Welcome to this growing “Who’s Who” of those still dedicated to unearthing evidence of State illegality involving cruelty, imprisonment, censorship and vindictive harrassment of citizens displaying dissent
Although the sold-out, brain-washed-up pre-digital and online New Normalist media would have you believe that The Resistance to Global Dystopian Hegemony [GDH] is minimal – and futile, naturally – right across the World millions of cognitive dissidents are at work revealing the odd perversions, twisted propaganda and naked power-lust of the various pharma addict-feeders, depopulating genocidalists, monopolist central bankers, Silicon Valley egomaniacs, obsessive climate alarmists, obscenely monied investment houses and usurped ‘old’ political Parties driving us relentlessly towards a faceless, arid world of diktats, trans-humanism, artificial intelligence, settled science, brutal oppression and proxy war distractions.
I want to make one personal view clear: the wannabe NWO will collapse before its perspiring wet dreams can be realised. This is not, I stress, the wishful thinking of a fluffy; rather, it is the considered conclusion of a bloke [aka, me] who has spent a lifetime studying social anthropology in the corporate, commercial and political fields.
I’m informed by that experience as follows: put half a dozen sleazy, greedy, megalomanic, devious and amoral monsters in a room, and they will plot, connive, disrupt, divide and strive to eliminate all the others involved until one of them is the Fuhrer. After which, a dozen more wannabe Fuhrers will try and unseat the “winner”. Now put three thousand of these demagogues in a room and….well, what on Earth could go wrong?
However, the issue I find most horrific here is that millions – perhaps billions – of completely innocent, harmless and law abiding families are going to die pointlessly to satisfy the bonkers Weltanschauung of the string-pullers at the top.
It’s important to bear in mind that – as this post shall amply demonstrate – nothing less than complete humiliation of any and all resistors of their authority will do for these cruel men and women.
Enjoy your journey into familiarity with the courageous minority….and please – donate to their causes as and when you can.
Observe the fate of former FBI agent and now whistleblower Marcus Allen [left] who testified before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government during September 2024. In September 2021, Allen sent an email to his FBI supervisors, in which he made clear his view that the January 6th “insurrection” had been a largely FBI-staged false flag that, even with that assistance, never became even remotely insurrectionist. The mail triggered a severe response from the bureau and ended his career, rendering him the subject of persecution from the agency ever since. Allen told the subcommittee:
“The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay, and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity. There are no words strong enough to describe the impact the FBI’s lies about me have had on my family and me….The stress has taken a toll on our health and our children have suffered, traumatised by the thought of our door getting kicked in or Dad not coming home”.
More infamously, never forget the vicious treatment dished out to Julian Assange [right] the founder of Wikileaks. In June 2024, he was woken in his small cell in the high-security Belmarsh prison, south-east London, and ordered to dress before being put in handcuffs.
It was the beginning of the end of Assange’s incarceration in Britain after 1,901 days of captivity there. He had spent the time in a two by three metre cell, isolated 23 hours out of 24. But the release was going to be on his incarceraters’ terms. He was bundled into a transport vehicle and put in a tiny box there, where he sat for three hours. Forty policemen were assigned to guard him, there was a helicopter hovering overhead, and six police vehicles in a convoy to the airport, where he was abruptly deported.
So – no heavy-handed to display of absolute State power to see here, then.
Assange eventually pled guilty [in a US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands] to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents….and on the basis of that spurious plea bargain – aka forced “confession” – he finally got his freedom back.
His crime as a journalist? To publish classified material that damned the US Secret State as the broadcaster of flagrant lies about, and distractions from, unjustified illegal actions.
I’m not an unalloyed fan of our Julian – I think he has a somewhat messianic martyr complex. But his treatment at the hands of my homeland’s poodle pets of the CIA was despicable, and something of which I shall forever, as a Brit, feel utterly ashamed.
What I want to do is introduce readers to more largely unsung heroes. Not only do I fail to see any glory in the brave being lonely, I see this as a Slog mission to create a congregation of individuals and organisations in every nation on Earth (a) to whom victims of brutal repression can turn (b) donations can be made and (c) remorseless censorship by those bullies meting out rough injustice can be countered.
Take the work of Jessica Rose, who writes a substack called Unconditional Jessica. (Don’t wast your time using Google-Gobble as your search engine to find Jessica: in their evil eye, she is an Unperson.
Most recently, Rose has highlighted a US enabling Act issued by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security [DOD]….which clearly seems able to make “lethal action” against demos of citizen dissatisfaction legal without reference to Congress.
DOD directive 5240.01 employed the kind of creepy Secret State euphemisms that people paying attention have come to dread.
Effective from September 27th 2024, this latter-day Papal Bull is entitled ‘USE OF LETHAL FORCE IN A REASONABLY ANTICIPATED CONFRONTATION’. Get a load of these CIA-speak extracts, and feel your pupils dilate:
‘Defense Intelligence Components may provide personnel to assist a Federal department or agency, including a Federal law enforcement agency, or a State or local law enforcement agency when lives are in danger….Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.’
Jessica justifiably noted, ‘The words ‘reasonably anticipated’ are the ones that truly bother me. What qualifies as reasonable? Decided by whom?’
It’s impossible to ignore the chilling possibilities of this State Decree. And Jessica Rose has a long and enviable track record of reliably professional detective work. Read the phrase ‘reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury’ and weep.
Next up is Meryl Nass. And here too, if you use Google to search for “potential injustice done to Meryl Nass”, the self-inflictedly blind Mr MaGoogle shows ‘potential injustice’ and just gives you the CDC-to-New York Times version of Meryl’s nightmare.
Nass [left] is a medical practitioner who has had her licence to practise suspended because she “spread disinformation” about Covid19. As we now know only too well, the First World Anglosphere uses the word ‘disinformation’ more or less involuntarily as a synonym of ‘Truth’.
This is what really happened:
The Maine Medical Board staff told her attorney 4 days before the January 11, 2022 meeting and vote about ‘misinformation’ that the Board was planning to immediately suspend her license. Meryl’s attorney then told her of this pre-ordained guilty verdict. She blogged about it, the Board staff saw the blog post and confronted the attorney, who then quit her case the night before the meeting— because the Board staff had already decided what was to become of her’.
This sort of State behaviour goes beyond “Guilty until proved innocent” and onto a place several stops further up the line towards Showtrial Junction. The problem all American MDs face is that the Centre for Disease Control [CDC] and the likes of Anthony Fauci use their phallic parts to carry out proctology examinations of the assholes owned by Global Pharma…to great mutual satisfaction.
Big Pharma is not a branch of medicine. Ethical medics try to make ill people better, whereas pharmaceutical criminals want to make money by turning patients into pill addicts. The two callings are antithetical.
Undeterred, Nass has gone on in the meantime to found Door to Freedom, at which she summarises the site’s raison d’etre as ‘We exist to help people make sense of a rapidly changing world, to stop efforts by the WHO and UN to centralize control during emergencies, and to preserve traditional farming and the production of healthful foods’.
It is as good a place online for the awake citizen to spend his or her time.
John Day [right]– also a suspended US medic – is of course very familiar to regular Sloggers. He donates his time free to offering daily coverage of every State perfidy imaginable – and others you’d only previously had nightmares about. Most recently he points us at https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748806&post_id=149975506&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b6sfh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email – an amazing piece about miracle drug DMSO which is in turn (predictably) being smothered and slagged off by the FDA/CDC/Pharma Amorality Complex because it threatens the lucrative monopoly in selling addictive pills to chronic pain sufferers.
Andonandonandonandon….to the Federal Republic of Germany now, and the Civil Rights organisation Laufpass.
Laufpass has been instrumental in publicising the fate of German American Lawyer Reiner Fuellmich [left] the man who tried to prosecute those involved in bogus Covid19 practices. Fuellmich, born in 1958 in Bremen, was a spokesman for the Corona Investigative Committee, a non-governmental investigative outfit based in Germany. He played a significant role in the prosecuting VW vis a vis the emissions scandal, and also successfully sued Deutsche Bank in several cases involving mortgage fraud.
During 2020, Fuellmich and his colleagues began documenting violations of law, medical malpractice and scientific fraud in connection with Covid19 care and management. In September, 2022, Fuellmich was framed in an embezzlement accusation remarkable chiefly for the fact that State prosecutors have never been able to demonstrate the gold and monies he was alleged to have stolen in any shape or form in his possessions or bank accounts.
Reiner Fuellmich is guilty of nothing more than being a nuisance. But nearly a year now, he has been held without trial in the notorious Göttingen high-security prison known as Rosdorf.
The full horror of his inhuman treatment has been investigated by Laufpass, and you can read the English translation of their article here at the British site The Exposé.
Few fighters for freedom of speech and the rule of law attain high office, but one exception is Rand Paul [right] the conservative U.S. Senator from Kentucky who has been a prominent advocate for civil liberties and limited foreign intervention. Paul has consistently championed privacy rights, calling for reforms to curb government surveillance. His libertarian-leaning stance encompasses opposition to unnecessary military engagements, aligning with his father Ron Paul’s legacy.
I urge anyone reading this post today to watch Paul not only swamping the CDC’s Anthony Fauci at the hearing about Covid origins, but also receiving nothing but self-pitying waffle in return from this nasty little Pharma-to-Pentagon lapdog………whom I can only ever see as the world’s most sick Peace Criminal. You can watch and hear the exchange here
In a proper, grown-up functional liberal democracy, Fauci would be behind bars in a high security prison for criminally incompetent depraved worms…given that he shared military bioweapon secrets with the Chinese.
So would Matt Hancock.
But neither man is. Only their victims go to jail.
Pay heed, people: these unpardonable cruelties and deliberate humiliations of those who stand up for your civil rights are being dictated, planned and carried out by first world countries like the USA, the UK, the German Bundesrepublik, France and myriad others. It’s happening somewhere close to you. The serial calumny is being brought to our attention by brave souls dedicated to the task of digging for all the evidence against the NWO villains, and presenting analyses of their insane goal of tracking, bugging, censoring, controlling and exterminating every member of our species outside of the New World Club.
Take the time out to read their stuff, encourage them, subscribe to their output, and if you have spare cash, donate to their sites and organisations.
November the fifth & all that
The POTUS election date is familiar to Brits as the anniversary of the Papal fanatics’ plot to blow up Parliament in 1605. But the similarities don’t end there.
Some dot-joining being undertaken here….dots relating to apparently unrelated events, but as the Buddists say, ‘Everything is connected’.
Bear with me, everything will become clear.
News broke recently of a major development in the Ukraine/Russia conflict. Described by one site as ‘a glimpse of the ultimate game-changer in warfare’, it looks like Moscow’s top boffins have presented Vladimir Putin with a weapon against which there is little or no defence.
The Russian Federation hit the collapsing Zelenskyy regime with an attack that three days ago that produced an alleged 23,000 Ukrainian Troop death toll In Kursk and nobody saw, heard or got advance notice of its arrival.
More background:
In 2018, senior Pentagon officers got to work on Operation Overmatch, a project to wipe out the US weapon technology gap, and surpass all missile capabilities developed by both China and Russia. By 2022, the US Deep State was confident it had the upper hand.
But as so often happens with the US military – Bay of Pigs, cruise missiles, archaic aircraft carriers, F35 bombers, Firefox stealth, the decapitation theory of First Strike and other bogus big budgets – their claims for Overmatch are melting in the heat of real battle. The use of hypersonic missiles by Iran against Israel [revenge for Netanyahu’s attack on Lebanon] demonstrated with devastating clarity that Moscow still outpaces US capability: and thanks to the own-goal scored by Anthony Fauci during Covid19 “gain of function” development with the Chinese military during 2018-20, Beijing now owns most of the bioweapon secrets that the US developed in seven bio-labs along the Ukrainian border with the Russian Federation…the main reason why Putin invaded Ukraine in the first place.
Yes people, the swamp dwellers are dumb…but still dangerous – and far from drained.
But this latest Russian weapon’s effect bears an uncanny similarity to the ‘freak weather’ BS that tried to explain away death-ray devastation in Hawaii in August 2023.
Forty-eight hours after the attack in Ukraine, nobody in Washington, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin or Zelenskyy lalaLand knows what the RF’s attack weapon was, but such Overmatch details as we have suggest very strongly that Putin carried out what is referred to in military circles these days as an Energy Direction attack.
Yet again, Vlad the Lad is pointing out to the gung-ho EUNATO clowns that if they continue to poke his nest, there will be consequences.
So: the World according to Global hegemonists continues to look ominous and full of existential risk for Homo sapiens. But the obviously imminent defeat of the drug addict cypher weapon Zelenskyy – so ludicrously feted by useful Western idiots across the board – is very, very bad news indeed for the BLM Demorat cult that is betting the farm on Kamala the Kleptomaniac.
And the dilemma every US citizen now faces was admirably set out by substacker supremo T.L. Davis yesterday. I quote unashamadly at length [my emphases] from his masterly analysis of just what is really at stake on November 5th. He does indeed point up the high possibility of treason, plot, and blowing up US liberty:
‘We know there’s going to be cheating in the 2024 election. The fact that the whole of the communist propaganda establishment of the MSM have shielded past election fraud and are actively denying current evidence of the same, ensures that outcome. None of the apparatus to cheat in the 2020 election has been dismantled and one-time emergency measures during Covid are still being used though there is no longer any deterrent to people assembling to vote on a single day as always before in the history of the nation. The larger extent of state governments have simply ignored the issue for four years, overlooking in excess of 100% voter turnout, an impossibility even at 100%, much less at 113%, but it will happen again and no one will take a serious look at the facts of it.
This is not even about election integrity. This election, if stolen, must be addressed by the people. This cannot be a method of running a free nation. Call it anything else you want, but a free nation, it is not. Hopefully the American ideals of freedom will win out, but I’m not sure of that, either. Even if Trump were to win, people have to go to jail for the attempt to steal it. Illegals caught voting need to be deported. It is the will to do that with the propagandist media highlighting every unfortunate circumstance that occurs that I doubt.
‘…..This is a critical time, not just for politics, economics, culture and immigration, it’s also a critical time for the military. This is how the world works in a nation solely focused on fuelling the coffers of the richest people in the world, who have no particular interest in the American ideal other than to divert as much of the treasury as possible into their own pockets….This is best demonstrated in the military-industrial complex, but it’s massively expensive….the F-35 is all show and no go and it cost some 200 billion dollars to develop….highlight[ing] the catastrophic failures of an industry no longer interested in functionality. The American people need to understand their positions in world history, because if this is left to simmer, we might be closer to annihilation than ever before.’
As is so often the case, TLD hits the bullseye using a razor-sharp dart. And in doing so, the bloke gives further clarity to my starting point in this post: Investment sector greed, media whoring plus Silicon Valley and Pentagon hubris are exacerbating the unbalanced desperation of the Deep State that flatly refuses to recognise decline, fin de l’Empire and fall.
The US proxy war in the Ukraine against Russia is lost, period. It cannot be saved. It is a dead parrot. But the entire Harris to Obama cult chances of success in a fair election are based on an insistence that the opposite is true.
Regular Slog followers will recall what lengths the New Normalist>>RayBann crewcuts will go to ensure things go their way. There is the fast-track Mexican voters scandal; the news that Harris staffers are off-shoring manipulation of opinion polls; and the weaponisation of every supposedly State balanced information-for-voters by every collaborator from Google to the New York Times.
We have also seen lax protection from the FBI for Trump alongside zero protection for RFK Junior.
TLD concludes:
‘Until many more of my fellow Americans realize that the federal system is irretrievably broken and move to the next step in the process of correcting the many usurpations of their rights, there’s not much else to do. I hope the treatment of Americans over the past few years and days has convinced some of the state legislatures to view the feds as they do in Florida, with contempt and limited cooperation, but that is yet to be seen. Ultimately, it is our duty and our responsibility to remedy our grievances. They can pass all the laws they want, the people themselves are the true and proper arbiters of their validity.’
Just by saying this, this bloke is putting both nuts and neck on the line. So from my perspective, he certainly deserves to be in this building Hall of Fame, Compendium of Courage.
We all have our own Room 101. Another candidate deserving to be one of the lonely brave is my former colleague AJC ‘Amy’ Boone, whose columns here certainly informed my understanding of EUNATO’s flagrantly despicable duplicity in relation to the 2014 ceasefire agreement between opposing sides on the Ukraine/Russia Donbass issue.
As a former professional diplomat with detailed knowledge of Russo-Ukrainian relations, Amy risked both isolation and ridicule at the hands of propagandists determined to demonise Putin. Her piece from 2020 in these columns shone a giant torch upon abundant Western mendacity on the Ukraine issue.
Her post from February 25th 2022 should in turn stand forever as a brilliantly justified explanation of why Putin was forced by Western hypocrisy into an invasion he needed like a new hole in the head.
And more recently, her post of March this year on the spurious introduction of Crimea into the geopolitical equation was a remarkably accurate prediction of events.
This extract stands out for me:
‘To neutralise the phony summary phrases that are circulating (e.g., “Crimea is Ukraine”), I
will in the following essay first discuss the on-the-ground reality of the place, and then walk
us backwards through a case-study of how the sloganizing hypnosis which appears as a
disembodied voice-of-truth, is perpetrated in fact by the Narrative-spinners of, in this case,
NATO and the Biden White House, and promulgated by conniving news outlets and Experts.’
Ultimately, this is how the dots between Russia’s weapons technology lead and POTUS electoral fraud finally collide:
WIN OR LOSE THE COMPROMISED ELECTION ON November 5th, TRUMP & HIS ALLIES WILL FACE THE PITILESS VENGEANCE OF THE UNELECTED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
We are going to have a second night of gunpowder, treason and plot in just twenty days time. It’s going to be the lit fuse heading for the keg of explosive. This is the real Great Reset hurtling down the road towards us….Year Zero that only the Lonely Brave are pointing out.
Because power no longer lies in legislatures: it has migrated elsewhere.
This process might not have involved Guido Fawkes and his co-conspirators blowing up Congress; but be it the Palace of Westminster, the French National Assembly, the Bundestag, the Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid, the House of Commons in Ottowa or the Parliament House in Australia, Sovereign power today is in the bloody hands of the giga-rich, the unelected, the surveillance State, the police and – sooner rather than later – a military waiting, ready and willing to be called into action at home “to save democracy”.
It is to be found among the obscenely monied ranks of those who hoovered up all the obese wealth of the neoliberal capitalist model…and then not only recruited the Leftist Useful Idiots, but also bought the bureaucrats, police, judges, media owners, hitech autistics and depraved perverts to insist that the surreal is the empirical.
The largely Anglospheric First World will only defeat the propagandists if it knows the whereabouts of those who are risking all to tell Truth unto unbridled power.
While the cowards comply with the Principals, the fearless ally with civilised principles.
Harken not unto what rentagob media anchors say. Rather, observe how they behave – and then dish the dirt without fear or favour.
Team Trump+Vance+Rfk Jr’s only chance to save the Republic is – win or lose – to embrace those who went out on a limb, and prosecute those who limbo-danced under the Rule of Law.
Whatever the outcome, they need an action plan.
I’m going to pray in the sub-atomic zone tonight that they have one lined up. (Like most prayer, this will be an attempt to inject some good into the Quantum outcome.)
Postscript: I’d give odds of 3 to 1 that one particular social medium of [dis]repute will take but one look at today’s content here and ask me to either (a) take a test to prove I’m human, or (b) label my blogsite ‘unreliable and manipulative’. Any takers?
The Double standards of those who always want double helpings
While the United States represents about 4.2% of world population, it houses around 20% of the world’s political prisoners.
As a result of the 2021 January 6th fake insurrection alone, 650 people were charged and 120 people were jailed despite there being no evidence of violence on their part in all but two cases.
Robert Scott Palmer, who wore an American flag sweatshirt emblazoned with Trump’s name during therally, was sentenced to five years in prison for spraying cops with the contents of a fire extinguisher. The presiding Judge in his case – a Barack Obama appointee – alleged, “The Capitol attack was not a protest but a violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power, causing destruction, death and injuries both seen and unseen”. That’s an utterly bizarre melange of hearsay and agitprop, coming from a senior member of the US judiciary that still flatly refuses to investigate some 274 cases of dubious 2020 POTUS election regularities.
Five years for emptying the contents of a fire extinguisher with zero damage to any of the cop targets he largely missed.
Two years later, convicted paedophile forty-two-year-old Bryan Shay Lang from Accomack was handed a non-custodial probation order for violating sex offender registry rules. Shay already had three 2012 convictions of taking indecent liberties with a 15-year-old girl, each of which also earned suspended sentences.
So it’s OK in the United States if you’re a serial sex-pest kiddie-fiddler….but not if you’re protesting against what you suspect were 2020 POTUS ballot irregularities that a woefully negligent judiciary chose not to investigate.
It’s a rather odd sense of priorities is it not? But then, Joe Biden showered inappropriately with his daughter for many years, and he’s the President. Ergo, maybe such anomalies aren’t that surprising.
But here’s an interesting angle on that ‘US judiciary that still flatly refuses to investigate some 274 cases of dubious 2020 POTUS election regularities’.
No matter which candidate wins the US presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would face one similar – and curiously ironic – reality: very few real opportunities to reshape the federal judiciary will exist for the new Administration.
During eight years in power, Biden and Trump appointed over half of all 890 life-tenured federal judges nationally. So without some major viral outbreak of volte-face, nothing much is going to change when it comes to electoral fraud investigation.
I’m tempted to hope that some obscure CDC White House advisor might demand mandatory vaccine jabbing of the entire US Judiciary against a WHO newly discovered/invented disease resulting in recorded low voting levels among Republicans, Dead-Eyed Ballot Ignorance Trauma [Debit].
But then, I’m not holding my breath on that one.
Across the Pond in the UK, British free-speech site The Exposé reminds us yet again of how liberal fascists are burrowing deeper and deeper into the fabric of First World liberty.
Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor [left] has been at the centre of a controversy for almost two years surrounding his silent prayers within a “buffer zone” for an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, England. Yesterday he was found guilty…..
But guilty of what?
It seems that in October 2022, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council introduced a Public Spaces Protection Order (“PSPO”) in the vicinity of the BPAS abortion clinic in Ophir Road, Bournemouth. The Order designated a “safe zone” around the clinic, within which it is prohibited to engage in protest related to abortion services and other specified activities.
In November 2022, Smith-Connor was spotted behind a tree on a green in a public space about 50 metres from the entrance of the BPAS abortion clinic. He was approached by Catherine Brookfield, a council officer, and accused of engaging in an act of disapproval of the work of the abortion clinic.
She asked him to move on as he was within the buffer zone and acts of “prayer as disapproval” were prohibited by the Public Spaces Protection Order (“PSPO”). He refused as he said he was praying for his deceased son and for the women, men, and children still being impacted by abortion today. [He is still haunted by the decision he and his then-partner made to abort their unborn child 24 years ago].
“You are telling me that silent prayer is banned in this area? I’m praying in my mind and not approaching anyone. I’m entitled to pray silently for my dead son in a free country,” he said.
On 13 December 2022, he was issued with a £100 fine for breach of conduct and threatened with criminal action if he did not pay it. Smith-Connor did not pay it, and launched a legal action against the fine. His lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom UK (“ADF UK”) made submissions arguing that the state had no power to restrict thoughts directed towards God.
In July 2023, the police informed Smith-Connor that praying silently was not an offence in England and the council dropped the threat of criminal charges against him. But the fine was still due.
Finally yesterday – eighteen months further on – a court found Smith-Connor guilty of silently praying within an abortion centre “buffer zone.”
“The Court sentenced Smith-Connor to a conditional discharge and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £9,000. A conditional discharge is a type of conviction that means Smith-Connor will only be sentenced if he is convicted of any future offences in the next two years,” ADF UK said.
So there you have it, folks: now they want to turn your mind’s contents into a criminal offence.
(Major hat-tip to Irish Slogger Carmel McCormick for that one)
ADF is an international organisation that exists to combat the forces of global censorship. It deservedly joins the Slog Roll of Honour in this building Compendium of Courage.
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Across the Channel now to la belle France, alleged home of ‘liberty, fraternity and equality’. That 1789 war-cry has, shall we say, been wearing a little thin since the election of self-styled ‘centrist’ Banker-to-NATO Warrior Emanuel Macron [pictured left with good fwend] several years ago.
The latest instance of judicial bias there concerns the ludicrous prosecution of right wing politician Marine Le Pen [on charges of alleged fund embezzlement] and the action’s ability to ruin any chance she has of defeating Macron in the next Presidential election due to take place in 2027.
If found guilty, Le Pen and her co-defendants could face up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to 1 million euros each. Additional penalties, such as the loss of civil rights or ineligibility to run for office, could also be imposed, a scenario that would definitely hamper and probably destroy Le Pen’s goal to mount another presidential bid after the end of President Emmanuel Macron’s term. Le Pen was runner-up to Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections.
I would contend that the above paragraph gives us a blindingly obvious view as to why this case is being brought into Court in the first place.
It’s just one more act of a First World faux-free speech “democracy” behaving like a Third World banana Republic cliché
I disagree with several of Le Pen’s political and global assumptions, but the Truth is that she is a highly-trained legal professional battling against a Cancellation State miles above the law. As such – and for no other reason than that – I see her as worthy of support.
Macron is applying State power to cripple a political adversary. To use the French vernacular, il est un con.
What more does a person need to know?
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And now, a a little doggerel. We all need some R&R from time to time:
Chasing sheep in the shadow of death
I saw Satan look me in the eye….
He said “Kid you look kinda outta breath
but there ain’t no shepherds passing by,
‘cos shepherds work for me these days –
they shear and slaughter all the sheep
and prod the flock in myriad ways
and teach ‘em fifty ways to sleep”
Civilisation is approaching the cliff-edge. Only fully-supported & often heard Free-speech can save us from the ideological lemmings.
This is the jumping-off point that Homo “sapiens” has reached as I write….below are some views taken seriously by a terrifying number of people who vote in elections, pass laws, make judicial judgements and write for influential legacy media:
The human anus was created and designed every bit as much to be the recipient of a male sexual member as it was for the excretion of bodily waste materials.
Some men really do menstruate.
Female Olympic sports will remain fair despite the fact that some competitors were born and defined as male, and thus have muscle development genes with which women who simply retain their gender cannot compete in most events.
There are more than two genders.
Having two male or female “parents” will not in any way confuse an adopted child.
White people have held negroid people back, and negroid people bear no responsibility at all for their fate in life. We must all bend the knee, embrace BLM, and apologise forever….because appeasement is, of course, the only way to deal with those who refuse to accept the civil rights of others – yet insist on voting for the same bunch of utterly corrupt politicians who feed off them like bloated parasites.
Only white people are racist.
Having sex with an eight year old is simply part of the rainbow of sexual experience.
Gambian beach bumsters who pair off with obese white women twice their age are not being exploitative, they are spreading happiness.
Obese white women who believe the Gambian beach bumster spiel are not delusional in any way whatsoever.
People who earn a living in Hollywood and elsewhere pretending to be somebody else are not only excellent arbiters of anthropological and political realities: they’re also likely to make very fine leaders of nations.
Women who wear mini-skirts are a primary cause of earthquakes.
Diversity is in and of itself a good thing.
Under the neoliberal version of capitalism, wealth trickles down.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Trial and Brave New World were not literary warnings, they are monopolous fascism blueprints.
Everyone in the UK who voted to leave the EU was – without exception – a bad, little Englander person who deserves to be dismissed as a Hard Right bigot in the way of progress.
Settled science should be the go-to assumption of all those who seek real progress.
We need a World Health Organisation.
We need a World Economic Forum and a new Stakeholder version of economics.
Donald Trump is being blackmailed by Vladimir Putin, to whom he owes $200 zillion.
Bob Woodward is an all-round straightforward good-guy.
The disastrous domino-fall infectious Central Banking and Bourse system is the only way to solve the self-created problems of the human race in its commercial manifestation.
mRNA vaccines are perfectly safe.
This is a time for closed ranks, not open debate.
Age is just a number.
The global economy can continue to grow and be bountiful based – at one and the same time – on the sole use of renewable energy forms and complete abandonment of all fossil energy forms.
Climate change is ongoing and the main culprit is CO2.
I apologise for opening with such a slurry of horse shit, but I do so to demonstrate in the most overt way possible that the ‘staging post’ I referred to at the outset is one I would sum up as The triumph of fluffy wishful ideology over empirical reality.
In so doing, I posit a conclusion that seems to me entirely reasonable: if otherwise intelligent people can be persuaded that the foregoing stream of nonsense makes any kind of sense in our 3D material metaverse, then convincing them to comply with suicidal fiscal, economic, currency depreciation, diplomatic, vaccination and permawar policies on a mandatory basis is going to be a walk in the park for the New Normalists.
Our species apathy at the minute represents nothing more than the eerie calm that always precedes the perfect storm. While The Slog will continue to build A Compendium of Courage, there can be no escaping the gathering storm. These are the key reasons why the inevitable has now replaced the unthinkable:
* The soaring rise in energy costs
* The power of digital to falsify everything from currency value to election outcomes
* The passage of diktat legislation to crush all opposition
* The epidemiology of uncontrollable war
* The trust John & Jane Doe still have in Big Pharma
* Access to Smartphone ‘money’ being made dependent on ‘good behaviour’ blackmail
* 24/7 distraction of already apathetic electorates.
Here’s a logical future bottom line of survival questions the vast majority of our 8.2 billion fellow humans have not even considered:
1. How do food and medicines get distributed in a world where logistics costs have sky-rocketed thanks to hypersonic energy inflation?
2. What happens to the World economy if the USA lurches into war with itself after November 5th?
3. How does everyone cope when already radicalised Caliphate fundamentalist diaspora migrants are suddenly starving on top of all that? Is anyone crazy enough to imagine that the backlash against decades of brainless multiculturalism will be anything other than lynch-mob in nature?
4. What will your rights to a roof over your head be as a leaseholder as and when your over-reached freeholder goes bust?
5. What will employers do when those who use public or private transport can’t afford the fares any more? What do you do when taxi drivers can’t afford to put petrol in their vehicles?
6. What happens when your potable water supplier no longer has the funds to guarantee its safety?
7. How will you cope when scared BSDs in the hitech sector suddenly switch off the internet and all its news content? (With the cooperation of just eleven CEOs working in hitech, investment and telecoms, this could be achieved within ten hours at most)
8. How will hospitals crammed with life-saving electronics cope with electricity supplies being interrupted constantly without warning?
None of us can be sure what the catalyst(s)will be for All Hell to break loose, but were you to ask me as a commercial anthropologist what to expect from Homo sapiens mediocris, I can give it in two words: blind panic.
All the more reason, therefore, to donate to the Outspoken, try and forge closer relationships with them, and encourage collaboration between them.
And also – sadly – to keep an eye on globally-focussed organisations that are probably (in my view) what one might call the Controlled Outspoken. One such outfit is variously called MONITOR and CIVICUS. There are others that are traceable back to Brussels – such as Media Freedom Rapid Response.
However, one outfit that has all the right ideas and an unwavering commitment to free speech without mealy-mouthed “conditions” is the Free Speech Union of Australia.
This is how the FSU sets out its stall:
‘The Australian Free Speech Union stands for freedom of speech, of conscience, and of intellectual enquiry, which we regard as the essential pillars of a free society – the foundational freedoms on which all others depend. We believe that human beings cannot generally flourish outside a free society, which means they cannot flourish in the absence of free speech. Free Speech is not the exclusive domain of any particular group, culture or identity but an inalienable right that should be protected for and by all. It is the primary mechanism that allows us to work together in the large pluralistic society which is modern Australia. If we can’t share differing opinions, worldviews, or ideas through speech, society simply cannot function…..Free Speech is currently under assault across all institutions and in particular where it matters most, such as in education, media and the arts. The aim of the Free Speech Union is to restore and protect Free Speech from cultural trends that de-value it and laws that infringe it….we take no political stance or view on the content of people’s speech. We take no position on the validity of others’ opinions, political or otherwise, whether expressed in speech, writing, performance, or in another form….We expect our members not to restrict others’ Free Speech and will insist that our members and those we come to the defence of will also defend the Free Speech of others, even those they vehemently disagree with. The Free Speech Union believes that if society doesn’t uphold the right to express controversial, eccentric, heretical, provocative or unwelcome opinions, then it doesn’t uphold Free Speech at all.’
That’ll do for me.
Monetising the resistance to black-hat Law breakers
Does any judicial official that sentences a peaceful demonstrator to two years and eight months in prison – but also lets a serial sex offender off with a suspended sentence – know how many beans make five?
Is any State health service routinely offering euthanasia as a treatment for intractable depression to save taxpayers’ money being run by people worthy of the title ‘human’?
How does an unelected, self-appointed quango linked directly to the Military get to issue an edict giving itself carte blanche to take lethal action against demonstrators in any and all circumstance deemed by itself to be justified?
What is the point of having a State>Citizen pact of constitutional legality when an entire profession of tax collectors has it written into their remit that they cannot be sued under any circumstances?
All four of the above rhetorical questions are based on irrefutable fact: they relate to realities in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America, and the French Republic.
The most important prima facie foundation of civilisation is the Rule of Law.
The key word there is Rule: the law is designed to ensure that the rules are obeyed, that the Law is applied using the same judgements regardless of age, gender, wealth, occupation, ethnicity and influence, and that the law’s rule is supreme: it cannot be flouted – and no institution or individual is beyond its infinite reach. Nobody and nothing can limbo under its radar or consider itself above the law’s jurisdiction.
But nobody in his or her right mind believes that such tosh applies anywhere among Planet Earth’s human populations.
For example, why is Anthony Fauci not on trial for betrayal of US secrets during his Wuhan vacation in search of function gain….and associated peace crimes against humanity involving manipulation of the Covid virus developed in the late 1960s and then banned as a military weapon by Dick Nixon?
Why is Matt Hancock not in prison for his role in (a) misleading both Parliament and Public as to the safety rating mRNA vaccines had been given and (b) dumping infected hospital patients into nursing homes and thus causing untold deaths among the innocent elderly?
Why are David Lammy and Antony Blinken still walking free despite conspiring to import deadly field weapons illegally to a Colombian Snow-sniffing war criminal in the Ukraine?
Why was former BBC news anchor Huw Edwards given a suspended sentence for possession of numerous child hard-porn images? He now walks free and is about to sell his £4.75 million London home, presumably after which he can live happily ever after – despite satiating his twisted desires with that porn – knowing full well the unspeakable cruelty done to children during the photography involved?
I’m sure it has forever been the case that the rich and powerful get preferential treatment regardless of the specific legal system involved.
The difference in 2024 is that the practice has moved on: Justice perversion today has become just one more weapon in the repressive surveillance State’s armoury.
How else can one explain the US Department of Defense’s “lethality engagement” with those defending the Republic’s constitutional freedoms? What possible justification can there be to suspend the medical licences of Meryl Nass and John Day because they refused to administer a dangerous and unnecessary jab that duly went on to fail as a vaccine while killing millions in the process? Why is it impossible to sue a Notaire in France, given the unenviable track record of incompetent, lazy and corrupt dealings these dinosaurs have in the sale and purchase of French property?
Once again, we it’s time to build on this devoted-page tribute to the dedication and bravery of those who fight a daily battle to preserve and nurture all those freedoms taken for granted by the apathetically selfish and naive cynics in our midst.
Given the nature of their Prime Minister Justin Trudeau [né Castro] – a leader whose motto could easily be “I just intrude – oh boy, but I do” – the Canadian Civil Liberties Association really does have it’s work cut out dealing with daily attacks on the Free Speech of its fellow citizens.
I mean, c’mon folks – this is the young Fidel Castro:
And this is the bearded Trudeau Jr
…and this is Trudeau Sr
I mean, let’s get real on the genes here.
But despite the challenging NWO cultural environment this remarkable Canadian organisation faces, it rises with formidable grit and determination to its task as follows:
“Freedom of expression includes freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.
When government actors are allowed to decide which opinions can be expressed and which cannot, an open, vibrant and diverse society quickly breaks down.
Similarly, when our court system is used to silence those with unpopular views or those who oppose powerful actors, we all lose the opportunity to hear all sides of an issue and come to our own conclusions. Freedom of expression is the right to speak, but also the right to hear”.
What a brilliant summation of the Social Contract that is.
Go to here in particular to see how busy and tenacious these folks are.
Look, you might well not agree with every take CCLA has on every issue: but the point is, the last thing they want to do is crush your right to disagree with them.
Most important of all, the CCLA is totally unconnected to the New Normalist cancel culture embraced by the love-child of Margaret Trudeau’s fling with Fidel Castro.
As Franz Kafka wrote, “I do not accept your interpretation, but I would fight to the death for your right to express it”.
And in other news….
Slogger Chris Quigley sends me a link relating to money digitalisation that takes me nowhere. When I explain the empty space, Christo replies, “More censorship John. Folk regularly cannot open my docs”.
John Day comments, “AI is not meant to help the flocks and herd, but to offset risk and time-expense onto them, while absolving the owners and managers from responsibility. Oops, durned AI messed up again! Some day, in the fullness of time, AI will be tasked to slaughter us discretely and efficiently…”
Eminent substacker Scott Ritter opines, “The leaking of two highly classified documents which, upon examination, appear to contain sensitive US intelligence information about Israeli military preparations for an attack on Iran, has created a storm of controversy in the United States. As US law enforcement scrambles to discover the source of the leak, very little concern is being expressed by US politicians or the American public at large over the implications not of the leaked documents, but rather the information they contained—that Israel is preparing a massive strike on Iran that could trigger a larger conflict which, realistically, could end up involving the use of nuclear weapons”.
From the substack Upheaval run by N S Lyons:
‘Managerialism is, in short, the instantiated belief that everything can and should be deliberately engineered and managed from the top down, and that this necessitates an expert class of professional managers whose business it is to do so. Rooted in the techniques of bureaucratic organization and “scientific management” that sprang from the revolution of mass and scale brought on by the Industrial Revolution, managerialism took off with the early Progressive movements and flourished following the bureaucratic explosions produced by the two world wars.
Now, the evolutionary genius, so to speak, of managerialism is that it functions constantly to justify its own perpetual expansion. The larger and more complex any organization or system grows, the exponentially more managers seem needed to manage that complexity and the inefficiencies it generates; managers therefore have a strong incentive to ensure that their organization continues to grow larger and more complex, resulting in greater relative power and resources for the managers as a group within the system; more growth means more managers must be hired, who then push for more expansion by rationalizing a need for their cancerous bureaucratic apparatus to take over an ever-larger range of functions; as more and more territory is surrendered to bureaucratic management, more managers must be trained and educated, which requires more managers… and on and on. I call this expansionary dialectic the managerial doom loop.’
Major Hat-tip here to Slogger Jeremy Poynton who led me by the nose to this brilliant analysis
Here’s another reminder in relation to the dysopia taking shape before our eyes:
- All the Freedom sites could benefit from closer ties and sharing of experience
- They all need our donations and the oxygen of awareness influentual blogs and substacks can contribute
- There are still tons of clean giga-monies out there that owe no allegience to the New World Order. We must all do all we can to attract that money in order to level up the currently one-sided leg-up cronyism that is out to rule the World
Catch 2024……
Another reason people dismiss what libertarian bloggers write about as “silly conspiracy theories” is because all governments and regional blocs like the US and the EU – or here in Africa, ECOWAS – pass iniquitous laws on a quiet day in the legislature….or simply ignore the elected officials and flex their own self-nurtured power.
Carmel McCormack has very kindly alerted me to a quite staggering example of this in Ireland…..although I would venture to suggest that – even from this distance – one can smell the blind desire for control in the shape of the shower in Brussels.
It concerns your right to own your body. Simple as that: The Human Tissue Act 2024 has been (quietly) passed into Law and can be found on https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/…where this Nazi-style medical experimentation free-for-al enjoys its full title, The Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and
Public Display) Act 2024.
It allows for – read this carefully, people [my emphases] – ‘An Act to provide for the removal, donation and use of organs and tissues and cells from deceased and living persons for the purposes of transplantation’.
This isn’t hair-splitting: the body parts can be donated but they can also be removed – ergo sum, freely given or removed without permission. And the body parts of dead or alive citizens can be used.
Carmel tells me she has been informed that, as yet, an Order to ‘commence’ the Act has still to be put in place – and this will probably take place after the General Election – sometime next year. She has been told that when that happens it will “probably” be well advertised in the mainstream media and that people will have the option then to Opt Out.
Ah yes, probably. Like the UK’s Work & Pensions Ministry told Parliament that 1950s born women would be told that their State pension commencement was being being moved back….and then put up small notices in Job Centres…you know, that sort of mainstream media usage.
If the Bill is deemed to be unconstitutional and/or infringe on Human Rights (If???) then once the Order to Commence is put in place, the Human Tissue Bill 2024 may be legally challenged by any legal organisation. So any legal organistion can legally challenge a blatantly illegal attempt to destroy the principle of the human body’s sanctity.
At which point, the Brussels and Dublin governments will simply go back to the beginning and forget about the whole idea, right? Well, there are two chances of that happening.
The Act [effectively it’s already a law simply sitting in a queue] uses word-sets that should – if the framers of this law have good intentions – be totally scrapped:
*The right to opt out. This should be changed to a legal need to opt in to any procedure.
*The carelessly interwoven words dead, alive, donated and removed should be separated, and strict procedures laid out that allow solely for (a) previously stated desire while alive to donate body parts and (b) close next of kin giving written, witnessed permission for organ donation once the victim is dead.
You can argue that this will mean simply a reversion to where things were before this Licence to Kill was brought forward. And that, my friends, is exactly what the Irish people should aim to achieve.
The first rule of legislation is that if there is a loophole in a Bill, it will be abused for nefarious purposes….exactly as euthenasia laws are abused in Canada.
The second rule is that – with any legislative instrument involving a toe in the doorway of Civil Rights – by the following year there’ll be a three-lane highway ripping through the house.
What some misguided medical bureaucrats and crazed depopulators are trying to do with this Act is make their lives easier.
This looks to me like a job for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties….yet another organisation with a laudable track record of defending freedom of speech and expression
Three weeks ago, the Teamsters Union became the second major union to announce that they would not endorse a presidential candidate after internal polling revealed 58% of its members back Trump vs. 31% for Harris.
Things are going from bad to worse for Kamala the Klepto. Would you believe it, the Washington Post announced that it would not endorse a candidatefor president either, for the first time in 36 years.
While this latest decision is almost entirely down to gross interference in editorial matters by Jeff Bezos, I have to admit to enjoying the spectacle of America’s Cancel Culture Queen being cancelled by the Amazonian space cadet.
But my joy was short-lived when I finally got round to reading the output of the BRICS summit in Kazan….which wrapped up its proceedings with a stream of claptrap displaying the exact same sort of bromides one normally associates with the G7. Here’s my not entirely serious summary of this vapid lexicon from the wishful unthinking tendency:
‘We commit to multilateral omnigender internationalism, bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, eternal life for the Time-starved, a New Deal in Camelot and a central role for UN peace alongside sustainable development, democracy, rights, lefts and chocolate candy-bars with soft centres from the Big Rock Candy Mountain alongside guaranteed fundamental freedoms for all fluffy bunnies, ikkle baby kittens and mosquitos to play an equitable role at the inclusively diverse Global Financial Safety Net IMF 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals with no fucktard VAR soccer replays any more but lots of multilateral development banks endorsing bailins, ripped-off entrepreneurs and technically blended finances reiterating why the objectives, principles and provisions of the RemnimbiRupeedollar zoop-de-doop sky-pies in the context of the United Nations Convention frameworks of Climate underwear changes, Flying Pigs, snakes, snails and puppy-dog-tails plus heat-seeking solutions reducing, removing, downsiding and blindsiding Greenhouse Gasbags supporting the central role of the WHO and its lead singer Roger Daltry in the implementation of multilateral epidemics, pandemics and academics while seeking preparedness for the emerging technology 5G networks to castrate the development of personal privacy and drive the digital economy all the way down Route 66 in a fleet of resilient, safe, inclusively diverse and inoperable Tesla fusion vehicles with the potential to deliver AI services at the speed of light and increase social and economic opportunities for all plus three girls for every guy at Warp Factor 9, cap’n’.’
If the above is just me clowning around, I’d remind all Sloggers that every attempt at satire hides the tears of a clown.
It is now rapidly dawning on me that while I would rather have Trump than Harris – and Putin in preference to Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen – all of these wannabe leaders are irrevocably blighted….and none of them are remotely likely to bring us the genuine root-and-branch change required to maintain our liberties as independent human beings.
And that is the sort of sobering thought likely to turn a chap to drink.
The Home Page header of The Slog site is not, after all, just meant to be an onanist exhortation….
Boris Johnson, Jacinda Ardern & why the Compendium of Courage might save Humanity
When The Slog was barely off the ground nearly fifteen years ago, I wrote a post referring to Harriet Harman and Boris Johnson as “probably the two most dangerous politicians in the United Kingdom”. I reached this conclusion on the basis of their tendencies – respectively – to hold anti-social views on ‘the rainbow of sexuality’ and indulge in serial mendacity as a stepping stone to power at any price.
As with Harris now in the US, Harman’s career fell off the rails when the unpleasant unpopularity of her Looney Labourisms became fully apparent. I was right about her – she was dangerous – but thankfully she was also unelectable in a leadership role.
If only the same could be said of the feckless NWO lackey Johnson. From time to time in this online commentating lark, we all make terrible mistakes. My most notable clanger was to endorse Boris Jobsdone as Prime Minister in December 2019 on the spurious grounds that he was the only senior Tory likely to oppose the EUNATO plot to drag my homeland back into the Brussels bloc of monopolist bullshit and unrepayable sovereign debt.
I wasn’t paying full attention….that much is, five years on, very clear. Johnson had been at best a conveniently late convert to the Brexit cause. The sole reason for his adoption of the Brexit cause was the desire to pass through the hallowed entrance to Ten Downing Street.
God forgive me for being a half-assed dupe of his agitprop BS.
And yet despite all that, once one has the measure of them, people like BoJo can be very useful because first of all they never change, and secondly they always lie. This means that – as weather vanes – such sociopathic reprobates are unbeatable. When he was Mayor of London, Johnson dismissed the phone-hacking accusations against Murdoch journalists as “a load of left-wing poppycock”. As an intimate of the Dirty Digger, he knew his assertion was a jet-black lie; but not content with the lie, he summoned the head of the Met Police to his office and [with all the normal recording equipment turned off] tried to get his chief of police to drop the case. In short, he tried to pervert the course of justice.
Earlier in his career as an MP, when an opponent called Boris out for lies he told during a parliamentary enquiry, Johnson contacted schoolmate Darius Guppy and asked him to organise a “duffing up” of the whistle-blower.
Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian war, BoJo has lied about the lead-up to it, the broader intentions of Putin, the nature of Zelenskyy’s truly depraved personality and the intentions of the EUNATO alliance.
Now this week, he’s at it again – propping up the insupportable US Secret State “case” for election tampering in Georgia:
“The picture emerging from Georgia is clear – yesterday’s election has been stolen by Putin’s puppet government in Tbilisi. I back the people of Georgia as they stand up for their freedom, their rights and their future.”
As an analysis, the BoJo statement is so far from the Truth, you’d have to measure the distance in light years. The CIA’s gal Madame Coucou [an interesting surname given that in French slang, to “fair coucou” means to give someone the eye about being up for sex] is nothing more than Washington’s cypher.
But that’s always been Johnson’s metier. I spent a hilarious two hours in Manzi’s [now sadly defunct] fish restaurant some years ago with a senior Telegraph Group staffer who proffered numerous examples of why one simply couldn’t trust anything BoJo wrote as a journalist.
“Boris makes up whoppers and then get’s dismissed under a cloud for doing it,” he alleged, adding, “and of course the other big weakness is a total inability to keep his willy in his underwear”.
In short, a hack’s life is made easier with Boris around, because whatever he says on any subject, all one has to do is assume the verité to be the diametric opposite of what has emerged from his rentagob. From there, there’s but a short distance to travel in order to work out the ‘cui Bojo’ involved.
Life, culture and civilisation do not, however, emerge via the process of making a journalist’s life easier. On the contrary: the performance of the Fourth Estate – in the face of two decades during which the monied power of bourse capitalism and secret States triumphed over free speech – has been more like that of residents in a high-crime, high-rise Sink Estate.
The media’s failure to defend civilisation has been exceeded only by the terrifyingly complete purchase of pretty much every judiciary in the world….and most of it in plain sight.
As we approach the end of the first quarter of the Twenty-first century, most of the liars who should be in jail are still in power.
Only when this dire situation starts to change can we be justified in having some faith in a better kind of future. A world in which the individual innocent citizen no longer creeps about in fear of his or her shadow, or “saying the wrong thing”.
And so The Slog’s Compendium of Courage continues….growing evidence that brave but outnumbered observers and commentators are still out there with a belief that Homo sapiens has some kind of role as a force for Good on this and other planets.
Given that New Zealand spawned the ghastly Blair babe Jacinda Ardern, I am sure most Sloggers would appreciate just how much the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties has it’s work cut out defending innocent citizens against the New World Disorder.
This link will take you to the NZCCL page relating to what the site headlines as ‘New Zealand is failing on controlling facial recognition technology’. The piece quite rightly asserts as follows:
‘The drive of the surveillance age is towards more. More cameras. More tracking. More detail. More data. More aggregation. More sharing. More analysis. Advances in technology drive the increase in capability, and there are people willing to turn these new capabilities into products, and people willing to buy and implement them.
The only thing stopping or slowing the surveillance machine are the rules we choose to impose. We can allow people to encrypt their data. We can decide that the privacy of medical records outweighs the need to feed the machine. We can stop companies from collecting more data than they need and from sharing it with others. Our rules, our laws, are the only things stopping us from living in a panopticon where governments, corporations, and other snoops monitor everything we do.
Which is why the draft Biometrics Code from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is such a disappointment.
Remote Biometric Identification
Remote biometric identification (RBI) is where our attributes – our face, the way we walk, our height, our emotions – are captured by cameras and then processed in a computer in order to identify us. It turns camera-based surveillance of the behaviour of relatively anonymous people into a system that identifies individuals and stores information about them.
The most obvious example is facial recognition technology (FRT). Supermarkets are using it to recognise people on their watchlists, marketers use it to identify which ads to serve to people, police forces are using it to look for criminals.
When RBI identifies you it captures more than just your identity. It means that the people who own the system know where you were at that time, what you did while you were there, maybe even judging you by what you’re wearing, your facial expressions, or how you move. It knows who you were with, who you talked to, and for how long.
RBI is worrying enough in corporate and retail environments but gets even more worrying when used in areas where you might want more privacy. It can be used to identify protesters at a political demonstration, patients entering a health clinic, or people attending a social function.
Facial recognition systems take away our:
Privacy of location – the ability to be somewhere without others knowing where we are. It allows anyone with a camera and access to the FRT to determine where we were at a particular time.
Privacy of identity – the ability to be anonymous in public places.
Importantly, RBI is something that is done to you with no opportunity to consent or refuse. The technology is cheap and cameras keep getting better. You can’t exactly change the way you walk or leave your face at home. You can be captured by an RBI system just by existing.
Data captured using RBI isn’t the same as most other forms of private data we talk about. We know that government agencies and private companies capture data about us when we deal with them. We give them the data and generally have a reasonable understanding of what use it’s being put to.
There’s no choosing when it comes to RBI, rather you’ve just walked past a camera that you might not have even noticed. You’re identified and recorded in a database without your consent or knowledge.
We believe that RBI is a fundamentally different class of threat to our privacy and calls for a different kind of response.’
Well said, NZCCL people.
Under a thousand different regimes on seven continents, the struggle goes on to block the road along which Homo sapiens is stumbling, rebuild a judicial independence that’s crumbling, wake up the sheeple who can’t hear the neocon permawar guns rumbling, repair the journalistic principles that have seen mainstream media circulations tumbling, and force politicians out of the treasonous fumbling to which they have become addicted.
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