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Enabling 1984: 'Privacy company' Apple plans to monitor all US iPhones for evidence of child porn - Update: Apple delays plan after backlash

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:43 UTC
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As the old saying goes: If you aren't doing anything illegal, then you have nothing to fear from surveillance.

Smartphones already act like tracking devices broadcasting the whereabouts of their owners, but Apple is about to open the door to far more advanced forms of smartphone-based voluntary surveillance by launching a new program designed to detect and report iPhone users who are found to have child pornography - known by the academic-speak acronym CSAM - which stands for Child Sexual Abuse Materials. According to a handful of academics who were offered a sneak preview of the company's plans - then promptly spilled the beans on Twitter, and in interviews with the press.

The new system, called "neuralMatch", is expected to be unveiled by Apple later this week. The software is expected to be installed on American iPhones via a software update. According to the FT, the automated system can proactively alert a team of human reviewers if it believes CSAM is present on a user's iPhone. If the reviewers can verify the material, law enforcement will be contacted.

Comment: Update (9/3): Apple has released a statement saying they are taking "additional" time to review the change. Many warned when Apple first announced this plan that the system is only a few steps removed from '1984'-style surveillance. Alec Muffett, a security researcher and privacy campaigner who formerly worked at Facebook and Deliveroo, said Apple's move was "tectonic" and a "huge and regressive step for individual privacy" - Apple are walking back privacy to enable 1984."

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Large fire breaks out at factory in east China, 6 missing


Xinhua
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:32 UTC
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Search and rescue efforts are ongoing after six people went missing in a fire at a factory in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said Friday.

The fire broke out around 4:06 p.m. in a sponge maker in Jiashan County, according to the county's fire brigade.

The fire has been brought under control, and an investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.

Comment: Just a week ago: Massive fire engulfs high-rise residential building in Milan

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The leaders of the FDA and CDC are reportedly pushing back on Biden's booster-shot plan, saying they need more time and data

Andrew Dunn and Hilary Brueck
Business Insider
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:52 UTC
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The Biden administration's booster-shot plan is facing another setback.

Top health officials have told the White House they need more time and data before authorizing extra doses, The New York Times reported Friday.

The heads of the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the White House they may be able to recommend boosters for only some recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the next few weeks, according to the report.

On August 18, top US health officials — including the FDA and CDC heads — issued an unusual joint statement saying they planned to start offering boosters on September 20 for people who were eight months removed from their second dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. Officials added that people who got the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine would also probably be offered a booster.
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Fire breaks out at football stadium used as coronavirus injection centre in England

Sam Blitz
Daily Mail
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 14:23 UTC
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A fire broke out at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium forcing staff to evacuate 300 people
A small fire broke out at Tottenham Hotspur's Stadium on Thursday morning, forcing the club to evacuate 300 people from inside the ground.

An air compressor caught fire which led to the evacuation at around 10am, with the flames put out by an electrician before two engines from the London Fire Brigade arrived on the scene.

No injuries were reported among the 300 people evacuated from the north London stadium by Tottenham Hotspur staff, who were following standard safety procedures.

Comment: Less than a week ago a huge fire and explosion occurred at an industrial estate in Leamington Spa, England.

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Pennsylvania professor teaches White people committing suicide can be an 'ethical' act

Emma Colton
Fox News
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:44 UTC
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Screenshot showing Derek Hook giving the lecture
A professor employed at a Catholic university in Pennsylvania said on camera that there are merits to the claim that it's ethical for White people to commit suicide.

"White people should commit suicide as an ethical act," said a quote in a slide for a presentation hosted by Duquesne University psychology professor Derek Hook.

In the lecture, which was presented to Baltimore-based American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work in June, Hook quoted a South African philosophy professor, Terblanche Delport, who has written about White people committing suicide in South Africa, before further discussing the comments and arguing "there was something ethical in Delport's statements."

Comment: Twitter user @MythinformedMKE has been fending off the SJWs who are furious at having their game exposed:


Rather than answer the outrage, Hook doubled down:




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43,000 absentee ballot votes counted in DeKalb County, Georgia 2020 election violated chain of custody rule

Laura Baigert
The Georgia Star News
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:33 UTC
2020 election vote counting
© John Altdorfer/Flickr
Vote counting November 6, 2020, in Allegheny County
An analysis by The Georgia Star News of DeKalb County's absentee ballot drop box transfer forms from the November 2020 election identified a number of problems that puts the documents out of compliance with the Georgia Board of Election Emergency Rule 183-1-14-1.8-.14.

That rule states absentee ballots placed in drop boxes, "shall be immediately transported to the county registrar" by the two person collection team, which is required to sign a ballot transfer form indicating the number of ballots picked up, the time the ballots were picked up, and the location of the drop box, and that, "The county registrar or a designee thereof shall sign the ballot transfer form upon receipt of the ballots from the collection team."

Comment: The Gateway Pundit reports on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's efforts on behalf of Georgia voters:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is on a mission to expose Georgia Secretary of State Raffensberger.

Raffensberger was complicit in the mass absentee ballot mailing deal which caused the Georgia election to go "out of control," says Greene.

She warned Raffensperger that he'll "be in court after audits" and told him to "get a defense lawyer."


Remember: shortly after the election, Raffensperger secretly recorded a call with Trump and then lied about it to The Washington Post.

The Gateway Pundit reported:
Now we know that Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger's office secretly recorded the phone call with President Trump, then lied about it to the far left Washington Post.

And Raffensperger's office released the dishonest story to the liberal media and it was published on January 9, 2021 — days before the sham impeachment trial!
Since then, just how fraudulent the 2020 election was in Fulton County has come out.

Raffensperger is beginning to change his tune on election fraud as the fraud is being exposed.

Now, Raffensperger's team has admitted "bad things" happened in Fulton County.

This contradicted Raffensperger's public statements.

The Gateway Pundit reported:
Earlier this week a Fulton County Georgia election official admitted that the chain of custody documents that are legally required per state law are missing from 24% of the ballots from the 2020 election.

Brad Raffensperger, the corrupt Secretary of State in Georgia is ultimately responsible (see picture above). For the first time an elections official admitted the chain of custody documents are missing in Georgia per the Georgia Star.Then today John Solomon and Just The News reported that an audit of documents found that more than 100 batches of absentee ballots are missing in Fulton County Georgia!
Watch Tucker Carlson detail the fraud that happened in Georgia:


Raffensperger is not on the side of election integrity.
Georgia's DeKalb County 'can't find' its chain of custody records for absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes

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Gaslighting: ACLU says the state forcing people to take vaccines is a 'victory for civil liberties'

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:34 UTC
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Good God.

The ACLU has published an article in the New York Times followed up by a tweet which asserts that the government forcing people to take vaccines is a victory for civil liberties.

No, this isn't out of the Babylon Bee.

"Far from compromising them, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties," the organization's tweet ludicrously claimed. "They protect the most vulnerable, people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated, and communities of color hit hard by the disease."
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Ambulance

Minnesota nurses say vaccine injuries are being underreported

Kyle Hooten
Alpha News
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:48 UTC
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A group of nurses spoke out about their experiences with the COVID-19 vaccine at a Friday town hall.
About two dozen nurses came together to share their experiences from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic at a recent town hall.

Minnesota nurses say that injuries related to the coronavirus vaccine are underreported as hospital administrators discourage use of the adverse reaction reporting system.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a government-administered database that health care professionals are required to use to report adverse reactions their patients have to vaccines. However, Minnesota nurses say that negative reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine are underreported as hospitals discourage their staff from recording them.

Comment: Kudos to these nurses. They are putting their jobs on the line for speaking out.

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Trove of looted ancient Mesopotamian artefacts found in Norway


The Independent
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:28 UTC
Norway missing Mesopotamian archaeological artefacts
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Norwegian police said they had seized nearly 100 Mesopotamian archaeological artefacts, claimed by Iraq, from a collector
Nearly 100 Mesopotamian artefacts have been seized from a collector, police say

A large number of archaeological artefacts reported missing by Iraqi authorities have been seized in Oslo, Norwegian police have said.

The objects are presumed to be cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, and were seized during a search of a collector's house in southeast Norway.

Several witnesses were questioned but there have been no criminal charges, a police spokesperson told Reuters.
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Cloud Lightning

"Perfect storm": UK food shortages continue as issues mount in production & logistics, MORE inflation expected

Joanna Partridge
The Guardian
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 05:28 UTC
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A shortage of HGV drivers in the UK is affecting supermarket supply chains.
The government is being urged to "get a handle" on the supply chain crisis, as the chair of a cross-party commission created to scrutinise the UK's post-Brexit trade deals said ministers need to act now to avoid empty shelves in the run-up to Christmas.

"Red tape and labour shortages from Brexit have exacerbated problems that are being acutely felt across production, processing, manufacturing, retail and of course logistics," said Aodhán Connolly, who chaired an extraordinary session of the UK Trade and Business Commission, a group of cross-party MPs and business representatives set up as an independent adviser to government in April.

"The government needs to get a handle on this both in the short and long term and we will be making recommendations based on the evidence we heard today".

Comment: If we look at the UK government's bungling of Brexit, the failed £37 billion Test & Trace system, and even its (thankfully) unreliable, injection IDs, we can be sure that if there's the potential for the government to mess it up, it will.

Taken together with the other problems plaguing our planet, including shuttered ports, poor harvests and crop failures, rolling lockdowns, and the increasing probability of strike action against the draconian restrictions, it's likely the UK will have a lot more to contend with than just some unqualified drivers and backlogs at customs; and it can't claim that it was caught unawares:

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