Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social and cultural life of the state. Why? The democratic way of life interferes with their methods and desires for: (1) conducting business; (2) living with their fellow-men; (3) having the final say in matters concerning others, as well as themselves. The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence--democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law. They make their own rules and change them when they choose. If you don’t like it, it’s “T.S.”

In September, 404 Media reported on ICE’s planned purchase of the technology, consisting of two Penlink products called Tangles and Webloc. 404 Media has now obtained material that explains in greater detail how the system works.

The material shows Webloc users can search its databases of mobile phone data in various ways. Users can perform a single perimeter analysis to search a specific area for mobile phones across a certain time period. They can draw the target area with a rectangle, circle, or polygon. They then select the maximum number of results the system should display, and the maximum number of devices to return. 

Once a Webloc user has identified a device of interest, they can get more details about that particular phone, and, by extension, its owner, by seeing where else it has travelled both locally and across the country. Users can click a route feature which shows the path the device took. The material suggests that if users look at where the device was located at night, they might find the person’s possible home, and during the day, the person’s possible employer.

The software can also do a multi-permiter analysis, which monitors multiple locations at once to see which devices have been present at two or more specific places.

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Dr. Theriault said that trans Americans may be more vulnerable due to their small population. They make up only about 1% of the adult population — a size equivalent to Jews in 1933 Germany — and violence against trans people has been rising. Dr. von Joegen-Forgey called the situation “terrifying,” adding, “No one goes to war… on behalf of the victims of genocide.”

Theriault said the U.S. would increase policies to make life “intolerable” for trans Americans, something that will cause the trans suicide rate to rise dramatically. Indeed, Republicans have already instated policies nationwide to defund any trans-inclusive research or policies, force trans kids and adults to medically detransition, and force trans people into sex-segregated spaces where they’re likely to face more discrimination and violence.

“We’re already at the point for trans folks, for immigrants, where the damage is being done,” Dr. Theriault said. “So it’s not so much ‘will genocide happen?’ as ‘we got to stop it from happening.’”

I've had a lot of people asking me about Chicago lately, so I figured I'd make a video. If you're a person who wants to live in a gigantic world class city with good resilience potential, Chicago has been putting in the work since 2008. I talk about Chicago vs New York and LA in terms of resilience towards the beginning of the video- around minute 6 I get into detailed projection information for the city.

"And Gaza is simply an experiment of the mega rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity. They plan to bomb all of us, those of us at least in the South but they will end up as in Guernica, bombing themselves with foreign weapons. And that prospect of barbarism obviously kills multilateralism for nations to meet, kills the idea of a global democracy, kills the whole international institutionality.

I have asked for a meeting with the U.S. government and there is not even a written answer. Because they do not want to meet with Latin American and the Caribbean. Because they know that by meeting with each separately they are stronger. And so they do not dialog, they threaten as is already happening to us. Some are afraid of the threat, others of us have become so accustomed to that we are no longer afraid of it.

And history has been like that among our people, stories of rebellions and barbarism. And we are living the possibility of barbarism, but also dialectic, the possibility of another different humanity, which can love and think collectively. And we survive, because the other form of help, besides of the heart, is thinking. And the parable of Newton and the parable of Robinson Crusoe is lie, illusions, fetishes. Like so many that we live. We live among ghosts, because capitalism is a ghost, and sometimes we believe the tale of ghosts."

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