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To: Julius Wong who wrote (174156)	7/3/2021 6:25:33 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217723

Re <<The Air Force Says Its Next Missile Tests Could Kill 219 Giant Clams, 9 Snails>> ... it is interesting that the funders of airforce agreed to pay salary / consulting fee of the impact studies upon which the statement is based. Equally interesting to casual observer re below reported initiative, that should the initiative pass, folks shall have to keep track of their ammo, and police best be called in whenever any ammo go missing. From the bitcoin world, I can imagine the would be criminals get together from all around, each anonymous to every other, and submit their ammo to mixing in with ammo of others, and leave the party w/ the same number of ammo as they earlier submitted. zerohedge.com Pennsylvania Democrats To Propose Bullet Tax And Encoded Rounds To Track Ammo Owners Authored by Beth Brelie via The Epoch Times, A 5 cent per bullet tax will be proposed in Pennsylvania as part of legislation to be brought forth by two state House Democrats, Rep. Manny Guzman and Rep. Stephen Kinsey. [url=][/url] The tax would fund a state police database of ammunition sold in Pennsylvania. The planned legislation would require ammunition manufacturers to encode ammunition provided for retail sale in Pennsylvania, and to provide ammunition serial numbers to the Pennsylvania State Police for the ammunition database. The plan was revealed in a joint memo to the state legislature by Guzman and Kinsey. “Since 2015, only 21% of the nearly 8,500 shootings that Philadelphia has endured have resulted in an arrest or conviction,” the memo said. “Far too often, all that is left for the police to find is a victim and a bullet. By making the bullet a more useable piece of evidence, independent from the associated firearm, we can give our law enforcement officers the tools that they need to solve more of these heinous crimes.” “By maintaining a record of purchases of ammunition,” the memo continues, “our law enforcement officers will be able to easily trace the ownership of any ammunition involved in a crime. This proposal is a much more reliable method of forensic tracing than current systems like ballistic fingerprinting, since determination of a bullet’s code does not require any special skills or equipment, and it serves as an objective identifier.” “It is time for us to keep track of these lethal weapons and ensure that we have the tools necessary to convict individuals who use their firearms for unlawful purposes,” the memo said. The plan would impose a 5 cent per round tax. Ammunition owners could file for a tax credit of one-half of a percent (0.5 percent) of the gross amount of the tax paid. That is, a 50 cent tax return for every $100 spent in bullet taxes. A purchase of 2,000 rounds would cost $100 in tax. Gun Owners of America-Pennsylvania Director Val Finnell says the plan amounts to registration and taxation of a constitutional right, to own ammunition. “If you register your ammo, that’s a prelude to confiscation, just like firearms registration would be,” Finnell said, noting that if a bill to ban certain ammunition is passed, an ammunition database would show law enforcement who has ammunition to confiscate. “This is the agenda of Philadelphia Democrats: registration and confiscation,” Finnell said. “They say ‘we just want common-sense gun laws to help police’ but criminals are going to obtain guns anyway. The only ones it affects are law-abiding citizens.” Finnell predicts the bill will not move in the Republican-led General Assembly. Republican state Rep. Matthew Dowling, chair of the Pennsylvania House Second Amendment Caucus, says lawmakers shouldn’t be weighing down state police with managing an ammunition database that should not exist. “Not only is this onerous for state police who should be using resources in other ways, it’s a violation of privacy standards,” Dowling said. “This is on top of the fact that we have a massive shortage of ammo. Law-abiding citizens are having a hard time trying to get their hands on ammo. This will only make it more difficult for them.” It is unclear how such a law would address unmarked ammunition from other states or the ammunition already owned by Pennsylvanians. Neither Guzman nor Kinsey responded to calls and emails requesting comment. Although Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s mask mandate and other COVID-19-related restrictions have ended, Kinsey’s Philadelphia constituent office had a recording explaining the office is closed “out of an abundance of caution” due to the risk of COVID-19. Kinsey did have staff in his Harrisburg capitol building office.

To: Julius Wong who wrote (174156)	7/3/2021 7:19:04 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217723

I continue to follow the Guo Wengui story, as he allegedly deploys more tools of the tradecraft to arguably aid the USA politics, that which impacts planetary macro I do not rely on any particular source but may be trapped in always being presented by the same cabal of sources. I simply do not know. I simply search on key words for stuff I track, and for example " jimmy lai guo wengui hunter biden " coughs up an updated helping to the extent that the Mr Guo's tool helps to create internal divisiveness, best to track, because the bonafide of Guo Wengui, as far as I am aware, has not been settled, that either Guo is a simpleton or very extremely deep. I do not know which. Either the China CCP must learn from the Russia FSB, or not so much The guy certainly does not keep a low profile. Message 33077534 <<now Mr Guo reportedly going after more dissidents against the China China China CCP, in broad daylight, literally, and with Team USA anti-China-China-China personalities aid and abetment >> Message 33014409 <<what fascinating me is whether Miles Kwok / Guo Wengui is a CCP double-agent>> Message 32986987 <<And now speculation is swirling that Guo could be at the center of an alleged foreign-backed campaign to leak 'three hard disks' about Joe Biden's son Hunter, unleashing 'a big money and sex scandal'.>> Message 32892895 <<Guo Wengui: ‘Dissident-hunter, propagandist, and agent in the service of the … Chinese Communist Party’>> scmp.com Politico \| The newest MAGA app is tied to a Bannon-allied Chinese billionaire - GETTR has existed as a Chinese language social media network linked to Guo Wengui - It was unveiled as a new platform by former Trump adviser Jason Miller on Thursday The original Politico article politico.com There was one major question: Just where did GETTR come from? A POLITICO review reveals that prior to it being revealed on Thursday, GETTR had existed for nearly a year as a Chinese-language social media network linked to Guo and G-TV Media, and on which anti-CCP content had been promoted on a regular basis. ... Even before its announcement, the GETTR app on Apple had more than 1,200 reviews dating back months, primarily from users praising its anti-CCP stance. “Finally there is a platform for freely disseminating the truth. Thanks to Mr. Wengui who broke the news that the revolution has created such a free-sounding platform,” one user wrote in a review on June 17th. politico.com The newest MAGA app is tied to a Bannon-allied Chinese billionaire GETTR has existed as a Chinese language social media network linked to Guo Wengui. It was unveiled as a new platform by Jason Miller on Thursday. Two days later, Donald Trump’s former adviser Jason Miller announced that GETTR — a Chinese-language site for dissidents opposing the Chinese Communist Party — would soon launch as a pro-MAGA free-speech social media platform. Jason Miller, communications director for the Trump transition team, briefs reporters on Nov. 20, 2016 in Bedminster Township, N.J. \| Drew Angerer/Getty Images GETTR was announced as a brand new social media platform for Trump’s fans, a social media outpost where MAGA types could post freely and, through the mere act of signing up, stick it to Big Tech. It was billed as the logical extension of the former president’s monthslong battle with the major social media companies, two of which had booted him in the aftermath of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6. And though Trump himself had not committed to being on it, it seemed like the type of place where he inevitably would end up after having launched a failed professional blog of his own. There was one major question: Just where did GETTR come from? A POLITICO review reveals that prior to it being revealed on Thursday, GETTR had existed for nearly a year as a Chinese-language social media network linked to Guo and G-TV Media, and on which anti-CCP content had been promoted on a regular basis. Miller told The Daily Beast, which first reported the connection, that Guo’s “family foundation” provided GETTR with early funding. In a separate interview with POLITICO, Miller said that Guo had “no formal role,” had not “contributed any money” and was “not part of the business day to day.” Miller added that “his family foundation is part of the international consortium of investors who gave seed money.” Previous advertising for GETTR had been posted online before news broke of Miller’s venture. And it included logos for several entities in the G-TV Media Group, a media company owned by both Bannon and Guo. One poster includes the logos for their subsidiaries, G-TV and GNEWS, two sites that have been flagged as vectors of coronavirus and anti-CCP disinformation. An account for GETTR on G-TV, which has the same torch logo as Miller’s GETTR, has been uploading content for more than a year, though much of it is content from G-TV. Even before its announcement, the GETTR app on Apple had more than 1,200 reviews dating back months, primarily from users praising its anti-CCP stance. “Finally there is a platform for freely disseminating the truth. Thanks to Mr. Wengui who broke the news that the revolution has created such a free-sounding platform,” one user wrote in a review on June 17th.