Spain To Start Registry For Those Who Refuse Vaccine

Spain To Start Registry For
Those Who Refuse Vaccine
While nations and global corporations stampede to track all recipients of
COVID vaccines, Spain adds a registry to record those who refuse to
take it. Those “deniers” will be then punished by being excluded from
normal public life. ⁃ TN Editor
Vaccinations against Covid-19, which will begin on December 27th in
Spain will be voluntary, but the Ministry of Health has said that it will
register those who refuse it.

Those who don’t wish to be immunised against the virus will not remain
anonymous and the Ministry of Health will register the names of people
who refuse to have it and their reasons why, reports 20Minutos.

The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa has assured the Spanish public that
the vaccine is effective against the new strain of Covid too, of which
“there is no evidence” in Spain.

This information will be included in a ‘vaccination registry’ of each
citizen. This new information appeared in a report on Vaccination

Strategy against Covid, which was released by the the Ministry of Health
on Monday, December 21st.

The document states: “Without prejudice the duty of collaboration falls
on individuals to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and will be
voluntary”. Despite this, it adds that “it is considered important to
register cases of rejection of the vaccination in the vaccination registry,
in order to understand the possible reasons for this in different
population groups”.

Those who agree to be vaccinated must first give verbal informed
consent, except in certain circumstances when it may be required in
writing, for example when it comes to vaccinating children in schools,
when parents or guardians are not present.

The number of Spaniards willing to take a Covid-19 vaccine grew to 40.5
percent this month, from 36.8 percent in November, a new poll revealed
on Monday December 27th, just days before Spain begins its inoculation
programme.

Another 16.2 percent said they are willing to get the jab if it is shown to
be “reliable”, up from 1.4 percent in November, according to the survey
by the state-funded CIS research institute.

Meanwhile, the percentage of Spaniards who said they are unwilling to
take the jab plunged to 28 percent in December from 47 percent in the
previous month.

Spain plans to start immunising people against the coronavirus on
Sunday, December 27th, starting with elderly residents and staff in
nursing homes.

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Government   Surveillance
Created Moral Hazard For
Massive Solarwinds Hack
Attack
When the Federal government spies on and collects massive amounts of
citizen data, it must attempt to “protect” it for their own use. It is now
obvious that it is impossible to secure this data from hackers, but will
the Feds stop collecting more personal data? No. ⁃ TN Editor
Governments often tell their subjects that they must submit to
surveillance programs to stay safe. Whether the boogeyman is terrorism,
hate, or even health, government snooping on private data often violates
our rights to privacy.

But surveillance programs are unsafe on their own. Securing major sets
of sensitive personal data is a tall order that few can fulfill. What do you
know: Government agencies that want more access to your data all too
often get hacked and risk exposing your private information to the
world.

A case in point: on the same week that we learned the Treasury
Department succumbed to a huge hack, it proposed a major expansion of
their quiet yet pervasive financial surveillance programs to so-
called “self-hosted wallet” (AKA privately controlled) cryptocurrency
transactions.

Last week, it was revealed that agencies such as the U.S. Departments
of Commerce, Treasury, Energy and National Nuclear Security
Administration (!), and Homeland Security had succumbed to
a sophisticated cyber-attack where a likely nation-backed actor had
infiltrated government systems. This hack was just one part of a larger
offensive against the major IT infrastructure company SolarWinds, who
counted some of the largest players in commerce, media, government,
and academia among its clients. Specifically, hackers compromised an
old version of SolarWinds’ Orion software that was used by some 18,000
customers.

Security analysts are still probing the extent of the hack and likely
fallout. It appears that systems had been infiltrated for months since
around March; perhaps attackers still have access to certain networks.
And this particular operation might not have been limited to just the
SolarWinds Orion product. We might not know the full contours of this
problem for quite some time.

Government leaders are already beating the drums of cyberwar. They
can’t help themselves, but it’s certainly too early for such threat
escalation. But it’s always worth thinking through government
surveillance practices that put our data at risk of such inevitable
offenses. Creating massive government databases of personal
information creates an unavoidable breach liability.

When it comes to the Treasury Department, the hacking risk is especially
acute. Few people know that Treasury has operated a massive financial
surveillance program made possible through the Bank Secrecy Act,
which is kind of like the “PATRIOT Act for money,” for decades. Under
the guise of fighting money-laundering and crime, the Treasury
Department forces financial institutions to collect and share personal
information on innocent people every day. Unsurprisingly, Treasury

would like to expand these programs to ensnare more cryptocurrency
transactions in its dragnet.

The proposed “self-hosted wallet” rules would make it much harder for
privacy-minded individuals who run manage their own private keys for
cryptocurrency to make transactions with people who outsource key
management to third parties.

Right now, customers of third party-managed wallets and exchanges
must submit to certain “anti-money laundering/know your customer”
(AML/KYC) government data reporting rules when making transactions
greater than $10,000 dollars. The proposed change would require that
the recipients of such transactions also submit to personal data
collection even when they manage their own keys before the regulated
company may send the funds. Furthermore, the limit for such “self-
hosted wallet” recipients would be lowered to $3,000 for certain data
recording requirements—a new and unjustifiable roadblock for privately
managed wallets to engage with the rest of the crypto economy.

Read full story here…

Despite Clouds Or Darkness,
New Satellite Can See Into
Buildings
“You can run but you cannot hide” is not just a funny statement any
more. Technocrat engineers have invented new ways to capture super
high-resolution images from space, even to the extent of seeing straight
into buildings. Further, there are more resolution refinements to come. ⁃
TN Editor
A few months ago, a company called Capella Space launched a satellite
capable of taking clear radar images of anywhere in the world, with
incredible resolution — even through the walls of some buildings.

And       unlike      most      of       the       huge      array
of surveillance and observational satellites orbiting the Earth, its
satellite Capella 2 can snap a clear picture during night or day, rain or
shine.

“It turns out that half of the world is in nighttime, and half of the world,
on average, is cloudy,” CEO Payam Banazadeh, a former system
engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory, told Futurism. “When
you combine those two together, about 75 percent of Earth, at any given
time, is going to be cloudy, nighttime, or it’s going to be both. It’s
invisible to you, and that portion is moving around.”

On Wednesday, Capella launched a platform allowing governmental or
private customers to request images of anything in the world — a
capability that will only get more powerful with the deployment of six
additional satellites next year. Is that creepy from a privacy point of
view? Sure. But Banazadeh says that it also plugs numerous holes in the
ways scientists and government agencies are currently able to monitor
the planet.

“There’s a bunch of gaps in how we’re currently observing Earth from
space — the majority of the sensors we use to observe earth are optical

imaging sensors,” he said. “If it’s cloudy, you’re going to see the clouds,
not what’s happening under the clouds. And if there’s not much light,
you’re going to have a really hard time getting an image that is useful.”

By contrast, Capella can peer right through cloud cover, and see just as
well in the daylight as in total darkness. That’s because instead of optical
imaging, it uses synthetic aperture radar, or SAR.

SAR works similarly to how dolphins and bats navigate using
echolocation. The satellite beams down a powerful 9.65 GHz radio signal
toward its target, and then collects and interprets the signal as it
bounces back up into orbit. And because the satellite is sending down its
own signal rather than passively capturing light, sometimes those
signals can even penetrate right through a building’s wall, peering at the
interior like Superman’s X-ray vision.

“At that frequency, the clouds are pretty much transparent,” Banazadeh
told Futurism. “You can penetrate clouds, fog, moisture, smoke, haze.
Those things don’t matter anymore. And because you’re generating your
own signal, it’s as if you’re carrying a flashlight. You don’t care if it’s day
or night.”

Capella didn’t invent SAR. But Banazadeh says it’s the first U.S.
company to offer the technology, and the first worldwide to offer a more
accessible platform for potential customers to use.

“Part of the challenge in this industry is that working with satellite
imagery providers has been difficult,” he explained. “You might have to
send a bunch of emails to find out how they could collect images for you.
In some instances, you might have to send a fax.”

Another innovation, he says, is the resolution at which Capella’s
satellites can collect imagery. Each pixel in one of the satellite’s images
represents a 50-centimeter-by-50-centimeter square, while other SAR
satellites on the market can only get down to around five meters. When
it comes to actually discerning what you’re looking at from space, that
makes a huge difference.

Read full story here…

Intel Agencies To Perfect
Facial Recognition From
Drones
What cannot be monitored cannot be controlled. To the extent that it can
be monitored, it can be controlled. This is the essence of Technocracy’s
“science of social engineering” that is being rapidly applied to all facets
of society. ⁃ TN Editor
Intelligence and military researchers want to merge facial recognition
with other biometric methods to identify people from long distances and
steep angles.

The intelligence community wants to put biometric identification
technology on drones but has hit a wall when it comes to the most widely
used biometric: facial recognition.

Federal programs experimenting with facial recognition technology have
found the reliability depends greatly on lighting, camera position and
other environmental factors—elements that are almost impossible to

control at long range. But improvements in computer vision and
techniques that take a subject’s entire body into account are increasing
the possibilities.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, issued a
broad agency announcement solicitation for its latest attempt to improve
biometrics at range, the Biometric Recognition and Identification at
Altitude and Range, or BRIAR, program.

“The BRIAR program aims to develop software algorithm-based systems
capable of performing whole-body biometric identification at long-range
and from elevated platforms,” the call states, outlining a three-phase
process to prototype and test novel ways to incorporate multiple
biometric signatures—such as face, gait and body type—to improve
identification and verification at long ranges and steep angles.

“Many intelligence community and Department of Defense agencies
require the ability to identify or recognize individuals under challenging
scenarios, such as at long-range (e.g., 300+ meters), through
atmospheric turbulence, or from elevated and/or aerial sensor platforms
(e.g., ≥20° sensor view angle from watch towers or unmanned aerial
vehicles,” according to the solicitation posted to beta.SAM.gov.

“Expanding the range of conditions in which accurate and reliable
biometric-based identification could be performed would greatly improve
the number of addressable missions, types of platforms and sensors from
which biometrics can be reliably used, and quality of outcomes and
decisions.”

The solicitation call notes facial recognition has “increasingly become
the biometric modality best suited for [intelligence community] and DOD
missions,” particularly when operators cannot control environmental
factors—called out in the document as pose, illumination and expression,
or PIE.

While these factors—the position of the subject, lighting around them
and their facial expression—determine the quality of the image and
subsequent matching attempts, “Over the past six years, there have
been notable advances in computer vision to facilitate unconstrained”

facial recognition, the document states.

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DHS To Collect DNA, Eye
Scans Via Defense Contractors
The problem is that private defense contractors don’t give a rat’s
whisker about privacy, citizen’s rights or the U.S. Constitution. This is
the greatest danger when forming public-private partnerships (p3) that
bind private entities to government authorities. ⁃ TN Editor
Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the
Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect unprecedented
levels of biometric information from immigration applicants and their
sponsors — including U.S. citizens. While some types of applicants have
long been required to submit photographs and fingerprints, a rule

currently under consideration would require practically everyone
applying for any kind of status, or detained by immigration enforcement
agents, to provide iris scans, voiceprints and palmprints, and, in some
cases, DNA samples. A tangled web of defense and surveillance
contractors, which operate with little public oversight, have already
begun to build the infrastructure that would be needed to store these
records.

After proposing the rule in September, DHS is currently reviewing, and
must respond to, thousands of comments it received during the 30-day
period in which the public could weigh in. The agency had signaled that
the proposal would be coming when it announced last year that it would
be retiring its legacy Automated Biometric Identification System, or
IDENT, and replacing it with the Homeland Advanced Recognition
Technology framework — stating explicitly that one of its objectives was
to collect more types of biometric data and make searching and
matching easier. Where HART was the vessel, the new proposed rule is
the means of collecting all the new data types to populate it.

Any potential contractors tasked with rolling out the new data collection
infrastructure and management won’t be decided until after the rule is
finalized, but a look at the companies currently working on building out
DHS’s already vast biometrics capabilities is instructive.

The contract for the current biometrics management system used by the
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, for case
processing, background checks, and identity verification was awarded in
2015 to the relatively large but low-profile federal contractor Pyramid
Systems, which is based in Fairfax, Virginia. Run by a Taiwanese
immigrant couple who are Democratic donors, Pyramid has been
contracted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the
Securities and Exchange Commission, the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, the Census Bureau, and other agencies. In a
2016 release about the contract, which is potentially worth up to $87.5
million, the company wrote that it would “provide Agile services for
enhancement and operations and maintenance (O&M) of current
biometrics applications used for U.S. immigration-related efforts,” using
jargon for a software development methodology focused on constantly

evolving to changing circumstances and a client’s needs.

Defense giant BAE Systems has a $47 million contract for USCIS
biometrics support and collection, which appears to involve the
mechanics of actually taking fingerprints and photographs. The technical
infrastructure for the processing, searching, matching, and maintenance
of the first couple of components of HART are being built by Northrop
Grumman through a contract potentially worth $143 million.

These international defense conglomerates have, over the years,
amassed tens of thousands of U.S. government contracts worth tens of
billions of dollars, including hundreds with DHS alone, for everything
from software to weapons. These partnerships between defense
contractors and DHS — a sprawling agency created after 9/11 — form
the backbone of a decadeslong melding of the war on terror with the war
on drugs, and the expansion of an all-encompassing national security
state whose reach extends inside and outside the country. BAE Systems
and Pyramid Systems did not respond to requests for comment;
Northrop Grumman referred questions to DHS, which responded to
detailed questions by pointing back to its press release.

DHS’s data collection operations are also aided by its contracts with the
surveillance state. HART, like much of the federal government’s data
infrastructure, is hosted on Amazon Web Services; Amazon has made
itself indispensable as its lobbying machine simultaneously pushes anti-
labor, pro-surveillance, and pro-monopolization policy. The controversial
facial recognition firm Clearview AI — which built its software
by trawling social media and the web for billions of images to scrape —
already has an active contract with Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement, which, as a component of DHS, could easily match those
images against the HART database. Palantir, the data-mining firm
founded by billionaire Peter Thiel whose software uses data from various
databases to form detailed relationship maps and establish connections
between individuals, also has a contract with ICE.

That nongovernmental entities with commercial incentives and fewer
limits on data use would have access to so much personal data is
alarming to privacy watchdogs. “It has a private prison feel. When you

start contracting out that stuff to the private sector, the private sector
will never care about rights,” said Paromita Shah, executive director of
Just Futures Law.

Read full story here…

Police Body Cams, Public
Surveillance And Fusion
Centers
Fusion is a data processing concept that means normalizing and
combining otherwise incompatible data streams into a single stream.
DHS Fusion centers, for instance, harvested and transformed state and
local data to be compatible with their national database. The same
concept works locally. ⁃ TN Editor
I didn’t think too much about it when news broke about a police
department creating another cam-share program.
After all, I have written a half dozen stories about police cam-share
programs over the years, including one about DHS’s
exclusive “Platinum” cam-share program in New Orleans.

“The New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation’s SafeCam NOLA
     program, which allows residents to register their cameras with
     NOPD, recently launched its “platinum” program that connects
     cameras to the Real-Time Crime Center. The program debuted in
     October, and its public launch is among 2019 budget priorities with
     the city’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
     Preparedness, along with the other surveillance camera
     expansions.”
But a couple of things from a recent NBC News story about a cam-share
program in Jackson, Mississippi caught my attention.

    “Strapped for cash and facing a sharp rise in homicides, city leaders
    here are expanding police surveillance powers to allow residents
    and business owners to send live feeds from many types of security
    cameras — including popular doorbell cameras — directly to the
    city’s real-time command center.”

Livestreaming video surveillance to a police department is not inherently
suspicious until you see who’s behind it.

The Jackson Police Departments’ real-time command center or fusion
center would not be possible without Fusus.

    “The new use of this livestreaming technology by police, which is
    undergoing a final legal review in Jackson, is drawing interest from
    other small cities that don’t have the resources to build their own
    surveillance systems.”

    “The move made Jackson, which has struggled to keep up with
    advances in high-tech crime-fighting, one of two dozen places in the
    country where police agencies inked deals this year with Fusus, a
    small Georgia company that aims to make it easier for American law
    enforcement agencies to build networks of public and private
    security cameras.”

And that it where things become interesting or disturbing, depending on
your views about privacy.

Fusus bills itself as “RTC3 or a Real-Time Crime Center in the
Cloud.” Fusus combines video with real-time officer geolocator feeds

using “Pileum” police body cameras.

According to Pileum’s website there are at least 5 police departments
including the Jackson Police Department using Pileum’s body cameras.

As NBC News mentioned, “Fusus, goes a step further than other
surveillance systems by allowing police real-time access to home
security systems, but does not offer or integrate with facial recognition
technology.”

Police have the ability to track a person or person’s by the clothing they
are wearing, by the way they walk (gait tracking) and they can ID and
track any vehicle. All without a warrant. And no one is the wiser.

“What we’ll be able to do is get a location, draw a circle around it
and pull up every camera within a certain radius,” Mayor Chokwe
Lumumba said.

The reasons why this should concern everyone are too numerous to
mention here, but EFF does a good job of explaining it.

    “Even if you refuse to allow your footage to be used that way, your
    neighbor’s camera pointed at your house may still be transmitting
    directly to the police. The choices you and your neighbors make as
    consumers should not be hijacked by police to roll out surveillance
    technologies.”

What most of the news stories missed is the connection being made by
numerous smart devices that, when rolled into one package, present a
terrifying picture of public police surveillance.

As more and more police departments purchase body cameras, the
greater fear can be illustrated by Pileum and companies like Axon who
allow police officers in the field to tie their footage to real-time crime
centers.

From the moment you or a family member step outside, law enforcement
can ID and track you. Police Stingray’s that can ID and track your phone
can be tied to Ring doorbell cameras which can ID and track you as you
walk or drive through your neighborhood.

If you happen to pass a police officer wearing a body camera, assume
the worst. At the very least they can ID you and your family by what they
are wearing and by how they walk. At the worst law enforcement can
use facial recognition to ID you and your family in near real-time.

Take this a step further and the picture becomes even bleaker.

From the moment you get into your vehicle, police can use license plate
readers to track your every movement. Once you enter a store parking
lot a police cam-share camera can ID and track your every movement
and know exactly which item[s] you purchased. All without a warrant.

Allowing companies like Fusus, Pileum, Axon, Ring Doorbell, Flock
Safety etc., to profit from destroying everyone’s privacy needs to be
stopped before it spirals out of control.

Read full story here…

Privacy Concerns: CDC’s
Relentless Quest For Data On
Vaccine Recipients
Technocrats at the top of the vaccine steam roller lust for health data on
every citizen. It is the “final frontier” in the sense that they see control
over humans as originating within their own bodies. Herd management
requires incessant monitoring and data collection. ⁃ TN Editor
The Trump administration is requiring states to submit personal
information of people vaccinated against Covid-19 — including names,
birth dates, ethnicities and addresses — raising alarms among state
officials who fear that a federal vaccine registry could be misused.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is instructing states to
sign so-called data use agreements that commit them for the first time to
sharing personal information in existing registries with the federal
government. Some states, such as New York, are pushing back, either
refusing to sign or signing while refusing to share the information.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York warned that the collection of
personal data could dissuade undocumented people from participating in
the vaccination program. He called it “another example of them trying to
extort the State of New York to get information that they can use at the
Department of Homeland Security and ICE that they’ll use to deport
people.”

Administration officials say that the information will not be shared with
other federal agencies and that it is needed for several reasons: to
ensure that people who move across state lines receive their follow-up
doses; to track adverse reactions and address safety issues; and to
assess the effectiveness of the vaccine among different demographic
groups.

At a briefing with a small group of reporters on Monday, officials from
Operation Warp Speed, the government’s vaccine initiative, defended

the plan. They said all but a handful of states had signed data
agreements, and the rest would sign by the end of the week, though it is
not clear how many states will submit personal information.

“There is no social security number being asked for; there is no driver’s
license number,” said Deacon Maddox, who runs the operation’s data
and analysis system. “The only number I would say that is asked is the
date of birth.”

The hurried effort at data gathering, with delivery of vaccine doses
expected to begin next week, is making many immunization experts —
including the doctor who ran the C.D.C.’s immunization program for 16
years — deeply uneasy. At issue is the delicate balance between a
patient’s right to privacy and the government’s right to invoke its
expansive authority in the name of ending the deadliest pandemic in
more than a century.

In Minnesota, officials are refusing to report any identifying details to
the C.D.C., but they will submit “de-identified doses-administered data”
on a daily basis once the vaccine campaigns begin.

“This is a new activity for us, as we don’t typically report this level of
detail on this frequency to the federal government,” Doug Schultz, a
spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health, said in an email. He
added, “We will not be reporting name, ZIP code, race, ethnicity or
address.”

In the United States, collecting immunization data has been a purely
state-by-state effort. A push two decades ago to develop a federal
registry imploded after an uproar over patient privacy and how the data
would be used.

“The general philosophy in this country is states manage public health,
so the concept that federally we are going to be tracking identified
information is concerning,” said Dr. Shaun J. Grannis, a professor of
medical informatics at Indiana University, who has advised the C.D.C. on
data gathering.

“We are 50 different states with a patchwork quilt of regulations and

different perspectives on privacy and security,” Dr. Grannis added. “And
I think people are going to be asking the question: What does the C.D.C.
do that we can’t do regionally?”

But at the briefing on Monday, Col. R.J. Mikesh of the Army, the
information technology lead for Operation Warp Speed, said the data
gathering was part of a “whole of America approach” to vaccine
distribution. And some experts say that in the thick of a pandemic that
has already cost nearly 284,000 lives in the United States, now is the
time to start a federal vaccine registry.

“We’re in a pandemic,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease
expert at Emory University in Atlanta. “Privacy has its role, but it cannot
be what drives decision-making when you’re trying to do a monumental
task like vaccinating millions of Americans with a vaccine that requires
two doses.”

The fight over the registry also exposes yet again the fractured nature of
health data gathering — and how the government’s lack of sophistication
has impeded the response to the pandemic, said Dr. Dan Hanfling, an
expert in emergency response and a vice president at In-Q-Tel, the
investment arm of the national intelligence community.

Read full story here…

Americans    To   Receive
‘Immunity Cards’, CDC To
Track Status
Ubiquitous and total surveillance is the holy grail of Technocracy which
must collect all data in order to catalyze social engineering programs to
change society. This is headed straight into a Scientific Dictatorship that
will crush freedom and liberty. ⁃ TN Editor
On Wednesday the Department of Defense released the first images
of a COVID-19 vaccination record card as well as vaccination kits,
according to CNN.

“Everyone will be issued a written card that they can put in their wallet
that will tell them what they had and when their next dose is due,”
says Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director of the Immunization Action
Coalition. “Let’s do the simple, easy thing first. Everyone’s going to get
that.”

What’s more, vaccination clinics will also report to their state
immunization registries which vaccine was given so that third parties
can verify one’s vaccination status regardless of what their card says (or

if they’ve lost it).

     Moore said many places are planning to ask patients to
     voluntarily provide a cell phone number, so they can get a
     text message telling them when and where their next dose is
     scheduled to be administered.

     Every dose administered will be reported to the US Centers
     for Disease Control and Prevention, said Claire Hannan, executive
     director of the Association of Immunization Managers. –CNN

The DoD also released information on vaccine kits, which include a
card, needle, syringe, alcohol wipes and a mask. There are
approximately 100 million such kits ready to go as soon as ‘the’
vaccine(s) is(are) chosen, according to Operation Warp Speed CEO, Gen.
Gustave Perna.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after the UK
government proposed “freedom passes” in order to reboot their
economy – which would seemingly allow those willing to vaccinate a
return to normal life. It also comes after signs of industries adapting to a
future of immunity cards and vaccinations – with both announcing they
will require proof of vaccination before people can attend concerts or fly.

Meanwhile,         the   vaccination    roadshow       has   begun.     On
Wednesday, former presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush publicly
announced that they would take the vaccine, on camera.

“I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so that
people know that I trust this science,” Obama said in a Wednesday
interview with Sirius XM radio – while Bush and Clinton made similar
vows.

The next day, NIH Director Dr. Anthony Fauci ominously warned that it
would create a “very serious situation” if people don’t take the
vaccine.

Read full story here…

Operation Warp Speed: Your
One-Way Ticket To Total
Surveillance
“Incredibly precise… tracking systems… very active pharmacovigilance
surveillance system.” These are not idle words, but express a decades-
old plan to track and monitor every person on earth. The COVID vaccine
will open the door into a surveillance nightmare worthy of Nineteen
Eighty-Four. ⁃ TN Editor
Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a joint operation between U.S. Health and
Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense, continues to be
shrouded in secrecy, but little by little information is emerging that long-
term monitoring of the U.S. public is part of the plan.

At face value, OWS is a public-private partnership tasked with producing

therapeutics and a fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccine1 — 300 million doses’

worth that are intended to be made available starting in January 2021.2

But it appears the involvement doesn’t end there. Rather than just

ensuring a vaccine is produced and made available for those who want
it, Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed,

dubbed the coronavirus vaccine czar,3 said in an interview with The Wall
Street Journal that the rollout will include “incredibly precise … tracking

systems.”4,5

Their purpose? “To ensure that patients each get two doses of the same

vaccine and to monitor them for adverse health effects.”6 In an interview
with The New York Times, Slaoui described it as a “very active pharmaco

vigilance surveillance system.”7

What Will the Vaccine Monitoring System
Entail?
This is the No. 1 question, and one that hasn’t been answered, at least
not officially. “While Slaoui himself was short on specifics regarding this
‘pharmacovigilance surveillance system,'” news outlet Humans Are Free
reported, “the few official documents from OWS that have been publicly
released offer some details about what this system may look like and
how long it is expected to ‘track’ the vital signs and whereabouts of

Americans who receive a Warp Speed vaccine.”8

One of the documents, titled “From the Factory to the Frontlines: The
Operation Warp Speed Strategy for Distributing a COVID-19 Vaccine,”

was released by HHS.9 It also mentions the use of pharmacovigilance
surveillance along with Phase 4 (post-licensure) clinical trials in order to
assess the vaccines’ long-term safety, since “some technologies have

limited previous data on safety in humans.”10

The report, which lays out a strategy for distributing a COVID-19
vaccine, from allocation and distribution to administration and more,

continues:11

     “The key objective of pharmacovigilance is to determine each
     vaccine’s performance in real-life scenarios, to study efficacy, and

to discover any infrequent and rare side effects not identified in
     clinical trials. OWS will also use pharmacovigilance analytics, which
     serves as one of the instruments for the continuous monitoring of
     pharmacovigilance data.

     Robust analytical tools will be used to leverage large amounts of
     data and the benefits of using such data across the value chain,
     including regulatory obligations. Pharmacovigilance provides timely
     information about the safety of each vaccine to patients, healthcare
     professionals, and the public, contributing to the protection of
     patients and the promotion of public health.”

Similar language was reiterated in an October 2020 perspective article
published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), written by
                                  12
Slaoui and Dr. Matthew Hepburn.

Hepburn is a former program manager for the U.S. Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he oversaw the development
            13
of ProfusA, an implantable biosensor that allows a person’s physiology
to be examined at a distance via smartphone connectivity. ProfusA is
also backed by Google, the largest data mining company in the world.

Writing in NEJM, the duo writes, “Because some technologies have
limited previous data on safety in humans, the long-term safety of these
vaccines will be carefully assessed using pharmacovigilance surveillance

strategies.”14

‘Traceability’ a Key Tenet of Operation
Warp Speed
Humans Are Free also references an OWS infographic,15 which details
the COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration process. One of
the four key tenets is “traceability,” which includes confirming which of
the approved vaccines were administered regardless of location (public
or private), reminding recipients to return for a second dose and
ensuring that the correct second dose is administered.

That word — pharmacovigilance — is used again, this time as a heading
inferring that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be involved in “24-
month post trial monitoring for adverse effects/additional safety
feature.” Pharmacovigilance, also known as drug safety, generally refers
to the collection, analysis, monitoring and prevention of adverse effects

from medications and other therapies.16

Passive reporting systems for adverse events, like the Vaccines Adverse
Event Reporting System, already exist and are managed by the FDA and
CDC.

However, a report released by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, Center for Health Security suggests that passive systems
that rely on people to send in their experiences should be made into an
“active safety surveillance system directed by the CDC that monitors all
vaccine recipients — perhaps by short message service or other
electronic mechanisms — with criteria based on the World Health

Organization Global Vaccine Safety Initiative.”17,18

What’s more, according to Humans Are Free, “Despite the claims in
these documents that the ‘pharmacovigilance surveillance system’ would
intimately involve the FDA, top FDA officials stated in September that
they were barred from attending OWS meetings and told reporters they
could not explain the operation’s organization or when or with what
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frequency its leadership meets.” STAT News further reported:

     “The Food and Drug Administration, which is playing a critical role
     in the response to the pandemic, has virtually no visibility into OWS
     — but that’s by design … The FDA has set up a firewall between the
     vast majority of staff and the initiative to separate any regulatory
     decisions from policy or budgetary decisions.

     FDA officials are still allowed to interact with companies developing
     products for OWS, but they’re barred from sitting in on discussions
     regarding other focuses of OWS, like procurement, investment or
     distribution.”

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health
Security, by the way, has ties to Event 201, a pandemic preparedness
simulation for a “novel coronavirus” that took place in October 2019,
along with Dark Winter, another simulation that took place in June 2001,
which predicted major aspects of the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks.

Hepburn also reportedly “ruffled feathers” during a June 2020
presentation to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices because he offered no data-rich slides, which are typically part
of such presentations, and, STAT News reported, “Several members

asked Hepburn pointed questions he pointedly did not answer.”21

Google and Oracle Contracted to Collect
Vaccine Data
Google and Oracle, a multinational computer technology corporation
headquartered in California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, have been
contracted to “collect and track vaccine data” as part of OWS’
                        22
surveillance systems,        a partnership Slaoui reportedly revealed in his
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Wall Street Journal interview. According to Humans Are Free:

    “If the Warp Speed contracts that have been awarded to Google and
    Oracle are anything like the Warp Speed contracts awarded to most
    of its participating vaccine companies, then those contracts grant
    those companies diminished federal oversight and exemptions from
    federal laws and regulations designed to protect taxpayer interests
    in the pursuit of the work stipulated in the contract.

    It also makes them essentially immune to Freedom of Information
    Act requests. Yet, in contrast to the unacknowledged Google and
    Oracle contracts, vaccine companies have publicly disclosed that
    they received OWS contracts, just not the terms or details of those
    contracts. This suggests that the Google and Oracle contracts are
    even more secretive.”

In an interview with investigative journalist Whitney Webb (see Mercola
hyperlink above under “Dark Winter”), it’s also revealed that Slaoui, a

long-time head of GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine division, is a leading
proponent of bioelectronic medicine, which is the use of injectable or
implantable technology for the purpose of treating nerve conditions.

The MIT Technology review has referred to it as hacking the nervous
system. But it also allows you to monitor the physiology of the human
body from the inside.

Slaoui is also invested in a company called Galvani Bioelectronics, which
was cofounded by a Google subsidiary. “So, you have Google being
contracted to monitor this pharmacovigilance surveillance system that
aims to monitor the physiology and the human body for two years,”
Webb says.

“And then you have the ties to the ProfusA project,” she adds, “which
oddly enough is supposed to work inside the human body for 24 months
— the exact window they’ve said will be used to monitor people after the
first [vaccine] dose.”

The conflict of interest is massive, in part because Google owns
YouTube, which has been banning our videos, a majority of which are
interviews with health experts sharing their medical or scientific
expertise and viewpoints on COVID-19, since June 2020. As noted by

Humans Are Free:25

  “With Google now formally part of OWS, it seems likely that any
  concerns about OWS’s extreme secrecy and the conflicts of interest of
  many of its members (particularly Moncef Slaoui and Matt Hepburn)
  as well as any concerns about Warp Speed vaccine safety, allocation
  and/or distribution may be labeled ‘COVID-19 vaccine misinformation’
  and removed from YouTube.”

Is Total Surveillance Set to Become the
New Normal?
OWS, rather than being directed by public health officials, is heavily
dominated by military, technology companies and U.S. intelligence

agencies, likening it to a successor for Total Information Awareness
(TIA), a program managed by DARPA that sprang up after the 9/11
attacks.

At the time, TIA was seeking to collect Americans’ medical records,
fingerprints and other biometric data, along with DNA and records

relating to personal finances, travel and media consumption.26 According
to Webb (again, refer to the Mercola hyperlink earlier, “Dark Winter”):

    “We now know, for example, that the NSA and the Department of
    Homeland Security are directly involved in Operation Warp Speed,
    but they won’t really say exactly what parts they’re doing. But there
    are some indications as to what they could be involved with.

    And the fact that Silicon Valley companies that have been known to
    collaborate with intelligence [agencies] for the purpose of spying on
    innocent Americans — Google and Oracle, for example — are going
    to be involved in this surveillance system … for everyone that gets
    the vaccine.

    It’s certainly alarming, and it seems to point to the fulfillment of an
    agenda that was attempted to be pushed through or foisted on the
    American public after 9/11, called Total Information Awareness,
    which was managed, originally, by DARPA.

    It was about using medical data and non-medical data — essentially
    all data about you — to prevent terror attacks before they could
    happen, and also to prevent bioterror attacks and even prevent
    naturally occurring disease outbreaks.

    A lot of the same initiatives proposed under that original program
    after 9/11 have essentially been resurrected, with updated
    technology, under the guise of combating COVID-19.”

A key difference is that TIA was quickly defunded by Congress after
significant public backlash, including concerns that TIA would
undermine personal privacy. In the case of OWS, there’s little negative
press and media outlets are overwhelmingly supportive of the operation
as a way to resolve the COVID-19 crisis.

But what if it’s not actually about COVID-19 at all, but represents
something bigger, something that’s been in the works for decades? As

Humans Are Free puts it:27

    “The total-surveillance agenda that began with TIA and that has
    been resurrected through Warp Speed predated COVID-19 by
    decades.

    Its architects and proponents have worked to justify these extreme
    and invasive surveillance programs by marketing this agenda as the
    ‘solution’ to whatever Americans are most afraid of at any given
    time. It has very little to do with ‘public health’ and everything to do
    with total control.”

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Secret               Facial               Recognition

Program Could Cover Every
State
Technocrats surveil everything. Law enforcement agencies across the
nation have been scooping up pictures and identities of conservatives at
rallies and protests. The fact that it is done at all is draconian but the
intent behind it is even worse. ⁃ TN Editor
America’s law enforcement has been secretly using a facial recognition
program that can be used to ID activists and protesters.
The first-ever acknowledgement of the program was recently revealed by
the Washington Post.
  “The court documents are believed to be the first public
  acknowledgment that authorities used the controversial technology in
  connection with the widely criticized sweep of largely peaceful
  protesters ahead of a photo op by President Trump.”

What makes this so troubling are two things. One, it appears to be used
by law enforcement nationwide.

As the Washington Post explains, “the case is one of a growing number
nationwide in which authorities have turned to facial recognition
software to help identify protesters accused of violence.”

And two, this secret law enforcement facial recognition database
contains images of at least 1.4 million Americans.

  “The case also provides the first detailed look at a powerful new
  regional facial recognition system that officials said has been used
  more than 12,000 times since 2019 and contains a database of 1.4
  million people but operates almost entirely outside the public view.
  Fourteen local and federal agencies have access.”

The name of this new facial recognition program is called the “National
Capital Region Facial Recognition Investigative Leads System”
(NCRFRILS).

A thousand law enforcement agencies could have access to a
billion public records

The Washington Post claims that only fourteen local and federal
agencies have access to NCFRILS, which could be off by as many as a
thousand law enforcement agencies.

Page 10 of an “NCIS Law Enforcement Exchange” LInX agency training
program, reveals that there are over one thousand law enforcement
agencies that have access to more than one billion records. It is anyone’s
guess as to how many images of people’s faces they have access to.

Page 14, is a little more revealing. It shows how the LInX network covers
most of the country.

Another search lead me to Northrop Grumman’s Law Enforcement
Information Exchange (LInX)
  “With Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX), users will
  retrieve and link more available data than ever before to support their
  investigative and tactical operations. LInX correlates and identifies

hidden data and linkages across multiple jurisdictions, bringing them
  front and center for authorized users to see.”

One thing is certain, NCFRILS or LInX definitely uses facial recognition
to identify hidden data. As Northrop Grumman said, its major focus
appears to be bringing an activist or protester’s ID to the front and
center for authorized users to see.

A National Capital Region-Law Enforcement Information Exchange
(NCR-LInX) meeting from 2013 revealed a map of more than 127
agencies spread across Baltimore, Maryland., Washington D.C., and
Virginia.

One thing is clear, the Washington Post’s estimates are way off as page
5 revealed.

The “National Capital Region Facial Recognition Investigative Leads
System” appears to be part of NCR-LInX which means by 2013 estimates
that there were 1,251 law enforcement agencies with 1,051 agencies
providing data in 38,000 regions. Each of these law enforcement
agencies had access to close to 46,000 mugshots, which we can safely
assume is tied to facial recognition.

As the Washington Post warns, this is disastrous for activists and
protestors.
  “The use of facial recognition to identify protesters and the
  secrecy surrounding NCRFRILS has troubled activists and
  privacy advocates, who said it could have a chilling effect on
  First Amendment rights and leave defendants unable to
  challenge a match since its use is not disclosed in the vast
  majority of cases.”

All indications point to NCFRILS being a much larger facial recognition
program than what we are being led to believe. Despite what law
enforcement claims, police are also using it to ID people for
misdemeanors.

  “Detroit police were using the technology when they misidentified a
  Black man in a shoplifting case, although it appears sloppy
  investigative work also played a role, experts said. A version of one of
  two facial recognition algorithms the Detroit police were running also
  powers NCRFRILS.”

It appears that NCFRILS is indeed much larger and might even be
accessible to police departments across the country; making NCFRILS a
national facial recognition program.

What will it take for Americans to stop trusting government officials who
claim secret public surveillance programs are necessary to fight the
never-ending War On Terror?

Will it take a national license plate reader network, or a U.S. Customs
and Border Patrol national cellphone monitoring program, or a
national Fusion Center Wi-Fiber monitoring network, or finally a national
law enforcement facial recognition program for Americans to wake up
and see that our government treats everyone with suspicion?

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