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[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

Ecological and spiritual-psychological damages are completely absent even from alternative war analysis: thats the psyop, thats the tell of managed dissent. Or as Jim Morrison said you’re all a bunch of fucking slaves.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

20 years in prison for fine-tuning an open source AI model. That's what Bernie Sanders wants.

That's why the AI psyop is being run right now. To scare everybody into supporting total control by the government.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

How the government is using Tether to build the financial component of the surveillance state.

Two guys in Bangkok ran a gaming promotion business that was legal, and licensed. They arranged VIP experiences, travel, lodging, meals, for high-roller clients at casinos operated by a publicly traded US company in Asia. The casino did KYC on them and on their customers. They independently screened every crypto wallet that touched their business. They were not hiding from anyone

On October 30, 2025, at 11 PM UTC, Tether blacklisted ten of their Ethereum wallets in a two-and-a-half-minute batch. $42,417,785.62 frozen. The largest wallet alone held $26.1 million. One of the men, Natthawat Kasamvilas, contacted Tether to find out what happened. On November 2nd Tether emailed him back, gave him the name of a Homeland Security Investigations agent, and said "We do not have further information at this time." They did not mention that they were the ones who froze the money

Here is what actually happened. An HSI agent out of Raleigh, North Carolina got a tip from a victim, one person, identified in court documents only as "GM", who lost roughly $30,000 in a romance scam. HSI traced GM's $30,000 to a consolidation wallet, then identified 18 wallets belonging to Thai nationals, then traced forward to 11 more wallets connected to two of those Thai nationals. None of those 11 wallets belonged to Kasamvilas or his business partner Nutthawat Rukthammachalern. The affidavit does not trace a single dollar from the scam victim to their wallets. The tracing exhibits the government submitted were, according to their lawyers, "so blurry and illegible that it is impossible to meaningfully review or decipher" them. When clearer copies were requested, key portions were still unreadable

But none of that mattered, because before any of that paperwork existed, before any judge reviewed any evidence, a Homeland Security agent called Tether and asked them to freeze the wallets. He did not have a warrant or a court order or a subpoena. Just a request. And Tether did it

They flew to the United States. On May 21, 2026, they sat down with HSI officials in person, brought lawyers, presented evidence that the government's own affidavit had no tracing connecting the scam to their wallets. HSI gave them no substantive answers and no path to get their money back

As of today, no indictment has been filed against them. No criminal charges. and no civil forfeiture complaint. The government has not accused them of a crime in any court. But their $42.4 million is still frozen. And the whole time it has been frozen, Tether has been earning Treasury yield on the reserves backing those tokens. The company that locked their money is profiting from locking their money and not giving it back.

Kasamvilas and Rukthammachalern had no account with Tether. They bought their USDT on the open market, the same way 650 million other people use it. And Tether froze it anyway because it has a function built into its smart contract called addBlackList that lets the company unilaterally lock any wallet on earth with no judge, no hearing, just a line of code

They filed a motion in North Carolina on July 31st demanding the government return their funds. Then on August 31st they sued Tether in the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit says what happened to them is conversion, trespass, and unjust enrichment. Tether called the case "baseless" and said it was interfering with their "important work with global law enforcement"

So, a private company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, now operating out of El Salvador, froze $42.4 million belonging to two foreign nationals based on a phone call from one US federal agent investigating a $30,000 scam. No charges filed to this day. And when they sued, the company said helping law enforcement freeze people's money without legal process is "important work".

That is not how the law works when the government freezes your bank account. They need a judge. They need probable cause. They need the 4th Amendment. But Tether is not the government, and that is the point.

They already did this with physical surveillance. Flock Safety has 120,000 cameras across 49 states tracking every car that passes, make, model, color, scratches, passengers, pedestrians. Police departments buy access, and CBP taps in, no warrant needed because it is a private company selling a service. Axon has 85 percent of the body camera market and built a platform that merges CCTV, drones, license plate readers, gunshot detection, and AI analytics into what they call a "single pane of glass." Palantir combined financial transactions, communications, travel records, and criminal databases into one system and sold it to the CIA, ICE, the Pentagon, and local police. The FBI uses it for "complete target analysis of known populations"

The 4th Amendment says the government cannot search you without a warrant. But if a private company collects the data and the government buys access to it, or just asks nicely, that protection disappears. A bipartisan group in Congress called it a loophole and introduced the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. It has not passed, of course.

Now they are doing the same thing with our money.

If the government wanted to monitor every financial transaction in America, it would need legislation, judicial oversight, probably a Supreme Court fight. It would take years and it might fail. But if a private company issues a digital currency that 650 million people use, monitors every transaction through the FBI's own surveillance contractor, and freezes wallets on a phone call, well the government gets the same result without any of the legal burden.

Here is what you would need to build a privatized financial surveillance network and what Tether has already done.

(1) You would need a currency people are forced into.
So you ban the government from making its own digital dollar…done, January 2025 executive order. Then you pass a law making private stablecoins the only legal option…done, GENIUS Act. You crash the real dollar with tariffs so people worldwide switch to the digital one…happening right now. Tether is at 650 million users and adding 30 million wallets a quarter.

(2) You would need to see every transaction.
Tether partnered with Chainalysis, the same surveillance firm the FBI and Secret Service use to track money. Every USDT transaction on every blockchain is monitored in real time

(3) You would need identity resolution.
The GENIUS Act classifies stablecoins as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act. KYC requirements, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting. FinCEN published the compliance rules in June 2026. Every user becomes identifiable.

4) You would need the power to freeze and seize without going through a judge.
Tether has frozen $4.4 billion across thousands of wallets. They work with 310 law enforcement agencies in 64 countries. They froze $42.4 million on a verbal request from one agent.

(5) You would need physical surveillance to pair with financial surveillance, because money tells you what someone bought but not where they are.
Tether invested in Satellogic, a satellite company building daily coverage of the entire planet by 2027. The tech partner is Palantir, the AI runs on the satellites. The capability is called "pattern of life assessment."

(6) You would need computing power to process it all.
Tether owns 22,000 Nvidia GPUs through the Rumble-Northern Data merger. $150 million committed for GPU access.

(7) You would need media control in case anyone starts reporting on it.
Tether owns 48 percent of Rumble and signed a $100 million advertising deal.

(8) And you would need the regulators to protect you instead of investigating you.
The Commerce Secretary's family firm custodies Tether's reserves and owns 5% of it. The former Treasury Secretary chairs the satellite company. The White House crypto czar wrote the law and became Tether's CEO one month later. And the Corporate Transparency Act, the one law that required shell companies to disclose who owns them, got deleted.

That is every piece all in place. Hard to ignore. All owned by one company that has never been audited, is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, and is run by four men, two who just moved to El Salvador with 15 shell companies and no extradition treaty.

The 4th Amendment was written to stop the government from doing this. It does not apply to Tether and that is their plan, I think. They are privatizing the surveillance apparatus and Tether looks like the financial component.

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

@DisrespectedThe Aka highly incentivized.

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

@B0V1CE Because resisting against a monopoly of violence is what they want. Build parallel systems, take their power away.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

@RabbiJeffx free jeff.

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

Mass account deactvation will get their attention, move to alternatives.

[ModernShaman @ModernShamanX]

Everyone should cancel their X Premium subscription after @elonmusk removed @ParodyJeffX from the “Free Speech” app.

He was just getting @Grok to admit the truth of what “Our Greatest Enemy” has been doing in Gaza.

@RabbiJeffx is a deeply religious chosen man and if he can be deleted anyone can.

#ElonMusk is an enemy to humanity💯 I will no longer be buying a Tesla car or one of his Israeli Spy Robots to walk around my house

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

This is beyond absurd. Free speech doesn’t mean only protecting speech you agree with.

What the hell is going on, @elonmusk?

[IanMalcolm84 @IanMalcolm84]

.@grok why was @Parodyjeffx suspended?

@elonmusk - There must be transparency in these processes. We all “notice” the obvious abuse of these polices to target critics of Israel

[ADAM @adamemedia]

The Parody Jeff account has just been suspended after forcing Grok to admit that Israel is committing genocide.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress did one and only one thing today.

The House passed a bill to withhold money from universities if they don’t play nice with Israel.

I voted No.

It’s not proper for our federal government to coerce universities into engaging with any particular foreign country.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Yesterday, @Parodyjeffx posted a screenshot showing Grok admitting Israel is committing genocide.

It went viral.

Then X permanently banned his account.

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

Whether any given criticism crosses into antisemitism has to be judged on what it actually says.

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

Criticism of isreal cant be blaming all jewish people when many american jews also oppose zionism. Your extermination comment is likely a projection of the harm radical zionists have done to innocent children and civilians. Stop the harm now and seek forgiveness.

[Andrew Pessin @AndrewPessin]

antizionism at work in real time marking Jews for expulsion and extermination

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

Criticism of Israel is not inherently blame of Jewish people — it’s criticism of a state’s conduct. That many Jews, in Israel and abroad, are among its sharpest critics demonstrates the two are not the same category.

[rhizome radio @rhizomeradio]

https://t.co/Az8FqGb5gB

[Andrew Pessin @AndrewPessin]

antizionism at work in real time marking Jews for expulsion and extermination

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s.

Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote.

RT to support the Massie amdt.!

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

The whole-of-government takeover by Israel is far worse than previously understood. America is handing over its most sensitive national security systems to Israel thru:
- presidential memo NSPM-12 (01:18)
- 5 Israel bills and (03:39)
- Pax Silica. (05:36)

This backdoor alliance floods US cyber, AI, crypto, and defense with Israeli tech, intel, and co-production while a known espionage powerhouse gains keys to the kingdom. (05:53)

Sovereignty is being sold out. Secrets are now at risk of total compromise.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?

It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."

It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."

It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."

It is not stupidity.

It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.

It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.

Not because the evidence is unclear.

But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.

Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.

The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🚨🇵🇸 Kuzey Gaza'daki gazeteciler dünyaya doğrudan hitap ediyor: "İsrail'in Palestinlileri ölüme asma yasası Nazilerden daha kötü."

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