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They are rolling out the architecture of oppression now because they fear the people

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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"As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world," NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview. "Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept? No matter how it is being used, what is being built is the architecture of oppression."

"Apple Inc. and Google unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19," reads a new report from Bloomberg. "People must opt in to the system, but it has the potential to monitor about a third of the world's population."

"World Health Organization executive director Dr. Michael Ryan said surveillance is part of what's required for life to return to normal in a world without a vaccine. However, civil liberties experts warn that the public has little recourse to challenge these digital exercises of power once the immediate threat has passed," reads a recent VentureBeat article titled "After coronavirus, AI could be central to our new normal".
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USA

Constitutional rights do not disappear during a pandemic, says DOJ'

Janita Kan
The Epoch Times
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:39 UTC
William Barr
Religious institutions must not be singled out for special burdens'

The Justice Department (DOJ) has weighed in on a dispute between the right to exercise one's religious freedom with local and state official's efforts to contain the spread of the CCP virus. This tension has sparked multiple lawsuits across the country.

As the burgeoning CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic continues to reshape American society, many churches and religious institutions have also come up with creative ways to continue with faith-based activities while abiding by social distancing requirements. But in some areas, churches have faced challenges from local and state authorities for their efforts.

The DOJ has argued in a recent statement of interest (pdf) filed in support of a Mississippi church that sued the city and mayor for ticketing congregants during a drive-in service. The department argued in its filing that individual rights under the constitution do not disappear during a public health crisis.

"There is no pandemic exception ... to the fundamental liberties the Constitution safeguards," the DOJ said. "Indeed, 'individual rights secured by the Constitution do not disappear during a public health crisis.'"

"These individual rights, including the protections in the Bill of Rights made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, are always in force and restrain government action," it added.
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Bad Guys

The Surveillance State thrives during the pandemic

J.D. Tuccille
reason
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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From cellphone tracking to drone eyes in the sky, perused health records, and GPS ankle bracelets, an epidemic of surveillance-state measures is spreading across the world. It's all done in the name of battling the spread of COVID-19, of course, since every crisis is used to justify incursions into our liberty. But long after the virus has done its worst and moved on, we're likely to be stuck with these invasions of our privacy — unless we push back, hard.

The rationales for surveillance are easy to understand, within certain limits. Public health authorities battling the pandemic want to know who is spreading the virus, which people they may have infected, and the movements of those potentially carrying the bug.

China, where the COVID-19 outbreak began, leveraged its already deeply intrusive system of social control to force people to install cellphone apps that assigned them a code according to (allegedly) their perceived risk of spreading contagion. Permission to travel or enter public spaces depended on that code even as the software also tracked their whereabouts and shared data on users' phones with the authorities.
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Red Pill

'Presumed Covid-19': NYC corona-deaths suddenly soar past 10,000 after over 3,700 victims added to list... but there's a catch


RT
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:02 UTC
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© REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Coronavirus deaths in New York City have spiked by over 3,700 after officials tacked on a group of victims merely suspected of having the virus. The city joins a growing list of sites counting "probable" cases as infected.

The additional deaths - 3,778, to be exact - include people who are "presumed to have been infected because of their symptoms and medical history," according to two sources cited by the New York Times, which reported the deaths on Tuesday. These "probables" bring the total number of casualties for New York City to 10,367 and raise the nation's total death toll by a whopping 17 percent. Over 26,000 people are now considered to have died with the coronavirus in the US, according to the Times.
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Dominoes

Here comes 'Cascadia'? Democrat governors colluding to end Covid-19 lockdowns spark talk of secession

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:37 UTC
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© Reuters / Adrees Latif
As California and New York said they'd coordinate reopenings with neighboring states, mainstream US media suddenly rediscovered the virtue of federalism, while some online activists even cheered the notion of separatism.

California Governor Gavin Newsom got the ball rolling Monday, by announcing his state would coordinate ending the coronavirus shutdown with the neighboring Oregon and Washington further north - both run by Democrats as well - and not follow the lead of President Donald Trump and the federal government in Washington, DC.

Such theories were further fueled by Newsom's comments last week, when he described California as a "nation-state." Asked about it on Monday, he defended it as a "choice of words that gives you a sense of the scale and scope," for a state that's "larger than 21+ states combined, the world's 5th largest economy, most diverse state and democracy."
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Pumpkin 2

Trump trolls MSM hacks with video compilation of their reporting failures on coronavirus

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:23 UTC
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Screenshot from Trump's press conference video
President Donald Trump on Monday showed reporters at the White House press briefing a video of their own reporting on the coronavirus, pointing out their failures and his success.

"We have a few clips that we're just going to put up, we could just turn the lights down lower, I think you'll find them interesting," Trump said. "And then we'll answer some questions, I'll ask you some questions because you're so guilty, but forget it."

The president played the video on the screens at the White House press briefing room.

"The media minimized the risk from the start," the text of the video read, prior to featuring a series of flashback clips to prominent media professionals downplaying the threat posed by the virus.
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Bulb

The Australian: 'We May be Over-reacting to an Unremarkable Coronavirus'

Adam Creighton
The Australian
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:37 UTC

Comment: Here and there, rational analyses questioning the sanity of shutting the world down for months are appearing in the MSM. Here's one today from The Australian newspaper...


times square covid-19

A street stands empty in a mostly desolate Times Square during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City.
Stay safe. Keep well. Perhaps a hysteria has gripped the nation, at extraordinary cost, when we're telling each other to take special care over a disease that in three months has killed about 60, in the main quite unwell elderly people.

Even in coronavirus hot spots in Europe and the US, there's greater chance of being killed in a car accident than being harmed by COVID-19, according to research published last week by Stanford scientist John Ioannidis.

"The risk of dying from coronavirus for a person under 65 years old is equivalent to the risk of dying driving a distance of nine to 415 miles by car each day during the COVID-19 fatality season," he concluded.
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Pirates

Why at least America will suffer another Great Depression

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
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© Wikimedia/Strategic Culture
America's bailout package to overcome the coronavirus 'recession' is twofold:

One part is printing money for employees and consumers, so that they won't be thrown out onto the streets for non-payment of debts such as mortgages, car-loans, credit cards, and student loans.

Another part is printing money for bondholders and stockholders, so that their investments will still have value and there won't be panicked selling of them as corporations accumulate soaring losses because consumers are staying home and are cutting way back on expenses.

The top-down part of the bailout (the part for investors) will merely add to the wealth of the already-wealthy, while everybody else sinks financially into oblivion. (On April 9th, the Zero Hedge financial site explained in detail why even bailing out the airlines would hurt the economy more than help the economy.) The top-down part supplies the money to the corporations instead of to their employees and consumers, and is therefore supply-boosting instead of demand-boosting. Supplying money to the corporations that the Government selects to protect will enable those corporations to buy up assets and corporations which during the crisis are being auctioned off by the ones that go out of business, and this will leave the nation's wealth in even fewer hands than before the epidemic struck.
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Network

US envoy meets Taliban in Doha after start of prisoner swaps


RFE/RL
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 04:14 UTC
Khalilzad

U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (left) and chief Taliban negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (right) at Doha talks in February
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has met in Qatar with senior Taliban representatives to discuss what the U.S. State Department described as "current challenges" in implementing a peace deal signed in February by the United States and the Taliban.

The talks in Doha on April 13 were announced by Washington after an initial prisoner exchange between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban office in Doha, said on Twitter that Khalilzad and U.S. Army General Scott Miller met with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of Afghanistan's Taliban and its chief negotiator.

Comment: See also:

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Bizarro Earth

Who are the globalists? What do they want?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:39 UTC
Nosferatu
© Unknown
Nosferatu
I get the question often, though one would think it's obvious - Who are these "globalists" we refer to so much in the liberty movement? Sometimes the request comes from honest people who only want to learn more. Sometimes it comes from disinformation agents attempting to mire discussion on the issue with assertions that the globalists "don't exist". The answer to the question can be simple and complex at the same time. In order to understand who the globalists are, we first have to understand what they want.

We talk a lot about the "globalists" because frankly, their agenda has become more open than ever in the past ten years. There was a time not long ago when the idea of the existence of "globalists" was widely considered "conspiracy theory". There was a time when organizations like the Bilderberg Group did not officially exist and the mainstream media rarely ever reported on them. There was a time when the agenda for one world economy and a one world government was highly secretive and mentioned only in whispers in the mainstream. And, anyone who tried to expose this information to the public was called a "tinfoil hat wearing lunatic".

Comment: For additional insight to the actions, nature, motivations and mindsets of psychopaths who aim to take over the world, we highly recommend: Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes by Andrew Lobaczewski.

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