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The Tesla-focused blog Not a Tesla App reported that following last week's Q1 2025 All-Hands Meeting, Tesla quietly updated the Cybertruck's webpage to include a new Sentry Mode feature that plays loud music as a deterrent against unhinged individuals—particularly Democrats—attempting to damage the vehicles.

The new feature appeared on the lower half of Cybertruck's About page. The text reveals Sentry Mode will soon be able to play loud music when it's triggered: 

Enable Sentry Mode to monitor your unattended vehicle or trailer, and automatically activate the alarm, increase the touchscreen brightness, and play music at max volume if a threat is detected.

Not a Tesla App provided more color on this new feature set to be rolled out shortly:

This latest change appears to build on that, leveraging the Cybertruck's Superhorn and external speaker, which can already play music when parked via the Boombox feature. We suspect this feature won't rely on the internal speakers, as the music would have to be extremely loud in order to be heard outside the car.

And given how loud the Superhorn and external speakers are—powerful enough to function as a proper horn—this could be an effective deterrent for vandals or intruders.

As some users have pointed out, Tesla does have a feature that Sentry Mode will play Bach on the internal speakers if the alarm is triggered while Sentry Mode is activated. It's not completely clear whether that's what Tesla was referring to on the new Cybertruck page, but it seems like it could be something different.

The new feature comes as crazed Democrats have targeted Tesla vehicles and firebombed Tesla showrooms, service centers, and Supercharger networks. 

??????FBI NOW PROBING TESLA ARSON AS TERRORISM

The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is now investigating a firebomb attack on Tesla’s Las Vegas facility after a suspect torched cars with Molotov cocktails and fired into vehicles.

Trump has vowed to treat Tesla vandals as… https://t.co/awbZITbhvF pic.twitter.com/vHCs5TYzgv

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 19, 2025

There have been over a dozen violent attacks on Tesla stores and service centers across the U.S. that include shootings, arson and bombings.

Are we witnessing a rise in trans terrorism?

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— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 21, 2025

Meet Adam Lansky, who identifies as trans and firebombed a Tesla.

20 years in a MALE prison isn’t going to be the most affirming. He won’t be using the female bathroom in there. pic.twitter.com/zrrDIKOeAJ

— L G B (@L__G__B) March 22, 2025

Anti-Tesla extremist is facing felony charges after allegedly vandalizing a Tesla dealership in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Erin L. White goes by “She/They” and is accused of spray painting “F*ck Elon Musk,” and “Trans Rights are Human Rights.”

This domestic t*rr*rism has to stop. pic.twitter.com/bb7JndgRi5

— Paul A. Szypula ???? (@Bubblebathgirl) March 17, 2025

On Saturday, the FBI released a statement warning about the "nationwide incidents—arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to political grievances." 

??PSA: FBI warns of nationwide incidents—arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to political grievances. The #FBI urges vigilance and awareness around Tesla locations. https://t.co/1i97kbOgKB pic.twitter.com/jwWUKpvxoM

— FBI (@FBI) March 22, 2025

Kash Patel's FBI must race against time to counter the radical, Soros-funded non-profit Indivisible as it prepares for a multi-city color revolution against Tesla. 

Rogue Soros-Funded NGO Plots Multi-City Assault On Tesla As Domestic Terrorism Escalates https://t.co/fWK6bxZTfg

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 20, 2025

Who had it in their 2025 bingo cards that Democrats would be supporting and facilitating domestic terrorism against an American company? 

Tesla Takedown Organizers Plan Color Revolution To "Kill" Brand & "Death Spiral" For Investors https://t.co/JIf80uPeEt

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 21, 2025

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Authored by John Carpay via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Bank of Canada has made no secret of its efforts to explore a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a “digital dollar” issued and controlled by the central bank. The Bank of Canada is not alone. To date, 134 countries and currency unions have explored a CBDC, and 66 countries are already in advanced stages of implementation.

In 2023, cash accounted for a mere 11 percent of total payments made by Canadians. Consumers increasingly tap their credit and debit cards at checkouts, send e-transfers, or use online banking to pay bills, make investments, and donate to charities. For many Canadians, metal coins function less like a currency and more like a locker or shopping cart token; paper bills are for birthday cards, not for “serious” transactions. New legislation in Quebec empowers law enforcement to presume that cash sums of $2,000 or more are the proceeds of unlawful activity.

While most consumers seem to appreciate the convenience of an increasingly digital economy, a CBDC is a radical change from using credit cards and online banking apps. A CBDC would likely lead to a cashless economy, in which all financial transactions can be monitored and controlled by government. A cashless economy would create severe hardship for people who are homeless, technologically illiterate, or without ready access to the internet.

For Canadians who look after their finances electronically, cash remains essential to protect their rights and freedoms, including their privacy, security, and autonomy. In a cashless economy, all transactions are digital, subject to surveillance, and ultimately subject to government control. CBDC opens the door for governments to reward or penalize Canadians for their personal choices on how to live, where to go, and what to do with their own money.

Governments can use CBDC to restrict when, where, and what people are allowed to buy, leading to a level of control resembling communist China’s notorious “social credit” system. China uses “social credit” to reward citizens who support the Communist Party and its rules and policies. Those who criticize the Party can find themselves unable to board a train, plane, or subway, denied a bank loan, or prevented from enrolling their children in the best schools and universities.

Cash means privacy and confidentiality.

If I use cash to pay for gas for my car, then no bank, credit card company, or government will know that I was (for example) at the Shell station on Southland Drive in Calgary at 8:45 a.m. on Monday, March 10, 2025. Nor will anyone know how much I spent on gas that morning (other than the gas station’s staff, who likely won’t know my name). If, three hours later, I use cash to pay for a meal at a restaurant in Edmonton, no corporation or government will know that I travelled from Calgary to Edmonton that morning. I don’t have to be doing anything sinister or illegal in Edmonton to care about my privacy. Why should I be subjected to surveillance simply because I exist?

If a CBDC is imposed and the economy goes cashless, government will know, at all times, about every purchase, sale, investment and donation made by every Canadian. A government, once armed with this knowledge, can exercise stringent and detailed control over many aspects of the life of a citizen.

Many Canadians don’t care about their privacy being violated when banks and credit card companies acquire vast amounts of information about the habits, movements, and preferences of consumers. However, governments are radically different from private corporations. By definition and by their very nature, governments exercise coercive power over citizens. Using coercive power is good when governments enforce Criminal Code prohibitions against murder, theft, and terrorism. However, governments can also use their coercive power to violate human rights, civil liberties, and constitutional freedoms, always on the basis of some nice-sounding pretext. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, hence our constitution is intended to protect citizens from tyranny.

Some argue that we will never see communist Chinese “social credit” in Canada. But it already happened here in February 2022, when the federal government froze the bank accounts of hundreds of Canadians who had not broken any law or committed any crime. These Canadian citizens were punished by the state for having donated money to a peaceful protest movement that was hated by the prime minister of the day. They had no opportunity to challenge, dispute, or appeal the severe penalty which government imposed on them without warning.

Cash alone made it possible for these victimized Canadians to buy groceries, pay their heating bills in winter, and secure other necessities. If Canada’s economy had been cashless in February 2022, the government’s freezing of bank accounts would have inflicted far more harm.

When governments made the new COVID vaccine mandatory in 2021, imposing the penalty of second-class citizenship for non-compliance, governments used QR codes to turn personal, private medical records into quasi-public documents that needed to be shown to complete strangers working at restaurants, gyms, and movie theatres. With this track record of violating the privacy of citizens, why would governments hesitate to control what Canadians spend their money on?

In theory, a CBDC can exist without governments violating human rights and constitutional freedoms. In theory, a CBDC could be designed without programmable restrictions, just like cash is printed without such restrictions. (After all, paper bills don’t spontaneously combust when exchanged for the “wrong” kinds of things.) Likewise, a CBDC could be designed to maximize the privacy and anonymity of users. But in practice, what government (or what politician or bureaucrat) would resist the temptation to use a CBDC as a tool to control citizens? If cash is outlawed and replaced with a CBDC, the government has a powerful tool to exercise ultimate—and very intimate—control over the life of every Canadian.

A digital dollar provides politicians, bureaucrats, and bankers with intimate access to our inner lives. Therefore, a CBDC poses a grave threat to Charter rights and freedoms. It’s up to Canadians to make CBDC an issue in the coming election. Voters should urge their MPs and their provincial representatives to pass laws that protect cash and the right to use it.

John Carpay, B.A., LL.B. is President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which has released a new report that explains CBDC’s potential impact on Canadians’ rights and freedoms, including privacy, autonomy, security, equality, and access.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Justice Department announced Friday that it has opened a criminal investigation into a leak of classified intelligence regarding the Tren de Aragua gang—information that was reported by The New York Times and appears to challenge the legal foundation for President Donald Trump’s recent deportation efforts targeting the violent transnational gang.

In a statement issued March 21, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating what he called the “selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified” intelligence about Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that the State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

The gang has become a key focus of Trump’s immigration and national security agenda. On March 15, Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act—a rarely used wartime law—to declare members of Tren de Aragua “alien enemies” invading the United States in coordination with the Venezuelan regime.

The proclamation allows for their immediate arrest and deportation without standard due process protections. However, this move has faced legal challenges and public scrutiny.

The New York Times reported Thursday that a leaked intelligence document dated Feb. 26 challenges the legal basis for Trump’s designation of the criminal group as “alien enemies.”

According to the document, analysts assessed with “moderate confidence” that the gang is not acting under the direction or in coordination with the Venezuelan government—a key assertion in Trump’s proclamation. The Epoch Times has not independently verified the leaked report.

Trump’s proclamation described the group as part of a “hybrid criminal state” conducting a “predatory incursion” into the United States.

Blanche strongly condemned the leak, calling it a politically motivated effort by elements of the “Deep State” to derail Trump’s crackdown on Tren de Aragua’s criminal activities in the United States and his efforts to quickly deport dangerous terrorists.

“We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the pages of their allies at the New York Times,” Blanche said.

“The Alien Enemies Proclamation is supported by fact, law, and common sense, which we will establish in court and then expel the TDA [Tren de Aragua] terrorists from this country.”

Responding to the DOJ’s launch of an investigation, a New York Times spokesperson defended the newspaper’s reporting, citing the importance of press freedom.

“Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracy and critical for citizens to hold their government accountable. Leak investigations are meant to chill communications between journalists and sources, and undermine the ability of a free press to bring out vital information that may otherwise be hidden,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

“Our story raised fundamental questions about whether the American people were getting a straight story about an important national security issue,” the spokesperson continued. “That is precisely what journalists should be doing, no matter which party is in office.”

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced March 21 that 68 Tren de Aragua members had been arrested in less than a week. The agencies credited the arrests to Trump’s designation of the gang as a foreign terrorist organization, enabling a whole-of-government response.

“Tren De Aragua is a terrorist organization whose members are rapists, drug traffickers, and murderers. We will continue to make sure these dirtbags are removed from America’s streets and face justice,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.

In the past 100 days, the administration says it has arrested 394 suspected Tren de Aragua members, a gang infamous for brutal crimes including human trafficking, kidnappings, and the murders of nursing student Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

Meanwhile, the FBI announced on March 19 that it is expanding its counterterrorism mission to aggressively target transnational criminal organizations, including Tren de Aragua.

“Border security is essential to protecting our country and providing safer communities for our citizens,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.

“We’re expanding the watchlist to include cartel and gang members from newly designated foreign terrorist organizations. This change will assist our law enforcement and Intelligence Community partners as we all work together toward the goal of crushing violent crime within our borders.”

This shift builds on the State Department’s recent designation of eight major gangs and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists—including Tren de Aragua. The designations enhance the federal government’s ability to freeze assets, impose financial sanctions, and deny visas to individuals affiliated with these groups.

Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,

It’s strongly implied that Poland, the Baltic States, and Romania prefer to remain under the US’ security umbrella...

The Financial Times (FT) cited four unnamed European officials to report that “European military powers work on 5-10 year plan to replace US in Nato”. The UK, France, Germany, and the Nordic nations are named as those that want to present this proposal to the US during the next NATO Summit in June. They also reported that some countries have refused to participate in these talks either out of fear that this could encourage the US to move faster in this regard or due to their belief that it won’t abandon Europe.

FT is likely referring to Poland, the Baltic States, and Romania, the most important countries on NATO’s eastern flank, all of whom prefer to remain under the US’ security umbrella. Poland’s recent flirtation with France could herald a full-blown pivot if the ruling liberal-globalists win May’s presidential election, but for now it functions as an attempt to rebalance ties with the US amidst uncertainty over its future plans. It can also be seen as a misguided negotiation tactic to keep and expand the US’ military presence.

As for the Baltic States, they have a diehard pro-American elite, and they’ll only realign towards the EU in the event that they’re forced to do so by Trump unilaterally curtailing or even totally removing US troops from their territories as part of a grand deal with Russia. Meanwhile, Romania notably rebuffed France’s proposal to extend its nuclear umbrella over the rest of the continent, which can be interpreted as placing more faith in the US than in Europe in the scenario of a crisis with Russia over Moldova.

If these five countries continue perceiving their national interests in these ways, which would require Poland’s ruling liberal-globalists not to pivot to France if they win the presidency (their opponents are comparatively more pro-US), then an intra-NATO European rift would emerge. France and Germany, which are competing amongst themselves and with Poland for leadership of post-conflict Europe, could then find their envisaged influence over Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) challenged by the US.

From Estonia down to Romania and possibly as far as Bulgaria and even Greece, the penultimate of which pivoted to the US long ago against the will of its Russophilic population while the last needs the US to keep Turkiye’s maritime claims as bay, NATO’s eastern flank would fall under US influence. This so-called “cordon sanitaire” could then serve the dual purpose of retaining US influence in this geostrategic part of Europe as it “Pivots (back) to Asia” while also keeping Western Europe and Russia divided.

That scenario could be offset by Poland’s liberals as was explained, but barring that, it’s predicated on: 1) the CEE countries continuing to perceive Russia as a threat; 2) them considering the US to be more reliable of a security partner than the EU; and 3) the US not voluntarily ceding all its influence in Europe. If these variables remain constant, then Western Europe might militarily consolidate largely independently of CEE, which CEE might still appreciate since it’ll bolster their “deterrence” strategies.

After all, if America abandons them in the unlikely scenario of a hot NATO-Russian war that somehow stays below the nuclear threshold, then the CEE countries could rely on a militarily consolidated Western Europe to rush to their rescue if they can’t stop Russia on their own. That said, Russia has no intention to invade NATO, the US’ continued military influence in CEE could deter provocative actions by those anti-Russian countries, and the US’ reputation would be destroyed if it abandoned them during a hot war.

With this insight in mind, Europe might militarily bifurcate into a strategically autonomous western half and an American-aligned eastern one if FT’s report about the first’s plans to replace the US in NATO is true. The only factor that could realistically offset that scenario might be the outcome of Poland’s upcoming presidential election, thus drawing attention to its disproportionate influence in shaping Europe’s future security architecture, the subject of which is at the center of NATO-Russian tensions.