If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Singapore is once again on the “cutting edge” of deploying various kinds of mass surveillance tech, on a mass scale – this time, it’s time to make sure all vehicles on its roads are tracked by GPS. Electric Road Pricing (ERP) is moving from its original, fairly conventional way of charging toll fees, to ERP 2.0, which is done via a GPS tracking device that’s found inside vehicles. The city-state’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) said that the new system will provide “more comprehensive aggregated traffic information” – no kidding. Namely, instead of ERP charging – and therefore registering the location of a vehicle on a particular road during particular hours – ERP 2.0 makes sure, and easy, they are tracked “at all times.” According to LTA, the benefit is the elimination of physical “gantries” (i.e., automatic toll booths) that are instead becoming “virtual.” It seems everyone in the world has gotten the same memo on how to explain, justify, and promote any policy that is, or can be seen as privacy-invasive – and that memo would be something like, “talk about convenience, and cutting costs.” And LTA does. Virtual gantries “allow for more flexible and responsive congestion management,” the agency said, adding that in just a few years, ERP 2.0 will help increase traffic to 20,000 more cars. At the same time, Singapore seems dedicated to controlling how many vehicles are allowed on its roads, regulating this via something called the Certificate of Entitlement (CoE), an expensive quota license for owning a car in the country. Currently, the license is issued for a period of ten years, with the price going up an average of some $75,000 each decade. So how will GPS tagging, and allowing 20,000 more cars on the roads work along with that policy? Reports say that the Singapore government counts on mass transit, “flexible” work habits – but also, eventually switching from virtual or otherwise toll points, to charging drivers according to the distance traveled. And that – if all goes well with the implementation of the ERP 2.0 scheme using GPS to track all vehicles around the clock – will not be at all difficult to achieve. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Singapore’s High-Tech Toll Plans: How GPS Tracking is Taking Over the Roads appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Employees at the Biden-Harris Department of Justice and their fellow travelers at the FBI are apparently "shell-shocked" and updating their resumes following President-elect Donald Trump's landslide electoral victory. Federal bureaucrats' apparent fears of a thorough housecleaning are justified, as Trump has made no secret of his plan to "shatter the Deep State and restore government that is controlled by the People." Background In March 2023, Trump announced that on day one, he would reissue his 2020 executive order establishing the Schedule F employment category for federal employees, making it easier to remove insubordinate and poorly performing bureaucrats from an estimated pool of 50,000 eligible candidates. "I will wield that power aggressively," Trump vowed. President Joe Biden revoked Trump's Schedule F in January 2021 and announced a rule earlier this year aimed at further shielding federal bureaucrats from accountability and from being ousted under a framework resembling Schedule F. 'They're getting the hell out of dodge.' Reversing this rule might take months and involve legal challenges. Nevertheless, Trump appears committed to ensuring that America's democratically elected president will once again "have appropriate management oversight regarding this select cadre of professionals." Trump also vowed in his 10-point plan to "clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus." "The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible," said Trump. Since detailing his cleanup program last year, Trump has brought on Elon Musk to lead a federal efficiency initiative, which might reinforce the cleanup of deadwood at the Justice Department and its well-armed offshoot. Reaping the whirlwind Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker said that bureaucrats at the DOJ and the FBI are right to panic, not only because a "reshuffling of the deck is normal" but because Trump is poised to make good on his pledge to personify and deliver "retribution" for those Americans wronged by what has become an increasingly politicized justice system. "We know that this panic is happening at the assistant U.S. attorney level and at the U.S. attorney level. These guys are already planning their exits," said Baker. "They know that their days are numbered. They are looking for their golden parachutes into the big, high-power law firms. They're getting the hell out of dodge." FBI employees are expecting a similar shake-up and pre-emptive exodus. Several anonymous bureau sources recently told the Washington Times that the top brass at the FBI were "stunned" and "shell-shocked" by Kamala Harris' humiliating electoral defeat. The insiders, convinced that the president-elect will "smash the place to pieces when he gets in," suggested that no one at the supervisory special agent pay grade (GS-14) or higher is safe from losing their jobs, especially not Director Christopher Wray. "It's a countdown for Wray because [people here] don't think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey," said one FBI source. "Trump will say, 'Yeah, fire his ass. Don't let him take the plane home.'" Trump appointed Wray in 2017. While the director's term is not set to expire for another three years, the president-elect could put him out to pasture. 'Everyone's going to have a real problem when they're running for the door.' FBI employees are apparently also wary about Musk's efficiency commission. One source told the Times, "When [Musk] tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people." "Try to find a person that's actually working," continued the source. "That may be the biggest problem there — that there's no efficiency. So that's actually the bigger threat. If you're going to try to make the government efficient, you would start with the FBI, because if you do politics all the time, you're probably bloated." Another source suggested to the Times that some FBI employees who have grown tired of the Jan. 6 witch hunt are amused over the prospect that Trump will liberally issue pardons, nullifying their efforts. While the promise of pardons has apparently amused some bureaucrats, it hasn't slowed down Democratic elements of the judiciary. Baker, whose pretrial hearing regarding his Jan. 6 misdemeanor charges is scheduled for Tuesday, told Blaze News that despite the understanding that Trump will ultimately pardon nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters, D.C. courts are continuing to waste time and taxpayer funds pursuing his and similar cases. "They are going forward with the process no matter what, when they should be hitting the pause button," said Baker. While the president-elect currently lacks authority, Baker suggested that "he should at least issue a public statement and say, 'I'm telling you, DOJ, I'm telling you, FBI, I'm telling you, judges of the D.C. District Court: You're wasting your time. You're wasting the people's time. And you're wasting the people's money going through this process because I'm going to put a stop to this on the day of or day following my inauguration.' He could at least send a signal." Baker suggested that such a statement may not get through to those blinded by hatred and committed to crushing Jan. 6 protesters, but it might resonate with those persons in the District of Columbia still equipped with common sense. In the meantime, it appears that FBI employees are getting ready for a change of employment. "You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?" one FBI source told the Times, referencing the bureau's physical fitness requirements. "Everyone's going to have a real problem when they're running for the door." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A caller on a New York City radio station is making waves for his comments claiming Democrats do not fulfill their promises to black people in the United States,During an episode of "The Breakfast Club," the extremely popular hip-hop radio show in New York, a caller took his chance to convince black Americans to demand more from their politicians."Man, I just want to say, bro, that [we're] not a monolith. Black people think by themselves," the caller began."I feel like, at the end of the day, why we lost, I feel like it's the Democratic Party is the reason why we lost, man," he continued. "They promised us and promised us and promised us, but we never get nothing in return, man. And it's a new day and a new age, and I feel like as black people, we should now demand everything we want before we give up our vote, man."'Maybe we just need to switch parties now or maybe do something different.'The caller then suggested during the "Get It Off Your Chest" segment that black Americans need to stop settling for "crumbs" from Democrats."We've been sitting around too long and just giving, getting the crumbs. But now we need everything we ask for," the caller went on. "Maybe it's a good thing that Trump did win, because we can see if he really piggybacked off of [Barack] Obama's economy. Can he come bring us out of this economy?" he asked. The caller added that if President Trump does spur an economic recovery, it's time for black Americans to reconsider their votes."Maybe we just need to switch parties now or maybe do something different. That's how I feel."According to Fox News, exit polling has shown that Trump performed better with black voters compared to previous elections with 16% support, a four-point gain over 2020. However, this included 24% support from black men, which is double the number who voted Republican when Trump was up against President Biden.Power 105.1 radio host Charlamagne responded to the caller by saying those who voted for Trump need to "push him to do what he promised he was going to do.""If [the economy] doesn't trickle down to the least of us, then it doesn't matter," the host continued.In another clip of the show posted to X, the host rhetorically asked why so many commentators have seemingly stopped calling Trump and Republicans fascist since he was elected."Don't y'all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist? ... It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics," he theorized.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!