2017: Huge difference with a private company [doing airline security versus the TSA] is that the people searching you and the people pawing you would not have the equivalent of diplomatic immunity.

The interview is from November 22, 2017.  

Not many congressmen were willing to say that the responsibility should be on the airlines themselves.  

Huge difference with a private company is that the people searching you and the people pawing you would not have the equivalent of diplomatic immunity.  It's almost impossible to sue a federal agent who violates your Constitutional rights.  And that's a huge Pandora's box.  

2:49. It's actually gotten a lot more intrusive thanks to the guidelines that the TSA is using and going back to the question of private verses Federal a huge difference with a private company is that the people searching you the people pawing you would not have the equivalent of diplomatic immunity it's almost impossible to sue a federal agent who violates your constitutional rights and that's a huge Pandora's Box for not getting abused at the airport because federal agents the TSA is you know notified that they're allowed to grab you squeeze you there there's a lawsuit that's coming down a federal judge just to prove it a few months ago it's an airline pilot who got jammed in the groin punched in the groin basically by a a TSA agent out of Dulles Airport and the TSA tried to get the federal judge to dismiss his lawsuit who said his rights were violated the TSA said instead of filing the suit with the guy could have done is simply called in the TSA contact center and left a complaint this is the type of remedy the TSA thinks that the American people deserve after they get heavily abused by federal agents.  

ATLANTA: ‘Light Up The Night’ Plan Aims To Replace Streetlights With Cameras That Record “Movement, audio and video”

🚨 Smart Cities Coming To America. China Level Of Surveillance Headed Our Way

Atlanta ‘Light Up The Night’ Plan Aims To Replace Streetlights With Cameras That Record “Movement, audio and video”

“The people monitoring the cameras have the ability to move those cameras 360… pic.twitter.com/f8TYJ8EBIp

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 20, 2024

It's not just Atlanta.  It's already in your neighborhood.  Try driving down a main boulevard in your town at 10pm to see the kinds of yellow lights that triple as lights, cameras, and microphones.  It is full surveillance.  And it's throughout the night.  There may be a central station where all the video feeds end up.  What I've experienced myself is that you've got unmarked security cars or vans that respond to a car in an empty parking lot, and that security detail will drive by your car and flash its lights on you, but because the security agent has no police force, just police intel, he won't be arresting you unless you're doing something illegal or highly suspicious.  Then they'll call for a black and white.  

Homeowners, like many of us, want to drive people out.  The cities are too crowded these days.  No one likes it.  We all resent it.  "Go home!" comes the chant from some.  "Stay out" goes another.  So citizen becomes a deputized security asset snooping on people they don't recognize at a neighborhood park, as though the stranger is doing something or preparing to do something illegal.  It'll be up to you to prove that you're not doing anything illegal once an illegal calls the cops on you.  

Don't accept it as some modern improvement, unless you like the the surveillance state that would make the 1985 East German STASI state blush.  Today's surveillance capability means that the satellites in the earth's orbit can detect what you're eating in your car that's parked in your work's parking lot.  It's a rigged game.  At some point, we've got to fight back.  

There are no more unlit culdesacs in America.  

PETER ST ONGE: The problem is the U.S. sanctions, particularly the effort to seize the assets of the Russian Central Bank. Those have put countries around the world on notice that their dollars are not safe

Here is the substack version with charts and graphs to make the point even more vivid. 

Gold’s on fire, up 20% in the past 2 months and beating the socks off stocks.

In fact, gold prices have almost doubled since the pandemic.

Why? Dysfunctional governments.

Inflation, fiscal collapse, geopolitical clown-shows.

And now central bankers buying insurance against… pic.twitter.com/SdXvO9TwPL

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) April 19, 2024

In case you've been living under a rock, gold prices have been on fire, jumping 20% in just the past 2 months.  That takes gold to a near doubling in price since pre-pandemic when it was meandering along at just $1500.  Yesterday it closed at $2,400, so if you don't own any gold it might make sense to get some in case it catches on; plus, Peter Schiff can now buy nice shirts The soaring price is a new experience for many gold investors, who are long accustomed to taking the slow and steady stairs while the stocks take the elevator.  Granted they take it up, they take it down, but here we are with stocks flat over the past two months and gold is up 20%.  In fact, at this point, gold has now matched the S&P 500 throughout the pandemic and, of course, it runs circles around the US dollar which is melting like ice cream in the sun thanks to federal spending a very obliging fed that has knocked a fifth off the dollar's buying power since the pandemic.

So what's driving the gold rally?  Three things: 1) inflation, Central Bank buying, and geopolitical tensions, including Russian sanctions with a guest appearance by some large mystery buyer rumored to be backed by the Chinese government.  Taking each in turn, we are coming up on 6 months now of rising inflation as the "transitory inflation" narrative turns out to have been a head fake.  I also mentioned recently how central banks are now openly admitting that they're preparing for some major financial catastrophe.  A senior Dutch Central Banker said the quiet part out loud a couple of months ago, and presumably, the crisis they have in mind is sovereign debt and the bank collapses that tend to come along for the ride.  And then of course the geopolitical tensions, above all Russia and China.  Now Russia itself is not very important; it really is Mexico with nukes with a fairly inconsequential economy.  The problem is the U.S. sanctions, particularly the effort to seize the assets of the Russian Central Bank.  Those have put countries around the world on notice that their dollars are not safe, that they can be seized anytime you look at Joe Biden funny.  That sends those banks to the next best asset, including gold.  Now gold is a pretty small market.  All the gold in the world is worth about $16 trillion, while all the government debt is worth closer to $100 trillion, so that means if money is moving out of government debt it can move the needle a lot on gold.  

At this point, Wall Street is falling over each other trying to up their gold targets.  So Goldman is saying $2,700; Bank of America says $3,000 by next year; UBS is saying $4,000 in the next "two to three years."  If that happens, we'll be looking at a near tripling of gold prices which would be the biggest rally since the 2008 crisis.  Before that, you'd have to go back to the 1970s but given inflation and sovereign debt are both getting worse and actually speeding up and given that wars and geopolitical tensions appear to be cranking out assembly-line style, these numbers may actually end up being conservative for gold prices.  Fundamentally, gold is insurance, and when the world is as badly run as it is today it's the last line of defense, and investors are finally realizing that.

Read the rest of the articles with charts and graphs and all the Gory details at www.prothstonge.com.

WALTER M. CHESTNUT: Friday Hope: Curcumin II: Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2, its Spike Protein… and PRIONS

Friday Hope: Curcumin II: Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2, its Spike Protein… and PRIONS by Walter M Chesnut

A new review highlights how Curcumin is almost certainly one of the most important supplements of our times.

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There is no way of getting curcumin without getting some kind of seed oil, either sunflower oil or the capsules themselves are made of a pharmacological vegetable made in a lab by one of the big pharma companies.  It's use at your own risk.  The preferred option is to get the turmeric root from the health food produce section at your Sprouts, Whole Foods, or Natural Grocers. 

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— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) April 19, 2024

00:46. Those are the fixes to the no-fault compensation programs to treat them as we do, and as we should, as veterans in the war against disease.  

The next area that will open up will be using state laws.  And most of the winds that have been happening here, and kudos to everybody here who's doing the employment cases, most of the wins are coming in Title VII, state versions of Title VII, and the other procedures, like writs and mandate.  So I think there was very, very good success in getting people's jobs back and in use of the direct Constitutional theories under Section 1983 and directly under the first amendment for the federal and state employees, and whether State action where the government orders a hospital to have a vaccine mandate that makes the hospital estate actor and you can sue them under Section 1983.  Set since the Constitution generally replies only two actions only the government takes we are now in his closet fastest era of government industry collaborate and what are the things we saw with coded one of the lessons is we really can't do much about private industry employment cases are the exception to fill that gab States are going to have to pass laws basically a mending there existing civil rights laws to include either and narrow protection for vaccine status or abroad protection for banning discrimination again any kind of medical condition.