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To: Neeka who wrote (769652)	10/15/2022 6:15:18 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

I just went through customs last Monday in Philly, took and hour to get processed on screen computer to print receipt of valid passport and answer about twenty generic questions. then took another hour to get through a customs agent and get our passport stamped. two hours to get from the plane to our luggage. what a mess.!! there must have been several planes that arrived perhaps one to two thousand people. of course only several agents to process everyone. we flew back from the greek islands and turkey. a couple of planes came in from the Bahamas.

To: Neeka who wrote (769652)	10/15/2022 6:21:56 PM
From: didjuneau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

I heard the Canada travel app had tracking built into it. Finally ended the mandatory use of it last month. A friend went on a cross-country trip up there and got no questions about vaccination at the border. I'm thinking it may have been due to the tracking app - they already had the info. Hard to say... Did China develop their own facial recognition? Did we, and now they're using it? We have ongoing DoD and CIA 'bots and other social media 'influencers' trying to work us. Now this: (h/t FJB) China Conducting 'Race-Baiting' Social Media Campaigns To Polarize Americans: Former CIA Officer zerohedge.com but, but - isn't our diversity our strength? The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was an Orwellian sea change. If you know how Smith-Mundt started, it was to protect us from this attack from China. Now we get it from our own, courtesy of the 2012 change. Gee, who was in charge back then? A rather polarizing fellow. Politics - the root meaning of the word...Pole - two ends. Here's another word: schism