Mobile Surveillance Systems

This article caught my attention after it was referenced in a YouTube video on The Last American Vagabond's channel. It's only a short article so I'll quote it in full:

KROMEK EXTENDS DARPA DEAL TO DEVELOP VIRUS THREAT SYSTEM

May 27, 2020 @ 10:14 by Steven Hugill 

A technology firm known for helping thwart terror plots has secured a deal worth more than £4 million to further develop a system capable of identifying virus threats. 

Kromek has been awarded a contract extension by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – an agency of the US Department of Defense – to extend its focus on mobile bio-surveillance apparatus. 

Bosses at company, based on Sedgefield’s NETPark, say its miniaturised system will detect viruses and bacteria and be placed on vehicles to identify threats. 

They say the unmanned kit will have capacity to run all day and be suitable for use in high footfall areas, such as hospitals and airports. 

The work comes after Kromek completed the base period of a previously-announced deal with DARPA to develop a vehicle-mounted biological-threat identifier. 

The total contract period runs until June 2021. 

Dr Arnab Basu, Kromek chief executive, said: “We are delighted to be awarded this extension by DARPA. 

“The technology developed under this programme is capable of sample collection to comprehensive analysis of threats present in air in an autonomous manner.

“By sequencing the genetic code, the device can not only identify threat pathogens, but also be used to identify the particular strain to aid triage and treatment selection, in addition to being able to track mutations of the pathogen. 

“As the system can be vehicle mounted or placed in high footfall areas, such as hospitals and airports, the location where the sample is collected can be mapped to a GPS position. 

“The transfer of data to a central server allows a picture of pathogen levels across a city to be built up enabling decision makers to react rapidly to any evolving pathogenic threat.” 

Kromek, a Durham University spin-out company, is well known for its flagship D3S family of products, which can identify terror threats including ‘dirty bombs.’

Its portfolio also includes medical sector equipment, which is used to diagnose and treat conditions such as osteoporosis, and airport security scanners.

What emerges from this article is that the fear factor is going to be ramped up as regards the danger of infection from deadly pathogens. The future promises mobile bio-surveillance from moving vehicles and static bio-surveillance in high footfall areas. Even if alarms are not deliberately set off, the possibility of false alarms would seem to be highly likely. The alarms will add to the anxiety of city dwellers.

Such bio-surveillance systems will be the perfect tool to aid false flag bio-terrorism attacks. Alarms will go off all over a city and panicked citizens will have to comply with whatever health and safety measures are put in place by the local authorities. Citizens may end up in mandatory quarantine simply because they were too close to an infection site when the alarms went off. Tracking apps on mobile phones will increase the possibility of transient contact with an supposedly infected person and thus trigger an alert. In the end, it will be simpler to just stay at home if at all possible.

Anything that can be ordered online will be ordered online. For those who are lucky enough to be working, employers will make working from home the norm whenever it is feasible. Online education will replace physical schools and universities. This is social engineering on a massive scale.

In smart cities, whenever citizens venture out, they will be surveilled and their behaviour monitored just as the air around them will be surveilled and monitored for pathogens (real or imagined). City living will become so claustrophobic, rule-ridden and oppressive that some will opt for the freedom of the countryside and leave their smartphones behind. The majority will simply increase the dose of their preferred "soma". Even musical services like Spotify can become a form of soma as this blog post (SOMA, SPOTIFY, AND THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MUSIC CONSUMPTION) proposes.

The alternative is to grab your guitar and go "up the country". There's a chance that communes and communities may spring up that turn their back on technology and try to exist beyond the reach of Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Medicine.

I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you want to go?

I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you want to go?

I'm goin' to some place, I've never been before

I'm goin' I'm goin' where the water tastes like wine

I'm goin' where the water tastes like wine

We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time

I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away

I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away

etc ...

Of course, leaving the city and embracing a sustainable lifestyle in the country is not an easy transition for a lifelong urbanite like myself. However, I was given a book as a birthday present back in the late 80's. It was Permaculture, A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison. Bill passed on at the age 88 in 2016 but he bequeathed his wisdom about sustainable living to posterity.

Surprisingly, despite my peripatetic lifestyle over the past thirty years, the book remains on the bookshelf in my study. I must confess to only having skimmed its contents but if I ever do decide to go up the country, this is one book that I will take along and read most thoroughly. Once the 5G towers appear in the street, it will be time to go for sure. Hopefully however, the rollout of 5G services here on the outskirts of Jakarta will not happen anytime soon.

Orwellian Oz

Australia is on course to ban cash transactions in excess of $10,000. Worldwide, it's clear that the cashless society is coming, it's just a question of how soon. For Australia, it will be sooner rather than later. The primary reason for abolishing cash is CONTROL.

To films, football, beer and gambling, the bread and circuses of the modern world, will be added the cashless society in which our every transaction can be tracked and control becomes absolute. This transactional currency will be totally digital and amount to no more that a number in a database. It can be manipulated as desired by powers far beyond any individual's control, decreased by fines for what is deemed antisocial behaviour and perhaps augmented by rewards for displays of good citizenry (such as reporting ones neighbour for antisocial behaviour).

In such a system, it will be easy to block donations to organisations such as the BDS movement or any other group that the government does not approve of. Either overtly or covertly, a Chinese social credit score system will be introduced that will allow for restrictions to be imposed on travel both within the country and outside of it. Australia is already well on its way to such an Orwellian dystopia. Here is a chilling excerpt from a mindless article that appeared in the Brisbane Times. It's an opinion piece titled School kids already get free vaccines. Add one more and is written by Jenna Price, a columnist and academic at the University of Technology, Sydney.

So what can we do to improve the take up of flu vaccines in Australia? You can’t make people have immunisations although I’d very much like to. One positive step we could take is to roll-out a flu vaccination scheme through our schools. It would have to be free, added to the national immunisation program and funded by the federal government. Schools already do an excellent job of organising vaccination schedules; they provide the venue and the relevant health departments provide the vaccine and staff. As one school principal said to me, “We’ve already got the kids lined up. We could just add another jab to the schedule.” Every year without fail, that would reduce the spread.

Note the mindset of the journalist: You can’t make people have immunisations although I’d very much like to. If mandatory vaccination were put to a popular vote, Jenna Price would be supporting it. What's chilling however, is the focus on schools as a means of facilitating and eventually helping to enforce such vaccinations. For me, Australia has become an unsettling place to live which is why I choose not to live there. 

Even entering the country can be an unpleasant experience. On my last visit, following an overnight flight, I was taken aside by a customs official, given the third degree and told that my "attitude sucked". In fact I was too tired to have an "attitude" because I hadn't slept on the flight and was struggling to coherently answer the questions that were being put to me. The attitude of customs officials and airport police is that they can feel they can say and do what they want to anyone who attracts their attention. As another return to Oz is imminent, I'll be on my guard as I pass through Perth airport because last time I was certainly caught off guard. 

There's no point in mentioning the limitless authority that ASIO has to spy on Australian citizens. Australia has become a surveillance state as well as a police state. With the arrival of 5G cellular networks, the extent of the surveillance will increase further and limits on police powers will decrease proportionately.

Access to alternative news sources is also been curtailed. BitChute, an alternative site to YouTube for uploading videos, is an example of just one of the many sites that have been blocked at the whim of ISPs. This just makes it harder for someone casually browsing the Internet to chance upon alternative news. In Australia, mainstream television is unwatchable and newspapers unreadable. An accumulation of laws, regulations and ordinances have subjugated Australians, many of whom dutifully line up or have their children line up for flu shots and any other recommended vaccinations. They fear the media-created Moslem bogeyman and accept Orwellian surveillance and police brutality as the price to play for being kept safe.

Smart Cities

This article in the March 9th 2019 online edition of The Guardian is titled How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms begins by stating that:

Across the midwest, the rise of factory farming is destroying rural communities. And the massive corporations behind this devastation are now eyeing a post-Brexit UK market.

This article comes hot on the heels of another Guardian article that I read titled Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic from March 7th 2019. It seems that this MSM site is putting out some reasonable content from time to time. The article goes on to describe the rise of concentrated animal feeding operations or Cafos as they are known. To quote:

 “They are vertically integrated, from animal genetics to grocery store. What they charge isn’t based upon what it costs to produce, and it’s not based on supply and demand, because they know what they need to make a profit. What they have done, through government support and taxpayer support, is to intentionally overproduce so that the price stays low, sometimes below the cost of production. That kicks their competition out of the market. Then they become the only player in town. 

“Over time, it has extracted wealth and power from communities. We can see how that has impacted rural main streets. You can see the boarded-up storefronts. You can see the lack of economic opportunity.”

Gibbons says that corporations game the system by obtaining low-interest, federally guaranteed loans to build Cafos that then overproduce. But they know the government will buy up the surplus to stabilise prices. 

“The system has been set up for the benefit of the factory farm corporations and their shareholders at the expense of family farmers, the real people, our environment, our food system,” he adds. 

“The thing that is really pervasive about it is that they control the rules of the game because they control the democratic process. It’s a blueprint. We’re paying for our own demise. 

“It would be a different argument if it was just based upon inevitability or based on competition. But it’s not based upon competition: it’s based upon squelching competition.”

Here is a blog that explains more about what cafos are all about. These types of operations mean that more people are moving to the cities as they simply can't earn a living in the countryside. Once the farms are abandoned:

“Investors buy the land, and they have tractors and combines that you can run by computer,” she said. “They’ll hire somebody to sit in a little office somewhere and run that stuff off the computer and farm the land that way. Now what you’ve done is you have lost the innate knowledge of how to grow food and raise animals. You’ve lost a whole generation of it, probably two. Now we are going to rely on a few corporations to decide who is going to eat and who isn’t. We’re one generation away from that picture right now.” 

In Williams, Schutt says he’s seeing a community of owners becoming workers: “It’s going to be like Russia with serfs. If you want to work on a farm, you’ll have to work for them. We’ll give you a job, but you’re going to be working on our terms. We control everything. Small farms can’t survive.” 

The phrase I've highlighted is quite telling: you have lost the innate knowledge of how to grow food and raise animals. Already urban dwellers are totally reliant on the local supermarket for their food but some still have some idea of how to grow their own. This will change as the urban populations swell and the percentage of those living outside the cities decline. Lack of services such as hospitals and schools and increased taxation on those living outside of cities will ensure that this trend is sustained. Urban dwellers will huddle in their smart city apartment blocks, their every move tracked by ubiquitous surveillance technology and their every purchase scrutinised in a society that has gone cashless.

The Internet will be sanitised and free of fake news. Citizens will be rewarded with credit points for positive and constructive social media comments, points will be deducted for espousing views outside the mainstream and re-education classes may be required for persistent offenders. Mandatory vaccinations with contents unknown (as now) to recipients will reinforce compliance via chemical means. Education will distort history beyond recognition and shape students to feel a sense of connection only with their benevolent overlords.