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@tonydokoupil @CBSNews For more than a decade, lying #WarCriminal #Netanyahu has been funding #Hamas thru #Qatar. Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep #Palestinians divided jpost.com/arab-israeli-c…
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Jim Billings
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Jim Billings
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Home contractor. Gone from white collar to blue collar! Former television producer, writer & director. Ex-pioneering, serial multi-media entrepreneur.
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$SPY $QQQ Cleared my 0dtes on this candles. Good day everyone continue holding the SOXS 9p’s
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This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this
California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America
“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.
Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.
They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up
The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.
Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.
Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.
Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.
We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”
I looked more into this and he is 100% right
Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries
Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.
This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure
If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide
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Fox News has long been cheering the US Surveillance State. They support renewal of the domestic warrantless spying law with no reforms. They have no problem with all data being centralized in Palantir's control.
But they go to China and suddenly pretend to care about privacy.
Breaking911@Breaking911
Fox News crew in Beijing got ticketed by CCP surveillance cameras after illegally parking for just two minutes.
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🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE:
Photos suddenly gone. A website scrubbed. Stock photos depicted as company execs. A business "partner" that says they've never worked together.
The Trump admin gave a no-bid multimillion-dollar contract to surveil immigrants to a firm steeped in mystery.
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Israeli soldiers have gone on Israeli television and said they use dogs to r•pe prisoners.
Israeli settlers raided a military base in July 2024 and rioted for the “right to r•pe” after reservists were arrested for r•ping a male prisoner to death with a steel bar.
After the right to r•pe riots a member of the Israeli Knesset proclaimed that Israeli
soldiers had the right to do whatever they wanted to to Palestinian prisoners, including r•pe.
Quite literally no group of people have provided more evidence of the widespread, systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners at the hands of the IDF than Israelis themselves.
(All receipts below)
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⭕️ The Day After NYT’s Kristof Documented Systematic Israeli Rape of Detained Palestinians, CNN, AP, BBC, and NYT Gave Largely Uncritical Coverage to an Unverifiable Israeli Report
One day after New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a meticulously sourced investigation—drawing on 14 survivors, the UN, and several international rights groups—documenting systematic rape and sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners, the Times, along with other major media outlets, published largely uncritical coverage of a new report by the Civil Commission, an Israeli NGO claiming Hamas committed systematic sexual violence on October 7.
The underlying archive behind the Israeli report—which was covered by a wide range of outlets including the AP, CNN, BBC, and NYT—is entirely sealed. Only AP disclosed that its findings “could not be independently verified.” CNN acknowledged that it “has not been able to verify all of the contents of the archive”—though it claimed it has “seen many of the visual materials included in it.” The NYT noted the archive was closed “to protect the privacy of victims” without clarifying what that means for verification. The BBC likewise made no disclosure about whether it had reviewed or verified the sealed archive, writing only that “its evidence, which is being kept in a secure archive, may aid future prosecutions.”
Not one of the NYT, CNN, or BBC reports stated whether they had independently verified any of the report’s findings that they published in their own articles.
The report was led by Cochav Elkayam-Levy, who is both the founder and chair of the Civil Commission. She has faced serious challenges to her credibility over her previous investigations into claims of systemic sexual violence by Hamas on October 7. In 2024, Israel’s largest newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published a damning exposé in which Israeli government officials said her “methodology was neither good nor accurate” and that “people have disassociated themselves from her because her research is inaccurate.”
Officials were particularly incensed that she spread the debunked claim—originating with Yossi Landau of ZAKA—that a pregnant woman was found with her womb cut open. “Slowly, professionals began distancing themselves from her because she was not reliable,” one Israeli official said. Elkayam-Levy even presented an old image of dead female Kurdish fighters as women sexually assaulted at the Nova music festival during a Harvard talk, in an online video shared by The Grayzone. When confronted with the error, she did not correct the record.
All four outlets also cited the 2023 UN report by Pramila Patten. The BBC described Patten’s visit to Israel, where she met with ZAKA’s Landau and other Israeli groups and officials to “receive information,” as an “investigation”—despite Patten herself explicitly rejecting that characterization and stating her mission was “neither intended nor mandated to be investigative in nature.” Patten also acknowledged her mission did not include gathering or examining “evidence.” At the same time, the outlets ignored the findings of the more authoritative UN Commission of Inquiry — the UN’s highest investigative body — as well as subsequent findings by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, all of which stated they were unable to verify any individual instance of rape on October 7.
🎥 VIDEO: The New York Times on the rape and sexual violence of Palestinians. Full video and source references in the reply.
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On May 4th, a Swedish privacy lawyer caught Google Chrome silently installing a 4 GB AI model on every desktop computer it could reach.
If you delete the file, Chrome treats the deletion as a temporary error and downloads it again at the next opportunity.
The file is called weights.bin. It lives in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside the Chrome user profile directory. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model.
Hundreds of millions of devices now carry it. Two thirds of every desktop browser in the world is Chrome. Alexander Hanff, the Swedish privacy lawyer, installed a clean copy of Chrome on a fresh Mac, ran a script that visited a hundred webpages with no human input, and watched the system logs as Chrome silently wrote 4 GB to his disk.
Chrome 147 ships with an "AI Mode" pill rendered in the address bar. A reasonable user, knowing Chrome just installed an on-device AI model, would assume that visible AI Mode feature uses the model sitting on their hard drive. Local query. Local processing. Local privacy. Every part of that assumption is wrong.
The visible AI feature ships your queries to Google's servers. The 4 GB file on your hard drive does nothing visible. It powers obscure features buried in right-click menus that almost no Chrome user has ever clicked. The invisible binary sits on your disk and waits for the version that does.
Chrome is the most-installed surveillance product of all time. Two billion users. Every URL you visit, every search you type, every form you fill out, every site you stay on, every site you leave. The advertising model that pays for Chrome requires every one of those signals.
Chrome holds 64% of the global desktop browser market. Two-thirds of every reader of this sentence is reading it through software that just took 4 GB of their hard drive without asking.
Until last year, Chrome's surveillance ended at what you typed into the address bar and what your activity log showed. The model can now read the page you have open, the text you have selected, the draft you are writing inside a Gmail tab before you have decided whether to send it.
Google's "Help me write" feature requires that capability by definition. Help me write means read what I am writing. Locally. In real time. Pre-send.
It's time to switch browsers. The cartel cannot watch the screen it is not running on.
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We can’t let Maryland be represented by an AIPAC-aligned Big Tech lobbyist.
I’m Harry Jarin. I’m a small business owner, and volunteer firefighter, and I’m running for Congress in Maryland’s 5th District. I don’t take money from corporate PACs or AIPAC or any group like that.
There are a lot of candidates in this race, but they have experience in all the wrong areas. They’re career politicians: fighting to protect big tech companies, cutting backroom deals for billionaires, and stuffing legislation with favors for data centers and utility companies.
I’ve only ever fought to keep our communities safe. I don’t answer to lobbyists or corporate PACs - I only answer to you. In Congress, I’ll fight for universal healthcare, affordable housing, building infrastructure to speed up your commute, and giving Federal workers the respect they deserve.
But I can’t win without your help.
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This bastard #Boafo is anti-democratic! He's a #corporate puppet! Vote for his opponent!
David Sirota@davidsirota
🚨NEWS: Crypto donors, Maryland Gov. @IAmWesMoore and a top congressional Democrat are trying to deliver a key House Democratic primary to a candidate who has SIMULTANEOUSLY served in the state legislature while also being employed as a lobbyist for Larry Ellison's tech company.
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@davidsirota @iamwesmoore Governor Moore wants to be the kind of Democrat that big tech, big law, and big finance loves.
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@davidsirota @iamwesmoore I'm one of Adrian's primary opponents. This stuff is exactly why Democrats keep losing. The scale of Trump's corruption may be worse, but voters aren't good at math and this sort of corruption allows voters to dismiss the whole political system as rigged. Can we blame them?
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🚨NEWS: Crypto donors, Maryland Gov. @IAmWesMoore and a top congressional Democrat are trying to deliver a key House Democratic primary to a candidate who has SIMULTANEOUSLY served in the state legislature while also being employed as a lobbyist for Larry Ellison's tech company.
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David Sirota@davidsirota
🚨NEWS: Crypto donors, Maryland Gov. @IAmWesMoore and a top congressional Democrat are trying to deliver a key House Democratic primary to a candidate who has SIMULTANEOUSLY served in the state legislature while also being employed as a lobbyist for Larry Ellison's tech company.
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