Data Analytical Services (DAS) – Hemisphere Project Expanded – Government Surveillance

Posted Nov 29, 2023 By Martin Armstrong |  

Snowden and others warned us. The US government has been spying on citizens at the federal, state, and local levels. Telecommunications company AT&T partnered with Data Analytical Services (DAS) to provide them with our digital footprints. The government is targeting everyone under the assumption that every American is a criminal.

They speak of the Stasi as if that was a time long ago and forgotten. Trillions of phone records are in the hands of government permanently. AT&T received indirect financing grants for its participation in the mass surveillance program. The government could target a criminal, or their neighbors, relatives, someone merely in their phone contacts list, or even the victim of a crime. The local cop could ping in to see his girlfriend’s phone location, for example. Warrants are no longer required.

US Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter of “serious concerns about the legality” of DAS to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, obtained by Wired. Wyden said the program “would justifiably outrage many Americans and other members of Congress.” The DAS has expanded after project Hemisphere, the previous government surveillance program that has been largely scrubbed from record. Obama began Hemisphere in 2013 and also partnered with AT&T for data-mining services. Trump reinstated and later halted the program, while Biden refunded and recharged the initiative. Hemisphere was simply renamed to DAS since the cover was blown.

DAS operates under a program called HIDTA, which is dedicated to drug trafficking and the ongoing lost war on drugs. But they are not limited to tapping the phones of alleged drug dealers or buyers. DAS bypasses numerous laws by claiming they are not wiretapping citizens, which would require a warrant. They claim they are merely storing data instead of conversations. They are able to track locations using this data as well. “The scale of the data available to and routinely searched for the benefit of law enforcement under the Hemisphere Project is stunning in its scope,” Wyden’s letter to Garland says.

The government also has access to our email history. They can search as far back as 1987 if that data is available. The program knows if someone switches numbers and everyone has the potential to be targeted. Technically, these law enforcement agencies need a subpoena, which is easy to obtain and often bypassed. Of most concern is that data exists, and the government has a verifiable way to track citizens’ whereabouts at all times without reason of suspicion.

Germany the Crisis in the Making

Posted Nov 22, 2023 By Martin Armstrong |  

COMMENT: Marty, Germany is following your forecast, and even the courts just ruled that moving money from one designated purpose to another is unconstitutional. When will Germany wake up? Ukraine is destroying Europe, and they were the culprits that blew up the Nord Stream to hurt Russia but did more economic damage to Germany. Then Zelensky wants us to keep handing him money after he was responsible for our energy crisis. It is just unimaginable how idiots occupy our government.

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REPLY: The high court in Germany ruled that the supplementary 2021 budget that they amended was a violation of the Basic Law and thereafter, unconstitutional. The court’s decision was interesting that the government failed to demonstrate the necessary connection between the COVID emergency and shifting it into the Energy and Climate Fund. Germany was then forced to freeze public spending for the balance of the year. Germany has a rule that limits the rise in debt by limiting the annual deficits because they still think that increasing the money supply created the hyperinflation of the 1920s – a very shallow linear analysis.

We have had a back-to-back Directional Change here in 2022/2023. We can see that the PPI is relaxing from the 2022 high, but 2023/2024 should be the low. We have a Panic Cycle in 2025, and from there into 2032, the damage of all this nonsense with Ukraine will destroy Europe and then the Middle East will engulf Europe internally.

Merkel’s decision to open the borders, as Biden has done, will undermine Europe and destroy its culture. Europe will not be the same after 2032. It is rapidly being transformed into the old Ottoman Empire conquered this time from within. The religious violence has already begun, and this is where the entire Middle East conflict will spill over into the rest of the world.

Europe has been engulfed in religious wars many times. Even Communism was a religious war, whereby it was atheism. Even the French Revolution involved seizing all the property of the Catholic Church and Napoleon even imprisoned the Poper.  This is precisely on time, for it is 340 years from the last attempt of the Ottoman Empire to conquer Europe in 1683.