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by Martin Armstrong For years, I have warned that technology would become the government’s greatest surveillance tool. Politicians always promise new powers will only be used against criminals. Then those same powers gradually expand until everyone becomes a potential suspect. History never changes because governments never voluntarily surrender authority once they obtain it. The U.S. …
Listed Video Info: There are currently over 82 million surveillance cameras in the United States. Add in 100,000 Flock Safety automated license plate readers (ALPR), millions of Ring doorbells, and municipal CCTV networks, and it is mathematically (?) impossible to leave your house without being logged into a database. So in order to learn about …
Experts from big privacy groups and tech companies all say same thing. Bill forces companies to build permanent backdoors into systems. Government can demand data logs for up to one year on every app. It overrides encryption and data deletion rules. Orders can stay secret so companies cannot tell users. Rushed through Parliament with only …
People are seeing something at grocery stores, and it confirms everything many Americans have been worried about. In this video, we look at what people are spotting in stores right now—from higher grocery prices and shrinking portions to locked-up items, empty shelves, and signs of a worsening cost of living crisis. If you’ve felt like …
These bills together give more government control over speech online and data. Not all passed yet but direction is clear toward more rules and surveillance. Debate and court challenges likely. Tweet reads: – C-9 (anti-hate law) – C-22 (legal access/surveillance) – C-34 (digital security) Three bills that, together, will annihilate our fundamental rights. – C-9 …
Surveillance footage shows election equipment being wheeled out of a Maricopa County facility in Phoenix in March 2026, by staff members of county recorder Justin Heap. ‘This is chaos’: Maricopa County election-denier official accused of seizing election equipment, ballots June 9, 2026 : https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/maricopa-county-supervisor-board-recorder-justin-heap-election-machines-ballot/ Local officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County have accused county recorder Justin …
by Martin Armstrong @write.in.cuteri What is Happening in Our Grocery Stores?! ♬ original sound – Write In Cuteri People still think inflation is simply rising costs or supply shortages, but what they fail to understand is that we are entering a completely different phase where prices themselves will become individualized. Two people standing next to …
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A West Point study found that military networks are flooded with corporate trackers, including some linked to foreign entities. U.S. Army personnel may be training for cyberwar, but their own web browsing is quietly feeding the surveillance economy. According to a recent study by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, corporate surveillance has deeply …
Holy crap. If this is true, it’s beyond huge. Kim Dotcom has the sources! Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom Breaking Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here”s what the hackers allegedly found: Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a …
Newly released images from a surveillance camera at Nancy Guthrie’s home shows a person whom investigators say is a potential subject. NBC News’ Tom Winter reports on the photos released by the FBI showing a masked person who law enforcement say was armed and tampering with the surveillance camera. https://www.nbcnews.com/video/fbi-releases-surveillance-photos-of-potential-subject-at-nancy-guthrie-s-door-257456197908 New images in the search …
UK Home Secretary announces the largest national rollout of Ai mass biometric surveillance cameras. To create the China model you need all your citizens identified on camera at all times, then comes your digital ID, then comes your social credit score, then finally your CO2 tracker byu/UniversalSurvivalist inconspiracy UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces the …
Alex Karp talked like he had limits. He said Palantir would never track people. He said the company would walk away from contracts that hurt minorities. None of that matters anymore. ICE is using his software to find people faster than anyone thought possible. For years, Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, had declared the data management …
Palantir is the corporate Big Brother. The CIA-backed company gets most of its revenue from government contracts. It profits from war, mass surveillance, and even dystopian “predictive policing”. Ben Norton shows how Palantir is run by extreme hawks who insist the West is “superior” to the rest of the world, and seek an “unfair advantage” …
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance. Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and expert on the file, warns journalists and the public not to be deceived by …
by Michael For decades, an insidious Big Brother control grid has been growing and evolving all around us, and now artificial intelligence is allowing authorities to do things that they have never been able to do before. Shockingly, that includes monitoring where we drive so that those with “suspicious” travel patterns can be detained. There …
New Texas law could turn every phone into a tracking pass. We must repeal SB2420. Digital IDs should have no place in Texas! https://t.co/ssLBy2M8Xn — Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) November 3, 2025 🚨Texas should be leading the fight against dystopian and tyrannical Digital IDs! I'm announcing plans to file legislation to REPEAL SB2420, which moves Texas …
Tony Blair on the incredible “benefits” of combining digital ID with facial recognition and AI. 😳 “Facial recognition can now spot suspects in real time from live video… [It] helps identify suspects quickly in busy places like train stations and events.” “AI will go even further—spotting crime patterns, guiding patrols and streamlining decisions… This is …
The Biden FBI quietly crossed lines that most Americans assumed were untouchable, secretly tracking the communications of 8 sitting Republican senators and expanding that reach to nearly a dozen more under the Arctic Frost investigation. This was not oversight; this was premeditated surveillance dressed as legality, a playbook for political targeting that erodes trust in …
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-ends-israel-military-units-access-cloud-service-rcna233723 Microsoft has cut off some services to a unit in Israel’s Defense Ministry after investigating allegations that it was using Microsoft cloud products for the mass surveillance of Palestinians. In a blog post published Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the move came after reviewing an Aug. 6 report from The Guardian that said …
The AP obtained tens of thousands of pages of classified and internal documents that show how U.S. companies designed and marketed systems that became the foundation for China’s digital cage. (AP Video/Serginho Roosblad, Marshall Ritzel)
Think about that for a second. Criminals can act freely while you are left completely exposed. Every law seems to tilt in favor of those breaking the rules, and ordinary people are left to pay the price. I could easily see blue states following a similar path. Moving to Nashville was a good decision. — …
The founder of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence surveillance, warning that Congress must act swiftly to prevent a repeat of the privacy disasters that have plagued online tracking for decades. Gabriel Weinberg argues that AI presents far more serious privacy threats than traditional search engines ever did. While search …
NEW – Venezuela’s Maduro says he has a Huawei smartphone gifted by Xi, calling it “the best in the world” and immune to U.S. surveillance pic.twitter.com/4xk8eQVce6 — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 3, 2025
The Kids Online Safety Act closely follows the Anti-Defamation League’s bill targeting anti-Semitism, which often means anti-Zionism in practice. Critics say Western governments, after backing Israel’s actions in Gaza, now push this law to silence dissent online. The timing looks suspicious. The law claims to protect children but mainly punishes social media companies with heavy …
The identity behind Bitcoin’s creation remains unconfirmed. In October 2008, a white paper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” appeared under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The network went live in January 2009. While the name is Japanese, linguistic and posting analyses suggest Western origins. No government has ever publicly verified Nakamoto’s identity. Roughly 1,000,000 …
Data privacy activists, many of whom are supporters of President Donald Trump, are expressing anger and disbelief following reports that his administration had advanced plans to create a national citizen database with technology firm Palantir. The White House has reportedly contracted Palantir, a Colorado-based analytics company co-founded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, to assist in …
It didn’t come with sirens or warnings. It came wrapped in applause. Trump called it the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and the crowd roared like it was the second coming. But while they were chanting, while they were waving flags and soaking in the show, the real payload slipped through unnoticed. The bill isn’t beautiful. …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched mandatory Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance at select U.S. airports, expanding its monitoring of communicable diseases among international arrivals. The program, known as TGS, is designed to detect viruses such as influenza A, influenza B, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. This initiative raises concerns about …