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Yes, your car can be hacked.

Posted by M. C. on February 7, 2025

You know your government wants to install electronic (hackable) kill switches in cars?

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If It Happens…”Taking Over Gaza” Could Be Trump’s Vietnam

Posted by M. C. on February 6, 2025

No Kidding!

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Trump/Musk Attack CIA Fronts USAID & NED: With Mike Benz

Posted by M. C. on February 6, 2025

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Israel’s Senators Want War with Iran

Posted by M. C. on February 4, 2025

The Libertarian Institute

If Senators are concerned about officials disagreeing with the intelligence community to push a foreign country’s propaganda, they should first look to Senator Graham, who continues to lie that Iran nearly has a nuclear weapon even when the CIA repeatedly assessed that Tehran is not attempting to build a nuke. Graham is lying to the American people so they will support an Israeli attack on Iran.

Unless the White House reclaims its sovereignty from Tel Aviv, Washington will continue to enact policies that benefit Israel at the expense of Americans.

They will do anything for…well not US voters.

The Debrief – February 3, 2025
Israel’s Senators Want War with Iran

-Kyle Anzalone Senators John Fetterman and Lindsey Graham appeared on Fox News Sunday Morning to push their new Resolution instructing the President to back an Israeli attack on Iran. 

The less articulate of the two, Fetterman, explained that no matter what, he supports Israel. In fact, he seems to be confusing Pennsylvania with the Jewish State. He told Americans that while he will not always agree with the American president, he will always stand with Israel.

Not to be outdone, Graham then called for the US to aid Israel in attacking Iran. Graham stated that Iran nearly has a nuclear weapon that Tehran will use to destroy the world.  

These two Senators’ remarks are highly ironic following Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing. During last week’s session questioning, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence nominee was smeared with accusations of being a Russian, Iranian, and Syrian agent. 

While no proof exists to back those claims, if Senators are concerned about an American politician with foreign loyalties, they should look at Fetterman, who proudly proclaims Israel to be his number one priority. 

If Senators are concerned about officials disagreeing with the intelligence community to push a foreign country’s propaganda, they should first look to Senator Graham, who continues to lie that Iran nearly has a nuclear weapon even when the CIA repeatedly assessed that Tehran is not attempting to build a nuke. Graham is lying to the American people so they will support an Israeli attack on Iran. 

As Professor Jeffery Sachs explained on Judging Freedom with host Judge Andrew Napolitano, Israel has captured Washington’s Iranian and Middle East policy. Unless the White House reclaims its sovereignty from Tel Aviv, Washington will continue to enact policies that benefit Israel at the expense of Americans. 

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Back Against the Wall, CIA Admits COVID Likely Emerged From Wuhan Lab

Posted by M. C. on February 1, 2025

By Ben Bartee

However, the agency swears to God that its sudden about-face has nothing whatsoever to do with the new administration that took office four days ago.

No mention of The Fauch nor gain of function research forbidden by Obama. Three letter government agencies can be dumb when it suits them.

The Daily Bell

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

The rats, it seems, are very much looking for exits from the sinking, rotten ship that is the COVID scam, perpetrated since 2020 first under the naïve and trusting leadership of Donald Trump who made the mistake of listening to The Experts™ (one he hopefully has learned from) and then for four brutal years under the boot of the imminently corrupt and despotic Brandon regime.

Via The New York Times (emphasis added):

The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.

But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.

There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based on the same evidence it has been chewing over for months.

The analysis, however, is based in part on a closer look at the conditions in the high security labs in Wuhan province before the pandemic outbreak, according to people familiar with the agency’s work.”

Related: Future Crime Scene: NIH Importing Bats From Asia For Viral Research in Colorado Lab

Let the historical record show:

Corporate state media lying, gaslighting, dismissing, denigrating, smearing lab leak and its proponents over and over and over

The CIA, obviously, knew from whence COVID sprang from the jump — and very likely had a hand in creating and disseminating it — which begs the question: why now?

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Why Joe Biden Had to Pardon Anthony Fauci

Posted by M. C. on February 1, 2025

There are, of course, plenty of unseemly details about Fauci’s career that the political establishment would not like to see resurface in either the court of law or the court of public opinion. Many were detailed in RFK Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, such as the secretive and deadly drug experiments on hundreds of HIV-positive foster children at New York City’s Incarnation Children’s Center between 1988 and 2002 and the experiment that locked the heads of Beagle puppies into cages full of flesh-eating insects.

But the real danger of a high-profile Fauci investigation, from the political class’s perspective, would come if the public started to ask themselves why a bureaucrat with such a long track record of failure was embraced and celebrated by those in power. And why he enjoyed so much professional success before retiring with a net worth of more than $11 million.

Such questions could lead people to consider that maybe the decades of mistakes that transferred hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to public health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and the crony healthcare system as a whole were not mistakes after all.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-joe-biden-had-pardon-anthony-fauci

Mises WireConnor O’Keeffe

On Monday, in their final hours in office, former President Biden’s team chose to issue a blanket pardon to a number of close political allies and family members. Among that group was former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci.

Fauci was pardoned “for any offense against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through the date of [the] pardon” relating in any way to his time as NIAID Director, on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the White House covid-19 response team, or as Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor.

In the letter explaining the pardons, Biden defended the choice, saying, “baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families.” Even when those individuals have done nothing wrong, Biden’s ghostwriters reason, “the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.”

Setting aside the fact that this was the exact tactic the political establishment used to try and tarnish Trump’s reputation, it’s revealing that the primary public reason presented for the pardons was to avoid investigations.

There are, of course, plenty of unseemly details about Fauci’s career that the political establishment would not like to see resurface in either the court of law or the court of public opinion. Many were detailed in RFK Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, such as the secretive and deadly drug experiments on hundreds of HIV-positive foster children at New York City’s Incarnation Children’s Center between 1988 and 2002 and the experiment that locked the heads of Beagle puppies into cages full of flesh-eating insects.

If Fauci had come under the federal government’s microscope, episodes like those could have done much to stain the name of the man Biden recently dubbed “a true hero.”

The same goes for Fauci’s completely inaccurate projection of the danger posed by a strain of swine flu in the 1970s, along with the millions of dollars of damages the government had to pay out due to injuries sustained in the related swine flu vaccine experiments.

Fauci also made similar failed projections relating to the 2005 bird flu, the 2009 swine flu, and the 2016 Zika virus. In all these cases, the virus was nowhere near as dangerous as Fauci had claimed it would be. But his warnings did result in his department and other parts of Washington’s public health bureaucracy getting billions of dollars in new funding.

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To Make America Great Again, Separate Money and State

Posted by M. C. on January 31, 2025

The Ron Paul Liberty Report

It’s all about the Fed and printing money.

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They Don’t Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train Us HOW To Think

Posted by M. C. on January 31, 2025

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about government, we are trained to assume as our starting point that the people running things in our country are known to us and occupy official positions in our capitol. We are trained to assume that if we have a problem with the way things are going, there are official channels through which the powerful can be held to account and real changes can be advanced. The fact that we are actually ruled by unelected plutocrats and empire managers who often have no position in the official government is never seriously entertained.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-dont-just-tell-us-what-to-think

Caitlin Johnstone

It’s not just that they tell us what to think, it’s that they train us how to think.

From grade school on we are fed a framework for thinking about the world whose premises are completely fraudulent. Any analysis which does not take place within that framework is portrayed as ignorant at best and dangerous extremism at worst.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about politics, we are trained to assume as our starting point that elections are real and that the official democratically elected government is the only power structure calling the shots in our country. We are trained to assume that decisions get made in our government based on how people vote in elections between two parties who oppose each other and promote the most organically popular positions on important issues in order to win votes. This is all complete bullshit, but it’s the foundation we’re taught to premise all our ideas and opinions about political matters upon.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about government, we are trained to assume as our starting point that the people running things in our country are known to us and occupy official positions in our capitol. We are trained to assume that if we have a problem with the way things are going, there are official channels through which the powerful can be held to account and real changes can be advanced. The fact that we are actually ruled by unelected plutocrats and empire managers who often have no position in the official government is never seriously entertained.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about the media, we are trained to assume as our starting point that we live in a free country with a free press instead of a dystopian civilization where the news media function as the propaganda services of our rulers. We are trained to assume that while some parts of the media may have obvious biases regarding which mainstream political faction they favor, it’s still possible to get a more or less accurate read on what’s happening in the world by listening to both sides of that ideological divide. None of this is true, but it’s the framework in which all mainstream analysis of the western media occurs.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about foreign policy, we are trained to assume as our starting point that the US and its allies are more or less a force for good in this world, and that all the stories we hear about the governments and groups it works to destroy are more or less true. We are trained to assume that while the western power structure is imperfect and might make mistakes here and there, it must never stop killing and tyrannizing foreigners, because if it does, the bad guys might win. The easily quantifiable fact that the US-centralized empire is by far the most tyrannical and abusive power structure on earth never enters into the discussion.

This is the conceptual framework for thinking about the world that people are trained to espouse, first in school, and then throughout the rest of their lives by the mass media. If they go to university, as the most powerful people in our society typically do, then this framework is hammered home far more aggressively — especially in the most esteemed universities that the so-called “elite” tend to come from.

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Only Pathetic Bootlickers Spend Their Energy Criticizing China

Posted by M. C. on January 29, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

China hasn’t spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. China isn’t circling the planet with hundreds of military bases while working to destroy any nation or group anywhere in the world who disobeys it. China isn’t strangling nations around the globe with starvation sanctions for refusing to bow to its dictates. China didn’t just spend 15 months lighting the middle east on fire and backing a live-streamed genocide. China hasn’t spent the last three years endangering the world in frequently terrifying acts of nuclear brinkmanship with a rival nuclear superpower.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/only-pathetic-bootlickers-spend-their

The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we’re also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say “Well actually China is actually quite bad actually” in response.

Western liberals who fancy themselves enlightened and critical of power tend to get very squirmy and uncomfortable in their skin when they hear people saying positive things about the PRC, and love nothing more than to tell you that China is just as evil and tyrannical as the western power alliance, if not worse.

This is objectively, measurably false. China hasn’t spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. China isn’t circling the planet with hundreds of military bases while working to destroy any nation or group anywhere in the world who disobeys it. China isn’t strangling nations around the globe with starvation sanctions for refusing to bow to its dictates. China didn’t just spend 15 months lighting the middle east on fire and backing a live-streamed genocide. China hasn’t spent the last three years endangering the world in frequently terrifying acts of nuclear brinkmanship with a rival nuclear superpower. Only the US-centralized empire has done this.

Whenever I point this out I get empire apologists going “Well yeah, SO FAR! We haven’t seen China doing all that evil foreign policy shit YET because they’re still not powerful enough!” Which is just silly. China absolutely is powerful enough to be a whole lot more abusive and murderous abroad, and it simply isn’t. Westerners love to claim that China has secret agendas to conquer the world someday (hilariously implying that these hypothetical future abuses make China morally comparable to the US empire’s current known abuses), but if you actually dig into the evidence for these claims what you’ll find every time is that all they provide evidence for is China’s openly stated goal of a multi-polar world that isn’t ruled by Washington.

Our ancestors set sail to conquer the world; their ancestors built a wall. This notion that China has an interest in ruling over a bunch of white foreigners has as much rational basis as old racist superstitions that black and brown people wanted equal rights so that they could come and steal white men’s wives and have sex with their daughters.

They’re just a better civilization than ours — not because theirs is miraculous or perfect, but because ours is just that murderous and dystopian. They simply do the normal thing while we do the freakish thing: they make the lives of their citizens better and better and avoid unnecessary wars, while western governments make the lives of their citizens worse and worse while plunging into new acts of mass military slaughter every few years.

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Privacy 101

Posted by M. C. on January 29, 2025

Don’t know where to begin? Here are 6 steps to get started on your privacy journey!

NBTV Media

https://nbtv.substack.com/p/privacy-101

Regaining the Right to Consent

In today’s hyper-connected world, the right to control our own information is often stripped away without our knowledge or consent. Companies, data brokers, and governments collect vast amounts of data about us—more than we might imagine.

The good news? We can take back control.

Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about reclaiming the right to decide who gets access to our data and how it’s used.

Surveillance apologists normalize invasive practices, but you have the power to push back and reclaim your digital life.

If you’re overwhelmed by where to begin, don’t be. Every small step you take makes a big difference. This guide will help you get started with six simple changes that can significantly improve your daily privacy.

Privacy 101

In this guide, I’ve highlighted a few tools I personally use and find effective, but there are so many incredible options available. For a deeper dive, check out our other articles and videos that explore the tradeoffs of other alternatives. If you’ve discovered tools we didn’t mention, share them in the comments so others can benefit from your experience!

6 Simple Steps to Start Reclaiming Your Privacy

1. Switch Your Browser

Your browser is your gateway to the internet, and it’s often a major source of privacy leaks. Popular browsers like Chrome and Edge collect massive amounts of data about your online activity.

  • Solution: Switch to a privacy-focused browser.
  • Resource: Use privacytests.org to compare browsers and see how they handle tracking and other privacy measures. Some browsers that stand out on the list include Brave, Mullvad, and LibreWolf (with a special mention that goes to Tor, obviously).
  • Steps:
    • Import your bookmarks from your current browser to make the transition seamless.
    • You can also import any saved passwords if that is a barrier to you switching over. Even better is to import any saved passwords directly into a password manager: this is a more involved setup so we have a deep-dive on password managers that we didn’t include in this 6-step introduction.
    • Set your new browser as the default for easy use.

2. Change Your Search Engine

Google Search dominates the market, but it also builds detailed profiles of your interests, habits, and even medical concerns, and countless entities aggregate this data on your and exploit it.

  • Solution: Try privacy-focused search engines, there are countless, including Brave, Mojeek, Metager, SearX, Whoogle, Startpage, Duckduckgo, Swisscows, and Presearch to name a few. Let us know which ones give you the best results!
  • Pro Tip: Make a secondary search engine your browser’s homepage for easy access to multiple options.
  • Why It Matters: Switching search engines is one of the easiest privacy wins—90% of people use Google, so just making this change puts you ahead of the curve.

3. Secure Your Messaging

SMS and regular phone calls are not private. Almost all countries require telecom providers to build backdoors for government surveillance, but these backdoors are exploited.

  • Solution: Use private messaging apps that are E2EE.
  • Resource: Check out securemessagingapps.com for an in-depth comparison of private messaging apps and their features. My favorite is Signal, but you can try out others like Threema, or SimpleX, or whichever stands out to you on the list.

4. Upgrade Your Email

Popular email services like Gmail analyze your inbox to build detailed profiles on you.

  • Solution: Use privacy-focused providers like ProtonMail or Tuta, which offer E2EE in-network, and tools like password-protected emails for anything out-of-network.
  • Steps:
    • Import your Gmail history and contacts into your new email provider for an easy transition – you can do this with a single click.
    • Set up email forwarding from your old account to your new one, gradually transitioning your contacts.

5. Migrate Your Calendar

Your calendar holds sensitive information, including your daily habits, appointments, and locations.

  • Solution: Switch to end-to-end-encrypted calendars from providers like Proton or Tuta.
  • Steps: Import your existing calendar data with just a click, and all your future appointments will now be private and secure.

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6. Use a VPN

A VPN encrypts your internet traffic and hides your IP address from the websites you visit, protecting your location and online activities.

  • Solution: Choose reputable providers like Mullvad or ProtonVPN. Be very careful which VPN you download: a large part of the industry are just scam apps run by shell companies that collect you data. Only choose reputable providers.
  • Why It Matters: A VPN adds an extra layer of protection, preventing websites and data brokers from easily profiling you.

Takeaways

Reclaiming your privacy is about taking control of your digital life and asserting your right to choose who gets access to your data.

While it may seem overwhelming at first, the steps outlined in this guide are simple, actionable, and make a huge impact. They’re also quick wins that don’t require technical expertise. Each step builds on the last, making privacy less daunting and more empowering.

Privacy isn’t about perfection or doing everything at once—it’s about progress. By starting small and gradually adopting tools that align with your values, you can reclaim control over your data one step at a time.

This journey is about more than protecting yourself—it’s about building a better, more secure digital world for everyone. Your privacy is worth it, and you’re more capable than you realize. Take that first step, and you’ll quickly see how much power you really have.


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