UK government is seeking to bring “bossware” under control
In the UK, workplace monitoring technology, or “bossware,” is becoming more common. It increasingly tracks employees’ activity, measures their performance and supports decisions that affect their working lives.
So, in a public consultation launched on 8 July 2026, the Government is proposing either guidance or legislation to control its use...
https://expose-news.com/2026/08/04/uk-government-is-seeking/
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In the UK, workplace monitoring technology, or “bossware,” is becoming more common. It increasingly tracks employees’ activity, measures their performance and supports decisions that affect their working lives.
So, in a public consultation launched on 8 July 2026, the Government is proposing either guidance or legislation to control its use...
https://expose-news.com/2026/08/04/uk-government-is-seeking/
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🚨🇷🇺 Western Media Wrote Off Russian Influence in Syria — It Only Grew Stronger
When Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024, Western media portrayed it as a strategic collapse for Russia. Western media expected Moscow to lose Hmeimim, Tartus, its Mediterranean foothold and its gateway to Africa, while Syria moved into the US orbit.
Less than two years later, the opposite is happening.
The US has withdrawn from all its major Syrian bases, handing over the last one at Qasrak in April. Russia retains a reduced military presence at Hmeimim and part of Tartus and sent its first major resupply mission since Assad’s fall in May. The new government is now negotiating the terms of Russia’s continued presence rather than forcing it out.
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces once fought the Syrian army backed by Moscow. After taking power, however, he opened direct contacts with the Kremlin and visited Putin twice in less than four months. Syrian officials called their January meeting a turning point in reviving economic cooperation.
Russia moved quickly to supply what the new authorities need most. Russian suppliers provided 85% of Syria’s imported wheat in the 2025–26 season. The country received 16.8M barrels of Russian oil in 2025, with deliveries rising to an estimated 60,000 barrels per day in early 2026.
Russia is now negotiating a logistics route linking Novorossiysk with Tartus and markets across the Middle East. It also offers Damascus energy, reconstruction, diplomatic backing at the UN and support for Syrian territorial integrity against Israeli attacks and foreign partition plans.
The US lifted sanctions, backed al-Sharaa and expected Syria’s new order to push Russia out. Instead, American troops vacated their major bases while Moscow became a partner to the same government that overthrew its former ally.
US officials are already trying to respond. A Pentagon budget amendment calls for options to reduce Russian influence and remove its forces, while the State Department is warning against Russian logistics projects. Even Ilan Berman, president of the American Foreign Policy Council and a former consultant to the CIA, State Department and Pentagon, describes Moscow’s strategy as “quiet and successful.”
Moscow has proved that its position in Syria did not depend on Assad alone. By rebuilding military, economic and diplomatic ties with the new authorities, it preserved its strategic foothold and made its influence more resilient.
Western media assumed that removing Assad would also remove Russia. Instead, Moscow adapted to the new order, kept its bases and expanded its economic role while American forces headed for the exit.
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When Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024, Western media portrayed it as a strategic collapse for Russia. Western media expected Moscow to lose Hmeimim, Tartus, its Mediterranean foothold and its gateway to Africa, while Syria moved into the US orbit.
Less than two years later, the opposite is happening.
The US has withdrawn from all its major Syrian bases, handing over the last one at Qasrak in April. Russia retains a reduced military presence at Hmeimim and part of Tartus and sent its first major resupply mission since Assad’s fall in May. The new government is now negotiating the terms of Russia’s continued presence rather than forcing it out.
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces once fought the Syrian army backed by Moscow. After taking power, however, he opened direct contacts with the Kremlin and visited Putin twice in less than four months. Syrian officials called their January meeting a turning point in reviving economic cooperation.
Russia moved quickly to supply what the new authorities need most. Russian suppliers provided 85% of Syria’s imported wheat in the 2025–26 season. The country received 16.8M barrels of Russian oil in 2025, with deliveries rising to an estimated 60,000 barrels per day in early 2026.
Russia is now negotiating a logistics route linking Novorossiysk with Tartus and markets across the Middle East. It also offers Damascus energy, reconstruction, diplomatic backing at the UN and support for Syrian territorial integrity against Israeli attacks and foreign partition plans.
The US lifted sanctions, backed al-Sharaa and expected Syria’s new order to push Russia out. Instead, American troops vacated their major bases while Moscow became a partner to the same government that overthrew its former ally.
US officials are already trying to respond. A Pentagon budget amendment calls for options to reduce Russian influence and remove its forces, while the State Department is warning against Russian logistics projects. Even Ilan Berman, president of the American Foreign Policy Council and a former consultant to the CIA, State Department and Pentagon, describes Moscow’s strategy as “quiet and successful.”
Moscow has proved that its position in Syria did not depend on Assad alone. By rebuilding military, economic and diplomatic ties with the new authorities, it preserved its strategic foothold and made its influence more resilient.
Western media assumed that removing Assad would also remove Russia. Instead, Moscow adapted to the new order, kept its bases and expanded its economic role while American forces headed for the exit.
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🧹Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using user reports, AI filters, content hashes, and other moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result, the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing and promptly reporting it.
🤝 From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this.
⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities:
— Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.
— The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared.
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#SouthernSyria | #Damascus: A journalist arrested over a WhatsApp message, and a radio station’s office shut down at the agriculture minister’s request
Journalist “Hamza al-Abbas” was arrested this morning, August 3, 2026, after sending a message to a WhatsApp group describing the injustice done to him and his colleagues.
Details: About nine months ago, “Sawt al-Sham Radio” rented a house in the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood to serve as its headquarters. The so-called “Illicit Gains Commission” then seized a house on the floor below the station’s offices, and the head of that commission, who is also STG’s Agriculture Minister Basel Sweidan, moved into the seized house. He then sent his men to demand that “Sawt al-Sham Radio” shut down its office and vacate the building for “security reasons.”
After Hamza al-Abbas, a member of the radio’s staff, wrote about the injustice done to them in a WhatsApp group with various media figures, he was arrested immediately.
It’s worth noting that the so-called “Illicit Gains Commission” carries out its own illicit seizures by confiscating the property of businessmen, even those with no ties to the former regime. Its most recent operation involved seizing at least ten pharmaceutical factories across Syria, including “Hama Pharma.” About a month ago, after that factory’s director posted on Facebook that his plant had been seized and that he was disclaiming responsibility for any medications produced from then on, he too was arrested, and his Facebook page was shut down.
Journalist “Hamza al-Abbas” was arrested this morning, August 3, 2026, after sending a message to a WhatsApp group describing the injustice done to him and his colleagues.
Details: About nine months ago, “Sawt al-Sham Radio” rented a house in the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood to serve as its headquarters. The so-called “Illicit Gains Commission” then seized a house on the floor below the station’s offices, and the head of that commission, who is also STG’s Agriculture Minister Basel Sweidan, moved into the seized house. He then sent his men to demand that “Sawt al-Sham Radio” shut down its office and vacate the building for “security reasons.”
After Hamza al-Abbas, a member of the radio’s staff, wrote about the injustice done to them in a WhatsApp group with various media figures, he was arrested immediately.
It’s worth noting that the so-called “Illicit Gains Commission” carries out its own illicit seizures by confiscating the property of businessmen, even those with no ties to the former regime. Its most recent operation involved seizing at least ten pharmaceutical factories across Syria, including “Hama Pharma.” About a month ago, after that factory’s director posted on Facebook that his plant had been seized and that he was disclaiming responsibility for any medications produced from then on, he too was arrested, and his Facebook page was shut down.
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Syria To Drop Russian Oil In Attempt To Appease U.S.
Senior Syrian officials have told the United States they are willing to significantly reduce Russian oil imports as they discuss Washington’s removal of Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism (SST), Reuters reported on August 4, citing Syrian and American sources.
The U.S. reportedly did not explicitly frame the reduction as a precondition for lifting the designation, though the Syrian source said American officials told their counterparts that ending Russian oil purchases would “improve the chances of lifting the SST designation quickly and without complications.”
Russian oil shipments to Syria jumped 75% to about 60,000 barrels per day this year, according to Reuters, which noted that although this is a very small share of Russia’s daily global oil exports, it still made Moscow the dominant crude supplier to the country.
A Syrian energy official told the news agency Damascus was already seeking new suppliers.
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Senior Syrian officials have told the United States they are willing to significantly reduce Russian oil imports as they discuss Washington’s removal of Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism (SST), Reuters reported on August 4, citing Syrian and American sources.
The U.S. reportedly did not explicitly frame the reduction as a precondition for lifting the designation, though the Syrian source said American officials told their counterparts that ending Russian oil purchases would “improve the chances of lifting the SST designation quickly and without complications.”
Russian oil shipments to Syria jumped 75% to about 60,000 barrels per day this year, according to Reuters, which noted that although this is a very small share of Russia’s daily global oil exports, it still made Moscow the dominant crude supplier to the country.
A Syrian energy official told the news agency Damascus was already seeking new suppliers.
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"The Pentagon Has Declared War on Humans."
The Department of War now calls America’s next “manifest destiny” an AI-first military, and it’s crystal clear that is a direct threat to humanity. This isn’t hyperbole; it’s arithmetic. Raising a human soldier takes two decades of life, love and training. Assembling a drone takes minutes in a factory. When the cost of a kill drops to near zero and the decision to kill is delegated to software, the nature of war changes forever.
We already have the evidence of the horrors that lie ahead. A United Nations report revealed that Kargu-2 quadcopters in Libya hunted down human targets using onboard cameras and machine learning without remote pilots.[1] NATO turned Ukraine into a live-fire laboratory for AI drones and terror strikes on Russia, with Palantir and Maxar integrating intelligence operations directly into Ukrainian military targeting.[2]
Those algorithms are coming home, too: Skydio’s AI drones, battle-tested in Gaza, now patrol American streets for over 800 agencies, including the NYPD and Customs and Border Protection.[3]"
Fusion of AI with the American war machine is the most dangerous turn in human history - The Expose
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The Department of War now calls America’s next “manifest destiny” an AI-first military, and it’s crystal clear that is a direct threat to humanity. This isn’t hyperbole; it’s arithmetic. Raising a human soldier takes two decades of life, love and training. Assembling a drone takes minutes in a factory. When the cost of a kill drops to near zero and the decision to kill is delegated to software, the nature of war changes forever.
We already have the evidence of the horrors that lie ahead. A United Nations report revealed that Kargu-2 quadcopters in Libya hunted down human targets using onboard cameras and machine learning without remote pilots.[1] NATO turned Ukraine into a live-fire laboratory for AI drones and terror strikes on Russia, with Palantir and Maxar integrating intelligence operations directly into Ukrainian military targeting.[2]
Those algorithms are coming home, too: Skydio’s AI drones, battle-tested in Gaza, now patrol American streets for over 800 agencies, including the NYPD and Customs and Border Protection.[3]"
Fusion of AI with the American war machine is the most dangerous turn in human history - The Expose
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Fusion of AI with the American war machine is the most dangerous turn in human history
The Pentagon calls America's AI-first military its new "manifest destiny." Mike Adams calls it a one-way ticket to a dystopia from which we may never escape. The "AI-first" military is characterised by the integration of autonomous drones and machine learning…
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The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it’s surprsingly honest and informative. – Source
'Fun fact': #Palantir was originally built by #DARPA for "counter-terrorism", Palantir now powers decision-making across federal departments, police forces, militaries, and major corporations.
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'Fun fact': #Palantir was originally built by #DARPA for "counter-terrorism", Palantir now powers decision-making across federal departments, police forces, militaries, and major corporations.
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🇯🇵🇵🇸"Even if I am alone, I wanted to raise my voice."
Every day since October 2023, Yusuke Furisawa has stood alone in the streets of Japan with banners reading "Free Palestine" and "Stop the Genocide."
As Israel continues its genocide in Palestine's Gaza, the Japanese activist says he refuses to stay silent despite being ignored by most passersby. Driven by what he calls a responsibility to his conscience, Furisawa says he will continue demanding an immediate ceasefire, an end to the Israeli occupation and equal human rights for Palestinians.
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Every day since October 2023, Yusuke Furisawa has stood alone in the streets of Japan with banners reading "Free Palestine" and "Stop the Genocide."
As Israel continues its genocide in Palestine's Gaza, the Japanese activist says he refuses to stay silent despite being ignored by most passersby. Driven by what he calls a responsibility to his conscience, Furisawa says he will continue demanding an immediate ceasefire, an end to the Israeli occupation and equal human rights for Palestinians.
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🇵🇸Thirsty, Wounded, Still Alive: Gaza’s Artists in the Water Line | Palestine Chronicle
War fears music, theater and painting. It fears everything that still trembles with wonder. It fears the paper kites children fashion during fragile moments of ceasefire from scraps of paper and remnants of hope salvaged from beneath the rubble.
That is why war does not confine itself to its first and most obvious purpose—the killing of human beings and the destruction of their bodies. With a particular cruelty, it pursues everything beautiful that human beings create. It seeks to erase our visual and sonic memory, lest anything remain to remind us of how we once smiled.
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In Gaza’s endless water lines, three artists reveal how war devastates culture yet cannot silence the human spirit behind art.
War fears music, theater and painting. It fears everything that still trembles with wonder. It fears the paper kites children fashion during fragile moments of ceasefire from scraps of paper and remnants of hope salvaged from beneath the rubble.
That is why war does not confine itself to its first and most obvious purpose—the killing of human beings and the destruction of their bodies. With a particular cruelty, it pursues everything beautiful that human beings create. It seeks to erase our visual and sonic memory, lest anything remain to remind us of how we once smiled.
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Did UK intelligence stage the Salisbury Novichok attack? | Propaganda In Focus
The final report delivered to the public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, a British woman who died four months after the Russian state allegedly attempted to assassinate the former spy Sergei Skripal in 2018, did something unprecedented: it explicitly considered the possibility that UK intelligence had somehow staged the events.
After spending some time considering this possibility in his report, the chair of the inquiry, retired Supreme Court judge Lord Anthony Hughes, decided that he was “sure” such staging had not occurred.
But how did Hughes arrive at this certainty? In this article we will examine the questions around a potential staging scenario that Hughes addressed, and how he responded to them.
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The final report delivered to the public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, a British woman who died four months after the Russian state allegedly attempted to assassinate the former spy Sergei Skripal in 2018, did something unprecedented: it explicitly considered the possibility that UK intelligence had somehow staged the events.
After spending some time considering this possibility in his report, the chair of the inquiry, retired Supreme Court judge Lord Anthony Hughes, decided that he was “sure” such staging had not occurred.
But how did Hughes arrive at this certainty? In this article we will examine the questions around a potential staging scenario that Hughes addressed, and how he responded to them.
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❗️Israel burns more than 120 hectares of centuries-old olive groves in southern Lebanon
▪️According to L'Orient-Le Jour, Israeli occupation forces set fire to more than 120 hectares (1,200 dunams) of olive groves and fruit orchards in the occupied border town of Yaroun (Bint Jbeil District), with the blaze burning for over 36 hours.
▪️Yaroun Municipality Chairman Hafez Ghacham told L'Orient that the fire destroyed centuries-old olive trees, some more than 100 years old, while others were at least 50 years old.
▪️Because the village lies within the area occupied by Israeli forces, residents and firefighters were unable to reach the site, leaving the flames to consume the land unchecked.
▪️Ghacham described the destruction as an assault on Yaroun's history, identity, and livelihood, saying the olive groves had been passed down through generations and supported dozens of families. He estimated the destroyed land would have produced thousands of cans of olive oil, noting that each dunam yields an average of six cans, with each can worth around $150.
▪️He recalled watching the fields burn "helpless and in tears," adding that "houses can be rebuilt, but the old olive trees will take decades to return," while his 84-year-old father told him he was "more saddened by the trees than by the house."
▪️The municipality said it would submit evidence of the destruction to the United Nations, accusing Israel of targeting not only homes but also the environment, cultural heritage, and agricultural life of southern Lebanon.
▪️According to L'Orient-Le Jour, Israeli occupation forces set fire to more than 120 hectares (1,200 dunams) of olive groves and fruit orchards in the occupied border town of Yaroun (Bint Jbeil District), with the blaze burning for over 36 hours.
▪️Yaroun Municipality Chairman Hafez Ghacham told L'Orient that the fire destroyed centuries-old olive trees, some more than 100 years old, while others were at least 50 years old.
▪️Because the village lies within the area occupied by Israeli forces, residents and firefighters were unable to reach the site, leaving the flames to consume the land unchecked.
▪️Ghacham described the destruction as an assault on Yaroun's history, identity, and livelihood, saying the olive groves had been passed down through generations and supported dozens of families. He estimated the destroyed land would have produced thousands of cans of olive oil, noting that each dunam yields an average of six cans, with each can worth around $150.
▪️He recalled watching the fields burn "helpless and in tears," adding that "houses can be rebuilt, but the old olive trees will take decades to return," while his 84-year-old father told him he was "more saddened by the trees than by the house."
▪️The municipality said it would submit evidence of the destruction to the United Nations, accusing Israel of targeting not only homes but also the environment, cultural heritage, and agricultural life of southern Lebanon.