The leaked opinion showing the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade “is an invitation to all manner of challenges to deeply rooted precedents,” said one critic.
Texas GOP Governor Considers Challenging 1982 Ruling Requiring Free Public Education
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CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
The documents reveal the expansive plan the CDC had last year to use location data from a highly controversial data broker. SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence [Turki bin Faisal Al Saud] among its investors. Google banned the company from the Play Store in June.
The CDC used the data for monitoring curfews, with the documents saying that SafeGraph’s data “has been critical for ongoing response efforts, such as hourly monitoring of activity in curfew zones or detailed counts of visits to participating pharmacies for vaccine monitoring.” The documents date from 2021.
Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher who closely follows the data marketplace, told Motherboard in an online chat after reviewing the documents: “The CDC seems to have purposefully created an open-ended list of use cases, which included monitoring curfews, neighbor-to-neighbor visits, visits to churches, schools and pharmacies, and also a variety of analysis with this data specifically focused on ‘violence.’” (The document doesn’t stop at churches; it mentions “places of worship.”)
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Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Location data broker SafeGraph stops selling information on visits to abortion providers
SafeGraph Provides CDC and 1000+ Organizations With Data to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis
Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head:
On its website SafeGraph says “We believe places data should be open for all.” In April 2017, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, the former head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, invested in SafeGraph as part of a $16 million Series A funding round. SafeGraph said it had “assembled the deepest policy thinkers.” Beyond Faisal Al Saud, SafeGraph said it had enlisted the help of former U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, author Sam Harris, Meghan O’Sullivan who ran Iraq and Afghanistan policy under President George Bush, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Obama Mona Sutphen, and former German Minister of Defense Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, among others. Peter Thiel is also an investor in the company.
More investors: SafeGraph Raises $16 Million Series A
Ukrainians Are Getting Special Treatment At The US Border That Other Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Violence Aren’t, Immigration Lawyers Say
Ukrainians arriving at the southern border after fleeing war back home are being allowed into the US at a speed and ease most other immigrants don’t experience, a disparity that has frustrated attorneys and advocates who’ve been struggling to convince authorities that their clients deserve the same treatment.
Ukrainians Are Getting Special Treatment At The US Border That Other Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Violence Aren’t, Immigration Lawyers Say
Where’s the Republican outrage over these immigrants?! Oh wait, they’re white and we’re not the ones doing the bombing!?
Disinformation Board to Tackle Russia, Migrant Smugglers
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation
Disinformation Board to Tackle Russia, Migrant Smugglers
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Recommended YouTube video: DHS Creates “Disinformation Governance Board” – It’s About The Empire! (Source)
Who Is Nina Jankowicz? Head of Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board
Before her work advising the Ukrainian government, Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs for Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She holds an MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is one of the main components of the regime change organization National Endowment for Democracy (NED); that is, NED channels its funds through four organizations, and NDI is one of them, to “promote free, fair, transparent democratic elections but in such a way that it would assure that power went to the elites and not to the people”.
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Two Americans, Both Former Army, Wounded by Artillery in Ukraine Combat
Two Americans, Both Former Army, Wounded by Artillery in Ukraine Combat (video)
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Fox News Lauds Neo-Nazi [Paul Grey] in Ukraine With Austin Ties
Who is Paul Grey? Texas veteran joins Zelenskyy’s army to teach them to fight Russians
‘THIS IS THEIR 1776’: US ARMY VETERANS TRAIN UKRAINE CIVILIANS IN RESISTANCE WARFARE (Named only as Paul, just like Fox News did)
Texas paratrooper and Iraq veteran reveals his reasons for protecting Ukraine (Ditto, above)
Oil From Biden’s Emergency SPR Release Is Heading For Europe
Oil From Biden’s Emergency SPR Release Is Heading For Europe
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U.S. Exports Oil From SPR Release: Report
Bloomberg: Oil From U.S. Strategic Reserve Heads for Europe Amid Global Supply Crunch
[11-2021] U.S. Is Already Exporting Oil From Strategic Reserve at Record Pace
If the Biden Administration decides to tap U.S. emergency crude reserves to push down domestic energy prices, it may not help all that much. The supplies may just be exported away like last month.
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The White House has been mulling a range of options to ease soaring pump prices and Democrats are pressing for a potential ban on oil exports as well as the release of crude from the nation’s strategic reserves.
It’s not “Putin’s Price Hike,” if prices were going up, last November!
Let’s Talk About ‘Chemical Weapons’ Propaganda
As I write this, BBC reports that UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is “urgently” investigating reports of a chemical weapons attack in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The US Department of Defense finds the reports “deeply concerning.”
Usually when the western governments start quacking about “chemical attacks,” it means they’re planning to take action of some kind – airstrikes in Syria, sanctions on Russia, what have you – and are looking for an excuse.
Mariupol: Let’s Talk About ‘Chemical Weapons’ Propaganda
The US government is deploying robot dogs to the Mexico border. Seriously?
As if the border isn’t surveilled and militarized enough, the Department of Homeland Security wants to go full Black Mirror
The US government is deploying robot dogs to the Mexico border. Seriously?
MSNBC Needs a History Lesson: Imperial America is “Greatest Purveyor of Coups” on Earth
How Bannon’s “Billionaire” BFF Built an Empire of Bullshit
The weird, wild, and scary tale of Miles Guo. (Archived).
A Fugitive Chinese Tycoon Met Steve Bannon. Misinformation Mayhem Ensued.
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