Shopper Tracking Device Embedded in Store Mannequins

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John Galt

The search for predictive behavior technology to target shopping habits has been a contentious one in the United States. Several years ago a notice appeared at Promenade Temecula in California, and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. which advised shoppers that their cell phone signal would be used to track them as they move from store to store. Despite privacy assurances, that test-run produced enough outrage to force the UK maker of the technology, Path Intelligence, as well as mall management to halt the surveillance. Senator Charles Schumer was embroiled in the debate and subsequently put forth a Code of Conduct "to promote consumer privacy and responsible data use for retail location analytics." It's been described as a step in the right direction, while other lawmakers still see major privacy gaps.

Nevertheless, a new shopper tracking system is being rolled out in the UK which will be embedded into store mannequins. Meanwhile, some of the earlier pushback in the U.S. seems to be fading on news that the government appears to be encouraging strong regulations, potentially opening the door for such systems to be used in the United States. 

How to Turn Your Vehicle Into a Statement of Tech Activism Against the Police State

John Galt

There is clearly no respect for the Fourth Amendment right to probable cause before being interrogated and searched, as many videos on YouTube will confirm. There is also an indisputable trend toward the militarization of police with armored vehicles and an array of exotic battlefield weaponry.  Couple this with new training that we are all "civilians" who could be the next lone wolf domestic terrorists, and we are sliding very fast toward a vicious form of tyranny. Even if you are unarmed, trapped in your vehicle, you are a suspected threat to "officer safety" as you can see in this video. Or if you are already subdued and screaming while being beaten, you are of course "resisting arrest."

It often takes creativity to overcome tyranny, especially when tyranny is out in the open and proud of its behavior. Perhaps the best proof of conditions in the U.S. is indicated by the increasing number of ways that entrepreneurial freedom-loving individuals are asserting themselves, such as developing a drone detector, a way to disable facial recognition cameras, ways to be anonymous online, or ways to opt out of the surveillance banking system, just to name a few. The maxim that necessity is the mother of invention certainly applies.

For freedom on the road, enter the "Spy Car." The line of defense illustrated below might seem over the top to some people, but then isn't the police state over the top with the measures they have taken? And that system makes money from harming and extorting the innocent, as former good officers have documented. Do you have any other innovative ideas to take direct action against the police state without resorting to violence or calls to your congressman?  Put your tech solutions into the marketplace now and see if peace sells. 

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Flu (Scare) Season Goes Into Overdrive

John Galt

Each year seems to hit a new level of hype surrounding the seasonal flu. The pharmaceutical-media complex is drooling over the latest "outbreak," which has resulted in Boston declaring a "Health Emergency" as highlighted in the video below and New York reaching epidemic proportions. Additionally, nurses are being denied the right to refuse flu vaccinations, even on religious grounds, and are being fired for any resistance. 

However, fine details are normally not the strong suit of corporate media, so that is where we must look before we decide to go into full-blown panic mode and start lining up to get jabbed with the latest vaccine concoction. For instance, people are still getting sick and are dying even after getting the flu shot.

As even the Associated Press was forced to highlight:

Recent studies have shown that the flu vaccine as a whole is only about 59 percent effective at preventing the illness. NRP pointed out that the vaccine appears to be less effective for the elderly, which is a population often highly encouraged to receive the shot in the first place. (Source)

'Zero Dark Thirty' Falling on the World

John Galt

Kathryn Bigelow is once again drawing attention; this time for the follow-up to her award-winning movie The Hurt Locker. The focus of her new movie is on the role torture has played in American foreign policy in a post-9/11 world. Namely, the hunting of Osama bin Laden and his subsequent death.

America's torture doctrine is now enshrined, as courts at all levels have concluded that it is best for the military to decide American morality. The latest insult comes via Jose Padilla's family who have had to appeal to an international human rights tribunal for basic protections that their son should have been afforded within the U.S. legal system as a natural-born American citizen.

The sweeping net of counterterrorism has subjected innocent people to medieval cruelties ... and these people have had their unjust suffering fall on deaf ears. Who would extol such barbarous acts as justified? Hollywood, of course.

5 Reasons NOT to Pay Your Credit Cards

Are you one of the millions of Americans trying to decide between paying your credit card bills and eating?   

John Galt

We live in a matrix that goes to unspeakable expense to nurture us from the teat to be good consumers. You are issued a tax collection number at birth (SS#), another artificial number for your credit worthiness (FICO), and then you're extended a certain amount of tokens to play "life" based on those numbers.  This virtual currency, not unlike your earned Farmville coins, only has value because you give it value.  

It is a brilliantly designed game:  the banksters create a unit of money out of thin air; lend it to people with interest attached; get them to buy real items; then raise the rates, force people to work harder, hover like a vulture until expected default occurs, and rake in the forfeited assets.  Best of all, when the whole Ponzi scheme comes crashing down because they drunkenly gambled with your interest payments, the very people who destroyed you get bailed out by you with tax money.  And they call you the thieves when you can't pay them back.  The game is rigged for the house and it's always a Win/Win for them and a Lose/Lose for you.

Sure, you get to "rent" a flat-screen TV, a car, or a home from them, making life in the matrix almost worth it.  But, ultimately, you only temporarily use that stuff at great expense to you and massive profits to the banks.  After years and years of paid interest, you still never truly own anything.  The TV is now obsolete and worthless; you still must pay increasing property taxes and insurance on your homes and cars, even when your done paying the bank three times their value, all while they bought your years of servitude with nothing real or tangible.

In truth, if there was real justice in America, the criminal banking cartel would be arrested under the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, and their assets should seized and returned to their victims.  After their arrest and the unconditional release of all debt prisoners, a new, fair, and sound money system should be put in place for the benefit of all (See The Secret of Oz).

For the many who are contemplating dropping out of the corrupt debtor system, the least impact from the mafia will occur by ignoring your unsecured credit cards.  Before you take this action, be warned that you may have to return the signing bonus gift you received when got your contract to play in the big leagues. 

Here are the top five reasons not to pay your credit cards:

1. If you owe $6,000 on a credit card with a 20 percent interest rate, and you only pay the minimum payment each time, it will take you 54 years to pay off that credit card.  During those 54 years you will pay $26,168 in interest rate charges in addition to the $6,000 in principal that you are required to pay back (Source).
2. Under the legal fractional reserve banking system, the banks NEVER actually had the fake money for the credit they extended you in the first place.  They added you to their stable of debt slaves with a simple accounting key stroke.
3. The cartel of the large private banks are a proven criminal entity at the heart of most global problems including, but not limited to:  wars, genocide, famine, and resource plundering.  It's immoral to continue to support such a system on any level.
4. You won't need a good credit score to live outside of the matrix. It's a place in your mind where it is okay to not ever "use" anything with bank financing for the rest of your life.
5. Not paying your credit cards may be one of the only ways to make the matrix feel the weight of your protest without drawing too much oppression.

Since the foxes guard the chickens on Wallshington Street, the citizens may have to take justice into their own hands through peaceful resistance -- by simply dropping out of the matrix.  In other words, don't pay your phony debts to criminal banksters.

By not paying your debts, you should expect the system's goons to rain down fear by way of phone calls and mail to you.  Additionally, you will certainly risk losing your esteemed Farmville status and, these days, you may even win a free trip to one of the oligarchy's private jails. 

However . . . you could just wind up gaining some independence from your manufactured stress and servitude.

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