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HopefullyDevoted's avatar

We are living in crazzzzzy terrible times. And we deserve everything we get for having no guts to stand against evil.

The L.A. flock contract was not renewed, but the cameras were not removed. If you look at DeFlock, this is the most common occurrence with cancelled contracts. So we must assume the cameras are still gathering data and transmitting it to somewhere. . someone. . HAL? We always lose.

Axon gets the contract? Leo Hohmann pointed out yesterday that since 2025 Axon is selling its own surveillance camera subscriptions for cameras that attach to the lights on your street, any street.

Bruce J Kellogg's avatar

I am waiting for the cops to show up at my door because I give these cameras the finger everytime I drive by.

K Young's avatar

Thanks for covering Flock. It's too easy to get mad and then just accept the inevitable. We can't afford to let this continue unopposed.

Clint Rawlings's avatar

China? Palantir does not operate there. Palantir operates in Israel. The testing ground for this system has been happening in Gaza and the West Bank. Anderson Horowitz is a pro Israel start up. I'm wondering why you're covering for Israeli startups that are dominating American tech. From cyber security to our healthcare records, they have access to all of our critical infrastructure. H.B. 219 was not about China, it gave Israel full access into our military which it already pretty much has. I'm disappointed you failed to mention this. And has me questioning your reporting. Everything was correct other than saying it's China. It's not China, it is Israel.

denise ward's avatar

We need to strike at the root - the money system and the hierarchical system. That's as rooty as it gets. Get those two factors right and everything will turn on a dime.

Christine's avatar

Yea GO FLOCK YOURSELF!!! AND CERTAINLY DONT GET A HIGH POWERED LASER FROM AMAZON AND POINT IT AT ONE OF THE PRIVACY INVADERS!

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

i got 3 of them lol

Rubberto Kaufen's avatar

Any particular brand?

sourapples's avatar

Endless cameras, ice paramilitary with a budget larger than the Marines, and corporate ran internment camps.

denise ward's avatar

Well the people keep funding it.

Estevan's avatar

Blue lives = Redcoats

We've seen this before. There's a reason why there is a 2nd Amendment in this country. There are reasons why We the People should not hesitate to use it. What these traitors are doing has a name and its name is Tyranny. Tyranny cannot stand in America. Tumultuously to arms my fellow Americans! We've come full circle in America. Domestic enemies, liars, thieves, & murderers have no integrity, credibility, or honor. They are the domestic enemies our Founders warned us about. When a government of the People, for the People, and by the People turns against the People, it's name is Tyranny. We the People have a duty & an obligation to exercise our Rights & Liberty to overthrow those traitors, & abolish their treason by any means necessary. Revolution is the solution.

We're free people. Protect and defend America, the Constitution, We the People, & Liberty itself by any means necessary.

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

yeah it’s most likely going to gun down to a sequel to the american revolution and the civil war all wrapped up in a world war 3 bow…

Estevan's avatar

So be it!

Start up the militias?

denise ward's avatar

No that is the most ridiculous thing ever. Don't you guys ever get sick of killing? How about we move up a notch on the evolutionary scale huh instead of this savagery as the only solution. So come on, can you think of anything else besides killing? And then when you've say, killed them all, how do you suggest we live differently?

denise ward's avatar

If men do that again it's just never going to end. We need to start getting off their systems but is anyone talking about doing that? No, the only solution, as usual is kill kill kill. Dumb. Just utterly dumb. As if that has ever helped. How about we start living in a a way we would if the system collapsed? Why don't we do it now, while the system is still going so that when it collapses, we'll be alright Jack? Sounds like everyone is waiting for the system to collapse or something. Then do whatever it is they haven't even thought of yet. Great. That sounds like a winning strategy *not*. Yet I see it everyday - everyone waiting for collapse before they do anything. But then when collapse comes, they wouldn't even know the first thing to do. How about we avoid collapse and just move off the system and build new systems to replace them? They obviously haven't worked, at all. So to say go kill them again, is only feeding the same energies that want to kill. We become like them and it simply ends up in a killing spree. Ooh they love that, more blood and guts. Food...yummy.

denise ward's avatar

There is no need to get a hair out of place. Just stop funding them.

Estevan's avatar

Do you know for to overthrow your government?

denise ward's avatar

That would be folly. You think that we can do things the same way as in the past donchya? Well that would be foolish because they already have themselves very well insulated and we'd be using up a sh!t ton of energy and it would get us nowhere fast. Rather we need to be spontaneous and really bamboozle THEM. They take forever to know what to do because when you lie you have to test everything many times (which they do on us) and have many resources to get your story straight. But when we act spontaneously, they don't get a chance to do that and that wrong-foots them.

We are going to lose everything soon anyway, even if we stay within the lines. So we might as well make this an adventure.

Estevan's avatar

That didn't answer the question.

denise ward's avatar

The question was not worded properly. But the gist I got was to overthrow the government and to do that would be close to impossible and take enormous amounts of energy to actually do what they do - take things down. We need to create, build the new and put the energy there. While taking things down takes up the time we could be using to build the new. And so if you took them down, then what? I am guessing it would be the same structure again just with different bums. But correct me if I'm wrong. What's your strategy after you take them down?

Estevan's avatar

Do you know how to overthrow the government? If you don't know, why don't you know?

Wayne Burden's avatar

This is a very sad article (more sad than usual). The erosion of our freedoms is absolutely unbelievable… and the REALLY sad part of it is most Americans haven’t got a clue about what’s going on. Remember Clause Swabb… the good humor man of the World Economic Forum? “You will own nothing and be happy”… he says this in his Arnold Schwarzenegger “Terminator” voice. Then look at the gleeful expressions on the faces of the Chinese youth as they proudly display what good little Chinese surfs they have been. Sad beyond belief. The worst thing is these young people were BORN into this system and think it’s completely normal to be tracked and scored… again… clueless.

Here, the changes have been so incremental and under the radar almost no one is noticing. The frog won’t know he’s been overcooked until he tries to jump out of the pot… sorry, the hungry house feline predator has had its eye on you for some time…. Licking his chops and just waiting for the right moment to pick you off. The surveillance state is doing the same thing to us.

Incidentally, the plan is for your iPhone to become your ticket to the brave new world. No iPhone? Flip phone you say? Sorry… no ticky no shirty. Later, once the world is accustomed to living this way, the access you’ve gotten use to with your iPhone will be taken away… UNLESS… you agree to take a device INSIDE YOU that grants the same access. Don’t do it! Mark of the beast by any other name is still the Mark.

CudjoeChick's avatar

Im smashing the iphone w a hammer on Friday. Im giddy about it. If you ditch iphone & google phones, you can cut your tracking drastically. Refuse face scans, cash must be accepted as payment in the US-use it. Get photos& docs off the cloud-cut any subscription on everything. Be aware- home depot app knows how many kids u have, names, where you go, much more. DONT USE APPS UNLESS A MUST USE- they all capture every time and place you pass gas. What a pathetic path we are on. DO NOT COMPLY.

denise ward's avatar

I don't own a cell phone. It's quite difficult living in this stupid world without one. But I do it and so can others. Everyone ought to throw the perverted things into the river.

Dustin Roberts's avatar

Flock that 🖕🖕🖕

And wow, there's a lot of needy and obsessive cops out there. Don't be like Sting in "Every Breath You Take". Be like Sting in "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free". FREE FREE SET THEM FREE!!!

Question Everything and more's avatar

Agree! Flock can go F*ck off. 🖕

Mac's avatar

Solid, WW. Thank you

2030 is supposed to be the deadline for the vampire cult to have their panopticon up and running. 2047 is the deadline for their global mass murder program to be complete.

The hour is late. And the kimchee is waist deep and rising

Kate's avatar

In my county local police were alerted that a stolen vehicle from out of state was passing through. The man/thief did not break any laws while driving through to warrant a pull over. They started a high speed chase through our community and the truck (that was insured) crashed head on with a vehicle carrying two local innocent people killing all three and totaling the stolen truck. There was no apology for the deaths of our community members the police instead told us that the guy had a gun in the vehicle which in their minds justified the high speed chase and death of our neighbors. If the cameras had not been there the law would have never known, the guy would have kept on driving through our town and we would have not lost two people for absolutely nothing!! I personally would not want to be the owner of the stolen vehicle. To think I caused two innocent people’s deaths over a vehicle that my insurance had already paid me for would haunt me.

Gary Carlson's avatar

https://youtu.be/OshNahVo9-c?is=U9yaWT5T1duuaCcz

“The System” by Tom McDonald.

Mystic Neon's avatar

The stalking cases are the part that actually lands not hypothetical harm, documented harm, from the people we’re told to trust with the cameras. The “doggy door” framing of the Fourth Amendment is sharp enough to steal.

This will be another one in the books well done!

Barryonthefly's avatar

Excellent journalism

Moebius Infinity's avatar

What are the actual ingredients ofa Flock unit?

When does a 'normal' camera need to become flocked up?

Here in the Netherlands i see boxes appear that are clipped onto a lamp post, they stay a week then they are removed again.

The size of these boxes is roughly 15x15x10 cm.

They dont look like a camera, but a pinhole can be a camera, so who knows... for all i know they could be logging bleutooth signals...

I wonder if other people also see such boxes apear in their country. If there are people who build these boxes.

Who are the people who mount them in the lamp posts, and take them away a few weeks later.

Im asking around but so far most people didnt even notice they were there..

Im also collecting informationif i can legally take one home, leave a note with a request for information.

As in, please inform us what these devices do, once we recieved a detailled report we will return them.

Something along those lines...

I think everyone deserves an explanation as thesecthings appear to be in conflict with our privacy law.

Feedback is welcome.

What is a nice way to deal with these grey boxes?

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

they don’t even need to be a ‘camera’ to collect data. they can do it with radio waves even.

Moebius Infinity's avatar

Yeah I suspect bluetooth.

The thing is that nobody seems to know anything about these boxes.

Its just weird they appear un announced, and then disappear again...

And the locations are near a cafe, near a foodcorner, on a road that connects to the next town, near a church,

Lynette Devries's avatar

There is a video on Rumble called Bluetruth or Blue Truth. It is about some doctors testing their patients for Bluetooth addresses. It all started when a doctor found out he was picking up Bluetooth addresses from a couple of his vaccinated patients. Even when the doctors went to a graveyard, the corpses were still emitting Bluetooth addresses. Look up a guy called Mark Steele. He is a former weapons expert. The guy talks about the street lights and 5G towers. I live in Australia and they are planning to build a Data Center in Sydney at the cost of over 1 billion dollars. We Aussies should protest.

Moebius Infinity's avatar

Insanity is taking over.

Don't these morons realize this is not financially sustainable.

This tech is outdated the day it comes active...

denise ward's avatar

Why do you want to be nice?

Moebius Infinity's avatar

To expose how the nice way is being bullied. And to see if it eventually may work by playing nice.

There will be people who just hit the things down with a stick and sell them on ebay. As this is most likely expensive shit and a very easy prey.

I mainly want to know why nobody informed anyone about privacy infringement in out neighbourhood. Who is accountable, who should eventually get dragged to court. Not that i think that will actually happen, but at least we can try to figure out who are the rotten apples.

So im not being nice, im just annoying to certain players in this 'game'

Rebecca Dematos's avatar

If evil doesn't sleep, nor shall I.

Rat's avatar

My current working theory is that, while perv cops and control freaks are bad, the big motive behind this is rent extraction. Whatever can be surveilled can be subject to another tax, in the name of environment, "protecting kids", holy Greta, or whatever.