Was the COVID Plandemic Always a CIA Plot?

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From [HERE] According to newly released emails, the United States Intelligence Community, led by the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, held regular meetings with Dr. Ralph Baric, one of America’s leading coronavirus experts, since at least 2015. 

Senator Rand Paul’s office has worked for years to obtain the documents. 

Baric has been accused of engineering the Covid-19 virus in his lab at the University of North Carolina, but he has never had to testify about his role in the pandemic despite his well-documented collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

The newly released emails reveal that the CIA hoped to discuss “Coronavirus evolution and possible natural human adaptation with Baric” and that Baric held quarterly meetings with members of the Intelligence Community. 

These emails are just the latest additions to the suspicious amalgamation of facts implicating the US Intelligence Community’s role in the origins of the pandemic, as discussed in The Covid Response at Five Years.

A very brief overview of the timeline suggests that the CIA and the Intelligence Community are implicated in the creation of the virus, a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and censorship to evade any public scrutiny for their role in the pandemic. 

  • 2015: The Intelligence Community held quarterly meetings with Dr. Ralph Baric and discussed “possible human adaptation” to coronavirus evolution. 

  • 2019-2020: The CIA had a spy working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology doing “both offensive and defensive work” with pathogens, according to Seymour Hersh. That asset reports in early 2020 that there was a laboratory accident that resulted in the infection of a researcher. 

  • March 18, 2020: The Department of Homeland Security replaced Health and Human Services as the lead Federal Agency responding to Covid, as explained in depth in Debbie Lerman’s The Deep State Goes Viral. 

  • Spring 2020: The CIA offered bribes to scientists to bury their findings refuting the “proximal origin” theory advanced by Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a whistleblower. The House Oversight Committee explains: “According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.” Then, however, the “six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”

  • 2020: Dr. Fauci began holding secret meetings at CIA headquarters “without a record of entry” in order to “influence its Covid-19 origins investigation,” according to a whistleblower. “He knew what was going on…He was covering his ass and he was trying to do it with the Intel community,” the whistleblower told Congress.”

  • 2021: Scientists in the Department of Defense compiled significant evidence suggesting Covid emerged from a lab leak, but President Biden’s Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, banned them from presenting their evidence or participating in a discussion on the origins of the virus.

  • 2021: CISA, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, implemented a program known as “switchboarding,” where officials dictated to Big Tech platforms what content is permissible or prohibited speech. 

  • 2022: The Department of Homeland Security announced it will establish a “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Ministry of Truth is only discontinued when the absurdity of its chief censor, Nina Jankowicz, receives sufficient blowback from the public. [MORE]

Defense Stocks Fall as Trump Pushes Ukraine Peace Deal

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President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. and Ukraine had made “big progress” in settling on a peace proposal to put to Russia, sending several defense stocks lower.

That, however, only trimmed the sector’s big year-to-date gains. Defense stocks can react to news, but their longer-term performance is typically a function of defense spending, which is currently expected to rise.

“Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine??? Don’t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Monday.

Shares of France’s Thales, Germany’s Rheinmetall, and the U.K.’s BAE Systems fell 1.5%, 5%, and 3.6%, respectively, on Monday. Coming into the week, those three stocks were up an average of 87% year to date, boosted by expectations for rising European defense spending.

 Shares of drone maker AeroVironment, which has supplied its Switchblade loitering, guided bomb to the Ukrainian military, appeared to be unaffected by the peace talks. Shares rose 1.6%, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.6% and 0.4%, respectively. [MORE]

Led by US, Revenue of Major Weapons Makers Hit All-Time High in 2024

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From [HERE] An annual report out Monday that tracks global arms sales shows that weapons makers in 2024 generated more revenue than at any time since the group behind the research began tracking the data over 35 years ago.

The annual report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows that the top 100 weapons makers in the world—led by those in the United States—brought in a record-setting $679 billion over the course of the year, fueled mainly by the war in Ukraine, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, and spending on nuclear weaponry.

“Last year global arms revenues reached the highest level ever recorded by SIPRI as producers capitalized on high demand,” said Lorenzo Scarazzato, a researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme, which has been tracking global arms sales since 1989.

“In 2024,” the report explains, “the growing demand for military equipment around the world, primarily linked to rising geopolitical tensions, accelerated the increase in total Top 100 arms revenues seen in 2023. More than three-quarters of companies in the Top 100 (77 companies) increased their arms revenues in 2024, with 42 reporting at least double-digit percentage growth.” [MORE]

Iran Foreign Ministry says the US has become the Biggest Threat to World Peace

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From [HERE] Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Monday that the United States poses the greatest threat to world peace and security, employing a pattern of unilateral use of force and coercion.

In his weekly press conference, the spokesman was asked about Washington's hostile actions against several nations, including Venezuela, following its military deployment in the Caribbean.

"The reality is that the United States, with the behavior it has shown during this time, has become the greatest threat to international peace and security," he asserted.

He added that actions based on threats and the use of force by the United States can be witnessed in every corner of the world. "In the Western Hemisphere, threats against Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and even Brazil and Mexico are constantly repeated by U.S. officials," he noted.

Baqaei also emphasized that the closure or declaration of airspace closure by a country is an unprecedented action, being contrary to all international norms and regulations, as well as regulations related to aviation safety.

Furthermore, he referred to Washington's threats against African countries, "including the declaration that, for example, South Africa has no right to participate in the G20 summit, which constitute another example of this approach."

The spokesman recalled that the US has given unwavering support to the criminal actions committed by Israel in the region.

I support Venezuela in the face of US aggression.

The spokesman reiterated that Iran maintains a relationship with Venezuela based on mutual respect and shared interests, and that Tehran has always expressed "our solidarity with the people and government" of the South American nation.

“We believe that Venezuela is facing an illegal war and threat from the United States government. There is no basis in international law that justifies such action by the United States. The pretext of drugs is nothing more than an excuse,” he asserted. [MORE]

Power Shut Offs are Rising as Utility Companies Run by Elites Turn the Electricity Off on More Americans, as Unpaid Bills Pile Up

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From [HERE] Soaring electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs nationwide, leaving more Americans in the dark as unpaid bills pile up. Although there is no national count of electricity shutoffs, data from select utilities in 11 states show that disconnections have risen in at least eight of them since last year, according to figures compiled by The Washington Post and the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA). In some areas, such as New York City, the surge has been dramatic — with residential shutoffs in August up fivefold from a year ago, utility filings show.

In Pennsylvania, where Pellew lives, power shutoffs have risen 21 percent this year, with more than 270,000 households losing electricity, according to state data through October. The average electricity bill in the state, meanwhile, has risen 13 percent from a year ago, as utilities upgrade electric grids to accommodate a burst of new data centers, according to an analysis of federal data by NEADA, which represents state directors of energy aid programs for low-income families.

Overall, Americans are paying 11 percent more for electricity than they were in January, though that number varies widely: Costs have risen 37 percent in Missouri but have fallen in three states by as much as 13 percent, NEADA found.

“With prices going up so rapidly, electricity is becoming unaffordable in many parts of the country,” said Mark Wolfe, an energy economist and executive director of NEADA. “And it isn’t just lower-income households anymore; it’s spilling into the middle class.” [MORE]

The DOJ is Prosecuting a Drug Kingpin, Blah, Blah, Blah

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From [HERE] The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) was patting itself on the back with gusto last week in publicizing it is prosecuting alleged drug kingpin Zhi Dong Zhang upon his extradition from Mexico. The prosecution is a really big deal in the US government’s effort to win the war on drugs according to the assertions of several government employees in the DOJ press release.

In reality, the hoopla is just more “blah, blah, blah” in support of a destructive drug war that continues to cause much harm while failing to achieve its stated objectives including the reduction of drug use and threats to safety. . . .

For someone with limited familiarity with the US drug war, these statements may be convincing that a major victory in the “war” is being accomplished that will lead to a diminishing of drug use and problems associated with it. However, the truth is very different. People who have followed the US war on drugs know that the comments of the various government employees in the press release are just a bunch of “blah, blah, blah” that can be ignored. Been there, done that. The US government has indicted and convicted many kingpins over the decades without it reducing drug use, helping drug users, or making America safer or more free. Rather, these and other enforcement efforts encompassed in the drug war have contributed to increased dangers for drug users and have, as libertarian communicator Ron Paul has been arguing for decades, made America more dangerous and less free while failing to reduce the supply of drugs.

In his February of 2014 Future of Freedom Foundation editorial “Yawn. Another Big Drug Bust,” Jacob G. Hornberger laid out the logic and history of why it is wrong to think that the arrest, indictment, incarceration, or killing of a drug kingpin, be it Zhang last week or another such as Joaquin Guzman Loera at the time Hornberger wrote his editorial, will do anything to help the American people. “[B]usting a big drug lord or some drug gang reaps nothing but a lot of publicity for the drug warriors,” concluded Hornberger. It instead is part of a larger effort — the war on drugs — that causes many harms that people wrongly blame on drugs.[MORE]

New Survey Finds that 1 in 10 Adults in the UD were Seriously Injured by a COVID Injection

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From [HERE] One in every 10 U.S adults who received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced “major” side effects, and over a third (36%) suffered “minor” side effects, according to a national survey conducted this month.

Based on a U.S. adult population of 258 million in 2020, the results mean that about 17 million adults who got the COVID-19 vaccine experienced major health effects, and roughly 63 million had minor side effects, said Rasmussen Reports, which conducted the survey.

The survey, which included 1,292 adults and had a margin sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% confidence level, also revealed that 46% of both vaccinated and unvaccinated adults think it’s likely that COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths.

The numbers come as no surprise to Christopher Dreisbach, legal affairs director of React19, whose mission is to support the COVID-19 vaccine-injured. He told The Defender:

“Any surprise regarding the frequency and severity of these adverse reactions is simply the result of years of government and platform-level censorship that kept the injured’s experiences out of public view.”

Dreisbach was diagnosed with a debilitating and painful neurological disorder after getting Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Kristi Dobbs, who was also seriously injured when she took her first and only Pfizer COVID-19 shot on Jan. 18, 2021, said the U.S. government has yet to ensure that this kind of massive vaccine injury won’t happen again in the future.

With the exceptions of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who have been outspoken on COVID-19 vaccine injuries, most government officials are “hoping we will just be silenced and forgotten about,” Dobbs said.

She said she and others have been “shouting from the rooftops” since February 2021, when a group of them warned the National Institutes of Health that the shots were causing massive harm.

Since then, Dobbs has personally contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Stanford University and the Mayo Clinic.

“My cries have fallen on deaf ears for years,” she said. “The vaccine-injured are still hurting, dying and being discarded as trash.” [MORE]

Data Suggest COVID Injections May Have Contributed to Germany’s 2023 Surge in Excess Mortality

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From [HERE] A new analysis in Royal Society Open Science found that Germany’s excess mortality surged in 2023 even as COVID-19 infections and deaths declined. The authors report that vaccination rates were the only factor that consistently tracked with the increase, though they stressed that the study doesn’t establish causation.

Professor Christof Kuhbandner, at the University of Regensburg in Germany, and Professor Matthias Reitzner, at Osnabrück University in Germany, published “Regional patterns of excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: a state-level analysis” in Royal Society Open Science in September.

Using actuarial life-table methods and population-adjusted expected-death modeling, the authors examined excess mortality across Germany’s 16 federal states from April 2020 to March 2023 to determine which factors — COVID-19 infections, deaths, vaccination rates, demographics or policy — best explain mortality patterns.

Their most controversial finding: in the third pandemic year, excess mortality rose sharply while COVID-19 deaths declined, creating a statistical decoupling that correlated positively with vaccination rates, even after adjusting for prior-year mortality.

While no causation is established, the correlations are nonetheless troubling.

Study design: State-level excess mortality across three ‘pandemic years’

This observational modeling study analyzed mortality data for three periods:

  • P1: April 2020-March 2021

  • P2: April 2021-March 2022

  • P3: April 2022-March 2023

Researchers computed expected deaths using 2017-2019 life tables, applied federal-state mortality correction factors and correlated excess mortality with: COVID-19 deaths, PCR-confirmed cases, vaccination rates (double and triple), age structure, poverty, GDP, trust in institutions and policy stringency.

The authors also used change-score models and ANCOVA to control for time-invariant confounders and prior-year excess mortality.

Findings: Early COVID death correlation, later decoupling and a vaccine paradox

  1. First two years: Excess mortality correlated strongly with COVID-19 deaths (r = 0.96 and r = 0.89). Yet COVID-19 deaths greatly exceeded excess deaths (e.g., 78,185 COVID-19 deaths vs. 22,405 excess deaths in P1). The study suggests misclassification or pandemic-measure effects as possible explanations.

  2. Third year: A “new driver” emerged. COVID-19 deaths dropped, infections fell, but excess mortality jumped from ~26,973 to ~78,493. Correlations with COVID-19 outcomes dissolved (r = 0.32, ns).

  3. Vaccination correlation:

    1. In P3, higher vaccination rates correlated with higher excess mortality (r = 0.65, p = 0.006).

    2. Change-score analysis for P2→P3 yielded r = 0.93, p < 0.001, even after adjusting for prior mortality.

    3. Higher vaccination states also saw smaller declines in COVID-19 deaths and case fatality rates. [MORE]

UK Government Wins 2-Year Battle to Conceal Data Linking COVID Shots to Excess Deaths

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From [HERE] The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is not required to publicize data that may link COVID-19 vaccines to an increase in excess deaths in the United Kingdom during the pandemic, following a ruling last week by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office.

The ruling, which concludes a two-year battle for the release of the data, has led to accusations of a “cover-up,” according to The Telegraph, which first reported the story.

In 2023, UsForThem, a nonprofit advocacy group, requested the data under the country’s freedom of information laws. However, UKHSA challenged the request, citing concerns that releasing the data could fuel “misinformation” and cause “distress” to the vaccine-injured.

In a statement provided to The Defender, Luke Weeks, senior communications manager at UKHSA’s press office, said:

“Protecting patient confidentiality is of critical importance. Releasing this data presented a real possibility that it could be used to identify individuals, which could result in significant distress.

“UKHSA provided a carefully anonymised version of the dataset that removed the risk of identification. We welcome the decision of the tribunal to dismiss the appeal.”

UKHSA previously told the Information Commissioner’s Office that releasing the data may lead to “distress or anger” on the part of the relatives of the deceased and that the figures might be used to fuel “misinformation” about the COVID-19 vaccines, potentially fueling vaccine hesitancy.

According to TrialSite News, UKHSA’s “single justification — fear of public reaction — is now driving intense criticism.”

Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a medical oncologist at St. George’s, University of London, called the decision to withhold the data “a ridiculous cover-up.”

“The excuse of [vaccine] confidence is patently absurd,” Dalgleish said.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist who is chief medical adviser to Make Europe Healthy Again (MEHA) and medical adviser to MAHA Action, said the decision to withhold the data is “appalling,” as the data “would very likely make the link between the COVID jabs and excess deaths.”

Malhotra said this is “not the first time” that U.K. government health agencies “have been involved in a cover-up.” He said the U.K.’s Department of Health and the country’s National Health Service “covered up the ambulance delays” that resulted in the 2021 death of his father, Dr. Kailash Chand, a general practitioner and former deputy chair of the British Medical Association.

‘Not having access to clear and concise data is what fuels misinformation’

TrialSite News noted that while it is impossible to claim with certainty that the data withheld by the UKHSA show a definitive link between COVID-19 vaccinations and an increase in excess deaths, “refusal to release the data suggests an unwillingness to examine the question openly.” [MORE]

Dr Russell Blaylock: Ignored Dangers of the COVID-19 injections

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From [HERE] The ramifications of the unprecedented push to vaccinate the entire world with these dangerous and ineffective COVID-19 injections are in two categories – the seen and the unseen. The seen entails such things as a rising incidence of myocarditis, multifocal encephalitis, sudden adult death, a rising incidence of death in vaccinated toddlers and babies, death of babies breastfed by vaccinated mothers, the spread of the virus by the vaccinated among the population (shedding), and other obvious health catastrophes.

At the center of both the obvious and hidden ramifications of these injections is what will be the delayed effects of these injections. To understand this, first, we have to look at the biodistribution study done by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company which was purposefully hidden, not just from the public, but all scientists and physicians in the world. A freedom of information lawsuit was required to force Pfizer to release this study. When the study was examined, it immediately became obvious why they wished it to be hidden. The study, done on animals, demonstrated that once injected into the animals’ muscles, the nanolipid carrier containing the specifically engineered messenger RNA (mRNA) did not stay at the site of the injection, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pfizer assured the public it did, rather within 48 h this spike protein producing creation was distributed throughout the body. Further, these nanolipid carriers were found in the highest concentration in the female ovaries and the bone marrow of both sexes. High concentrations were also found in the endothelial cells lining all blood vessels, the liver, spleen, the heart, and kidneys, with lesser concentrations in the brain. In addition, the nanolipid carrier itself was found to be toxic and inflammatory.

What I wish to address in this essay are some of the possible less obvious ramifications of these injections. First on the list, will be the contamination of the blood supply using blood donated by the vaccinated. As an introduction to the subject let us first review the skeptical responses from the orthodox supporters of “safe and effective” vaccines. [MORE]

FDA Chief: Fauci ‘100% Involved” In “Massive” COVID-19 Origins Cover-Up

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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary accused former top health official Dr. Anthony Fauci of orchestrating a “massive cover-up” of the origins of Covid-19. In an interview with “Pod Force One” podcast, Makary said that Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease during the pandemic, worked to suppress the Wuhan lab-leak theory.

“One thing that’s extremely obvious that very few people realize, and certainly hardly anyone in the medical establishment where I come from realized, is that [Fauci] was involved in a massive cover-up of the origins of COVID, a massive cover-up,” Makary, who previously served as a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told host Miranda Devine.

“Whether or not he was involved in the experiments or funding the experiments that led to the origins of COVID, he was clearly 100% involved in the cover-up,” the FDA head added.

In 2023, the House Oversight Committee released evidence showing Fauci commissioned and approved a February 2020 scientific paper, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which appeared aimed at refuting the lab-leak hypothesis. [MORE]

Court Fails to Keep a Leash on Police K9 Drug-Sniff Searches into People’s Cars, Raising Questions, such as; Do “4th Amendment Rights” Only Exist in Courtrooms and Law Books?

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From [HERE] In yet another ruling that contributes to the steady normalization of police overreach, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to rein in police K-9 drug-sniff searches during traffic stops.

By declining to hear an appeal in Mumford v. Iowa, the Court let stand an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that allows police to rely on a drug dog’s intrusion into a car’s interior during a traffic stop—even when officers lack probable cause to believe the car contains contraband. In a 5-2 decision in Mumford v. Iowa, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld as constitutional a search in which a police K-9 placed its paws on a car door and inserted its snout through an open window before alerting to drugs.

The Rutherford Institute, joined by Restore the Fourth, had urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the ruling, arguing that warrantless, nonconsensual intrusions into protected spaces violate the Fourth Amendment, which extends its protection to a person’s vehicle. The amicus brief further warned that allowing a police dog to breach the interior of a car provides no limiting principle: if a dog’s snout may trespass inside a vehicle without probable cause, then so might thermal-imaging devices, x-ray scanners, fiberscopes, or other police technologies.

“What this ruling makes clear is that no American is safe from government intrusion, not even during a routine traffic stop. This is how constitutional rights are lost—not in dramatic sweeps, but in small, incremental intrusions that courts refuse to check,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “If a police dog’s snout can be used to justify a warrantless search of a car, then there is nothing to stop the government from using ever more intrusive technologies, surveillance tools, and police instrumentalities to invade our privacy with little to no judicial oversight.”

The case arose after an Iowa police officer initiated a traffic stop of Ashlee Mumford’s vehicle, claiming the last two numbers on her license plate were obscured by dirt and grime. The officer summoned a K-9 unit, and Mumford and her passenger were ordered out of the vehicle “for their own safety” while the handler walked the dog around the car to conduct a “free air sniff.” Because Mumford’s passenger had left his window open, the dog pushed its snout through the open window into the cabin before alerting to drugs. A subsequent search of the vehicle uncovered drugs in the glove compartment which apparently belonged to the passenger. Officers then searched Mumford’s purse—which she had taken with her upon exiting the vehicle—and found marijuana and a pipe. [MORE]

Is Rep Cherfilus-McCormick in Congress to Address Problems Plaguing Black Communities or to Steal from FEMA while Repping the Interests of Elite White Liberals for Trinkets and Coin?

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From [HERE] Federal officials have indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Florida) on allegations that she used her family’s health care company to steal from a covid-19 vaccination contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and then used the money to bolster her 2021 congressional campaign, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Cherfilus-McCormick was charged alongside multiple co-defendants, including her brother and her tax preparer.

Her district covers most of the Black-majority areas in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. A member of the Democratic Party, she won a special election in 2022 to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Alcee Hastings. Cherfilus-McCormick voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis. Cherfilus-McCormick voted to provide Israel with support following the so-called 2023 “Hamas attack” on Israel.

Law enforcement officials say that in July 2021 the health care company received an overpayment of $5 million, which appeared to be the result of a clerical error. Instead of returning that money, Cherfilus-McCormick funneled some of it to friends and family, who then made donations to her campaign, according to the Justice Department. Such straw donations, as they are known, would be illegal under campaign finance laws.

She also used some of the money to self-fund her campaign, the Justice Department alleges.

“Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice.”

The indictment against Cherfilus-McCormick and her co-defendants was not posted on public court dockets Wednesday evening. [MORE]

Newly Released Documents Reveal Extensive Surveillance Abuses by the NYPD. Police Targeting Blacks and People Deemed Suspicious Based on 'Cultural Clothing' and Language

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From [HERE] Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) released on Thursday more than 2,700 New York Police Department (NYPD) documents obtained after a five-year lawsuit. The groups say that the documents reveal extensive and discriminatory surveillance practices.

The records, ordered to be disclosed by a New York state court in 2022, show repeated use of facial recognition technology (FRT) against individuals engaged in everyday activity as well as political expression. According to the organizations, the disclosures detail how the NYPD relied on FRT to identify people flagged by police reports that labeled them “suspicious” for speaking a foreign language or wearing culturally distinctive clothing. Advocates say the documents demonstrate that racial and cultural profiling frequently served as the basis for surveillance.

The records also reveal that the NYPD spent more than $5 million on facial recognition technology between 2019 and 2020, and has continued to invest at least $100,000 annually. The department stopped tracking FRT accuracy in 2015 after finding error rates too high, yet continued to deploy the technology. In one instance, officers worked with the US Marshals Service to contract a facial recognition firm to surveil a private social media account, apparently in violation of departmental policy.

The documents further show the NYPD using facial recognition to monitor political expression. Officers reviewed social media posts using slang to reference Times Square on New Year’s Eve (“NYE in Times Square is da BOMB”) and conducted queries related to graffiti of a common protest slogan against the police force (abbreviated as “FTP”). In another instance, they used FRT to identify artists based solely on content in a music video. The groups also cite a December 31, 2019 report in which two men in Times Square were subjected to FRT after being reported for speaking a Middle Eastern language and not dancing.

Amnesty International and STOP are calling on New York City lawmakers to enact legislation banning government use of facial recognition, noting that two measures already have majority sponsorship in the City Council. However, the groups urge the NYPD and the mayor to halt use of the technology immediately.

Amnesty International warned in 2022 of a pattern of NYPD surveillance disproportionately affecting Black and brown communities, and now charges that the use of FRT creates a chilling effect on free expression and peaceful assembly.

A UN panel stated this June that the use of artificial intelligence, such as FRT, must comply with international human rights standards. In the report, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights said that AI that cannot comply with human rights standards should be prohibited, and urged states to “establish human rights policies for AI deployment.”

The Myth of Black Voting Power: No Matter How Many Liberals the Black Votary Elects in NYC, Blacks Remain Powerless to Stop the NYPD from Destroying their Freedoms and Degrading Them On a Daily Basis

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The Black electorant (sleeping Toms) should witness that most Black people live in urban jurisdictions that are dominated by liberal Democrats who were duly elected by a participating black votary. Police are primarily killing Black people in these cities and are doing so in substantial numbers. In fact, a map created by Mapping Police Violence illustrates in cities such as; Sacramento, San Francisco, LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Houston, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Madison, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Atlanta, Jacksonville, NYC, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, New Orleans, Miami, etc. police have murdered substantial numbers of Black people.

In the above stated cities, liberal Democrats control nearly all levels and branches of government and control all local government agencies, such as police departments.

NYC, for instance is controlled by white liberal puppeticians and complementary Black rolebots. Among its leaders NYC has a Black mayor (Eric Adams), Black Attorney Generals (Alvin Bragg, Manhattan) (Letitia James Brooklyn), Black state Assembly Leader (Carl Heastie Bronx), Black Public Advocate (Jumaane Williams Brooklyn), Black DA (Darcel Clark, Bronx), Black Borough President (Donovan Richards Queens) and numerous Black judges. Add to this Black legislators who hold 13 of 51 seats on the City Council, 22 of 150 seats in the state Assembly, and eight of 63 seats in the state Senate. There are also four Black congressional representatives —Gregory Meeks, Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clarke, and Jamaal Bowman and hundreds of white liberal democrats all levels of government who dominate City politics and government agencies.

Consequently, if liberal democrats really wanted to do something meaningful about police brutality - that is, controlling their own cops’ behavior in their relations with its Black residents, then the elite white liberal leadership could and would have done so at some point over the past 40-50 years.

Contrary to ‘get out the vote’ rhetoric, the quality of Black citizenship stays low in these places and it does so despite high turnout by the black votary. In liberal jurisdictions, elite liberals and their “academented” Black rolebots dogmatically claim that voting will solve all their problems. Yet Black people’s so-called “rights” are tuned on and off like light switches in said jurisdictions where police surveil, stop, detain and search law abiding Black people’s clothing, their cars and generally interfere with their freedom of movement as they attempt to go about their daily lives. For instance, in NYC law abiding Blacks are frequently stopped, searched and degraded by police in their neighborhoods or cars, Blacks and Latinos make up 90% of all persons and arrested and charged with crimes, Rikers Jail is disproportionately packed with Blacks held pre-trial in reprehensible conditions, a majority of all homeless people are black, Black unemployment stays high, 63% of black families in New York are in the bottom half of the income distribution, blacks are routinely struck from juries and so on. [MORE] Data from the court monitoring project demonstrate that the NYPD targets Blacks and latinos: as Blacks/latinos make up 90% of all NYPD arrests, mostly for victimless crimes. NYC is one of the wealthiest and least equal places in the country. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Copitalism – Police-State authoritarian force, usurped power and repression over men and women wielded in furthering the interests of commerce and the protection commercial property; any benefit whatsoever accruing to citizens exists in spite of this Corporate Police State monster. Any pause is probable cause—so don’t stop, ‘get it-get it’ and bring the noise.

Sleeping Tom – a person of Afrikan descent who has not consciously awakened to fully embrace his or her own asili (connective cultural tissue, heritage, imprimatur, and imperative). 2) a socially unconscious person of Afrikan descent who participates in secret balloting (voting). A sleepin’ Tom lives and reacts out of another culture’s asili or out of the mind of another; not their own. 3) a Negro who is unaware that he is all souled-out. 4) a Negro who isn’t aware that he is in fact and in deed a certified Sambo. 5) a broken, token Negro; a coin-operative. (See: Straw Boss, Asili, Doublemindedness, Sambo, Uncle Tom-Tom, Coin-Operated, Black Flask Brigade & Secret Ballots)

Jazmir Tucker Lawsuit says the 15 Yr. Old Posed No Threat When a Cop Shot Him in the Back. Blacks are Disproportionately Killed by Cops in Akron, a City Controlled by White Liberals. Cop Not Charged

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From [HERE] The family of a 15-year-old Black boy who was fatally shot by an Akron police officer sued the city on Monday over the Thanksgiving Day 2024 shooting that sparked controversy and protests.

Jazmir Tucker, a North High School freshman, “posed no immediate threat” before Akron police officer Davon Fields shot Tucker three times — including twice in the back, the lawsuit said.

Officers waited about eight minutes before giving Tucker medical aid and later found a gun zipped up in a jacket pocket, the lawsuit said.

Tucker family attorneys Stanley Jackson and Robert Gresham called the shooting “tragic and senseless.”

The wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of Tucker’s mother, Amy Green, in federal court in Akron. It names Fields and several other police officers as defendants, along with the city.

It accuses Fields of using excessive force and the department of systemic failures in de-escalation training and bias. The lawsuit says that since 2000, more than half of all fatal Akron police shootings were of Black people in a city where 31% of the population is Black.

The lawsuit also says Fields violated several police policies, including failing to activate his body camera and give medical aid after the shooting.

Fields and another officer on Nov. 28, 2024, reported hearing gunshots while filling out a police report while parked near Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts on East Avenue.

He and his partner ran toward Tucker, and Fields fired eight shots from an assault rifle, the lawsuit says.

Fields did not activate his body camera as he left his cruiser, so it captured none of the moments before the shooting.

Investigators found two fired bullet casings that matched Tucker’s gun near where the boy was shot and later found the gun had been recently fired.

The Summit County medical examiner’s office found that Tucker was shot twice in the back and once in his right arm. The shots to his back were fatal, officials said.

Akron Mayor Shammas Malik has criticized the shooting and officers’ response and questioned why officers needed to shoot Tucker when the gun was in the boy’s pocket.

Tucker’s death sparked protests in Akron, including after a Summit County grand jury declined charges against Fields last month.

Earlier this year, Summit County officials turned the case over to Mahoning County prosecutors to handle after a state investigation.

John Juhasz, the criminal chief of the Mahoning County office, said the case “was fairly investigated and fairly presented to the grand jury.”

He said the panel heard from witnesses over a series of days.

Activists blasted the grand jury’s decision. It comes two years after another Summit County grand jury declined to indict eight Akron officers in the shooting death of Jayland Walker following a police chase.

“God calls us to forgiveness, but God also demands accountability,” said the Rev. Raymond Greene, the leader of the Freedom BLOC in Akron. “What happened today is not accountability, it is complicity.

“Every time a grand jury refuses to hold an officer responsible, the system tells us loud and clear that Black life in Akron is disposable.” [MORE]

The shooting is one of several high-profile police shooting cases in Akron in recent years. They include Jayland Walker, who was shot 45 times by officers in 2022. His family settled a lawsuit against Akron police for $4.8 million.

The lawsuit’s filing comes less than two weeks after an Akron officer shot and wounded Corey Phillips, who was unarmed. The officers fired 12 gunshots at Phillips within 25 seconds of encountering him on Nov. 11, officials said.