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Police Use Contact Tracing And Big Tech To Identify Protesters (UPDATED)
Countless warnings about how law enforcement could use contact-tracing apps to monitor people have gone unheeded. As BGR.com revealed police are using contact tracing to identify protester’s affiliations. Continue reading
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The Moral Authority of the Lockdown Fetishists Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters
This past April, in the midst of the surging pandemic and collapsing US economy, I was interviewed by three sources in Europe for a US perspective on the events. The following is the first part of an interview with Polish social commentator, Konrad Stachnio, that will appear in a collection of interviews later this summer.… Continue reading
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The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Among the constant deluge of police brutality footage flooding the internet as America’s armed goon patrol responds to the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, there is one video which stands out above all the others in illustrating just how pervasively violent police culture is. Curiously enough, this video itself contains no police brutality. Continue reading
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Capitalism: As for the markets, covid-19 never happened
6 June 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom Let us be clear. We are in the biggest bubble in history. Investors underestimated the fall in March, now they are overestimating the recovery. Therefore, they are vulnerable to bad news. And there is a lot of bad news to come. When that happens, the placard raised will read FIRE,… Continue reading
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A Joint Enterprise: How the UK and the US co-operate on drone warfare
A new report published today by Drone Wars UK investigates the co-operation between the UK and the US in relation to armed drone operations. While the UK insist its armed drone programme is separate and independent to that of the US, our report, ‘Joint Enterprise: An overview of US-UK co-operation on armed drone operations’, argues… Continue reading
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I…Can’t…Breathe
6 June 2020 — Daily Maverick Zapiro (South Africa) Continue reading
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USA: Returning to normal?
The recent release of the US jobs data for May, which apparently showed a reduction in the unemployment rate from April, sparked a sharp rally in the US stock market. And if you were to follow the stock markets of the major economies, you would think that the world economy was racing back to normal… Continue reading
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“The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed by the U.S. – A Country Built on Genocide and Slavery
More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. Continue reading
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Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR
Open Rights Group has instructed lawyers to lodge a complaint with the UK’s data watchdog over the rollout of the Test and Trace system because it says the system breaches the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Continue reading
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The Death of George Floyd News Links 27 May – 4 June 2020
4 June 2020 15:20 — The New Dark Age “A riot is the language of the unheard” https://mronline.org/2020/06/03/a-riot-is-the-language-of-the-unheard/ UPRISING: The Story of America Crashes Headlong Into the Reality of America https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/04/uprising-the-story-of-america-crashes-headlong-into-the-reality-of-america/ Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property https://williambowles.info/2020/06/04/agent-provocateurs-police-at-protests-all-over-the-country-caught-destroying-property/ Continue reading
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The cia coup against ‘the most loyal ally’ is history’s warning in 2020
The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? Continue reading
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Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property
The United States is on fire. Since the police killing of George Floyd on May 26, millions have taken to the streets in protest, clashing with police. At least 11 people have died, and thousands have been arrested. 15 states (plus Washington, D.C.) have called in the National Guard to quash protests raging in over… Continue reading
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Rebellion and Repression: Capitalism’s Long Hot Summer Begins
Trump declared last night from the White House that he would “end the riots” with a national military mobilization to “dominate the streets” and that “if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary,” he would “deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.” Continue reading
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5G, the new track of the arms race
While Canada has just authorized the extradition of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of one of Huawei’s leaders, to the United States, the U.S. Congressional Research Service exposes the military component of the G5. At Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada – announces the Pentagon – construction of a 5G experimental network will begin in July.… Continue reading
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Racism and the Protest Movement in America
2 June 2020 — Global Research Combat Troops Coming to US Streets? By Stephen Lendman, June 02, 2020 On Monday, Trump threw more fuel on a national inferno of public rage instead of showing leadership to calm things by pledging transformational change to serve all Americans equitably. Last week, he inflamed things by tweeting: “When the looting… Continue reading
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Trump’s China policy at a cul-de-sac
This past week has been a catastrophic seven days that shook America. Some of the debris may have inevitably fallen on President Donald Trump too. Most important, the Trump administration has lost the plot on China. Continue reading
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As US protests show, the challenge is how to rise above the violence inherent in state power
This kind of bipartisan denial of reality only underscores how quickly we are entering a period of crisis and revolt. From the G8 protests, to the Occupy movement, to Extinction Rebellion, to the schools protests, to the Yellow Vests, to the current fury on US streets, there is evidence all around that the centre is… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: America the Failed State, Justice for George Floyd
1 June 2020 — Global Research News Nationwide Uprisings Against Failed States Triggered by Police Killings By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, June 01, 2020 The nationwide uprising sparked by the murder of George Floyd and other recent racially-motivated events is a response to the bi-partisan failed state in which we live. It comes in the… Continue reading
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Latest Acts of Piracy by US Against Iran
A new intense confrontation between Iran and the United States is expected to take place in the future. And it could very well turn into a full-on war. Continue reading
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Stock markets innoculated, but economy remains vulnerable due to underlying condition – low profitability
In many ways, we are now in the eye of the hurricane or cyclone. That eerie calm with clear blue skies. But as any meteorologist knows, the tail winds that follow this calm are more powerful and destructive than the leading winds which have recently passed. Continue reading
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