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The BBC TV licensing grift is, if anything, a perfect example of the insidious nature of big government bureaucracy joining with corporate influence.
MONDAY, NOV 27, 2023
For many years the BBC has denied that they are a government-funded or subsidized organization.
They base this claim on a dishonest technicality – The platform argues that it is purely supported by public dollars as if it is the same as PBS in America. What it doesn’t mention is that the government helps to strong-arm the public into paying that money to the BBC through enforced TV licensing.
And, if citizens are caught using a TV for the consumption of a list of taxable content sources without paying the fees, they can be fined or even jailed if they refuse to pay those fines.
The cost of a TV license in the UK is £159 per year. BBC outsources their sales process to a third-party company called Capita, which operates under the TV Licensing brand name. Capita’s salesmen rebrand themselves as “Enforcement Officers” or “TV License Inspectors”. This creates a false impression of legal authority, used to coerce victims into cooperating. BBC sends salesmen to visit unlicensed addresses from their database. These salesmen receive a commission not only for every TV license they sell but also for every successful prosecution they obtain. They therefore attempt to collect evidence of unlicensed TV viewing during their visits. UK police are brought in to oversee the inspections carried out by Capita if there is resistance.
As insane as this probably sounds to most people in other countries, it gets even worse. If authorities believe you are watching BBC-related content without a license, they can visit your home to collect fines, and with a warrant, this includes breaking and entering to search your property.
The rules surrounding TV license collection are rather gray, and it’s hard to say if this particular officer (who claims to be a High Court officer) was committing a violation. This is why Americans refuse to give up their guns; once a population is disarmed there’s no telling what kind of insults a bureaucracy will visit upon them. Their property is no longer theirs. Though some UK citizens are fighting back against inspections and the courts, if enforcement can simply enter their homes while they are gone, there’s not much they can do.
The BBC TV licensing grift is, if anything, a perfect example of the insidious nature of big government bureaucracy joining with corporate influence. It’s not always about mass censorship or mass surveillance; sometimes it’s about nickel-and-diming the public to death. Sometimes it’s about turning small things that should be basic rights into controlled privileges. Sometimes it’s about piling up requirements and restrictions to keep the populace constantly anxious and always desperate to appease authorities. When you are perpetually afraid of drawing the attention of the all-seeing eye, you’re less likely to rebel against the system as a whole.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-26-elon-musk-microsoft-skynet-ai-control-humans.html
Despite his own companies’ dystopian endeavors, billionaire electric vehicle (EV) guru-turned-hypocritical social media icon Elon Musk is blasting Microsoft for its artificial intelligence (AI) plans.
A new Microsoft AI chip called “Maia” is set to be the cornerstone of the company’s budding AI infrastructure, which competes with that being created by Musk, hence his criticisms of it.
Maia, we are told, will bring artificial generalized intelligence (AGI) to “every facet” of human life. AGI differs from the isolated AI applications many people now know about in that it supposedly represents actual “intelligence” minus human inputs, i.e., ChatGPT.
“ChatGPT and MidJourney AI are cool, novel applications, but they only function within a specific domain – an AGI is more like the science fiction computers we have seen in the Terminator franchise,” explains Wlt Report.
It is probably because of billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates’ original ties to Microsoft that the company is now an easy target for Musk, who is attempting to court conservatives into believing that he is somehow any different from his competitors.
(Related: Twitter is no freer under Musk than it was under previous owners and leaders.)
Is it just that Musk hates competition?
Musk these days claims to be all about liberty, and his view is that Microsoft’s Maia AI platform will be used to strip more of it from the people.
“Yikes!” is what Musk wrote in a tweet highlighting the $50 billion a year that Microsoft spends annually on data centers to support Maia and other similar types of projects.
“Microsoft has reimagined our infrastructure with an end-to-end systems approach to meet our customer’s unique AI and cloud needs,” stated Scott Guthrie, Vice President of the Cloud and AI Group at Microsoft, about the project.
“With the launch of our new AI Accelerator, Azure Maia, and cloud native CPU, Azure Cobalt, alongside our continued partnerships with silicon providers, we can now provide even more choice and performance.”
The two custom-designed chips and integrated systems that Microsoft Ignite has developed – the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator, optimized for AI tasks and generative AI; and the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, an Arm-based processor designed to run general purpose compute workloads on the Microsoft Cloud – represent the future of Microsoft, according to a recent announcement.
“The chips represent a last puzzle piece for Microsoft to deliver infrastructure systems – which include everything from silicon choices, software and servers to racks and cooling systems – that have been designed from top to bottom and can be optimized with internal and customer workloads in mind,” the company says.
“The chips will start to roll out early next year to Microsoft’s datacenters, initially powering the company’s services such as Microsoft Copilot or Azure OpenAI Service.”
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella says his company’s partnership with OpenAI is a big part of its “product roadmap,” and that the division’s new leadership, headed by Emmett Shear, as well as newly hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, will help to make Microsoft’s AI future a success.
“How much did Bill (Gates) have to put on the table to keep his world domination and depopulation dreams via AI alive?” asked Kim Dotcom in a skeptical tweet.
“My wife has a niece that works for Microsoft. She says that all of their office perks (drinks, snacks, lunches) have been removed, and unnecessary expenses including all but necessary executive travel has been curtailed,” a commenter on a story about all this added to the conversation.
“She wasn’t specific on details, just that every available resource is being pumped into AI efforts at Microsoft.”
More related news about the AI takeover of the world can be found at Transhumanism.news.
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Infowars readers much more informed than Maher will recall that following Nuland’s stunning admission, the Pentagon quietly admitted that it was operating 46 biolabs in Ukraine, some of which were conducting research related to Covid-19.
The revelation was so stunning that multiple nations convened a United Nations Security Council emergency conference to voice their concerns about the U.S.-backed clandestine biolabs.
“We have labs in Ukraine??” Maher asks.
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone left Bill Maher stunned during a recent interview over the secret Biolabs in Ukraine as well as the stolen 2020 election.
Maher apparently was not aware of the DoD-funded clandestine biolabs in Ukraine before Stone mentioned how State Department official Victoria Nuland in 2022 raised concerns about Russia taking them over during its initial invasion of Ukraine.
The exchange began when Maher, still woefully uninformed about the origins of Covid, concluded the establishment may not have been telling the truth when it claimed the China Virus came from bats at a Wuhan wet market.
“I feel like it’s tipping toward lab leak, and not bats,” Maher said on his podcast “Club Random.”
The Platoon director replied, “It’s worse than that I think. What are the labs in Ukraine? What is that about, with the American labs over there? As if we’re dumping over there in Ukraine all the things that –“
Maher, looking confused, interrupted, “Wait, wait. What are you talking about? American labs?”
Stone cited Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who in March 2022 admitted in a congressional hearing that the U.S. has “biological research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of.”
Stone: “The labs that we have in Ukraine.”
Maher: “For??”
Stone: “The development of research. All kinds of research.”
Maher: “We have labs in Ukraine?”
Stone: “We had.”
Maher: “Had?”
Stone: “Well, I don’t know, they kind of buried it. Do you remember? She admitted it, Nuland admitted it.”
Maher: “Admitted what?”
Stone: “She admitted that we had labs there.”
Maher: “Why was that controversial? Were we making anthrax?”
Stone: “Maybe. Maybe new versions of it. I mean, we don’t know. That’s the point, Bill. It was buried. Come on. I’m surprised at you.”
Maher: “I’m sorry, I don’t know that. You’re right. We all have gaps in our knowledge.”
Infowars readers much more informed than Maher will recall that following Nuland’s stunning admission, the Pentagon quietly admitted that it was operating 46 biolabs in Ukraine, some of which were conducting research related to Covid-19.
The revelation was so stunning that multiple nations convened a United Nations Security Council emergency conference to voice their concerns about the U.S.-backed clandestine biolabs.
Elsewhere in the interview, Stone questioned whether Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election with 81 million votes, prompting Maher to launch into a misinformation-laden tirade where he admitted that courts didn’t even examine claims of voter fraud.
“[Trump] doesn’t concede elections. You know, the elections only count if we win theory of government. Okay. Well, come on. You know, Trump has he still has not conceded the election. He has not conceded. He does not honor them. Okay,” Maher said.
Stone: “I mean, do you know for a fact that he lost? I’m just curious.”
“I don’t know the facts. And I think I would trust the accountants more than the politicians,” the JFK director continued. “And I’d like to know what the accountants, the guys who vote, who know the most about votes, who do the Electoral Commission’s, you know. I can’t take Biden’s word for it on anything.”
“Joe [Biden] got so many got so many votes. You know, that was what was shocking, that he did so well compared to what he was expected to do because we believed all the East Coast media,” he added.
Watch the full interview: