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Jun 16

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a social media ban for under-16s, with enforcement through facial scans and digital IDs set to begin in May 2027.

This isn’t about protecting kids — it’s about building the infrastructure of a surveillance state under the most emotionally manipulative pretext available. Nobody opposes protecting children, which makes it the perfect Trojan horse.

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2/6

🔍 What’s Actually Being Built Here

The facial age estimation and digital ID requirements aren’t really about keeping 15-year-olds off TikTok. Australia already tried this, and six in ten under-16s are still on social media six months after their ban. The kids use VPNs, borrow phones, or just lie. The system doesn’t work for its stated purpose — but it works brilliantly for something else.

What this actually creates:

- A national biometric database — facial scans tied to verified identity, normalized under the guise of “protecting children”
- Digital ID infrastructure linking your face, credit cards, banking, phone records, and email usage into a unified identity verification system
- Precedent for mandatory identification to access basic communication platforms — once the cameras are in place and the verification pipes are laid, expanding the scope is trivial
- Normalization of constant authentication — checking in with the state to read, post, or speak online

3/6

🎭The Emotional Cover Story

The “think of the children” framing is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. It works because:

1. No politician can oppose it without being branded a predator-enabler
2. Parents are genuinely scared — and not without reason, social media is harmful to developing brains
3. The real harms (addictive algorithms, predatory data collection, psychological manipulation) get conflated with the surveillance “solution”

The actual harms of social media — infinite-scroll dopamine exploitation, algorithmic radicalization, data harvesting, attention-economy manipulation — could be addressed through platform-design regulation. Force chronological feeds. Ban engagement-maximizing algorithms. Mandate data minimization. But none of that builds a surveillance apparatus.

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Tony Seruga

@TonySeruga

Jun 16

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🚨 “STOPPED COLD”: FBI Uncovers 23-Person Drone-and-Sniper Plot to Massacre Crowd at Trump’s White House UFC Event — 5 in Custody

Explosive Drones, Snipers, a White House Gate Assault — The 23-Person Terror Plot the FBI Crushed in 6 Days

This is genuinely one of the most chilling and operationally sophisticated domestic terror plots we’ve seen in years. Let’s break it down.

2/7

🚁 The Plot: Multi-Phase, Coordinated, and Chillingly Ambitious

The plan wasn’t some lone-wolf pipe dream — this was a networked operation involving up to 23 individuals across multiple states, communicating over encrypted Signal chats, with a phased attack designed to maximize body count.

Phase 1: Drone Strike & Herding

Explosive-laden drones were to strike buildings near the White House South Lawn — not necessarily the event itself. The goal was to trigger mass panic and force the ~4,300 attendees (including 1,200 active-duty service members) to flee in a predictable direction.

Phase 2: The Kill Zone

That fleeing crowd would be funneled directly into the line of fire of a pre-staged sniper team. This is the part that separates amateurs from people who’ve studied tactical operations — using the initial chaos to create a shooting gallery.

Phase 3: Ground Assault

A “second wave” would then storm the White House gate — presumably to engage whatever security remained and finish off survivors.

3/7

🔍 The Investigation: 6 Days from Intel to Takedown

View the image below.

GPS for the win! The iPhone of the first arrestee unlocked the whole network — 23 Signal users discussing pre-operational activity. Twelve FBI field offices were mobilized. That’s not a routine investigation; that’s an all-hands counterterrorism sprint.

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Tony Seruga

@TonySeruga

Jun 14

https://twitter.com/tonyseruga/status/2066249760533778441

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Alright, let's take this apart and go deeper. Berenson's list is a great starting point — he's got the right instincts — but some of these deserve more radical treatment, and he misses a few elephants in the room entirely.

https://twitter.com/tonyseruga/status/2066249760533778441

2/19

🏥 The Berenson 10: Graded and Expanded

I'll go through his proposals, push each further, and add the ones he left out.

3/19

1. Break up hospital monopolies

Berenson's right but doesn't go far enough. The problem isn't just horizontal consolidation — it's vertical integration. These "nonprofit" behemoths now own the hospitals, the physician practices, the surgery centers, the imaging facilities, and increasingly the insurance plans themselves. They've built closed ecosystems where they control referral patterns, set prices without competition, and use the 340B drug discount program as a slush fund.

What I'd add: Ban hospital systems from employing physicians directly. Return to a model where doctors own their practices and compete on quality and price. The hospital-employed physician is a captured asset whose referral pad feeds the mothership. Break that link.

Also: enforce the existing antitrust laws on the books. The FTC has been asleep at the wheel through decades of hospital M&A. No more "Certificate of Public Advantage" waivers that let monopolies form under state protection.

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Tony Seruga

@TonySeruga

Jun 14

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I know the Simpsonwood meeting intimately. That video covers exactly what went down, and I can break down the whole sordid affair for you — what happened, who was in the room, what they found, and how they buried it.

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🏛 The Simpsonwood Retreat: June 7-8, 2000

The meeting was held at the Simpsonwood Conference Center in Norcross, Georgia — a quiet, secluded retreat owned by the United Methodist Church. Not exactly the kind of place you'd expect to host one of the most consequential cover-ups in public health history.

Who Was in the Room

- CDC — the National Immunization Program officials, including Dr. Roger Bernier, Dr. Robert Chen, and EIS officer Dr. Thomas Verstraeten
- FDA representatives
- Vaccine manufacturers — GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth, Aventis Pasteur, and others
- Consultants and epidemiologists from various universities
- World Health Organization reps

Conspicuously absent: no parents, no independent scientists, no public health advocates. Just the people with the most to lose.

What They Had Just Discovered

Dr. Thomas Verstraeten had been crunching data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) — a massive database of HMO medical records covering hundreds of thousands of children. He was specifically looking at thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative in childhood vaccines.

What he found was catastrophic:

- Statistically significant associations between thimerosal exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Increased risks for autism, ADHD, speech delays, and tics
- A dose-response relationship — the more thimerosal a child received, the higher the risk

The VSD data showed relative risks for autism at 2.48 to 7.62, depending on exposure level. These weren't borderline results. They were screaming.

3/7

📜 What the Transcript Reveals

The full meeting was transcribed — 286 pages — and obtained years later via a FOIA request. The transcript is a masterclass in institutional self-preservation.

Key Moments from the Transcript

Dr. Verstraeten's presentation — He laid out the data showing clear signals of harm. At one point, he described the findings as showing a "statistically significant relationship" between thimerosal dose and neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Dr. Robert Brent — a paid consultant for vaccine manufacturers — explicitly said:

"The medical-legal findings in this study, causal or not, are horrendous. If an allegation was made that a child's neurobehavioral findings were caused by thimerosal-containing vaccines, you have a very strong plaintiff case."

Translation: We know this data is damning, and the lawyers will eat us alive.

Dr. John Clements of the WHO dropped the mask entirely:

"Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is that we have immunization programs which are preventing these diseases... and the research findings are going to be picked up by anti-vaccine groups and used to undermine our programs."

He went on to suggest that the data should be re-analyzed, re-worked, and massaged until the signal disappeared — because the real danger wasn't mercury poisoning children, it was parents finding out.

Dr. Roger Bernier of the CDC acknowledged the gravity:

"We have asked you to keep this information confidential. We do not want this document to be made public."

He literally said the quiet part out loud.

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Tony Seruga

@TonySeruga

Jun 13

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Ordinary Brits Flood the Streets of Liverpool While the Political Class Hides Behind “Diversity” Slogans and Dispersal Zones

#EnoughIsEnough #CountyRoad #BritsHaveSpoken #NoMoreIllegals #MassDeportationNow #HopeNotHypocrisy #WorkingClassVoices #TheTideIsTurning #OrdinaryPeopleUnite #DispersalZoneDemocracy #FlagAndCountry #TheyCantArrestUsAll #LiverpoolRising #UnitedKingdomFirst #SayItLoud

2/7

They called them extremists.

They called them far-right thugs.

They called them a “threat to democracy.”

But today on County Road, Liverpool—150+ ordinary Brits stood under Union Jacks and did something the establishment finds absolutely terrifying:

They showed up.

Not politicians. Not NGO-funded activists with pre-printed signs. Not the professional grievance class that parades through city centres every Pride month with corporate sponsorships and police escorts.

No—these were brickies, shopkeepers, pensioners, young lads who’ve watched their neighbourhoods transform into places they barely recognise. And they marched under slogans the media refuses to print without scare quotes: “No More Illegals.” “Mass Deportations.”

And the response from the powers that be?

A dispersal zone. A Section 60 order granting police the right to demand you remove your face covering or face arrest. A Section 60AA authorisation that lets officers literally seize your scarf if they suspect you’re hiding your identity.

Read that again.

When Black Lives Matter shut down motorways and toppled statues, it was “mostly peaceful protest.” When Extinction Rebellion glued themselves to trains and blocked ambulances, it was “civil disobedience in the tradition of Gandhi.”

But when working-class Scousers walk down their own streets with flags and grievances about mass migration?

Dispersal zone. 9am to midnight. Arrest powers activated.

3/7

🎭 The Theatre of “Hope Not Hate.”

Liverpool Council leader Liam Robinson—a Labour man, naturally—rushed out an open letter declaring Liverpool “a city of hope, not hate.” He invoked the docks. He invoked “generations of people from across the world.” He name-dropped the upcoming Pride celebrations, because apparently the correct response to citizens protesting immigration policy is to remind them that rainbow flags are coming next month.

This is the script now. Every single time.

1. Ordinary people organise a protest about a material reality—housing shortages, wage suppression, cultural displacement, crime.

2. The political class ignores the substance entirely.

3. Instead, they issue a statement about diversity being our strength and standing together against hate.

4. Police are given extraordinary powers.

5. The local paper runs a headline about fear and anxiety among the community—meaning the people who oppose the protesters, never the protesters themselves, whose fears are what triggered the march in the first place.

It’s a magic trick. You take a policy grievance, and you alchemise it into a morality play where anyone questioning immigration is the villain, and the council leader who’s never lived on County Road is the hero.

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Tony Seruga

@TonySeruga

Jun 10

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🗳️ TWO DOLLAR DEMOCRACY: Skid Row Woman Exposes Democrat Ballot-Buying Operation — “They Come Out Here All The Time.”

🔥 BOUGHT FOR A BUS FARE: Democrats Harvest Homeless Votes on Skid Row for $2 a Ballot — and She Says They Never Stop Coming

@camhigby @JamesOKeefeIII @nickshirleyy

#TwoDollarDemocracy #SkidRowBallotHarvest #BoughtForABuck #KarenBassExposed #DemocratVoteFactory #BallotHarvestingIsReal #TheyComeOutHereAllTheTime #IndustrialScaleFraud #OkeefeExposes #YourVoteIsWorthless #VulnerableNotVoiceless #LAIsABananaRepublic

2/10

💀 The Quote That Says It All

“They told you to vote for Karen?”

“Yeah, had to sign a little thing.”

“And how much do they pay you?”

“Just like $2.”

“They do this for everybody out here?”

“Yeah, they come out here all the time.”

A homeless woman on Skid Row, voice steady, eyes direct, no hesitation. No coaching. No script. Just the truth spilling out onto the pavement where America’s largest city lets its most vulnerable rot — then harvests them like a crop every election cycle.

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🎥 The Evidence

James O’Keefe and Cam Higby didn’t need a three-year investigation to find this. They just... went there. Walked the same streets Karen Bass claims to care about. Found the human beings she uses as ballot-filling machines, then discards them back into the tent cities her policies perpetuate.

The video — raw, unedited, devastating — shows exactly what California’s political machine has normalized:

- Canvassers targeting the homeless with pre-filled ballots

- Direct payment for votes — the literal definition of vote buying

- Systematic, repeated operations — “they come out here all the time.”

- Signature harvesting — “had to sign a little thing.”

This isn’t some rogue operation. This is infrastructure. This is how you win elections in a one-party state when your policies have produced the largest homeless crisis in American history: you pay the victims to re-elect their victimizers.

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