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    The Math Behind America's Data Center Buildout Doesn't Add Up | Susan Luschas

    "I didn't realize we were already oversized for what we need. I would love to know what we're building this overcapacity for if it's not for a digital surveillance and control grid." A White Paper: "Data Centers: What do we need all this data for? A Mathematical Analysis" Susan Luschas and her husband Manuel Luschas, authors of the white paper "Data Centers: What do we need all this data for? A Mathematical Analysis"1, are both electrical engineers. Susan has a PhD from MIT in electrical engineering and she worked on some of the first WiFi, Bluetooth and cell phone chips in Silicon Valley. Later, she worked as a professor at Santa Clara University. Manuel worked for many years on digital highspeed data communication devices for data centers in Silicon Valley. In 2020, during the height of the Pandemic, they left California and moved to South Dakota so that their daughters could go to school in person and without having to wear facemasks. Just yesterday, in the midterm elections, Manuel won one of the two South Dakota House District 2 seats. Why They Wrote the White Paper In early 2026 Susan Luschas gave a talk to a local group in South Dakota about the importance of cash in preventing the creation of a totalitarian control grid made possible through a large number of hyperscale data centers. Afterwards, a South Dakotan asked her why she is so sure that data centers are meant for surveillance and control. She gave him an answer - but she wasn't happy with it: "I told him: 'Because I worked in Silicon Valley and, between me and my husband, we've helped build these things.' "And then in hindsight, I realized that's not really a great answer. 'Believe me' is not really a great answer. "And then I thought, well, I can mathematically prove it to him. And we were in a room with a whiteboard, and I thought, I can mathematically prove this to him. And then I thought, it'd probably take me a bunch of assumptions that may not make sense to him. And it will take maybe an hour or two. "And then I thought, maybe instead I'll write a white paper and then I'll have it all referenced. He can see exactly where I got my numbers from for my assumptions. He can check my math and he can tell me where the math is wrong. "I know as a tech person that these numbers don't add up. We don't need this much data center processing power for our everyday." CHAPTERS 00:05 Why a White Paper Can Prove the Data Center Buildout 01:59 Two Electrical Engineering PhDs Behind the Math 04:38 An Open Invitation to Find a Mistake 06:28 Measuring Everything in Watts 08:20 Table One: Which Digital Activities Count 12:02 Insignificant Data Sources Moved to the Appendix 15:49 Reading the Numbers: Streaming, AI, Self-Driving Cars 19:39 Crypto Mining Outweighs Worst-Case Streaming 22:59 How Much Energy Do AI Tasks Really Use 31:46 Watts Versus Watt-Hours Explained 34:03 Daily AI Use Versus Total Digital Demand 35:48 Why Military Data Stays Off Commercial Data Centers 40:06 Table Two: Existing Capacity Is Triple the Need 44:53 Idle Capacity and the Mousetrap Theory 47:38 South Dakota: 32 Megawatts, Almost All Crypto 52:03 2030 Forecasts: 148 Gigawatts Nationally, 23 Times More in South Dakota 54:55 Table Three: Every Data Center in South Dakota 56:43 Why the Berkeley Lab Forecast Leaves Out Crypto 1:00:53 Local Projects: A 50-Megawatt AI Site and a 500-Megawatt Site Under NDA 1:03:19 Where Will the Electricity Come From 1:05:00 Testing Other Explanations: AI Growth, Biometrics, Tokenization 1:09:35 The Utopia Scenario: A Three-Terawatt Control Grid 1:17:37 Utopia Versus 2030 Capacity 1:20:45 What a Partial Control System Would Require 1:23:07 Data Centers by Country 1:26:36 What China's Social Credit System Actually Is 1:31:29 Does "Keeping Up With China" Hold Up? 1:34:12 Artificial General Intelligence and Edge Computing 1:38:24 Reader Feedback So Far 1:40:19 Taxpayer Funding and Circular Financing 1:43:44 The Next Paper: Why the Financial Numbers Don't Work 1:47:03 What Zoning Boards Can Do 1:49:45 Cities and Counties That Have Banned Data Centers 1:55:20 Building Bans From the Bottom Up RESOURCES To email Susan with ideas, suggestions and corrections: sdacy@alum.mit.edu Susan and Manuel Luschas: Data Centers: What do we need all this data for? A Mathematical Analysis Cities, Counties, and States That Banned Data Centers; email Susan at sdacy@alum.mit.edu if you know of additional bans: https://content.campaignpartner.net/images/149540/County_and_City_Bans_on_Data_Centers_V3.pdf 15 minute movie 'Utopia'

  2. Oct 23

    How Medical Boards Are Used by the Government to Silence Doctors | Meryl Nass

    "I have a son who's a doctor. If this had happened to him, he wouldn't be able to fight it. So I'm fighting for all those young doctors who can't afford to, who have a career they must protect." An Amazing Victory: Judge told Dr. Nass That She Can Sue Maine's Medical Board Members for Punitive Damages In August 2023, Dr. Meryl Nass sued the state of Maine's medical board in federal court for violating her free speech rights. She accused the board of using its power to "crush dissenting views and chill disfavored speech." Exactly three years later, in August of 2026, District Judge Lance Walker ordered her lawsuit to proceed after Maine's Medical Board tried to have it dismissed. Judge Walker gave Nass the right to sue the medical board members individually for going way beyond their official authority. And he also ruled that she can sue for the suspension of her medical license and for the loss of her first amendment right - freedom of speech. "If I win this case eventually, it will send a message to every board member: 'Don't you dare go outside your authority because you are not protected if you go beyond simply trying to protect patients in your state. If you decide to become a a punitive agency, a politicized agency, you are at risk yourself.' "The judge told me I could go after punitive damages, which means damages that are not based on the harm they did to me, but damages that are designed to stop them and other people from ever doing this again." Maine's medical board has already appealed. Nass told me: "Now we have to go back to court, and deal with their appeal. So it just means everything will take even longer." Why Dr. Nass Was Targeted Meryl Nass was one of the few doctors who, from the very beginning, dared to go against the system during the so-called Pandemic. Starting in 2020, she spoke up in many interviews against the pandemic madness and she prescribed her patients ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19. But those weren't the only reasons why the medical-industrial complex feared her enough to make her the poster child of what happens to a doctor who doesn't fall in line: "Not only did I challenge the [Covid] license, I was one of the few doctors in those days who knew anything about licensing vaccines. I mean, these are very arcane rules, but I had already been through it with the anthrax vaccine. "So I had unique knowledge. And when the COVID vaccine was licensed on August 23, 2020, I wrote an article with Mary Holland and Bobby Kennedy about it and what was wrong with the licensure and the article was published in The Defender. "It got more views than any other article that had ever been published in The Defender. And it knocked the server off for a while. "And I was advising people what they could use for legal challenges to the vaccinations. So that was another reason they probably wanted to go after me. "I'd been working with Bobby Kennedy, and I had co-written a citizen's petition to the FDA to try to stop the COVID vaccine. "And I had co-written a couple of lawsuits with children's health defense about trying to stop the Covid vaccine for children… and I think that people in Washington knew that I was a potentially powerful person because I had helped stop the anthrax vaccines. "There was a mandatory anthrax vaccine program in 1998. And in 2004 we got a judge to take away the license of the anthrax vaccine in part due to my work. And so I think they wanted to neuter me as early as possible." No wonder then that Dr. Nass was chosen to be the one that would be punished in a highly publicized way to intimidate a million doctors in the entire country. The Institution Chosen to Crush Nass and End Her Medical Career Was Maine's Medical Board Maine's Medical Board, the "Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine," was selected as the instrument to punish and humiliate Dr. Nass during something that amounted to a long-drawn out show trial. The members of Maine's Medical Board were the public faces of this trial but they were, in all likelihood, not the ones who had the real power and drove the decisions. In Maine, the members of the state's medical board are personally appointed by the Governor of the state and need not be confirmed by the state's senate. This is clearly not a great way to find just, brave and disinterested members for Maine's medical board. Dr. Nass told me: "A friend of mine knows Janet Mills and he was offered an appointment on a board at one point. So some of it goes to friends. "I think that it probably all goes to people who are yes men, who are known to go along, to do what they're told. It's not the members of the medical board, Nass said, but its large staff and the staff's overlords that really decide which doctors to persecute in order to bring an entire profession to heel. "While we focus on the board, because they are the ones who make decisions in the end, they are the ones who vote, what you have to realize is that they're backed up by about a dozen staff members or more who are employees of the state. "And they are the staff of the board. And some of them are doctors and lawyers. And they're really the ones who do all the work. They do the investigation, they produce the documents, they're the ones who probably made that appointment, with the neuropsychologist for me. "They already knew how the board was going to vote because they knew probably from before that whatever they tell the board, the board does. The Medical Board Members Were Rubber Stampers, Not Decision Makers In all likelihood, some high official in the Biden administration issued the order to take Nass out of the game. The staff received the order. They then prepared the show tribunal and instructed the board members what to do and how to vote. The medical board members were the rubber stampers - or rather the rubber voters: "And I would imagine that somebody in the Biden administration probably whispered in the ear of Maine's governor [Janet Mills], and she whispered in the ear of her staff, and that probably is what made it happen. "We know from some FOIA responses that the governor's chief of staff sent at least one or two emails mentioning me." "They handed me an appointment with a neuropsychologist. They'd already made the appointment before the meeting." In January of 2022, the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine ordered Nass to undergo a neuropsychological evaluation and suspended her medical license. "I think it was January 11th of 2022, when the board first met in closed session for the first time to hear about my case, and then voted unanimously to immediately suspend me from the practice of medicine within 24 hours. "They handed me an appointment with a neuropsychologist. They'd already made the appointment before the meeting. And they said: 'Bring twenty one hundred dollars with you for the evaluation. I had to pay for it myself, yeah. And it was a lot of money. "They were hoping, I think somebody was hoping they would get a diagnosis that they could then use against me." Nass never underwent the neuropsychological evaluation. Her license remains suspended to this day. She hasn't been able to practice for almost 5 years. I asked what happened to her patients when her license was suspended from one day to the next. She said: "All patients immediately had to be told that my license had been suspended. "Every patient who sought me out for treatment of COVID or to get a prophylactic drug in case they got COVID, was doing it sort of word of mouth. Everybody knew they were seeking me out because they knew the government didn't want them to have these drugs. "And they had to use these very informal networks to find doctors who would be willing to treat them. So it wasn't a surprise really to the patients that my license was suspended for this. They knew that doctors were getting in trouble. "It was bad because not all my patients were Covid patients. I had old patients with chronic illnesses that needed care. But I couldn't provide it. "It was a bad situation, but there wasn't anything I could do about it. We just had to immediately shut everything down. My nurse had to call people up and cancel the appointments, explain what happened, and that was it. " I wound up paying rent on my office for more than a year because I kept thinking this is gonna blow over, but it didn't. "They wanted to make an example of me. And so nothing was going to blow over." Holding Government Officials Accountable for Their Actions to Stop Abuse of Power Now that Judge Walker gave Nass permission to sue Maine's medical board members individually, she will do exactly that. Children's Health Defense will help funding these lawsuits as they helped funding her 2023 lawsuit against Maine's medical board. Her 2023 lawsuit has cost about half a million dollars and suing individual board members will add another several hundred thousand dollars, she estimates. The only way to make it less likely that government officials (including members of state government boards like Medical Boards) abuse their power or go along with it without protesting is to hold them accountable, Nass said during the interview. "We have to make government officials accountable for their actions. "If they are made accountable, they will presumably act more thoughtfully and fairly. And if my case goes forward and I'll hopefully win, that will send a message to them, just like my case was designed to send a message to every doctor you dared to go against the system." "If I win this case eventually, it will send a message to every board member: 'Don't you dare go outside your authority because you are not protected if you go beyond trying to protect patients in your state. If you decide to become a punitive agency, a politicized agency, you are at risk yourself." "And the judge told me I could go after punitive damages, which means damages that are not based on the har

  3. Oct 10

    Fifty Firewalls: Protecting Unalienable Rights in the Age of AI | Courtenay Turner

    Each State Should Have Its Own Digital Bill of Rights It was James Madison who drafted the proposals that became the United States Bill of Rights. Madison introduced them in Congress in June of 1789 and Congress revised and proposed 12 amendments on September 25; the states ratified 10 of them in December 1791. Those 10 amendments are the Bill of Rights. Did Madison worry about forgetting something important while he drafted his proposals? Probably. But what he couldn't have foreseen is the digital and AI age with its vast possibilities of citizens' total surveillance, total control and total subjugation. Much surveillance and control has already been established over the last decades. For example automated license-plate readers, camera networks, location tracking, biometric monitoring, health databases, behavioral data collection, and vast commercial data sharing with government agencies. It's high time to reclaim lost rights and to prevent that people's unalienable rights are not wiped out by technocrats' use of artificial intelligence. Patrick Wood and Courtenay Turner Wrote a Model Digital Bill of Rights for the States Patrick Wood and Courtenay Turner decided to write a model amendment of a Digital Bill of Rights providing urgently needed protections against digital and AI tyranny over citizens. However, there is a crucial difference between their model Digital Bill of Rights and Madison's proposals: theirs' is not a federal Bill of Rights but one for the states. Each state, ideally, should have its own Digital Bill of Rights. Why? Because, Courtenay says, it's better to have fifty firewalls than just one: "It is much harder to co-opt fifty individual states than it is to co-opt the central federal apparatus. "And so the hope is that through the 50 states we can start to set a precedence one at a time and there will be a ripple effect throughout where people know other states and can start to model this." Courtenay already proposed the model amendment for a Digital Bill of Rights to lawmakers in her home state Tennessee. The process, she learnt, would take until 2030 to achieve ratification as a constitutional amendment. That's why she is currently working on drafting four so-called "bridge bills" for the upcoming legislative session in Tennessee. The idea is that these bills would put key protections in place much sooner and bridge the years until ratification. The Metaphysics of the Declaration of Independence How does one go about writing a model Digital Bill of Rights? Patrick Wood, Courtenay told me, wrote the first draft: "He did a phenomenal job. But I felt what was really missing was the metaphysical firewall. And to me, that is the bulwark. And that is why the Declaration of Independence was drafted. "I think mostly what we've lost, in particular in our education system, but even in our civic arena, is that most of the elected officials don't have a true understanding of the metaphysics of the declaration of independence." She argues rights must come from a source higher than any government or company, as is the case in the Declaration of Independence. Otherwise, whoever grants a right can take it back, for any reason and at any time. The idea that rights come from a creator is therefore the metaphysical firewall that makes humans' rights unalienable, including humans' digital rights in the age of AI. "It has to be primordial, it has to be outside of this world. Otherwise, anybody who grants you rights can easily revoke them." But "unalienable" doesn't mean that such rights can't be lost. We all know very well that they can be lost if people don't defend them - and not just incrementally and almost imperceptibly but from one day to the next as during Covid. "We need to stand up for our own rights. They are unalienable, but we need to ensure that they're not taken away." The 15 Articles in the Model Digital Bill of Rights for the States Patrick and Courtenay's model amendment consists of the following fifteen articles: Source of Rights Definitions Foundational Principles Personhood and Mental Privacy Digital Privacy and Surveillance Data Control and Deletion AI in Government Property and Cash Digital Identity Consent of the Governed Free Expression Foreign Threats Digital Due Process Oversight and Transparency Interpretation and Future Technology Let's Use the Agency We Still Have Many people today feel overwhelmed and powerless faced with the extraordinarily rapid developments in AI. But Courtenay hopes that the model amendment will inspire people and show them a realistic path to establish control over AI instead of being controlled and consumed by it. She said during the interview: "There's so much apathy and people have just completely given up on the system. And I'm not saying that our system isn't flawed or corrupt. I I think it's both. "But I still think we have a lot of agency and people should utilize the agency that we have. You can't complain about the system when you're not taking action. So I really encourage people. I hope that this Digital Bill of Rights inspires them. "And I hope there are people who have the time and the desire, who will take action. And I hope that this [document] can be a guideline and an inspiration for them." Introduce Your Lawmakers to the Digital Bill of Rights If you're one of those who have the time and the desire, please contact your state's lawmakers and introduce them to Courtenay's and Patrick's model Digital Bill of Rights. I'll do a second interview with Courtenay about the Digital Bill of Rights where she will discuss the feedback she received from her Tennessee lawmakers and from lawyers she consulted. She will also talk about the details of the amendment process and the "bridge bills" she is currently working on. CHAPTERS 00:06 Why Each State Needs a Digital Bill of Rights 01:57 Bridge Bills and the Road to 2030 05:09 Unalienable Rights and the Creator as Load-Bearing 07:01 Federalism, the Tenth Amendment, and Federal Purse Strings 09:08 How Courtenay and Patrick Wood Drafted the Document 11:24 The EU AI Act and Control-Based Frameworks 12:13 Boston Global Forum and the AI Wisdom Society 19:26 The Push for a Global Constitution by 2027 21:22 Being Versus Becoming: Transhumanism and Technocracy 23:55 Title Page and the 15 Articles at a Glance 26:00 Human Primacy Over the Machine 30:02 Digital ID and Coercive Control 33:31 Are Rights Alienable? The Duty to Defend Them 37:53 Articles 1–4: Source of Rights, Definitions, and Personhood 39:57 Social-Emotional Learning, Neural Data, and the LER 43:07 Articles 5–6: Digital Privacy, Flock Cameras, and Data Deletion 48:00 Article 7: AI in Governance and the SAG-AFTRA Deal 51:33 Article 8: Tokenization, Cash, and Programmable Money 56:09 Cash Laws, School Payments, and ESA Crypto Wallets 58:56 Article 9: Digital Identity and the Analog Life 01:00:14 Real ID and the Need for Informed Consent 01:02:20 Interoperable ID, Proof of Persona, and the Cybernetic Organism 01:08:13 Nature, Screens, and the Simulacrum 01:09:48 Article 10: Code Is Not Law 01:11:27 Public-Private Partnerships and the Technocrat Worldview 01:15:18 Technocracy's Roots, Cybersyn, and Oak Ridge 01:18:38 Universal High Income and Energy Credits 01:20:41 Social Engineering and the Analog Backlash 01:24:16 Articles 11–14: Speech, Foreign Threats, Due Process, Oversight 01:27:13 Article 15: Fixed Human Nature and Non-Suspendable Rights 01:28:18 The Wrongful Birth Case and Inherent Worth 01:34:04 Assistive Technology Versus Transhumanism RESOURCES A Digital Bill of Rights for the States: A Model Amendment to State Constitutions for the Age of Artificial Intelligence The Courtenay Turner Podcast Patrick Wood and Courtenay Turner: The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America Courtenay's Substack

  4. Sep 29

    Operation Warp Speed Was a PSYOP and a Crime | Sasha Latypova

    Nothing Was Developed at "Warp Speed" During Operation Warp Speed. It Was Recycled Failed Research That Was Behind the Warp Speed Illusion. Operation Warp Speed was a PSYOP directed against the American people. Nothing was being developed at warp speed during Operation Warp Speed. That wasn't necessary since all the required technology for the toxic mRNA shots had already been developed since the SARS and MERS outbreaks in 2002 and 2012. This is not a new or surprising insight: The strange fact that the first clinical trials for the new, so-called vaccines started almost immediately after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic suggests exactly this. They sold it as "warp speed" and as "acceleration" but that's a lie: the basic "vaccines" and their technology already existed. They simply repackaged previously failed vaccine research from earlier SARS, MERS, and also Zika vaccine attempts and pushed the resulting toxic mRNA shots on the population using emergency rules that bypass FDA's usual safety laws. CHAPTERS 00:37 Playing the AI-Generated Clip About Warp Speed's Architects 02:37 Where Fauci, Bourla, Birx, and Karp Are Today 07:34 Introducing Dr. Robert Johnson and BARDA's Structure 10:17 What the VRBPAC Meeting Is and Why October 2020 Mattered 13:02 Eight Hours With No Clinical Data Presented 14:50 Johnson's LinkedIn Career and Ties to Fauci's Institute 18:07 Inside the Non-Dilutive Funding Summit 20:52 How Grants Buy Government Loyalty From Companies 25:14 Johnson's 2025 Paper on Fast Response Capability 27:16 Debunking the "National Security Threat" Claim 30:35 Beginning the Slide-by-Slide Walkthrough of Johnson's Talk 31:04 ASPR's Mission Versus Its Real-World Effect 32:45 Johnson's Opening Remarks Decoded 34:23 SARS, MERS, and Sixteen Years of Failed Vaccines 37:28 How the EUA Made the Difference 37:56 BARDA's Core Principles and the Meaning of "Warp" 41:25 Recycled Research Behind the "Warp Speed" Illusion 44:06 The Traditional Sequential Development Timeline 45:07 The Parallel, "Accelerated" Development 49:07 How the PREP Act Legalizes the Crime 51:50 The Second Principle: Manufacturing at Massive Scale 53:52 Merging HHS and DOD Authorities to Bypass Limits 55:58 Redundancy as Justification for a Fixed Vaccine Race 57:19 Why Moderna and Pfizer Were Always Going to Win 59:27 The Head Start Given to the Chosen Candidates 1:04:45 Money, Motive, and Why No One in the Room Objected 1:07:09 Repurposing SARS and MERS Data for Spike Protein Design 1:10:14 Reusing Failed Zika Vaccine Data for COVID 1:12:35 Two Doses, Older Adults, and Who "Benefits" 1:14:30 The Unvalidated Supply Chain Admission 1:15:30 Comparing mRNA Shots to Illicit Drug Supply Chains 1:16:43 Why They Needed End-to-End Control 1:17:56 The Final Slide: Visualizing the End State 1:19:00 Shortened Life Expectancy 1:21:31 Rising Disability Rates Since 2021 1:22:47 Introducing the One Unanswered Question 1:23:08 Dr. Notarangelo's Critical Questions RESOURCES Sense Receptor: Operation Warp Speed *Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee October 22, 2020 Meeting Presentation- COVID19 Vaccine Development- Portfolio Building a Fast Response Capability for Emerging Infectious Diseases Within the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority - PubMed BARDA at NDFS 2023, with Dr. Robert Johnson - FreeMind Group (32) Robert Johnson | LinkedIn https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/investigative-reports/operation-warp-speed/ https://americansforhealthfreedom.org/letter-to-kennedy

  5. Sep 21

    Paying Cash, Preserving Freedom | Susan Luschas

    "The best thing that we can do today is refuse to comply with the digital control grid. And the way we do that is by paying with cash every day." —Susan Luschas Fighting the Digital Control Grid with Cash "The only hope we have to keep our freedom is mass noncompliance. "And I think one of the best things, in fact, the best thing in my opinion that we can do today is refuse to comply with the digital control grid. "And the way we do that is by paying with cash every day." Susan Luschas holds a PhD in electrical engineering from MIT and worked on some of the earliest Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and camera chips used in smartphones. Later she moved into the energy sector where she worked on electromagnetic energy generation and storage. She also taught as a professor at Santa Clara University. Susan and her husband Manuel Luschas left Silicon Valley in 2020 during the so-called pandemic and moved to a small town in South Dakota so that their two daughters could attend school in person, unmasked. Freezing Bank Accounts of Canadian Truckers Was a Wakeup Call In early 2022, the Canadian government invoked the Emergencies Act and ordered banks to freeze the bank accounts of truckers organizing the Canadian Freedom Convoy. For at least a week, the bank accounts of around 300 people with about 8 million Canadian dollars in them were frozen. That, Luschas said, was a real wakeup call for many people, including herself. Truckers were left stranded in Ottawa. Many had no cash on them and could buy neither food nor drink. They could not pay for their hotels and could not buy gas for their trucks to drive home. Luschas told me: "They let the cat out of the bag with freezing their bank accounts because then people got a whiff of it: this is possible, they might do this. "And thank God they did that to the Canadian truckers because that was a lesson and kind of a wake-up call to a lot of people. "And I think they learned after that 'Ooh, people are getting suspicious. We better not snap the mouse trap until we're really ready to snap it on everybody.'" "Team Cash" Promotes the Use of Physical Cash Luschas founded the group "Team Cash" which promotes the use of physical cash as pushback against moving toward centrally-controlled payment systems and programmable money systems. She led the effort behind South Dakota's legislation demanding that schools must accept cash at school events like sport games after local school districts moved to cashless ticketing. Catherine Austin Fitts's Solari Report named her 2025 Hero of the Year for her work promoting the use of cash. The Power of Cash to Fight a Digital Control Grid "It's entirely possible today to control us. It's just we don't have the infrastructure to control everybody all of the time. "Once they have the infrastructure to control all of us, they will." Cash, Luschas told me during the interview, is the only form of money that can't easily be frozen, tracked, or shut off remotely, in contrast to bank accounts, credit cards, or crypto wallets. She believes paying with cash every day, in particular for groceries and gas, is a practical and easy way for people to resist a fully digital, centrally controlled financial system. Luschas recommends keeping about three months' worth of cash at home for emergencies like power outages, cyberattacks or freezing of your bank accounts. "And I think if you're someone like me who's potentially putting a bullseye on your back, then you might want to have more like six months." Cash, she says, does not only block financial control but also all the surveillance data needed to power and finetune that control. Are There Backdoors into Cash? Even cash, Luschas says, has backdoors through which cash can be controlled but in contrast to digital payment methods these backdoors are cumbersome and not easily built. "There are serial numbers and some things on cash that can be identified. "I'm sure if they put enough effort into it, they could identify the cash and identify that Susan has that cash and is going to spend it and they want to stop her from spending it. "I think that's entirely possible, but at this moment in time they are not tracking cash and we have a chance to push back and to send a message by all using cash all the time. So I think we have an opportunity. "Will they eventually put chips into money or more tracking, better tracking? They may even put QR codes on cash eventually. I don't know." But for now, there is no backdoor into cash. And that is our opportunity to resist perfecting the digital control grid by not letting go of cash. "It's entirely possible that there's things they could do, but at this moment in time, we have the opportunity to send a very loud message that we will not comply with the digital control grid." Utopia Movie — a Horror Movie of Life inside the Digital Control Grid During the interview we watch Kosta Nika's short and powerful sci-fi film from 2021 about life inside a totalitarian control grid. Afterwards, Susan discusses in detail which facets of life in Utopia are already present in our lives today and which ones are in the process of being created. The one big difference between the movie and our lives is that we still have cash. CHAPTERS 04:00 Leaving Silicon Valley and Starting Over in South Dakota 06:39 Mass Non-Compliance and Paying With Cash Every Day 07:38 Silicon Valley's "We Control the Idiots" Mentality 08:26 The Infrastructure of Control Is Already Here 09:17 The Canadian Trucker Lesson and the Digital Backdoor 15:23 Explaining the Two-Lock and Three-Lock Payment Paradigm 18:16 Surveillance as the Engine Behind Automated Control 19:43 Farming, Bartering, and Building Resilient Communities 20:59 Which Businesses and States Refuse Cash 22:41 State-by-State Cash Acceptance Laws From Solari 25:15 Passing South Dakota's Cash Law With a Republican Sponsor 28:37 Enforcement Gaps in New York City's Cash Law 32:01 Cash as an Emergency Preparedness Tool 35:49 How Much Cash to Keep at Home 37:29 Scandinavia's Cashless Rollback and the US Federal Cash Bill 38:40 The Digital Control Grid Needs a Digital Monetary System 39:42 Debating Whether a Digital ID Is Even Necessary 41:17 The Freedom Trucker Convoy and Bank Compliance 43:14 Introducing the Short Film Utopia 46:16 Watching Utopia: Fines, Cameras, and a Cashless Homecoming 60:40 Post-Film Reaction: More Freedom in Jail Than in Society 63:47 5G Towers Encroaching on South Dakota Schools 64:08 Flock Cameras and Automated License Plate Readers 66:39 Who Controls the Camera Data and Who Can Access It 67:18 Losing Local Control Over Cell Tower Placement 68:26 School Bus Surveillance Cameras Made Legal 70:18 Hidden Cameras Disguised as Safety Lights 71:26 Ring Doorbells, Neighbor Surveillance, and Flock Partnerships 73:04 How Amazon Ring Data Reaches Police Departments 75:03 Manufacturing Fear to Justify More Surveillance 77:03 Nineteen-Dollar Smart Camera Light Bulbs at Menards 78:41 A New Data Center Rezoned Next to Brandon, South Dakota 80:55 How Paid Petition Circulators Sabotaged the Ballot Measure 89:27 Data Centers Placed to Control Every City's Population 91:29 No Power Plan and No Water Plan for the New Data Center 92:39 A White Paper in Progress on Data Centers and Control 93:19 Mandatory Vehicle Kill Switches Starting in 2026 94:24 The Safety Danger of Cars That Can Be Remotely Disabled 95:35 Modern Cars as Rolling Surveillance Devices 95:54 Digital Vehicle Titles and Losing Proof of Ownership 97:57 Getting Rid of Cash Starting: With the Penny 99:12 Why Eliminating Coins Makes No Economic Sense 100:01 The Fed's New "Cashless Sentiment" Tracking 101:26 What Freezing Bank Accounts, Cars, and Crypto Looks Like 103:09 Which Car Model Years Can Still Be Frozen or Tracked 104:09 Why Banks Always Comply: FDIC Insurance Leverage 106:01 Why Cash Matters Most for Groceries and Gas 107:30 Sanctioning Software and the Politically Exposed Persons List 110:43 Screening Systems Built for Crime but Applied to Everyone 112:07 Why Legislative Bills Alone Can't Save Freedom 114:22 Unenforced Laws and Conflicts of Interest in South Dakota 118:21 Corruption Parallels Beyond South Dakota 119:57 Handing Out Dollar Bills With Cash-Is-King Stickers 121:03 Cash Halloween, Easter Eggs, and Teaching Kids About Money 122:57 The Long-Term Decline in Cash Payment Preference 124:41 Low-Income Households Are the Ones Keeping Cash Alive 126:41 Credit Card Rewards Are Funded by Low-Income Debt 128:10 South Dakota's Nation-Leading Swipe Fees Per Person 130:10 Where to Find Team Cash Resources and Contact Susan RESOURCES https://www.luschasforsd.net/news Turtling for Cash with Susan Luschas Utopia (Omeleto channel on YT)

  6. Sep 11

    Electronic Health Records: A Government Command and Control System | Twila Brase

    "Health data is gold. They can slice and dice it. They can sell the products of their slicing and dicing. They can use it to create treatment protocols to control the doctors." —Twila Brase Twila Brase is a registered nurse (RN Registered nurse and PHN Public Health nurse) who co-founded and serves as president of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF). In 2018, Brase published the book Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth about Electronic Health Records. That is also the topic of our discussion. "Once the government has grabbed all the data, then they have the ability to control the doctors, control the hospitals and profile the patients." Government certified electronic health record systems are not simply record bookkeeping systems. The term is deeply misleading because they are way more than that. In Twila Brase's book "Big Brother in the Exam Room," she quotes Scott Silverstein, a physician who is an authority in health IT. He called EHR systems "medical meta devices." In 2018 already he said that these systems are not anything resembling electronic filing cabinets, but that they are way, way more. He called them "enterprise-wide command and control systems through which all medical transactions have to pass. Controlling clinicians and clinical resources. They are beyond just a medical device. They are really command and control systems." Brase said: "Being certified for the government means that the electronic health record has to do what the government says it has to do." Many doctors in the United States already had some version of private electronic records before the introduction of Government certified ones. And they worked quite well since such private patient record databases were designed for doctors' practical needs only and were based on doctors' requirements. They had nothing to do with government's goals and desires. But this changed completely with the introduction of government certified EHRs under Obama in [check]. Twila Base told me: "Once the government has grabbed all the data, then they have the ability to control the doctors, control the hospitals, profile the patients. One of the things we say in our organization is 'he who holds the data makes the rules.'" True. And controlling doctors and nurses is a surefire way to turn them into killers, making them into the state's instrument of eliminating part of its population. Also, governments love getting their hands on as much data as they can since their appetite to make rules and lord over their citizens is very hard to restrain and since their voracious appetite increases in proportion to the growing amount of data available through new technologies. If massive amounts of data can be used as an easy gateway to control and command citizens, then those in power will almost by default be driven to get access to as much data as they possibly can. The amount of medical data available to governments is growing exponentially: one example are the data from so-called ambient listening devices that by now have been installed in many doctors' offices. This means that an AI app is recording and transcribing everything that is being said in the exam room - whether the doctor or nurse is present or not. All this data is stored with the patient's records and can be accessed by a vast number of people, including about 1.5 million of third parties, called "business associates of covered entities." HIPAA, Brase explains, is not there to protect your privacy but to share data with about 700,000 "covered entities" and their business associates. CHAPTERS 00:06 Electronic Health Records: More Than Digital Paper Charts 01:38 How EHRs Changed the Doctor–Patient Encounter 05:49 Copy-and-Paste Records and the Problem of "Within Normal Limits" 08:45 EHRs as Command-and-Control Systems 12:11 Government-Certified Records and the 2009 Federal Mandate 16:08 Who Designed Government Electronic Health Record Systems? 17:30 Billing, Surveillance, and the Business of Health Data 22:14 HIPAA: Privacy Protection or Data-Sharing Framework? 24:18 Who Can Access Your Medical Data? 27:45 Why Signing a HIPAA Form Does Not Prevent Data Sharing 29:47 The Real Meaning of HIPAA and "Administrative Simplification" 31:19 Clearinghouses, Business Associates, and the Health-Data Economy 36:56 AI, Ambient Listening, and the New Medical Surveillance System 43:36 Clinical Decision Support and the End of Physician Autonomy 44:56 Evidence-Based Medicine, Protocols, and Algorithmic Care 48:47 The Deskilling and "Unskilling" of Doctors 53:28 Medical Ethics, AI Control, and a Patient-Centered Alternative 54:13 The 3C Solution: Cash, Catastrophic Coverage, and Charity

  7. Sep 6

    Never Enter a Hospital Without an Advocate At Your Side | Kimberly Overton

    "It's amazing to see how the trajectory of the care being provided to the patient changes once they know that you have a professional advocacy service on board. They start changing everything." https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/never-enter-a-hospital-without-an?utm_source=youtube This is my second interview with Kimberly Overton. In our first interview, Overton talked about the horrifying events she witnessed as a critical care nurse during Covid in a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee. All except two of the hundreds of Covid patients she witnessed being put on ventilators died. Nonetheless, the treatment protocols remained unchanged. To this day, ventilators and Remdesivir are protected as medical countermeasures under the PREP Act that was declared for Covid-19 (and ends only in December 2029). Overton quit her job in protest against the hospital killings and founded the organization "The Nurse Freedom Network" in the summer of 2021. Later, in 2022, she founded Remnant Healthcare, a private membership association that provides nursing and also patient advocacy services. According to its website, its mission is to "provide compassionate, patient-centered healthcare services using holistic modalities and a root cause approach." Patient advocacy services is what we are talking about in our second interview: What are they? Why are they needed? And why is it that everyone should have an advocacy plan in place well before setting foot into a hospital? CHAPTERS 02:54 Hospital Consent Forms and Signing Away Rights 05:39 How Patients Lose Control of Their Own Treatment 10:52 The Shift Toward Profit-Driven Healthcare 13:13 The Rise of Electronic Health Records 14:00 The Forgotten Patient Bill of Rights 15:00 The Insurance Lie Nurses Were Told to Tell 16:52 The Right to Refuse Treatment 18:08 Doctor Google and Patient Gaslighting 21:14 Informed Consent and the COVID Vaccine Rollout 23:24 Polypharmacy and Alarm Fatigue 25:56 Refusing Daily Blood Draws 28:57 Defining Patient Advocates and Advocacy Plans 31:42 How Remote and In-Person Advocacy Works 33:00 Adding an Advocate to Your HIPAA Form 34:01 Why Hospitals Change Behavior With an Advocate Present 36:21 Directed Blood Donation and Post-COVID Pushback 40:24 Concrete Examples of Advocacy Changing Outcomes 42:12 Building Ongoing Relationships With Hospitals 44:14 Advocates as Allies to Nurses and Doctors 46:27 Planning an Advocacy Strategy in Advance 46:56 Membership Costs and Planning Session Details 52:17 Preparing for Planned Hospital Visits 54:06 Listening in on Appointments as an Advocate 56:19 What Makes a Good Advocate 57:40 Bringing a Holistic Perspective Into Hospital Care 59:41 The PREP Act and Loss of Patient Recourse 1:03:47 Remdesivir's Continued Protection Under the PREP Act 1:04:03 Finding and Vetting Advocacy Services 1:06:53 Pricing, Value, and Avoiding Price Gouging RESOURCES: The Nurses Report on America Out Loud: The Miracle of Drew Brophy Nurse Freedom Network Remnant Healthcare Kimberly Overton's X account Kimberly Overton's Substack account

  8. Aug 26

    Goebbels Would have Approved: How the Government Used the "Trusted Messenger" Strategy | James Thorp

    "In a disturbing campaign for control typically characteristic of totalitarian societies, the government co-opted the voices we trusted into a vast covert government operation." Jim & Maggie Thorp https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/goebbels-would-have-approved-how?utm_source=youtube In the second part of my interview with Dr. James Thorp we talk about many things, among them the deep corruption of medical journals, ongoing fertility concerns and how Thorp got fired from SSM Health.  But in the post below I want to highlight what I consider the most important piece we discussed during the interview - and that is the federal government's Propaganda Blitzkrieg to get Americans injected with the toxic mRNA shots. CHAPTERS 00:05 Medical Journal Corruption Exposed by Former Editors 03:11 Billion-Dollar Payments to Journal Reviewers 03:43 Fraudulent Data Behind the Hydroxychloroquine Study 05:19 ACOG's Revenue Chart: Following the Money 07:44 Program Services and the 2018 Revenue Spike 11:06 Marketing Vaccines Through OB-GYNs and Mothers 13:34 HHS Funding and the Move to Washington, DC 16:02 The $67 Million Grant and Massachusetts Payoffs 18:59 Trillions in Pandemic Spending and Institutional Capture 20:31 Origins of the Trusted Messenger Strategy 21:48 Hospitals Paid to Push the Vaccine 26:03 How Many OB-GYNs Knew They Were Being Used 27:33 Trust Through Coercion 28:50 Did Doctors Believe the Narrative 29:41 ACOG's Conversation Guide for Patients 32:50 A Radioactive Topic Among Colleagues 34:02 Introducing Mark Weber and His Article 35:11 Inside the HHS Propaganda Campaign Paper 37:49 Projection and the Politics of Public Health 39:36 The Nine Learnings of Systems Change 42:38 Mark Weber's Career and Education 44:32 Bragging About Vaccination Numbers and ROI 45:32 The April 2021 Inflection Point and Faiths for Vaccines 48:25 A Goebbels Comparison 51:28 The Septem Group and the Revolving Door 53:25 The Firing Begins 58:03 The Termination Call 1:00:41 A System Wide Email Within Minutes 1:03:21 The Non Disparagement Clause 1:04:49 A Terrific Investment 1:06:07 Fertility and Long Term Safety Concerns 1:09:24 Why No Spike Protein Home Test Exists 1:09:41 Five Years Later: Has Anything Changed 1:12:30 Placebo Speculation and DARPA 1:14:28 The Purpose Behind Targeting the Vulnerable 1:15:29 A Spiritual Battle 1:20:31 Celia Farber and the Book's Legacy

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