International Totalitarianism: WEF, Klaus Schwab, and unelected governments.

[Doc]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci

Yeah seems like a thinking communists marxist.

[Nonc Hilaire]

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Can not be more clear .. Red are all western countries, plus, a few 3rd world who kept on Western pay

That shows up now in all UN votes

US sponsored a UN resolution to expel from UN "women rights" a nation where 75% of Medical specialist are women, a nation where 55% of medical doctors are women, a nation where Vast majority of university students (science, engineering, Mathematic and physic) are women, in a nation among top scientist are most women, in a nation that there is no "Gender discrimination in government jobs) , when at the same time 30% of all women in the jail in the world are in America ..


https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-libra ... women-jail

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women/


And look who voted for and against expelling Iran from Un Women rights

[Apollonius]

When America makes Orwell look like an amateur - Peter Van Buren, The Spectator, 19 November 2022
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/when-a ... n-amateur/

... Orwell envisioned the need for a massive Ministry of Truth to enact societal control when in fact all it took was some silliness about whether calling Covid-19 “Chinese flu” was racism and a dash of sky-is-falling articles. Make fear the problem and empowering protectors becomes the solution. The message worked: you have to give things up for a safe society. If you don’t, you’re selfish; you’ve committed a crime against your neighbors.

When Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, he could not envision any entity more powerful than the government, backed by secret police and the army. He could not imagine global media and its running dog companion, social media, screening what we read and providing the tools of cancelation. He did not foresee the endpoint of global capitalism, a handful of people with almost all of the money who could buy the laws and societal changes they wanted.

Instead of adapting to this reality and pushing back, progressive Americans cheer it on. They roll like dogs in mud over the idea that while the government can’t censor Dr. Seuss, a corporation can. They enjoy the ignorance of pretending such censorship is not censorship because, for now at least, only things they don’t like are being censored. They enjoy pretending it doesn’t matter if it is done by a private entity.

In 2022 America, we not only voluntarily accept surveillance, but we want more of it because it makes shopping easier. We spend thousands of dollars to buy and maintain 24/7 devices on our person that track our locations, record our communications, and study and analyze our personal habits from porn preferences to fashion choices, all so Amazon can recommend products to us. Tracking us was sold first as a way to keep us safe from terrorist attacks that never came, then to catalog our associations to keep us safe from a Covid-19 crisis kept on the boil as long as possible. We want Big Brother to know where we’ve been so he can warn us not to associate with the “diseased” people there. Vaccine passports to label and reward the compliant? Yes, please, if it means we can go to ballgames.

We love surveillance technology when it helps arrest the “right” people. We fetishize how cell phone data was used to place people onsite during the Capitol riots, coupled with facial recognition run against images pulled off social media, aided by loved ones snitching, to arrest them. There is even a do-it-yourself version of facial recognition progressives used to help law enforcement ID rioters. The goal was to jail people if possible, but most loyalists seemed equally satisfied if they could cause someone to lose their job.

As a young man, I visited Soviet Eastern Europe. I lived in China and in Taiwan under dictatorship. I spoke to survivors of the Cultural Revolution and torture victims from Seoul’s years of military control. I’m much older now, and know when I’ve seen something before. Orwellian? Orwell was an amateur.

[Doc]

When America makes Orwell look like an amateur - Peter Van Buren, The Spectator, 19 November 2022
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/when-a ... n-amateur/

... Orwell envisioned the need for a massive Ministry of Truth to enact societal control when in fact all it took was some silliness about whether calling Covid-19 “Chinese flu” was racism and a dash of sky-is-falling articles. Make fear the problem and empowering protectors becomes the solution. The message worked: you have to give things up for a safe society. If you don’t, you’re selfish; you’ve committed a crime against your neighbors.

When Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, he could not envision any entity more powerful than the government, backed by secret police and the army. He could not imagine global media and its running dog companion, social media, screening what we read and providing the tools of cancelation. He did not foresee the endpoint of global capitalism, a handful of people with almost all of the money who could buy the laws and societal changes they wanted.

Instead of adapting to this reality and pushing back, progressive Americans cheer it on. They roll like dogs in mud over the idea that while the government can’t censor Dr. Seuss, a corporation can. They enjoy the ignorance of pretending such censorship is not censorship because, for now at least, only things they don’t like are being censored. They enjoy pretending it doesn’t matter if it is done by a private entity.

In 2022 America, we not only voluntarily accept surveillance, but we want more of it because it makes shopping easier. We spend thousands of dollars to buy and maintain 24/7 devices on our person that track our locations, record our communications, and study and analyze our personal habits from porn preferences to fashion choices, all so Amazon can recommend products to us. Tracking us was sold first as a way to keep us safe from terrorist attacks that never came, then to catalog our associations to keep us safe from a Covid-19 crisis kept on the boil as long as possible. We want Big Brother to know where we’ve been so he can warn us not to associate with the “diseased” people there. Vaccine passports to label and reward the compliant? Yes, please, if it means we can go to ballgames.

We love surveillance technology when it helps arrest the “right” people. We fetishize how cell phone data was used to place people onsite during the Capitol riots, coupled with facial recognition run against images pulled off social media, aided by loved ones snitching, to arrest them. There is even a do-it-yourself version of facial recognition progressives used to help law enforcement ID rioters. The goal was to jail people if possible, but most loyalists seemed equally satisfied if they could cause someone to lose their job.

As a young man, I visited Soviet Eastern Europe. I lived in China and in Taiwan under dictatorship. I spoke to survivors of the Cultural Revolution and torture victims from Seoul’s years of military control. I’m much older now, and know when I’ve seen something before. Orwellian? Orwell was an amateur.

Jordon Peterson ordered to report to re-education camp or loose his professional life. What was his crime? Tweeting a tweet that was critical towards Adolf Trudeau.
https://thenationaltelegraph.com/nation ... is-license

Ontario College Of Psychologists Attempt To Strip Jordan Peterson Of His License
Written By Marc Patrone
Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson could be stripped of his license to practice clinical psychology over his sharing of political posts on social media. The College of Psychologists of Ontario which regulates the profession in his home province has disciplined Peterson over the sharing of political posts on Twitter.

Peterson says he got in hot water with the College because he retweeted posts about PM Justin Trudeau, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, Trudeau advisor, Gerald Butts, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, and others.

The College has ordered Peterson to undergo mandatory social media communication retraining to “modify his objectionable behavior.” It’s unclear what it is about the Tweets or the sharing of them that may violate the College’s Code of Ethics. Either way, Peterson says he will not comply.

“I have absolutely refused to do so,” said Peterson. The next step for the College is to demand he submit to an ‘in-person’ disciplinary hearing. If Peterson does not satisfy the College and commit to changing his behavior, it could strip him of his license to practice.

“Canada has been given over to the commissars,” Peterson said, “something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.” He says he’ll make the issue public in the days ahead.

Some of the posts that may be drawing the ire of the College include one on December 24th in which Peterson tweeted out a link to Conrad Black’s column in the National Post: A moral imperative for Trudeau Liberals to resign.

Conrad Black: A moral imperative for Trudeau Liberals to resign, via @NationalPost ⁦@ConradMBlack⁩ https://t.co/0BVLww8YxB

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 25, 2022
Then on December 27th, he tweeted,

I learned to watch for people's psychological age during my years doing intensive clinical work. @JustinTrudeau appears to me to be perpetually 14 yrs old.

I learned to watch for people's psychological age during my years doing intensive clinical work. @JustinTrudeau appears to me to be perpetually 14 yrs old. https://t.co/caox9lHeIh

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 27, 2022
Even the German socialists have figure this out. Are you watching, @JustinTrudeau -- the man who claimed there was "no business case" for supplying our German allies, in the face of the Russian war, with LNG?

Even the German socialists have figure this out. Are you watching, @JustinTrudeau -- the man who claimed there was "no business case" for supplying our German allies, in the face of the Russian war, with LNG? https://t.co/QNuF06rkZi

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 3, 2023
Every year that our marionette PM stays in power is a "tough year" for Canadians @JustinTrudeau @theJagmeetSingh (and the latter props him up and complains about doing so constantly)

I learned to watch for people's psychological age during my years doing intensive clinical work. @JustinTrudeau appears to me to be perpetually 14 yrs old. https://t.co/caox9lHeIh

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 27, 2022
Has Jordan Peterson become The government of Canada’s latest political target for holding the wrong opinion?

This article was originally posted on the Honking for Freedom substack which can be found linked here.

[Parodite]

A realistic assessment of the WEF (Spiked):

The World Economic Forum is not a globalist conspiracy

My contention is that without the WEF the exact same globalist structures would be emerging.

The techno-burocrat elites in big corp, especially the good ol' gangster-bankster-prankster financial crime syndicates (being the whores that they are and always have been) after their infamous successful prison-break from Glass-Steagall Penitentiary, now smoke fat cigars with any sociopath globalist business shark or autist techno-nurd would do exactly as they do now without Clausi Schwab. Politicians by nature have ego's that need to grow now that the village is no longer local but global. Fascism is still the natural tendency of human society. Small gvt, democracy, civil rights... there is only so much an idealistic ideology can do.

Helped by the general Woke-ah-mania and Climate-oh-phobia of course (ie. socialized psychoses) and Covid-19 as the perfect opportunity to boost centralized administration and high-tech tools for effective crowd control. CBDC's are on the horizon to close the deal. To censure and control.

WEF is and remains a side-show for those rich-n-famous elites to just feel good about themselves and virtue-signal they do mean well with the world. Or perhaps, remove any self-doubt when critical thought keeps them awake at night. From the confession of a sinner to the canonization of saints. It may not be a coincidence Bishop Schwab and his WEF have this Vaticanesque appearence, albeit with a sauce of the Golden Globe Awards to keep it tasty.

Reality indeed always kicks in at some point, usually with a sledge hammer of sorts. Nature abhors monopolies, centralized tyrannies. The bigger the more vulnerable they become. Decentralized fascism works fine though. (In a democracy every fascist has a vote as long as there are not two of them)

[Doc]

A realistic assessment of the WEF (Spiked):

The World Economic Forum is not a globalist conspiracy

My contention is that without the WEF the exact same globalist structures would be emerging.

The techno-burocrat elites in big corp, especially the good ol' gangster-bankster-prankster financial crime syndicates (being the whores that they are and always have been) after their infamous successful prison-break from Glass-Steagall Penitentiary, now smoke fat cigars with any sociopath globalist business shark or autist techno-nurd would do exactly as they do now without Clausi Schwab. Politicians by nature have ego's that need to grow now that the village is no longer local but global. Fascism is still the natural tendency of human society. Small gvt, democracy, civil rights... there is only so much an idealistic ideology can do.

Helped by the general Woke-ah-mania and Climate-oh-phobia of course (ie. socialized psychoses) and Covid-19 as the perfect opportunity to boost centralized administration and high-tech tools for effective crowd control. CBDC's are on the horizon to close the deal. To censure and control.

WEF is and remains a side-show for those rich-n-famous elites to just feel good about themselves and virtue-signal they do mean well with the world. Or perhaps, remove any self-doubt when critical thought keeps them awake at night. From the confession of a sinner to the canonization of saints. It may not be a coincidence Bishop Schwab and his WEF have this Vaticanesque appearence, albeit with a sauce of the Golden Globe Awards to keep it tasty.

Reality indeed always kicks in at some point, usually with a sledge hammer of sorts. Nature abhors monopolies, centralized tyrannies. The bigger the more vulnerable they become. Decentralized fascism works fine though. (In a democracy every fascist has a vote as long as there are not two of them)

I watched about an hour of a live stream of one of the talks at Davos. My impression was cross of an infomercial for a multi level marketing scheme and the meetings of the "Cuban deal" of the God Father II. At the Davos meeting they were celebrating having a "Partnership with a Friendly government" in the US. Saying how the US spending $2 trillion on the IRA (green new deal)by the current US administration meant that Europe was going to have to step up its game. SO I am wondering if the teamsters put up the matching $2 trillion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGXG3U_I7r0

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There is one problem with the WEF not being a place where globalist elites gather to make their plans about dominating the world in a get more riches get more power scheme.

ESG Invented by Multi billionaire Larry Fink who controls a $10 trillion investment fund. That's 10 Trillion with a "T" That is multiple times what the US government spends in a year. ESG is absolutely a scheme. I know of a company that was owned by a deceased relative (Dead 14 years) that no longer exists. Yet if I go to Dun and Bradstreet that company has a slightly above average ESG rating. Fink is very active in the WEF. In fact he was on the panel in the talk I mentioned above.

E is for environment

In December 2021, BlackRock teamed up with a Saudi asset manager to pay $15.5 billion to buy and then lease back pipelines to Saudi Aramco.[45]

However, Fink has been largely vocal on companies taking action on climate change, and in an open letter in 2022 stated “Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net-zero world. The question is, will you lead, or will you be led?”.[46]

In 2022, Fink was named one of the US' top "climate villains" by The Guardian due to BlackRock profiting from deforestation.[47]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink#2000s

S is for social

Fink is a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink#Personal_life

The U.S. government contracted with BlackRock to help clean up after the financial meltdown of 2008. Fink's longstanding relationships with senior government officials have led to questions about potential conflict of interest regarding government contracts awarded without competitive bidding.[3] BlackRock's contract allowed Fink to cultivate relationships with Obama's first Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and additional members of the Obama economic recovery team.[17] In 2016 Fink hoped to become part of the federal government himself as Hillary Clinton's Treasury Secretary.[18] At the same time, Blackrock hired many former executive branch appointees to its firm including Cheryl Mills, Christopher Meade, Katheryn Rosen, Michael Pyle, Coryann Stefansson, Gary Reeder, and Ken Wilson.[19] This move strengthened BlackRock's revolving door with the federal government.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink#2000s

G is for governance

In 2003, Fink helped to negotiate the resignation of the CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, who was widely criticized for his $190 million pay package.[3] In 2006 Fink led the merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which doubled BlackRock's asset management portfolio.[9] That same year, BlackRock's $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, a Manhattan housing complex, became the largest residential-real-estate deal in U.S. history. When the project ended in default, BlackRock clients lost their money, including the California Pension and Retirement System, which lost about $500 million.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink#2000s

And Fink is but one of many Billionaires currently at Davos.

I vaguely remember a story from many years ago. There was a guy that had an issue with another person. So he wanted to kidnap the victim. He dressed up as Santa Claus and go to the guy's company Christmas party and kidnap him. Everyone at the party including the victim thought it was a joke so no one did anything to stop the kidnaping.

The thing the Members of the WEF are trying to kidnap is your and everyone else not it their group's retirement and standard of living above subsistence levels. Dividing the human race into haves and have nots. With their part being the permanent haves.

And everyone else losing their freedom is a small price for them to achieve their goals. And like Epstein's painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress, Klaus Schwabe's attire must be truly the greatest satire for them.

[Nonc Hilaire]

The WEF is a clown show, and seems to be an intentional distraction.

The bankers have a thousand faces. Schwab is WEF, Davos, Prussian/Nazi, City of London, Khazarian plus plus plus. Memberships are not mutually exclusive.

We are supposed to focus only on WEF, and ignore the LBMA, BIS, UN &c.

The bankers use these groups like professional wrestlers. WEF seems to be the designated heel in this match, but whoever emerges as the hero to defeat the WEF is guaranteed to have the same promoter.

[Doc]

The WEF is a clown show, and seems to be an intentional distraction.

The bankers have a thousand faces. Schwab is WEF, Davos, Prussian/Nazi, City of London, Khazarian plus plus plus. Memberships are not mutually exclusive.

We are supposed to focus only on WEF, and ignore the LBMA, BIS, UN &c.

The bankers use these groups like professional wrestlers. WEF seems to be the designated heel in this match, but whoever emerges as the hero to defeat the WEF is guaranteed to have the same promoter.

Winnie the pooh?
The WEF is the first world wide political patronage machine.

[Heracleum Persicum]

The WEF is a clown show, and seems to be an intentional distraction.

The bankers have a thousand faces. Schwab is WEF, Davos, Prussian/Nazi, City of London, Khazarian plus plus plus. Memberships are not mutually exclusive.

We are supposed to focus only on WEF, and ignore the LBMA, BIS, UN &c.

The bankers use these groups like professional wrestlers. WEF seems to be the designated heel in this match, but whoever emerges as the hero to defeat the WEF is guaranteed to have the same promoter.

Yeeeees

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[Doc]

[Doc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUaqFzZLxU

cKUaqFzZLxU

[Parodite]

Oracle Ana:

World Economic Forum :: Wonderful Comic Room

[Apollonius]

The power-mad utopians - Michael Lind, Tablet, 30 January 2023
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... be-stopped

... Three social engineering projects define progressivism in the 2020s: the Green Project, the Quota Project, and the Androgyny Project.

The Green Project is not limited to mitigating global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by industry and energy production. By itself, decarbonization is a technical project that can be carried out by methods like building nuclear power plants and replacing coal with natural gas in electrical generation.

The Green Project or Green New Deal is not satisfied with decarbonizing energy sources. It invokes climate change as an excuse to radically restructure the society of the U.S. and other advanced industrial democracies, from the way that food is grown to where people live to how people behave. Under the banner of the Green New Deal or the Green Transition, various lesser ideological projects on the left—veganism, replacing cars and trucks with mass transit, urban densification, anti-natalism—have rallied, even though none of these is necessary for decarbonizing the energy supply.

The Quota Project, embodied in the rote bureaucratic phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), is another utopian project. Its goal is the radical restructuring of the U.S. and other Western societies on the basis of racial quotas, so that all racial and ethnic groups are represented in equal proportions in all occupations, classes, academic curriculums, and even literary and artistic canons. DEI is affirmative action on LSD.

For the Quota Project, anti-racism is the public justification. But quota-based tokenism is not a solution for specific cases of discrimination against individuals—which can and should be dealt with by race-neutral, anti-discrimination laws. Nor does the Quota Project have any real solutions to offer in the case of class or cultural differences which—even in the absence of racism, conscious or “structural”—would result in some groups doing better than others in various occupations. Like the Green Transition, the Quota Project is a radical utopian program of social reconstruction in search of an excuse that might justify it.

The third of the three utopian projects that define contemporary trans-Atlantic progressivism is the Androgyny Project. This goes far beyond civil rights and humane treatment for victims of gender dysphoria and has nothing to do with the hard-won rights of gay men and lesbians. The Androgyny Project holds that gender identity is independent of biological sex and purely subjective. If a middle-aged man claims that he is a woman, then progressives favor requiring local government to retroactively falsify his birth certificate to show that he was “really” born female and “misassigned at birth.”

Far more comprehensive than “trans rights,” which affect fewer than 1% of the population, the Androgyny Project seeks to redefine all male and female human beings as generic, androgynous humanoids whose sex is a matter of subjective self-definition rather than objective reality.

[Parodite]

https://twitter.com/songpinganq

Add programmable CBDCs.. and there you go. Not just a big brother watching you; he crushes you like an insect on the pavement. Human pest control.

[noddy]

neither side of our political divides really trusts the other side with the power currently possible, and our cultures have never been very good at denying themselves power.

if it can be done, it will be done, and their is a shitload that can be done right now.

[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

neither side of our political divides really trusts the other side with the power currently possible, and our cultures have never been very good at denying themselves power.

if it can be done, it will be done, and their is a shitload that can be done right now.

‘With all this lavender in here… there’s bound to be a pony SOMEWHERE!!’

[Doc]

‘Thousands of Dollars for Something I Didn’t Do’
Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.
On the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving, Randal Quran Reid was driving his white Jeep to his mother’s home outside Atlanta when he was pulled over on a busy highway. A police officer approached his vehicle and asked for his driver’s license. Mr. Reid had left it at home, but he volunteered his name. After asking Mr. Reid if he had any weapons, the officer told him to step out of the Jeep and handcuffed him with the help of two other officers who had arrived.

“What did I do?” Mr. Reid asked. The officer said he had two theft warrants out of Baton Rouge and Jefferson Parish, a district on the outskirts of New Orleans. Mr. Reid was confused; he said he had never been to Louisiana.

Mr. Reid, a transportation analyst, was booked at the DeKalb County jail, to await extradition from Georgia to Louisiana. It took days to find out exactly what he was accused of: using stolen credit cards to buy designer purses.

“I’m locked up for something I have no clue about,” Mr. Reid, 29, said.

His parents made phone calls, hired lawyers and spent thousands of dollars to figure out why the police thought he was responsible for the crime, eventually discovering it was because Mr. Reid bore a resemblance to a suspect who had been recorded by a surveillance camera. The case eventually fell apart and the warrants were recalled, but only after Mr. Reid spent six days in jail and missed a week of work.

Mr. Reid’s wrongful arrest appears to be the result of a cascade of technologies — beginning with a bad facial recognition match — that are intended to make policing more effective and efficient but can also make it far too easy to apprehend the wrong person for a crime. None of the technologies are mentioned in official documents, and Mr. Reid was not told exactly why he had been arrested, a typical but troubling practice, according to legal experts and public defenders.

“In a democratic society, we should know what tools are being used to police us,” said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union.


A Contract With Clearview AI
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A document describes how Detective Andrew Bartholomew identified Mr. Reid and lists theft and bank fraud charges.
Detective Andrew Bartholomew’s affidavit seeking an arrest warrant for Mr. Reid.

In a panic, Mr. Reid’s family immediately retained an Atlanta lawyer from the Cochran Firm. He could not get Mr. Reid out of jail, and he struggled to gather more information. He suggested that the family members hire someone in Louisiana, so they cold-called law firms in Jefferson Parish and Baton Rouge until they found Thomas Calogero, a criminal defense lawyer. They retained him that Sunday.

Mr. Calogero found out that Mr. Reid was accused of the summer thefts of two Chanel purses and a brown Louis Vuitton bag, collectively worth almost $13,000, from Second Act, a consignment store on the outskirts of New Orleans. Mr. Calogero went to the store and talked to the owner, who showed him a still from a surveillance camera. He realized that one of the alleged fraudsters looked like Mr. Reid, but the man was heavier.

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A two-story store with display windows on either side of a recessed doorway, which has a black awning over it. Capital letters spell out “Second Act” across the gray second story.
Thieves with stolen credit cards bought nearly $13,000 in merchandise from Second Act, a consignment store outside New Orleans.Credit...Sara Essex Bradley for The New York Times

“The guy had big arms, and my client doesn’t,” Mr. Calogero said. A Jefferson Parish sheriff’s officer insisted it was a “positive match,” language that made Mr. Calogero believe that facial recognition technology had been used, and he spoke to the New Orleans news outlet NOLA.com about what he believed had happened.


A person with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to The New York Times that facial recognition technology had been used to identify Mr. Reid. Yet none of the documents used to arrest him disclosed that.

Andrew Bartholomew, the Jefferson Parish financial crimes detective who sought the warrant to arrest Mr. Reid, wrote in an affidavit only that he had been “advised by a credible source” that the “heavyset black male” was Mr. Reid. Reached by phone, Detective Bartholomew declined to comment.

“It’s untenable to me as a matter of basic criminal procedure that people who are subject to arrest are not informed of what got them there,” said Barry Friedman, a constitutional law professor at New York University.

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A 2019 invoice for $25,000 from Clearview AI details its services to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office first signed up for Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology in 2019.

The Sheriff’s Office has a contract with one facial recognition vendor: Clearview AI, which it pays $25,000 a year. According to documents obtained by The Times in a public records request, the department first signed a contract with Clearview in 2019.

Clearview scraped billions of photos from the public web, including social media sites, to create a face-based search engine now used by law enforcement agencies. Mr. Reid has many public photos on the web linked to his name, including on LinkedIn and Facebook. The public information office for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for comment about the use of Clearview AI.

The company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, said an arrest should not be based on a facial recognition search alone.

“Even if Clearview AI came up with the initial result, that is the beginning of the investigation by law enforcement to determine, based on other factors, whether the correct person has been identified,” he said. “More than one million searches have been conducted using Clearview AI. One false arrest is one too many, and we have tremendous empathy for the person who was wrongfully accused.”

Detective Bartholomew’s identification of Mr. Reid led to a second warrant for his arrest in East Baton Rouge Parish, where, according to a police report, the man he resembled had used a stolen credit card to buy a $2,800 Chanel bag at another consignment store.

The Baton Rouge Police Department “trusted the information” from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, a department spokesman, Sgt. L’Jean McKneely, said. “What methods they used, we do not know,” he added.

Law enforcement officers generally say they do not need to mention the use of facial recognition technology because it is only a lead in a case and not the sole reason for someone’s arrest, protecting it from exposure as if it were a confidential informant. But according to Clare Garvie, an expert on the police use of facial recognition, there are four other publicly known cases of wrongful arrests that appear to have involved little investigation beyond a face match, all involving Black men. She has come across a handful of other examples across the country, she said, in her work with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

For Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, a racial justice advocacy group, the technology exacerbates the problems of what he called “racist policing.”

“If facial recognition was misclassifying white people, white men or white women, it would not be on the shelf,” he said. “Some of us and some of our communities are expendable.”

‘Rubber-Stamping Warrants’
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Marketing material describes CloudGavel’s services in paragraphs labeled “Fast Justice” and “Value.”
Electronic warrant services like CloudGavel allow judges to sign arrest warrants digitally.

To get a warrant to arrest someone, an officer must convince a judge there is probable cause — meaning, essentially, there is a good reason to do so — and get the judge’s signature. In the past, that meant an officer had to go to court, or even meet a judge at a diner in the middle of the night if the case was urgent. That is a moment when questions are asked about the strength of the evidence, legal experts say.

But the friction of getting a warrant has been eased by technology. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office uses an “eWarrant” service, CloudGavel, for which it paid $39,800 last year. It’s an app that allows officers to request digital signatures from judges. “Law enforcement officers can now get an arrest warrant approved in minutes,” the company’s website states.

Many civil liberties advocates actually favor electronic warrants; they allow judges to more easily review decisions made by the police and eliminate a complaint from officers that it’s too hard to get a warrant. But advocates said it would be worrisome if judges were simply clicking a button without asking questions or providing sufficient scrutiny.

“There are real questions about whether it increases the incidence of judges rubber-stamping warrants,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a deputy director with the A.C.L.U.’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.

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A document lists charges against Mr. Reid and commands “any commissioned peace officer” to arrest and hold him. The signature of Judge Paul Schneider appears at the bottom.
A warrant issued in Jefferson Parish for Mr. Reid’s arrest appears to have been signed digitally by a judge.

A criminal court judge signed off on Mr. Reid’s arrest warrant at 4:28 p.m. on July 18. CloudGavel “accommodates” judicial scrutiny, said Casey Roussel, the president and chief operating officer of CloudGavel’s parent company, FusionStak, in an email. He said judges could “connect with the officer via phone or video to discuss any concerns the judge may have about the warrant.”

In Mr. Reid’s case, it is unclear if the detective spoke with the judge or explained the nature of the “credible source.” The judge declined to comment.

A ‘Random Query’
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Body camera footage obtained by The New York Times shows DeKalb County police officers detaining Mr. Reid.
“I was driving the normal speed, and I wasn’t doing anything crazy,” Mr. Reid said of the day of his arrest.

Body camera footage obtained by The Times reveals that four police vehicles were involved in pulling him over. The two warrants for his arrest asked for “full extradition.” To the law enforcement officers in Georgia, Mr. Reid would have appeared to be a fugitive from Louisiana justice.

Why exactly Mr. Reid and his white Jeep attracted the DeKalb County police’s attention that day is unclear. The arresting officer wrote in an incident report that he had learned about Mr. Reid’s warrants from a “random GCIC/NCIC query of the vehicle tag,” referring to the National Crime Information Center, an F.B.I. repository of wanted persons and vehicles, and the Georgia Crime Information Center. It’s possible the officer saw Mr. Reid driving by and, for some reason, decided to run his license plate.

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A document titled “Initial Report” gives a police officer’s account of Mr. Reid’s arrest.
A DeKalb County police report said a random check of Mr. Reid’s license plate had turned up the arrest warrants.

But Molly Kleinman, the director of a technology policy research center at the University of Michigan, said many kinds of surveillance technologies on the highway could have alerted the officer to Mr. Reid’s presence on the “hot list,” including toll pass readers and automated license plate readers, which Atlanta has in the hundreds on roads and police vehicles. (A spokesman for the DeKalb County police said a license plate reader was not used.)

“There’s a lot of secrecy about all of these surveillance technologies and the ways that they’re used,” Ms. Kleinman said. “This case is a perfect example that even when the tool works as intended, if the underlying data is flawed it can still harm innocent people.”

Mr. Reid stares out a window in a portrait in his lawyer’s office.
“Thousands of dollars for something I didn’t do,” said Mr. Reid, who is considering suing over his arrest.

Mr. Reid sat in DeKalb County jail for nearly a week. He could not be released on bond because he was supposed to be held until Louisiana officers came to pick him up for prosecution in their state. His Jeep was towed and impounded.

“Imagine you’re living your life and somewhere far away says you committed a crime,” Mr. Reid said. “And you know you’ve never been there.”

His lawyer, Mr. Calogero, gathered photos and videos of Mr. Reid from his family, hoping to more clearly show the Louisiana police what Mr. Reid looks like, and sent them to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, Nov. 30, five days after the arrest. An hour later, Mr. Calogero said, an officer called to inform him that the police were withdrawing the warrant because they had noticed a mole on Mr. Reid’s face that the alleged purse thief did not have.

Mr. Reid’s detainment was “unfortunate by all means,” Sheriff Joseph P. Lopinto III of Jefferson Parish said. “As soon as we realized it wasn’t him, we moved mountains in order to get him out of jail.”

A Jefferson Parish judge recalled the warrant on Wednesday afternoon. “After further investigation, it was learned Randal Reid was not involved in the crimes committed,” the recall said. Mr. Reid was released late Thursday night, almost a full week after being pulled over. He is considering filing a wrongful-arrest lawsuit.

“Thousands of dollars for something I didn’t do,” he said.

Mr. Robinson, the Color of Change president, said most people in the United States did not have thousands of dollars to clear their names. These people will have “names and stories we will never know,” he said. “They will languish in jails and prisons.”

Alain Delaquérière and Kirsten Noyes contributed research.

[Parodite]

Nigel Farage and the corporate war on dissent

A new and terrifying front is being opened up in the culture wars. Where once you could be deplatformed for refusing to toe the establishment line, now you can be defunded, debanked, financially unpersoned – deprived of the means of doing business or just living a normal life. Those dismissing this threat now – because it isn’t happening to them yet and they don’t much like those it does appear to be happening to – will have no right to complain when it bites them later.

And with the advent of CBDC the ultimate weapon for the techno-burocrat globalist illiberal cabal is now firmly in place. Woke bitches at the switches, climate tzars, mustached Hitlers, Stalins, CCP-type crime syndicates... can now control and destroy lives on a whim.

In the past, dictators were also competitors because they battled over physical territory. Biological instincts, tribal forces kept them competitive and separate. Incentives like sharing and co-operating at the highest level now come into serious play. A separate class of central-bankster pranksters, technocrats and burocrats taking control. Any herd-like ideology-religion will do fine in these circumstances. In the name of the common good.

This global elite cabal will need its own mass surveillance and physical crowd control of course. Einsatztruppe, mercenaries… when the only choices are starvation, jail time or working for The Machine’s immune system, it ain’t difficult.

Question is if and for how long such a Machine can actually exist, survive. Technology will remain a serious vulnerability and Achilles heel. Another one is our tribal nature, that so far has always resisted and destroyed Empire from within.

[noddy]

the globalists control the global market, this is true, we have returned to the goold ole days of the east india company.

I stil see Farages problems as squabbling within a certain group tho, for now - he is in their circles and playing their winner takes all games.

[Nonc Hilaire]

the globalists control the global market, this is true, we have returned to the goold ole days of the east india company.

I stil see Farages problems as squabbling within a certain group tho, for now - he is in their circles and playing their winner takes all games.

Not ‘returning’. EITC has been in control for centuries under various names and guises. It’s just easier to see now.

I think the CBDC will flop. If it was workable it would be out already.

I have heard the gold/yuan for oil trade has humbugged the eurodollar. Can anyone can explain how that problem fits in?

[Doc]

WEF bioethicist wants to genetically modify humans so they become allergic to meat

[Typhoon]

WEF bioethicist wants to genetically modify humans so they become allergic to meat

A reference to when and where this was recorded and to who is speaking and to whom would be helpful.

"Bioethicist" are the probably the third least useful, often harmful, group on the planet.
Right after environmentalists and Western commie wannabees.

Anyways, yet another schmuck proposing an unworkable solution to an imaginary problem.

[Typhoon]

True Blue - Hutchinson | Is the West adopting China’s model?