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Who Assesses my Benefits Claim?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 28 August 2024; Hits: 868

2024-08-28

Well, according to Big Brother Watch, maybe nobody. It might all be handled by machines. If not now, then soon.

Does anybody know how the AI works? Nobody accessible to the public.

"Black box algorithms and secretive AI tools sit at the heart of the UK's welfare system - with little accountability. Our investigation offers a glimpse into life inside the UK’s poverty panopticon"

So here's a simple enough question:

If the tools of the process are opaque and protected by commercial confidentiality, how can the process be accountable to the public that it is meant to serve? And if not accountable, how is a realistic challenge possible?

I have postulated before that government is simply a vast Artificial Intelligence encoded on paper into statutes rules and regulations (not to mention "guidelines") that are (or inevitably become) horrendously complex (as they are tweaked to cover circumstances not previously identified or envisioned). They are very likely beyond the time-and-comprehension space of the vast majority of claimants (not to mention the officials and administrators charged with implementing them).

But at least being written on traditional documents (and capable of being printed), the rules-regulations-guidance could be accessed by mere mortals and subjected to scrutiny.

Now in as much as they are at least in part encoded within AI algorithms and defended by commercial confidentiality agreements (not to mention inaccessibility within corporate servers), for practical purposes they have been placed well beyond public scrutiny.

Meaning in effect that we have become the servants of those that control the AI - i.e.: the corporate interests, given the nod by "our" government.

See what you think.

Scott Ritter Reviews the Geopolitics of the Middle East

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 27 August 2024; Hits: 770

2024-08-27

One of the things I like about Scott is that he is generous with his time and gives it to minor interviewers as well as to the more high profile.

Here he gives a slightly stilted interview which doesn't quite feature his usual easy-flowing rapport with the interviewer, but he does present a very wide-ranging view of the state of play in the area, of western geopolitics, and indeed of internal national politics within the group of nations neighbouring Israel, and of Israel itself.

He is my go-to source for a reason.

(34 minutes)

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The PCR Test, Covid, and Mpox

Details: Category: Covid; Published: 25 August 2024; Hits: 835

2024-08-25

Interest of Justice have pulled together a nice video which goes into some simple detail about why the PCR Test is not actually and could never be a valid test for a disease.

The PCR process is not a test, but a process for amplifying a specific genetic sequence if it exists in a sample, The inventor, Kari Mullis, stated unequivocally that his process could not be used to identify an infection. There are a number of reasons for this which are mentioned in the video below.

(59 minutes)

As explained in the video, it's not about the details of cycle thresholds or anything else, its about the WHO's support of a "test" that is incapable of identifying an infection.

The WHO would doubtless agree that tests should never be used in isolation but as additional information to assist a competent physician to reach a diagnosis. Primary culpability therefore rests with governments health institutions clinicians and media who promoted the scare on the basis of test results alone.

Nevertheless, it is perfectly possible to explain away the Covid scam even if we assume that the test (whatever it's nature) is reasonably adequate for identifying an infection!

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Russia Summons US Envoy over Kursk Incursion by US Personnel

Details: Category: Defence; Published: 22 August 2024; Hits: 783

2024-08-22

"Moscow views this as unauthorized American journalists illegally entering Russia's sovereign territory without permission, ultimately to assist with Ukrainian propaganda under Kiev's military protection"

CNN blatantly reporting from the Kursk region?

Are CNN at war with Russia? Or is the US at war with Russia? Or is all of NATO at war with Russia?

If Russians had been discovered on the Isle of Wight, would Sir Keir be complaining?

Maybe we should be told?

Somebody would seem to have some explaining to do.

The Fight to Fail

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 19 August 2024; Hits: 826

2024-08-19

Dominic Cummings isn't everybody's cup of tea, but he does (probably) do his own thinking - which may explain why he didn't last long in government.

In his latest substack offering, he digs deep into history to illustrate his points (I am no historian so I won't comment on this section).

He goes on to describe how he feels that the Cabinet Office and PM's Office and indeed the whole edifice of the Civil Service and 'Parliament by political party' are doomed by their own mentality to fail, and will indeed fight off all comers in order to continue that failure (after all, who is to hold them accountable?).

" ... they don’t win because they are not actually trying to win, they are just trying to be players in the rancid SW1 game and don’t want that game disrupted by attempts to change its basic rules and agreed goals"

I don't agree with Dominic's conclusions (he is too narrow in his thinking - for example, he makes no mention of how the party system fails the people, nor of whether the complex structure of local / national government that arose out of the 19th & early 20th century is appropriate for the future, nor of the Bank of England and UN/WEF/WHO whom many suspect of pulling all the strings behind the politics that actually matter and who are in no way accountable to the British people).

Nevertheless he does paint a very realistic and convincing picture of exactly why the whole rotten edifice of government needs to be swept away so that we the people can rethink it and rebuild it as we please (not that he is proposing that!).

We need a "we the people" that are involved in politics.

We need bottom-up variety in place of top-down one-size-fits-all.

We need representatives and public bodies of integrity transparency and accountability that are responsive to public needs, and we need a responsibility structure that devolves planning and decision-making to the lowest practicable level.

We absolutely need public bodies to share aligned incentives with the people that they serve.

In short, we the people need to rethink all levels of government from first principles and rebuild it over time as we consider necessary.

A tall order? Absolutely.

How? Up for grabs.

Impossible? Only if we unthinkingly assume so.

What do you think?

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