NSA
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Trump’s embrace of dystopian Palantir spying tool sends stock soaring
The Trump administration has charged the surveillance firm Palantir with agglomerating the US population’s personal data across government agencies, raising alarm about a centralized spying tool targeting hundreds of millions without oversight. Wall Street responded to the news by sending Palantir’s stock price to unprecedented heights. Continue reading
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IT Independence is National Security
The NSA’s “Equation Group” is apparently behind the infection with malware of hard drive firmware on computers used by nations considered “enemies” by the United State. The installation of the malware is believed to have required access to trade secrets of IT manufacturers as well as physical access to the soon-to-be infected computers. Popular Science… Continue reading
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How The CIA Made Google
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups… Continue reading
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Likely Assassination of UN Chief by US, British and South African Intelligence Happened 60 Years Ago Today
Former President Harry Truman told reporters two days after Dag Hammarskjöld’s death on Sept. 18, 1961 that the U.N. secretary-general “was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him.’” Continue reading
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CIA Behind Guccifer & Russiagate – a Plausible Scenario
William Binney is the former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency who worked at the agency for 30 years. He is a respected independent critic of how American intelligence services abuse their powers to illegally spy on private communications of U.S. citizens and around the globe. Given his expert inside knowledge, it is… Continue reading
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The truth about immunity in the Sacoolas case over Harry Dunn’s death
Robert Woodward – TruePublica: The mainstream media have colluded with the state to cover up what really happened over the death of Harry Dunn by the American wife of a so-called diplomat driving on the wrong side of the road. Continue reading
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Edward Snowden: The man who exposed the electronic surveillance of everyone by US intelligence By Kevin Reed
In the final chapter of his memoir Permanent Record, Edward Snowden issues a warning to his readers. He writes, “[I]t wouldn’t take much for an interested government to find out that you’ve been reading this book. At the very least, it wouldn’t take much to find out that you have it, whether you downloaded it… Continue reading
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US protects NSA spy’s wife wanted in UK over teenager’s death By Laura Tiernan
The Trump administration is refusing to waive immunity for the wife of a senior US spy, who fled the UK after she was involved in a head-on collision more than a month ago that killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn. Continue reading
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Jonathan Sacoolas Is Not, and Has Never Been, a Diplomat
There is no Jonathan Sacoolas on the official Diplomatic list. Neither Sacoolas nor his wife has any right to claim diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention. Continue reading
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Film ‘Official Secrets’ is the Tip of a Mammoth Iceberg
A new film depicting the whistleblower Katherine Gun, who tried to stop the Iraq invasion, is largely accurate, but the story is not over, says Sam Husseini. Continue reading
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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. Continue reading
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‘Unlimited reach, no safeguards’: Snowden warns of greatest social control scheme in history
The US government has a tendency to hijack and weaponize revolutionary innovations, Edward Snowden said, noting that the natural human desire to communicate with others is now being exploited on an unprecedented scale. Continue reading
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“Technotyranny”: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State By John W. Whitehead
Twenty years after the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a red pill… Continue reading
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When ‘Former’ Spies Run Wild Bad Things Happen
The stories is this eassy are about nefarious activities by former NSA, former CIA, former military etc. staff that joined private businesses. They demonstrate that there is a structural problem when people trained to be weapons are allowed to run in the wild. Continue reading
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The kidnapping of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou By Andre Damon
On Wednesday, the world was shocked to learn that Canadian authorities had arrested and confined without bail Meng Wanzhou, the deputy chairperson of the Chinese smart phone giant Huawei, on charges brought by US prosecutors of violating American sanctions against Iran. Washington is calling for her extradition to the US. Continue reading
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Neocons Sabotage Trump’s Trade Talks – Huawei CFO Taken Hostage To Blackmail China By Moon of Alabama
CNN reports that White House chief of staff John Kelly is expected to resign soon. There have been similar rumors before, but this time the news may actually be true. That is bad for Trump and U.S. policies. Kerry is one a the few counterweights to national security advisor John Bolton. His replacement will likely… Continue reading
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Five Eyes Against Huawei
The motive for the war undertaken by Washington against Huawei is deep-rooted and spurious as are the justifications. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 