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Dr. Robert Malone
Dr. Robert Malone
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Here's what has Malone worried:
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US President Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden
"Facebook isn't killing people, these 12 people are out there giving misinformation. Anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It's killing people. It's bad information."Biden told reporters after giving remarks about the economy, referencing a study that showed a dozen accounts on Facebook are responsible for the majority of misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine seen on the platform.
"My hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally, that somehow I'm saying Facebook is killing people, that they would do something about the misinformation, the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine. That's what I meant."
Comment: Why the push? Only when 100% of the population 'chooses' vaccination will the government be off the hook for all outcomes - hence the relentless, heavy-handed mandate for full compliance.
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The French probe will examine 10 different charges, including whether there was a breach of personal privacy, fraudulent access to personal electronic devices, and criminal association, the Paris prosecutor's office said on July 20.
The announcement comes a day after website Mediapart filed a legal complaint, accusing Morocco's secret services of having used the Israel-based NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to spy on the mobile phones of two of its reporters.
Rabat rejected what it called "unfounded and false allegations."
Comment: Even the president of Mexico is opening an investigation into NSO and its spyware, claiming victimization:
The president of Mexico has vowed to open an investigation into reports that members of the previous government had bought Israeli spying software and had used it to spy on the country's current socialist leader, among others.Amazon has cut ties with NSO group:
In a speech on Tuesday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador labeled allegations that the previous administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto spied on him and his associates as "shameful."
"They had sophisticated equipment to listen to all phone calls, not only from the person who was the target, but from everyone around them," he claimed, adding that it wasn't just him they allegedly spied on, but his wife, children, doctor and dozens more.
The Guardian reported that as many as 50 of Lopez Obrador's closest allies were targeted by the previous administration, which was the first purchaser of the Pegasus software.
The news outlet said that the data it received showed the phone numbers of priests, victims of state-sponsored crimes and the children of high-profile figures among those targeted by the spyware, challenging NSO's claims that the technology was only used to fight serious crime and terrorism.
Amazon has pulled the plug on infrastructure and other services that it offered to Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group.The tech and retail giant announced on Monday that it had deactivated cloud computing accounts linked to NSO Group. The Israeli company reportedly used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to operate the spyware programs that it marketed to governments around the world.See also:
It's believed that the digital surveillance software - which is reportedly capable of accessing and recording texts, videos, photos and web activity, and can even log passwords used on the device - may have been used by foreign governments to target as many as 50,000 people, including business executives, religious figures, academics, NGO workers, presidents and prime ministers.
"When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts," an AWS spokesperson said.
NSO Group disputed that AWS had shut down its accounts, prompting Amazon to double down.
"We shut down the infrastructure referenced in this report that was confirmed to be supporting the reported hacking activity, in accordance with our terms of use," a spokesperson for the company reiterated.
Amnesty's analysis of 67 smartphones allegedly targeted by Pegasus found evidence of successful infection on 23 devices and signs of attempted infiltration on 14 others. The NGO also claimed that NSO's malware sent information "to a service fronted by Amazon CloudFront, suggesting NSO Group has switched to using AWS services in recent months."
Citizen Lab, a group at Toronto University that has been tracking Pegasus for years, said in a peer review of Amnesty's finding that it had "independently observed NSO Group begin to make extensive use of Amazon services including CloudFront in 2021." CloudFront is an Amazon service that allows clients to securely deliver data using high transfer speeds.
Amazon was less proactive when media reports revealed in May 2020 that the Israeli firm may have used Amazon infrastructure to deliver malware to unsuspecting victims.
- Israeli spyware successfully broke into journalists' iPhones by sending iMessages that didn't even need to be read
- What is the Israeli-developed Pegasus spyware and why are the world's journalists so angry and spooked by it?
- Dozens of Al-Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using Israeli firm's spyware
- WhatsApp says Indian journalists, activists were spied on using Israeli spyware
- Leak exposes global abuse of cyber-spying weapon to target politicians, activists, & journalists
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WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki
WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki
Psaki said last week that the White House will flag posts deemed vaccine misinformation to Facebook. But the White House press secretary did not address Monday whether the White House will "publicly release information on posts that it considers misinformation on vaccines that it's asked Facebook to block."
Comment: When beliefs get in the way we have 'data in terms of trends' and 'theories that hold merit'.
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USAF F-15E Strike Eagles over Iraq having conducted airstrikes in Syria
USAF F-15E Strike Eagles over Iraq having conducted airstrikes in Syria
Air defense systems in Syria were activated in response to Israeli airstrikes south of the city of Aleppo on Tuesday, according to Syrian state TV and the SANA news agency.
A Syrian army source told the Syrian news agency that air defenses intercepted most of the missiles, which were launched toward the Al-Safirah area in the northwest of the country. No casualties have been reported so far. An investigation is now underway regarding the results of the attack.
Dominic Cummings alleges that he had to persuade Boris Johnson that seeing the Queen in person a few days before announcing the first national lockdown was a bad idea Why you can trust Sky News
Boris Johnson did not want to tighten restrictions last autumn as "the people who are dying are essentially all over 80", Dominic Cummings has claimed.
In an interview with the BBC, the PM's former senior adviser alleges that Mr Johnson said in leaked messages that he no longer believed "all this NHS overwhelmed stuff" as he refrained from imposing England's second lockdown.
Comment: All things considered, that's a pretty reasonable statement; but that's not what Bojo was telling the public.
Comment: Apart from Cummings' spin, the revelations support the idea that, once there was sufficient data to evaluate the situation, Bojo did not believe the coronavirus was a significant threat. But, clearly he and leaders all over the planet were leaned on by a much greater force to lockdown anyway: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19
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Former South African president Jacob Zuma's arrest sparked widespread riots and looting in the country
A judge at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in the former president's home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday adjourned Zuma's trial until August 10. Zuma's lawyers had requested a delay to allow him to appear in person and properly consult with them.
Zuma is charged with multiple counts of corruption, fraud and racketeering in connection with a massive 1999 arms deal involving French defense giant Thales when he served as deputy president. The company has also been charged with corruption and money laundering.
Comment: Authorities seem to hope the violence sparked over Zuma's arrest will abate if the matter is removed from the public eye for a while. This is likely only a temporary solution.
- The row raging over a corrupt former president's jailing shows that South Africa is heading down a sad and familiar path
- South Africa's deterioration worst among nations not at war
- 28 arrested as protests erupt in South Africa over jailed former president Zuma
- Death toll in South African unrest jumps above 200 as looting and violence continues in KwaZulu-Natal
- South African president pledges to seize white farmers land without compensation and redistribute to black citizens
- South Africa - The first country built on "Critical Race Theory" - officially implodes
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Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, it was the first rocket attack on Kabul since the Taliban launched a series of offensives to coincide with the final drawdown of foreign troops from the war-wracked country.
The early morning holiday calm was shattered by the sound of incoming rockets heard across the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the presidential palace and several embassies, including the US mission.
Pegasus spyware was used to target journalists and political leaders
A worldwide scandal has broken after it emerged that thousands of journalists around the world may have been spied on by their governments using their iPhones or Android phones.
Opposition MPs in Hungary have demanded an inquiry after a investigation by a group of media outlets claimed Viktor Orban's government bought the Pegasus malware to spy on journalists, politicians and businessmen who had been critical.
Comment:
- Israeli spyware successfully broke into journalists' iPhones by sending iMessages that didn't even need to be read
- Israeli spyware discovered on phones in 45 countries, including the US
- Israeli spyware used to target Moroccan journalist, Amnesty claims
- WhatsApp says Indian journalists, activists were spied on using Israeli spyware
- Saudi intel chief agreed to buy Pegasus 3 spyware from an Israeli cyber firm, reports confirm
- Facebook's alleged pursuit of spy software shows rapacity of its 'advertising machine'
- 'The worst of the worst': Court rejects calls to revoke Israeli firm's 'Pegasus' spy software, used globally to track and trace dissidents
- Israeli government okayed spyware sale to Saudis to track Khashoggi and spy on Iran
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The New York Post reports that Twitter has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene this week for violating its policy against posting "misleading information" related to the coronavirus pandemic. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to the Post that Greene's personal account would be placed in "read-only mode" for 12 hours, presumably meaning her followers can view her previous tweets but she is unable to make any new posts. This suspension should expire on Tuesday morning.
Twitter's coronavirus vaccine misinformation policy was unveiled in March and states that 12-hour suspensions are given to users that have violated its policy on more than two or three occasions. A fourth violation results in a week's suspension while a fifth strike can lead to a permanent account ban.
Comment: How many times can one person be "accidentally" suspended?
See also:
- Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Ruffalo and anyone else flinging around terms like 'holocaust' and 'genocide' are cheapening tragedy
- Twitter confirms it suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account 'in error'
- Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts COVID-19 vaccine passports: 'Biden's mark of the beast'
- Marjorie Taylor Greene folds to Establishment pressure, blames Facebook for QAnon beliefs, before being kicked off House Committees anyway
- House Dems seek to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee assignments
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files impeachment articles on Biden
- Democratic opponent of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon-supporting GOP candidate, drops out of congressional race
Comment: As 'the flaw' gains mass awareness...what then?