July 17, 2019
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Iran News Links 16-17 July 2019
17 July 2019 — The New Dark Age Reopening of Pakistan’s Airspace: A Bad Omen for India? Implications for Iran and Afghanistan https://www.globalresearch.ca/believe-it-not-reopening-pakistani-airspace-bad-omen-india/5683848 Today’s Links 17 July 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_17.html Continue reading
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The ‘Unconstitutional Animus’ Against UK Labour Leader
Johanna Ross spoke with David Miller, a propaganda researcher, after the recent publicity of U.K. civil service murmurings about Jeremy Corbyn’s “fitness.” Continue reading
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Consortium News Target of a Malware Attack as Twitter Takes Down Assange Support Group’s Account
The simultaneous escalation of censorship of Julian Assange’s support base, alongside the latest wave of fact-free attacks on Assange and WikiLeaks‘, raises concern about a coordinated effort to smear Assange while silencing those who counter such dubious reporting, says Elizabeth Vos. Continue reading
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British Hijack Iranian Ship: Another Day, Another Provocation By Tony Cartalucci
Had Iran openly hijacked a vessel of any nation, for any reason, plying through waters anywhere on Earth, the US and its allies would immediately cite it as a provocation toward war. Continue reading
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Police drop Experian profiling tool following Big Brother Watch exposé
A year on from BigBrotherWatch’s investigation into Durham Police’s use of Experian’s ‘Mosaic’ big data profiling tool for AI custody decisions, BigBrotherWatch discovered through a long Freedom of Information battle that Durham Police heeded calls to drop the discriminatory tool less than three weeks after their exposé. Continue reading
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CNN peddles intelligence agencies’ lies against Assange By Oscar Grenfell
17 July 2019 — WSWS CNN published a scurrilous attack against Julian Assange on Monday. Its sole purpose was to revive the discredited claim that the WikiLeaks founder functioned as an “agent” of the Russian government, in order to undermine growing opposition to the US attempts to prosecute Assange for exposing American war crimes and diplomatic Continue reading
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Massive photo databases secretly gathered in US and Europe to develop facial recognition By Kevin Reed
A report in the New York Times on Sunday revealed that millions of facial photos have been scraped from online sources and taken by hidden surveillance cameras and then shared in databases for artificial intelligence (AI) research and development purposes for more than a decade. Created in secret by universities and tech companies, the photo data… Continue reading
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Global Britain’s real climate changers: big oil must be taken down By Andy Higginbottom
The extended heat wave afflicting India has surpassed 50⁰C (122 degrees Fahrenheit), even worse than the terrible scorcher that was assessed “the 5th deadliest on record” and claimed thousands of lives in 2015.1 Matters could get even worse, the city of Chennai has almost run out of water, putting 10 million lives at risk. 2… Continue reading
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Complexities of 5G and National Security By Renee Parsons
In case you missed the kickoff, there is an unprecedented ‘must win’ wireless race for the US to cross the 5G finish line before China as alluded to during the recent Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Commerce Commission. Continue reading