by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
Flock Safety is not the only private tech company positioning itself to profit off of the emerging AI data center-powered surveillance state.
Constitutional attorney and freedom advocate John Whitehead knocks it out of the park with his new article on the unbiquitous AI-powered Flock cameras.
Whitehead writes:
While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward.
Says America used to be backed by it
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, reaching the lowest level in 13 years, according to a preliminary market monitor report by Counterpoint Research released July 13. The decline was driven by a persistent shortage of memory chips, as manufacturers shifted production capacity to support artificial intelligence data centers, the report stated.
As part of Sprott Money’s monthly Ask the Expert series, Craig welcomed financial analyst, author, and former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins for a wide-ranging discussion about financial markets, gold, silver, central banks, and the growing disconnect between financial assets and the real economy.
At the end of April, renowned climate engineering researcher Dane Wigington was on USAW to warn about increasing extreme weather caused by geoengineering or manmade weather modification in the sky. Wigington predicted a “Summer from Hell.” With record high temperatures all over the country, he was right — again. Let’s start with the drought in the Southwest that has water sources like Lake Powell hitting record lows. One story last week said, “Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say.” The water level in the reservoir is so low it is approaching a point where “water can no longer flow past Glen Canyon Dam by gravity.” Wigington explains, “There is 110 feet of sedimentation behind the Hoover Dam. That means that’s not water that’s dirt now. This means these incredibly low numbers of how much water is in these basins . . . is probably half of what the official figure is. We are hurtling toward impact right now. There is no way out of this.”
A phone ID, a national database, and a set of Olympic cameras walk into one bill, and only one of them is about convenience.