A tweet by <a href="https://twitter.com/goddeketal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Simon Goddek</a> Saturday asked users to share early indications that led them to believe the danger of COVID-19 was overhyped.“What was the biggest red flag at the beginning of the plandemic for you that made you doubt the official narrative?” the biotechnology expert asked.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">What was the biggest red flag at the beginning of the plandemic for you that made you doubt the official narrative?— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) <a href="https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1624167243964637200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>The responses rolled in, with fingers pointing at mainstream media and governments.We have compiled a list of ten of the worthiest responses in no particular order.<blockquote>1. As a retailer, I was distressed when individually owned boutiques or treat shops where you could easily juggle 1-3 customers entering were closed “for safety”… BUT huge box stores &amp; groceries owned by billionaire franchises where you easily came into contact with hundreds of people were open. It destroyed livelihoods. ABC stores and Pot shops were open. Then the stupidity of entering a restaurant masked, but removing the mask safely to eat. It didn’t make sense. All fear theater.</blockquote>Or, as another user succinctly put it:<blockquote>Closing churches, but not closing strip bars.</blockquote>In December 2020 a San Diego Superior Court judge <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-12-18/san-diego-strip-club-ruling">ruled</a> that strip clubs were exempt from the statewide lockdown imposed by Governor Gavin Newsom that shuttered “non-essential” businesses across the Golden State. Churches and synagogues, however, remained closed.Across the country, large mega-chain stores such as Home Depot, Costco and Walmart <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/27/business/supply-chain-retailers-small-stores/index.html">remained</a> open while small businesses were forced to close.But not only were the large stores raking in profits during the pandemic while other businesses suffered, so were the politicians ordering the lockdowns.Two public health officials in California <a href="https://frontline.news/post/public-health-officials-made-over-dollar500k-while-shutting-down-businesses-data-show">made</a> over half-a-million dollars while they were ordering stores and businesses to shut down during the pandemic.&nbsp;The government employees pulled in more than double the salary of California Governor Gavin Newsom.&nbsp;Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer, who issued some of the harshest restrictions in the U.S., also made more than any other public health director in the U.S. Ferrer pulled in $557,625 in 2021, though benefits bring the total up to $637,066.&nbsp;In 2020, when Ferrer first began shutting down L.A. County, she made $613,692, a significant increase from the previous year’s $585,134.&nbsp;In March 2020 Ferrer ordered what became a six-month lockdown, and then ordered another in December. But by September <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/business/newsom-coronavirus-california.html">nearly 40,000 small businesses</a> had already been closed — more than any other state — &nbsp;with over half shut down for good.&nbsp;Though less than Ferrer, then-San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Grant Colfax also pulled in a hefty sum of&nbsp;$579,959 in 2020.&nbsp;<blockquote>2. People in power doing as they pleased . . . while the rest of us were locked up.</blockquote>Perhaps one of the most tell-tale and painful reminders of the element of design within the pandemic was when many politicians who ordered restrictions were found <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-politicians-who-violated-covid-19-rules-guidance-list-2020-12#chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-13">shirking</a> them.Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was seen visiting a hair salon while hair salons were shuttered.&nbsp;San Francisco Mayor London Breed attended a swanky party after urging citizens to avoid big gatherings. The next year, Breed was seen partying at a nightclub unmasked while ordering citizens to mask themselves. Breed defended herself, saying the “spirit moved her”.Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser traveled to Delaware to celebrate Joe Biden’s declared win while travel to such a high-risk state was not permitted. Months later, Bowser officiated at a mask-less wedding while imposing a mask mandate on regular citizens.Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer attended a restaurant outing where she sat in close proximity to 12 other people despite her own social distancing orders and prohibition against more than six people sitting together in restaurants.Austin Mayor Steve Adler posted a video in November 2020 telling residents to stay home. Adler recorded the video while at a vacation resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico after flying there on a private jet with eight other people. Adler had also recently thrown a wedding bash for his daughter with 20 participants, illegal for anyone else at the time.California Governor Gavin Newsom was seen attending a dinner at an upscale restaurant with several people despite his own order restricting gatherings to up to three households.Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney traveled to Maryland to attend a dinner party, which he had forbade residents from doing.US Senator and then-Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman (D-PA) <a href="https://frontline.news/post/senate-candidate-vacationed-on-taxpayer-funds-while-pushing-lockdowns-records-show">used</a> taxpayer money to vacation on the Jersey Shore while advocating for harsh lockdowns. Pennsylvania State Police reportedly doled out $3,500 on food, lodging and overtime during the vacation from June 24–June 27, 2020, while the Pennsylvania Department of Health had already cautioned residents against non-essential travel.&nbsp;Just two days prior, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy had <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/live/coronavirus-covid-pa-nj-philadelphia-de-reopening-cases-update-news-20200622.html#card-1126302112">vowed</a> to crack down on partygoers at the Jersey Shore.&nbsp;The <a href="https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/public-health/covid-hypocrisy-policymakers-breaking-their-own-rules/">list</a> of politicians who violated COVID lockdowns — all of whom did so more than once — is extensive, and not limited to the US. However, while American politicians suffered no consequences for their violations, politicians in other countries such as the UK lost their careers for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate">partying</a> during lockdowns.<blockquote>3. Them allowing mass protests over George Floyd never claiming that the virus was going to spread.</blockquote>While every Trump rally was a “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trumps-2020-superspreader-campaign-a-diary">superspreader</a>”, George Floyd protests and riots were encouraged. White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, who was then dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health and had <a href="https://frontline.news/post/biden-appoints-founding-father-of-lockdowns-as-new-covid-czar">led</a> the charge for lockdowns,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/18/anti-racism-protests-coronavirus-rise-covid-19-cases">maintained</a>&nbsp;that the Black Lives Matter protests and gatherings in 2020 were justified because racism carries with it “a serious risk and grave public health cost."&nbsp;Jha was joined by over 1,000 health “experts” who <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-letter-protests-coronavirus-trnd/index.html">signed</a> a letter saying that the riots should not be shut down out of COVID concerns.Similarly, massive street <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-s-win-sparks-street-celebrations-around-country-n1246922">celebrations</a> after Joe Biden’s declared win were also not considered superspreaders.<blockquote>4. Social distancing circles on the floors.</blockquote>One of the universal mandates imposed by nearly all governments was physical distancing, even though there was no scientific evidence to support such a restriction. Politicians and federal scientists such as Dr. Anthony Fauci who demanded physical distancing did not bother to offer a scientific justification. Science, however, has <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2019706118">shown</a> that physical distancing has not only been ineffective, but economically harmful.<blockquote>5. When they said that if you got vaccinated, you wouldn't get it, then they said that unvaccinated people were a danger to you. Wait....what?</blockquote>While mainstream media currently try to claim that no one promised the COVID-19 vaccine would stop transmission and infection, many politicians, media pundits and “health experts” did make that <a href="https://frontline.news/post/reuters-nobody-said-vaccine-would-stop-transmission">promise</a>. These groups included Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, news show host Rachel Maddow, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and others. But at the same time when the vaccinated were being assured of total immunity, they were also being <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/554103-if-im-vaccinated-why-should-i-care-if/">told</a> the unvaccinated were a threat.<blockquote>6. The lockdowns quickly became creepy. A wide cross section of local law enforcement went public with statements that they would not enforce the restrictions. Within two weeks we had George Floyd and a war on local enforcement. Too coincidental.</blockquote>While we found that two weeks was an exaggeration, the Washington Post&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-shutdowns-have-gone-nationwide-many-police-departments-arent-enforcing-them/2020/03/25/56be5ed2-6e00-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html">reported</a> in March 2020 that police departments across the country were refusing to enforce lockdowns. Two months later, a war on law enforcement was declared with the death of George Floyd.<blockquote>7. How NY was saying they were stacking bodies but never even used the ship that Trump sent them. And while NY was saying they were overwhelmed by covid cases, we were shutting down hospital floors in CA because we had no patients.&nbsp;</blockquote>As hospitals were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html">reportedly</a> being “overrun”, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/cuomo-tells-trump-usns-comfort-no-longer-needed-in-nyc/2384637/">sent away</a> the USHS Comfort, a hospital vessel sent by President Trump to assist with the excess hospitalizations. Cuomo said the need for it did not match projections.Media outlets around the world reported overloaded hospitals, though these claims were later <a href="https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/library/pedia/overloaded-hospitals">discovered</a> to be untrue.Far into mid-2022 news outlets were still claiming that hospitals were being overrun by COVID-19 hospitalizations, a claim which was disputed by hospital doctors and administrators.As LA County prepared to reinstate its mask mandate in July 2022 because of “increasing hospitalizations,” LAC+USC Chief Medical Officer Brad Spielberg <a href="https://frontline.news/post/hospital-slams-media-for-rising-hospitalizations-claim-as-la-returns-to-mask-mandate">said</a> that as far as hospitalizations go everything was pretty much the same at the 600-bed hospital.&nbsp;“It’s just the same,” he said in a video alongside LAC+USC CEO Jorge Orozco and epidemiologist Paul Holtom. “It’s been the same. It’s been like two months of the same.” Spielberg shared graphs showing how hospitalizations have largely plateaued, even though cases are going up.&nbsp;“The numbers at LAC: COVID-positive tests continue to go up, but this isn’t because we’re seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease getting admitted.”&nbsp;<blockquote>8. When those two Bakersfield California emergency room doctors held a press conference disputing the government's initial response to Covid and the media labeled them "quacks". That got me thinking something wasn't right.</blockquote>California physicians Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi publicly stated in an April 2020 press conference that they were “emphatically” opposed to isolation, lockdowns and shuttered businesses.&nbsp;They also suggested the federal government was overreporting COVID deaths.&nbsp;Erickson and Massihi became the first public examples of what would happen to those who challenged the COVID-19 narrative, which set the tone for the entire pandemic.The establishment’s response was swift and&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/freedom-activists-take-on-totalitarian-media-junta-in-high-profile-lawsuit">coordinated</a>. In less than a week, YouTube had pulled the video off the platform. The Google-owned streaming video giant issued a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-with-dr-dan-erickson-and-dr-artin-massihi-taken-down-from-youtube">statement</a>&nbsp;claiming it removed the content because it “explicitly disputes the efficacy of local healthy authority recommended guidance on social distancing that may lead others to act against that guidance.”Mainstream media quickly found doctors eager to defend the government and trotted them out to paint Drs. Erickson and Massihi enemies of science and outcasts from the medical community who were not qualified to speak about epidemiological matters.The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) came out with a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aaem.org/resources/statements/joint-endorsed/physician-misinformation">statement</a>&nbsp;condemning the doctors for “COVID-19 misinformation” and said their “reckless and untested musings do not speak for medical society and are inconsistent with current science and epidemiology regarding COVID-19.”The assault was so total that a year later,&nbsp;MedScape&nbsp;was still talking about Erickson and Massihi and even&nbsp;using them as scapegoats to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956796">push</a>&nbsp;for career-ending punishment for doctors who challenge federal science.Of course, science has since decisively vindicated the doctors and conclusively shown that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2019706118">shelter-in-place orders</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf">lockdowns</a>&nbsp;not only added no benefit but were detrimental to individual health and society.As far as the physicians’ claim that COVID numbers were inflated, by 2022 the CDC had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2022/01/cdc-admits-40-of-covid-hospitalizations-are-non-covid-patients/">admitted</a>&nbsp;that a large chunk of reported COVID hospitalizations were not actually COVID patients and that it had&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/cdc-withholding-covid-data-over-fears-of-misinterpretation/">withheld</a>&nbsp;crucial data from the public.Last month, totalitarian and mainstream media health expert Dr. Leana Wen, who once advocated for the unvaccinated being locked in their homes,&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/14/dr-leana-wen-writes-that-covid-deaths-are-being-overcounted/">called</a>&nbsp;for the government to stop inflating COVID-19 deaths.<blockquote>9. Suppression of safe and effective early treatments.</blockquote>While <a href="https://ivmmeta.com/">many studies</a> suggest that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are indeed safe, cheap, and effective early treatments for COVID, many public health policymakers refused to permit their use to treat and prevent the disease.&nbsp;The FDA has repeatedly discouraged the use of ivermectin as an early COVID-19 treatment, harping on the fact that the drug was originally approved as an antiparasitic which is often used on animals.&nbsp;“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” tweeted the FDA last year. Responses show that the tweet had its intended effect.&nbsp;The tweet came as a surprise to many because the FDA, which approved the drug in 1966, was fully aware that ivermectin is manufactured as an antiparasitic both for animals and humans.Also puzzling was the FDA’s interference in the off-label use of an approved drug.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/off-label-drug-usage.html">About 20%</a>&nbsp;of all prescriptions are written for off-label use, and the FDA typically leaves it up to physicians to determine its use.&nbsp;&nbsp;The federal government and its Pravda operatives used a sleight-of-hand campaign which went unnoticed by many: while physicians around the world, particularly those from America’s Frontline Doctors, were touting ivermectin and HCQ as effective early&nbsp;treatments for COVID-19, the federal science apparatus left out the word “early” when discouraging the use of these cheaper treatments. The FDA, CDC and medical associations would present the public with studies showing that ivermectin is ineffective as a late-stage cure and say that “studies show ivermectin is ineffective against COVID-19.”<blockquote>10. The moment they offered me a pork belly to get vaxxed I checked out.</blockquote>As local, state and federal governments became more desperate to vaccinate citizens, many of them offered rewards for receiving injections. But some of these rewards were unhealthy and inappropriately encouraged by authorities who ostensibly cared so much about health.The Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, for instance, launched a <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article251242084.html">"Shots for Shots"</a> campaign which rewarded beachgoers who took the injections with free alcohol.Some companies created marketing campaigns to encourage people to get the injections. Krispy Kreme <a href="https://www.krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer">offered</a> one donut per day for the rest of 2021 to whoever presented a vaccination card. Nathan’s in Coney Island began offering free hot dogs, and New York City offered fast food burgers and fries.

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'Closing churches, but not closing strip bars'

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<h2>Move over book burning, hello de-platforming?</h2>Closed out of your Facebook or Instagram account? Maybe your website suddenly disappeared, or your YouTube channel was demonetized or deleted? Perhaps you lost access to thousands of hours of posts and videos you produced, and your years of work were gone in an instant? That's de-platforming; the modern version of book burning, a “punishment” for going against the mainstream narrative. And, the censorship doesn't stop with social media, it includes PayPal accounts and more.<h3>Getting up again</h3>How do individuals who went afoul of the globalists, who didn't keep quiet and let others do their thinking for them, respond when they find themselves de-platformed by social media companies and other services? Here's what London Real's Brian Rose, Americas Frontline Doctor founder Dr. Simone Gold, and independent researcher James Roguski did to pick themselves up and continue their work despite the heavy-handed censorship they experienced.Brian RoseWhen London Real YouTuber Brian Rose publicly began trying to understand COVID-19 and its countermeasures, he soon found his entire life seemingly deleted from the internet by the social media giants.&nbsp;Not only did he lose all his years of work, amounting to thousands of videos which he had uploaded to the internet. He also lost access to his Paypal account, and more, because in his search for the truth about the pandemic; his counter-narrative interviews with David Icke were too dangerous for the globalists to allow. &nbsp;In his below documentary, Rose&nbsp;recounts his experiences and how he ultimately started a channel of his own. He explains that he was wholly unprepared for what happened on May 3, 2020, even though he knew that many would want to stop the interview (@about 3:36):<blockquote>Over the past few weeks, our entire world has been transformed. Everything we took for granted has now been taken away and our freedoms have been replaced with fear. All those rights we fought centuries for have been handed over without a second thought.&nbsp;We all process fear in different ways. I cope by immersing myself in my work and today my job is to ask questions. One million people will be watching and they all want answers.&nbsp;Countless others are trying to stop this from happening. At any moment they can walk through that door or lock this broadcast. I'm scared but I don't know what else to do. I prepared my whole life for a moment like This. But nothing would prepare me for what happened next. . .</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">WATCH THE MOVIE THAT YouTube DOES NOT Want YOU TO SEE (and SHARE IT Far And Wide ) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonReal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonReal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillNotBeSilenced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeWillNotBeSilenced</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopCensorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopCensorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz">https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz</a>— Brian Rose, Founder &amp; Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1796285778517221575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Dr. Simone GoldDr. Simone Gold, founder of <a href="https://www.aflds.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Frontline Doctors</a>, was one of the first doctors to understand that how she was being told to treat COVID patients wasn't normal. Very alarmed at what was taking place she, along with other doctors, held the “<a href="https://www.whitecoatsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Coat Summit</a>” on July 27, 2020, as well as a press conference on the Supreme Court steps. As she tweeted below, the press conference went viral, garnering millions of views before Big Tech and Big Media took the video down.She concluded by explaining their purpose and the result:<blockquote>Our fight was to show America the propaganda vs the truth, and then we were censored.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Our press conference in front of the Supreme Court on July 27th, 2020 was a turning point in the fight against COVID Tyranny. After 20 million views in 8 hours, Big Tech colluded to wipe the video from online platforms. We knew in this moment that we would win the fight. <a href="https://t.co/9CP0Ogpnfp">pic.twitter.com/9CP0Ogpnfp</a>— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1610416861723729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Dr. Gold continues to <a href="https://aflds.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advance</a> the mission of America's Frontline Doctors, to protect medical freedom and civil liberties.'James RoguskiIndependent researcher James Roguski who, <a href="http://jamesroguski.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to his website, has been calling out lies and propaganda for decades, found years of work gone when the company that hosted most of his websites terminated his account for what they said were “terms of service” violations. It did not deter him from continuing his work, either.<blockquote>They deleted many of my websites, but they ignited my passion to burn even brighter. I now have most of my work on Substack.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roguski is interested in building a holistic alternative to the WHO and <a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruits</a> others to join him.<blockquote>The old system is crumbling, and I intend to help speed its demise, but we must build its replacement quickly.If you are fed up with the government, hospital, medical, pharmaceutical, media, industrial complex and would like to help , then feel free to contact me directly anytime.</blockquote>&nbsp;The information contained in this article is for educational and information purposes only and is not intended as health, medical, financial or legal advice. Always consult a physician, lawyer or other qualified professional regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition, health objectives, or legal issues.&nbsp;Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/covid-sceptics-won-out-globalists-fear-an-increasingly-disbelieving-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">'COVID skeptics won out' — Globalists fear an increasingly disbelieving public</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/colorado-governor-signs-off-on-bill-establishing-state-ministry-of-truth-students-atarget-of-new-law">Colorado governor signs off on bill establishing state 'ministry of truth'? Students a target of new law</a></li></ul>

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How three individuals got up again after being de-platformed

Who's afraid of Big Bad Tech? 

A British vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” is receiving widespread support from British taxpayers as it continues to destroy climate surveillance cameras across London.<h2>The ULEZ mandate</h2>By order of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city is peppered with ultra-low emission zones (ULEZs), areas accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, a fine is levied against the car owner.&nbsp;The ULEZ climate mandate has drawn heavy&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-hundreds-protest-against-climate-mandates">protests</a> from residents, including&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/british-veteran-launches-hunger-strike-as-unrest-grows-over-climate-mandates">hunger strikes</a> and refusals to pay fines. Taxpayers have also taken to disabling the ANPR surveillance cameras which Transport for London (TfL), the city’s transportation department, said will be used both for climate and law enforcement.<h2>Taxpayers cheer the ‘Blade Runners’</h2>Since the climate restrictions were expanded last year, the Blade Runners have taken to disabling and destroying hundreds of cameras. Between April and September 2023, Metropolitan Police recorded 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 reports of cameras being vandalized.TfL began placing black boxes around ULEZ camera wirings to protect them from being cut, but taxpayers found other ways to disable the cameras — like removing them completely.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> MUST SEE: Blade Runners topple THREE ULEZ cameras in a coordinated strike… The people are fighting back! <a href="https://t.co/Yvr2Xr7Lun">pic.twitter.com/Yvr2Xr7Lun</a>— David Morgan #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1802726912050995623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In response, the city&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-taxpayers-attack-surveillance-vans-in-continued-revolt">deployed</a> mobile surveillance vans mounted with ANPR cameras across London in the hopes of evading attacks, but Blade Runners soon began targeting those as well. Some surveillance vans have been spotted covered in graffiti with their tires slashed, while others have been completely covered in tarp.Last month, 21 cameras were destroyed in the hours after Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London, the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13538797/Moment-Blade-Runner-uses-power-tool-cut-ULEZ-camera-traffic-light-latest-attack-Sadiq-Khans-hated-scheme.html">reported</a>. Last weekend, Blade Runners used power tools to topple a ULEZ camera and traffic lights to the delight of some fellow taxpayers. In a video that was posted to social media, passing cars can be heard honking in support.The video received over 37,000 likes. Comments on the post were largely supportive, with users writing that, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” and “Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.”Blade Runner Matt Hardy told the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;that the Blade Runners are “people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”<h2>‘These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control’</h2>British actor and influencer Laurence Fox said this week he was just given back his electronic devices by police after being arrested earlier this year for cheering on the Blade Runners:<blockquote>These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control. They are the primary infrastructure for all sorts of things that ideologues like the midget dictator [Sadiq Khan] would like to impose upon us.I can now finally say the word ‘Bladerunners’ again. One of the ridiculous restrictions on free speech imposed by the police.It’s a dreadful shame to see so many of these cameras dying suddenly. I’m not at all thrilled about it. Just because I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat, it doesn’t mean that I am over the moon that these scameras continue to topple in high winds.&nbsp;Vive la résistance!</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">POLICE UPDATE Following 6 coppers bursting into my house earlier this year to arrest me for saying how pleased I was that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ULEZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ULEZ</a> scam was meeting such robust resistance, this morning the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> were ordered by the magistrate to hand back all my devices, including my…— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1803030521095622912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> &nbsp;

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Climate Change

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Fisker is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the electric vehicle (EV) company announced Tuesday.<h2>‘Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry’</h2>“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” a spokesperson <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cghen8gr8e1n/6W19OiEBJDVIFVEmo4feHA/df902c5cb2b067251a300efb0b35f611/Fisker-Filing-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.The California-based company added it is not the only EV maker that has been struggling to stay in business.“We are proud of our achievements, and we have put thousands of Fisker Ocean SUVs in customers’ hands in both North American [sic] and Europe. But like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently. After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”Fisker’s collapse is the latest indication that the EV industry is folding due to sinking demand. Other EV industry players are also cutting their losses as they jump ship.<h2>Hertz</h2>In March, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motorfinanceonline.com/news/hertz-ceo-resigns-amid-ev-investment-setback/#:~:text=Scherr's%20departure%20coincides%20with%20Hertz's,electric%20vehicle%20(EV)%20rentals">resigned</a> after his bet on EVs cost the car rental giant its biggest quarterly loss since 2020. Hertz had been praised by the Biden administration for its ambition to convert 25% of its fleet to EVs by the end of this year. In January, however, the company announced it would instead be selling its 20,000 EVs — including Teslas — at heavily discounted prices and replacing them with gas-powered cars.<h2>Mercedes-Benz</h2>Mercedes-Benz also recently had to give up its ambition to only sell electric cars by 2030. Instead, EVs are expected to make up only 50% of the German carmaker’s sales over the next decade.<h2>Apple</h2>In February, Apple abandoned its multi-billion dollar effort to create an electric car. Despite being a decade in the works and employing 2,000 people, Project Titan was axed due to falling consumer demand.<h2>Aston Martin</h2>A lack of consumer demand is also partly to blame for Aston Martin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138123/Aston-Martin-puts-brakes-new-electric-supercar-2026-bosses-say-drivers-want-engines-throaty-roar.html">placing</a> its battery-operated “supercar” on hold until 2026.“Demand, certainly at an Aston Martin price point, is not what we thought it was going to be two years ago,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll.&nbsp;<h2>Ford</h2>In December, Ford slashed production of its flagship EV at its assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan by half. The automaker cut the monthly production quote for the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck from 3,200 units to 1,600 units per month.<h2>Biden administration continues to force EV production</h2>Nevertheless, the Biden administration in March issued new climate mandates aimed at forcing more EV production. The new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain tight emissions standards that will&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epa-electric-vehicles-emissions-limits-climate-biden-e6d581324af51294048df24269b5d20a">require</a> 56% of new vehicle sales to be fully electric by 2032, with an additional 13% required to be hybrids.

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For the last two years, British authorities have been testing AI-powered emotion recognition cameras on travelers in train stations, according to recently disclosed documents.<h2>What can the cameras see?</h2>In each of eight train stations around the UK, five to seven cameras or sensors scan the passing crowds. Using AI software from Amazon, the cameras use object recognition algorithms to spot criminal activity, trespassing, weapons, wet floors, overcrowding, and overstuffed trash cans.&nbsp;They can also alert authorities when passengers engage in “unusual behavior,” such as shouting, running, smoking, or skateboarding.&nbsp;A combination of existing cameras and newly installed smart cameras are being used for the surveillance project. All are equipped with Amazon’s Rekognition surveillance system.<h2>Emotional recognition</h2>Through a combination of facial and behavioral analyses, the Rekognition software allows officials to also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze visitors’ emotions</a>. Internal documents note that the cameras can detect whether a passenger is “happy, sad [or] angry.” They can also recognize passenger satisfaction, which “could be utilized to maximum advertising and retail revenue.”<h2>Anti-social behavior</h2>Authorities can also detect passengers who exhibit “anti-social behaviour,” which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/what-is-antisocial-behaviour/">according</a> to London’s Metropolitan Police Service means “behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.”<h2>Social distancing, face masks, and demographics</h2>Other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24757655-usecases_dpas_review_managed_stations?responsive=1&amp;title=1">use cases</a> for the surveillance cameras include detecting whether passengers are keeping to social distancing rules and wearing face masks. The cameras can also scan for demographics by identifying people’s age profiles and “socio-economic classification,” which the documents note can create “revenue opportunities for better targeted advertising and product placement.”<h2>‘Quite a concerning step’</h2>The documents were obtained by Big Brother Watch, a civil rights and government watchdog group, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Network Rail, a body within the Department of Transportation which manages most of the country’s train network, has been overseeing the surveillance project.&nbsp;“The rollout and normalization of AI surveillance in these public spaces, without much consultation and conversation, is quite a concerning step,” Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/">told</a> Wired.As of now, the surveillance systems do not use facial recognition technology, which analyzes faces and matches them against facial images stored in certain databases.

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