Friday, December 25, 2020
Made in Arizona: Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA
Charlie Kirk hails the state of Vermont for abolishing slavery in 1777, but Vermont was an independent republic until 1791 | Media Matters for America
TURNING POINT USA Headquarters
4940 East Beverly Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85044
Turning Point USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk. The organization’s mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.
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What Kirk didn't make clear is that Vermont declared independence from both the British Empire and the United States in January 1777, prior to abolishing slavery. Vermont didn't join the United States until 1791, eight years after the Revolutionary War.
Trump appoints 1776 Commission members in last-minute bid to advance 'patriotic education'
President Donald Trump is still trying to advance “patriotic education,” announcing 33 days before his departure from office his intent to appoint members of a 1776 Commission. . .
The commission is part of Trump’s defense against critical race theory and the 1619 Project, directed by The New York Times Magazine, which revisits the country’s history with a focus on slavery and Black Americans’ contributions. Trump has said he hopes to counter lessons that he believes divide Americans on race and slavery and teach students to “hate their own country.” . . . others to be appointed to the 18-member panel include activist Charlie Kirk, who founded the conservative campus group Turning Point USA...
Key context: Trump directed the commission’s creation via executive order last month to “better enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.”
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Trump Signs Executive Order To Establish A 1776 Commission To Instill ‘Patriotic Education’
Key Facts
The executive order establishes a 20-person 1776 Commission under the Department of Education which will help the president promote what he calls “patriotic education.”
The commission will be responsible for tasks including delivering a report about the main principles of America’s founding story and supporting the government’s plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The executive order also requires federal agencies to prioritize federal resources for schools that prioritize “patriotic education” and to ensure that all schools receiving federal funds celebrate Constitution Day. . .
New York University professor Diane Silvers Ravitch, an education historian, wrote a blog post noting the federal government doesn’t have the authority to change school curriculum because it is up to the states. She claimed the president was trying to “whitewash” history.
The president did not mention the 1619 Project by name in his executive order, but alluded to it, writing that the “recent attacks” on the founding story have centered on race and slavery which he called “one-sided” and “divisive.”
The White House doubled down in a fact sheet about the order, claiming that “misconstrued” accounts of the nation’s founding story intend to portray America as a “systemically racist country” and that states, teachers and parents should be able to choose the curriculum.
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More > Trump Appoints Salem’s Charlie Kirk To 1776 Commission.
Salem Radio Network syndicated talk host Charlie Kirk has been appointed by President Donald Trump as a two-year member of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. Established by an executive order in early November, the White House initiative sets up a new advisory committee to create a “patriotic education,” to improve understanding of the history and principles of the founding of the United States.
"I'm incredibly honored to be named to the president's 1776 Commission alongside so many other patriots,” Kirk said in a press release issued Saturday by Salem. “Our nation's virtues and our accomplishments must be passed on to the next generation if it is going to survive into the future. I have devoted my life to that mission and I am beyond humbled to be able to continue doing so in this new role.”
Kirk’s show airs Mon.-Fri., noon-3p ET. He is also President & founder of Turning Point USA, an Illinois-based student organization whose stated mission is to “identify educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.”
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Thursday, December 24, 2020
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Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country
CellHawk helps law enforcement visualize large quantities of information collected by cellular towers and providers.
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. CellHawk has been in wide use by law enforcement; the software is helping police departments, the FBI, and private investigators around the United States convert information collected by cellular providers into maps of people’s locations, movements, and relationships. Police records obtained by The Intercept reveal a troublingly powerful surveillance tool operated in obscurity, with scant oversight.
CellHawk’s maker says it can process a year’s worth of cellphone records in 20 minutes, automating a process that used to require painstaking work by investigators, including hand-drawn paper plots. The web-based product can ingest call detail records, or CDRs, which track cellular contact between devices on behalf of mobile service providers, showing who is talking to whom. It can also handle cellular location records, created when phones connect to various towers as their owners move around.
Such data can include “tower dumps,” which list all the phones that connected to a given tower — a form of dragnet surveillance . . .
Police use CellHawk to process datasets they routinely receive from cell carriers like AT&T and Verizon, typically in vast spreadsheets and often without a warrant. This is in sharp contrast to a better known phone surveillance technology, the stingray: a mobile device that spies on cellular devices by impersonating carriers’ towers, tricking phones into connecting, and then intercepting their communications. Unlike the stingray, CellHawk does not require such subterfuge or for police to position a device near people of interest. Instead, it helps them exploit information already collected by private telecommunications providers and other third parties.
CellHawk’s surveillance capabilities go beyond analyzing metadata from cellphone towers. Hawk Analytics claims it can churn out incredibly revealing intelligence from large datasets like ride-hailing records and GPS — information commonly generated by the average American. According to the company’s website, CellHawk uses GPS records in its “unique animation analysis tool,” which, according to company promotional materials, plots a target’s calls and locations over time. “Watch data come to life as it moves around town or the entire county,” the site states.
The tool can also help map interpersonal connections, with an ability to animate more than 20 phones at once and “see how they move relative to each other,” according to a promotional brochure.
The company has touted features that make CellHawk sound more like a tool for automated, continuous surveillance than for just processing the occasional spreadsheet from a cellular company. CellHawk’s website touts the ability to send email and text alerts “to surveillance teams” when a target moves, or enters or exits a particular “location or Geozone (e.g. your entire county border).”
On its website, Hawk Analytics claims this capability can help investigators “view plots & maps of the cell towers used most frequently at the beginning and end of each day.” But in brochures sent to potential clients, it was much more blunt, claiming that CellHawk can help “find out where your suspect sleeps at night.”
Deployed — and Promoted — Across the Country
Hawk Analytics CEO Mike Melson, whose bio on the company website describes him as a former NASA engineer, offers free trials to law enforcement organizations to which he hopes to sell his product . . .
Hawk Analytics has many clients around the United States. This reporter conducted a survey using the Freedom of Information Act to collect invoices for CellHawk subscriptions from agencies referenced on CellHawk’s website, referred to in CellHawk’s training sessions, or mentioned in local news reports. He found numerous agencies fielding the technology: Atlanta and Fayette County, Ga.; Kansas City, Kan.; Franklin County, Va.; Utah County, Utah,; Fort Collins, Colo.; Hidalgo County, Texas; Orange County, Calif.; and, of course, the FBI all have paid for CellHawk in the last several years. The Madison, Wisconsin, police department appears to have thousands of potential CellHawk records from 2018 alone but has demanded close to $700 to examine and provide them.
WHOA! Reading way too much into "Signs in The Heavens" on December 21st 2020
". . . The sun, moon and stars(and planets) were meant to be first for signs, then for seasons, and then for days/years. We read in Genesis 1:14
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years"
FDA reveals long list of serious health conditions that may result from covid-19 vaccinations, including death
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