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Writes Tim McGraw:

This story reminds me of an old British comedy, “The Wrong Box” (1966) movie trailer

Good grief! I was 14 when I saw it at the theater in Lincoln almost 60 years ago. I haven’t thought of it since.

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Scott Daniels wrote:

Lew,

I don’t know if conversations with ChatGPT meet your criteria for articles to publish, but I thought my conversation regarding the risks associated with Trump’s promotion of Palantir might be of interest in any event. I dreesed it up a bit and posted it in my substack. 

See here.

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Mr. Milei fancies himself to be a great monetary theorist in the Austrian tradition. To illustrate his unrivalled brilliance here are two revealing exhibits.

The first exhibit concerns the consequences of the closure of the central bank that Milei has claimed, already before his election, to be a non-negotiable demand of his. This is certainly an interesting question worthy of careful analysis. Kristoffer Hansen, for instance, has provided such an analysis from an Austrian perspective. And here is Milei’s answer, then, provided before, and again at a recent major conference in Madrid as to why he hasn’t done so already: If you were to shut down the central bank, and no more pesos were printed, then the result would be hyperinflation! Huh? No more pesos being printed leads to hyperinflation. How in the world is that possible? Great mind this Milei. Yet if you doubt this conclusion he calls you an “imbecile.”

The second exhibit  concerns the status of fiat currency. For Milei, the paper peso issued by the central bank represents government debt. And yet, if you were to present your paper pesos at the central bank and were to ask that it repay its debt, what would be its answer? Most likely the bank would declare you a nut, and offer you a new peso bill for your old one. And that would be it. Yet if you do not agree with Milei on fiat money being debt, he calls you an “idiot.”

Quoting Hansen, then, “Milei is no Austrian, and that he resorted to name-calling and quack theories in response to Hoppe’s calm critique suggests that he is not much of an economist either.”

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And house prices are also going down.

Home prices are falling for the first time since 2012.

Going to be very hard to avoid a recession with a dead housing market. pic.twitter.com/5RB4ucijqh

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June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American University. The speech has gone down in history simply as JFK’s “Peace Speech,” but in essence it was a declaration of war against the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA.

JFK delivered his speech at the height of the Cold War, the period of time in which the United States was supposedly gravely threatened by a worldwide communist conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow, Russia. The communists were coming to get us, U.S. officials said. There could never be either a negotiated peace or peaceful co-existence with the communist world, they claimed. This had to be a war to the finish.

The Cold War sometimes turned hot. There was the Korean War in the early 1950s, when the U.S. government intervened to protect the right of South Korea to secede from the rest of the nation rather than being forced to be part of a communist nation. By June 1963, thousands of U.S. military advisors were in Vietnam for the same reason.

The irony is that Russia’s communist regime had just recently been America’s ally and partner in World War II. The two nations had worked together to defeat Nazi Germany. But as soon as the war was over, U.S. officials told the American people that they could not rest because they now faced a new official enemy that was arguably more dangerous and threatening than Hitler and the Nazis. That new foe was Soviet Russia, communism, and the Reds.

In fact, that was the justification for converting America’s federal governmental structure from a limited-government republic to a national-security state, one in which a major part of the U.S. government acquired omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers, including the power of state-sponsored assassinations.

When JFK became president, he was pretty much a standard Cold Warrior, one who had bought the official line about how the United States was in grave danger of being taken over by the Reds. That was why he approved the CIA’s plan to use CIA-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and oust the communist regime that had taken over the island. Like other Cold Warriors, Kennedy was convinced that a communist regime 90 miles away from American shores proved that the communist threat was getting ever closer to the United States.

After the U.S. failure at the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy realized that he had been hoodwinked by the CIA, which had assured Kennedy that the invasion could succeed without U.S. support. It was a lie. The CIA figured that Kennedy would have no choice but to provide the support once the operation was in danger of going down to defeat. Kennedy was livid and vowed to dismantle the agency. By the same token, the CIA was equally livid, convinced that Kennedy was a coward, an incompetent, and a traitor.

After the Bay of Pigs disaster, tensions with the Pentagon began increasing. Convinced that a communist regime in Cuba posed a grave risk to the United States, the Pentagon began pressuring Kennedy to initiate a full-scale invasion of the island. At the same time, convinced that the Reds were expanding in Southeast Asia, the Pentagon pressured Kennedy into sending thousands of troops into Vietnam.

Kennedy’s settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the antipathy of the U.S. military establishment toward Kennedy to the surface, especially since the settlement assured the Russians that there would no longer be any more U.S. invasions of Cuba. That meant that Cuba would now permanently serve as a grave threat to U.S. “national security.” The Joint Chiefs of Staff considered the settlement to be among the worst defeats in U.S. history. They compared the settlement to Neville Chamberlain’s capitulation to Hitler at Nuremberg. Like the CIA, they were convinced that Kennedy’s cowardice, incompetence, and treason posed a grave threat to “national security.”

For his part, it was after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came to the brink of nuclear war, that Kennedy achieved a monumental “breakthrough.” He came to the realization that the Cold War was nothing more than one great big racket. He decided to move America in a totally different direction than the one that the national-security branch was leading America. Kennedy’s vision consisted of ending the Cold War and establishing peaceful and friendly relations with Russia and the rest of the communist world. That vision, needless to say, was anathema to the U.S. national-security establishment.

JFK set forth his vision for America in his Peace Speech at American University. It was essentially a declaration of war against the national-security branch of the federal government and its vision entailing a permanent Cold War, periodic hot wars, and, of course, ever-increasing budgets for the military-industrial complex.

The war between the executive branch and the national-security branch of the federal government was on. Over the fierce objections of the national-security establishment, Kennedy entered into a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Russians. He endorsed the idea of a joint trip to the moon, which, of course, would have meant sharing rocket technology with the Reds. He ordered a withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. On the day he was assassinated, he had a secret emissary having lunch with Fidel Castro.

But Kennedy would discover what Chile’s democratically elected president Salvador Allende would discover ten years later. In a war between the executive branch and the national-security branch of a government, the former is no match for the latter. Both Kennedy and Allende would discover that truth on two fateful days in the histories of their two nations: November 22, 1963, and September 11, 1973, when both presidents ended up dead.

Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.

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The riots and insurrection in Los Angelos, and now being promoted to spread nationwide, are apparently against the United States of America’s right to exist as a sovereign nation. The rioting is in response to enforcing immigration laws. This is a position that runs contrary to the concept of self government. A people through their government must have the right to decide who can or cannot become part of it.

Florida Congressional Representative Ana Paulina Luna, who recently introduced a bill to repeal the so called Patriot Act, which unconstitutionally empowers government to routinely violate the Fourth Amendment at a minimum, has forcefully spoken out against the riots and drew attention to the billionaire that is allegedly funding the riots. His name is Neville Singham and allegedly mad his money promoting Chinese Communist propaganda. She has also drawn attention to actual Communist groups in league with the Democrat Party that are helping to organize this insurrection.

Congresswoman Luna also posted on her Instagram that there will be official document request from Mr. Neville Singham and if he does not respond, there will be Subpoenas, and should they be ignored, it will be referred to the DOJ for prosecution.

Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania who famously had a stroke shortly after getting boosted with the mRNA bioweapon injections broke ranks with Democrats and spoke out on X against the anarchy and chaos in LA:

“I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that.

This is anarchy and true chaos.

My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”

Unfortunately, most elected Democrats are supporting the insurrection. In fact, Minnesota Representative Kaohly Vang Her admitted on the Minnesota House floor that she is an illegal alien. She explains that her parents came here illegally, and that she is illegal. This of course means that she is illegally serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

The insurrection riots are not organic. They are clearly organized as evidenced by this legacy media outlet inadvertently speaking to a video of a truck delivering boxes of face shields to rioters.

On the surface this appears to be a left wing operation. It may very well be. Or it may be to a degree and have some cooperation from the other side, or at least those posing as the other side. Some of these alleged pundits on the right are calling for biometric IDs and a surveillance state. I say alleged because nobody that is actually on the right would support an Orwellian police state. That is a left wing ideal.

Laura Loomer made the dumbest statement I’ve seen in a while from a so called right wing pundit:

“Time to deploy @PalantirTech to Los Angeles to deal with the illegals.

You know you’d love to see it.

You’re lying if you say you wouldn’t.”

These type of comments from alleged right wing pundits cause pause.

Are we looking at a deeper psychological operation?

There seems to be a recurring pattern that the government can’t deal with these riots and that there is nothing that can be done other than take away our liberty. We saw this during Trump’s first term with the BLM psyop. At the same time that they were forcing people to wear masks and have lockdowns, there was rioting in urban areas across America.

It is difficult to comprehend how the government could force the whole country to lock down and have the media (right and left) support that clear violation of the Constitution, yet when it comes to actual riots and clear insurrection….

What else can it be called when illegal aliens are rioting in a host country?

If that is not an insurrection, then it is an invasion. Anti-Ice rioters/insurrectionists surrounded the Texas Capital in a protest and there are calls for nationwide rights.

Facial recognition technology has already been introduced in some cities. In Trump’s first term he was pushing a biometric exit entry visa. There is the possibility that this is a psyop designed to push biometric entry exit visas and to promote Palantir or some other technology to create a database on every American.

Prior to these riots there was increasing pushback from the right against Trump’s big government spending bill, which among other things, prohibits AI from being regulated by states for 10 years. There was also growing backlash against the Trump administrations collaboration with Palantir to create a national digital database on every single American, and the Trump administration appears to be furthering the implementation of the control grid.

ICE contracted Palantir for 30 million dollars to create a new surveillance platform to allegedly track illegal aliens. Of course, the only way that can be done is if everybody in the country was tracked, including American citizens too.

How could they differentiate the illegal from the American citizen without having everybody in the database?

It is healthy for Americans to question the insurrection in Los Angelos, especially if it spreads elsewhere. Regardless, the purpose may be to polarize Americans emotionally to the point were they cheer on a biometric ID type tracking system or some other system.

We saw this after 911 where a brainwashed public (I was not one of them) supported the Patriot Act and the creation of the surveillance state infrastructure and those two unpatriotic wars. We saw it again with COVID as a brainwashed public (I was not one of them) supported masks, social distancing, lockdowns, and bioweapon injections. We saw a brainwashed public (I was not one of them) more recently support United States involvement in the Ukraine war escalation.

(Note: I am pointing out that I was not one of them because I am tired of people that advocated for the problems providing solutions)

I have already heard people argue in favor of biometric IDs to secure election integrity totally ignoring the computer voting fraud issue. There are people as I already mentioned cheering for a biometric surveillance state to stop illegal immigration.

We will get the biometric ID, and still have the illegal immigration. They’d just call them documented workers or something else. The immigration is needed to change the demographics of the West in order to destroy the West.

The question is who is behind it and what is the end game?

Is it a leftist color revolution?

Is it a deep state Uniparty operation to trick people on the right into supporting the police state hoping they will be dumb enough to buy it?

I don’t know the full answer to these questions, but I do know the LA insurrection riots are anti American, and they are clearly well funded and organized. They need to be immediately quelled and then immediately find out who is behind it and punish them.

This article was originally published on Mind Matters and Everything Else.

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There are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia.

The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South.

Pride of place was taken by a new ambitious association, the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN). The last session of the forum was focused essentially on how to fight all the toxic declinations imposed by the post-truth anti-cultural ambiance – as in fact-checking an avalanche of fake news coming in most cases from states and official institutions.

Guest of honor was superstar Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, relaxed, in great spirits, who went full Deng Xiaoping by urging everyone to “fight for the truth and seek out the facts”.

By a twist of fate, the timeline left me with only two minutes to somehow wrap up our quite enlightening discussion. So I went hardcore and quoted Nietzsche: “There are no facts, only interpretations”. Later on, I was surprised at how that had struck a nerve especially among African delegates.

The key point is that in the artificially fabricated post-truth environment, not only facts are only facts if we say so; most of all, only one interpretation is allowed – be it from the Empire of Chaos, whoever may be in power, or from a Kafkaesque mechanism such as the European Union (EU)/European Commission (EC).

If you deviate from the official interpretation, they will come after you. That has led, for instance, in Europe, to journalists/EU citizens being prevented even from traveling to their own nation-states, and having their accounts frozen, or EU citizens being prevented from covering a supposedly democratic election (in Romania), and immediately deported (outside of the EU).

A startling essay on Nietzsche amplifies the diagnostic of Europe’s current cultural suicide. Nietzsche was an “untimely” outsider, a steppenwolf, pledging allegiance to no one and nothing, silently grappling with “the flat exhaustion of bourgeois modernity”, and searching, in vain, for “silhouettes among shadows”.

Nietzsche, in the late 19th century, was already a symbol of Resistance. Resistance as we see it today – from the Axis of Resistance in West Asia to Orthodox Christian military batallions fighting for the freedom of Novorossiya. No ceremony ever greeted Nitzsche: he was always alone. He shattered illusion after illusion as his solitude “became liturgy” and “his body turned into protest.” He impersonated “the ghost of nobility”. A species in extinction – indeed.

Tech visionaries want it all

That crystal clear Nietzsche intuition – arguably the best definition of truth in the history of philosophy – may be our guide in the labyrinth of post-truth where, to quote post-modernist masterpiece Twin Peaks, “the owls are not what they seem”.

Errol Musk, Elon’s father, showed up early this week in Moscow for the Future 2050 forum. Daddy Musk effusively showered praise on Russia as Ancient Rome 2.0 and Moscow itself as the “capital of the world”. Quite on point – in both cases.

But what really matters is why Daddy Musk is in Russia. That may align with a strategy of luring powerful sectors of Silicon Valley into doing business with Russia. Main actors/participants would be tech visionaries which used to be part of the notorious PayPal Mafia: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

That may pose a series of serious problems. Martin Armstrong has been instrumental in portraying this band of tech visionaries as a ubiquitous new oligarchy: active in social media, biotech, space, the surveillance industry, engineering policies and influencing monetary systems with their hardcore brand of venture capitalism, and not to mention shaping worldwide-interfering narratives.

The new tech elite shines brightly via the Trump-Musk love affair turned staged catfight. But its tentacles reach much further. J.D. Vance is Peter Thiel’s perfectly positioned candidate to become the next POTUS. Palantir, controlled by Thiel and totalitarian Alex Karp, have been awarded a massive contract to design a U.S. federally centralized database using very sophisticated AI models.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is heavy on AI – including a 10-year moratorium during which any U.S. state and local government  cannot regulate AI. This will allow free reign for deepfakes and Big Tech doing whatever they feel like to manipulate unsuspecting consumers.

So that’s the key question. How to fact-check the tech elite? How to counterpunch multiple instances of techno-feudalism – when tech companies feed intel to governments, commit unlimited funds to political operations, and set up censorship platforms disguised as “democracy”, drenched in AI-generated fake news?

Go East, to Siberia, young man

At least there are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia. This is a mesmerizing interview by Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan with legendary Prof. Sergey Karaganov, Honorary Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy (Russia’s leading public foreign policy organisation) and academic supervisor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Welcome to a magic carpet ride through the really deep origins of Russia’s heritage. Starting with the Scythians: “Now we are rediscovering within ourselves these roots that unites us with the peoples of Eurasia.”

All the way to Byzantium: “The Russian princes, who baptized Russia, chose Byzantium ― at that time the richest, the most developed and intellectually flourishing country in Central Eurasia, much more developed than Europe was (…) The Russian princes’ astute choice of Byzantium largely predetermined Russian culture, Russian architecture, and, of course, Russian religion, that is, our Orthodoxy.”

And then reaching Pax Mongolica: “The Mongol Empire left a deep mark on Russian history also, because it was multicultural and very tolerant religiously, and this is where I think (although there is no complete agreement amongst historians on this matter) the Russians ― the dominant people in the former Russian Empire and the USSR ― inherited their unique cultural, religious, and national openness.”

Karaganov forcefully proposes that everything positive about Pax Mongolica should be re-examined to “substantiate the unity of Eurasia.” And “we must rely just as much on the heritage of the Scythians, who were the forefathers of so many peoples in Greater Central Eurasia.”

This is the essence of a true multipolar Russia in action – leading to the fascinating concept of “Siberianization”: a “spiritual, cultural, political, and economic development of Russia in the eastern direction to the Urals and Siberia. The western direction of our policy and economic ties has bleak prospects.”

Karaganov, whose analyses are deeply appreciated by President Putin, is adamant: it all amounts to a “civilizational struggle against techno-barbarism and techno-paganism”, and “against dehumanization”. Against, essentially, techno-feudalism.

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I have always been fascinated by language and its evolution. The way it reflects and affects both reality and our perception of it. The way it can be used and abused to serve particular ends.

As an appendix to 1984, Orwell wrote an essay called “The Principles of Newspeak”. The concept was inspired by the totalitarian propaganda of his time, both of fascism and communism.
Newspeak is designed to limit thought and used to enforce conformity. Some prominent features of newspeak are judgment, emotions and cognitive dissonance, or ‘doublethink’ in Newspeak parlance.

I grew up in the communist world; I grew up with its propaganda. Eventually, I came to understand the importance of the underlying concept, best expressed in the engraving on Marx’s tombstone:

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways –
the point, however, is to change it”

DEI is the perfect example of Orwellian doublethink, newspeak and the neocommunist drive behind it. The essence of communism is that we don’t need to understand the world as long as we have the will to shape it, and the power to do it.

DEI, The Great Reset, Build Back Better, the call for ‘democratic’ socialism, various censorship, fact-checking and speech-control initiatives are just the latest reincarnation of the global communism project.

Communism, the cultural revolution and DEI all start with the assumptions that in our natural state, we are all the same; that there are no differences in our abilities, attitudes and personalities. Any observable difference is either irrelevant or the result of ill will, expressed in discrimination.

If you notice the patent stupidity and the cognitive dissonance in the circular logic of the claims, you just have proven that you are guilty of crimethink, oldthink and false consciousness. It means that you are a bad person in need of reform. DEI is the path to that reform.

We can explore that path by looking at their idealized narrative; exposing the slight of hand; stating the inevitable outcome and exposing the intended goal.

This is a fair approximation of the idealized narrative from Grok:

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives aim to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives aim to create environments where individuals from varied backgrounds feel valued, respected, and empowered. The primary goals of DEI are:

1. Diversity: Increase representation of people from different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and other identities in workplaces, schools, or organizations.

2. Equity: Ensure fair access to opportunities, resources, and advancement by addressing systemic barriers and historical inequalities that disadvantage certain groups.

3. Inclusion: Foster a culture where everyone feels welcomed, heard, and able to contribute fully, regardless of their identity or background.

These goals often interlink to promote fairness, reduce discrimination, and enhance organizational or societal outcomes through diverse perspectives.
(in most cases, emphases are mine.)(and if you can explain to me the last highlight, I will give you a medal)

The idealized goal is a world where everybody feels good and comfortable, where differences don’t matter, where we are all accepted regardless of who we are and whether our contribution have any value whatsoever.
… while everybody sings Kumbaya.

To quote Marx again:

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”

“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

The idealized narrative of DEI is the vision of Karl Marx. There are no meaningful differences, everybody is equal in any material way, and everybody can do absolutely anything they want to do.

DEI is Marx’s communism with a nod toward Mussolini’s corporatism. All supervised, of course, by an AI empowered Davos-like supranational totalitarian institution.
We could also see it as an expression of Rousseau’s general will.

The essence of every socialist/communist/fascist/totalitarian project is the dissolution of individuality in the undifferentiated collective. In its DEI implementation it is broken down into smaller units. It is not the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it is communities, businesses and institutions fighting racism, sexism and any number of other isms and phobias. The expectation is the creation of undifferentiated units fully representing the whole.
Of course it is idiotic, of course it is delusional, of course it is unfeasible.
But most of all, it is fraudulent.

Diversity is the death of difference.

The sleight of hand with Diversity is that it is an unachievable goal. The expectations can never be properly defined. And I don’t just mean intersectionality. Each of us has a complex set of overlapping, coexisting identities. I have at least a dozen myself.
Diversity, the focus on what makes us different, is a divider, not a unifier.

The unavoidable consequence of the expectations is that it creates arbitrary criteria and makes everybody lie and bullshit about it. The consequence is not a bug, but a feature.

The intended goal is to use the compliance requirement as a blunt weapon to bludgeon any organization that of stepping out of line.
The goal is to make identities more relevant than contributions. To make what’s important – competence, intelligence, industriousness – irrelevant.

Equity is the descent into mediocrity.

The sleight of hand with equity can be best illustrated with this quote from Hayek:

“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time” (from The Constitution Of Liberty)

The ‘equal outcome’ definition of ‘equity’ is relatively new. It had to be created to separate it from Hayek’s logic. Equal opportunity is an individualist concept. Equity is a collectivist one.

The unavoidable consequence is mediocrity at best, decrease of productivity and loss of competitiveness at worst. The drive for mediocrity is a spiral into self-destruction.

The intended goal is the assault on competence hierarchies, achievement and creativity.

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This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets. They lack clean water, medicine and food. They have reached a point of collapse. Sick. Injured. Terrified. Humiliated. Abandoned. Destitute. Starving. Hopeless.

In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested nine-mile ribbon of land that borders Egypt. Israel and its cynically named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), allegedly funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the Mossad, is weaponizing starvation. It is enticing Palestinians to southern Gaza the way the Nazis enticed starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to board trains to the death camps. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians. No one seriously argues there is enough food or aid hubs. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them.

What comes next? I long ago stopped trying to predict the future. Fate has a way of surprising us. But there will be a final humanitarian explosion in Gaza’s human slaughterhouse. We see it with the surging crowds of Palestinians fighting to get a food parcel, which has resulted in Israeli and U.S. private contractors shooting dead at least 130 and wounding over seven hundred others in the first eight days of aid distribution. We see it with Benjamin Netanyahu’s arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza that loot food supplies. Israel, which has eliminated hundreds of employees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), doctors, journalists, civil servants and police in targeted assassinations, has orchestrated the implosion of civil society.

I suspect Israel will facilitate a breach in the fence along the Egyptian border. Desperate Palestinians will stampede into the Egyptian Sinai. Maybe it will end some other way. But it will end soon. There is not much more Palestinians can take.

We — full participants in this genocide — will have achieved our demented goal of emptying Gaza and expanding Greater Israel. We will bring down the curtain on the live-streamed genocide. We will have mocked the ubiquitous university programs of Holocaust studies, designed, it turns out, not to equip us to end genocides, but deify Israel as an eternal victim licensed to carry out mass slaughter. The mantra of never again is a joke. The understanding that when we have the capacity to halt genocide and we do not, we are culpable, does not apply to us. Genocide is public policy. Endorsed and sustained by our two ruling parties.

There is nothing left to say. Maybe that is the point. To render us speechless. Who does not feel paralyzed? And maybe, that too, is the point. To paralyze us. Who is not traumatized? And maybe that too was planned. Nothing we do, it seems, can halt the killing. We feel defenseless. We feel helpless. Genocide as spectacle.

I have stopped looking at the images. The rows of little shrouded bodies. The decapitated men and women. Families burned alive in their tents. The children who have lost limbs or are paralyzed. The chalky death masks of those pulled from under the rubble. The wails of grief. The emaciated faces. I can’t.

This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back.

And how will we remember? By not remembering.

Once it is over, all those who supported it, all those who ignored it, all those who did nothing, will rewrite history, including their personal history. It was hard to find anyone who admitted to being a Nazi in post-war Germany, or a member of the Klu Klux Klan once segregation in the southern United States ended. A nation of innocents. Victims even. It will be the same. We like to think we would have saved Anne Frank. The truth is different. The truth is, crippled by fear, nearly all of us will only save ourselves, even at the expense of others. But that is a truth that is hard to face. That is the real lesson of the Holocaust. Better it be erased.

In his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad writes:

Should a drone vaporize some nameless soul on the other side of the planet, who among us wants to make a fuss? What if it turns out they were a terrorist? What if the default accusation proves true, and we by implication be labeled terrorist sympathizers, ostracized, yelled at? It is generally the case that people are most zealously motivated by the worst plausible thing that could happen to them. For some, the worst plausible thing might be the ending of their bloodline in a missile strike. Their entire lives turned to rubble and all of it preemptively justified in the name of fighting terrorists who are terrorists by default on account of having been killed. For others, the worst plausible thing is being yelled at.

You can see my interview with El Akkad here.

You cannot decimate a people, carry out saturation bombing over 20 months to obliterate their homes, villages and cities, massacre tens of thousands of innocent people, set up a siege to ensure mass starvation, drive them from land where they have lived for centuries and not expect blowback. The genocide will end. The response to the reign of state terror will begin. If you think it won’t you know nothing about human nature or history. The killing of two Israeli diplomats in Washington and the attack against supporters of Israel at a protest in Boulder, Colorado, are only the start.

Chaim Engel, who took part in the uprising at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp in Poland, described how, armed with a knife, he attacked a guard in the camp.

“It’s not a decision,” Engel explained years later. “You just react, instinctively you react to that, and I figured, ‘Let us to do, and go and do it.’ And I went. I went with the man in the office and we killed this German. With every jab, I said, ‘That is for my father, for my mother, for all these people, all the Jews you killed.’”

Does anyone expect Palestinians to act differently? How are they to react when Europe and the United States, who hold themselves up as the vanguards of civilization, backed a genocide that butchered their parents, their children, their communities, occupied their land and blasted their cities and homes into rubble? How can they not hate those who did this to them?

What message has this genocide imparted not only to Palestinians, but to all in the Global South?

It is unequivocal. You do not matter. Humanitarian law does not apply to you. We do not care about your suffering, the murder of your children. You are vermin. You are worthless. You deserve to be killed, starved and dispossessed. You should be erased from the face of the earth.

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library,” El Akkad writes:

To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, food. Banks. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones. To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.

There are people I have known for years who I will never speak to again. They know what is happening. Who does not know? They will not risk alienating their colleagues, being smeared as an antisemite, jeopardizing their status, being reprimanded or losing their jobs. They do not risk death, the way Palestinians do. They risk tarnishing the pathetic monuments of status and wealth they spent their lives constructing. Idols. They bow down before these idols. They worship these idols. They are enslaved by them.

At the feet of these idols lie tens of thousands of murdered Palestinians.

This article was originally published on ScheerPost.

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I just got a text from Captain Republican. “I am shocked, shocked that the White House is using Autopens.”

Oops! Now I have a text from the Wizard of Woke: “Pay no attention to the male-identifying person behind the curtain.”

Look, never mind that Joe Biden was basically incapable of performing the office of President of the United States, probably from the moment they fixed the South Carolina primary for him in 2020 to keep Bernie Sanders off the Democrat ticket.

And forget that it wasn’t until well into 2024 that the lapdog media was almost ready to yap in annoying chorus — as annoying lapdogs will do — that Houston We Have a Problem.

But who is kidding whom? The whole point of the administrative state is that the President doesn’t really have executive power. The educated administrative bureaucracy wisely develops policy according to expert-agreed science, and the President signs off on it.

Only, of course, the science on administrative bureaucracy is, per Hayek, that administrative hierarchy cannot work, because it lacks bandwidth, big time. Only a market economy with prices, per Mises, has the bandwidth for that.

The Germans were first to recognize the problem after World War I, when their all-hands review of the war conducted by General Hans von Seeckt determined that war could only work if responsibility were pushed down the military hierarchy as far as possible. Generals and colonels were specifically ordered to issue general orders so that the subordinates could fill in the details. The idea, wrote Seeckt, was

to make of each individual member of the army a soldier who, in character, capability, and knowledge, is self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility [verantwortungsfreudig] as a man and a soldier.

Yes, I am sure you have noticed that today’s educated, evolved bureaucracy is full of “self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful” responsible men and soldiers. Not.

But there’s more.

It’s George Stigler’s science about “regulatory capture.” The science states that government regulation inevitably fails because its regulatory activity gets captured by the special interests.

And all the world knows that the Biden administration was a double-blind social science experiment — conducted by Ivy League academics on their off days between training pro-Palestine mostly peaceful protesters — to confirm Hayek’s science about bureaucracy and Stigler’s science about “regulatory capture.” That’s what the flap about Biden and the Autopen is about. Anyone except a media lapdog could see with their scientific eyes that Joseph Robinette Biden, born into the working class of Scranton, PA, was not physically fit enough to sign executive orders, let alone mentally fit enough to understand what he was signing.

Now, according to the Federal Register, President Trump has signed 157 executive orders as of May 23, 2025. You think he knows the details of each executive order that he signed? Of course not. His Golden Age crew did all the work, and prepared the executive orders and briefed him on the major points so he could deal with the yaps of the lapdog media lapdogs. In other words, the Trump administration is acting just like Hans von Seeckt said to do, with a crew of “self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated” MAGAs that are “joyful in taking responsibility.” I dare say that makes Trump Literally Hitler.

But we wise ones have a deeper, wider worldview than the rather limited view of the world available to the average lightweight lapdog reduced to a life sniffing at the heels of former administration officials. We see that we humans must get beyond the conceit of the administrative state beloved of progressives, commies, and wokies. We can see that the administrative state is all very well for a jolly old world war, or the nightmare of a global pandemic, or world-ending climate change. We see that, below the surface, the administrative state is a remorseless engine of corruption, injustice, and decay. And in the hands of our liberal friends it has collapsed into a catfight of mewing Allies pretending to fight for the Oppressed Peoples du jour against the eternal White Oppressors.

We wise ones know that the future must be worked out in the usual messy way of humans somewhere between the warrior culture of the tech bros that fight in the chaotic arena of startups and venture capitalists and the social culture of the ordinary middle class that yearns for stability enough to work and marry and raise a family. Isn’t it amazing that God has put on one side of the stage the crazy Elon to evoke the crazy chaos of the startup arena and on the other the impossible Donald Trump to promise a Golden Age of stability and growth?

Autopens aren’t really the problem. The problem is the conceit that administrative government is a benefit to humanity, rather than just the usual conceit of a ruling class.

I wonder what Bugs Bunny would say about Autopens.

This article was originally published on American Thinker.

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The federal government paid $79 billion in Covid-19 relief to individuals who likely used phony or stolen Social Security numbers (SSNs), according to a recent report from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC).

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 and subsequent legislation, Uncle Sam shelled out $5 trillion to counteract the economic damage wreaked by federal, state, and local policies that shuttered businesses and put millions out of work.

Among the largest pandemic-relief programs were the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-19 EIDL) program and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the Department of Labor’s (DOL) pandemic Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. Those programs accounted for an estimated $400 billion worth of fraud, according to 2023 reports from the SBA’s and DOL’s inspectors general.

Mistaken Identities

PRAC decided to investigate how much of that $400 billion could have been saved had the agencies bothered to verify the identities of applicants before showering them with taxpayer dollars. The committee’s answer: $79 billion — and possibly much more. Reads PRAC’s report:

When program guardrails were removed during the pandemic, a substantial amount of funds were rapidly disbursed without proper identity verification.

PRAC submitted a sample of 662,000 identity records from the programs’ 67.5 million funded applications to the Social Security Administration (SSA), asking the agency to report on whether each applicant’s name and date of birth (DOB), where provided, corresponded to his claimed SSN. PRAC also wanted to know whether the SSN holder was deceased.

Of those 662,000 records, 23,854 (3.6 percent) were regarded as questionable based on the SSA’s findings. About 2,100 SSNs were invalid; 2,800 had incorrect birth dates; and 19,000 had the wrong names. The non-matching birth dates and names suggest that many applicants engaged in “synthetic identity fraud” by combining valid SSNs with fabricated details.

As to how many deceased individuals — or others using their identities — collected loot under these programs, PRAC was at a loss to say. SSA told PRAC that 11,514 of the 638,146 identities it could fully confirm belonged to individuals who were deceased at the time it responded to PRAC’s request. But it could not legally provide their death dates to PRAC, so the committee could not determine whether they were deceased at the time they submitted their applications. (It may do so later using Treasury Department data.)

Using a statistical sampling method, PRAC estimated that “1.4 to 1.5 million potentially stolen or invalid SSNs were used to obtain benefits from the programs.” COVID-19 EIDL disbursed an estimated $55.8 billion to individuals with unverifiable identities. PPP and pandemic UI programs did likewise, to the tune of $13.8 billion and $9.8 billion, respectively.

PRACtical Advice

The actual total of fraudulent payouts may be well over $79 billion, however. Since the SBA did not require applicants to supply their DOB, 87 percent of the PPP records sampled by PRAC did not include one. The committee noted that records including a DOB were found to be invalid more often than those without. Thus:

Had the SBA required PPP applicants provide DOB information in the PPP application, as COVID-19 EIDL and Pandemic UI programs did, we would expect to have identified even more potentially stolen or invalid SSNs, as well as higher potentially fraudulent payment amounts in our PPP estimates, because there would have been one more data point (i.e., DOB) to check against SSA’s records.

PRAC urged federal agencies to require applicants to include their DOB. It also strongly encouraged them to work with SSA now to ensure they can verify applicants’ identities in the future.

In a June 4 press release, PRAC Chairman Michael Horowitz said:

Our oversight work during the past five years has detailed federal agencies’ inability to use data to effectively prevent pandemic-related fraud. By contrast, the PRAC’s sophisticated data analytics capabilities allow us to look across federal agencies and programs to identify potential fraud before it occurs by comparing agency and other data with applicant-provided information, such as IP addresses, dates of birth, bank accounts, and home addresses. As today’s report demonstrates, this data analytics capability can strengthen program integrity and prevent billions of dollars in fraud, ensuring taxpayer funds are paid to legitimate applicants.

Who CARES?

That assumes, of course, that politicians actually give a fig about spending other people’s money responsibly. Their response to concerns about foreseeable CARES Act fraud is a pretty good indication that they don’t.

“Some people did raise the potential for fraud [in 2020]. We were told that there was no time to put in place measures sufficient to prevent it,” observed columnist Veronique de Rugy. PRAC, created to give the act a veneer of accountability,

had a difficult task due to the enormous size of the relief bill, a hardship compounded by the fact that the program had to become functional before it could even start looking into the spending. Dollars were pouring forth fast from Washington, and the committee was basically behind from the start.

PRAC couldn’t prevent any fraud, but it has issued several reports detailing how the fraud occurred and how it could have been prevented.

As with most such reports, though, PRAC’s are unlikely to make much difference. When it comes to unconstitutional giveaway programs, wrote de Rugy, “It’s easier [for Congress] to complain about fraudsters than to acknowledge that the real scam is the entire process — a process that starts on Capitol Hill.”

This article was originally published on The New American.

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A national coalition of religious and medical liberty organizations urged President Donald Trump to adopt a plan to restore First Amendment rights in four states — New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine — where unconstitutional vaccine mandates continue to deny children of religious families access to education and health care.

The coalition made the request after addressing a letter to members of President Trump’s newly established Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) that has a mandate from the White House to investigate emerging threats to religious liberty and recommend policies to safeguard fundamental religious rights of all Americans.

Among the signatories are Guiding the Impact (which led the effort), Children’s Health Defense, Teachers for Choice, the MAHA Institute, Physicians for Informed Consent, Autism Action Network, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Global Wellness Forum, and dozens of others.

“Your focus on parental rights, conscience protections, and the First Amendment rights of students aligns directly with the plight of religious families in these four states,” the authors to the RLC noted. “President Trump’s proven commitment to defending religious liberty, as evidenced by his establishment of this Commission, underscores the urgency of restoring the freedom of these families to practice their faith without government interference.”

“We implore the Commission to act swiftly to protect the children and families suffering under these unconstitutional policies,” they wrote.

The coalition requests that an Executive Order be issued by President Trump on Independence Day, July 4, to withhold federal funds from educational institutions that deny religious exemptions to vaccination requirements.

The signatories also urge direct legal action by Attorney General Pam Bondi against New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine for First Amendment violations, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to prohibit medical providers that receive federal funds from denying non-emergency care based on religious objections to vaccinations, ensuring healthcare access.

“Across faiths — Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and others — believers object to vaccines, particularly those derived from aborted fetal cell lines, viewing their bodies as sacred temples of God,” the letter explained. “These sincerely held beliefs, protected by the First Amendment, are unjustly disregarded by New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine, necessitating immediate action to restore religious liberty.”

The authors noted that religious objections to vaccination, rooted in deeply personal and spiritual convictions include but are in no way limited to:

• Viewing the body as God’s temple, sacred and inviolable by foreign substances.
• Trusting in divine protection over human medical intervention.
• Ethical concerns about vaccines developed using aborted fetal cell lines, which may suggest acceptance of abortion, and supporting companies that use aborted fetal cell lines.
• Beliefs that injecting DNA fragments from aborted fetuses is impure or unclean.
• Objections to vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, which may imply condoning premarital sex.
• The view that injecting disease to prevent disease is ungodly.
• Adherence to halal dietary laws that conflict with vaccine ingredients.

In one case recently reported by The Daily Wire, a New York high school student was denied medical exemptions seven times despite doctors explaining to school authorities that one or more additional vaccines would likely harm the student’s health.

“The problem really is these New York State Department of Health regulations that were issued in 2019, that led to hundreds of children who had longstanding medical exemptions suddenly getting them revoked,” the girl’s attorney, Sujata Gibson, explained. “Meaning many, many families have had to move out of town, get vaccinated against medical advice — some children have been severely harmed by that.”

“Children with disabilities are required to be accommodated and allowed to attend school,” the attorney said. “And what these school districts are doing is flat-out discriminatory and dangerous to their health.”

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Full text of the June 4, 2025 letter to the White House Religious Liberty Commission:

Dear Members of the Religious Liberty Commission,

The undersigned religious liberty, medical liberty, related organizations, and religious leaders write to commend the establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission and to urge immediate action to address critical violations of religious liberty in four states — New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine — that deny religious exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements for school attendance and cause discriminatory practices in healthcare. These policies unconstitutionally infringe upon the First Amendment rights of religious families, barring children from public schools as well as private schools that wish to accept these children, and denying access to publicly funded medical care based on their sincerely held religious beliefs which prevent these families from injecting their children with one or more vaccines.

We respectfully request that the Commission include specific recommendations in its report to the White House Faith Office and the Domestic Policy Council, including: (1) an Executive Order and legislation to withhold federal funds from educational institutions denying religious exemptions to vaccination requirements, ensuring access to education; (2) legal action by the Attorney General against New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine for First Amendment violations; and (3) regulations and legislation to prohibit medical providers receiving federal funds from denying non-emergency care based on religious objections to vaccinations, ensuring healthcare access.

The United States Constitution enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in the First Amendment. As President Trump has stated, “Our Founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous, and virtuous society than the right to follow one’s religious convictions.” The Founders envisioned a nation where religious people and institutions are free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or hostility from the government. To safeguard this principle, the executive branch has committed to vigorously enforcing the robust protections for religious liberty enshrined in federal law.

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Democrats for many long years have imposed race and gender privileges, which violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection under law and the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s statutory prohibition of race and gender quotas. In order to give preferences to women, people of color, and sexual perverts at the expense of white heterosexual men, equal protection of law was set aside.  Now Democrats are proving to us that they are only concerned with alleged rights of people of color who are immigrant-invaders and assigned by Democrats,  such as the Democrat governor of California, the rights of US citizens.  

The Democrats are responding to the Federal government’s effort to deport people who are unlawfully in the US by attempting to organize an insurrection, a real one not an alleged one used to imprison Trump supporters.  To be clear, Democrat office holders at local, state, and federal levels together with George Soros funded NGOs, foundations, and the whore media are in a treasonous conspiracy against the government of the United States and its President and against American citizens.

The protest that soon became a riot against deporting illegal entrants began in one section of Los Angeles.  Organizers spread it to San Francisco and to Texas.  I do not know if the effort to spread the riots into every blue jurisdiction and to turn it into a full-scale insurrection will succeed. See this.

However, it does seem clear that the Democrats are sufficiently confident that they can create an insurrection, backed by the Democrat judges, that will give them bargaining power over the Trump administration’s deportation policy.  California Governor Newsom who stands with illegal entrants against US law has given the federal government the finger and defied federal authorities to arrest him for his lead in an insurrection against the United States.

California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the deployment of the National Guard as unlawful and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of violating state sovereignty.

What we will see is whether the federal government is too weak to arrest or even acknowledge an insurrectionist.

If the Democrats succeed in constraining the deportation policy, the likely outcome will be that proven criminals and recent arrivals are subjected to deportation, but illegals who have put down roots have acquired citizenship according to the law of adverse possession will be granted amnesty. 

I think it is unrealistic to believe that the Trump administration can deport 30 million illegals who have established their own livelihoods and existence in the US courtesy of the absence of enforcement of US laws. The open border policy of the Democrats is clearly a US invitation to immigrant-invaders to enter America unopposed.  Unopposed entry implies acceptance of entry.  In effect, deportation is a breach of an unwritten promise extended by the non-enforcement of US immigration laws.

All of this said, let’s turn to the real problem. The United States has a political party–the Democrats–which by its control of the major cities in swing states can steal elections at will.  The whore media, together with lawsuits against, and prosecutions of, those who have factual evidence of electoral theft, brought before Democrat judges and juries who have no interest in facts, guarantees the validation of the election theft as the legitimate vote. I do not know if Trump has yet pardoned all those who produced conclusive evidence that his 2020 reelection was stolen. They were prosecuted by the Biden regime’s US Department of Justice (sic)  and by Democrat states for doing so.  In the Democrat Biden regime anyone in American who told the truth was a target for prosecution and imprisonment.  Yet tens of millions of dumbshit Americans supported the corrupt Biden regime.

In the 2024 presidential election the American Ruling Establishment decided that they would allow Trump to be returned to office, where he would be frustrated and defeated at every turn by the Establishment’s power, with the result being Trump’s failure and the demoralization of Americans who attempted to restore accountable government with Trump’s election. Demoralized and defeated, “the Trump Deplorable” go home and accept their impotence.

Possibly if the Democrats succeed in creating an insurrection, Trump will respond, unlike the French President in The Camp of the Saints, with sufficient violence to put it down and follow up with the arrest, prosecution, and execution of the treasonous Democrats responsible.

But this assumes he has the military on his side.  Does he after 12 years of Obama/Biden anti-white, anti-normal American appointees to the officer ranks?  Does the US military any longer represent majority white America?  Do the Hispanic elements in California’s National Guard represent the US or Mexico?

Americans, being dumbshits, don’t realize how far things have gone.  They now have Hispanic, Asian, Arab and other Muslim peoples, and African immigrants as judges who are immigrant-invaders presiding over local, state, and federal courts and police forces. 

My own opinion is that Americans, like Europeans, having sat sucking their thumbs, entertaining themselves, and being deceived by official narratives and multicultural brainwashing have lost their country.  

If you look honestly at the US today and at Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and the rest, what is there to defend?  Why would a white heterosexual male die for Washington, or for the UK, France, Germany, Canada, or any of the other countries that have repudiated their ethnic nationality?

The most significant fact of our time is that the entire Western World is a dead man walking bereft of the belief system that upheld Western Civilization, now routinely denounced in all major universities in the Western World.  

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Back in 1949 the world was still recovering from World War II. The Korean War wouldn’t start for another year, but George Orwell was already focused on the dangers of communism and the totalitarianist government it builds. World War II was started by totalitarian governments; but worse than that was how such governments treat the citizens living under their control.

In his book 1984, the government, encapsulated in the persona of “Big Brother,” knew everything about everyone; where they were, what they were doing and even what they were thinking much of the time. This was used to keep control of people to an extreme that even the now defunct Soviet Union couldn’t reach. Yet with modern technology, the reality of such a government could very well be forming around us and we don’t even see it happening.

As we know, the government is actively spying on every one of us. That’s the essence of Edward Snowden’s message, since he left the employ of the NSA. While that spying is intended to help prevent terrorism, we’ve seen some in government be awfully free in their use of that term. One can quickly find themselves labeled as a terrorist if the political winds blow the wrong way.

On top of the NSA, big tech is in cahoots with government in a number of ways, most especially with providing information to law enforcement officers, as they seek to solve crimes. But that same information which is being used for the good of tracking down and convicting criminals can very well be used against the rest of us. After all, any of us can become an instant felon, simply by Congress passing a law making something that has been legal, suddenly illegal.

An excellent case in point is the current push by Democrats to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Should they do that, then millions of law-abiding citizens will suddenly be faced with the option of turning in valuable firearms or hiding them from the government. Will the government hunt down those who haven’t turned in their guns, using the same tools they are currently using to track down criminals? Only time will tell.

So, what can we do to keep the government from having an idea where we are and what we are doing? To start with, we need to understand that the government has multiple means of tracking us, not just one or two. That means we’re going to have to defeat them all, if we expect to protect ourselves from electronic spying.

Here are a few places to start.

Use a Burner Phone

The easiest way for the government to track any of us is through our smartphone. We really don’t have a handle on everything that our phones are doing in the background, while we’re not looking.

Yet there’s nearly constant communication between our phones and the local cell phone tower.

It’s clear that the communications we have through our phones is readily available to the NSA and others.

You can even pay online services to do a little spying on family members, seeing their text messages, who they’ve talked to, what they’ve looked at online and where they’ve been. If you and I can do this, then you can be sure the government can do more.

Shut Off GPS Tracking

One of the most common ways our phones help the government keep track of us is through the phone’s GPS. Google and Apple keep track of our every move through that part of the phone.

If you go to Google Maps and click on your timeline in the menu, it will show you everywhere you’ve been, for the last several years.

This feature alone could put you in danger if you just happen to be in the same place that a crime was committed. While that alone wouldn’t be enough to convict you; it would be enough to make you a suspect.

And that’s just one example of how the GPs could be used against you. What if they want to track you down because it has been reported that you said something against the government; they’d have no trouble tracking you down.

Clean Out Internet Browsing Activity and Cookies

One of the big ways that companies use the internet to keep tabs on us is through our browsing history and the cookies downloaded to our computers by the various websites we visit.

A lot can be learned about who we are and what we do by looking at that. That’s why major corporations invest so much in data mining, looking for people to buy their products.

Haven’t you seen how you can look at something online, then find advertisements for the same sort of product showing up in your Facebook feed and just about any online article you read?

That information is also admissible in court as a means of defining your character. Government prosecutors could build a totally false narrative about you as a terrorist or planning mass murder, backed up by no more than the websites you have visited. Simple curiosity can and will be used against you, perhaps even in a court of law.

Get Rid of Alexa, Siri, and other Voice-recognition Assistants

One of the key elements of Orwell’s imaginary society in 1984 was that the government was tracking what everyone was doing through their television sets.

Yet today, rather than the government having to hide that capability in our TV sets, we buy devices and use them in our homes.

Those devices track everything we do, listening in on our conversations, so that they can “serve us” better.

Employees of those companies have come forth, confessing how employees at big tech companies listen in on people’s private lives.

If they’re doing it, then the government has access to it too. Remember, everything that device does goes over the internet and the NSA is tapped into that thoroughly.

Create Alternative e-Mail Accounts for Memberships

Our online identity is largely tied into our e-mail account.

Pretty much everything you sign up for, from buying dog food to looking at different sites, involves creating an account using that e-mail address. That online presence can lead government agents to look into all areas of your online existence.

The solution is to create multiple ‘personas,’ utilizing them for different things.

In order to do this, you’re going to have to provide false information at some point, as pretty much all e-mail services try to verify that you’re a real person and that you’re who you say you are.

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