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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jul 20

Look what I found.

A portable backpack from Israeli company Cognyte that is being sold to American Police Departments that allows them to surveil and intercept cell phone signals pretty much anywhere.

New York’s equipment catalog lists the FalcoNet Backpack Core V2, containing six software-defined base stations and support for a broad collection of 2G through 5G cellular bands. It includes Silent Call, Heat Map, MuCom, Enhancer, spare batteries, a tablet and a mobile controller. The state contract price was $372,777.30.

The backpack allows surveillance personnel to leave the vehicle and continue tracking a phone inside environments where a van cannot go, such as:

Apartment buildings
Shopping centers
Hotels
Airports
Parking garages
Convention centers
Stadiums
Pedestrian demonstrations

The system is portable enough to be carried covertly through dense public spaces.

Texas also purchased one backpack package for $355,500, plus a $70,000 unlicensed configuration and a $27,000 flexible antenna kit.

This has to be unconstitutional and needs to be challenged immediately because this is only going to get worse.

Pages 91-92:

online.ogs.ny.gov/purchase/spg/p…

FalcoNet can also be deployed from airplanes and helicopters.

New York’s catalog offers an airborne backpack with a specialized helix antenna. Florida purchased a FalcoNet system with an airborne deployment package designed for either fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters. Florida’s package included an airborne power-distribution unit, directional antenna, mounting equipment, amplifiers, cables and protective cases.

The Florida Executive Office of the Governor paid $793,000 for the system in December 2023. The purchase was described as an aviation technology upgrade connected to a mass-migration operation. The core FalcoNet system accounted for $765,000, with another $28,000 for the airborne kit.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jul 16

When Dr. Erica Schwartz left federal service in April 2021, she cashed in fast, landing a lucrative UnitedHealth executive role, corporate board seats, stock awards, and millions in healthcare equity.

Now she is nominated to lead the CDC and the revolving door keeps on spinning.

Her timeline is striking:

• April 2021: leaves government
• May 2021: joins Aveanna Healthcare’s board
• September 2021: joins Butterfly Network’s board
• October 2021: becomes a senior UnitedHealthcare executive

Within roughly six months, she moved from Deputy Surgeon General into three corporate healthcare positions.

At UnitedHealthcare, Schwartz became President of Insurance Solutions for Medicare & Retirement.

That title is critical.

She was not merely a corporate medical adviser. She held an executive position in a business focused on federally subsidized healthcare for older Americans, inside the largest healthcare conglomerate in the country.

Her federal financial disclosure reports:

• $846,375 in UnitedHealth salary and bonus
• $466,213 classified as UnitedHealth ordinary income
• Unvested restricted stock units valued between $1 million and $5 million
• Multiple tranches of vested and unvested UnitedHealth stock options

UnitedHealth has also agreed to provide Schwartz substantial exit benefits if she enters government. How convenient.

Her disclosure says the company will cash out certain unvested restricted stock units and options that were not scheduled to vest until between August 2026 and August 2027.

The valuation formula uses the highest UnitedHealth closing share price during a specified period preceding payment.

There is more.

Before Schwartz takes office, UnitedHealth will provide a cash payment composed of one year of salary and a cash incentive based on her 2025 compensation.

The precise eventual amount is not disclosed.

In other words, the company is not simply allowing her to resign. It is replacing compensation she otherwise would have forfeited by returning to government.

That arrangement may comply with federal ethics law but compliance does not eliminate the obvious public-interest question:

Why should a healthcare corporation financially cushion an executive’s return to federal power? Are we to honestly believe that UnitedHealth doesn’t expect anything in return?

The lawful revolving door is still a revolving door. A golden parachute does not become irrelevant merely because government ethics lawyers have inspected the stitching.

Schwartz’s second major corporate relationship is Butterfly Network, a company producing handheld digital ultrasound systems.

She joined its board in September 2021, later chaired its Governance Committee, and served on its Technology Committee.

Butterfly’s 2026 proxy reported that Schwartz received $252,498 in 2025 board compensation, including $184,998 in stock awards.

Butterfly’s proxy also reported that Schwartz beneficially owned 295,818 Class A shares.

Her federal disclosure valued her Butterfly stock between $1 million and $5 million and listed unvested restricted stock units valued between $250,001 and $500,000.

Butterfly has agreed to accelerate the vesting of her remaining restricted stock when she resigns to enter government.

Butterfly presents an indirect conflict, not a clean jurisdictional one.

The FDA, not the CDC, directly regulates ultrasound devices. CDC nonetheless shapes disease-detection practices, emergency preparedness, public-health procurement, surveillance strategies, and clinical guidance that can influence demand for diagnostic technology.

Schwartz’s third corporate position is with Aveanna Healthcare, a publicly traded home-health company providing pediatric nursing, home health, hospice, and therapy services.

She joined the board in May 2021 and eventually became chair of its Clinical Quality Committee.

Aveanna’s 2026 proxy reported $212,000 in 2025 compensation for Schwartz, including $130,000 in stock awards.

Aveanna’s proxy reported that Schwartz beneficially owned 257,498 shares.

Her government disclosure placed her Aveanna stock in the $1 million to $5 million range and listed unvested restricted stock units between $100,001 and $250,000.

Aveanna has agreed to accelerate the vesting of those units when she leaves for government.

Aveanna also prepaid Schwartz’s board and committee fees for the period from June 2026 through May 2027.

Her ethics disclosure says that if she resigns early because she is confirmed, Aveanna will allow her to retain all those fees despite not completing the service period.

Again, the company is replacing compensation she would otherwise lose by entering government.

Aveanna receives funding from Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. Its filings warn that reimbursement rules, federal healthcare reform, public-health emergencies, quality requirements, and government program changes can materially affect its business.

The CDC does not set Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement rates. Its infection-control guidance, outbreak policies, surveillance, and public-health recommendations can still affect home-health operations.

Between Butterfly and Aveanna alone, Schwartz received approximately $464,500 in 2025 corporate board compensation.

That was separate from her UnitedHealth executive compensation.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Jun 19

Thread 🧵

The Biggest Betrayal In History

250,000+ British Girls Gang Raped and the Government Covered It Up

The scale: an estimated 250,000+ children were sexually exploited by organised rape gangs across Britain. This is described in the report as a conservative estimate because the British state deliberately failed to record it. No precise count exists because officials chose not to create one.

Approximately 87% of convicted gang members bore distinctively Muslim names, far exceeding the roughly 6% Muslim share of Britain's general population. The gangs operated across Rotherham, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Oxford, Telford, Oldham, Bradford, Newcastle, and dozens of other towns and cities.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Mar 23

This YouTuber, Benn Jordan discovered that a surveillance company named Flock Safety who currently has over 90K camera deployed throughout the US, is severely compromised. He found that many cameras are live-streaming directly to the open internet.

The full investigation which spans a few videos can be found at his channel here. I recommend checking it out and subscribing.

youtube.com/@bennjordan?si…

Here is the CEO of Flock Safety being asked about the organization Deflock which is an open source project that tracks and opposes the use of these cameras. He calls them a “terrorist organization”. So that gives you an idea where he is coming from. 😂

👉🏻 Deflock.org

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Oct 11, 2025

THREAD 🧵: The Invisible Battlefield of Social Media, how Bots Quietly Own the Narrative

Social media is a warzone, behind the hood there are armies of bots, algorithmic black boxes, and deliberate astroturf campaigns controlling what seems “organic.”

The operative term here is astroturfing: the creation of fake grassroots movements. Bots amplify selected narratives under the guise of popular consensus, drowning out dissent. The public never sees the puppet strings.

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Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

Sep 8, 2025

Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes in North Carolina isn’t just on the bench, she’s also listed as co-owner of Pinnacle Recovery Services, a mental health and addiction treatment outfit.

So when defendants get diverted from jail into “treatment,” guess whose business stands to gain?

Seriously, this is huge scandal. This lady let a repeated violent criminal off the hook over a dozen times, released to a facility she co-owns and undoubtedly profits from. He then commits an unspeakable crime that should have never been allowed to happen.

MSM is completely silent.

Look at this shit:

https://x.com/joshwalkos/status/1965077438058426405?s=46&t=vA2OW8Ya3YtNHv_brmZjmg

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