Update: May 2019 — Big Brother Watch
Right now, the Metropolitan Police is deciding whether to roll out live facial recognition PERMANENTLY on our streets.
Police claim the public supports facial recognition surveillance – we think they’re wrong.
6 July 2019 — WSWS
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.
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 couriers and their union, the IWGB, has persuaded TDL to sign a historic pay deal. In the words of the IWGB: “The deal proves it is possible for so-called “gig economy” workers to secure hourly pay and improved conditions through campaigns and strikes.”
26 June 2019 — New Economics Foundation
Chris Williams Senior Programme Manager
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 environment provides to people.’
5 July 2019 — Off Guardian
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.
5 July 2019 — Global Research
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.
It caused me to wonder, if all the business and the best lands were owned outside the country, is there still a country left?
James Meek, a journalist who writes for The Guardian wonders the same thing.
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/
5 July 2019 — Internationalist 360°
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 two decades.
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
5 July 2019 — TRNN
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)
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
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
5 July 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
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.”
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