Kevin

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

Claiming smart phones already track you so escalation to flock surveillance cameras on every block shouldn’t matter sounds like the same argument as some guy already groped you, so you might as well allow yourself to get raped too.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

JUST IN: the Fed announces you just received a pay cut at work.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Flock cams have been found at:

-Bike paths
-Nature trails
-Public parks
-Wilderness areas
-Community pools
-Reproductive clinics
-Schools & preschools
-Entrance to state parks
-Gyms & recreation centers
-Children’s gymnastics room

It's not plate tracking.
It’s people tracking.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Virginia is rolling out a state issued digital ID.

It is voluntary to use at this point so do not use it.

Once they get you to use it and it becomes convenient they will add more and more information to it.

Then comes a social credit score attached to your ID, and we've seen how that works in China. We can't let it happen here!

The only way we win is enough of us refuse to go along so the key is to warn everyone and spread the word.

We must resist and refuse to go along!

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

Walmart recorded your voiceprint when you called customer service.

Did not tell you.

Did not ask you.

Built a voice profile.

Stored it in a database.

Then a second Walmart sued them for recording warehouse workers’ voiceprints through headsets.

Then a third lawsuit for facial recognition in stores.

Three biometric systems.

One company.

All being sued at the same time.

McDonald’s. Applebee’s. Chipotle. Domino’s. Wingstop.

All recorded voiceprints during pizza orders.

Verizon enrolled customers in voice ID without asking.

Your voiceprint cannot be changed.

Your face cannot be changed.

If Walmart’s database gets breached your voice is compromised forever.

Every future authentication system you use is now at risk.

The voiceprint is not a password.

It is a biometric identifier.

And it is sitting in a Walmart database.

This is only illegal in Illinois.

BIPA is the only US law that lets you sue.

In 47 states companies can collect your fingerprints face and voice.

With zero legal consequence.

The customer service call you made five years ago.

Was a biometric harvesting operation.

You just found out.

[Maciej Łaszkiewicz @maciejlasz]

Pierwszy w historii przykład człowieka, który podczas popołudniowego spaceru strzelił gola na wagę awansu do ćwierćfinału Mistrzostw Świata

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

March 11, 2011.

The whole world grabbed their people and RAN from Japan.
Airports jammed. Embassies emptied. Goodbye.

And then—through the black waves—
America came CHARGING IN.

24,000 soldiers. Toward the radiation.
Toward the ruins. Toward US.

You named it "Operation Tomodachi."
FRIEND.

I'm crying writing this. 15 years later. Still.

HAPPY 250th BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!! 🇺🇸🔥🇯🇵
Japan never forgets. NEVER.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

If they are willing to risk everything to stop their release, think about just how bad for them they must be.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document ever produced by man. It’s no coincidence that it was the founding document of our nation and we went on to be the most prosperous civilization in human history. Any country founded on that document is worth loving and fighting to save.

It is also, undeniably, a radically libertarian document that clearly states the validity of natural God given rights and that the only legitimate role for government is the protection of liberty.

We have serious problems in our country today and we will be much better off if we follow the spirit of our founding document than the brain dead varying socialisms being promoted by both political parties.

[Ken James @openshutter21]

You'll have to forgive me if I'm not necessary celebrating our "freedom" when driving on I80 across the country after seeing thousands of cameras, plate readers, and WiFi/Bluetooth signal trackers every exit or two.

I'm reasonably positive that I got pulled over in Mississippi and my car searched because the system flagged my movements as suspicious since I'm a landscape photographer that just chases beautiful scenes. There was zero reason that I was pulled over and the cop never gave me one, even though I kept asking. I got no ticket and no warning. So this time I'm looking at cameras wondering if I'm gonna have another interaction while I just on my way to visiting my sick mother.

This is one of the reasons I rail against these kind of systems. It's a type of dystopian precrime system that is the beginning of having to always prove your innocence.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

10 Things The Founders Would Be Stacking Bodies Over 250 Years Later:

-Digital IDs
-$39.4T Debt
-PATRIOT Act
-Militarized Police
-Mass surveillance
-37% Federal Tax Rate
-Biometric Databases
-Government Stablecoins
-Nationwide Flock cameras
-Mandatory Vehicle kill switches

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Congratulations to all the freedom fighters, we've made Flock cameras a campaign issue!

[Charging… @RedPillSayian]

James Fishback says if elected governor, he will ban all Flock and Palantir systems in Florida.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Love your country, hate your government.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Bosnia admits it’s called soccer on Instagram after losing to the USA in the World Cup 😂😂

[Carolina ❤️‍🔥 @realCarola2Hope]

They didn’t call it “Sentinel” or “Guardian.”

They called it “Flock.”

As in: something you herd, track, count, and keep from wandering off the reservation.

They see us as livestock.

Zero respect.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Cape Verde btw