FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE IN THE UNITED STATES: HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WEAPONIZED THE BANK SECRECY ACT TO SPY ON AMERICANS [More]
What did we just say about if you’re not doing anything wrong…?
[Via Antigone]
Blend Over, Here It Comes Again
Under the banner of establishing global governance in the metaverse, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is pushing digital ID for all users, so all blended reality interactions and transactions can be tracked-and-traced. [More]
Hey, if you aren’t doing anything wrong… and it’s not like systems are ever hacked.
If only there were a way to control the aftermath, because some things really do call for French Revolution solutions…
[Via Antigone]
O Canada
Canada on Thursday announced a ban on 324 assault-style firearms in a continued effort for more stringent gun control. Leaders in Canada also said that they are working with the government of Ukraine to see how the guns can be donated to support the fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [More]
What do we expect from subjects of the Crown?
It’s not like it will do any good anyway. Ukraine started out showing such promise and then decided it didn’t trust it’s people, either.
[Via Jess]
Speaking of Laws Repugnant to the Constitution…
A Bronx bodega worker who allegedly shot an armed robber with a gun he “found” in the store’s bathroom is facing criminal charges — but advocates are calling him a hero. [More]
What kind of real fascists would bring up and pursue charges?
If I were on that jury I’d find him extra not-guilty just for creativity.
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Raging Enough
First Do No Harm
Trump’s pick for Surgeon General caused tragic gun accident as child that left dad shot dead: report [More]
She served up the Covid KoolAid, so it’s fair to wonder how she’ll use her considerable influence to weigh in on lock-up-your-safety edicts…
And will she join her medical colleagues in prescribing hearing protection?
Doing the Job ‘Real Reporters’ Won’t Do
Social media users were quick to point out the error. [More]
After the fact, when she couldn’t be directly confronted on camera in real time, where the “real reporters” were once more proving how replaceable by AI they are…
The X Factor
X prides itself on being the bastion of free speech—a sanctuary for open discourse in a landscape increasingly dominated by cancel culture. Yet, its own advertising policy remains shackled by hypocrisy: gun ads are outright banned. [More]
Elon Musk still has a ways to go…
Case in point: It’s easy not to like Sen. Fetterman when you realize he wants enforcers to use up to lethal force on us to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms.
Shell Game
The deputy sheriff told school officials that J.S. had committed no crime by possessing spent shell casings. The youth, the deputy said, had done nothing wrong. However, the principal ignored the deputy’s claims and called the student’s parents, who arrived about 40 minutes later. The parents were told to take their child home and wait for a phone call. [More]
That kid just got an education that’ll stick with him.
[Via Michael G]
We’re the Only Ones Unexplaining Enough
Speaking of Jury Tampering…
Just Do It
Talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect personified…
But hey, Democrats continuing to be clueless is fine by me.
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Oblivious Enough
Virginia man allegedly attempted to brazenly shoplift from Walmart during holiday ‘Shop with a Cop’ event [More]
50 cops in the store and they had to be told by an employee…?
Evidently they could spare the men…
[Via Michael G]
We’re the Only Ones Corrupt Enough
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
We’re the Only Ones Professional Enough
Law enforcement official accidentally shoots himself on campus of Lead Hill School District… Richey says the man is a licensed law enforcement professional and is legally authorized to carry a firearm on campus. [More]
The old Lee Paige excuse is a classic.
[Via bondmen]
Unsound Thinking
Manhattan Shooter Used a Silencer. Nearly 5 Million Are Registered in the U.S. [More]
So, aside from the fact tht having or not having one would have made zero difference in the outcome, there’s a 0.000001% chance of them being used to kill?
So it figures Shannon Watts would be demanding to keep them … uh … suppressed.
I wonder what the odds are someone using products she did propaganda for would result in jury awards for cancer?
[Via bondmen]
PsyOps by Whom?
‘Zero’ Senate GOPers privately oppose Pete Hegseth for defense pick as he vows to ‘never back down’ amid misconduct claims: sources [More]
So what are we to make of all the noise that says he’s in trouble and about to be torpedoes by the Vichycons?
Who’s playing us?
Must Be the Gun’s Fault…
Mentally ill Calif. school shooter fired at kids as ‘countermeasure’ for US involvement in ‘genocide of Palestinians’ [More]
“[A] long history of mental health issues, alarming criminal behavior, and past stints in prison,” eh?
And let’s hear if for California gun laws!
[Via Steve T]