July 6, 2019
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Stop the Police using authoritarian facial recognition cameras
Right now, the Metropolitan Police is deciding whether to roll out live facial recognition PERMANENTLY on our streets. Continue reading
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UK’s GCHQ spy centre seeks new powers to circumvent encryption By Thomas Scripps
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has proposed that tech companies allow state spies into encrypted chats and calls. The new surveillance measures, known as a “ghost protocol,” would allow a government agent to “sit in” on ostensibly secure private conversations without the knowledge of other participants. This news comes just days after MI5 and GCHQ’s… Continue reading
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UK Border Regime updates special – Couriers win! – Summer School selling fast – Water bosses’ payouts – Priory Group makes millions
6 July 2019 — Corporate Watch First, some good news. At the end of last year we revealed the huge amounts pathology company The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) was paying to its directors and shareholders – while denying couriers the better pay they were demanding. Since then, six months of campaigning and threats of strike action by the… Continue reading
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Who has the power to restore nature? By Chris Williams
The UK’s 25 year environment plan — to lead the world in the ‘natural capital approach’ — contains many bold statements about the capacity of this approach to produce positive change for nature. One aim is for an ‘overall improvement’ in the health of the environment and to improve environmental decisions by ‘emphasising the value of the benefits the… Continue reading
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Google Promising Real-Time Censorship Search Engine Announced They Have “Tweaked” Algorithm to Boost “Authority” By Kit Knightly
Google has changed their algorithm so that it actively suppresses “misinformation” when “bad events” are taking place. This is pretty big news if you’re interested in free speech or the free flow of information. Nobody in the media treated it that way. Continue reading
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Book Review: Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else By Bryant Brown
In the nineteen seventies multinational corporations were buying all the Canadian businesses they could so the Pierre Trudeau government established the Foreign Investment Review Agency to try to control it. In Ontario we were seeing celebrities like Goldie Hawn buying up the best vacation properties in the lake district north of Toronto. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 6 July 2019
6 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Royal Marines seize Iranian tanker under orders from US British Marines Seized Iranian Oil Tanker http://thesaker.is/british-marines-seized-iranian-oil-tanker/ Continue reading
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A Conversation with Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Russia on an official visit on July 11. The Eurasian country is an important strategic partner for Bolivians, Morales told Sputnik in an interview. The president also revealed what he thinks of Donald Trump, how to solve the Venezuelan crisis and how he envisions Bolivia over the next… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 6 July 2019
6 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Suspending Chris Williamson: The Fury And The Fakery https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/suspending-chris-williamson-the-fury-and-the-fakery/ Iran Threatens Seizure of UK Oil Tanker if Iranian Oil Tanker Not Released http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/ebOPvtBDCAE/iran-threatens-seizure-of-uk-oil-tanker-if-iranian-oil-tanker-not-released.html Continue reading
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Facebook’s Libra Currency Monetizes Identity and Threatens Privacy
Bill Black discusses Feacebook’s new proposed crypto-currency, called “Libra.” Facebook could use this technology to standardize identity and create a world of ultimate surveillance, and then profit from it, says Black (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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China News Links 6 July 2019
6 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Hong Kong protests continue amid Beijing’s veiled threats of military intervention http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/06/hong-j06.html Everything you need to know about the Hong Kong protests http://links.org.au/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hong-kong-protests Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 6 July 2019
6 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Venezuela Building Socialism in the Midst of a War https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/venezuela-building-socialism-in-the-midst-of-a-war/ Putin congratulates Maduro on Venezuela Independence day https://tass.com/politics/1067357 Continue reading
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US vs China: Smartphone Wars
If Washington’s goal was to pressure and isolate China by targeting smartphone giant Huawei, it seems to have accomplished the exact opposite. In the process, the US has only accomplished in exposing its own growing weakness and unreliability as a trade partner amid a much wider, misguided and mismanaged “trade war.” Continue reading
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