Posted originally on CTH on April 24, 2025 | Sundance
As most of you know I have been traveling extensively. However, a strange thing happened today upon return through the airport.
Apparently, all of the test pilots for biometrics, real ID etc. are now linked and active. As I approached the passport control kiosk with my passport in hand, the gentleman said “welcome back, enjoy the rest of your day,” and that was it.
I stood there for a second, asked if he needed my passport and he said, “no, you’re good. Go on through.” It seems the facial recognition software is live. You no longer need to show your U.S. passport or any ID when arriving through U.S. international passport control.
Now, I should say I have never signed up for TSA pre-check, Fast Track, or any other kind of Global Travel authentication. I have always opted to just be a grey traveler with as little a footprint as possible. I reentered the U.S. the same way in February and needed to show the traditional passport, etc. However, this time in April it was totally different. There is no longer any paperwork or documentation needed. It actually, seemed a little weird.
I should also note the U.S. “opt-out” for facial scans is a little bit of a ruse; the reason is when you depart from a foreign country, destined to the USA, the facial recognition is mandatory. The U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, TSA and Border Control, require all countries to authenticate the U.S. destined traveler at the point of exit. It’s not optional in other countries, you either comply or you don’t get to come home to the USA.
Because it’s not optional in other countries, and because the database is connected to the U.S. border entry system, the fact you can opt-out of having your picture taken inside the USA is moot; your facial impression is already captured at your point of departure from the foreign country and shared with U.S. homeland security.
This appears to be how the interconnected systems are now recording travel. By the time you reach the U.S. entry point, they already have a database of your biometrics to match your entry. Cameras located facing toward the traveler as they approach the kiosk, cross reference the data and the passport control officer knows exactly what authorities for entry you carry as you approach. Showing documentation such as your passport is no longer needed.
As I mentioned this on my X-account, several people affirmed to have recently experienced the same entry process. Physical passports are no longer required regardless of whether you have opted-in to some pre-registration fast track travel system. You simply walk through the passport checkpoints now and collect your luggage.
I have seen this in several countries with varying degrees of technological advancement. However, it was usually when you are connecting from one flight to another within a singular international airport. This is different. This is the TSA/DHS database fully active with biometric, facial recognition scanning that you cannot avoid.
This process is obviously unavoidable now and given how much research CTH has done on the AI aspect to facial recognition (Palantir software), real id and enhanced biometrics that were being tested in various transportation hubs, it looks like the system is now fully active. April 5th was the universal deadline for “Real ID” rollout, and I’m guessing sometime around then was the trigger date for the live activation of the system I just experienced.
All of that said, this notification by me is not to raise any alarms, it is simply to raise awareness. The system is active, and you will likely experience it if you travel outside the USA and then reenter.
Everything seems cool, until you start to think about your biometric identity being attached to some form of travel approval. Owe the govt money, you don’t get to travel until the issue is resolved etc. You can see how this ‘slippery slope’ will likely play out. Additionally, it does not take a deep weeds thinker to expand the consideration when this DHS/TSA system is in the hands of a certain type of political ideology in charge of it (weaponizing it).
Posted originally on Jan 21, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
PayPal has finally admitted that it DEBANKED people because of their views on COVID-19. Let me state clearly: PayPal did that to us, and I had to get lawyers involved to even get our money back. They claim to have these policies, and my real question has been who is directing these policies, and are they taking money for them? We no longer take PayPal, for they will debunk you for political reasons.
PayPal debanked Molly Kingsley, the founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, that her account had been terminated in September 2022 owing to “the nature of its activities.” Now, PayPal has admitted that her account was frozen for the first time due to “content published by UsForThem relating to mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations andschool closures”.
The firm said that since UsForThem received donations via PayPal, this contravened its “acceptable use” policy.
When I do interviews, I cannot even use the word “vaccine,” or the post is removed, especially from YouTube. There should be an investigation to see if there is a coordinated effort by someone directing this censorship, for it only profited companies like Pfizer. Where I would at least take a flu shot, I would no longer take any vaccine, for they are all now being crafted with MRNA. Pfizer should be criminally investigated.
Posted originally on Jan 16, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Educators throughout the nation have been pushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. Rarely has the system stopped to consider how the students feel about such measures. College Rover conducted a study that found DEI measures are influencing students’ political leanings and sometimes increasing racial bias in the classroom.
We can expect the study to be skewed as students aim to please educators with the “right” answers; therefore, they must be left. Around 30% of college students who participated said that DEI measures influenced their voting preferences and political views. Around 15% said DEI was shoved down their throats as early as middle school, a number that certainly increased in recent years as a result of divisive politics. Nearly half (49%) said they are more open to “diverse perspectives” after undergoing DEI education.
From pre-teen to young adult, two in five students in the US have taken a class that specifically focuses on gender, race, or identity. About 57% said the training or indoctrination made them more aware of systemic barriers or inequalities. Another 54% said that the programming has shaped their perspective on equality and social justice. Another 53% understood the message that they were either privileged or discriminated against.
Not everyone is receptive. One in 10 students reported feeling uncomfortable discussing gender, sexual identity, or race in the classroom. Those students reported that they feared being misunderstood. The fact of the matter is that one could not have a dissenting opinion without backlash. Grades are at risk if they disagree. One of my employees who attended university 10 years ago told me that she was forced to hand in reports from the perspective of a liberal to avoid having her grades lowered, and that was before the whole gender identity issue or DEI measures came into play.
Rutgers University conducted a study that found that sound DEI initiatives can increase hostility and division among students. “The prominent ‘anti-oppressive pedagogy’ in DEI programming can carry perceived rhetorical threats for those whose politics or other beliefs run counter to the fundamental premises of the critical paradigm from which the pedagogy derives,” the report found. Anyone who holds a dissenting belief is labeled “oppressive, racist, or fascist” in front of their peers.
“Across all groupings, instead of reducing bias, [DEI trainings] engendered a hostile attribution bias (Epps & Kendall, 1995), amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice,” the scholars stated.
Lee Jussim, a Rutgers psychology professor and one of the report’s authors, stated to Campus Reform that even those when academia were “met by academic outrage mobs” if they questioned DEI programs. They explained that journals would refuse to publish any articles or studies critical of DEI, or they would be pressured to retract any published studies that were not in alignment with the agenda.
Teachers spend a semester or a year insisting, causing discord between students. These students are privileged and should feel ashamed for their race or gender, but these students should fall into a victim mentality and feel anger toward their peers. Take tests and submit reports reaffirming the school’s belief on DEI throughout the entirety of your education. Public education has become an indoctrination center for the left to shape young minds as they see fit.
Posted originally on Jan 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is swiftly reversing course before Donald Trump takes office. Zuckerberg openly used Meta, formerly Facebook, as a propaganda tool to influence US elections, promote the COVID agenda, and deplatform anyone speaking out against the establishment.
Zuckerberg began to change his tune over the summer when his company was investigated by the House Judiciary for censoring free speech. The media mogul pointed the finger at Biden and Harris, insisting they “repeatedly pressured” him to censor content before and during their time in the White House.
“I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg wrote in the letter dated Aug. 26, 2024, and posted on the committee’s Facebook page and to its account on X. Anyone who published “disinformation” was censored. You were not allowed to question the COVID narrative and anyone who did was deplatformed. They even removed Donald Trump from the outlet. Anyone who mentioned vaccinations, lockdowns, or the origins of the COVID virus were removed from social media without warning.
Zuckerberg hid the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 US Presidential Election and promoted the Russian collusion hoax. The invisible hand was at play, naturally, as the Facebook founder was able to prevent the break-up of his company by pouring hundreds of millions into the election and then blamed Russia for buying advertisements on Facebook during the 2016 election. Mark Zuckerberg dumped more than $400 million into manipulating the 2020 presidential election where Democratic operatives typically funneled the money. These were often areas where voter canvassing was used in Biden’s get-out-the-vote effort.
The establishment called his actions “electoral infrastructure.” “The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the resources they needed to help people vote safely during a pandemic,” he stated back in August 2024. The truth of the matter is that he weaponized social media to promote political rhetoric. His company, with the backing of the establishment, determined what was “misinformation” and who could and could not have a voice.
Now, he is pointing the finger at the “legacy media” for promoting misinformation about Trump. He has opted to switch the fact-checking process to a “community notes” method similar to what Elon Musk has offered on X. “We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the US,” Zuckerberg added. “So over the next couple of months, we’re going to phase in a more comprehensive community note system.”
He also said that forbidden keywords relating to migration and gender would no longer be restricted. “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas,” Zuckerberg said. “And it’s gone too far. So I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms.”
Zuckerberg is in full damage control mode. He donated $1 million to Trump’s campaign when it was clear that Harris would lose. The far leftist puppet is suddenly a patriot who praises the First Amendment after spending his career silencing conservative voices.
“The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censor apps from even working in the country.” China is now to be vilified as the popularity of TikTok grows.
Fact-checking agencies like PolitiFact said they had no warning that Zuckerberg was halting his mass censorship program. Zuckerberg hired Joel Kaplan, a Republican policy head who has criticized his tactics endlessly, to fix his mess. “This program has been a major part of the global fact-checking community’s work for years,” she said. “People are upset because they saw themselves as partners in good standing with Meta, doing important work to make the platform more accurate and reliable,” one agency head told reporters. There were over 170 agencies across the world working on behalf of the establishment to remove content. As with those indoctrinated by progressive ideology, they actually believed that they were making a difference and protecting the public.
Zuckerberg was willing to participate in stifling American’s First Amendment rights and swaying public perception. As of this writing, the platform is still removing content that it deems inappropriate or misinformation. This man broke laws on behalf of the establishment but now wants to be in Trump’s good graces. Who would trust this platform now? It is almost comical to believe that ANY social media platform is void of some form of censorship.
Posted originally on the CTH on December 9, 2024 | Sundance
It’s not AI per se’ that poses the problem, rather it is the ability of AI software to connect, filter and process multiple databases of stored information in real time, creating a tracking and tracing system, that can be weaponized and poses a problem for those who do not want the USA to turn into a full surveillance state.
When you combine government required “Real ID” with, enhanced facial recognition software, then connect the identity to a metadata library of all the public and private electronic information of a person, what you end up with is the ability to conduct total surveillance of a targeted individual without constitutional limits and privacy protections. This is the larger problem with Palantir’s partnership with government systems.
It is a conversation no one is having before the capability is reached.
That said, Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared at the Reagan National Defense forum, and does a great job advocating for the U.S. to win the artificial intelligence race. Karp believes it is possible to insert “values” into the software at strategic places of connection, and thereby control the outputs. The question within the AI race then becomes, whose values? Ours or our enemies?
🚨 $PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum 2024 thread!🧵🔮
“I probably shouldn’t say this, this is why I thought the democrats were going to lose the election, why they did, because people want to live in peace. They want to go home. They do not want to… pic.twitter.com/Q4j0hjlh7Y
In a series of video segments placed onto a Twitter Thread, you get a good sense for what Palantir, Karp, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and newly appointed White House Czar of AI, David Sacks, are trying to do inside this global race toward artificial intelligence as applied to government systems.
“Palantir is the largest by market cap defense startup in the world. Many of the people in this room are former Palantirians. Basically, your future is powered by us. We were the most hated, most pariah, most disliked. We used to do meetings in the backyard of the backyard because you couldn’t be seen with Palantir.
“The DOGE… this is crucial stuff. We have to measure- what is it being spent on, what is the output. Is the input more than the output? The only thing that will cure a legitimacy crisis I s measurement. Anything else is a platitude.
“No one’s listening. Everyone’s thinking you have an agenda. Everyone thinks you’re working back from who you like. My favorite example of this are analysts on Wall Street. The whole methodology they have is just a way of telling you if they like you.
“In a legitimation crisis, you’ve got about 6 months… we need to prove there is no one who can stand up- we don’t have Ronald Reagan now.
$PLTR CEO Alex Karp at Reagan National Defense Forum on @elonmusk’s @DOGE and rips analysts🔮‼️
“Palantir is the largest by market cap defense startup in the world. Many of the people in this room are former Palantirians. We just did an announcement with @anduriltech. Basically,… pic.twitter.com/eMxD9YMd1G
. “The rubber meets the road for the West and you’re attacked and massacred, you have to fight, and you have to fight to win.
“My sometimes former party, you know it’s like- Israel’s done very well. My version is- that’s how you roll. Why don’t we learn from that? We don’t learn from it because we have way too many people in this culture who are living in the faculty lab of their own ideology.
“Business 101- what worked? We’re not allowed to learn from what worked because a lot of people are committed to an ideology that will not allow them to win. The American people notice that. A lot of this comes down to legitimation.
“We want to know that Americans are being put first. If you’re getting in the way of that, the American people are not happy.
🚨 $PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum calls democrats his “former party” 👀 and speaks on Israel 🇮🇱🔮
“The rubber meets the road for the West and you’re attacked and massacred, you have to fight, and you have to fight to win🔥
“America is in the very beginning of a revolution that we own- the AI revolution. We own it. It should basically be called the “US AI revolution.”
“Every single relevant company in the world, is in this country. The second tier of those companies are in this country. The JV of these companies are in this country.
“There is no other place to do technology really at scale besides America. Europe has basically decided to regulate its basically anemic and nonexistent tech scene out of production. All of those people want to come to America. The American tech community is booming”
$PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum🔮
"America is in the very beginning of a revolution that we own- the AI revolution. We own it. It should basically be called the "US AI revolution."🇺🇸
“These are very dangerous technologies. If we didn’t have the world’s worst enemies, I’d be up here saying we should regulate this, charge energy, slow this down. And we do have to have a conversation about who controls these technologies.
“People didn’t adopt American values because they thought inherently, they were superior, they adopted them because they worked.
“We have to win. We have to be ahead of our adversaries. We can’t have rules that are only for us and not for our China. Because then, we will get rules- their rules. And we will not like those rules.
These are going to be hard conversations. But do not forget, we need to win so we can dominate the conservations. Because we could lose.
$PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum on AI fears🔮
"You can be happy we're asking this question, because the question they're asking in Europe is, "why is this not real."
“I suspect our GDP is going to grow in a very different way from our allies. That’s going to adjust a lot of perceptions about us, for good and bad.
“One of the things we’re going to end up having to do in Europe is- how do we do a tech transfer so that they can have GDP growth?
“Between ’61 – ’92, France’s GDP growth was significantly better than the US’. 85% of the top 50 companies by market cap are American. I would bet that’s going to be above 90% by this time next year.
“You can imagine America healthy and strong in 200 years… but you can’t really imagine that in a lot of other western cultures.
“Palantir… we reduce everything to the core principle.
$PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum on American growth and player haters🇺🇸🔮
"I suspect our GDP is going to grow in a very different way from our allies. That's going to adjust a lot of perceptions about us, for good and bad.
“We have a splendor of riches in this country. We have the most successful builder looking at our institutions. Americans want to know that the institutions are efficient, safe, and correspond to their purpose.
“I’m sure there will be some rough patches, but I don’t know how you do better than Elon looking at these things. I’m pretty supportive.
$PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum in huge support of @elonmusk and @DOGE‼️🔮
"We have a splendor of riches in this country. We have the most successful builder looking at our institutions. Americans want to know that the institutions are efficient,… pic.twitter.com/Og3jidkxyZ
“The difference between A+ in tech and B-, is the difference between a helicopter that flies, and doesn’t. This compounds into every area.
“For the sake of our country, I think we should expose policymakers to Maven. This stuff is determinative for life and death. It’s not a playtoy. It’s going to change everything. Just because the LLM on your desk kind of is, that’s like uranium in the ground. Processed correctly, it changes the world!
“We’re really really focused on the best of the best of the best of the best of the best in building things.
$PLTR CEO Dr. Alex Karp at the Reagan National Defense Forum on the gap between policy makers and Americans🔮
"The difference between A+ in tech and B-, is the difference between a helicopter that flies, and doesn't. This compounds into every area.
Dr Alex Karp also joined Liz Claman on Fox Business to talk software’s role in government efficiency: “Palantir exists to serve this nation. We need to know what’s working and what’s not… Software is enormously efficient. The underlying economics are ‘Both sides get more’… Transparency will not only be cheaper, the output will be better.”
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Bottom Line: It is possible to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the risks and benefits to AI when combined with government surveillance interfaces (DHS) and government-controlled databases (NSA). It is possible to understand the risks and walk into the future with eyes wide open.
However, on the issue of how this makes the surveillance state far more likely, the conversation is not happening.
As Palantir CEO Alex Karp outlines repeatedly there are indeed great risks, and we need to have this conversation as a nation.
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