EMT, author, and activist Alu Axelman is a rising star in the liberty community. Today, I get to hear his “Coming to New Hampshire” story, and he walks us through his growing body of books covering various liberty topics from due process to independence.
What is the election landscape like for Manchester this Fall?
I shared the image above on Instagram and got dinged by a “partly false information” warning.
Do yourself a favor and read this fact check from the AP, written by an Ali Swenson. Even though the each image cites a source, this “fact checker” is of the OPINION these numbers from the FBI and CDC are not “reliable.”
So that means, currently on social media:
* If you don’t cite a source, you get dinged.
* If you DO cite a source, even if it is the government’s own numbers, if Big Bro no likey, that’s a no-go, too.
In the past few weeks, several memes I’ve shared–ARTFUL TAKES of current events generated fast and dirty–have been censored or labeled as “missing context” or “partly false.” Before we move on from that…. Think about those labels for a sec… technically, everything in life is “missing context” and everything that is “partly false,” is equally “partly true.” Acknowledge the manipulation of their word choices here… In actual fact, their own statements are also, “missing context” and “partly false,” but I’m confident Goebbels would 100% approve of the technique.
For those of you who do not, like me, now routinely get in trouble with the Thought Police online, each ding, depending on the severity and frequency, “levels” you up until you catch a suspension (different time frames for different platforms and violations), or, ultimately, a ban.
Of course, I want to provide accurate information if I am presenting facts as facts, but I also have a wicked sense of humor, and love funny takes for the sake of the lulz. For us to accept some Orwellian Big Bro to now “fact check” cartoons, jokes, take-downs, and memes on social media is extremely troubling, because this means they’re now “fact checking” ART.
By way of example, I shared a snarky pic about Davos on Instagram (see HERE) that depicted a bunch of private jets and the words: “A record 1,500 private jets have arrived at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to discuss what they can do about your carbon footprint.” This is clearly satire. EXCEPT, days after I posted it, the Thought Police slapped a “missing context” warning on the photo, and used this “fact checked” article to claim the graphic is inaccurate because, and I quote: “The second photo was originally captured by Reuters photographer Arnd Wiegmann in January 2016. ‘Passenger jets are parked at the Swiss Airforce base in Duebendorf, Switzerland January 21, 2016,’ reads the photo’s description, which goes on to explain the airport was being used for arrivals and departures of WEF attendees for a Davos meeting that year.”
So, just ICYMI, these “fact checkers” are “fact checking” a tongue-in-cheek, satiric internet meme because the photo depicted IS REAL AND OF THE PLACE IT CLAIMS TO BE, ONLY FROM A DIFFERENT YEAR. Personally, I was surprised it was even from the same country or airport, not something you would expect or require from fast-paced humorous internet artwork/meme.
Memes by their very nature are often about suggestion, a feeling, creating something newsy from the old, inaccuracies, a vibe, whatever the magic sauce is that makes art art, and humor humor, that’s what a well-crafted meme is. Memes therefore poses an interesting challenge to censors because they break down complex ideas into identifiable tropes or themes, and, because much of it is extremely irreverent, memes tend to go viral when done right… which is exactly why the censors are concerned.
People who know me here in the Free State know that as early as 2010, if I was saying something edgy that might be misconstrued, I would yell: “IT’S FOR THE SCREENPLAY!” The thinking, and joke, at the time was, if the NSA was bugging my phone, the fact that it was “art” would protect my speech.
Art used to be able to do this, be the medium we could express ourselves, make fun of the world, and explore weird and wonderful ideas. No more. ART was the last place where free speech existed, but the Control Freaks are coming for that too.
I won’t let them, and neither should you. Know this: I will fight the destruction of free speech, art, and the right to express myself in any manner I see fit until I draw my dying breath. #FreeSpeechMatters
In the category of “you cannot make this shit up,” for the ONE HUNDRED BILLION PILLS–100,000,000,000–prescribed over 9 years, I give you this bit of trivia… (see graphic above).
Info from x2 part-series HBO documentary “The Crime of the Century.” Watch the trailer. Sadly, I think this crime will be usurped by the C-19 Crimes Against Humanity currently taking place, but here’s to hoping not!
Tweet: https://twitter.com/CarlaGericke/status/1532697733953363968
The MPD are at it again with a super, super creepy program to turn every neighbor into a government spy. Listen to this word salad from the FUSUS site (literally, Fuse Us, like the Panopticon): “Fusus is an open and unified intelligence ecosystem that integrates and enhances all public safety and investigations assets for law enforcement, first responders, and private security personnel.” <— please note the “stakeholders” are NOT THE PUBLIC AT ALL.
Here’s the UL article. We need to kill this DOA.
“Manchester homeowners, businesses and just about anyone with a security camera would be able to feed their video to Manchester police under an information system under consideration by the department.
Police said video feeds would be integrated and used in real time to assist officers who are responding to a crime. It also could save time for detectives, who now have to approach people and ask for their security camera video while investigating a crime.
Department leaders gave an overview of the Fusus system to the Manchester Police Commission and a police community advisory board on Wednesday.
“The owner of the camera decides what the police can see and cannot see,” said Lt. Matthew Barter, the chief of staff to Police Chief Allen Aldenberg. For example, Manchester schools are considering limiting their feed to high-priority calls.
The system has been implemented successfully in Atlanta and Minneapolis, he said. No other New Hampshire municipality uses the system, but New Hampshire State Police use it in a limited fashion, he said.
The first step would be to channel the feed of 285 city security cameras into the system. The cameras capture the interior and exterior of city-owned buildings such as libraries, City Hall and fire stations. The Manchester school board would have to approve school feeds into the system.
Barter said police are unveiling the system to community groups and are formulating a policy for its use. This summer, police expect to bring it to Manchester aldermen for approval.
He did not know the cost but said it would likely have to be funded by a grant or city-authorized debt.
The public-private nature of Fusus concerns Carla Gericke, a Manchester resident and liberty activist.
“It’s a backdooring of the surveillance state,” said Gericke, the board chairman of the Free State Project.
While police are coming up with more ways to surveil people, they are taking steps to keep information secret, Gericke said, citing scrambled police radio transmissions and interviews with body cameras, which are exempt from Right-to-Know disclosure.
Gericke sued Manchester police in 2019 over the installation of a surveillance camera in downtown Manchester, a suit that she lost.
Barter said he realizes that questions will arise regarding surveillance and civil liberties. He said a balance has to be made.
“We know we have challenges in this state. We’re not like other states that put cameras up everywhere,” he said.
Officials said no one will be sitting at a desk monitoring video feeds without reason. When a crime takes place, a dispatcher will be able to access feeds from neighborhood cameras.
The camera owner will have to pay $250 for the hardware that allows a four-camera feed, Barter said.
Those who don’t want to pay for the feed can opt to register their security camera with the police. When a crime takes place in their neighborhood, police will send them an email asking for video from a certain time frame.
That saves time for detectives, who otherwise would have to knock on doors and ask for a feed, said Sgt. Emmett Macken.
“I don’t think I’ve ever knocked on the door, and they said, ‘We’re not giving it to you,’” Macken said.
Alderman-at-Large June Trisciani, a member of the advisory panel, said the system has prompted a response when mentioned at recent neighborhood meetings.
“People want to help, and this is a way to help,” she said. But she said police will have to warn homeowners where they can’t point their cameras — for example, at a neighbor’s back yard.
Some aspects of the system:
• FususAI can search feeds and find descriptions entered by police such as “backpack” or “red truck.” Barter said that does not involve facial recognition, and descriptors cannot be employed that involve race or ethnicity.
• FususAlert amounts to a panic button and would allow people with an app to start sending a feed into the police station. For example, a teacher could trigger that app.
• FususTips would allow someone to text a photo or video from a social media feed or other source.
• FususVault would store video needed as evidence in a trial.
Barter said a Manchester policy would require that a case number or call number be associated with every saved video, and every click into the system would be logged.
The Manchester Police Commission, a citizen advisory board, would review the activity logs on a regular basis.”
This week, we’re in the studio discussing grassroots solutions to the problems Granite Staters face: a government that is too big and unresponsive to our needs. Terese Grinnell is a hospice nurse, grassroots activist who was arrested for saying ‘Amen,’ and is being persecuted by the Sununu administration, and yet, she is STILL fighting back. Watch this episode to learn more about the “We The People: The Resolve” Initiative.
Read The Liberty Blocks take on The Resolve HERE.
I find it interesting that two of the most forced vaccinated industries, healthcare and airlines, are both now experiencing newspaper-worthy levels of staff shortages.
To be fair, there are compounding issues, like delayed care at hospitals and additional regulations for pilots, but I’d be curious to know stuff like:
# Staff out sick broken down by vax status;
Number of vaccinated staff who still got Covid vs. Ppl w/excemptions;
Absenteeism broken down by vaccination status/number of doses, etc.
I know people who work in Healthcare, and what I’m hearing on the ground is troubling, especially, it seems, lots of “weird neurological stuff.”
Skeptics of my position could argue this could be Covid-related, and it is possible, but since we HAVE DATA FOR THE VACCINES, especially given excess all-cause mortality rates from Israel and Australia (see here and here) correlating to vaccine administration not the disease, something is not adding up…
Here is a FDA report (PDF) that claims, according to this article:
“The clinical trials of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine found that the all-cause mortality rate of the vaccinated group was higher than that of the control group, months after the trials were launched, according to a recently released FDA report.
According to the report, which was released by the US Food and Drug Administration to provide background information on its August 2021 decision to grant full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine after offering limited emergency authorization of use in last December, six months after the vaccine’s clinical trial began, the total number of deaths reported in the vaccinated group was nearly one-quarter higher than the number of deaths in the placebo group.
The report emphasized that ‘None of the deaths were considered related to vaccination’.”
Strength in partnerships… I talk about my relationship with my husband, Louis Calitz, my switch to a keto diet and other lifestyle choices including quitting alcohol to get myself fighting fit for the future. Also: love, compassion and bitcoin! Take a look at this final part of the 3-part series.
Breaking the tax cap, pretending inflation isn’t affecting us all, and more!