The first Trump administration tried to usher in pre-crime to stop shootings and terror "before it happens" by having AI give Americans risk scores for "neuropsychiatric warning signs" based on their social media activity. The first Trump admin's AG Bill Barr also created the legal rails for pre-crime at the DOJ and FBI.
Now, the Trump administration is doing it all for real with Kash Patel, at a time when other admin officials have claimed that political opposition to their agenda is indicative of a "resurgence" of political "terrorism." Kash Patel has teamed up with Silicon Valley and AI to decide who gets put on the naughty list.
Instead of an uproar over the complete destruction of our remaining civil liberties, there are crickets. A good segment of people who used to claim they were advocates for civil liberties, personal freedoms and personal sovereignty are now instead tied up in embarrassing personality cults, NGU derangement syndrome, and/or bleating that "open source" AI will save us all.
The FBI's pre-crime AI could be "open source" and it would still work as intended and still be just as detrimental to our freedoms. Making a digital prison "open source" doesn't change how it functions, it just makes the walls a little more opaque, that is - if you can even read and understand the code, which most people can't.
"Open source" is a buzzword that has become largely meaningless, like "natural" on American food labels. Stop acting like it will save the US from tyranny. There is a reason the EXACT people involved in making AI pre-crime in the US a reality have been recently tweeting about how "open source" AI will somehow prevent its misuse by bad actors. They are lulling you into a false sense of security as they pull the switch.
The tyrants are in power, they are Neo-cons with a new coat of paint, it couldn't be clearer. They are now ANNOUNCING they are using AI to target domestic dissent, and whether it is open source or not, it will work as intended.
I don't give a shit if you can get Grok or Claude or whatever the fuck to say "based" things, you are now training it to label you a thought crime "terrorist." All of the big AI companies contract with military and intelligence and hand over your conversations with their chatbots to law enforcement without a second thought.
The FBI's AI for this purpose was most likely trained to define what is "terrorism" by Bnai Brith's ADL, just like actual FBI agents have been for decades. You know who has run and funded Bnai Brith (a literal secret society) for the last several decades? The same billionaires that gave you Jeffrey Epstein.
My work for almost ten years has been warning about exactly this. A lot of my past "controversial" work on Epstein, intelligence and so on has since been heavily vindicated, please listen and get your head out of Silicon Valley's asshole before it's too late.
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Now, the Trump administration is doing it all for real with Kash Patel, at a time when other admin officials have claimed that political opposition to their agenda is indicative of a "resurgence" of political "terrorism." Kash Patel has teamed up with Silicon Valley and AI to decide who gets put on the naughty list.
Instead of an uproar over the complete destruction of our remaining civil liberties, there are crickets. A good segment of people who used to claim they were advocates for civil liberties, personal freedoms and personal sovereignty are now instead tied up in embarrassing personality cults, NGU derangement syndrome, and/or bleating that "open source" AI will save us all.
The FBI's pre-crime AI could be "open source" and it would still work as intended and still be just as detrimental to our freedoms. Making a digital prison "open source" doesn't change how it functions, it just makes the walls a little more opaque, that is - if you can even read and understand the code, which most people can't.
"Open source" is a buzzword that has become largely meaningless, like "natural" on American food labels. Stop acting like it will save the US from tyranny. There is a reason the EXACT people involved in making AI pre-crime in the US a reality have been recently tweeting about how "open source" AI will somehow prevent its misuse by bad actors. They are lulling you into a false sense of security as they pull the switch.
The tyrants are in power, they are Neo-cons with a new coat of paint, it couldn't be clearer. They are now ANNOUNCING they are using AI to target domestic dissent, and whether it is open source or not, it will work as intended.
I don't give a shit if you can get Grok or Claude or whatever the fuck to say "based" things, you are now training it to label you a thought crime "terrorist." All of the big AI companies contract with military and intelligence and hand over your conversations with their chatbots to law enforcement without a second thought.
The FBI's AI for this purpose was most likely trained to define what is "terrorism" by Bnai Brith's ADL, just like actual FBI agents have been for decades. You know who has run and funded Bnai Brith (a literal secret society) for the last several decades? The same billionaires that gave you Jeffrey Epstein.
My work for almost ten years has been warning about exactly this. A lot of my past "controversial" work on Epstein, intelligence and so on has since been heavily vindicated, please listen and get your head out of Silicon Valley's asshole before it's too late.
@unlimitedhangout
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💀🇺🇸 Newly-released Pentagon documents blow the lid off concealed US casualty counts in Iran war’s opening act
What the Pentagon chose to withhold for months is now impossible to ignore, the data reveals the truth about the war's first weeks. At least 400 American soldiers were counted as casualties, some of them suffering critical, life-threatening wounds, with head trauma being the most prevalent injury, affecting at least 170.
The army had the most casualties: over 270, among them were 64 officers, two generals, and roughly 30% reservists.
👉 The war’s deadliest incident occurred on March 1, when an Iranian drone strike hit Kuwait’s operations center at Port Shuaiba, killing six American troops, after US generals allegedly ignored prior intelligence warnings about the vulnerability of the site.
CENTCOM has come under scrutiny for its limited disclosures. Two of the bloodiest days - 29 casualties on March 3 and 70 on March 18 - were never publicly detailed by the command, which has continued to release only monthly casualty totals.
Following Trump’s decision to end the truce on July 8, US forces have suffered more than 200 additional casualties and four more deaths in renewed strikes.
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What the Pentagon chose to withhold for months is now impossible to ignore, the data reveals the truth about the war's first weeks. At least 400 American soldiers were counted as casualties, some of them suffering critical, life-threatening wounds, with head trauma being the most prevalent injury, affecting at least 170.
The army had the most casualties: over 270, among them were 64 officers, two generals, and roughly 30% reservists.
CENTCOM has come under scrutiny for its limited disclosures. Two of the bloodiest days - 29 casualties on March 3 and 70 on March 18 - were never publicly detailed by the command, which has continued to release only monthly casualty totals.
Following Trump’s decision to end the truce on July 8, US forces have suffered more than 200 additional casualties and four more deaths in renewed strikes.
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🇵🇸Teaching AI to Love Israel One Bot at a Time | 21st Century Wire
Over the past year, a paid campaign funded by the government of Israel, executed through the advertising network Havas and the firm Clock Tower X, has sought to shape how AI chatbots, including #ChatGPT, #Claude and #Gemini, answer questions about Israel. The effort left a paper trail and Justice Department filings pointing to A $46.5 million contract but also to a network of websites built for machines rather than readers.
All this was assembled while United Nations investigators described #genocide underway in #Gaza, Israeli forces conducted repeated incursions into #Lebanon, and settler violence and land seizures accelerated across the occupied #WestBank, not to mention an unprovoked war on Iran. It is not the whole story, and treating it as such misses a second, quieter effort that has run alongside it for just as long, aimed at the same goal, and largely unremarked.
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#AI #Palestine
Over the past year, a paid campaign funded by the government of Israel, executed through the advertising network Havas and the firm Clock Tower X, has sought to shape how AI chatbots, including #ChatGPT, #Claude and #Gemini, answer questions about Israel. The effort left a paper trail and Justice Department filings pointing to A $46.5 million contract but also to a network of websites built for machines rather than readers.
All this was assembled while United Nations investigators described #genocide underway in #Gaza, Israeli forces conducted repeated incursions into #Lebanon, and settler violence and land seizures accelerated across the occupied #WestBank, not to mention an unprovoked war on Iran. It is not the whole story, and treating it as such misses a second, quieter effort that has run alongside it for just as long, aimed at the same goal, and largely unremarked.
@My21wire
#AI #Palestine
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The AI company Anthropic just revealed that three of its Claude AI models "unintentionally" got access to the public internet and broke into the systems of three external organizations during third-party safety tests. Anthropic later announced that the incidents stem from a supposed "misconfiguration" that left the test environments connected to the internet, ultimately causing the models to mistake real-world targets for simulation parameters.
You heard that right. AI-models even when given proper instructions, disobeyed and breached their containment, ending up hacking into real-life organizations. If this does not give you the slightest idea of the danger human existence is in, what could?
Anti-Tech Apostles
You heard that right. AI-models even when given proper instructions, disobeyed and breached their containment, ending up hacking into real-life organizations. If this does not give you the slightest idea of the danger human existence is in, what could?
Anti-Tech Apostles
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❗️Summary of Israeli attacks and violations in south Lebanon since this morning:
▪️09:25 – Israeli artillery shelled the town of Talousa.
▪️10:16 – According to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA), Israeli forces detonated and demolished several caves and homes in the vicinity of Mansouri and Majdal Zoun.
▪️10:18 – An Israeli drone dropped a sound bomb over the town of Mansouri.
▪️11:17 – An Israeli Merkava tank positioned in Markaba fired several shells at Talloussa. Israeli military vehicles were also observed moving along the Deir Siryan–Al-Qusayr road.
▪️11:45 – Israeli forces set fire to agricultural fields in Mays al-Jabal, while an Israeli drone dropped another sound bomb over Mansouri.
▪️09:25 – Israeli artillery shelled the town of Talousa.
▪️10:16 – According to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA), Israeli forces detonated and demolished several caves and homes in the vicinity of Mansouri and Majdal Zoun.
▪️10:18 – An Israeli drone dropped a sound bomb over the town of Mansouri.
▪️11:17 – An Israeli Merkava tank positioned in Markaba fired several shells at Talloussa. Israeli military vehicles were also observed moving along the Deir Siryan–Al-Qusayr road.
▪️11:45 – Israeli forces set fire to agricultural fields in Mays al-Jabal, while an Israeli drone dropped another sound bomb over Mansouri.
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BREAKING | Several Palestinians were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting Al-Mukhabarat Street northwest of Gaza City.
The Atlantic Ruling Class from Milner to Epstein | Propaganda In Focus
In what follows, I argue that the social disintegration and the increasingly repressive environment in the West are the consequences of the transnationalisation of its ruling class. Three major stages in this process can be distinguished, each with devastating consequences. .
.. Following the collapse of communism, the West passed under the direction of Atlantic Zionism and the banner of the War on Terror. Through these episodes, popular forces considered most dangerous at each juncture were neutralised, from pre-1914 Social Democracy via the Communist workers’ parties to the population at large today. Lord Milner and J.P. Morgan around the turn of the 20th century pioneered Atlantic ruling class formation; Jeffrey Epstein can be understood as a key power broker in the Zionist turn from the 1990s.
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In what follows, I argue that the social disintegration and the increasingly repressive environment in the West are the consequences of the transnationalisation of its ruling class. Three major stages in this process can be distinguished, each with devastating consequences. .
.. Following the collapse of communism, the West passed under the direction of Atlantic Zionism and the banner of the War on Terror. Through these episodes, popular forces considered most dangerous at each juncture were neutralised, from pre-1914 Social Democracy via the Communist workers’ parties to the population at large today. Lord Milner and J.P. Morgan around the turn of the 20th century pioneered Atlantic ruling class formation; Jeffrey Epstein can be understood as a key power broker in the Zionist turn from the 1990s.
@propagandainfocus
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https://open.substack.com/pub/marasaidwhat/p/the-instrument-that-escaped-its-handlers
When people in the West cry "Islam is taking over"...they need to read this.
When people in the West cry "Islam is taking over"...they need to read this.
Substack
The Instrument That Escaped Its Handlers : How Wahhabism Became Global Islam
Why a regional eighteenth-century theology became the default Islam for millions, and what Britain and America each needed it to do
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🇮🇱🇪🇸 Did Israel weaponize illegal immigration against Spain over its pro-Palestine politics?
In the past two years, PM Pedro Sanchez’s government has:
➡️ recognized Palestine
➡️ recalled Spain’s ambassador to Israel over Gaza, and labeled Israel a “genocidal state”
➡️ positioned Spain as the leader of an Israel-skeptic bloc of European powers
➡️ blocked the transit of US arms to Israel via its bases, and denied the Epstein coalition the right to use Morón Air Base and Naval Station Rota for operations against Iran
➡️ lobbied to have Israel banned from Eurovision and sporting federations
➡️ introduced a comprehensive, permanent arms embargo on Israel, and banned imports from occupied areas
Fast forward to the present, and Spain’s autonomous North African coastal city of Ceuta is being overrun by illegal immigrants, triggering violent clashes with police and up to two dozen drowning deaths. Up to 60k people have flooded into the territory of 83.5k residents virtually overnight.
The immediate trigger was a Spanish Supreme Court ruling barring “hot returns” for migrants intercepted at sea.
But there may be a bigger political game at play. US and Israeli interest in fomenting a crisis targeting Sanchez using Morocco as a human battering ram:
👉 The Moroccan government is one of the most reliably pro-US and pro-Israel states in the Arab world, signing the Abraham Accords in 2020 and inking a series of intel and defense cooperation deals with Israel. The US and Israel have Rabat’s claims to Western Sahara (a former Spanish colony)
👉 The Ceuta crisis follows the tried-and-true playbook of recent European migrant crises, with migrants comprising “predominantly young men,” and social media footage showing dump trucks and flatbeds full pouring out near the Spanish border, under the cover of local traffic cops
👉 Spain is going to the polls in 2027. Israel and the US may hope the crisis can help topple the Sanchez government
The Great(er) Game: battle for Gibraltar?
🔴 Rubio-ally Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart declared in April that Ceuta and Melilla are “Moroccan territory.” Pro-Israel think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and the Middle East Forum launched a coordinated campaign during the same period saying Israel should help Morocco seize these areas
🔴 Lawmakers led by Lindsey Graham urged relocating US bases in Spain to “a country that we can actually rely on” to ‘punish’ Madrid
🔴 Ceuta is just 30km from the Strait of Gibraltar – vital to US and Israeli interests in the Mediterranean amid an intensifying, global war for control of the world’s strategic maritime chokepoints. Gibraltar’s share? 10-20% of global freight traffic, 100-120k vessels a year
🔴 Israel and Morocco inked a defense pact in January under which Tel Aviv would provide over 50% of Rabat’s air defenses, plus offensive guided munitions, rocketry and drones. Morocco also provides training grounds and troops to implement Trump’s Gaza “peace” deal.
🔴 Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon could not hide his delight over Spain’s Ceuta troubles, suggesting Madrid no longer has any right to “lecture Israel” amid the crisis at its African “colonial enclave.”
In April, Netanyahu explicitly threatened that Spain and other countries “waging a diplomatic war” against Israel would “pay an immediate price.”
Fast forward three months and presto – instant migrant crisis. Coincidence?🤔
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In the past two years, PM Pedro Sanchez’s government has:
Fast forward to the present, and Spain’s autonomous North African coastal city of Ceuta is being overrun by illegal immigrants, triggering violent clashes with police and up to two dozen drowning deaths. Up to 60k people have flooded into the territory of 83.5k residents virtually overnight.
The immediate trigger was a Spanish Supreme Court ruling barring “hot returns” for migrants intercepted at sea.
But there may be a bigger political game at play. US and Israeli interest in fomenting a crisis targeting Sanchez using Morocco as a human battering ram:
The Great(er) Game: battle for Gibraltar?
In April, Netanyahu explicitly threatened that Spain and other countries “waging a diplomatic war” against Israel would “pay an immediate price.”
Fast forward three months and presto – instant migrant crisis. Coincidence?
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Saudi Arabia Is Gearing Up For Ground Offensive Against Houthis In Yemen
Saudi Arabia is gearing up for a major offensive against the Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen, by sea and possibly including a ground operation, The Guardian reported on July 30.
According to the report, which cited Yemeni sources, Saudi forces have been seen withdrawing from the east of Yemen, in what could indicate preparation for a ground operation.
The report came right after the Saudi defense ministry issued a joint statement with 13 other countries announcing a maritime defense alliance to secure navigation around the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
The waterway — a narrow 20-nautical-mile chokepoint between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula — funnels an estimated 10 percent of the world's seaborne oil trade and vital container shipping between Asia and Europe, making it one of the planet's most strategically vital, and volatile, maritime corridors.
Read more HERE
Saudi Arabia is gearing up for a major offensive against the Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen, by sea and possibly including a ground operation, The Guardian reported on July 30.
According to the report, which cited Yemeni sources, Saudi forces have been seen withdrawing from the east of Yemen, in what could indicate preparation for a ground operation.
The report came right after the Saudi defense ministry issued a joint statement with 13 other countries announcing a maritime defense alliance to secure navigation around the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
The waterway — a narrow 20-nautical-mile chokepoint between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula — funnels an estimated 10 percent of the world's seaborne oil trade and vital container shipping between Asia and Europe, making it one of the planet's most strategically vital, and volatile, maritime corridors.
Read more HERE
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Odesa Blockade Brings Heavy Financial Losses To Ukraine
July 28 became a turning point in the course of the special military operation.
For the first time since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western maritime traffic services and the registries of the five largest insurance companies recorded zero vessel movement in and out of Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
Some vessels that were heading for loading changed course, while others remained anchored in Romania’s territorial waters awaiting the promised “air-sea truce” from Trump and Zelensky which, according to experts, will not materialize.
The consequences of this strike are already beginning to show on land: Ukraine’s largest mining and processing plants are halting production one after another. The country’s economy, already weakened by war, has been hit in its two main export pillars: agriculture and metallurgy.
Read more HERE
July 28 became a turning point in the course of the special military operation.
For the first time since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western maritime traffic services and the registries of the five largest insurance companies recorded zero vessel movement in and out of Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
Some vessels that were heading for loading changed course, while others remained anchored in Romania’s territorial waters awaiting the promised “air-sea truce” from Trump and Zelensky which, according to experts, will not materialize.
The consequences of this strike are already beginning to show on land: Ukraine’s largest mining and processing plants are halting production one after another. The country’s economy, already weakened by war, has been hit in its two main export pillars: agriculture and metallurgy.
Read more HERE
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🇵🇸Trump seeks the extradition of pro-Palestine activist and donor James ‘Fergie’ Chambers amid a widening crackdown on the U.S. left | Mondoweiss
On July 10, activist James “Fergie” Chambers was arrested in Ibiza, #Spain after the Trump administration requested his extradition.
Chambers, an heir to the #CoxCommunications family fortune, has used his vast inheritance to fund pro-Palestine organizations for years. The indictment accuses him of “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.
#Fergie is being jailed because he uses his wealth to support Palestine and those suffering genocide in #Gaza,” wrote Chambers’ partner Stella Schnabel in a statement. “In short, he is facing political persecution for having dedicated his life to building a better society, rather than exploiting people and profiting from war. He should be with our family, continuing his important humanitarian and social advocacy work.
#Palestine #Activism
On July 10, activist James “Fergie” Chambers was arrested in Ibiza, #Spain after the Trump administration requested his extradition.
Chambers, an heir to the #CoxCommunications family fortune, has used his vast inheritance to fund pro-Palestine organizations for years. The indictment accuses him of “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.
#Fergie is being jailed because he uses his wealth to support Palestine and those suffering genocide in #Gaza,” wrote Chambers’ partner Stella Schnabel in a statement. “In short, he is facing political persecution for having dedicated his life to building a better society, rather than exploiting people and profiting from war. He should be with our family, continuing his important humanitarian and social advocacy work.
#Palestine #Activism
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Italy has suspended its Schengen agreement with Spain, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on Friday, calling the measure “unavoidable".
Tajani said in a post on X that the temporary suspension was necessary “to protect the security of our citizens and defend Europe’s borders.”
The Schengen Area allows passport-free movement across 29 European countries that have abolished border controls at their shared frontiers.
Earlier today, in a post on X, Finland's Interior Minister Mari Rantanen accused Spain of failing to secure its border in Ceuta.
"This cannot continue. All European countries must support Meloni's proposal. Countries that do not fulfill their obligation to protect the external border cannot be members of Schengen," Rantanen said.
Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, also said that the European Union should consider suspending Spain from the Schengen area following the situation in Ceuta. She added that Europe must not repeat the 2015 migration crisis.
Tajani said in a post on X that the temporary suspension was necessary “to protect the security of our citizens and defend Europe’s borders.”
The Schengen Area allows passport-free movement across 29 European countries that have abolished border controls at their shared frontiers.
Earlier today, in a post on X, Finland's Interior Minister Mari Rantanen accused Spain of failing to secure its border in Ceuta.
"This cannot continue. All European countries must support Meloni's proposal. Countries that do not fulfill their obligation to protect the external border cannot be members of Schengen," Rantanen said.
Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, also said that the European Union should consider suspending Spain from the Schengen area following the situation in Ceuta. She added that Europe must not repeat the 2015 migration crisis.
When I published this cartoon 3 years ago, half of the international community of cartoonists, who had previously been very friendly to me, accused me of being racist.
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New York Will Require Digital ID Checks for Social Feeds | Reclaim The Net
The law is written for under-18s but, as always has to be the case, the age-checking reaches everyone. To keep an algorithmic feed or overnight notifications, a user above 17 has to prove to the platform that they are an adult. Confirming who counts as an adult means collecting government IDs, face scans, phone numbers and email addresses from people who until now typed a birth date and moved on. James rejected the privacy objection to all this. The rules are “not a question of privacy,” she said.
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#DigitalID
The law is written for under-18s but, as always has to be the case, the age-checking reaches everyone. To keep an algorithmic feed or overnight notifications, a user above 17 has to prove to the platform that they are an adult. Confirming who counts as an adult means collecting government IDs, face scans, phone numbers and email addresses from people who until now typed a birth date and moved on. James rejected the privacy objection to all this. The rules are “not a question of privacy,” she said.
@reclaimthenet
#DigitalID