Governments and Internet Kill Switches
August 15th, 2024Via: Cold Fusion:
Russia Building Trenches In Kursk To Defend Against Ukrainian Advances
August 15th, 2024Via: The War Zone:
In a sign that it is digging in to blunt Ukraine’s now nine-day-old invasion of Kursk Oblast, Russia is building trenches near the town of Lgov, about 30 miles north of the border, according to Maxar satellite imagery provided to The War Zone on Wednesday. The construction comes as Ukrainian forces are pushing their way northward from the area of territory they currently control.
Lgov is about 13 miles north of the most recently geolocated position of Ukrainian troop concentrations, according to imagery analyzed on Tuesday by the Institute for the Study of War. It is also about 15 miles to the west of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Kurchetov. The trenches are being built parallel to the E38 highway, according to Maxar. That is a key east-west artery cutting across the middle of Kursk and connects Lgov to Kurchetov.
Related: Russia Declares Federal Emergency in Belgorod
UK Health Workers Ordered To Ask Men If They’re Pregnant Before X-Rays
August 15th, 2024Via: Modernity News:
The Telegraph reports that National Health Service staff in the UK are being mandated to ask everyone, even men, if they are pregnant before carrying out radiography.
The report notes that as part of ‘inclusivity guidance’, all patients aged 12-55 must be asked the question, regardless of their sex.
The new mandate was introduced following an incident where a ‘trans man’ (a biological woman) who was unknowingly pregnant underwent a CT scan.
The guidance states that staff must be inclusive of transgender, non-binary and intersex patients and refrain from making assumptions about biological sex.
Dowd: Donald Trump Is, “Whistling Past the Graveyard on the Vaccine Issue”
August 15th, 2024Via: The Shannon Joy Show:
Taliban Parade Featuring Millions of Dollars Worth of Abandoned U.S. Military Equipment
August 14th, 2024JUST IN: ?? ?? The Taliban held a military parade using United States military equipment that was left behind after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This parade marks the third anniversary of the Taliban's return to power in the nation. pic.twitter.com/oZzg0RuAo5
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) August 14, 2024
Via: Daily Mail:
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers held a military parade with swarms of motorbikes at a former ‘linchpin’ US base after seizing power of the country three years ago.
The Taliban’s armed forces towed Soviet-era tanks as well as US-made armoured vehicles as they waved the black-and-white flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Bagram today.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is the formal name given to the country by the Taliban government.
Chinese and Iranian diplomats were among hundreds who gathered for the parade at the former base which previously served as the linchpin for US-led operations against the Taliban for two decades.
Stonehenge: Six Ton Altar Stone Came from Scotland
August 14th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
They’re the circle of stones that have left historians scratching their heads for centuries.
Now, experts have made a ‘stunning’ discovery about one of Stonehenge’s most famous rocks.
It has been known for a while that most of the monument’s world-renowned ‘bluestones’ were sourced from the Preseli Hills in Wales, around 240km (150 miles) from the site in Wiltshire.
But new analysis has revealed the Altar Stone, the largest bluestone at the centre of Stonehenge, actually came from northern Scotland – up to 1,000km (621 miles) away.
Experts have no idea why the six-tonne, 5m-long stone was selected, nor how it was transported such a long distance around 5,000 years ago.
Neil Oliver Interviews Whitney Webb: “People Are Clamoring for Competing Squads of Billionaires to Save the Country”
August 14th, 2024Update: YouTube Removed This Interview, Backup Below
Via: Rumble:
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The full interview is very good, but if you aren’t able to listen to the whole thing, start at 9:55 and go as long as you can.
Via: Neil Oliver:
More: Unlimited Hangout
Hackers Release 2.7 Billion Social Security Records: Names, Social Security Numbers, All Known Physical Addresses, Possible Aliases
August 14th, 2024I can hear it now: Get your biometric government ID to save yourself. It’s convenient. It’s smart. It’s secure. And it you don’t get it, you’re probably a conspiracy theorist.
Via: Bleeping Computer:
Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names, social security numbers, all known physical addresses, and possible aliases.
The data allegedly comes from National Public Data, a company that collects and sells access to personal data for use in background checks, to obtain criminal records, and for private investigators.
National Public Data is believed to scrape this information from public sources to compile individual user profiles for people in the US and other countries.
In April, a threat actor known as USDoD claimed to be selling 2.9 billion records containing the personal data of people in the US, UK, and Canada that was stolen from National Public Data.
At the time, the threat actor attempted to sell the data for $3.5 million and claimed it contained records for every person in the three countries.
New York City Migrant Crisis Costs Expected to Exceed $5 Billion in 2-Year Period – Double to $10 Billion by 2025
August 14th, 2024Meanwhile…
Via: Fox News:
New York City is soon projected to have spent more than $5 billion over the last two years on the migrant crisis – an estimate that is expected to double by 2025.
At an average of $352 per night for at least 36,939 households, the city projects it will spend $4.75 billion providing shelter, food, healthcare and education to the influx of migrants in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the current forecast by the city’s online asylum seeker funding tracker. The city budgeted $3.76 billion in funding for the migrant crisis in the 2024 fiscal year.
In the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years combined, the city spent $4.88 billion on the migrant crisis.
UK Riots: The Agenda Becomes Clear
August 14th, 2024Via: Off-Guardian:
Whatever the truth of this latest incident, and whatever long term aims it might be used to further, this “strategy of tension” has an immediate political agenda already becoming clear – and it’s as predictable as ever.
1. Further limit social media/free speech
2. Normalise constant surveillance
Attacking free speech is the ever-present, eternal agenda that comes before everything else and it’s been a real pile-on the last few days.
Research Credit: cgroove
