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German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware


DW
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:46 UTC
Pegasus phone spyware
NSO makes Pegasus spyware favored by governments and intelligence agencies worldwide
Sources have confirmed media reports that federal criminal police purchased and used the controversial Israeli surveillance spyware despite lawyers' objections.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) bought notorious Pegasus spyware from the Israeli firm NSO in 2019, it was revealed Tuesday.

The federal government informed the Interior Committee of the Bundestag of the purchase in a closed-doors session, parliament sources said. That confirmed earlier reports published in German newspaper Die Zeit.

The software was procured under "the utmost secrecy," according to Die Zeit, despite the hesitations of lawyers as the surveillance tool can do much more than German privacy laws permit.

However, the version purchased by the BKA had certain functions blocked to prevent abuse, security circles told the paper ­ — although it is unclear how that works on a practical level.

The revelations were a result of joint research by Die Zeit as well as daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR.

Comment: The controversial Pegasus software represents a tool in the hands of the PTB to spy on targeted persons around the world. Germany is not the only country that has the software. Many world governments and intelligence agencies are using the same technology.

The same or similar software is probably used to blackmail corrupt political elites in many countries and eliminate opponents who can see the dark reality and publicly speak about it. It Is a powerful technology used to shape our reality and our perception.

Just look at the latest Covid circus and notice how almost all governments perform their roles of obedient puppets in the global installation of tyrannical Nazi control over humanity.

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Best of the Web: China returns to 'full Covid': Millions are again under lockdown 'because of the delta variant'

Jane Li
QZ
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:12 UTC

Comment: This article is a month old, but it summarizes the state-of-play with 'handling the Covid pandemic' in China, whose government has 'fallen into lockstep' with the West since June this year. For most, this development is 'obvious' because they believe China has been the fount of all things draconian since January 2020.

But in fact, life there returned to normal in the summer of 2020. We wrote at the time that this was likely due to Chinese authorities initially going on 'full bioterror alert' when they discovered that SARS-CoV-2 was man-made, but then dialling back the panic when they realized how benign it was.

But a year later, that has all changed. Now the Chinese government has adopted the fundamentally anti-scientific 'Zero Covid policy' of some Western countries, to the point of tamping down its economic output to 'save lives'. The narratives the CCP is telling its people are now practically identical to those of the Western Order. All have fallen into confluence...


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© GettyJab 'em, stab 'em, poke 'em and prod 'em. China's Covid-19 'countermeasures' are now in 'totalitarian harmony' with Western ones
Since March last year, China's new Covid-19 infections have remained low after the government controlled the pandemic by sealing the country's borders and imposed strict lockdowns. But in recent months, the country began to see small-scale outbreaks driven by the delta variant.

In May, the southern city of Guangzhou saw China's first Covid-19 outbreak caused by that variant, which scientists say is more easily transmitted than other strains of the virus, and may cause more severe illness.


Comment: It doesn't.


While most recent outbreaks were quickly confined to the region where they started, that has not been the case with the new outbreak that originated last month in Nanjing in eastern China. Though the numbers of new infections are low, state-run media have called the outbreak China's most serious since the early days of the pandemic because of the number of provinces affected. China reported 328 local cases in July, nearly equal to the number of cases reported in the previous five months, and cases have been confirmed in at least two dozen cities.

Comment: Indeed, that last narrative is also exactly what Western governments are using.

In response to Zhang Wenhong's tepid call for 'totalitarianism-lite', state media is doubling down on the country's official Zero Covid policy. Bloomberg reports:
Right now it's nearly taboo in China to even suggest a different approach. In a commentary published over the weekend by a health news app run by the official People's Daily newspaper, former health minister Gao Qiang called for stronger measures to keep the virus out of China while blasting the U.S., U.K. and other countries for easing too early.

"Their sole reliance on vaccination and pursuit of the so-called 'co-existence with the virus' have led to a resurgence of the virus," he wrote. "This is a misstep in Covid decision-making caused by the deficiencies in their political mechanism and the result of upholding individualism."
Right! So Western leaders aren't strict enough on their people because they are too weak in the face of pushback from citizens and their queer concerns for 'individual rights'.

Another non-sensical Global Times editorial on August 1st concluded:
...in addition to our humanitarian achievements, our ultimate success will include the fact that China will be able to develop faster than the UK and the West that can afford much higher death toll, and that we will clearly outperform them in terms of moral and practical achievements.
So they're spinning this as a 'geopolitical win'. Which it most certainly is not. It's 'geopolitical capture', if anything. China is fully under the thumb of who or whatever is controlling this global operation.

This month, the Chinese government has reported that it's unhappy to see that just two-thirds of its population is 'fully vaccinated'... while at the same time it too is changing its definition of 'fully vaccinated' to intoduce 'booster shots'.

Meanwhile, 'Chinese ports choke over zero tolerance Covid-19 policy', and 'China's factory inflation hits 13-year high as materials costs soar'...

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Under the shadow of Damocles' Sword

Julius Ruechel
juliusruechel.com
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:51 UTC
Covid Canada
© Wealth Professional
This post is an update on Constable Adrienne Gilvesy's fight against the Toronto Police Services' mandatory vaccination requirement. As a follow-up to the letter she sent on August 28th, which I recently published on my website (An Example of Courageous Pushback For Those Facing Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace), she has now filed an official misconduct complaint with the Toronto Police Service Professional Standards Unit against her Chief of Police, Chief James Ramer, for various provincial and criminal code offences.

If found guilty, Chief Ramer could face time in prison. And, theoretically, so could any other superior with whom she lodges her complaints if they knowingly allow a criminal injustice to continue. "Just doing my job" is not a legal defense. "Just turning a blind eye" also doesn't stand up in court when it's their job to investigate a problem. Once the complaint is filed, those with the responsibility to investigate that complaint are drawn into this fight. She is forcing everyone off the sidelines by making them decide which side of the legal line they want to stand on. This is as real as it gets.

I have reproduced her complaint for you below. But first I'd like to take a moment to explain the enormous implications of what she is doing. If enough people follow in her footsteps, NOW, to build momentum behind what she is doing, she is creating a spark that has the potential to trigger a massive institutional crisis that pits the lower levels of our institutions against the upper crust.

Simply by using all the legal tools available to her to defend her rights, and by refusing to back down, she is challenging the very core of the supportive pillars holding up this tyranny. A tyranny cannot survive without the support of its institutions. Tyranny collapses without minions.

As more people launch lawsuits and file official complaints, as Constable Gilvesy has done, employers who impose these mandates on their employees are placing themselves in legal peril. Her battle is happening at the heart of the Toronto Police Services, but the lessons of her actions apply equally to any institution, corporation, or business that is imposing these vaccine mandates on its employees.
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Hungary blasts 'arrogant' Brussels threats to penalize Poland for judicial reform, accuses EU of empire-building


RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:46 UTC
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© REUTERS/Ints KalninsEuropean Union and Polish flags flutter (FILE PHOTO)
The Hungarian government has lambasted the European Commission's decision to fine Poland over judicial reforms, claiming the move is both "scandalous and arrogant" and reflective of Brussels' empire-building.

Late on Wednesday evening, Justice Minister Judit Varga said Hungary would "broadly endorse" Poland in solidarity against the European Commission's decision to penalize Warsaw over judicial reforms.

"By this scandalous and arrogant move, the Commission has crossed a line that we previously thought it would never do," Varga wrote on her Facebook page, adding that Budapest would examine how it could be involved in proceedings at the European Court of Justice.

Comment: It would appear that the EU is looking to take Poland and Hungary to task for attempting to assert that their own society and culture should take priority over that of the goals of the liberal behemoth:

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SOTT Focus: JUST the FACTS: Coronavirus in Australia, by the Numbers

Luke Massey
The Spectator Australia
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:58 UTC
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© Getty ImagesSymbolic? Prime Minister Scott Morrison wears a covid facemask with the Australian flag displayed upside down.
Notes: The data below is generally current as at 7 September 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due to jurisdictional reporting methods and timeframes etc. A key source of information for this article is the Australian Government Department of Health Coronavirus (COVID-19) case numbers and statistics website, which is updated daily and presents the statistics as a snapshot at a particular point in time. Information from this source used in this article was taken from 7 September 2021. For comparison purposes some reported and referenced raw data has been extrapolated to calculate averages and percentages.

Covid facts

Australia has a population of approximately 25,806,000.

The average life expectancy in Australia is 82.8.

As at October 2020 the average age of death from Covid in Australia was approximately 85 and the median age at death approximately 86.

The overall case fatality rate (CFR) for Covid in Australia is approximately1.6% (1053 out of 63,604) (as at 7 September 2021). This is very similar to the CFR in other developed countries including the USA, UK, France and Spain.
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Bad Guys

Taliban appoints hardline government of war criminals, seeks absolute control, China Russia unimpressed


RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:17 UTC
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© WikipediaAbdul Haq Wasiq (L), Norullah Noori, Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa.
Four former Guantanamo inmates, released as part of a swap for court-martialed soldier Bowe Bergdahl, have been named as high-ranking acting ministers in the Taliban's new Afghan government.

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced its first interim government for the war-torn nation, which is now under the group's control. However, many of those named in the government are known to the US and its allies, but not for good reasons. Four of those announced as ministers were previous inmates at the US high-security facility in Guantanamo Bay.

All four were traded for captured soldier Bowe Bergdahl in 2014 by the administration of former US President Barack Obama. The fifth Taliban member swapped for Bergdahl has been a prominent figure since the militant group's takeover of Afghanistan but does not feature in the interim government.

As reported by Afghanistan's ToloNews on Tuesday, Abdul Haq Wasiq is now acting director of intelligence; Mullah Noorullah Noori is acting minister of borders and tribal affairs; Mullah Mohammad Fazil is deputy defense minister; and Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah has been named acting minister of information and culture.

All four, who were deemed dangerous hardliners by the US government, took part in direct talks with Washington in Doha last year. Information and US defense documents made available by WikiLeaks and other organizations demonstrate why the US was so concerned by these individuals.

Comment: It's not just woke Washington that is unimpressed. Alexander Mercouris describes how both China and Russia have expressed their polite disappointment in the make-up of the allegedly "interim" government:



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Stock Down

US warns it could DEFAULT on debts, Putin aide says Washington's massive 'stimulus' spending to blame for global wave of inflation


RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:10 UTC
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© Unsplash / Alexander Schimmeck
By racking up trillions of dollars in debt and injecting huge sums of cash into the country's economy, America has contributed to rising prices and lower spending power across the world, a top Russian government official has said.

Maxim Oreshkin, an advisor to President Vladimir Putin, told the Moscow Financial Forum on Wednesday that Russia had been forced to increase public spending, but to a lesser extent.

"The economic policy response to the crisis has to match the size of the economic problem," Oreshkin said. "When you're in the deepest recession since WWII, you need to come up with answers the same size."

Comment: In recent news: the House just approved another $24 billion for the Pentagon and its oversight of "astonishing fraud", and the wealthiest in the US continue to avoid their taxes, with a modest estimate given at $160 billion a year. Unsurprisingly, some of the other major world economies have been divesting themselves of dollars for years now and instead they've been stocking up on assets such as gold, amidst a flurry of mutually beneficial deals between willing countries, which are not only useful now, but they may also help them ride out the eventual, controlled collapse of the US system:

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Here's the chilling reality of what daily life might look like under a social-credit system in a so-called democracy

Rachel Marsden
RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:59 UTC
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© Bertha WANG / AFP
Government issued QR-code health passes could represent the first step to implementing a Chinese-style social-credit system. Imagining how this might actually work shows its potential for truly frightening consequences.

The Covid-19 crisis has given governments worldwide a golden opportunity to roll out a new system of control over their citizens under the guise of protecting their health. Although it's now clear that Covid jabs don't prevent contamination or transmission, they have provided our democracies with the perfect pretext to introduce state-issued QR codes to access aspects of daily life which our overlords apparently deem "non-essential" - including certain means of transport, food services, or health and fitness venues.

At first, we were told that these passes would be a temporary measure. But now, leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron have admitted that they may persist longer than initially announced. Similarly, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged $1 billion for a whole new system of pass management and coordination between Canadian provinces if he's re-elected on September 20.

If the public willingly accepts having to show papers wherever they go, what incentive do governments have to rescind this new tool? Imagine the uses that it could have in suppressing the kind of financial and ideological independence that risks posing a threat to the system which enabled these globalist bootlickers to come to power in the first place.

Comment: It's a brave new world order. You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy. You'll eat bugs, and you'll be happy. You'll do what you're told, and you'll be happy.

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China welcomes 'end of anarchy' with Taliban's interim Afghan gov't, pledges US$31 million in aid

Tom Grundy
Hong Kong Free Press
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:54 UTC
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© file/China GovernmentThe Chinese and the Afghans
China said Wednesday it welcomed the end of "three weeks of anarchy" in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, pledging US$31 million (HK$251 million) in immediate aid as it urged the Taliban to restore order.

The Islamist group seized control of Afghanistan as US troops withdrew last month and have set up a new administration that started work Wednesday. Despite previous promises that their rule would be inclusive, the government is drawn exclusively from loyalist ranks with established hardliners in all key posts and no women.

China has been scathing about the American withdrawal, which it criticised as ill-planned and hasty. On Wednesday it said the new government would help bring stability.

Comment: Eyes are on China as it commits to furthering relations with the Taliban:
A spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Beijing respects Afghanistan's "sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity" in the wake of the formation of the Taliban's new government.

Speaking at a regular press conference on Wednesday, Wang Wenbin was asked by reporters about Beijing's response to the Taliban's establishment of a government.

The spokesperson said Beijing supports the Afghan people to "independently choose a development path in line with their own national conditions" without interference in the country's internal affairs.

Wang also added that the formation of an interim government was necessary to restore domestic order and post-war reconstruction after over three weeks of "anarchy" following the Taliban's takeover that saw the then-President Ashraf Ghani flee the country. Wang also expressed hope that war-wracked Afghanistan can build a "broad and inclusive political structure" that is capable of moderate and stable domestic and foreign policy.

Wang's remarks came shortly after the Taliban's Tuesday announcement that it had named key government officials. Several of the newly appointed ministers are on a UN Security Council sanctions list, while Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani is considered an international terrorist by US authorities and is wanted by the FBI, which is offering a $5 million reward for his capture.

Several nations and institutions worldwide have taken tougher stances on Taliban leadership. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab remarked last Friday that the UK will not recognize the Taliban government, but stressed that it was time to work with the group to discuss issues such as safe evacuations, and "face up to the new reality in Afghanistan".

China, on the other hand, was dubbed as the Taliban's "main partner" by the group's spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica last week, praising Beijing's plans to invest in Afghanistan.


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CIA veteran: Al-Qaeda will rebuild within Afghanistan, seek to attack US again

Matthew Barakat
The Times of Israel
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:49 UTC
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© Getty Images/Alex WongBarack Obama • John Brennan • Mike Morell
The CIA man who briefed former US president George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, and later Barack Obama on the intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that he's convinced the Taliban will invite al-Qaeda to rebuild in Afghanistan. Michael Morell, who twice served as acting CIA director, said:
"There is no doubt in my mind. I believe that the Taliban will give safe haven to al-Qaeda, and I believe it will be al-Qaeda's intention to again build its capability so that they can attack us here at home."
Morell spoke at an online forum sponsored by the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is holding multiple panels this week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Counterterrorism efforts fall into a pattern, Morell said, in which their capabilities can be easily degraded by a focused effort, but easily rebuilt when that focus fades. He pointed to the time in 2002 and 2003 when the US shifted its focus to Iraq, which he said led to a resurgent al-Qaeda prompting attacks in Madrid in 2004, London in 2005 and elsewhere.

"When our focus got shifted to Iraq al-Qaeda started bouncing back," Morell said.


Comment: Well, wasn't that convenient. The 'focus shift trick' is the intelligence industry's version of 'look there not here'.


Comment: And...Morell has a bridge to sell you in London. al-Qaeda is a US proxy as is the Taliban.

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