WATCH: Take Back Our Tech – #SolutionsWatch
Ramiro Romani of TakeBackOurTech.org and AbovePhone.com joins James Corbett on the latest edition of SolutionsWatch to discuss technology: what it is, how it works, and how we can make it work for us.
They discuss how governments and big tech corporations are collaborating to undermine our rights to privacy, free expression and even freedom of travel and how we can remove the Big Brother surveillance and controls from our devices.
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The levee is gonna break!
I appreciate Corbett’s objectives but I didn’t find this video useful, especially given its length. Judging by the comments which have nothing to do with it I’m the only who watched it.
He doesn’t need to spend 30 minutes talking about how awful big tech is. We’re here because we know that already.
I’ve come to think that the only way to protect oneself is to spend less time online, leave phone at home when you go out or keep it turned it off and use it only in emergencies. It’s reaching ridiculous proportions, eg with the qr code menus. Just say politely that you left home in order to have time away from digital life so if they don’t have paper or even your basic “Greta-friendly” blackboards then you’re happy to eat elsewhere.
Google maps doesn’t always show street names and all the establishments on the street so if you just want to take a quick look at the offline map and then figure out for yourself where you are, it’s not that easy. It’s like they selectively hide info so you’re forced to turn on the location feature especially when you’re in cities with hundreds of narrow streets whose names change every 50 metres.
When I ask for directions only people over 50 or 60 seem to know north from south and how to give directions without a phone. People under 30, good luck if you can even make eye contact with 95% of Most (but not all) don’t know how to read maps but depend on listening to google. Unless they have a dog and live in the neighbourhood in which case they can probably assist you.
Nature: To get a better sense of how researchers are currently interacting with the site formerly known as Twitter, Nature reached out to more than 170,000 scientists who were, or still are, users; nearly 9,200 responded. More than half reported that they have reduced the time they spend on the platform in the past six months and just under 7% have stopped using it altogether. Roughly 46% have joined other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and TikTok. With this migration has come widespread uncertainty. Many academics worry that the changing social-media landscape is undoing some of the advances that Twitter helped to facilitate in diversity, equity and inclusion for academia.
Taking back tech for WEF $cience.
From browsing the website it would appear our tech woes are still the fault of China, groan.
Not only our tech, but everything what is wrong with America today is China’s fault.
I and McCarthy warned ya but people refused to listen.
I heard everything is Putin’s fault. I’m still waiting to find the Commie under the bed.
A slight touch off topic, but maybe less than one° of separation: USA WWF Hall of Fame wrestler Bray Wyatt dies at 36 of sudden cardiac arrest, the alleged cause?
C****-19. “And so it goes”:
.
“I’m heartbroken over the news of Bray Wyatt’s passing. Always had tremendous respect and love for him and the Rotunda family. Loved his presence, promos, in ring work and connection with @wwe universe.
Very unique, cool and rare character, which is hard to create in our crazy… pic.twitter.com/i9zlbJIOL3
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) August 24, 2023
How Did Bray Wyatt Die?
Sapp’s account matches what WWE fans witnessed in 2023, when Wyatt disappeared from television in February. He had contracted COVID-19, and that exacerbated a heart issue.
“There was a lot of positive progress towards a return and his recovery,” Sapp tweets. “Unfortunately today he suffered a heart attack and passed away.”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was among the many wrestling stars to mourn Wyatt’s death. It came just two days after the death of another legend, Terry Funk.
Read More: WWE Champion Bray Wyatt’s Cause of Death Revealed |
https://tasteofcountry.com/wwe-bray-wyatt-cause-of-death/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referal
All kinds of fakery embedded between the lines.
What in media is real, now? How much?
He had contracted COVID-19, and that exacerbated a heart issue.
Says who exactly?
WHO
Ha! Always good for a mock!
Exactly.
Sounds Jab~related, like legend Hank Aaron’s death 17 days after the ModeRNA poke.
I expect the jab was the ‘heart issue’…
It only says he got the virus. Nothing jab.
Try the link above. A long list of celebrities who died young.
Elvis dies 42 years old after a Pfizer jab…….ehh Moderna……ehhh maybe he was an alcoholic.
Stop telling Whoppers. I heard they named Burger King after him. I also hear most meat is injected or dosed with many kinds of drugs. Wasn’t hard to put 2+2 together and make a brand name. It was the burgers and drugs that killed him.
So he had an heart issue, plus anabolics, plus a dangerous sport, plus he was too fat or at least abnormal big.
Many extreme sport people develop too big hearts they need to pump blood when they exercise. So cause NOT only C-ovid-16.
Are you suggesting he died from Myocoincidenceditis?
Just saying we should not judge before we know for sure.
Im completely clean myself trusting my own immune system can handle things since baby stage, but insist everybody should be treated fairly.
Right is right and wrong is wrong.
Steroids among other performance enhancing drugs will see most of them into an early grave. I had that conversation a few years back with a former power lifter who filled me in with all the gory details of drug use throughout the sports scene.
Its a pity. Its sad people has the opportunity to train their muscles and body to perfection, just to destroy it all by adding drugs to the cocktail.
To be well trained and feel your body and muscles in balance is a joy to get high on by itself.
Modern life in Japan:..
Japan dumps nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean. Should there not be an outcry from Greta Thunberg, or something?
Imagine such a lack of silence if it were Russia or China … the shock, the horror of such nefarious deeds. Not hard to imagine in the media…
But it’s Japan, so it’s ok. They’re one of the favored ones. So move on. Nothing to see here …
The wind and stream are drifting south west. G7 is only defending itself against aggression from China.
Where were US, UK and France dumping their nuclear waste. spent fuel, old reactors, etc. over all these decades?
Stored in caves where it leaks into the water table or it’s exported to ‘developing nations’ and dumped on the poor.
A lot of it was dumped in the oceans.
That too.
Not much support for yer corbett,
move on
ignore
ridicule
Hiding our real history.
You will be buried.
Already long buried. The dystopian business model for yesteryear.
What may have worked post-2001 should never be dystopian media’s model for 2023. Times having moved on …
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-08-24. No jab has ever been adequately safety tested. 15m cities & burn back better, not things blue. TRAP Lahaina (blog, gab, tweet).
The description above says the video shows “how we can remove…Big Brother…from our devices.”
To do that, we must be prepared to suffer horrendously. We must remove our devices altogether if we’re to have the slightest chance of removing Big Brother from them.
Wrong, and big wrong. The problem is you want to use tech but rely on others to maintain it. Time to break that laziness habit and learn a little.
You miss the larger point. It’s no longer about wanting to use tech. It’s about having no choice but to use it.
We keep talking about cash; but we never mention checks. The day is fast approaching when no business will accept payment by check any longer. Then what? How do we break the habit of paying our bills?
I didn’t miss anything. If everyone knew how to use tech to their advantage we wouldn’t be in this position. I mean, how can the machine work if people keep breaking it?
Payments, it’s company policy. That’s the same thing you’ll hear if you ask about different methods of payment. Every word spoken is from a script. Solution:
Getting the hypnotized sheep to come around and join the battle is the only way forward.
Appearing on OFF G everyday, you are are a spook.
I look in every day too, and I am not a spook.
Unlike most other places, there is at least some sanity here.
Of course it’s hard to prove there is sanity here, but to those who care, it just… well… it just “smells” different.
Like George Carlin’s immune system, our instincts need practice:
https://youtu.be/-Y-yH_Qyipc?si=3CKYJGCzbZSiQetP
Thanks wardropper,
Fuck George. Stooj,
Perfect wardropper. “We need germs to practise on…”………lol.
Downvotes =cunt whores, no ?
Yikes,
What am I like (don’t answer),
That the kids can’t work out there were no planes.
We are on a plane.
Bum hole
Time to change header Off G
Can’t talk big.
For fucks sake Captain, keep it together, if you go, we all go !
God said, you are not men, devo style.
But we must have forums !
Okay.
I’ll make it every other day – but twice on Sunday.
Besides, the articles are getting more boring and less relevant all the time. I think if Todd Hayen follows Sylvia Shawcross and no longer appears here, I’ll do you a huge favor and quit posting, or reading, altogether.
(BTW, do you or anyone else have a problem editing your comments before they’re posted? I do. Maybe it’s my eyes; but I often miss something that stands out like a sore thumb once posted, and have to edit the comment.)
Take back our tech? When was it ever ours? Like all major development of industrial means of production, the corporate state rolls out (supply creating demand, with ‘regulation’ reinforcing monopolization) means of our enslavement. We need to take back our lives, if we even ever had those, by dismantling the fascist fusion of the Machine. Then there’ll be some chance of “tools for conviviality” (Ivan Illich) in a freer society among equals, where common wealth comes in the form of the fullness of living, rather than this forced poverty of twisted souls and bodies subject to others’ sick pleasure.
It has never been ours. For example, a smart phone: We purchase the rights to use it as long as we become an extension of its personality and get regular updates.
Yup. There are days when I think only a full grid down situation would be able to stave off the plans of the freaks running the show. That said, I’m sure they have many contingency plans for just such an event. And yes, I am fully aware that a total grid down will kill many, many people, so I am not in any way advocating that. The vast majority will never willingly give up that tech they have been taught to depend on for daily life, only force could remove it from our lives.
Take back OUR Tech? Take back OUR Faecesbook?? Take back OUR Iphone???
Im gonna take back my BMW car from the evil BMW factory owners. All BMW cars belong to the working class because we put a screw in them. Where have I heard all this before?
Ohh now I remember. Every night I went to sleep someone under the bed was whispering.
Nurse, nurse!, He’s out of his bed again and refuses to take his meds.
Why did you guys bought your tech in the first place? To take it back??
And I am supposed to be the one who need a nurse???
The sentence can only make sense if you are a schizophrenic leftist. Only a 100% liberal can invent this kind of language.
What Tech did I buy?, Erik. Nothing in years is the answer to that. No TV. No smart devices. The bare minimum, and I’ve even come to loathe that.
Liberal?, Leftist?? Are you drunk or high?
The Chinese stole our freedom.
The Chinese are now driving around in big motorbike copies of Harley Davidson on lead gasoline, after they sold 100’s of millions of green electronic running wheels for dumbkophs to America. You took back your running wheel?
What is America? is it a place, a country, is it real?
My wheels are Japanese.
I think yall missing the point here!
You CANNOT take back your iPhone or BMW unfortunately BECAUSE their tech and car ECU technology connection is proprietary. BUT you can certainly own most of your tech where you would be able to change the Operating System to a privacy OS such as Linux, graphene, etc.. and run your own services just like AbovePhone is doing.
The tech lazy don’t like stepping out of their comfort zone. All they know is how to switch it off and on. Making a suggestion to at least try a privacy based OS is like talking to a baby. Just a blank stare followed by some drool from the mouth is the only thing to expect.
I have disconnected my laptop from wifi to cable. I place my iphone permanently in the kitchen mostly in airmode.
Only open it when I receive messages and when I wanna phone. For travelling I have a simple craftsman telephone. My printer is cabled to the computer.
But thats it. You know the updating and renewal in the tech world is fast.
So some of us are doing what we can, but the tech world is a fake world and therefore not worth the brain.
I prefer to use the same time to learn to play “besame mucho” on tenor sax.
Hope you got my point. https://youtu.be/Z7Kdm-2GMag
Naomi Brockwell if you want to be drip fed the low down on tech security.
How’s your router doing all on it’s lonesome?. Quad9 or Gulag for DNS?
These little bits of knowledge help a lot.
Yeah I get your point. For me it’s talking with someone who insn’t in a cult, rare these days.
Thanks I’ll try yr suggestions :-).
I understand what you mean. But in my opinion due to historical experience its a lost fight. If they dont get you one way, they will get you another.
All we are doing is spending too much time and energy for little outcome.
When we have invested Linux, they catch you in the air. When you have cabled your connection, they will catch by the cable anyway.
Like Catherine something’s suggestion that we introduce “use cash on friday”.
It doesnt move anything, it just make us look stupid. My point is not to fight their game. Make our own game, search for and play the right game. We owe this to our Creator.
Great solutions and I like what he is doing.
However, just like anything digital, it relies upon network infrastructure that the Government Corporation controls, and will likely destroy.
Imagine the scenario where TPTB purposefully destroy the grid and communications networks. How, or the narrative of how, isn’t relevant.
Then the government says, “We can only afford to repair power and networking to the “SMART cities””.
Oh and btw, all internet infrastructure is now satellite based (StarLink by Musk), and can only be accessed via a chip implant, and biometric ID verification. Without this, you cannot buy or sell.
So these are great short term solutions as long as the infrastructure we have remains in place and doesn’t get locked or shut down.
I think that will eventually happen long term.
CB Radio & a FF generator. It worked in the past so why not now and beyond?
The fuel to power the generator will be strictly rationed, and people on the black list will be denied access entirely.
C’mon Thom, we have to know our enemy.
Just thought of something – lots of people suggest having CB radios to communicate if/when they go full out lockdown on us.
But at this point, do they not have the capability of blocking the airwaves for CB communication.
As is obvious, I have not clue how CB works, but is blockage a possibility?
I’m sure they’ve thought of everything.
Everything except what a human being would think of…
The large antenna is a dead give away and I’m yet to meet anyone with a CB radio locally. It was all the rage years ago until the monsters of the digital world duped many into giving it up for a cell phone-y. I did ponder the idea of Satellite communications that are fairly cheap. But even then you have to buy air time.
They’ve actually already gone “full out lockdown.” It’s been going on for years – ever since the cell phone became all the rage and people dare not go beyond the confines of their phone.
They might travel to the other side of the world; but they will never travel far from their phones.
Haha. You’re right. Howard.
Funny, that when people used to “go on vacation”, you’d ask them to send a postcard.
You didn’t expect them to call you everyday and tell you what they were doing or where they were every hour and what they were eating.
There were slide shows for that!
It occurred to me some years ago that college age students were going off to college and calling mum and dad constantly. Funny that, because they were so anxious to “leave home and go away to school”.
Oh well, c’est la vie.
Yep, common rail is a pain but can be tweaked to take any old gunk.
Fully stocked here with access to more juice. I do run with some in the know, all skilled, some multi skilled. I know the enemy and watch, listen, read avidly so as not to get caught with my pants around my ankles. Which is more than I can say for the 96% around me. If it all fails I’ll head for the caves in the hills. I don’t like killing Bunny but needs must I guess.
Everyone gets put through the instant main frame of gvt surveillance, its what happens when gvt gets too big for its britches, its needs to corral and control you, at your cost naturally.
And how the tech is being used!
Amazon is supplying its facial recognition software to police, despite publicly suspending the project, under cover of a charity cut-out dedicated to “protecting” children.
Its “Rekognition” software has been channeled into “Spotlight” by Thorn, a charity headed by actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Thorn partners with the NGO Polaris, which runs the U.S. National Trafficking Hotline and is part of the Clinton Global Initiative, which was originally financed by Jeffrey Epstein.
Thorn provides Amazon’s facial recognition software free to U.S. law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which has just employed WHO propaganda chief and behavioural scientist Cass Sunstein.
Spotlight was co-built by Digital Reasoning, financed by the CIA’s investment arm In-Q-Tel. Digital Reasoning’s CEO is a former Goldman Sachs banker and member of the Carlyle Group which owns Landmark Aviation which was used for CIA renditions and torture missions. Landmark also took over operations at Ohio airport, used by Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein
Spotlight is also supported by Google, funded into existence by the CIA’s In-Q-Tel, and by The McCain Institute. The late Sen. John McCain’s widow Cindy helped found the McCain Institute’s “Combating Human Trafficking” initiative. She once said of Epstein: “We all knew about him [Epstein]. We all knew what he was doing.”
“Enough! This evidence of child interest is pure Q-Anon-Sound of Freedom. You sound like a Trumper. Go Hunter! Can’t you just vote Biden ironically? Close your eyes an chill, so that you don’t upset my bong and scare my acquanitances, I mean my friends, away.”
Maui’s Children – Smart Cities And Sex Trafficking, Sixth in a series on depopulation
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/crisis-update-mauis-children-smart
Yah,
So you continue with this, wanna go insane ?
But horrible (might) be real, in very recent past.