When Corporations Go Beyond Just Lobbying

Lately, there seems to be a coordinated effort by various social media outlets to de-platform “alternative” opinions on the Internet through various means.  YouTube, for instance, has been lying about video views and comment counts, actively hiding comments from several users.  Google (YouTube’s owner) has been modifying their search algorithms to make Democrats look better.

Meanwhile, when alternatives are presented, they are blackballed.  Gab, a popular alternative to Twitter, was blocked from the Apple iPhone store because it contained “adult content”.  Of course, a kid with an iPhone can follow his favorite porn actress on Twitter complete with promo pictures.  But that’s neither here nor there.

And then some people are finding themselves demonetized on YouTube.  YouTube allows content producers to run ads on their videos.  Lately, the value has dropped though and not just for Alt-Right figures.  I’ve heard of Let’s Play producers seeing a cut in their bottom line as well.

This last situation could just be the contracting economy really.  I suspect that YouTube got a lot of its revenue to pay its users from Federal subsidies (I can’t confirm this) and that when that well dried up with the rise of a Republican administration, YouTube is now looking to tighten its belt.

And then there’s PayPal, which has suddenly started to disable itself for many users.  Roosh V, owner and creator of Return of Kings, found himself without a PayPal account.  When he inquired as to why, he was told to get a subpoena.  This also happened to a YouTuber who was investigating PizzaGate.

Many of these services should really be treated as a public utility by the government.  At least then, theoretically, they would face severe fines for shutting off access for political “violations”.  There’s a reason that you still have water and power, despite voting Republican, and it has nothing to do with profits.

I do suggest that corporations should remain politically neutral in all their dealings.  And many corporations do that, mostly because many corporations aren’t converged with Social Justice Warriors and other assorted zombie commies.  For some reason, the worst of our society seems to have converged on crucial tech companies and taken over in order to dictate policy.

Communists can’t help themselves.  Give them even slight power and they’ll try to rule all they see in the name of farcical Utopianism.  And that is exactly what has happened to the tech sector.

The only solution in the short term that I can see is that various people band together and file a class action lawsuit against these various companies, declaring them to be public utilities and demanding they be held accountable for their communist bullshit.

I would be surprised if President Trump has Attorney General Jeff Sessions look into this.  My guess is that it would only happen if they suspended his personal Twitter account and then it would only affect Twitter.

The long term solution is to build alternative platforms to all these different Social Media sites.  We already have Infogalactic, an alternative to Wikipedia, and Gab, an alternative to Twitter.  There are others in the works and there are alternatives to the big ones, but we have to be patient or innovate ourselves.

And such work takes years to accomplish.  So don’t expect a new service overnight or even a year from now.

Deep State Being Dug Up

So WikiLeaks has released huge amounts of data regarding the CIA.  The highlights of it suggest something many of us with an IQ above 105 have known for some time: that they have the ability to spy on you through just about every network-connected device.

That includes smart phones, cable boxes, smart TVs, and maybe even your appliances if they synch up with some kind of electronic network.

Coincidentally (or not), this data dump came out following President Trump accusing former President Obama of spying on him during the presidential election.  Frankly, I would be surprised if that communist wasn’t using his office to further the Party.

As for us common folk, I wouldn’t get too worried.  Unless you run afoul of some asshole with a security clearance and access to the hackers, you should be okay.  The simple fact is, there isn’t enough people to monitor the entirety of online interactions and communications.

But if the Deep State takes interest in you, expect every electronic device to be hacked, bugged, and otherwise compromised.  But also expect to be followed and surveilled by field agents on a regular basis as well.  After all, while we post a lot of information online, there is much more information that can be obtained through in person observation.

So if you’re being spied upon, it won’t just be your cell phone, smart TV, and blender.  You’ll see the same stranger in your neighborhood and the same car following you.  If it becomes more frequent, you might want to see if you can get yourself some form of protection because they could close in to murder you.

And they’ll make it look like natural causes or some kind of accident.

I don’t know what the objectives of the Deep State are, but I doubt they are aligned with benefitting the American people or any other people besides their own.  And unless they are working to suppress some kind of Lovecraftian cosmic being from destroying the world, I don’t think they are doing any good either.

I believe that WikiLeaks has a lot more dirt on the CIA, maybe even proof that they have been smuggling illegal drugs into the country.  And it looks like they have released more claiming that ISIS was created by the CIA, another non-surprise now backed with actual proof.

I hope that WikiLeaks keeps on doing what they are doing.  I hope they release all the data and expose the Satanist Deep State for what they really are.

Because the only way we are going to drain the swamp is by purging these yahoos from government work.

Dismantle the CIA

Last week, it was reported that Donald Trump once rented out a room in Russia where Barack Obama had once slept and hired prostitutes to urinate on the bed.  The Kremlin allegedly had recorded this and was using it as blackmail against Trump.

As it turns out, the story was completely bogus, having been competely fabricated by a 4chan user.  Somehow, it spread through various channels until it finally reached the CIA.  Which the CIA promptly used in their assertion that Trump was in Russia’s pocket.

What does this say about the state of the Intelligence apparatus in the United States?

I can say that our Federal government’s Intelligence services is full of nothing but traitors, scumbags, and utter fools.  For them to go to such extremes in order to discredit Mr. Trump demonstrates just how communist they truly are.

The CIA has their own agenda and that agenda doesn’t align with the safety and security of US citizens or even the safety of their own leaders.  I can only imagine that their entire agenda revolves around extreme Satanism, followed by child sacrifice and occasional cannibalism.

That last part was largely vague speculation, of course.

But if the agendas of the CIA are not aligned with looking out to protect the American people, then they must be thoroughly dismantled.

They did this to Reagan, though not so openly, and they’re doing it to Mr. Trump.

I suspect that Mr. Trump will have the balls to fire a whole bunch of them.  Really, it’s just stupid to do what they did to an incoming President.  That’s like posting a whole blog about how you hate your new boss and sharing it with the entire company.

You just don’t do that.

The Ethics of Memory Hacking

This can only end well:

Imagine being able to erase your most traumatic memories. For a soldier, that would mean no longer being haunted by images from the battlefield. For a movie critic, no longer recalling having seen “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.”

It’s just one of the fascinating peeks into the mystery of the human mind chronicled on “Memory Hackers,” airing Wednesday at 9 p.m. on PBS’ “Nova.”

“Memory is an inherently interesting thing,” the show’s writer, director and producer, Michael Bicks, tells The Post. “You think you know what it is, but when you think about it, you realize that you don’t.”

Many of us assume that memory is like a faithful recording of our lives stored in our brains, persistent and unchanging.

Shockingly, that’s not the case. Researchers have discovered that memory is changeable. The act of recalling something alters it.

Forming memories actually causes a physical change in the brain — a seismic discovery made by Nobel Prize-winning ­neuroscientist Eric Kandel of Columbia University. When you create a memory, new synaptic connections grow between neurons in the brain. But each time you call up a memory, it must then be resaved like a file on your computer — and it gets modified in the process.

While the stated goal is a noble cause, that is treating victims of traumatic events, at the same time, it will be abused.

Of the top of my head, I can think of a few ways.  For example, what if you default on your student loan debt.  Instead of just garnishing your wages, like it is done now, what if they completely erased your entire college experience and your career experience because of it?

Or how about doing this involuntarily with children.  I recall a caller on the Alex Jones show who said he was molested as a child and while in the Social Services system, they refused to take him off anti-depressants, even though he didn’t want to take them anymore (at that point, he was a teenager).

What if government bureaucrats just decided what memories were relevant and which ones weren’t?  What if they took your child from you and then erased all memories of said child in order to “treat” you?

The ethics of this technology are not to be taken lightly.  While they were humorously explored in External Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the real world implications are very serious.

While I do not treat emerging technologies as dangerous to humanity, I do believe that we must seriously consider the sinful heart of man when creating or applying these things.

Unfortunately, our current culture does not allow for such considerations.

No Government In the Digital Age

I was listening to a podcast where a couple of people pointed out how redundant many people’s jobs are.  This was especially true in government where people should be able to generate new Social Security numbers and change their names in the blink of an in the new digital age, for example.

I’ve had some experience with this problem just today.  My Preemie son qualifies for Medicaid support.  Yes, medical insurance which my company and I pay for should cover his hospital stay.  But I am half expecting them to pull some magical bullshit with their policies and procedures and attempt to leave me with the bulk of the bill.  So I had my wife file the Medicaid paperwork just in case corporate policy decides it would have been more efficient to let my son die.

So I get a call today from the Medicaid office asking about my son’s Social Security number.  My wife tells them that we don’t have it yet, as this usually takes between one and two months.  They were surprised that my son hasn’t been issued a new number yet.

I wasn’t.

What makes me frustrated is that it takes so long to generate a new number and issue a card, which isn’t printed on special paper, for my newborn son.  It literally should take a couple of minutes online, once I have a proper birth certificate set up.

But no, it takes 4-8 weeks because bureaucrats want to keep their useless and obsolete jobs.

And their feelings would be hurt if we fired the whole lot of them.

Let me explain something to most people who work in government or government contracting: you do not own your job.  Unless you are self-employed, every penny you make while working is an agreement between yourself and your employer that you would do a job for them in exchange for a set amount of money.

This is called labor.  And when your employer decides that your labor is no longer needed, then you can go.

Unfortunately, the government has no need to modernize their systems or make any of their processes more efficient because, quite simply, their bottom line is guaranteed.  When you are going to make money regardless of what you do, you have no incentive to innovate as a company or institution.

So the government will not innovate or modernize any existing policies or procedures unless laws are passed or executive orders decreed which specifically order an agency to do so.  Even then, the forces of change will be slow as bureaucrats tend to resist change to their own way of doing things.

And believe me, they will make the most absurd of excuses to resist change.  There is nothing more constant that a government bureaucratic procedure.

Right now, I’d argue that the vast majority of government functions could be handled by a couple of IT guys maintaining a series of websites for all the domestic services we see.  Hell, we could even set up kiosks in public areas for losers who lack the ability to file tax returns, apply for food stamps, etc. because they lack the ability to access the Internet.

I suppose such things will happen decades from now, provided the United States federal government hasn’t collapsed.

But for right now, I have to marvel at the sheer sluggishness of government processes.  And I have to deal with it as best I can.

Royal Priesthood of the State

It is always fascinating to see the scientific and occult elite demonstrate their intentions so openly:

A bizarre experiment claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants in experiments some may find a threat to their values.

Scientists looked at how the brain resolves abstract ideological problems.

Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurons in the brains of volunteers.

First of all, messing with brain neurons is anything but safe.  Doing so may cause you serious brain damage which is not a good thing.  Ask anyone who has had severe brain trauma and they’ll tell: it’s not like in the movies.

Notice how the opening paragraph of the article talks about trying to get Christians to not believe in God and change the political opinions of people to one that is more in line with our elite overlords.  No need to use magnets to make people believe in God or believe in nationalism.  That would be a grave sin in our post-post-modern secular Utopia tainted by the dumb masses.

I would also like to point out that science such as this should be observed with a raised eyebrow and a very skeptical mind.  This is because what passes for science these days is not science at all.  In many cases, the scientists, who are sanctioned by the State, tend to create results that are not replicable, which isn’t science.

This has been going on for a long time now I suspect.  Researchers and scientists are often paid by the governments they work under to produce favorable results.  If those results are about making better weapons, usually they succeed.  But if those results are explanations as to why lesbians are overweight, you can bet that the results are less than honest.

I don’t hate science and I am not anti-science, despite what atheists will say about a true believer such as myself.

But I hate dishonesty.  And this who study smacks of dishonesty to me.

It also harbors a much darker implication.  What if the elite overlords decide to employ this technique on the general populace?  What if they decide to engineer a mechanism that sends wave after wave of magnetism across the land in an effort to make people conform to their standards of living?

It probably won’t work as intended, but the side-effects could cause serious societal ills.  It is theorized, for example, that crime dropped after the 1960s in America because we started using unleaded gasoline and that lead in the air caused people to be come more aggressive, especially in cities.  A similar effect could happen in this case.

It’s not like they haven’t been planning something like this in the past.  I’ve heard that elected leaders once thought it would be a good idea to put anti-depressants in our drinking water.  While it is conjecture, I wouldn’t put it past certain stuffy bureaucratic types with high-minded ideals to try out all kinds of crackpot techniques in order to control the population.

And they have legions of “scientists” at their backs to justify all of it.  A royal priesthood for the State, if you will.

The Hollow Victory of Senator Rand Paul

Right now Senator Rand Paul is celebrating his victory in the Senate at causing the USA PATRIOT Act to expire.  It is definitely a significant victory as a single Senator with the correct timing and the correct attitude can create a political victory.

But it will not stop NSA spying.  Nor will it stop the use of the Act’s provisions to issue secret warrants against mostly drug dealers.

The fact is, the US Federal government bureaucracy has become a tool of external companies.  This is largely due to the fact that regulators are often business leaders in the industry they regulate.  So of course the agencies set up to regulate commerce or defense in this country are going to have significant ties to the multinational companies who profit from war, disease, and poverty.

So long as these agencies are basically run by outside influences with little to no Congressional oversight, it means that nothing will change with the passing of a law or the decree of an executive order.

So while this is a political victory for Sen. Rand Paul, it is a hollow one.  These programs are not going to just stop because a judge and a Senator said they need to.  No, they will continue unofficially and off the books with even less possibility of Congressional oversight than before.

I was a conservative until I started to discover the outright cronyism in government.  Then I realized that the Left was spot on in their criticism of big corporations.  Their solutions just sucked and wouldn’t work.

And so now I’m more libertarian-leaning but not libertarian because of its Utopian visions for society.  The truth is, our government has been hijacked by large corporations who seek to create their own world order that doesn’t necessarily conform to the individual’s peaceful lifestyle.

And while they haven’t been herding us into massive death camps (yet), the principles that they operate by are not conservative (socially or otherwise), unconstitutional, and downright evil in many cases.  The only real “solution” is to eliminate the bureaucracies entirely and make these multinational companies engage in actual competition on the free market.

Until that happens, any measures to reduce the size and scope of the Federal government are merely just window dressing.

More Reasons to Homeschool

This was an interesting study that reinforced my desire to homeschool my children:

U.S. teens are getting sleepier: Many lack even seven hours of shut-eye each night and the problem has worsened over two decades, a study found.

More than half of kids aged 15 and older would need to sleep at least two hours more each night to meet recommendations for adequate rest, heightening concerns about the impact on their health and academic performance. That’s according to researchers who analyzed the University of Michigan’s annual “Monitoring the Future” national surveys of youth behavior.

I don’t know the exact schedule these kids have, but I think we as a society need to reconsider what we’re doing to our teenagers.

Right now, I wake up at around 6 every weekday morning to go to the gym (weather or health permitting).  At around 6:30 AM, I see high school kids waiting for their bus to go to school.

Think about that.  These kids have to be at the bus stop by 6:30 in the morning in order to go to high school.  That means that in order to get a shower, get breakfast, and to be ready for the day, they have wake up between 5 and 5:30 AM in order to get out to school.

It is absolutely insane that we burden children with classes that probably start at around 7:30 AM in the morning.  School teachers pile on homework on them, which can take anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours a day, encourage them to do extracurricular activities, which is generally 1 to 2 hours a day, and we expect them to be in bed by 9 or 10 PM?

This is assuming, of course, that they will be eating dinner and have time for their own leisurely activities.  The entire school system these days expects teens to be constantly part of school except on holidays and weekends, but even weekends can be eaten up by school activities.

And we are stunned when we find out that teens aren’t getting enough sleep?  We chalk it up to bad parenting?  How about bad schooling, schooling which most of you idiots voted for?

Homeschool your kids so they can get a good night’s sleep.  Because school boards aren’t going to change these policies, no matter what you do at this point.  The system must be preserved at all costs, especially the children.

Dismantle the CIA

A couple of days ago, I tweeted the following:

If these reports are true, then the CIA needs to be dismantled. They cannot be trusted or reigned in by anyone http://t.co/qQvuuTH2yH

— Mark Fox (@swiftfoxmark2) December 9, 2014

I had long suspected that the CIA was an out of control agency with actors operating in spite of presidential executive orders and congressional oversight.  Gary Webb exposed their involvement in drug smuggling.  And now we have confirmed reports of torture that went beyond even what the Bush administration officially allowed.

It would have been one thing if the US government allowed torture of prisoners.  While we can debate the morality of it, if the government made it legal as a tactic to be used against prisoners of war to garner information, there would have been no problem.

But torture is not legal in the United States.  All agencies are forbidden from using torture against prisoners of all types, regardless of nationality or threat level.  This is a simple and indisputable fact.

Of course, the stated reason against torture is not a moral one, but a utilitarian one where torture does not produce good results in interrogation.  God forbid our government actually take a moral stance on something that is clearly immoral.  That would be the establishment of religion or some other nonsense.

Sarcasm aside, the simple fact is that the CIA was not supposed to use torture methods at all.  Even the Bush administration tried to call waterboarding and other torture techniques “enhanced interrogation techniques.”  It wasn’t until he left office that he said it was torture.  Talk about political spin.

But they were lying even to the Bush administration about what they were doing.  Behind the scenes, they were ritualistically torturing prisoners of war for what appears to be the sheer fun of it.  Seriously, I doubt you could get much more information from someone after waterboarding him 163 times.  At that point, it is merely an exercise in sadism.

What is worse is the fact that they were lying to the extent that they were.  The Bush administration and much of Congress had their back and they still lied to them.  Yet, in spite of this, nobody is being indicted for perjury, a very serious offense against Congress as Roger Clemens found.  Ironic that Congress cares more about lying about steroid use than about it’s own agencies lying to them about their day-to-day operations.

The fact is this: the CIA is a rogue agency that does not answer to Congressional oversight or Presidential authority.  They are a covert government unto themselves and routinely use their powers to commit horrendous crimes against humanity.  I would say that this latest escapade is a fairly recent phenomenon but it is not.  Look up the facts surrounding the MKUltra project, a program designed to traumatize children into become adults with multiple personalities disorder or Gary Webb’s report on CIA drug-running.

The entire agency needs to be dismantled, their top officials prosecuted for war crimes, and their assets, official or otherwise, need to be sold to pay down the national debt.  They do nothing to prevent wars and atrocities and instead engage in their own.  They are 7 times the sons of Hell than the people they target.

It is high time that the American people push to have them shut down completely.

A Lawless Nation of Laws

I believe that traffic tickets are nothing more than a scam and busywork for the police force.  And it continues to be proven to me every year:

In Washington, D.C., where issuing traffic citations is a $179 million-a-year business, drivers get speeding tickets for violations they don’t commit and for vehicles they’ve never owned.

Those are among the findings in a 115-page audit of the three city agencies that issued nearly 2.5 million parking and traffic tickets in fiscal 2013, according to a withering report issued Monday by the D.C. inspector general.

While the article focuses on erroneous tickets being issued, the fact that it is considered a “$179 million-a-year business” should come as an insult to good, law-abiding people.  When the law is used as a business rather than to enforce justice, you no longer have a law-abiding leadership or citizenry.

When did the law become a business?  Why are fines used to generate revenue rather than impose reconciliation?

Nobody, not even conservatives and most libertarians, complain about this.  You never hear anyone talk about how speeding tickets and parking tickets are nothing more than a money-making scheme and have nothing to do with safety.

This kind of thing makes me so angry.  It makes me angry because it actually does affect the rest of us.

This nation is a lawless nation with hundreds of thousands of laws.  The Soviets would be proud of us, had they survived.

If there were any justice, any sense of decency in our leaders, the entire government of DC would be rounded up and charged with racketeering charges.

Celebrity Hacking Observations

Over the past weekend, it turns out a hacker was able to get into a private cloud run by Apple and download a bunch of private celebrity pictures.  A bunch of these pictures turned out to be pornographic in nature as it featured nude pics of some popular actresses.

So now we have a situation where the hacker is on the run and held in low regard by the country, especially the news media.  And he probably should be.  He’s not a hero, just a guy who exposed just how much lack of privacy there really is out there.

The truth is, if you send anything over the Internet, it is no longer private.  This means that unless the pictures are taken and stored locally, you should not be surprised when they end up on the Internet somewhere other than where you left it.  This includes pictures taken from your phone, even if you haven’t explicitly shared them with anyone.

This is because anything that is constantly hooked up to the Internet that isn’t a PC will send files on the Internet, regardless of what you do.  Online backup software is the most common way a PC will send files over the Internet, by the way.

Nothing that is stored off-site is secure from hackers.  That is the ultimate lesson here.  So when you are taking pictures on your phone and having it backed up online, always make sure that it is something you don’t care about getting leaked and exposed online, especially if you are a celebrity.

The more critical thing that should be noted is that these are the same services that also want to store your credit card information on “secure” servers, which probably use the same technology used to store these pictures.

Nude pictures are one thing, but tons of credit card information are an entirely different matter.  Nobody cares about some nobody’s nude pictures, which are probably much uglier than he or she may believe, but credit card data is gold in the criminal underground.

So don’t store anything you want to keep private on any service anywhere.  Keep it stored and backed up locally if you have to use a digital copy.  Otherwise it is all right to keep your credit card information stored on your credit card and no where else.

And let’s keep in mind that the NSA has everything you post online, even if it supposed to be private.  And who wants those Star Trek nerds looking at your nude pictures?  But I’m sure they’re professional about it, even though there are no repercussions for top-level officials who masturbate eight hours a day.

I don’t plan on hunting down these images, although I am tempted to do so.  They do intrigue me, but these were meant for a private audience and I’ll respect their wishes.  In any case, I would hope that most people would learn from this and better monitor their online usage, especially if they don’t want something made public down the road.

Child Pornography Is All Right If You Have a Warrant

Well, things just got real interesting.  Apparently, there is a case where a girl, 15, sexted her boyfriend, 17, and he responded in kind.  The girl’s mom didn’t like the fact that her girl was getting penis pictures and so reported him to the police on child pornography charges.

As ridiculous as that is, the next part makes this story all the more absurd:

The teen was arrested by police and taken to a juvenile detention center, where police forcibly took photos of his genitalia. The Washington Post reported that the teen’s court-appointed guardian ad litem, Carlos Flores Laboy, questioned the legality of police creating what he characterized as child pornography in an effort to prosecute the teen for sexting. Said Laboy, “They’re using a statute that was designed to protect children from being exploited in a sexual manner to take a picture of this young man in a sexually explicit manner. The irony is incredible. As a parent myself, I was floored. It’s child abuse. We’re wasting thousands of dollars and resources and man hours on a sexting case. That’s what we’re doing.”

However, prosecutors and police decided that the photos that they took were inadequate, as the intended purpose was to compare them with the video he sent to his girlfriend. Foster, the teen’s lawyer, indicated that Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Claiborne Richardson, representing the prosecutors in the case, demanded that the teen either plead guilty to the charges or another search warrant would be obtained for “pictures of his erect penis.” The teen refused to plead guilty to the charges, and the search warrant was issued by a court magistrate. Foster asked officials how it would be possible for police to obtain pictures of the teen in an aroused state, and it was indicated that the teen would be forcibly injected with an erection-inducing drug. An official reportedly told Foster, “We just take him down to the hospital, give him a shot and then take the pictures that we need.” Foster also indicated that a detective told her that special software would then be used to compare pictures of the genitalia.

In other words, child pornography is all right if you have a warrant to obtain it.

That is what this whole case boils down to.  The prosecutor is extorting this boy to incriminate himself and obtain a sexually explicit image of a minor.

There is no reason to do this.  The sext comes with metadata that can be tied to the boy’s phone.  In the past, prosecutors have go after people whose computers have been hacked by child pornographers.

Beyond that, there is no reason to charge this kid with child pornography without charging the girl first.  She sent him a sexually explicit picture too, if I recall.

America has gone batshit crazy.  We are too concerned about teen sex and not about the real problems that face this country like the coming economic collapse and the elite banksters who should be in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

Instead we waste our time on this garbage.

My advice to people is simple: don’t sext.  And if you catch your teenage kid sexting, DO NOT CALL THE POLICE.  You will only create more problems for yourself and others.

Small Victory Against the NSA

Somewhat good news coming from Congress:

In an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, the House on Thursday approved a bill to cancel the government’s bulk-data collection programs, including the NSA’s phone-records snooping.

Less than a year after the program was first revealed by former government contractor Edward Snowden, the 303-121 vote to halt bulk data collection shows just how quickly a consensus developed against the NSA’s secret program.

“This is the end of secret laws,” said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the author of the original Patriot Act, who said he felt betrayed by the way the government used that law. “We have turned the tables on the NSA, and say we are watching you — and we will.”

But the bill is far less than civil liberties groups had wanted, and does still allow the National Security Agency to collect data under court order in certain conditions involving foreign agents — conditions that some lawmakers said they are afraid the NSA will distort to ramp up its bulk collection to again grab information on Americans.

The problem is, the NSA started this data collection illegally to begin with.  They were never authorized by any elected official to implement this kind of data collection on US citizens.  So the NSA was, in effect, breaking the law and their leaders should have been brought up on criminal charges.

Sadly, this is not how government works.  No high-level government official is ever indicted for any crime they commit while working in an official capacity and, most of the time, when they are not working as a government official.  US citizens are living in what is essentially an aristocracy where crime only really applies to those are not in the club.

So what we have now is a Congress passing a law to shut down a good chunk of NSA surveillance that they didn’t authorize to begin with.  And the thought doesn’t even cross their minds to go and designate a special prosecutor to deal with a rogue agency.

Still, this is a victory, no matter how small.  While it may not last, it is something and demonstrates that Congress is at least attuned to the people to some small degree.

When Government and Science Mix

If global warming is true, then why are governments trying to suppress the skeptics:

Ministers who question the majority view among scientists about climate change should “shut up” and instead repeat the Government line on the issue, according to MPs.

The BBC should also give less airtime to climate sceptics and its editors should seek special clearance to interview them, according to the Commons Science and Technology Committee. Andrew Miller, the committee’s Labour chairman, said that appearances on radio and television by climate sceptics such as Lord Lawson of Blaby , the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, should be accompanied by “health warnings”.

A more accurate question to ask is: what do both Keynesian economic models and global warming models have in common?

The answer is that both allow the government to intrude on the private transactions of individuals and interfere with a market economy in order to provide benefits to an elite few at the expense of the mundanes they rule over.

Government scientists do not practice science.  They are a holy priesthood of modern Statism who make money off of taxpayers while providing validation to their fellow brethren in a process akin to a circle jerk, which they dub “peer review”.

And since science has pretty much been captured by the governments of Western civilization, we are seeing more and more studies become politically motivated to the point that many of them are outright falsehoods at worse, and at best inaccurate science.

This is what happens when you mix science with government.  You don’t get well-funded research and sound discoveries and innovations.  You get censorship, fraud, bigger government, pseudo-religious practices, and sometimes genocide.

After all, what Hitler did to the Jews was based on politically-motivated science, was it not?

I am not anti-science.  I don’t know enough to make a claim that global is or is not happening.  But given that many of the pro-global warming crowd has been exposed as frauds and liars, I find the assertion to be dubious at best.

Forget separation of Church and State.  We need separation of Science and State too.

Murderers in the EPA

Looks like Alex Jones was right all along:

The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting dangerous experiments on humans over the past few years in order to justify more onerous clean air regulations.

The agency conducted tests on people with health issues and the elderly, exposing them to high levels of potentially lethal pollutants, without disclosing the risks of cancer and death, according to a newly released government report.

These experiments exposed people, including those with asthma and heart problems, to dangerously high levels of toxic pollutants, including diesel fumes, reads a EPA inspector general report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The EPA also exposed people with health issues to levels of pollutants up to 50 times greater than the agency says is safe for humans.

One thing you have to understand is that every government agency feels some need to justify their existence to the rest of us.  I’m not quite sure why they do this, as it is very rare that said agency will be defunded or completely eliminated.  Federal government jobs are literally the most secure jobs right now, unless you are caught looking at pornography on a government computer.

The FBI, for example, has been known to carry out entrapment scenarios with various individuals in order to arrest them for terrorism related crimes.  The recent attempted assassination attempt on the Saudi ambassador was one example.

Here we have a case where the EPA is intentionally trying to murder people in order to increase their regulations and thus justify their existence to the United States.  When you knowingly expose someone to a harmful substance which can give them a terminal illness or poison them, you are committing attempted murder.

Every single one of the officials who were involved in this should be arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, at the very least.  They have already incriminated themselves in what they are doing and it is clear that they have no regard for human life.

Environmentalism is not about protecting human life.  It is about human genocide.  For the sake of the world, of course.

Privatize the CIA and NSA

I mean Roger Clemens got indicted for perjury regarding steroids.  So why not the CIA?

A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques.

The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document.

“The CIA described [its program] repeatedly both to the Department of Justice and eventually to Congress as getting unique, otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of lives,” said one U.S. official briefed on the report. “Was that actually true? The answer is no.”

The CIA and the NSA should be treated as not a government agency but as a private organization since they clearly are not accountable to Congress and, by extension, the American people.  This means they no longer get tax money and that they should be forced to pay taxes.

This also means that the American people can decide if they want to be spied on or not by signing up for membership with these agencies, similar to an insurance program.  If an American has not signed up, then he or she is not subject to any unlawful search and seizures as they did not consent.

Or we could just prosecute the liars.

Naturally Congress won’t do either of these things because its too hard and because of some incriminating photos of Congressional bestiality.  And the kickbacks.  Don’t forget about those.

The Callous Nature of the State According to Hitchcock

Over the weekend, my wife and I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s classic North by Northwest.  It was an entertaining spy thriller with many iconic scenes that were often parodied or copied by so many other movies and shows.  For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, this was the one where a crop duster airplane is used to attack a man and where the climax takes place on Mt. Rushmore.

Beyond the action sequences, there is a lot of character-driven plot as well.  We see an ad-executive who is mistaken for a spy by a couple of bumbling goons working for a freelance intelligence merchant.  Basically, the main villain is a man who is looking to sell secrets, especially ones related to national security, to whoever he can.  Meanwhile, the Federal government’s intelligence agencies are seeking to take him down by any means necessary.

To that end, they created a decoy person, named George Kaplan, allegedly to draw out the villain and distract from the real assets within his own organization.  The leader of this organization is named “The Professor” and he shows a keen interest in his games, but otherwise is callous to the fate of the assets he employs.

An ad executive by the name of Roger Thornhill is the main focus of the story.  After being mistaken for being George Kaplan, he ends up becoming framed for various crimes, then eventually becoming an asset for The Professor.

Little focus is placed on the spymaster known only as the Professor.  What little we do get from him, we don’t see much of a pretty picture surrounding the nature of international intelligence.  What we see with him is a man who is willing to take advantage whoever he can in order to arrest the enemies of the State.  He demonstrates little regard for those who end up caught in his game.

In the first scene with the Professor, he is discussing the nature of Thornhill’s alleged murder of a UN diplomat and talking about how they are fortunate to have a real person to take on the persona of Kaplan.  When one of his colleagues questions what will happen to Thornhill, he callously states that he will probably be killed, either by the police or by their target (a man known as Vandamm).  Clearly, he doesn’t care about the innocent people he is supposed to protect.

We find out later that the “inside man” they have planted in Vandamm’s organization is none other than Eve.  Her story is that she got close to Vandamm by chance and the Professor approached her and encouraged her to work for them.  What would have been probably a weekend fling for the young lady ended up becoming a dangerous spy game where she may have been killed (which does almost happen).

Regular people to spymasters like the Professor are nothing more than potential assets for a game that we are unwilling participates in.  This kind of thinking reflects the nature of the State and its use of the people who are supposed to be protected by them.

When questioned as to what organization he works for, the Professor flatly states that all the agencies (FBI, CIA, etc.) are basically the same.  This may be misdirection on his part, but it is chilling to hear this because, if true, it basically means a man like him is the real power behind the curtain.

When Thornhill asks why he didn’t help him when he was framed for murder, the Professor states that they usually let the local police operate without interference.  In other words, knowing the truth, he was willing let Thornhill possibly face capital punishment for a murder he didn’t commit.  It was only when Thornhill endangered Eve’s status with Vandamm did the Professor intervene.

The ending provides a redemption, of sorts, for the Professor in that he intervenes and saves both Thornhill and Eve.  But this is a classic Deus Ex Machina and a huge plot hole as he could have had no idea where Thornhill was going or what he was doing.  You’ll have to watch it to see know what I am talking about, but it appears to me that the whole situation was contrived to give a quick, happy ending.

In reality, both Thornhill and Eve would have ended up dead and the Professor would have botched his own investigation because he trusted a slightly ditsy women to gather incriminating evidence against a dangerous man.

The true nature of the State and how it operates can be viewed in this movie, which is now over 50 years old.  Whenever you see stories about intelligence operations, just think back to the Professor and his callous disregard for the people he used to achieve ends which he didn’t really seem to fully understand.

NSA Run By a Trekkie

In case you’ve missed it, Glenn Greenwald reported on how NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander is huge Trekkie:

"When he was running the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center. It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a 'whoosh' sound when they slid open and closed. Lawmakers and other important officials took turns sitting in a leather 'captain's chair' in the center of the room and watched as Alexander, a lover of science-fiction movies, showed off his data tools on the big screen.

"'Everybody wanted to sit in the chair at least once to pretend he was Jean-Luc Picard,' says a retired officer in charge of VIP visits."

I don’t know about you, but this mentality coming from a man who is quite possibly one of the most powerful men in the world is quite frightening.

I loved Star Trek growing up.  But as I got older, I realized just how unrealistic the Star Trek world was.  It is clearly a future version of Utopia and demonstrates the kind of world the Utopians seek to create.  Keith Alexander seems to share this mentality and is living out his dream.

The main problem I have with a Trekkie running the NSA is that they tend to be Leftists Gamma males who inevitably demonstrate authoritarian tendencies.  This is because the Utopian dream is always brought about through authoritarian means.

The Utopian always does this because anyone who disagrees with him or her must be insane and murdering such a person is for their own good.  Kind of like how Pol Pot got rid of the literate people in his country because he didn’t want more pragmatic ideas to steal his dream of communism.

This kind of thing was reported on, but most people really ignored it.  But it gives us a glimpse of the mentality of Alexander and confirms the fact that he is evil, not incompetent.

When Government (Water) and Technology (Oil) Mix

The technocracy seems to be much harder to implement than most transhumanists realize. Case in point is the latest fiasco with the document storage for the defense attorneys in Guantanamo Bay:

Months of efforts to fix a file-gobbling computer system used by defense lawyers in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal have only turned up more problems, the chief defense counsel testified on Wednesday.

Defense lawyers asked the U.S. military judge to halt pre-trial hearings in the death penalty case against five alleged conspirators in the September 11 plot until the technical problems are fixed, which is not expected to happen before early next year.

Files began vanishing in January and the chief defense counsel, Air Force Colonel Karen Mayberry, ordered defense lawyers to stop putting confidential documents on their computer network in April because the data breaches had shown the system was not secure.

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Massive amounts of data were lost when technicians tried to create a system that would simultaneously update files the lawyers worked on at Guantanamo and those on their computer network in the Washington area, she said.

Some documents vanished, others were replaced with older versions, and gaps in the backup system were revealed, Mayberry said.

One prosecutor was temporarily given access to some defense files, and new problems arose when technicians switched some Pentagon personnel to a new email system, she said.

"Folks were hitting 'send' and thinking that emails went through and they weren't," Mayberry testified.

Attachments were stripped off, emails from the judge's office were never received and phone callers began asking the lawyers why they had not replied to messages they had never seen, she said.

Exasperatingly, technicians asked her to compile a list of all the emails she had never gotten, she said.

The Department of Defense is often times held up as the best government agency in terms of efficiency and technological prowess. And yet, they cannot even get a simple document repository set up correctly. Meanwhile, Google Docs has been operating for a long time now with a much larger user base. And that is probably not even the best example.

In most private businesses, we see Microsoft SharePoint being used. It is highly secure, easy to configure, and allows for a lot of customization. Whatever these tech guys were doing, they were obviously doing it wrong. It's kind of like if the government decided to invent it's own wheel and ended up with a square design instead of a circle.

And tech support's response? Give us a list of the e-mails you didn't get. Seriously. It's like the entire IT department is run by Dilbert's middle management.

And these are the idiots who seek to rule over us.

Paying Cash Makes You A Terrorist

All right, we are not quite there yet, but it is looking more and more like the Federal government wants us all corralled into their big system:

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years 2013-17 describes the “markets monitoring” program through which officials aim to monitor 80 percent of all credit card transactions in 2013.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 1.16 billion consumer credit cards were in use in 2012 for an estimated 52.6 billion transactions. If CFPB officials reach their stated "performance goal," they would collect data on 42 billion transactions made with 933 million credit cards used by American consumers.

In addition, CFPB officials hope to monitor up to 95 percent of all mortgage transactions, according to the planning document.

No, this isn't the NSA spying on Americans. It is merely another agency doing so. But I wonder: would a law enforcement agency need a warrant to access that data? It is already in the Federal government system after all.

There is no reason for this agency to do this. Consider the fact that they will not lift a damn finger to help you should your identity be stolen, then why are they collecting this data to begin with?

Notice too that all of these transactions they are monitoring are going to be debt-based. In other words, if you have debt, or are going into debt, you will be tracked and monitored by Big Brother.

There is a simple way to counter this of course, but most people are too short-sighted and greedy to avoid it.