And That’s The Truth
March 15th, 2025Via: Truthstream Media:
VR Headsets for Inmates in Solitary Confinement
March 15th, 2025Via: Futurism:
Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, which is over 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day.
Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people into closet-sized rooms without sunlight, stimulation, or human contact for hours, days, weeks, and sometimes years or decades at a time. It’s a practice that amounts to torture, according to the United Nations and the Geneva Convention.
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Now take that grim situation and add a “Black Mirror”-esque wrinkle: prison officials in California are now offering some people held in solitary confinement an escape via virtual reality.
Gold Soars To Record High As Tariff Tensions Rise
March 13th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Gold prices broke out to a new record high this morning following President Trump’s latest threat to ratchet up tariffs against European imports.
Spot prices hit $2974 this morning…
U.S. Deficit Hits Record $1.1 Trillion In First 5 Months Of 2025 As February Taxes Failed To Cover Even Half Of Spending
March 13th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
First the good news: Elon Musk’s DOGE is going through government spending with a fine-toothed comb, slashing a million here, a billion there.
The bad news: at the rate it is going, DOGE will need a few hundred years to make a tangible impact, because as the Treasury just reported, in February the US government spent a staggering $603 billion, a 6% increase from the $567 billion a year ago…
Mexico: Extermination Center in Jalisco Was Used For Organ Trafficking, “Cremation Furnaces Have Been Operating for More than 10 Years”
March 13th, 2025Via: Latin Times:
A small rural community in the state of Jalisco has been the center of attention in Mexico after a group of volunteers found a property allegedly used by the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) as a confinement, training and extermination center.
Members of Colectivo Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco, a private nonprofit that helps find missing persons, alerted Mexican authorities of a ranch located in Teuchitlán after they found burnt human remains hidden underground.
More: Hidden Graves of at Least 200 People Found at ‘Extermination Site’
COP30: The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference
March 13th, 2025Via: Paul Watson:
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
March 12th, 2025Via: EFF:
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.
Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications technician for AT&T, most of that in San Francisco. But he always had a strong sense of right and wrong and a commitment to privacy.
When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in spying inside the U.S., Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth about the program. And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?”
We did. And what Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.
Book: Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…And Fighting It by Mark Klein
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier Named as a Co-Conspirator in Diddy Lawsuit
March 12th, 2025John Pelletier was the incident commander during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. He was also the Maui Police Chief during the Lahaina fire.
And now…
Via: Daily Mail:
An amended lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has named Maui’s police chief as a co-conspirator, alleging the officer helped the music mogul cover up a woman’s rape in 2018.
Maui’s Police Chief John Pelletier, 52, is one of several new defendants, including NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and Drew Desbordes, a comedian known as Druski, added to the damning lawsuit on Friday.
The documents, filed by a woman and two additional plaintiffs, accuses Pelletier of posing as a Contra Costa, California sheriff in order to deter a woman from filing a rape charge against the disgraced rapper.
At the time, however, Pelletier was working as a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department captain and had no jurisdiction in the Golden State.
USAID Official Tells Staffers: Shred and Burn Your Documents
March 11th, 2025How about this: Tape the building off as a crime scene and don’t allow anything to be destroyed.
If that doesn’t happen, it means that the Trump administration is allowing the destruction of evidence of fraud in the billions of dollars.
Last month, I wrote:
They’re going to quickly stumble on to payments for black world projects and operations and potentially not realize what they’re looking at. It’s hard to imagine that the actual deep state would allow anyone to start pulling on those threads…
And now…
Via: Politico:
A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.
The materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” at the Ronald Reagan Building, said an email sent by USAID’s acting executive director, Erica Carr, and obtained by POLITICO.
“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” the email said. Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO/” (agency shorthand for “bureau or independent office”) in dark Sharpie.
More: “Shred And Burn All Documents”: USAID Staff Ordered To Destroy Evidence On Tuesday
“How The Military Wants AI To Help Control America’s Nuclear Arsenal”
March 11th, 2025I love it:
“We do not have, you know, a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters. Nor would we ever have a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters.”
Via: The War Zone:
While it has long been a world-ending threat in science fiction, U.S. Air Force and Space Force officials see artificial intelligence (AI) playing important, if not critical roles in the command and control enterprise at the heart of America’s nuclear deterrent capabilities.
AI has the potential to help speed up decision making cycles and ensure that orders get where they need to go as fast and securely as possible. It could also be used to assist personnel charged with other duties from intelligence processing to managing maintenance and logistics. The same officials stress that humans will always need to be in or at least on the loop, and that a machine alone will never be in a position to decide to employ nuclear weapons.
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“You know, in WarGames, it has this machine called the WOPR [War Operation Plan Response, pronounced ‘whopper’]. So, the WOPR actually was that AI machine that everyone is scared about. And guess what? We do not have, you know, a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters. Nor would we ever have a WOPR in STRATCOM headquarters,” Cotton added. “That’s not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is, how do I, you know, how do I get and become efficient on ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] products, you know? How do I get, you know, efficient on understanding what’s the status of my forces? You know, those are things that AI and machine learning can absolutely help us [with] and really shave a lot of time off on being able to do those type of things.”
