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Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in US for tracking 'private' internet use

Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 07:41 UTC

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in "private" mode.

The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode.

According to the complaint filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, Google gathers data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps, regardless of whether users click on Google-supported ads.

This helps Google learn about users' friends, hobbies, favorite foods, shopping habits, and even the "most intimate and potentially embarrassing things" they search for online, the complaint said.

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Are we about to see a Color Revolution in the US aiming to oust Trump?

Kit Knightly
Off Guardian
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

The familiar tropes are out in force, Trump may not weather this storm.

It started with peaceful protests. It always does. Oppressed, poor or otherwise desperate people take to the streets because they don't know what else to do. Because their neighbours are doing it. Because the world is unfair to so many people. Because attention should be paid.

The reasons don't matter. The peacefulness does.

Nobody who is marching for justice and change really wants to burn down a bakery or steal some trainers from a Nike store.

But then it starts happening.

Windows are broken. Bricks are thrown. Civilians are sprayed with mace. Bystanders are caught up in the throng. People get hurt.

It doesn't need to happen, but it does.

Sometimes police panic in the face of intimidating crowds. Sometimes protesters let their anger boil over. A small minority of people just enjoy violence and chaos. Others stand to benefit from it, they stoke conflict and spread blame.

Then the molotov cocktails are flying and the snipers are shooting people on both sides. There's blood in the streets and barricades are going up and the whole thing has its own momentum.

"The Federal Reserve did it" - Riots across America are about more than George Floyd

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:50 UTC

As we detailed last night, what's happening to America right now: rioting, looting, pillaging, Americans fighting other Americans and while the media is spinning self-serving narratives that frame the bad guy as Trump, or China, or Russia, or this political party, or that, or some social movement, hides the truth that the culprit behind the upcoming collapse of the US is just one thing, the same one that Thomas Jefferson warned the brand new nation about more than two centuries ago:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing power of currency shall be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."

And as RealInvestmentAdvice.com's Lance Roberts notes, while the murder of George Floyd was both unjust and tragic, his death was the catalyst that lit a powder keg of dissension, which has simmered beneath the headlines for over a decade.

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UK gov docs reveal lockdown was political, not scientific

21st Century Wire
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

An incredible discovery of UK government documents from SAGE science advisory committee reveals that Downing Street's decision to 'Lockdown' the country was in fact a political one, and little to do with "The Science" that government insists it's being guided by. Also, many are concerned about a spike in child abuse reports as a result of government lockdown policy. All this and more.

Co-hosts Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and David Scott with the latest Coronavirus updates. Watch:

Comment: Similar revelations were recently leaked in Denmark - but we can expect this was the case in most countries that implemented and sustained the provably unjustified lockdown: Leaked emails reveal Denmark's PM railroaded country's health authorities and deceived public over coronavirus to justify lockdown

Maduro will visit Iran to sign energy agreements

RFE/RL
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:44 UTC

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he will visit Iran shortly to sign cooperation agreements in energy and other sectors after Iran sent five fuel tankers to the South American country.

"I am obliged to go to personally thank the people," Maduro said on June 1 in an address broadcast on state television. He did not provide a date for his visit to the Islamic Republic.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Musavi said earlier that Tehran will continue to export fuel to Venezuela if the country requests more supplies.

Both Iran and Venezuela are under U.S. sanctions and Washington has sought to deter such shipments.

"Iran practices its free trade rights with Venezuela and we are ready to send more ships if Caracas demands more supplies from Iran," Musavi told a weekly news conference on June 1 that was broadcast live on state television.

Comment: Update for this article: All five Iranian gasoline tankers have successfully delivered their cargo to Venezuela.

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Violence against foreign journalists covering George Floyd protests draws scrutiny from US allies

CBS News
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:12 UTC

Australia is investigating a U.S. police attack on two Australian journalists outside the White House with a view to launching a formal complaint, the foreign minister said Tuesday. The reporter and her cameraman were covering a protest outside the White House — part of the groundswell of public anger over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

"We have asked the Australian embassy in Washington D.C. to investigate this incident," Marise Payne said after the journalists were shoved, punched and hit with a baton live on television. "I want to get further advice on how we would go about registering Australia's strong concerns with the responsible local authorities in Washington."

Australia's 7News reporter Amelia Brace told her network that both she and her cameraman Tim Myers were left "pretty bruised, but okay" after their encounter with police in riot gear outside the White House.

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© Sputnik / Nicole Roussell
Nicole Roussell, reporting for Sputnik on the George Floyd riots, was injured by a rubber bullet
The police shot a US journalist working for Russian news outlet Sputnik with "rubber bullets" as she was covering protests near the White House on Tuesday, the outlet has reported.

Nicole Roussell said she got caught up in police violence in Washington DC when officers deployed anti-riot weapons against the protesting crowd. "I ran closer to get footage of what was happening and the police quickly began shooting what I think were a combination of stinger grenades and rubber bullets," she said.

The police shot projectiles at her despite her wearing a press badge and identifying herself as a journalist, she added. Other journalists and protesters were treated the same way, Roussell said.

'Most of you are weak': Trump tells governors to 'DOMINATE' rioters in scathing phone call as riots across the country continue - UPDATES

David Jackson and Michael Collins
USA TODAY
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:28 UTC

President Donald Trump went on an extended rant against the nation's governors Monday, calling them "weak" for failing to quell the violence in the nation's cities.

"Most of you are weak," Trump told governors on a conference call. "You have to arrest people."

"You have to dominate," Trump said, according to audio of the meeting obtained by CBS News. "If you don't dominate, you're wasting your time. They're going to run over you, you're going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate."

Attorney General Bill Barr, who was also on the Monday call, told governors they have to "dominate" the streets and control, not react to crowds, and urged them to "go after troublemakers."

Comment: Meanwhile, amid riots in DC residents are panicking after an explosion was heard, and mobs of protesters descended on the White House, and the historic St John's Church nearby was set alight by arsonists.

Trump called his presidential opponent Joe Biden 'clueless' over his campaign's decision to help fund efforts to bail out Minneapolis protesters who were arrested.

The governor of Minnesota has admitted to using intelligence support from the Pentagon in trying to crack down on the riots. Seems like it's not very far from troops being on the streets at this point.

In Louisville, Kentucky, police and protesters engaged in back and forth shooting after the city's imposed curfew, leading to a protester being killed. A journalist in DC who writes for the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra Fairbanks, had to arm herself in her home with her 9-year-old daughter after it was attacked by rioters outside.

Update (2 June): Police and National Guard troops pushed back protesters in DC using tear gas to clear a way for Trump to visit St. Johns church. A short time later, Trump gave a speech calling himself a "law and order" president and that he was "dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property."

DC residents went to Twitter to put up videos of the National Guard policing the streets of DC:

During Trump's address to the nation, he threatened to deploy the military anywhere around the country where state leaders failed to restore order, calling the rioters "domestic terrorists."

Pandering Biden stumbles again; says cops could shoot 'unarmed people with knives' in leg instead of heart

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:36 UTC

Joe Biden showed up at a black church on Monday to pander for votes, in what Bloomberg descriebd as a "subdued and sometimes meandering speech" as violent protests over the death of George Floyd grip the nation.

Speaking to an audience at the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware, the former Vice President said he would establish a police oversight board in his first 100 days as president, while promising that his coronavirus relief efforts would "deal with institutional racism."

Biden, who told black voters last month that if they don't vote for him "you ain't black," said "I've never taken for granted" the black vote, adding "I've never ever done that. It has to be earned, earned every single time."

He also stumbled at times during his "sometimes meandering" speech, offering the following suggestion on police training:

This is not a revolution. It's a blueprint for locking down the nation

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

"When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you — pull your beard, flick your face — to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you."
— John Lennon

Brace yourselves.

There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn't bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you'd better beware.

What is unfolding before us is not a revolution.

The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution.

Tucker Carlson: 'Our Leaders Dither as Our Cities Burn'

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

The nation went up in flames this weekend. No one in charge stood up to save America. Our leaders dithered. They cowered. They openly sided with the destroyers. In many cases, they egged them on.

Later, they will deny doing any of this. They are denying it now. But you know the truth because you saw it happen.

This is how nations collapse. When no one in authority keeps the order, and when someone in our professional class encourage violence, American citizens are forced to defend themselves. They have no choice. No one else is going to defend them -- they know that now.

It's possible that more people will be hurt in coming days -- that would be a tragedy. But in an environment like this, more violence could very well lead to a cascade of new tragedies, to something far bigger and more destructive than anything we have seen so far.

So, this isn't over. It might simply be the beginning. We pray it isn't.

It's hard to think clearly about anything that's going on right now. The chaos, the destruction, the relentless lying from above -- it's all too much. Americans are bewildered, and they are afraid. But most of all, they are filled with rage, angrier than they have ever been.

The worst people in our society have taken control. They did nothing to build this country. Now, they are tearing it down. They are rushing us toward mass suicide.

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Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in US for tracking 'private' internet use

Are we about to see a Color Revolution in the US aiming to oust Trump?

"The Federal Reserve did it" - Riots across America are about more than George Floyd

UK gov docs reveal lockdown was political, not scientific

Maduro will visit Iran to sign energy agreements

Violence against foreign journalists covering George Floyd protests draws scrutiny from US allies

'Most of you are weak': Trump tells governors to 'DOMINATE' rioters in scathing phone call as riots across the country continue - UPDATES

Pandering Biden stumbles again; says cops could shoot 'unarmed people with knives' in leg instead of heart

This is not a revolution. It's a blueprint for locking down the nation

Tucker Carlson: 'Our Leaders Dither as Our Cities Burn'

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