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Core and Central: The Surveillance State, FISA and the Value of Liberty

There is nothing reconcilable about American Liberty when contrast with a looming surveillance state. There is no facet of American values, the essential core of what we define as Americanism, that can exist without true liberty.

While the Declaration of Independence is long regarded as the greatest written declaration of purpose, the latter created Bill of Rights, the first Ten original amendments to the U.S. Constitution, is just as important. The first declared our intent; the second defined how our founders intended to retain the intent during our collective assembly. Together they outline what set the course to make America great.

We have allowed the foundational intent of both sets of documents to be compromised, because, well, simply we were lazy and complacent. Now we are engaged in a time of great consequence that will determine whether or not the purpose of our assembly can continue.

We are, in factual reality, now deep inside a debate carried out in the world of politics. The stakes have never been higher.

In nine days, President Donald J Trump is scheduled to be sworn in as President of the United States. In my non-pretending world, this is likely to be the last time in our lifetime to drag the conversation of how we define liberty into the American psyche. All of my research in the past two decades indicates this likelihood is not hyperbole. We have one shot at this, and our time is now.

Liberty, the fundamental decision to retain it or lose it, is the context for all other contexts that have preceded it. The principles of liberty that we have defined for generations cannot exist in an American surveillance state. Thus, the secretive courts, the unlawful usurpation of the 4th Amendment, the short-sighted ramifications of the Patriot Act, the weaponization of our federal law enforcement and police agencies, all of it, must be reviewed through this fundamental core issue, Liberty.

I have traveled throughout the East and West to gain perspective on what makes us different, and what I can assert with clarity is that if we lose the Liberty argument, then the ideological representatives behind Barack Obama will have succeeded, the fundamental transformation will be irreversible.

This frames the cornerstone of my viewpoints on all of the characters in politics. It is not a matter of debate that on these core issues of Liberty and the stopping of the Surveillance State, everything else is a downstream consequence. The tiered system of constitutional protections for particular categories of personage must be rebuked. On this matter there cannot be compromise, because every outcome that impedes our way of life is a derivative of this value.

I will oppose all interests who refuse to confront the Surveillance State. I will draw bold attention to those who are willingly creating it, and I promise you I will call out every operational interest that is willfully blind to its creation.

This is my hill.

Love to all,

Sundance

AND THIS SHOULD BE OUR PLEDGE ALSO.

Don't get distracted by circumstances that seem to threaten your safety if the price to remove the threat is a little more lose of liberty. In every circumstance, ask, does the solution mean more lose of freedoms.

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Couple days ago I commented to a post:

Every friggin one of those houses have pools. I have a pool, and I have a Harbor Freight 2" pump that can pump out water, 158 GPM, out of a fire hose from my pool through a 2" section of PVC with an L in it, that I can run down to bottom of 15K gallon pool.

Sure the hydrants may have been dry, but they have all the water needed to control the fire right in the back yards. And you going to tell me that if the homes would have had a rig like I describe that they could not have kept house from burning down? Maybe not, but at least a chance, a good chance, a hell of a lot better than a 1/2 garden hose.

And they could just as easily had purchased a 3" pump ($400.00) that would put out 290 GPM. They live in a high fire zone, and none of them thought of this?

Then I began to wonder if there was any supporting evidence for my claim, and found this startling video of LA Firefighter in Malibu selling the very same idea. ** Note: The fire fighters offer this pump, hose, connection for $300 per month. One could easily obtain their own for almost one months payment.

In the video, the fireman says that a fire truck carries 500 gallons of water, so the 40,000 gal pool your looking at here would be 80 fire trucks of water.

Additionally I just found this 7 years old video: Tech Vet Builds High-Powered Hose To Protect Home From Wildfires

I think most of us, if we lived in a very high risk fire area, would have though of this own our on. If rich like most of these folks, would have had multiple pumps in place to drowned our house and property in case of fire.

P.S. And before any of you comment on discharge rate of fire engine or Harbor Freight pump, please know that I am aware of the factor that determine pump rate.

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The suspect behind the deadly incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, a Saudi national identified as Taleb A., had prior run-ins with law enforcement, multiple media outlets reported on Saturday. His home country’s requests for extradition, however, had been met with silence.

Saudi Arabia warned the German authorities about the man about a year ago, dpa reported. The nature of the warning, however, was not immediately known. Riyadh had also requested extradition of the 50-year-old doctor, but received no response from Berlin, the kingdom’s security sources told the news agency.

German security sources stated that Saudi Arabia had warned the country’s authorities several times regarding the extremist views the suspect had openly expressed on Twitter, Reuters reports. Taleb A. is said to have been a radical anti-Islamist, who had publicly renounced his religion.

The suspect has been residing in Germany since 2006, yet obtained protected status only in 2016. Prior to that, he had a run-in with German law in 2013, when he was convicted of “disturbance of public peace by threatening crimes,” Spiegel reported.

The man ended up being fined about €900 and was permitted to stay in Germany, particularly due to fears that he would be “immediately executed” if he was sent back to his country of origin, the report suggested. The conviction apparently did not affect his asylum request.

The suspect allegedly rammed into a crowd at Magdeburg’s Christmas market on Friday evening, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring some 200 others, including 41 who are now in serious or critical condition.

Thus far, the motive behind the attack remains unclear, authorities said on Saturday. Magdeburg Prosecutor Horst Nopens, however, suggested the attack could have been prompted by the suspect’s dissatisfaction with Berlin’s ways of handling Saudi refugees. The attacker is now facing five counts of murder, as well as over 200 counts of attempted murder, the prosecution said.

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From Sundance:

It is all coming together nicely. With Lt General Keith Kellogg special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, and with the appointment of Steven C. Witkoff to be Special Envoy to the Middle East, President Trump has essentially created a construct that works around the insufferable issues with a globalist State Department.

Senator Marco Rubio was nominated for Secretary of State, thereby removing him from the Senate Intelligence Committee and leadership role in Gang of Eight intel; but Trump simultaneously put in guardrails against the neocon tendencies of the Florida Senator and junior McCain.

Rubio doesn’t have Ukraine/Russia in his portfolio, nor does he have diplomatic or policy control over the Middle East. President Trump has neutered the State Department, and the cherry on the proverbial cake is Grenell's appointment.

Yes, President Trump has just confirmed that Ric Grenell will be the “Emissary” we have discussed. Great job Mr President (for all the obvious reasons).

With Nunes leading a private intel advisory committee and with Grenell being the most powerful, agile and flexible person to run strategic foreign policy operations, the tentacle influence of the Deep State is removed from the Oval Office. Now the official cabinet team can start pouring sunlight into the silos.

Without a doubt in my mind, the “emissary” is the most important person President Trump will select.

The Washington DC Intelligence Community (IC) actively work to isolate the office of the president. This is an almost impossible dynamic to avoid, caused by an entrenched and ideological adversary who has dug themselves deep into the apparatus of government.

The “emissary” is the person who carries the word of President Trump to any person identified by President Trump. The emissary is very much like a tape recording of President Trump in human form. The emissary travels to a location, meets a particular person or group, and then recites the opinion of the President. The words spoken by the emissary, are the words of President Trump.

The IC cannot inject themselves into this dynamic; that is why it is so valuable.

The emissary then hears the response from the intended person or group, repeats it back to them to ensure he/she will return with clarity of intent as expressed, and then returns to the office of the presidency and repeats the reply for the President. The emissary recites back exactly what he was /is told.

This process is critical when you understand how thoroughly compromised the full Executive Branch is. More importantly, this process becomes even more critical when you accept the Intelligence Community will lie to the office of the President to retain their position.

Read this next sentence slowly…. If the Senate confirms a director of an IC silo, then that director is demonstrably going to lie to the office of the President.

The Senate only confirms Intelligence Community leadership who are willing to LIE to THE PRESIDENT. This is just a factual reality.

If the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) confirms them, they will lie. That is the main role of the SSCI.

The people who constructed the Silos then metastasized the control rot within them, use the term “continuity of government,” to describe the true role and responsibility of the system. This is not factually wrong.

Where people go wrong is misunderstanding what the “continuity” is that is being maintained. Truly, the continuity of government is the priority. However, it’s the continuity of currently corrupt and immoral government we are now maintaining.

The CIA Director will lie to President Trump (they did, remember), the information that comes from within the CIA institution is political and false.

The FBI Leadership will lie to President Trump (they did, remember), the information that comes from within the FBI institution is political and false.

The AG will lie, same problem.

The DNI will lie, same problem.

The NSA will lie, and all the deputies therein will lie, same problem, same problem, same problem.

Washington DC puts it this way, you probably heard Bill Barr talking about ad-infinitum. The IC leadership is responsible for maintaining the “continuity of government” at all costs. The government is more important than The President.

If the continuity of government is maintained by lying to the office of the President, then so be it. Or, as James Comey said when justifying his lies to the President and his manipulation on March 20th, 2017: “because of the sensitivity of the matter.”

You can get as angry as you want about this, it’s just the DC system that exists. We must deal with what exists, not what we would pretend there to be.

If a candidate for an IC position is not willing to lie to the President, that is to believe the lies that come from within the silo they are in charge of, then the Senate will not confirm him/her. This is why President Trump needs an emissary.

The role of the emissary is critical, the qualifications for that role are extremely important.

Remember, this person is speaking on behalf of President Trump. And representing the responding voice with a similar level of clarity.

The emissary must be of incredible moral character. They must be honest. The person should be entirely altruistic. They must have exceptional judgement, possess no ego, be impervious to scrutiny or review. They must maintain themselves at the highest moral standards at all times and exhibit incredible judgement and wisdom.

Due to the nature of the position the emissary is extremely powerful; therefore, a disposition of humility is also critical. The President must be able to trust this person without reservation or issue. At the same time, the entire weight of the U.S. Intelligence Community apparatus will seek to compromise the emissary, as they try to put walls around the President who holds silo-busting power.

Honesty, integrity, humility, trustworthiness, unimpeachable character and exceptional judgement, establish the baseline of traits the emissary must possess.

This is a choice that will be deeply important to President Trump. Fortunately, it is not a position that requires any confirmation or external approval. Judgement, discernment, wisdom and silence are the strength characteristics.

Excellent choice!

Read here

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It starts out with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda standing up to greet President Donald Trump. They are friends, and Duda is one of the EU heads of state that is seriously thrilled to see President Trump return (Hungary’s Orban is another). However, after Duda stands things get funny because all the other dignitaries then feel obligated to stand and greet President Trump.

President Trump ended up turning his simple walk to his seat, into a reception line of foreign dignitaries who stood at attention to greet him. I cannot stop laughing because it’s just so epic. WATCH:

🇪🇺🇺🇸EUROPE WELCOMES TRUMP WITH OPEN ARMS

In France for the Notre Dame Cathedral reopening, Trump received warm smiles and handshakes from world leaders before the ceremony.

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Here is the article from The Gateway Pundit. (Picture is from Senate confirmation hearing where mask was required)

Cassandra writes: It appears that Democrats dressed as Republicans are itching for positions within HUD.

The only problem is Dana was never a democrat. However C. MacDonald was. She is a political activist, supported Bernie Sanders, and was active in the Black Live Matter movement. Then all of a sudden she is a supporter of Trump. I think I smell a rat. Classic case of projection?

The reason I am posting this is because I know Dana very well. I texted her the article, and she says "It's all lies."

Dana's previous roles include:

Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ben Carson Associate Director Office of Management and Budget under Russ Vought. Deputy Staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Senior Adviser to the House Financial Services Committee (2023) - Not listed in Article.

Dana left W&D a few years ago, and has had noting to do with the political affairs. She is definitly not anti-Trump.

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The text below is on the Introduction of the report. See full report for details.

Here is full article. All research is cited at end.

If you don't read the entire article, at last scroll down through it to see all the places where U.S. intervention has worked to destabilize these populations.

From the view of this report, one can determine that most of the instability in the world since the end of WWII resulted from direct or indirect intervention by our government in the affairs of other sovereign countries. Shame on us for tolerating this!!

We express our disgust at the thousands of children trafficked across out borders, but have for generations blinded ourselves to the millions of children who have be, killed, starved to death, brutalized by the actions of our on government, and with their full knowledge of what was taking place.

Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky

Let us put this in a historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18).

The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times those killed during World War I).

The largest WWII casualties were China and the Soviet Union:

26 million in the Soviet Union,  
China estimates its losses at approximately 20 million deaths.

Ironically, these two countries (allies of the US during WWII) which lost a large share of their population during WWII are now under the Biden-Harris administration categorized as “enemies of America”, which are threatening the Western World.

Germany and Austria lost approximately 8 million people during WWII, Japan lost more than 2.5 million people. The US and Britain respectively lost more than 400,000 lives.

This carefully researched article by James A. Lucas documents the more than 20 million lives lost resulting from US led wars, military coups and intelligence ops carried out in the wake of WWII, in what is euphemistically called the “post-war era” (1945- ).

The extensive loss of life in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Libya, Palestine is not included in this study.

Nor are the millions of deaths resulting from extreme poverty.

Acts of Economic Warfare

In the post Cold War era, “shock and awe” IMF “economic medicine” applied in countries of the Global South as well as in Eastern Europe has resulted in mass poverty and an unprecedented process of economic and social destruction, under the helm of of the so-called Washington Consensus.

In the course of the last four years, 190 countries, member States of the United Nations have been subjected to the Covid 19 Lockdown which has resulted in extreme poverty and unemployment. In many regards this is an act of economic and social warfare against sovereign nation states.

In turn, in response to a non-existent pandemic the Covid-19 “Vaccine” which was launched in mid-December 2020 has resulted in millions of deaths Worldwide.

Yes, It’s a killer vaccine. That message should be loud and clear. This is happening all over the world: children and adolescents are dying.

Crimes against humanity, crimes against our children. Continuous US led warfare (1945- ): there was no “post-war era”.

And now, a World War III scenario is contemplated by US-NATO, in alliance with Israel.

A genocide is ongoing against the people of Palestine with the full support of Western countries.

NATO-US Forces are at Russia’s Doorstep. A so-called “preemptive nuclear war” against China, Russia and Iran is on the drawing board of the Pentagon.

At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable.

All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped.

The Dangers of Nuclear War are Real. They are “Profit Driven”.

Under Joe Biden, public funds allocated to nuclear weapons are slated to increase to 2 trillion by 2030 allegedly as a means to safeguarding peace and national security at taxpayers expense. (How many schools and hospitals could you finance with 2 trillion dollars?).

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