Israeli Forces Massacre Civilians Waiting for Food Aid
February 29th, 2024Via: Al Jazeera:
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 104 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”.
The Cultural Revolution Is Here
February 28th, 2024Book: Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning by Xi Van Fleet
Via: Tucker Carlson:
Ep. 77 The Cultural Revolution is here. Just ask Xi Van Fleet. She's lived it twice. pic.twitter.com/5xFS0T5hA9
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 26, 2024
Targeted Ads: Pentagon Surveillance Program Taps, “The Largest Information-Gathering Enterprise Ever Conceived by Man.”
February 28th, 2024Related, from 2007: Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation:
We must assume that they are using the full spectrum of surveillance information to try to PREDICT HOW EACH OF US IS LIKELY TO BEHAVE ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS.
The following Wired piece is adapted from: Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State by Byron Tau
Via: Wired:
Geolocation is the single most valuable piece of commercial data to come off those devices. Understanding the movement of phones is now a multibillion-dollar industry. It can be used to deliver targeted advertising based on location for, say, a restaurant chain that wants to deliver targeted ads to people nearby. It can be used to measure consumer behavior and the effectiveness of advertising. How many people saw an ad and later visited a store? And the analytics can be used for planning and investment decisions. Where is the best location to put a new store? Will there be enough foot traffic to sustain such a business? Is the number of people visiting a certain retailer going up or down this month, and what does that mean for the retailer’s stock price?
But this kind of data is good for something else. It has remarkable surveillance potential. Why? Because what we do in the world with our devices cannot truly be anonymized. The fact that advertisers know Marcela as bdca712j-fb3c-33ad-2324-0794d394m912 as they’re watching her move around the online and offline worlds offers her almost no privacy protection. Taken together, her habits and routines are unique to her. Our real-world movement is highly specific and personal to all of us. For many years, I lived in a small 13-unit walk-up in Washington, DC. I was the only person waking up every morning at that address and going to The Wall Street Journal’s offices. Even if I was just an anonymized number, my behavior was as unique as a fingerprint even in a sea of hundreds of millions of others. There was no way to anonymize my identity in a data set like geolocation. Where a phone spends most of its evenings is a good proxy for where its owner lives. Advertisers know this.
Governments know this too. And Yeagley was part of a team that would try to find out how they could exploit it.
Ready for Some Bill Gates Butter?
February 28th, 2024Via: Bill Gates:
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
February 28th, 2024I don’t understand how or why, but this is on Netflix. I haven’t watched it yet.
Via: Netflix:
AFP: Breakaway Moldovan Region of Transnistria Asks Russia for ‘Protection’
February 28th, 2024#BREAKING Breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria asks Russia for 'protection' pic.twitter.com/enQJnHrBFX
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 28, 2024
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— Musée Nikola Tesla (@NTSmiljan) February 1, 2024
California Seized Enough Fentanyl Last Year to Kill Everyone in the World ‘Nearly Twice Over’
February 28th, 2024Via: Los Angeles Times:
Roughly 62,000 pounds of fentanyl smuggled into California was confiscated by authorities in 2023. The total amount of the potent synthetic opioid seized last year “is enough to potentially kill the global population nearly twice over,” Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Tuesday.
In 2023, the California National Guard supported other law enforcement agencies in counter-drug operations across the state, seizing a record 62,000 pounds of fentanyl at ports of entry, according to a news release from Newsom’s office. It’s unclear what means were used to smuggle the opioid and what form the fentanyl was in when shipped.
Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car
February 28th, 2024After a decade of work and likely billions of dollars…
Via: Reuters:
Apple has canceled work on its electric car, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, a decade after the iPhone maker kicked off the project.
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Several employees working on the electric car project will be shifted to the firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) division, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported the development.
“Psychological and Cognitive Warfare on Citizens”
February 27th, 2024Via: Dr. Robert W Malone:
I’d like to tell you about the thing that bothers me the most right now.
The truth is, it’s not medical freedom. It’s not even the problem of the lies that we’ve been told about the COVIDcrisis or the gross mismanagement of the COVIDcrisis. It’s the willingness of governments to deploy modern cognitive and psychological warfare tools and technologies against their own citizenry in combination and particular with the power of modern big tech.
Macy’s to Close 150 Stores
February 27th, 2024Via: AP:
Macy’s will close 150 unproductive namesake stores over the next three years including 50 by year-end, the department store operator said Tuesday after posting a fourth-quarter loss and declining sales.
As part of the strategy, Macy’s aims to upgrade its remaining 350 stores, with plans to add more salespeople to fitting areas and shoe departments, while adding more visual displays like mannequins. At the same time, the company signaled a pivot to luxury, which has fared better overall. It said it would open 15 of its higher end Bloomingdale’s stores and 30 of its luxury Blue Mercury cosmetics locations.
The Macy’s stores set to close account for less than 10% of its sales, the company said.
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