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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new “domestic terror watch lists.” From the description it appears DHS is going to pay “big tech” (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem “dangerous.”
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?…
NBC is reporting on these new developments as the U.S. intelligence apparatus is preparing to go live with the assembly of lists of Americans who “could be” potential threats to the government; and need to be watched.
However, even NBC is beginning to realize the consequences: “DHS planning to expand relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence and to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans. The department is also contemplating changes to its terrorist watch listing process.”
Here’s the article:
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes aimed at detecting and stopping what intelligence officials say is now a top threat to the homeland: domestic violent extremism.
Two senior Biden administration officials told NBC News that DHS, whose intelligence division did not publish a warning of potential violence before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, is seeking to improve its ability to collect and analyze data about domestic terrorism — including the sorts of public social media posts that threatened a potential attack on the Capitol, but were not deemed “actionable” by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
DHS is planning to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, and also to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components. (read more)
Expand your thinking to what was initiated with the COVID model for “contact tracing” and you can quickly see how physical proximity to a rogue dissident, a person with wrong thoughts – aka a domestic extremist, can result in you being labeled along with that dissident…. and you are on the list. Then overlay the efforts of Big Tech to assist the administrative state with an electronic trail of your habits, contacts, phone calls, text messages and internet patterns…. and you are on the list.
Remind yourself what FBI “contractors’ with access to the NSA database already did in their quest for political opposition research and surveillance {Go Deep}. Then overlay all of the above and you get an alarming picture that is not something to dispatch.
Lovely.
The larger the list contractors provide, the greater their value. A commission based compensation pay will net huge results! Just ask Wells Fargo!
And the word from Mitch the Bitch, Sasse, and Mitt Romney is what? A-OK?
We are so hosed…
End run on Bills of Attainder. Crimes in search of Criminals.
You think you are. The art of the pedophile is to convince you that you have no other choice.
It is so easy…..Look how easy it was to get people to voluntarily wear masks.
Can’t volunteer if you have to wear one to buy food….we are already there my friend.
Trump Media will slap us back into action.
Parents of School kids are starting to realize they are being cheated out of once in a life time social experiences by missing normal activities such as sports, etc.
Kids themselves, especially High School kids are starting to realize the CHEAT and are not happy about it.
Hummm I bet they have been doing this for years now.
But since they almost got caught now they will legitimize it.
Bingo !
Just like the NSA database contractor abuse went on for years before being revealed
The multi billion dollar mega data centers have been collecting for some yrs now and you can bet anyone here will soon see be on the radar
I wonder what they would do if everybody stopped using their electronic tracking devices. I know it will never happen but still it would put a stop to their bs. Guaranteed there are no real investigators anywhere in government.
It’s really going to be a mighty big list.
Barney Fife is in charge of DHS.
80+million?
Imagine if they find a way to search Treepers comments on the CTH website . . .
NSA can already do that.
I use the Slimjet browser and tried to shut down cookies and tighten up on info going out.
I just noticed that when I refresh while on CTH, I get a interim status popup saying something about Google. I’m going to try to understand why it is showing up and when, but if anyone has any thoughts about this, I’m interested.
Internet says Slimjet is a Chromium Fork (based on Chrome) developed by Flashpeak in Austin,Tx. It runs all chrome plug ins…perhaps you should run a script blocker like NoScript or uBlock origin and granularly control scripts that launch. Brave has only an all script on or off function…but you can also browse in TOR. I see 8 scripts attempting to run in noscript…the site wont fully run on my computer without google.com and gstatic.com running, as well as youtube.com and theconservativetreehouse.com, as well as the rumble plugin script. Not logged into any google products in my browser…
Say it ain’t so! Sundance, have you led us down a hole direct to the wolf’s jaws?!
Doubt we have been sold out…however script blocker says doubleclick, newrelic, and quantserve run on this site…so if you are not actively blocking cookies, running a VPN, and blocking ad scripts, those entities know you were here…
No way to post pix here, but a 2012 meme said…”Facebook…if you are not paying, you are on the menu”
No truer words were ever said!
Unfortunately, the developer is woefully tardy in updating the chrome browser engine itself and remediating the inevitable “zero day” exploits that arise. May I suggest the ‘Brave’ browser in it’s stead?
Short of that, try installing the extensions “cookie auto-delete”, Adblock Origin, and “Privacy Badger”(from the Electronic Frontier Org.) to minimize ex-filtration of your deets’….
If you live in fear they win.
It’s all public access. They already can. And look at what is archived.
So can any Script Kiddie with the appropriate tools and motivation…called “Site Scraping”…Reddit threads exist about this from at least 3 years back…convert all text on site including comments into text file…
The difficult part would probably be to associate the Username with an email address…but I am sure that that software exists as well.
Onus is on the site admin to make sure that their site is secure, and they log attempts to scrape…or attacks against the backend…
It is the easiest thing in the world to search CTH (unless that is your point…)
Just add “site:theconservativetreehouse.com” to the end of any search query, such as for your username.
I don’t have a cell phone. Can’t comment on Rumble or Parler. Even Microsoft is after me because they don’t have my cell phone number. Then there’s my credit card company too.
Meanwhile, isis terrorists are shooting up grocery stores in suburban America while the fbi is focused on rounding up patriotic Americans who broke some windows and took selfies after being let into the capital.
This is seriously scary how quickly the US is nose diving into a complete totalitarian disaster.
Patriotic Americans did not break any windows.
That was the agent provocateurs.
Never forget that.
These commies will never give up their power, much less through elections they control.
There are plenty of Ken and Karen’s that will jump at the chance to snitch off their neighbors.
This! I just use the name Karen though. Men can be Karens too. And yes, there will be a whole lot of petty vindictive snitching. Until the doors start getting kicked down in the middle of the night.
They will re-create the equivalent of the East German Stasi with this move, except that even the Stasi didn’t have access to this much detailed information.
Coupled with the “red flag” laws in various states, they’ll be stripping people of their 2nd amendment rights simply for their political views.
There will be a lot of hot and empty guns if they do. People are not gonna tolerate that for long.
That list is going to be LONG. If they manage to successfully compile such a list, they may pause and wonder if they should f*ck with us.
They have us surrounded, the poor bastards.
Good. That means we have them exactly where we want them.
We can attack in any direction.
Same thing Chesty Puller said when surrounded.
We’re Airborne, we’re supposed to be surrounded.
Polish-American firing squad.
My apologies to the Polish!
SFC Jerry “Mad Dog” Shriver. SOG, 1969. When advised by his Six that air power would would blast the NVA force surrounding his patrol, Shriver said “No, no, no! I got ’em right where I want ’em. Surrounded from the inside!”
https://ultimatesniper.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Untold-True-Story-of-Mad-Dog-Shriver.pdf
Fully decked out, Mad Dog was a walking arsenal with an imposing array of sawed-off shotgun or suppressed submachine gun, pistols, knives and grenades. “He looked like Rambo,” First Sergeant Billy Greenwood thought. Blond, tall and thin, Shriver’s face bore chiseled features around piercing blue eyes. “There was no soul in the eyes, no emotion,” thought SOG Captain Bill O’Rourke. “They were just eyes.”
Shriver’s closest companion was a German shepherd he’d brought back from Taiwan which he named Klaus. One night Klaus got sick on beer some recon men fed him and crapped on the NCO club floor; they rubbed his nose in it and threw him out. Shriver arrived, drank a beer, removed his blue velvet smoking jacket and derby hat, put a .38 revolver on a table, then dropped his pants and defecated on the floor. “If you want to rub my nose in this,” he dared, “come on over.”
Everyone pretended not to hear him; one man who’d fed Klaus beer urged the Recon Company commander to intervene. The captain laughed in his face. “He had this way of looking at you with his eyes half-open,” recon man Frank Burkhart remembers. “If he looked at me like that, I’d just about freeze.”
Hmmmm….Shriver jpeg won’t show
Glad the only firearm I ever had was lost during a hike up a mountain. I was bummed when it happened and I spent 5 hours searching for it after I discovered it was not in my holster.
I lost all mine in that damn boating accident!
Been here before.
For What It’s Worth. 1967.
There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It’s s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Saw a piece today that an army training manual describes evangelical Christians and Catholics as extremists. Part of the current stand down.
Well then, perhaps the Military currently “protecting” DC’s Evil, Corrupt, Ruling Class should place both JoeBama and Mafiosi Pelosi at the Very Top of their rapidly expanding “Extremists” Lists.
After all, both Dementia Joe and Demonic Pelosi proudly claim to be Catholic.
Sorry @ Italian Job. I’m of Italian heritage too. I didn’t read far enough along to see your comment, and I jumped the line.
And you can’t get any more extreme. Maybe the army has a point.
Freedom of Religion is part of the First Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights, which is part of the United States Constitution which they all took an a oath to but are now urinating on. Never mind fearing China’s Army or Russia’s Army, our own Army is by far the greater threat.
Wait, I’m confused. Isn’t the pResident of the U.S., the “CiC”, a Catholic? They should start the exorcism with him.
Probably not a bad time to revisit this article from a few days ago.
Pretty comprehensive review of the manipulations we’ve been subjected to so far.
Long, but very readable.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/22/who-is-shaking-the-jar/
Congress is shaking the jar.
They stole your vote, confiscated your work, opened the border, and want your arms. Remove 535, arrest the Exectutive and throw the judicial in prison. We’ll govern ourselves because the current group are not protecting citizens.
Expect the usual mess that inevitably results from government lists and databases being fed inaccurate or obsolete information. Mismatches, travel delays, and no way to get off a list…unless you are in the Big Club.
… and once again we will do nothing. Alas.
Well see, none of this really impacts me since I am retired, living in flyover country, and have sufficient income to continue my lifestyle. I don’t contribute to any political party or engage in rallies. So I am good to go.
Dystopia.
Looks like us Treepers are going to be on those wanted posters at the post office.
O My, I must get to the saloon soon and get my poster updated 😛
It’s only a matter of time before they start loading us into cattle cars.
The gestapo won’t willingly limit their powers.
There you have it. This is not our government. It is our oppessors. Oakland will give you 500 bucks per month just for not being white. Being a Christian can land you in prison, supporting a non demoncrat can get you arrested and unemployed and even have your children taken from you.
None, nothing this rag of criminal oligarchs are doing is legal. There are laws on the books and have been for decades outlawing everything that is happening.
That makes zero difference to the “elite class.” How they feel makes law.
Period. And they feel they can remain in power forever. The border crises isnt just about votes either. Its about evil beyond words and just as the demoncrats 2020 campagin slogan said. Death 2 America.
It’s called “the fundamental transformation of America”. It was one of those hopey changey things that Buraq promised.
I think a lot of people fell for it. I wonder if they feel any culpability in the destruction of our country. I doubt it.
They are not communist. They are OPPORTUNIST looking to steal your coin and preventing redress of grievances.
Today we are oppressed and threaten more by our governments than King George imposed on the colonies. They picked up muskets, we sit on our hands.
Would like to disagree, but can’t.
When everyone is on a list then what? Do we start over? Do we persecute the few that are not on the lists? What good is a list when everyone including the ones who keep the lists are on them? Pretty sure there is a list of the ones compiling this data.
More fear tactics to control people. They can’t even keep track the people that work for them.
“More fear tactics to control people. They can’t even keep track the people that work for them.”
Exactly. I posted below before seeing your post.
”They can’t even keep track….” Yes they can. All they need is 80 Million manila file folders from Office Depot. /S/
Well I just happen to know that the contact tracing is NOT happenin, so this is a NO Go also 🙂
Maybe government incompetence will save us?
definitely, how many actual work hours do government employees spend taking breaks 😛
I think they gonna submit it to the North Pole and then Santa will determine if you be naughty/nice 😛
Hell, they can’t even stop people from causing mass shootings. People they were tracking because they knew they were going to cause problems. Well for four years it stopped…and last week started again.
What makes you think they want to interfere with something that advances their interest to build public support for disarming normies??
Yeah, right, they announce what they have probably already been doing, unless they were incredibly stupid, to act as a damper on discussion due to fear.
Wow, this is starting to sound like China’s “Social Credit System”.
What’s next – if you say on Facebook or Twitter that you voted for Trump, then you can’t get into the best schools?
That’s ok because the best schools are actually the worst schools and a waste of money.
And the hits just keep on coming…..
It’s kind of like TSA stopping housewives, old people, and little kids trying to go on a vacation while the Fibbies follow crazy American hating jihadists online for years and never do anything until AFTER they have shot up a public place full of people for absolutely no reason…am I on a list now for mentioning that?
Not just one list but three, maybe four.
May as well aim high, right?! What’s the use of only being on ONE list?!
Osama and all enemies foreign and domestic are on full speed while the DOD fat brass and their oath sit in silence.
And they would STILL miss Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa.
Moving one step at a time to assigning a social credit score to everyone in America. First you get banned from youtube and Twitter. Then you get banned from commenting on live streaming sites. Next you go on the no-fly list and can’t own or buy guns. Then your credit cards are cancelled. And finally, you are not permitted to buy food.
Bill Gates is now the largest owner of farmland in America. Do we really want the man who can’t make Windows work without locking up or crashing controlling our food supply?
Mr. Al-Issa is controlled timed release murder. They have many more.
You isolate a person’s computer experience. Put him or her in practice mode ( duplicate of the internet). Next you control the search results ( different than real mode, and you pick antagonistic things to trigger a trigger)…
Harasss the isolated Target over and over , the gov does it……
The control of Americas food supply is the US government. The largest American farmer is Joe Biden.
well after Gates throws chalk into the mix, I doubt that anyone will buy his food 😛
So who’s first to the camps?
Pick ME \o/
It almost seems as if the administration, is wanting for something to actually happen. By pushing more buttons, the hope is that the enough is enough, finally boils over. I strongly believe these clowns, don’t have a clue as to what would be unleashed.
They want to trigger a real armed uprising.
Then Martial law.
Fails. They have until Trump Media starts to legalize illegals. Get their own army.
IMO, it is getting close. The Stock Market crash will be the catalyst.
I reckon a Food Market crash would be a bigger catalyst.
Nope…They know exactly what’s going to happen, they are just setting the plate…if only Josef Stolen can hang on a little longer….
Jen Stasi will circle back and let you know.
20 years ago, something like this would have been unthinkable in America. But then the Patriot Act happened.
It would appear that the Southern Poverty Law Center will received a huge windfall from DHS.
Attention passengers. This has only been a simulation. You have not really been transported to Germany sometime in the mid to late 1930’s.
I’m sorry. The flight engineer just informed me this is the real thing. He said something about a vortex and a worm hole. He has also informed me that we are now out of fuel.
This is what the anti-Trumpers voted for. Theirs was a hate vote against people they want to see harmed in every way possible. They want our prosperity taken away, they want our guns and property taken away, they want our freedom taken away. They want us unemployed and living on the street. Just not any street they happen to live, work, or visit. The country as it is right now can not survive. Something’s going to have to give.
I believe that the government is in full scale attack and looking for any pushback. That’s why we’ve been labeled domestic terrorists, it’s a prepackaged narrative for when they murder you.
Orwell told us about Double Think and the cognitive dissonance needed to run it.
Ten white Americans murdered by an Islamofascist sympathiser in a grocery store a week ago, yet the real threat are “white” groups that could hold a meeting in a phone box.
and of those in the phone booth,
99% are undercover agents!
(fbi, atf, et al)
I guess this means the NSA is digging/planting dirt on those Republican politicians that stand in the Democrats way.
It’s a reminder to.congress state and federal to not jump on the court ruling of fraud coming
Goebbels must be laughing his head off from H-E-double hockey sticks! Insane? Maybe. Typical Democrat move? Yep!!
Are we all just sitting around accepting this? I don’t live in the US, but Canada is doing the same. Why are we accepting this? did anyone ask who thinks this is a good idea?
They work for us, we are not their flock of sheep. WTH people???
Congratulations!
Your name is now on the list.
Mine has been on it for a while, so I welcome you to this special club of deplorable potential terrorists.
I am going to have T-shirts made with all our catchy names on them.
Call me a deplorable irredeemable white supremacist racist xenophobic heterophobe, just don’t call me a Democrat.
So Where’s Hunter will be reported over and over? 😉
They can’t stop one of their own terrorists illegals from killing Americans but they want to make sure you keep silent and don’t communicate with one another
They released him to do exactly what he did.
Then F**cking add me then, I’ll be the one wearing the JUDA Star!
Was there a worse President than Bush? Bin Laden horrible attack on his watch, goes into Iraq for no reason, and starts a new beaucracy with Homeland that spys on us. He was/ is horrible.
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and
compassion. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world.
It’s a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It’s a faith based upon love, not hate. Mohammad’s word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur’an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.
– George W. Bush !!!
Just from his It’s a faith based upon love, not hate. and his All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements, Bush should have been committed to a mental institution for the criminally insane.
And how did we get so lucky to get two of them? Clowns In America?
“goes into Iraq for no reason”
Alternatively, Sadaam invaded Kuwait, a vital Golf oil supplier to the world, next on the list was Bahrain another vital oil producer, if the Gulf States were Albania no-one need care. That could not be allowed to stand. The second Iraq war was to kill Islamofascists post 911, yep on a pretext, but good job, 30,000 international Al Q were killed, it was the touch up needed. The US will attack Afghanistan again (from afar this time) if/when the Taliban become Govt and allow A Q or new equivalent to become a Govt dept with all the great advantages that gives them in projecting international terrorism.
Yes, the US always stays too long. It’s the same bright eyed theoretical Harvard boys that ran the Vietnam war who don’t really want to win.
Iraq war 1 thanks to Bush 1 was due to Bush ambassador telling Sadaam we have no interest in intra Arab disputes. He says thank you very much. Just stupid on stupid.
So why did Bush threaten Sadaam with war before he moved over the border to invade Kuwait?…you silly boy.
It was about stability of the world oil supply and Sadaam’s potential easy take over of all the Gulf oil States.
Ask his wife, she can tell you some real stories 😛
Private contractors?
Democratic donors?
Without restraints?
Been there, done that, no?
“…Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.”
Never been on a single social media group, don’t own a smartphone, don’t own a single wireless device, don’t have a camera or microphone on my computer and nothing I own has a computer in it that can send information about me to someone else.
My online presence is minimal on purpose (after working over 30 years in IT networking and security), but it gained a little traction when I went all in for Donald Trump for President in 2016.
My former life in IT showed me first hand that “they” can see a lot more of us than we even begin to imagine.
So my life supposedly far removed from all things “searchable” is non-existent, as long as I am here talking to you, a large group of patriots whom they see as dissidents.
Take everything you see in the liberal media with a large grain of salt. We know the Democrats plant false stories for political effect.
What if they made a list and nobody cared?
What if they made a list and nobody reads it?
What if they ordered dinner and nobody cooked it?
What if they started a war and nobody showed up?
Then what?
That is when the railroad cars would come in.
Because I BELIEVE this site hides my personal info, I talk honestly here. Deleted my Disqus account and LONG ago quit commenting on FB.
Easy- stay off google, Twitter, and FB.
Stop giving business to them.
Also, servers are easily damaged. You want to put dents in their plans- target their server farms. Over and over again.
It only takes a simple virus to wipe out a server. They like to plant people- well, MAGAs inside Google, MS, Twitter, etc…plug your USBs in abs watch the fun unfold.
Good way to get arrested and jailed when they get caught…oh, and you WILL get caught. Bad advice.
I think we’re about at the point where we need to reimagine the United States Federal Government. Doesn’t seem to be functional at the moment.
Speaking of which… what will The Government’s response to Non-Violent Domestic Extremism be?
What if 50% of the country just doesn’t pay taxes? Or go to work? Or both?
Eliminate cell phone use…pay cash.
Hopefully folks like Kim Jong-un are watching all of this. I don’t think he would have much problem staying in power if he duplicated the Democrats moves and did the following three things:
1] Garrisoned his capitol (Pyongyang) with troops.
2] Commissioned his FBI to target domestic extremists.
3] Adopted HR1 for all future elections.
And voilà, he would shed his image as an autocrat, and be welcomed with open arms into the Western community of democratic nations with no risk to himself or his regime.