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Project Veritas: Google whistleblower goes public on 'machine learning fairness', says 'burden lifted off my soul'


Project Veritas
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:03 UTC
Google whistleblower Zachary Vorhies
© Project Veritas
A Google insider who anonymously leaked internal documents to Project Veritas made the decision to go public in an on-the-record video interview. The insider, Zachary Vorhies, decided to go public after receiving a letter from Google, and after he says Google allegedly called the police to perform a "wellness check" on him.

Along with the interview, Vorhies asked Project Veritas to publish more of the internal Google documents he had previously leaked. Said Vorhies:
I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting the documents for over a year. And the reason why I collected these documents was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States.

In June of 2019, Project Veritas published internal Google documents revealing "algorithmic unfairness." Vorhies told Project Veritas these were documents that were widely available to full-time Google employees:
These documents were available to every single employee within the company that was full-time. And so as a full-time employee at the company, I just searched for some keywords and these documents started to pop up. And so once I started finding one document and started finding keywords for other documents and I would enter that in and continue this cycle until I had a treasure trove and archive of documents that clearly spelled out the system, what they're attempting to do in very clear language.

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The 'set up' of Julian Assange and why The Guardian and New York Times should be in jail

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:43 UTC
Julian Assange
© AP/Matt Dunham
Julian Assange
Award-winning journalist Mark Davis has exposed the extent to which The Guardian and New York Times betrayed Julian Assange in 2010, and have played a pivotal and consciously dishonest role in smearing him ever since.

Speaking at an event in Sydney, Australia 8th August, Davis recalled how he'd closely followed Assange's activities in the first half of that year in order to make a series of programmes on the WikiLeaks founder's life for Australia's Special Broadcasting Service - he ended up with so much material he was able to compile a documentary, Inside WikiLeaks.

In particular, Davis was granted intimate insight into the release of the Afghan War Logs - 90,000 US military incident and intelligence reports compiled January 2004 - December 2009. Provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, the files offered damning and previously hidden evidence of war crimes perpetrated by Allied forces in the country, including a number of extrajudicial killings.

Publication was ostensibly to be a collaborative effort in which WikiLeaks and a number of mainstream media outlets, most prominently The Guardian and New York Times, would work in concert curating the files and preparing them for publication - The Guardian went to the extent of establishing a dedicated operations room, dubbed "the bunker", in order to facilitate the project.
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Civil disobedience in Hong Kong? US color revolution attempt...or both?

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Hong Kong protest
© ANI
Protesters in Hong Kong
As the saying goes, if it walks, talks, and quacks like a duck, chances are it is one. What's been going on for months in Hong Kong has all the earmarks of a US orchestrated color revolution, aimed at destabilizing China by targeting its soft Hong Kong underbelly.

In calling for reunification of China in the early 1980s, then-leader Deng Xiaoping said Hong Kong and Macau could retain their own economic, financial and governmental systems, Taiwan as well under a "one country, two systems" arrangement.

The above would be something like what the US 10th Amendment stipulates, stating:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Each of the 50 US states has its own electoral system, governing procedures, and laws that may differ from federal ones.

China's soft underbelly in Western-oriented Hong Kong left it vulnerable to what's going on. US dirty hands likely orchestrated and manipulated pro-Western 5th column elements behind months of anti-Beijing protests.

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Insider hands DOJ 950 docs and laptop exposing Google's AI platform bias operation

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Google algorithms
© Google
A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms - in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content - delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice's Antitrust division Friday.

The former Google insider, who has already spoken to the nonprofit organization Project Veritas, met with SaraACarter.com on several occasions last week. He was interviewed in silhouette, to conceal his identity, in group's latest film, which they say exposes bias inside the social media platform.

Several weeks prior, the insider mailed a laptop to the DOJ containing the same information delivered on Friday, they said. The former insider is choosing to remain anonymous until Project Veritas' James O'Keefe reveals his identity tomorrow (Wednesday).

He told this reporter on his recent trip to Washington D.C. that the documents he turned over to the Justice Department will provide proof that Google has been manipulating the algorithms and the evidence of how it was done, the insider said.

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'Pushback with Aaron Maté': Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent

Aaron Maté
The Gray Zone
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:40 UTC
Ven Flag
© Reuters/Edgard Garrido
The Trump administration is intensifying its economic warfare on the people of Venezuela with a crippling embargo — and facing no resistance from the Democratic Party.

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Trump: 'Can't imagine why' anyone would relate Hong Kong protests to US meddling


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:49 UTC
Riot police/Hong Kong
© Reuters/Tyrone Siu
Riot police face off with protesters in Hong Kong, August 11, 2019.
For the life of him, US President Donald Trump can't explain why critics would associate Washington with Hong Kong's unrest, expressing bewilderment in a tweet just before sounding the alarm about a Chinese invasion of the city.

In a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, the president observed: "Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong. I can't imagine why?" Answering his own question, perhaps, he followed up that missive with another tweet five minutes later, ominously warning that "Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong."

Preparations for Chinese military drills in the border town of Shenzhen, however, were reported on Monday by the Chinese Communist Party's (CPC) own media arm - the troop's movements did not require secret intelligence to divine. According to the CPC-affiliated Global Times, the large-scale movements in Shenzhen are tied to exercises, rather than an invasion. Similar drills were carried out by the city's police force earlier this month, involving some 12,000 officers.


Comment: In addition from RT,14/8/2019: Beijing denies Hong Kong port visits by two US warships
USS Green Bay/USS Lake Erie
© US.Navy/Mass Communication Specialist: 1st Class Daniel Barker/3rd Class Mackenzie P. Adams
USS Green Bay • USS Lake Erie
China has "denied requests for port visits to Hong Kong" by the USS Lake Erie guided-missile cruiser and the USS Green Bay amphibious transport dock, Commander Nate Christensen, the deputy spokesperson for the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, said on Tuesday. Christensen did not specify why Beijing rejected the request, adding only that he expects the port visits "to continue" in the future.

Some US politicians, like Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have openly voiced their support for the protests. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that their words serve as "powerful evidence of the country's involvement" in the unrest.

See also: China refuses US warships entry to Hong Kong ports due to interference in protests
From RT,14/8/2019: Beijing tells US: 'Don't stick your nose' in China's Hong Kong affairs
Zhang Hanhui, China's freshly appointed ambassador in Moscow, reminded that Hong Kong is Chinese and not "American" or "English." He thus cautioned foreign nations not to "stick their noses in our affairs," TASS reports.

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FBI conducts raid on Epstein's Little St. James island


RT
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:17 UTC
Little St. James
© File Photo Reuters/Marco Bello
Little St. James Island, one of the properties of financier Jeffrey Epstein, US Virgin Islands
FBI agents have raided the island of Little St. James, property of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, two days after his death inside a New York jail.

A group of tourists on a chartered boat off the coast of the island spotted the law enforcement on Monday and took photos and video of the raid. "We were enjoying lunch when we saw over a dozen people getting off their speedboats and landing on the island," the anonymous witness told the Daily Mail, which got the footage. "When we looked harder, we could see the FBI logo on the backs of their shirts."

The FBI has not officially commented on the raid, but its timing - two days after Epstein was found dead in the Manhattan jail after apparent suicide - has prompted questions.

Comment: Were they there to gather or suppress information? We may never know.

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Pentagon inflates number of ISIS terrorists justifying buildup of troops in Iraq

Drago Bosnic
FRN
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
soldiers'reflection
© Task & Purpose
A senior commander of Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), said that the US report on the presence of 14,000 ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria is unrealistic and the numbers have been exaggerated too much, in order to give Americans an excuse to increase the number of troops in the region.

"What the American sources say about the number of ISIS members and the danger of their infiltration from Syria to Iraq is an attempt to intimidate the Iraqi nation and government," Mo'ein al-Kazzemi told the Arabic-language Baghdad al-Youm news website on Tuesday. "The Americans want to find a pretext for their continued military presence and increase their forces," he added.

Al-Kazzemi said that the Iraqi security forces are now chasing and cleansing ISIS terrorists from al-Anbar, Salahuddin, Nineveh and Diyala provinces, stressing that Operation Will of Victory has shown that only a few dozens of ISIS terrorists have remained in their hideouts in Iraq.
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IRGC: Hezbollah can 'wipe Zionist regime off the map by itself', as rhetoric escalates


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:29 UTC
Hezbollah fighter/watchtower
© AP/Bilal Hussein
Hezbollah fighter at watchtower
Earlier, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander claimed that the Lebanese militant group had 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel and ready to fire in the event of war.


Comment: This isn't news actually. It's been known for some time. But it's important that Israel be reminded of it so that, if and when they do something stupid, everyone knows they were given every chance to redeem themselves and start behaving like a civilized nation.


Lebanon's Hezbollah militia group has the capability to defeat Israel without any foreign assistance, IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami has alleged, speaking to officers in Urmia, northwestern Iran on Wednesday, his remarks quoted by the FARS News Agency.
"They (the US and its allies) intended to undermine Iran's regional influence, but everyone witnessed how this policy backfired to increase Iran's influence and a united front was formed against the Zionist regime. The Lebanese Hezbollah has now developed such an extent of power through the experience of confrontation against proxy wars that it is now able to wipe the Zionist regime off the map in any possible war by itself. Wherever the enemy is, we are already there."
War of Words

Israel, which classifies Hezbollah as a 'terrorist group,' and which has conducted hundreds of strikes targeting it and other Damascus-allied forces operating in Syria in the anti-Daesh (ISIS) effort, has repeatedly threatened to destroy the militia movement's fighting capabilities in the event of a new war.
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Propaganda

Information Laundering Scheme : Comey's FBI was running a secret counterintelligence operation against Trump, new docs show

Gregg Jarrett
Fox News
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Russian File, Obama, Comey, MCCABE PAGE, STRZOK, Lynch, Yates, Clinton, OHR
Newly obtained documents confirm that James Comey's FBI was running a secret and corrupt counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016 and repeatedly deceiving the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) thereafter in order to wiretap a Trump campaign associate.

The disclosure was the result of a federal lawsuit and a year of litigation. Despite efforts by FBI Director Christopher Wray to obstruct, a federal court issued an order that forced the FBI and Department of Justice to produce the records known as "302 reports." They are a summary of interviews FBI agents conducted with Bruce Ohr, a top DOJ official.

These 302s show that the FBI and DOJ were warned repeatedly by Ohr that ex-British spy Christopher Steele was virulently biased against the target of their investigation, Trump.
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