International Totalitarianism: WEF, Klaus Schwab, and unelected governments.

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Well if you really want to take a deep dive.....

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[Nonc Hilaire]

I think Putin royally played the WEF.

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[Nonc Hilaire]

History of the WEF.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/in ... -the-bomb/

[Heracleum Persicum]

History of the WEF.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/in ... -the-bomb/
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Thank you for the article and link ..

The Henry Kissinger interview - The Mike Wallace Interview (7/13/1958) .. good to watch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9BG7ZX6RHg&t=564s

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Excellent post .. thanks

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Don't forget the DGB....'>.....

George Orwell proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that anything a human being can imagine — no matter how far-fetched or silly — can someday come true. All that’s necessary is for “good men to do nothing.”

In the case of Joe Biden’s proposed “disinformation office” in the Department of Homeland Security, it’s more a question of bad men having the power to do bad things while good men are locked out, pounding on the door to get in.

As Biden knew it would, his disinformation office has generated widespread and sometimes hysterical, sometimes over-the-top opposition by the right. And it’s also become part of the 2024 presidential campaign — also, as Biden knew it would.

This is an issue that illustrates the divide in American politics more clearly than most. The left wants a monopoly on defining “hate speech” and wants to be the arbiter of political discourse.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/r ... h-n1594074

[Nonc Hilaire]

The DGB is a continuation of the totalitarian agenda being deliberately accelerated to tempt the traitors into committing documented treason.

Standing with Ukraine’s Biden bribing Nazis, mandated deadly vaxx for the flu, sexualizing kindergarteners, stealing elections for demented presidents &c - even the “I support the current thing” drones are not supporting anymore.

IMO these are all examples of military constitutionalists deliberately giving the totalitarian traitors enough rope to hang themselves. Quite literally too as treason and misprision of treason are hanging offenses adjudicated by military tribunals under the CMJ.

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Yes. More ridiculous posturing to make people mad and fearful.

I think the WEF is preaching to the choir with this transhuman agenda crap. Only their true believers are going to give this any creedence.

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Yes. More ridiculous posturing to make people mad and fearful.

I think the WEF is preaching to the choir with this transhuman agenda crap. Only their true believers are going to give this any creedence.

Of course they are preaching transhumaninism to the the billionaires and other powerful people that alreadybelieve they are some kind of gods. How can their transhumanize pseudo science win out without the support of the rich and powerful?



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[Nonc Hilaire]

Will Zoll’s Prussiagate substack continues with history of Soros and the ReichsWEF. Interesting historian with unique viewpoint.

https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/the- ... art-iv?s=r

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Is this stupid bint part of the new federal govt Down Under?

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no, this was created by the previous right wing goverrnment and all of five eyes have versions of it in the works.

the right wing in australia has never been free speech absolutists, they are more prone to suing for defamation than anyone else.

they dont believe being abused is a human right.

they do believe publishers have social responsibilities

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has been reappointed for a further five years as new laws granting her new internet takedown powers come into effect.

Ms Inman Grant, a former Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe executive, has been eSaftey Commissioner since 2017. On Sunday, communications minister Paul Fletcher announced she will remain in the job until 2027 with another maximum appointment term.

https://www.innovationaus.com/esafety-c ... ive-years/

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[Nonc Hilaire]

Continued history of Klaus Schwab, Prussiagate and international totalitarianism. Serve them or die.

https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/the- ... =email&s=r

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Hutchinson | The globalization tyranny

“We have the means to impose the state of the world” said World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab, sounding ever more like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the Davos forum this week. In that remark, he summed up precisely what is wrong with globalization – it leads inexorably to an unending global monopoly. Even the totalitarian Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia of George Orwell’s “1984” are more libertarian and economically efficient.

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Hutchinson | The globalization tyranny

“We have the means to impose the state of the world” said World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab, sounding ever more like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the Davos forum this week. In that remark, he summed up precisely what is wrong with globalization – it leads inexorably to an unending global monopoly. Even the totalitarian Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia of George Orwell’s “1984” are more libertarian and economically efficient.

Hey there is lots of money and power to be had.

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https://www.technocracy.news/bilderberg ... -2-5-2022/

Bilderberg Attendees 2022

Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Former Chairman Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG; Treasurer Bilderberg Meetings

Adeyemo, Adewale (USA), Deputy Secretary, Department of The Treasury

Albares, José Manuel (ESP), Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation

Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, Evercore Inc.

Altman, Sam (USA), CEO, OpenAI

Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Arnaut, José Luís (PRT), Managing Partner, CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut

Auken, Ida (DNK), Member of Parliament, The Social Democrat Party

Azoulay, Audrey (INT), Director-General, UNESCO

Baker, James H. (USA), Director, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), Chairwoman and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS

Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs International LLC

Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi

Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Shell plc

Bourla, Albert (USA), Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc.

Buberl, Thomas (FRA), CEO, AXA SA

Burns, William J. (USA), Director, CIA

Byrne, Thomas (IRL), Minister of State for European Affairs

Campbell, Kurt (USA), White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific, NSC

Carney, Mark J. (CAN), Vice Chair, Brookfield Asset Management

Casado, Pablo (ESP), Former President, Partido Popular

Chhabra, Tarun (USA), Senior Director for Technology and National Security, National Security Council

Donohoe, Paschal (IRL), Minister for Finance; President, Eurogroup

Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chairman and CEO, Axel Springer SE

Dudley, William C. (USA), Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University

Easterly, Jen (USA), Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Economy, Elizabeth (USA), Senior Advisor for China, Department of Commerce

Émié, Bernard (FRA), Director General, Ministry of the Armed Forces

Emond, Charles (CAN), CEO, CDPQ

Erdogan, Emre (TUR), Professor Political Science, Istanbul Bilgi University

Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA

Ermotti, Sergio (CHE), Chairman, Swiss Re

Fanusie, Yaya (USA), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

Feltri, Stefano (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, Domani

Fleming, Jeremy (GBR), Director, British Government Communications Headquarters

Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Deputy Prime Minister

Furtado, Isabel (PRT), CEO, TMG Automotive

Gove, Michael (GBR), Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office

Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Co-Chair Bilderberg Meetings; Professor of Economics, Leiden University

Hallengren, Lena (SWE), Minister for Health and Social Affairs

Hamers, Ralph (NLD), CEO, UBS Group AG

Hassabis, Demis (GBR), CEO and Founder, DeepMind

Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation

Henry, Mary Kay (USA), International President, Service Employees International Union

Hobson, Mellody (USA), Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC

Hodges, Ben (USA), Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, Center for European Policy Analysis

Hoekstra, Wopke (NLD), Minister of Foreign Affairs

Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, Inflection AI; Partner, Greylock

Huët, Jean Marc (NLD), Chairman, Heineken NV

Joshi, Shashank (GBR), Defence Editor, The Economist

Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.

Koç, Ömer (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding AS

Kofman, Michael (USA), Director, Russia Studies Program, Center for Naval Analysis

Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable

Krasnik, Martin (DNK), Editor-in-Chief, Weekendavisen

Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman, KKR & Co. Inc.

Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Co-Chair Bilderberg Meetings; Chair, The Museum of Modern Art

Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA

Kukies, Jörg (DEU), State Secretary, Chancellery

Lammy, David (GBR), Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, House of Commons

LeCun, Yann (USA), Vice-President and Chief AI Scientist, Facebook, Inc.

Leu, Livia (CHE), State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, Umicore and Mediahuis; Chairman DSM N.V.

Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chairman, IFRS Foundation Trustees

Little, Mark (CAN), President and CEO, Suncor Energy Inc.

Looney, Bernard (GBR), CEO, BP plc

Lundstedt, Martin (SWE), CEO and President, Volvo Group

Lütke, Tobias (CAN), CEO, Shopify

Marin, Sanna (FIN), Prime Minister

Markarowa, Oksana (UKR), Ambassador of Ukraine to the US

Meinl-Reisinger, Beate (AUT), Party Leader, NEOS

Michel, Charles (INT), President, European Council

Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Mullen, Michael (USA), Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates LLC

Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)

Niemi, Kaius (FIN), Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat Newspaper

Núñez, Carlos (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA Media

O’Leary, Michael (IRL), Group CEO, Ryanair Group

Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chairman, TITAN Cement Group

Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute

Pierrakakis, Kyriakos (GRC), Minister of Digital Governance

Pinho, Ana (PRT), President and CEO, Serralves Foundation

Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chairman and CEO, TotalEnergies SE

Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times

Raimondo, Gina M. (USA), Secretary of Commerce

Reksten Skaugen, Grace (NOR), Board Member, Investor AB

Rende, Mithat (TUR), Member of the Board, TSKB

Reynders, Didier (INT), European Commissioner for Justice

Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister

Salvi, Diogo (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE

Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chairman, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.

Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Schinas, Margaritis (INT), Vice President, European Commission

Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Former CEO and Chairman, Google LLC

Scott, Kevin (USA), CTO, Microsoft Corporation

Sebastião, Nuno (PRT), CEO, Feedzai

Sedwill, Mark (GBR), Chairman, Atlantic Futures Forum

Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), MEP, European Parliament

Sinema, Kyrsten (USA), Senator

Starace, Francesco (ITA), CEO, Enel S.p.A.

Stelzenmüller, Constanze (DEU), Fritz Stern Chair, The Brookings Institution

Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO

Straeten, Tinne Van der (BEL), Minister for Energy

Suleyman, Mustafa (GBR), CEO, Inflection AI

Sullivan, Jake (USA), Director, National Security Council

Tellis, Ashley J. (USA), Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment

Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital LLC

Treichl, Andreas (AUT), President, Chairman ERSTE Foundation

Tugendhat, Tom (GBR), MP; Chair Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons

Veremis, Markos (GRC), Co-Founder and Chairman, Upstream

Vitrenko, Yuriy (UKR), CEO, Naftogaz

Wallander, Celeste (USA), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

Walmsley, Emma (GBR), CEO, GlaxoSmithKline plc

Wennink, Peter (NLD), President and CEO, ASML Holding NV

Yetkin, Murat (TUR), Journalist/Writer, YetkinReport

Yurdakul, Afsin (TUR), Journalist, Habertürk News Network

The key topics for discussion this year are:

1. Geopolitical Realignments
2. NATO Challenges
3. China
4. Indo-Pacific Realignment
5. Sino-US Tech Competition
6. Russia
7. Continuity of Government and the Economy
8. Disruption of the Global Financial System
9. Disinformation
10. Energy Security and Sustainability
11. Post Pandemic Health
12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies
13. Trade and Deglobalisation
14. Ukraine

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Hohmann: Globalists Have Entered The Kill Phase Of The Great Reset

A war produces dead bodies and by that measure, Technocracy’s war against humanity is in full swing. “It’s basically the dawning of a new era based on transhumanism and technocracy, something akin to what was laid out in the novel Brave New World.” ⁃ TN Editor

This was a big week for the globalists. They feel it’s their time, go time, to launch the most difficult phase of the Great Reset so they can get on with what they call the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, as explained by World Economic Forum guru Klaus Schwab, will lead to a “fusion” of every human being’s physical, biological and digital identities. It’s basically the dawning of a new era based on transhumanism and technocracy, something akin to what was laid out in the novel Brave New World.

But they can’t get there until they reset everything. Kill off the old. Bring on the new.

Resetting the world isn’t something you can pull off by just pushing a button. It requires a series of well-designed global crises, as Schwab and his chief advisor Yuval Noah Hariri have said on more than one occasion.

So the globalists have been meeting this week in Geneva at the World Health Assembly and they have been meeting in Davos at the World Economic Forum summit. The two cities, Geneva and Davos, are both located in Switzerland, about three hours apart by car. Between these two meetings, the globalist predator class will be getting their instructions on what to do and what to expect over the next 12 months. I am calling this 12-month window the opening salvo in the kill phase of the Great Reset.

Schwab opened the meeting at Davos by saying “the future is not just happening; the future is built by us, by a powerful community, as you here in this room.”

Schwab said “we must prepare for an angrier world,” which I take as a bad sign that the globalists are getting anxious, feeling that if they don’t take drastic action soon all their plans to erect an end-times global government could be wasted.

Schwab added that, “We have the means to improve the state in the world, but two conditions are necessary:

“The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities.

“And second is that we collaborate.”

My question for Klaus is this: Collaborate on what?

And what does he mean, exactly, by “improve” the state of the world?

Improvements for whom? I believe he’s referring to improved conditions for the 1 percent who run the big banks and corporations and their minions, which might jack it up to 3 or 4 percent. For the rest of us, they have an agenda of misery.
Time for a culling

If we look at the WEF/UN agenda, which is supported wholeheartedly by the governments of the U.S., U.K., E.U., Canada and Australia, it’s all pointing to a mass culling of the human population. They have triggered the kill phase.

As they see it, we can surmise from their rhetoric, the culling is needed in order to save the planet and its resources for they, the globalist elites represented this week at Davos and Geneva.

They have told us their plans ahead of time. They always do. We will own nothing, we will have no privacy and we will learn to like being totally dependent on the government and its corporate partners for our very survival.

David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, spoke at Davos and had cheery news. Watch his brief comments in the video below.

Kicking off #WEF22 in #Davos. With a devastating global hunger crisis at our doorstep, it is all hands on deck to pull millions back from the brink of famine. We need EVERYONE's help to save lives today: from world leaders to the private sector and billionaires!! pic.twitter.com/oAH1LApFSX

— David Beasley (@WFPChief) May 23, 2022

In his formal address to the WEF, Beasley explained that the global food situation was already bad before the Ukraine war, but that the situation has since escalated to become what he called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.

Then there’s the creepy cover of the Economist Magazine. This is the Rothschild owned publication that caters to the elite globalists. It pictured a field of wheat, with the kernels of wheat represented as skulls, with the title being “The Coming Food Catastrophe.”


Conservative Playlist reports that the Rockefeller Foundation, another globalist club with ties to Bill Gates, Schwab and the WEF, recently warned that a global food crisis of biblical proportions is scheduled to arrive at our doors within five to six months.

Rockefeller Foundation president Rajiv Shah described what is soon to unfold as a “massive, immediate food crisis” that will strike the entire world, leaving no country untouched.

This is not communism because, if it were, the big corporations would not all be in on it. This is technocracy, using the power of data collection and advanced surveillance technology, which they leverage at every point of contact – in the medical field, media and social media, science, education, at the retail level, the military and biosecurity levels.

But how, people ask, will they make it so we will own nothing and just rent everything from the billionaires and multi-millionaires?

I tell these people that if they were awake they would see the answer to their question playing out in real time.

By creating more and more money and deliberately driving down the value of the dollar, the Federal Reserve and the banking system force you to pay more for less. To survive, whether you are in the lower middle class, the middle-middle class, or the upper middle class, you will pay more for the same gallon of gas, the same groceries, the same clothing as you had before. You can get buy for a while by just buying less and cutting out waste, but after a while you will be looking to downsize your cars, your houses, your food intake, everything.

This is why Mayer Rothschild said “I care not who makes a country’s laws as long as I control its money.”

The plan is to price you out of everything to the point where you are renting a small apartment in the city next to a rail line, replacing your SUV with a mini electric car (if you can afford that) or even a bicycle. Look at China. That’s the future they have planned for us.

The more pain that is caused, the closer the elites get to being able to implement their Great Reset, with digital QR codes attached to every human being containing all your health records on a cellphone app and connecting that app also to your bank account and your ability to log onto the internet. That’s the goal.

Now here’s the catch.

The billionaire globalist elites know their plan is unpopular.

They know that at least half the population in wealthy countries will never go along with this plan willingly. They will have to be coerced in a time of horrific crisis like war or a wave of “public health emergencies,” and the extreme deprivation that such crises cause.

Because the vast majority of Americans suffer from extreme normalcy bias, they can’t see what’s coming. They will be caught completely off guard. The sporadic shortages they see in the grocery stores now, these folks believe that’s just a temporary glitch that will soon iron itself out. Nothing to worry about.

They don’t see that war and famine are right around the corner. So when it arrives, they will be ruled by fear and confusion. Anxiety levels will be off the charts.

Most will submit to the beast system that’s being erected on the backs of these pre-arranged crises.

Because of the rule of thirds, somewhere between 25 and 30 percent will never submit to this kind of a system. We saw it last year with the vaccines, when approximately 70 percent of Americans capitulated to the pressure of “get your shot” but 30 percent stood strong and resisted.

Now, Stephane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, admits nobody wants his vaccines and he’s having to throw them away, 30 million doses to be exact.

Take a look at his comments in the video below. He’s very sad.

The bottom line for the elites is this: The population is just too big and unmanageable for the type of resource-based, total control society required by their dystopian technocracy, and if there’s anything a technocracy simply cannot tolerate it’s a sizable population of people who don’t know their place. They still believe in free speech, the First and the Second amendments, that people are born male or female, old-fashioned stuff like that. They must be eliminated.
The kill phase: How will they cull the population?

For that reason, we have entered the kill phase of the Great Reset.

Everything they are engaging in right now, these so-called stakeholders, is causing people to die prematurely in certain key countries where we have large middle-class populations who are accustomed to living relatively free lives. They’re not a good fit for the total surveillance society where your movement is monitored in real time, your spending habits are monitored and assessed, your eating habits are monitored (meat will be a “rare treat” says the WEF). All of your life activity will be monitored in order to calculate and track your carbon footprint and assess your overall social credit score.

Let’s take a look at the points of friction in society right now that are being fomented by the globalist elites who run everything, from the monetary and banking systems to the major corporations to the media, Big Pharma and Big Tech.a

Manufactured supply-chain breakdowns along with food, fertilizer and fuel shortages, which will all lead to famine. Check out the below video of a train derailment last Sunday in Alberta, Canada — the train just happened to be carrying 43 containers of potash for desperately needed nitrogen fertilizer.

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Canada’s Federal Police Have Been Using Powerful Malware To Snoop On People’s Communications

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the oh,-Canada-smdh dept
Thu, Jul 7th 2022 09:37am - Tim Cushing
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) — Canada’s federal Dudley Do-Whatevers — is again belatedly admitting it has access to powerful surveillance tech its supposed oversight seems unaware the RCMP possessed.

This is par for the RCMP course. The agency tends to admit it has surveillance tech only after extended deployment periods. And, like its American counterpart (the FBI), it would rather undercut its own directives (make arrests, engage in prosecutions) than allow criminal defendants to examine the (often cutting edge) evidence used against them. This includes allowing known organized crime figures to walk away from criminal charges — something that seems incredibly counterproductive. This practice of dropping criminal prosecutions extends to cases where it just seems a bit too inconvenient to obtain a warrant.

These disclosures by the RCMP — often in response to oversight inquiries — tend to come months or years after the fact. And that is the case here, as reported by Maura Forrest for Politico. Time passes, the RCMP deploys new surveillance tech, and very eventually the public learns about it.

In a “remarkable” disclosure, Canada’s national police force has described for the first time how it uses spyware to infiltrate mobile devices and collect data, including by remotely turning on the camera and microphone of a suspect’s phone or laptop.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it only uses such tools in the most serious cases, when less intrusive techniques are unsuccessful. But until now, the force has not been open about its ability to employ malware to hack phones and other devices, despite using the tools for several years. Between 2018 and 2020, the RCMP said it deployed this technology in 10 investigations.

“For the first time…” something that follows four years of deployment, only three of which are detailed in this “disclosure.” Sure, the fact that it has been limited to only ten cases in the three years suggests cautious use of powerful phone spyware, but the fact that this has never been discussed in court makes it clear defendants aren’t being told how they’ve been tracked down or rung up. And it strongly suggests the RCMP is engaged in parallel construction to launder the source of its evidence to prevent open discussion in court and limit the number of cases it would rather toss than engage in honest representations of its evidence-gathering methods.

The disclosure is further limited by the RCMP’s refusal to discuss which vendors it’s buying exploits from. There are only a handful of companies selling exploits that can compromise nearly any phone and every single one of those is currently in deep lavender. Some are just facing unending negative news cycles. Some are facing sanctions. A few are facing both.

No law enforcement agency would be in any hurry to publicly announce it’s gotten in bed with shady malware merchants. But the only thing that comes from unnecessary opacity is less trust from the public and increased suspicion the government is doing things with the public’s money that the public would not approve of.

What the RCMP is using sounds suspiciously like Israeli malware manufacturer NSO Group’s flagship product: Pegasus. In most cases, it’s a zero-click exploit that cracks phones completely open and allows lawn enforcement offices (or batshit ex-husbands) to be a silent partner in all communications, including phone calls.

The team, which exists to intercept communication that can’t be obtained using traditional wiretaps, uses “on-device investigative tools.” The RCMP defines those as computer programs “installed on a targeted computing device that enables the collection of electronic evidence” — spyware, in other words.

The RCMP can use spyware to collect a broad range of data, including text messages, email, photos, videos, audio files, calendar entries and financial records. The police can also gather “audio recordings of private communications and other sounds within range of the targeted device” and “photographic images of persons, places and activities viewable by the camera(s) built into the targeted device,” the document says.

The RCMP offers several reasons for using malware over normal intercept methods. First off, regular wiretaps are no longer as effective as they used to be. Communications are rarely handled through landlines or regular cell tower-supported calls. Interception alternatives are necessary.

The RCMP also blames device and messaging encryption, which makes interception impossible. That’s an extremely narrow and short-sighted view of the problem facing law enforcement, but it’s a common complaint from federal agencies. (Not so much from local law enforcement, which suggests the problem is being overstated at the federal level to push for encryption bans/backdoor legislation.)

The RCMP also stresses that this is completely lawful, and approved by Canadian judges. And, while it’s true judges may have signed off on wiretap applications, it’s highly unlikely they were informed of the malware’s capabilities, which go far beyond intercepting communications. The sort of “on-device investigative tools” the RCMP appears to be using are also capable of activating mics and cameras, as well as providing officers and investigators with access to the entire contents of the target device — something that goes far beyond simply intercepting relevant communications.

And the RCMP appears to know what’s its doing isn’t exactly whatever the Canadian slang equivalent of “kosher” is. It began deploying this malware from its Covert Access and Intercept Team (CAIT) in 2018. It did not consult the federal privacy commissioner before forming this team in 2016 and, three years after CAIT’s first malware deployment, it is only now getting around to drafting the mandated privacy impact assessment that’s supposed to be handed over prior to engaging in new privacy-threatening activities.

For now, all we have is a vague admission the RCMP is deploying powerful malware provided by third party vendors. And we have the implicit admission the RCMP cares more about advancing its aims in ten cases that following the law, informing its oversight of its activities, or being honest with judges about the capabilities of its interception exploits. Hopefully, more details will arrive sooner than later.