the signature of the warehouseman, which may be made by his authorized agent…(municipal clerk or state registrar’s signature)

Birth certificates now appear to at least qualify as “warehouse receipts” under the Uniform Commercial Code. Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th ed. defines:

Warehouse Receipt. …A warehouse receipt, which is considered a document of title, may be a negotiable instrument and is often used for financing with inventory as security.

It is not difficult to see that a state-created Birth Certificate, with an ALL CAPS name is a document evidencing debt the moment it is issued.

Once a state has registered a birth document with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Department notifies the Treasury Department, which takes out a loan from the Federal Reserve. The Treasury uses the loan to purchase a bond (the Fed holds a purchase money security interest in the bond) from the Department of Commerce, which invests the sale proceeds in the stock or bond market. The Treasury Department then issues Treasury securities in the form of Treasury Bonds, Notes, and Bills using the bonds as surety for the new securities.

This cycle is based on the future tax revenues of the legal person whose name appears on the Birth Certificate. This also means that the bankrupt, corporate U.S. can guarantee to the purchasers of their securities the lifetime labor and tax revenues of every citizen of the United States/American with a Birth Certificate as collateral for payment. This device is initiated simply by converting the lawful, true name of the child into a legal, juristic name of a person.

Legally, you are considered to be a slave or indentured servant to the various Federal, State and local governments via your STATE-issued and STATE-created Birth Certificate in the name of your all-caps person. Birth Certificates are issued so that the issuer can claim exclusive title to the legal person created thereby.

Sleep well, fellow slaves.

SOURCE: http://www.viewzone.com/collateral.html


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Slavery in Modern China


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By Rick Gordon

China is one of the Worlds oldest Nations, and slavery has been part an integral aspect of its culture since the first Emperor at the very least. As a legal institution, in pre-Communist China, it was abolished in 1909, but is believed to have continued clandestinely for many decades thereafter.

In modern Communist China, it is believed that slavery is a way of life for many. As of 2016 The Global Slavery Index estimated that over 3.8 million people lived as ‘slaves’ in China. [1] A good portion of it is not Government sanctioned.

In 2016 the Chinese Ministry of Public Security investigated over 1,000 cases and arrested over 2,000 suspects. Some slaves were sex slaves, others were forced laborers. Non Government forced labor in China is from time to time exposed. Vietnamese workers are exploited as de facto slaves in the sugarcane industry in Southern China. They are smuggled in by Vietnamese gangs and Chinese human smuggling syndicates across China’s southern border, in much the same fashion that Mexicans and central Americans come across America’s southern border.

Human smuggling syndicates in China profit by claiming much of the workers’ meager wages while also charging factory and plantation owners a fee.

The estimated 2.9 million people in modern slavery in China “includes the forced labour of men, women and children in many parts of the economy, including domestic servitude and forced begging, the sexual exploitation of women and children, and forced marriage” [2]

In the summer of 2007, it became public knowledge that young people were being kidnapped and forced into slavery in kilns in China’s Shanxi province. The expose was initiated by parents who banded together in search of their missing children. These families scoured the countryside and, some, but not all found their children working in the kilns. [6]

Government Sanctioned Slavery – Forced Labor

The Chinese government claims to have abolished their “Re-education through Labour” [RTL] program , or ‘work will set you free” as of 2013. Under the RTL system prisoners were subjected to years of forced labor. The abolition of RTL was probably a semantic gesture because as of 2017 a report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission alleged that China still had an extensive network of state run prisons that used slave labor.

Messages From Slaves

In December 2019 a British newspaper reported that a schoolgirl in London found a message written inside a Christmas card claiming to be from inmates at Chinas Qingpu Prison in Shanghai. “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organization.” The card was purchased from Tesco supermarket which claims to have stopped production at that particular factory.

The Tesco fiasco is not isolated, other major retailers in the UK, US and elsewhere have dealt with similar incidents from comparable notes discovered in all types of products sold in their stores.

China denied that they have foreign prisoners “I can tell you responsibly that, after seeking clarification from relevant departments, Shanghai Qingpu prison does not at all have … forced labor by foreign convicts,” said foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang at a regular press briefing in Beijing. [3]

A paper shopping bag from Saks Fifth Avenue contained a letter begging, “HELP HELP HELP.” The message was a desperate cry from a man who claimed he made the bag while being held as a slave in a Chinese prison factory. The note was signed Tohnain Emmanuel Njong and was accompanied by a small photoraph purporting to be the man who wrote the note.

“Harry Wu, the founder of Laogai Research Foundation , spent 19 years in a Chinese prison factory, known as laogai. He said he took steps to verify the letter and believes that Njong took a huge risk in writing and sending it. “There would be solitary confinement until you confess and maybe later they increase your sentence — or even death,” Wu said.” [4]

In 2012, a note was foumd inside a pack of Halloween decorations bought at a Kmart in Oregon, The New York Times reported.

“Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization,” said the note, which was tucked between two ersatz tombstones and fell out when the woman, Julie Keith, opened the box in her living room last October. “Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever.”

Similar incidents have been reported at Walmart as well as Primark, a major retailer in the UK and Ireland and Zara, a clothing retailer in Turkey, all claiming to have been made using slave labor. So enjoy your cheap dollar store merchandise and even your ‘upscale’ greeting cards, handbags and clothing knowing full well that another human beings literal blood, sweat and tears helped bring it to you.




The Laogai Foundation


The Laogai system is the Chinese network of prisons, factories and farms designed to reform prisoners through forced labor. The Chinese government uses the laogai to persecute political dissidents and maintain its dictatorship.

Much of the treatment of Laogai prisoners violates Internationally accepted norms of detention.

The mission of the Laogai Research Foundation is to shine a spotlight on the brutal and exploitative prison system historically known as Laogai in the People’s Republic of China. Through the collection and dissemination of evidence confirming personal testimonies about the horrors of the Laogai system, the LRF hopes to expose and examine the Laogai prison system and thereby spur international pressure on the Chinese Communist regime to bring the Laogai and other human rights abuses to a final end. – LAOGAI RESEARCH FOUNDATION

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” ― William Wilberforce

Something’s Broken And NO one Cares To Acknowledge It


I AM NOT SAYING THE POLICE WERE WRONG, BUT WHAT I AM ASKING IS IF ANYONE DOESN’T SEE A PROBLEM HERE WITH THE CURRENT MODEL IN PLACE THAT ALLOWS POLICE TO ENTER SOMEONE’S OWN HOME, IN THEIR PRIVATE BEDROOM WHILE THE PERSON IS STILL ASLEEP AND THEN THAT PERSON ENDS UP DEAD? ANYONE?

ON TOP OF THAT, CONCEALED CARRY CIVILIANS ARE NOT EVER, EVER FORGIVEN IF A SHOOTING TAKES PLACE WITH A PERSON HAVING A TOY GUN. THEY JUST ARE NOT, AND IF THEY EVER ARE, THOSE CASES ARE THE RARE EXCEPTIONS RATHER THAN THE RULE.

SO THE SECOND PART OF MY QUESTION IS WHY THE LAW PLACES LOWER STANDARDS FOR THE S0-CALLED PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED BUT FIDGETY FINGER READY POLICE THAN IT DOES FOR THE CIVILIAN INDIVIDUALS?

IT’S A SIMPLE QUESTION, BUT THE MATTER STILL CURRENTLY EXISTS AND NO ONE NOTICES OR EVEN CARES. WHY?

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