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midnight rambler
8th April 2020, 11:12 AM
Courtesy of a real man's man, the one who looks out for us regular folks, Lord Kushner.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165

ziero0
8th April 2020, 12:27 PM
Seriously they really only want to protect those Americans who have demanded protection under RealID.

I am considering having a tombstone engraved:
HE WHO LIES BENEATH THIS STONE IS UNKNOWN BECAUSE HE HAD NO REALID

monty
11th April 2020, 04:11 PM
Whitney Webb Meet the Companies Behind Kushner’s “Coronavirus Surveillance System”



Meet The Companies Poised To Build The Kushner-Backed “Coronavirus Surveillance System” (https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/meet-companies-poised-build-kushner-backed-coronavirus-surveillance-system/)

Whitney Webb ~ April 11, 2020

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The three companies behind the leading proposal to build a “national coronavirus surveillance system”, an initiative spearheaded by Jared Kushner, boast deep ties to Google, intelligence-linked venture capital firms as well as one of last year’s eerily predictive “pandemic” simulations.

On April 7, Politico reported (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165) that the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was spearheading an all-private sector taskforce that aims to build a “national coronavirus surveillance system” in order to “give the government a near real-time view of where patients are seeking treatment and for what.”

This proposed nationwide network, according to that report, would be used to better inform government decision-making regarding which parts of the United States may “safely relax social-distancing rules” and those that may not. Politico treaded lightly in its discussion of such a system’s likely effects on civil liberties, but did note that some critics have compared this proposed system “to the Patriot act enacted after the 9/11 attacks.”

According to Politico (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165), three companies collectively sent out a memo on March 22 to three administration officials – Jared Kushner, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar. The memo was “widely circulated” throughout the administration relative to other submitted proposals. Those companies – Collective Medical, PatientPing and Juvare – asserted in the memo that they could collectively “supply the government with information on where and how many patients are seeking care across 80 percent of the U.S. ‘in short order.’”

Two of those companies, Collective Medical Technologies and PatientPing, declined to comment on the memo and its contents. A representative from Juvare, however, stated that the company has “spoken with officials across several federal agencies including FEMA, HHS and the CDC about its various emergency preparedness and data tools.”

Though the article downplayed the privacy concerns such a system would create, it failed to note the direct and troubling ties of these three companies, not only to Silicon Valley giants with dubious records regarding data privacy (https://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/4_ways_google_is_destroying_privacy_and_collecting _your_data_partner/) and coordination with U.S. intelligence agencies (https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/249521-cisa-the-dirty-deal-between-google-and-the-nsa-that-no-one-is), but also ties to controversial simulations that took place last year and seemingly predicted the current coronavirus crisis.

Collective Medical Technologies

Utah-based Collective Medical Technologies is currently the nation’s largest “healthcare collaboration network” and was recently described by (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2017/11/29/how-collective-medical-technologies-conquered-emergency-rooms-on-a-bootstrap/#5ea3a7dc6824) Forbes as having “conquered emergency rooms on a bootstrap.” Its current CEO, Chris Klomp, worked at the Mitt Romney-founded Bain Capital, whose alumni also include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and current CEO of Google’s YouTube Susan

One of Collective Medical’s largest investors is the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, which poured $47.5 million into the company in 2017. Kleiner Perkins, an early investor (https://venturebeat.com/2006/02/15/kleiner-perkins-surprises-with-200-million-pandemic-fund/) in both Google and Amazon, counts former Secretary of State Colin Powell (https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/colin-powell/) among its “strategic advisors” and has managed a $200 million “pandemic and biodefense fund” (https://venturebeat.com/2006/02/15/kleiner-perkins-surprises-with-200-million-pandemic-fund/) since 2006 that has been coordinated in part (https://www.forbes.com/2006/02/16/kleiner-perkins-biodefense-cz_kd_0216kleinerperkins.html#61750b076edb) with the World Health Organization. That same year, Dr. Thomas Monmath, former chief of the Fort Detrick bioweapon lab’s Virology Division and former senior science advisor to the CIA, also joined Kleiner Perkins (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20060517005850/en/Thomas-Monath-M.D.-Join-Kleiner-Perkins-Caufield) to help “advance innovation” in relation to this specific fund. Dr. Monmath is also a former executive at an Emergent Biosolutions subsidiary.

Kleiner Perkin’s pandemic fund has heavily invested in companies that compose the Emergent Biosolutions-run Alliance for Biosecurity, such as BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (https://money.cnn.com/2007/02/14/news/companies/pandemic/index.htm?postversion=2007021415), as well as NovaVax (https://money.cnn.com/2007/02/14/news/companies/pandemic/index.htm?postversion=2007021415), which recently entered into a major partnership with Emergent Biosolutions to produce a coronavirus vaccine. Emergent Biosolutions, one of the most scandal ridden vaccine companies in the country with deep ties to the U.S. government and the Pentagon, is the subject of an investigation recently published by (https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/killer-enterprise-how-big-pharmas-most-corrupt-companies-plans-corner-covid-19-cure-market/) The Last American Vagabond.

PatientPing

Boston-based PatientPing is another company in this private sector triad lobbying to form a new national “health” surveillance system in the name of combatting the coronavirus epidemic. Founded by Jay Desai and David Berkowicz, PatientPing is a technology company focused on information-sharing in order to create a “healthcare collaboration network.” The company’s first lead investor (https://medcitynews.com/2015/12/google-ventures-ceo-our-focus-on-the-life-sciences-will-grow/?rf=1) was Google Ventures, often referred to in press releases and media reports simply as “GV.” Dr. Krishna Yeshwant of Google Ventures sits on PatientPing’s board (https://patientping.com/about/) and he also led (https://www.gv.com/team/krishna-yeshwant/) GV’s investment in Editas Medicine, the CRISPR gene-editing start-up backed by (https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-and-others-invest-in-editas-for-crispr-gene-editing-2015-8?op=1) Bill Gates and his former scientific advisor Boris

As its name suggests, GV is the venture capital arm of Google and over a third of its investments (https://medcitynews.com/2015/12/google-ventures-ceo-our-focus-on-the-life-sciences-will-grow/?rf=1) are in the “life sciences.” It frequently co-invests (https://www.fastcompany.com/1675552/google-teams-cia-invests-analytics-firm) in companies with In-Q-Tel (https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-cia-2016-9?op=1#mindmeld-is-building-voice-recognition-technology-like-siri--for-everything-7), the CIA’s venture capital firm. The cooperation is hardly surprising if one is aware of Google’s history (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e), as the technology behemoth was a beneficiary of In-Q-Tel funding in its early days.

Google’s use (or rather misuse (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-pays-225-million-for-violating-users-privacy-2012-11?op=1)) of private data is well-known and they have recently been in the news in relation to the coronavirus after giving the government broad access to the private location data (https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-bluetooth-contact-tracing-covid-19/) of Android smartphone users to allegedly help track the virus’ spread. GV’s association with In-Q-Tel and their interest in a company like PatientPing is notable given that In-Q-Tel, particularly In-Q-Tel’s current Executive Vice President (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-o-toole-6b2158127) Tara O’Toole, has long promoted mass surveillance programs that utilize healthcare IT services just like those offered by PatientPing and Collective Medical Technologies. O’Toole is a key and recurrent figure in The Last American Vagabond’s “Engineering Contagion” series (https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/).

PatientPing’s other lead investor (https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/patientping-raises-316m-care-coordination-platform) is the venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz. Andreesen Horowitz is advised by former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers (https://gigaom.com/2011/06/29/larry-summers-to-join-vc-firm-andreessen-horowitz/), an associate of pedophile and intelligence asset Jeffery Epstein (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epsteins-rolodex-famous-friends-and-acquaintances.html) as well as billionaire Bill Gates (https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2014/01/21/bill-gates-just-revealed-his-goal-for-the-rest-of-his-life/). This same venture capital firm is also one of the lead investors in Toka (https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-israel-intelligence-2020-elections-cyber-security/264361/), an Israeli intelligence-linked “start-up” founded by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Toka describes its product portfolio as “empower governments, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies to enhance Homeland Security with groundbreaking cyber-intelligence and operational capabilities” by allowing government’s covert access to consumer electronic devices. Two members of Andreesen Horowitz, Jeff Jordan and Vijay Pande, sit on PatientPing’s board (https://patientping.com/about/).

[I]Juvare

The last of the three companies poised to build a national coronavirus surveillance system is the emergency management software company Juvare. One of their key products is called EMTrack, which – according to Juvare’s website (https://www.juvare.com/emtrack/) – provides its clients the ability to track “patients, people, pets and populations throughout any kind of event.” Its software, in general, relies heavily on (https://confluence.juvare.com/display/PKC/Incident+Dashboard+Map) Google-made or owned software (https://confluence.juvare.com/display/PKC/Map+View).

Juvare boasts that its products have been used by the government to coordinate responses (https://www.juvare.com/news/juvare-releases-infectious-disease-community-impact-add-on-for-webeoc-to-help-emergency-managers-track-covid-19-pandemic/) to mass shootings, such as the Las Vegas and Pulse Nightclub shootings (https://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-under-renewed-scrutiny-after-pulse-gunmans-father-revealed-as-fbi-informant/239574/), and past pandemic scares such as Swine Flu (H1N1), Bird Flu, Ebola and SARS. Juvare’s software products are used by 80% of state public health agencies (https://www.juvare.com/news/juvare-releases-infectious-disease-community-impact-add-on-for-webeoc-to-help-emergency-managers-track-covid-19-pandemic/) and over 50 different U.S. federal agencies (https://www.juvare.com/federal-agencies/) – including the FBI, the State Department and Homeland Security. It is also a contractor for the U.S. military (https://www.juvare.com/defense/). In Mid-March, it released a “free” software add-on for existing clients in government to track (https://www.juvare.com/blog/coordinated-response/new-no-cost-webeoc-board-released-by-juvare-to-track-covid-19-cases-at-the-jurisdictional-level/) coronavirus cases including “presumptive cases” as well as the number of those under “mandatory and voluntary” quarantines.

Juvare was a notable private sector participant (https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6824-2019-10-key-findings-and-after/05bd797500ea55be0724/optimized/full.pdf#page=1) in the series of “Crimson Contagion” simulations that were conducted last year by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Crimson Contagion, overseen and designed by HHS Assistance Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Robert Kadlec (also a key player (https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/) in the “Engineering Contagion” series), simulated the U.S. government’s response to a massive viral pandemic four times between last January and August. Those simulations involved both large and small-scale exercises that brought together 19 different federal agencies, 12 states and several private companies. One focus of those simulations, which preceded the coronavirus crisis by a matter of months, was the use of the surveillance in order to better enforce “social distancing” among Americans.

Here to help?

Though these private companies – as noted by Politico (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165) – are now offering their services of “surveillance” to the U.S. government “for free,” it is difficult to believe that their offer is altruistic in nature given their ties to companies and organizations that have long lobbied for or actively participated in mass surveillance for years, long before the current coronavirus came to dominate headlines and the public consciousness.

Much like the Patriot Act after 9/11, the current pandemic crisis is being used to expand mass surveillance programs, programs that are unlikely to end after the pandemic fades. To the contrary, if history is any indicator, such sweeping new surveillance systems will instead be further expanded.

It is also worth pointing out the significance of Jared Kushner’s involvement in leading this effort, as his wife Ivanka Trump – the President’s daughter – was one of the leading proponents of a controversial program last year called the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA) (https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/). HARPA seeks to create a new government “health” agency aimed at stopping mass shootings before they occur. This agency’s main program, called “Safe Home” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/) (Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes), aims to develop an artificial intelligence-based system that would analyze data harvested from consumer electronic devices as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify those who might threaten others.

Though HARPA ultimately failed to gain traction, a similarly Orwellian mass surveillance system is now being promoted in its place, with coronavirus now replacing mass shootings as the official justification. The superficial re-branding of this new, far-reaching mass surveillance system aims to justify its imposition by framing it as a solution to whatever is currently inspiring the most fear among Americans, with the hope that something sticks. These transparent attempts to gain public consent for further expansion of unconstitutional surveillance strongly suggests that such a system is aimed at expanding authoritarianism and further reducing American civil liberties and has little to do with protecting “public health” and assisting the country’s response to coronavirus.

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Jewboo
11th April 2020, 05:12 PM
Whitney Webb



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Whitney Webb is a staff writer for The Last American Vagabond. She has previously written for Mintpress News, Ben Swann's Truth In Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.

monty
11th April 2020, 05:29 PM
Watch Live: Bilderbergers Kushners & Gates Push Surveillance Database; Entering Homes, Taking Kids Not Vaccinated

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Amanda
11th April 2020, 05:32 PM
listening now- Thanks!

monty
13th April 2020, 11:21 AM
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mamboni
22nd April 2020, 06:14 AM
Remember when diBlasio told New Yorkers to snitch on their neighbors? Check this out:

Trolls Flood Bill de Blasio’s Coronavirus Snitch Line With Dick Pics & Hitler Memes

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Too funny.

keehah
22nd April 2020, 08:51 AM
What this whole economic, physical and social shutdown for basically a normal cold and flu season seems to be is western political and public servant service of Zersetzung, previously applied against individual people who made a 'list', is now being applied against all these politicians and public servants (and their contractors) deem 'non-essentials'.



wiki- Zersetzung (pronounced [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈzɛt͡sʊŋ], German for "decomposition") is a psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Zersetzung served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means, using secret methods of abusive control and psychological manipulation

keehah
26th January 2022, 09:21 AM
ZH
federalregister.gov: Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/24/2019-20804/modernizing-influenza-vaccines-in-the-united-states-to-promote-national-security-and-public-health)
A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 09/24/2019 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/24/2019-20804/modernizing-influenza-vaccines-in-the-united-states-to-promote-national-security-and-public-health)

Executive Order 13887 of September 19, 2019

Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Findings... While it is not possible to predict when or how frequently a pandemic may occur, there have been 4 pandemics in the last 100 years. The most devastating pandemic occurred in 1918-1919 and is estimated to have killed more than 50 million people worldwide, including 675,000 Americans.

(b) Vaccination is the most effective defense against influenza. Despite recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that nearly every American should receive the influenza vaccine annually, however, seasonal influenza vaccination levels in the United States have currently reached only about 45 percent of CDC goals.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to modernize the domestic influenza vaccine enterprise to be highly responsive, flexible, scalable, and more effective at preventing the spread of influenza viruses. This is a public health and national security priority, as influenza has the potential to significantly harm the United States and our interests, including through large-scale illness and death, disruption to military operations, and damage to the economy. This order directs actions to reduce the United States' reliance on egg-based influenza vaccine production; to expand domestic capacity of alternative methods that allow more agile and rapid responses to emerging influenza viruses; to advance the development of new, broadly protective vaccine candidates that provide more effective and longer lasting immunities; and to support the promotion of increased influenza vaccine immunization across recommended populations.

Sec. 3. National Influenza Vaccine Task Force. (a) There is hereby established a National Influenza Vaccine Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force shall identify actions to achieve the objectives identified in section 2 of this order and monitor and report on the implementation and results of those actions. The Task Force shall be co-chaired by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or their designees.

b) In addition to the Co-Chairs, the Task Force shall consist of a senior official from the following executive branch departments, agencies, and offices:
(i) the Department of Defense (DOD);

(ii) the Department of Justice;

(iii) the Department of Agriculture;

(iv) the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA);

(v) the Department of Homeland Security;

(vi) the United States Food and Drug Administration;

(vii) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;

(viii) the National Institutes of Health (NIH);

(ix) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); and

(x) the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)...

(e) The Task Force may consult with State, local, tribal, and territorial government officials and private sector representatives, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law...

(f) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Task Force shall submit a report to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The report shall include:

(i) a 5-year national plan (Plan) to promote the use of more agile and scalable vaccine manufacturing technologies and to accelerate development of vaccines that protect against many or all influenza viruses;

(ii) recommendations for encouraging non-profit, academic, and private-sector influenza vaccine innovation; and

(iii) recommendations for increasing influenza vaccination among the populations recommended by the CDC and for improving public understanding of influenza risk and informed influenza vaccine decision-making...

Sec. 4. Agency Implementation. The heads of executive departments and agencies shall also implement the policy objectives defined in section 2 of this order, consistent with existing authorities and appropriations, as follows:

(a) The Secretary of HHS shall:

(i) through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and BARDA:

(A) estimate the cost of expanding and diversifying domestic vaccine-manufacturing capacity to use innovative, faster, and more scalable technologies, including cell-based and recombinant vaccine manufacturing, through cost-sharing agreements with the private sector, which shall include an agreed-upon pricing strategy during a pandemic;

THE NEXT PANDEMIC IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wV9Rl6d2Mys/
6:51

keehah
28th January 2022, 10:06 AM
Good article, lays out the timeline well, good hypotheses, good comments.

Author is a professor of critical theory (at a UK university) though, but this article is rational.
"This is a brilliant, devastating analysis."

Other comments offer the lens to view this article through:
"This is an excellent article, but I mentally substituted "financialism" for "capitalism" throughout."
"Given that capitalism is just the "means of production is in private hands", I now frequently find myself saying I am a capitalist, to the extent it enables the free market, the principle of mutual exchange and benefit, without external interference. However, as the number of those "private hands" gradually diminishes, the power to dictate prices and "control" markets comes into existence and the system slowly transforms into a cabal.
The cabal that exists in the global financial system is now starting to look little different to a top down Socialist system."
"money is not an issue to people that create it instantly, out of thin air, like magic. What they are after, are ALL the world's resources (which includes people, that are seen as a herd"


thephilosophicalsalon.com: A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY: SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE AND PANDEMIC SIMULATION (https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/)

16 AUG 2021
A year and a half after the arrival of Virus, some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80s). Why all the humanitarian zeal? Cui bono? Only those who are unfamiliar with the wondrous adventures of GloboCap can delude themselves into thinking that the system chose to shut down out of compassion. Let us be clear from the start: the big predators of oil, arms, and vaccines could not care less about humanity.

Follow the money

In pre-Covid times, the world economy was on the verge of another colossal meltdown. Here is a brief chronicle of how the pressure was building up:...

ziero0
28th January 2022, 11:07 AM
"Here comes the national surveillance state"

The paradox is that the one who might accuse you of a nationalist agenda is going to be someone with a nationalist agenda of his own ... one where he obtains the marginal utility.