The UK Home Office is demanding that Apple provide the government backdoor access to users’ encrypted data. Not only are they interested in accessing data on British citizens, but the government has stated it needs access to ALL encrypted iCloud data worldwide on the premise of national security and public safety.

The Home Secretary’s office believes the U.K. Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 legally authorizes law enforcement to obtain communications data on the premise of collecting evidence, as the government has deemed everyone a potential threat. Governments do not want the people to have end-to-end encryption that they cannot access.

The Advanced Data Protection program launched by Apple in 2022 provides users with the ability to safely keep their data. Users must enable the service, but it prevents even Apple from having backdoor encryption keys. Edward Snowden warned that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and NSA successfully hacked all iPhones, Androids, and Blackberry devices. The FBI in the United States tried to prevent Apple from launching this program during Trump’s first term, stating it prevented them from properly investigating crimes. The FBI also demanded that Apple provide it with backdoor access back in 2016 after the 2015 release of the iOS 9 that the government could not easily access.

US intelligence cited the San Bernadino mass shooting incident as an example of why the government must have access to user data. One of the shooters owned an iPhone 5C and the FBI and NSA claimed it could not access the device. The US government and Apple battled in court over the FBI’s insistence that Apple create “GovtOS” to override any encryption measures. The government attempted to use the All Writs Act to force Apple into compliance.

The legal battle came to a halt in March 2016 when the FBI stated it found a way to bypass Apple’s encryption. Former FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the government purchased a hacking tool from a third party but offered no details. The government no longer needed Apply to comply. By 2020, it was estimated that law enforcement used said tool to access over 2,000 devices. But Apple continued to improve its encryption measures since then.

Governments everywhere are becoming more authoritarian as sentiment changes and anti-government sentiment grows. Messaging devices, social media, and any platform where people can freely connect must be under government control. The UK is part of the Five Eyes (FVEY) alliance with the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. If one gains access to ALL user data, rest assured that the other four will also have access. Snowden warned the public of this back in 2013. There are programs such as TEMPORA that permit UK and US intelligence to intercept communications through undersea fiber-optic cables. There have been ongoing programs aimed at obtaining data access without the need for warrants or surveillance laws. Whether Apple or any tech company complies is not really of concern, as the government can and will find a way to spy on citizens worldwide.

The Washington Post reported Friday that the United Kingdom’s deep state has demanded that Apple create a back door for them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud—what would be an unprecedented erosion of online privacy and civil liberties. This works because once the UK seizes your data, they can hand that to the Feds in the states, and your Constitutional rights are NOT violated because the US government did not illegally seize it without a warrant.

The American Revolution Was Over This Very Issue

And Starmer’s Government is Doing What King George III Did

I store NOTHING in the cloud – EVER!!!!! Why? Because the government can order them to turn over whatever they want without your knowledge. Since they merely store it, they turn it over without blinking an eye. They have NO CONSTITUTIONAL interest in whatever it might be. When they then create laws like they have on child pornography that the mere possession is a crime and they do not need to prove that you actually obtained it or from where, if they claim you had it in the cloud, that would be it. You do not even get to pack your bags or bring a toothbrush.

Under no circumstances ever store ANYTHING in the cloud, for you have no constitutional rights, and they can claim whatever they desire. They can put stud=ff in your account and send you to prison, saying it is yours and no judge will listen to you – EVER! The Washington Post reported that the British government’s undisclosed order was issued last month. It requires Apple to give officials blanket capability to view fully encrypted material. This means that Apple MUST assist British authorities on command. The Post noted that the access sought by the UK “has no known precedent in major democracies.”

The LEFT only cares about themselves, and if you dare to resist, you must be guilty. The Starmer government is destroying civilization, crumbling the very basic foundation of liberty. They want something – how dare you say no!!!!!!!!!!!!! The LEFT is ruthless, and this is how they destroy everything. Biden, when he was president, targeted guns with the end goal of disarming America entirely. He has stated: “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.” The fundamental objective is to compel everyone to register every gun so they can enter your house without a warrant to seize your weapons.

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QUESTION: Would you comment on Trump’s agenda?

Paul

ANSWER: Those in Washington have lived a privileged life. During the Mortgaged Backed Security Crisis, when real estate declined, it did not decline by much at all in Washington because the government is like a broken gun without a firing pin – it won’t work, and you can’t fire it. What is most interesting is that since Trump was elected, the median housing price in Washington, DC, has already fallen from about $700,000 to $600,000. This is independent evidence that DOGE is expected to clean the house.

What is taking place reminds me of General Patton, who my father was with from North Africa to Berlin. I grew up with my father, often referring to General Patton, and he explained the strategy. It appears that someone who has advised Trump perhaps had similar knowledge of Patton. What I grew up being told was that achievers have a decided purpose in life, and their goals are driven by determination. My father use to quote Patton to me. One of his favorites was: “Fear kills more people than death.”

I have long suspected that USAID was behind my case, funding the attempted regime change in Russia for the 2000 election. I believe the bankers were lured in with the dream of all the resources of Russia going through the NY trading desks. I believe they were perhaps even funding the scheme to blackmail Yeltsin, and they hate Putin because Yeltsin defeated their regime change, installing Berezovsky by turning to Putin and saying his last words: “Protect Russia.”

I was shown skids of $100 bills being shipped weekly to Russia to fund the takeover of the country. I was told to invest $10 billion in this operation using Hermitage Capital Management, which Edmond Safra partly owned. NY Magazine did a whole story on it, calling it the Money Plane. I was told they had the government and the IMF in their back pocket.

Edmon Safra of Republic National Bank put on a fancy dinner for the IMF. I was invited and it was all about trying to convince me that they had the IMF in their pocket and that would rescue the day. The pitch was Russia had all these nukes, so there was no way the IMF would allow Russia to collapse/default on its debt. This created a serious yet tricky situation for the Russian government. What was going on was that Russia had been running a huge budget deficit to pay for public services. They had borrowed $40 billion by issuing three-month ruble Treasury bills known as GKOs.

This is what the “club” was buying for they were paying 30% interest to attract buyers. Were they bribing the IMF to prevent a default? Or was this all a regime change being run covertly through this USAID slush fund? All the hedge funds and bankers were all on this trade, expecting free money. I refused to join and warned them that my computer projected this would collapse. They did not want to hear that. They were CONVINCED the fix was in which created that perfect GUARANTEED TRADE.

They set up Yeltsin and got him to take $7 billion from the IMF loans. The wire was steered to Geneva via the Bank of New York – a despised rival of Safra’s Republic National Bank. Even CNN reported that the money had been stolen from the IMF.

CNN Theft of IMF Money – Sep. 1, 1999

Edmond Safra’s Republic National Bank ran to the Department of Justice and reported that a $7 billion money laundering scheme had just gone through the Bank of New York. They attempted to blackmail Yeltsin to step down and appoint their guy Boris Berezovsky; Yeltsin then turned to Putin. I even met with US Attorney Richard Owen. I informed him that the money led to Yeltsin, and the Russian Minister of Interior was stonewalling him, their equivalent of the Russian FBI, who flew to NYC at that time to investigate. The DOJ did not know what they stepped into, and I suspect that USAID was not forthright.

When Lucie Edwards of the Bank of New York pled guilty, they never said where the money came from and just said money laundering with no proof or allegation. They threw in, oh, there was a kidnapping, and the Judge never asked anything. The Bank of NY people got 6 months of house arrest and no prison time for the largest money laundering scheme in history to cover up this regime change.

It was the US bankers, with the support of the Deep State, who first tried to interfere in Russian elections. This is why Putin was not friendly to Hilary Clinton and said Russiagate Special Prosecutor Mueller could come to question anyone in Russia he liked, provided Russia could question Americans, including Bill Browder, who was Safra’s partner in Hermitage Capital.

When I was solicited to join this regime change, adding $10 billion with the promise I would make $100 billion, I warned that my computer said they would fail and that Russia’s debt market would collapse. When the London Financial Times on June 27th, 1998, put on the front page of Section 2 our forecast for the collapse of Russia when it did in September, I was blamed for that, and on the one side, we have the CIA wanted that model that could forecast the collapse of empires, nations, and city-states,  the saw it as a national security issue.

Of course, since all the big players were on the same trade when the market collapsed, there was NO BID, and they were forced to start selling everything else to raise cash to cover their losses in Russia. This became a significant liquidity crisis as investments worldwide crashed because they needed money to cover losses in Russia. This led to great confusion since local markets collapsed on no domestic news.

With USAID sending tens of millions to Chelse Clinton, Wuhan Lab, and countless journalists to create fake news, I am waiting with bated breath to see how deep the USAID connections are tied to the NY bankers and this scheme to create regime change in Russia.