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โ๏ธIran records $7.5 billion in oil revenue despite US-Israeli war
Drawing on data released by the Oil Ministry, Fars News Agency reported that Iran successfully transferred 7.5 billion dollars in foreign currency earnings from oil sales to its central bank during the first four months of 2026.
This figure marks a striking fifty percent surge compared to the same timeframe in 2025. The robust financial inflows cover the opening months of the year, spanning the period directly following the outbreak of the joint US-Israeli war on Iran launched on 28 February.
Iranian authorities anticipate that these substantial reserves will comfortably sustain the administration's foreign currency requirements through late December.
Drawing on data released by the Oil Ministry, Fars News Agency reported that Iran successfully transferred 7.5 billion dollars in foreign currency earnings from oil sales to its central bank during the first four months of 2026.
This figure marks a striking fifty percent surge compared to the same timeframe in 2025. The robust financial inflows cover the opening months of the year, spanning the period directly following the outbreak of the joint US-Israeli war on Iran launched on 28 February.
Iranian authorities anticipate that these substantial reserves will comfortably sustain the administration's foreign currency requirements through late December.
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๐ต๐ธIsraeli colonists continue siege of three Palestinian homes in Qusra for 11th day
NABLUS, August 19, 2026 (WAFA) โ Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces (#IOF), continued for the 11th consecutive day to besiege three Palestinian homes in the Ras al-Ain area of #Qusra, south of #Nablus, amid attempts to force the families from their homes and impose a new reality on the ground.
According to WAFA correspondent, the occupation forces and colonists continue preventing the families from entering or leaving the three homes, while the area has been declared a closed military zone. The families have also been prevented from receiving essential supplies, including #water.
#Palestine #oPt #WestBank #Siege #SettlerTerrorist #SettlerViolence
NABLUS, August 19, 2026 (WAFA) โ Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces (#IOF), continued for the 11th consecutive day to besiege three Palestinian homes in the Ras al-Ain area of #Qusra, south of #Nablus, amid attempts to force the families from their homes and impose a new reality on the ground.
According to WAFA correspondent, the occupation forces and colonists continue preventing the families from entering or leaving the three homes, while the area has been declared a closed military zone. The families have also been prevented from receiving essential supplies, including #water.
#Palestine #oPt #WestBank #Siege #SettlerTerrorist #SettlerViolence
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#Comcast Turns Millions Of #Routers Into #Motion Sensors - The Same #WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy -ZH
Dear Comcast customers: The internet gateway in your living room is now a motion sensor. It's free of charge, and the data can go to law enforcement without further notice. What's more, researchers have already shown that these same signals can identify exactly who is in the room.
On Tuesday, Comcast unveiled Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built entirely around the WiFi network. Its centerpiece, WiFi Motion, turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge. According to Comcast, a typical customer has roughly 36 devices connected to their WiFi.
WiFi Motion works because a human body moving through a room disturbs the signal field between the gateway and stationary connected devices, like a printer or a game console. While the feature is opt-in and - according to Comcast's rollout materials - does not track phones or reach through WiFi extenders, those limitations are choices Comcast made in software, not limitations of the technology itself.
Comcast says WiFi Motion works "without recording video, capturing images or identifying individuals."
The company is not shy about identification as a product. The $15-a-month tier, Xfinity Shield Select, adds AI-powered cameras that identify people, pets, packages and vehicles. The free tier's restraint is a line drawn one product SKU away.
The company's own terms spell out where the data can go. According to the fine print that drew criticism when the feature first appeared last year, Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations. Users pointed out at the time that the only complete opt-out is returning the Xfinity router.
The true capabilities of this technology were laid out by researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in findings presented last November at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taipei. Using nothing but the traffic from an ordinary WiFi network, their system identified people with 99.5 percent accuracy in a study of 197 participants, regardless of viewing angle or how the person walked.
The method exploits beamforming feedback information (BFI) - housekeeping signals that every connected device sends back to the router so it can aim its transmissions efficiently. Beamforming has shipped with consumer WiFi hardware since WiFi 5. Because this feedback travels unencrypted, anyone within radio range can read it and, using a trained model, convert it into a crude radio image of whoever is present.
Dear Comcast customers: The internet gateway in your living room is now a motion sensor. It's free of charge, and the data can go to law enforcement without further notice. What's more, researchers have already shown that these same signals can identify exactly who is in the room.
On Tuesday, Comcast unveiled Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built entirely around the WiFi network. Its centerpiece, WiFi Motion, turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge. According to Comcast, a typical customer has roughly 36 devices connected to their WiFi.
WiFi Motion works because a human body moving through a room disturbs the signal field between the gateway and stationary connected devices, like a printer or a game console. While the feature is opt-in and - according to Comcast's rollout materials - does not track phones or reach through WiFi extenders, those limitations are choices Comcast made in software, not limitations of the technology itself.
Comcast says WiFi Motion works "without recording video, capturing images or identifying individuals."
The company is not shy about identification as a product. The $15-a-month tier, Xfinity Shield Select, adds AI-powered cameras that identify people, pets, packages and vehicles. The free tier's restraint is a line drawn one product SKU away.
The company's own terms spell out where the data can go. According to the fine print that drew criticism when the feature first appeared last year, Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations. Users pointed out at the time that the only complete opt-out is returning the Xfinity router.
The true capabilities of this technology were laid out by researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in findings presented last November at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taipei. Using nothing but the traffic from an ordinary WiFi network, their system identified people with 99.5 percent accuracy in a study of 197 participants, regardless of viewing angle or how the person walked.
The method exploits beamforming feedback information (BFI) - housekeeping signals that every connected device sends back to the router so it can aim its transmissions efficiently. Beamforming has shipped with consumer WiFi hardware since WiFi 5. Because this feedback travels unencrypted, anyone within radio range can read it and, using a trained model, convert it into a crude radio image of whoever is present.
ZeroHedge
Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy
Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations.
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Alan has a list of ๐คGrievance 100 miles long๐ค on ClearAIR.fm
MASTERS OF MASS-MIND MANIPULATION
ยฉ Alan Watt September 17, 2007
Everything is being made cheaper and cheaper and in such a way that they try to design machinery so that you can't fix it yourself or repair it. This is all by design, and so you find the new chainsaws for instance with the plastic casings on them don't last too long. The diaphragms in the carburettor stretch after a couple of weeks and you have to throw them away and get new ones. The cars now too, same thing, to get your battery changed you almost have to dismantle a wing to get at the battery. This, again, is by design.
Back in the '70โs I watched a documentary from Honda in Japan and they were trying shock absorbers on a machine, and they could tell how many thousands of times that could compress and expand that particular shock absorber before it would bust, and they standardized every one to that particular one.
MASTERS OF MASS-MIND MANIPULATION
ยฉ Alan Watt September 17, 2007
Everything is being made cheaper and cheaper and in such a way that they try to design machinery so that you can't fix it yourself or repair it. This is all by design, and so you find the new chainsaws for instance with the plastic casings on them don't last too long. The diaphragms in the carburettor stretch after a couple of weeks and you have to throw them away and get new ones. The cars now too, same thing, to get your battery changed you almost have to dismantle a wing to get at the battery. This, again, is by design.
Back in the '70โs I watched a documentary from Honda in Japan and they were trying shock absorbers on a machine, and they could tell how many thousands of times that could compress and expand that particular shock absorber before it would bust, and they standardized every one to that particular one.
Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
Revealed: French Cyber spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network | Computer Weekly
via @androidMalware
#France #Android #EnroChat #GitHub #BudBinderBug
Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones, used by organised crime groups, in 2020. In the first of two major articles, we describe how a Czech spyware company rehacked the French hack and found that French malware โ described as a national security secret โ had been copied from popular code-sharing platform GitHub.
The secret French state hacking group that broke into tens of thousands of encrypted secure phones in Europe used an Android exploit first spotted in 2017, CW can reveal. For two years, a fatal security vulnerability, known as the Bad Binder bug, was left unpatched inside 2.5 billion phones, leaving users at maximum risk. The exploit allowed cyber spies to take complete control of infected phones and copy or change usersโ data, programs and files at will.
via @androidMalware
#France #Android #EnroChat #GitHub #BudBinderBug
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๐บ๐ธ US TREASURY MOVES TO PROP UP ITS OWN DEBT MARKET
The US government is now paying over $3 billion a day just to service its national debt โ more than it spends on healthcare for its elderly (Medicare).
This week, US long-term borrowing costs hit their highest level in nearly two decades, as global investors grew increasingly unwilling to keep lending Washington money at current rates. Investors had reportedly tried offloading close to $20 billion in long-dated bonds, far more than the government was willing to buy back.
In response, the Treasury announced it will double the size of its long-term bond buyback operations โ from $2 billion to "at least" $4 billion per operation, starting September 9th. The vague, open-ended wording ("at least") is notable in itself: it suggests officials aren't confident this number will be enough.
Even more telling, Treasury said it will share more details on future buyback sizes at its next scheduled update on November 4th โ a signal that this is not a one-off move, but the start of an ongoing effort to manage a debt market under real strain.
This is not debt relief. Washington isn't paying down what it owes โ it's simply reshuffling which bonds are in circulation to calm markets. Total US debt is nearing $40 trillion and climbing every day.
The takeaway: even the US government is now openly admitting it needs to step in to keep its own debt market from spiraling.
@DDGeopolitics
#FiatCurrency #USTreasury #USDebt
#USTreasureBonds
The US government is now paying over $3 billion a day just to service its national debt โ more than it spends on healthcare for its elderly (Medicare).
This week, US long-term borrowing costs hit their highest level in nearly two decades, as global investors grew increasingly unwilling to keep lending Washington money at current rates. Investors had reportedly tried offloading close to $20 billion in long-dated bonds, far more than the government was willing to buy back.
In response, the Treasury announced it will double the size of its long-term bond buyback operations โ from $2 billion to "at least" $4 billion per operation, starting September 9th. The vague, open-ended wording ("at least") is notable in itself: it suggests officials aren't confident this number will be enough.
Even more telling, Treasury said it will share more details on future buyback sizes at its next scheduled update on November 4th โ a signal that this is not a one-off move, but the start of an ongoing effort to manage a debt market under real strain.
This is not debt relief. Washington isn't paying down what it owes โ it's simply reshuffling which bonds are in circulation to calm markets. Total US debt is nearing $40 trillion and climbing every day.
The takeaway: even the US government is now openly admitting it needs to step in to keep its own debt market from spiraling.
@DDGeopolitics
#FiatCurrency #USTreasury #USDebt
#USTreasureBonds
The CIA, Mossad and "Epstein Networkโ are Exploiting Mass Shootings | Whitney Webb - MintPress
.. Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, #Unit8200, whose โalumniโ often go on to create tech companies โ Carbyne among them โ that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often โblur the lineโ between their service to Israelโs defense/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, #Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies. ..
Carbyne - - > Blackwater Ops link
#CIA #Mossad #US
.. Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, #Unit8200, whose โalumniโ often go on to create tech companies โ Carbyne among them โ that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often โblur the lineโ between their service to Israelโs defense/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, #Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies. ..
Carbyne - - > Blackwater Ops link
#CIA #Mossad #US
This 'adversarial' pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting .. | TechCrunch
Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that could block the surveillance cameras lining Americaโs streets from detecting it.
Some 31 million tests later, Swearingen says he can now produce patterns on demand that, when applied to clothing and objects, prevent some of the most commonly deployed license plate readers and #surveillance cameras from detecting whatever the pattern covers, from people to vehicles.
๐ซlink to source without adblockerbloker
https://sandbox.norecognition.org/
#Flock
Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that could block the surveillance cameras lining Americaโs streets from detecting it.
Some 31 million tests later, Swearingen says he can now produce patterns on demand that, when applied to clothing and objects, prevent some of the most commonly deployed license plate readers and #surveillance cameras from detecting whatever the pattern covers, from people to vehicles.
๐ซlink to source without adblockerbloker
https://sandbox.norecognition.org/
#Flock
YouTube has removed Emir Kusturica's channel "My Life" (Moj ลพivot).
The channel, which had more than 30,000 subscribers and 10 million views, featured Kusturica's vlog. In it, the acclaimed Serbian film director shared his personal views on world events, discussed his creative plans, and reflected on his life philosophy. Recent episodes reportedly included exclusive material from the filming of his new movie, ฤuruลพanka.
The channel was blocked without prior warning or notification. While the channel's page cited a general "violation of YouTubeโs terms of service," no specific reason was provided.
In an interview with TASS, Kusturica strongly condemned the move, calling it "an attempt by a totalitarian society to wage war against people who speak the truth".
He elaborated on this view, stating that the platform's ideals represent a "totalitarian society" for which shutting down a channel is normal.
#Kusturica also stated that his open support for #Russia and its cultural heritage was the motivation for the blocking. He claimed this wasn't done by algorithms but by specific people acting on orders from an "intelligence center."
@LauraRuHK
#YouTube #Censorship #CancelCulture
The channel, which had more than 30,000 subscribers and 10 million views, featured Kusturica's vlog. In it, the acclaimed Serbian film director shared his personal views on world events, discussed his creative plans, and reflected on his life philosophy. Recent episodes reportedly included exclusive material from the filming of his new movie, ฤuruลพanka.
The channel was blocked without prior warning or notification. While the channel's page cited a general "violation of YouTubeโs terms of service," no specific reason was provided.
In an interview with TASS, Kusturica strongly condemned the move, calling it "an attempt by a totalitarian society to wage war against people who speak the truth".
He elaborated on this view, stating that the platform's ideals represent a "totalitarian society" for which shutting down a channel is normal.
#Kusturica also stated that his open support for #Russia and its cultural heritage was the motivation for the blocking. He claimed this wasn't done by algorithms but by specific people acting on orders from an "intelligence center."
@LauraRuHK
#YouTube #Censorship #CancelCulture