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Don’t Give Them the Crisis They Want

The Capitol Riot was this generations Reichstag and its being used by the cathedral in the exact same way. If you have to ask how German citizens could allow the rise of fascism, look to your fellow citizens asking, even demanding, the government take more power.

Simply bringing this to your attention could get me labeled an extremist. It seems like such a wild stretch to compare the two, doesn’t it? After all, we all know from four years of the corporate press telling us, that the MAGA crowd is a bunch of white-supremacist, Neo-Nazi fascists. So this current incarnation is the complete opposite and therefore, good. So please government, step in and crush the resistance. Label them traitors, insurrectionists, extremists.

After the Reichstag fire, the German President issued the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State. This decree gave the government, with Hitler as Chancellor, emergency powers to disregard civil liberties, imprison opponents of the Nazi Party, and suppress publications. The enemies started off as communists, the ones who purportedly started the fire. They were enemies of the state, which was fitting and easy since they were already seen as a menace and a threat within the society. This galvanized the German citizens, who quickly supported moves by the Nazi Party to suppress dissent and imprison enemies of the state. Losing a few civil liberties temporarily was certainly worth it to save the nation from an imminent threat.

After eliminating the initial threat, their political opponents were targeted. It wasn’t long before the Nazi’s consolidated the government into one-party rule. I’m sure from there you know the rest of this story.

Of course the rioters at the Capitol were targeted, arrested, and put on No-fly lists. They committed crimes, and should be tried and punished for them, under laws that already exist. That should be the end of that in a country that purports to follow the Rule of Law. But never let a crisis go to waste, which means we need to create more enemies than just the motley crew of LARP-ing MAGA fans. Anyone who supports Trump and dares question the legitimacy of an election should be an extremist. Never mind that almost all of them are simply wanting legitimate investigations to be conducted. That should be an easy sell. If there is no widespread voter fraud, do some investigations, allow people to discuss it and come to their own conclusions based on the evidence. Isn’t that what we did for three years of Russiagate?

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Is Bitcoin A Ponzi Scheme?

Stock analyst Lyn Alden argues it is not.

The broadest definition of a Ponzi scheme refers to any system that must continually keep operating to remain functional, or that has frictional costs. Bitcoin doesn’t really meet this broader definition of a Ponzi scheme any more than the gold market, the global fiat banking system, or less liquid markets like fine art, fine wine, collectable cars, or beachfront property. In other words, if your definition of something is so broad that it includes every non-cashflow store of value, you need a better definition.

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Biden Is Rejecting Trump’s Border Wall But Not Border Control

He favors a technological wall using biometric data, surveillance, artificial intelligence, drones, facial recognition, cameras and radar. Expect this to start at the border and spread into the country. High-tech border control in a constitution free zone.

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President Joe Biden will sign a number of immigration-related executive actions today continuing his reversals of former President Donald Trump’s harsh policies toward undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees as part the new administration’s effort to pursue a more humanitarian approach to immigration and border enforcement.

However, at least one of Biden’s proposals suggests that while he rejects Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” approach, he favors a different kind of “wall”: a ramping up of technology-driven surveillance at the border.

Biden terminated Trump’s national emergency declaration at the southern border and ordered a pause on all construction work on Trump’s wall on his first day — to the relief of border communities like those in Laredo, Texas, fighting to protect their lands and cultural heritage.

Still, Biden’s newly unveiled U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 provides clues to how he is likely to address border enforcement going forward, as construction machinery at the southern border sits idle. Instead of a steel barrier, Biden’s legislative proposal would deploy even more technology to the border, accelerating the creation of a “smart” wall powered by biometric data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, aerial drones, infrared cameras, motion sensors and radar.

The legislation’s full text has yet to be released, but a fact sheet contains a section titled “Supplement existing border resources with technology and infrastructure,” which says the bill “builds on record budget allocations for immigration enforcement by authorizing additional funding for the Secretary of DHS to develop and implement a plan to deploy technology to expedite screening” and “enhance the ability to process asylum seekers.”

Additionally, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on January 21 that Biden’s approach to border security will be “multi-pronged. It is to do smart security — security that will help address and use technology to address key border crossings, address ports of entry more effectively and efficiently, and putting that oversight in the hands of the [DHS].”

Biden and other border-area Democrats like Laredo Rep. Henry Cuellar have long favored a “virtual” wall over a physical barrier. In fact, Biden’s campaign immigration plan blasted Trump for failing to “invest in smarter border technology” and promised to invest in “cameras, sensors, large-scale x-ray machines, and fixed towers” at the southern border.

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Live At The Kevin Clinesmith Sentencing Hearing – Carter Page Testimony

Carter Page: “I first collaborated with the CIA while in the military. I never betrayed that trust. My life spun out of control due to false allegations. I had no privacy – everything was monitored by the government.

 

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