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Not conspiracy theory: Researcher shows how phone shows ads based on what it hears

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:43 UTC
spying phone
For years, smartphone users have been growing increasingly suspicious that their devices are listening to them to feed them advertisements and to "enhance their experience" on third-party apps. Companies like Google and Facebook have consistently denied these claims, saying that targeted ads and messages are merely a coincidence, and that data for these services are taken in other ways.

However, earlier this year during the Cambridge Analytica scandal we began to see some of the first hints that our phones may actually be listening to us.

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie says that they have probably been listening all along. During an appearance before the UK parliament, Wylie said, "There's audio that could be useful just in terms of, are you in an office environment, are you outside, are you watching TV, what are you doing right now?"

Since the scandal, experts who have studied this possibility began revealing their surprising results.

In a recent interview with Vice, Dr. Peter Hannay, the senior security consultant for the cybersecurity firm Asterisk, explained how third-party apps exploit a loophole to gather the voice data from your phone.

Comment: See also: Security company finds 700 million Android phones have spying firmware pre-installed

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Hate speech: WaPo publishes article asking 'Why can't we hate men?'

Suzanna Danuta Walters
The Washington Post
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:42 UTC
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Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs.

It's not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge. My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before "mansplaining" and "incels." Before live-streaming sexual assaults and red pill men's groups and rape camps as a tool of war and the deadening banality of male prerogative.

Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men. I can't lie, I've always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I've rankled at the "but we don't hate men" protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the "men are not the problem, this system is" obfuscation too precious by half.

But, of course, the criticisms of this blanket condemnation of men - from transnational feminists who decry such glib universalism to U.S. women of color who demand an intersectional perspective - are mostly on the mark. These critics rightly insist on an analysis of male power as institutional, not narrowly personal or individual or biologically based in male bodies. Growing movements to challenge a masculinity built on domination and violence and to engage boys and men in feminism are both gratifying and necessary. Please continue.

Comment: Wow, this article is so wrong on so many levels that it's hard to think of a short way to put it, but let this sink in:

A university professor writing for a major American newspaper is actually calling for half of humanity to hate the other half.

What can possibly go wrong??

Feminism hates men


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The Guardian aides anti-semites by censoring cartoon critical of Israel's murder of nurse in Gaza

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-cook.net
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:17 UTC
netanyahu Razan al-Najjar.
Here's a small thought experiment that even the editor of the Guardian, Kath Viner, should be able to manage.

Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians - and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?

The answer is: you help anti-semites.

Here is the cartoon the Guardian does not want its readers to see.

cartoon Steve Bell Netanyahu Theresa May
© Steve Bell

Comment: Indeed, political Zionism is so self-contradictory as an ideology that in trying to defend Israel's image it actually hurts it further. But that what's happens when you try to defend the indefensible. No matter Israel's excuse for massacting civilians, they still massacred civilians, and that is as plain as day for all to see.

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Spain's third largest city endorses pro-Palestinian BDS, Podemos leader calls Israel a "criminal country"


teleSUR
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:00 UTC
Pablo Iglesias
© ReutersPodemos (We Can) party leader Pablo Iglesias delivers a speech during a motion of no confidence debate at Parliament in Madrid, Spain, May 31, 2018
Following the decision of the local council of Spain's third largest city to declare it an "Israeli apartheid-free zone," the leader of Podemos, the party behind the motion, called the Israeli state a "criminal country."

"We need to act more firmly on an illegal country like Israel," said Pablo Iglesias Turrion during an interview with the RTVE public broadcaster.

It has been some difficult weeks for the Israeli occupation. Shakira canceled her concert in Tel Aviv, Argentina canceled the friendly soccer match with Israel, many well-known and international artists and filmmakers pulled out of the pinkwashing Tel Aviv LGBT film festival, and a wave of cities in the Spanish state have declared their support for the Palestinian cause.

Comment: All over the world citizens are uniting against Israel's barbaric treatment of the Palestinians: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Hypocritical Canada warns US immigrants against heading north


Conservative Fighters
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:27 UTC
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Nine days after Donald Trump was inaugurated president - as the first travel bans began to go into place - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted out words that would end up haunting his immigration policies like a ghost that sticks around a decrepit mansion.

It only took a few words, too: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada."

Trudeau's tweet was obviously intended to paint Trump's travel bans as "Muslim bans" and position Canada as America's caring alternative.

And then things began to go seriously awry for him.

"For someone to successfully seek asylum it's not about economic migration," Trudeau told reporters in August of 2017, mere months later, as the London Guardian reported that his country was "forced to backtrack on open invitation to refugees."

Comment: Mass migration is becoming a crisis of worldwide proportions and pretty much every leader is left with little option but to enforce stricter controls, and voters are increasingly backing this course of action: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Ballot box blaze: Iraq's largest voting warehouse goes up in flames


RT
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:38 UTC
Dark plumes rise into the air above Baghdad
© Thaier Al-Sudani / ReutersDark plumes rise into the air above Baghdad
Iraq's largest ballot paper warehouse has caught fire with flames destroying parts of the complex. The blaze comes as the country prepares for a parliamentary election recount.

The inferno at the storage center broke out on Sunday, with early reports from the Iraqi Interior Ministry suggesting that some votes cast on May 12 have been damaged.

Images from the scene show thick plumes of smoke rising from the storage site, which contained votes from the al Rusafa district. Units from the Civil Defense joined fire crews as they battled to put out the blaze. It's not yet known what caused the fire.
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US F-15 fighter jet crashes into sea off Okinawa, Japan


RT
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:14 UTC
US Air Force F-15C Eagle
© Dominique Favre / ReutersUS Air Force F-15C Eagle
A US F-15 fighter jet has crashed into the sea near the Japanese island of Okinawa, the US military has confirmed. Okinawa houses a controversial American military presence, which has been the subject of numerous protests.

The pilot ejected from the fighter jet and was safely recovered. Earlier reports suggested there were possibly two crew members on board, but the aircraft has now been confirmed to be a single-seat F-15C Eagle. The jet reportedly took off from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa and crashed some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the coast.

Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said that the incident is being investigated, according to local media.

Comment: See also: US F/A-18 fighter jet crashes in southwestern Japan

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Jailed and repentant woman pardoned by Trump: 'The only way I made it through was my faith in God'

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:28 UTC
Alice Marie Johnson
63-year old grandmother thanks God and the President for a second chance at life, says her faith kept her going though one third of her life was spent behind bars

Fox News reported early Friday about the commutation of 63 year old Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence (without parole) and the release of this woman from prison where she had spent 22 years of her life. The President commuted the sentence after socialite celebrity Kim Kardashian West met with Mr. Trump a few days ago.

Mrs. Johnson's response? She was extremely grateful and spoke publicly promising the Commander-in-Chief, "I will make you proud."

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DNA tests show meat in vegan and vegetarian ready meals


ITV News
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 07:49 UTC
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© PA Archive/PA ImagesBoth supermarkets said their own tests have not found any meat traces (PA)
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said it is investigating allegations that traces of meat were found in vegetarian and vegan ready meals.

Laboratory tests reportedly found traces of pork in Sainsbury's "meat free" meatballs and traces of turkey in a vegan macaroni ready meal from Tesco, the Daily Telegraph has reported.

An FSA spokeswoman said: "Our priority is to ensure consumers can be confident that the food they eat is safe and is what it says it is.

Comment: While it's always funny to piss off vegans, no one should be lied to about what they are consuming, under any circumstances. These companies better get their acts together or all three of their vegan customers are going to take their business elsewhere.

See also:

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Austria's crackdown on "political Islam: Closure of mosques may lead to 'war between cross & crescent' - Erdogan


RT
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:10 UTC
Cross and cresent
© Eddie Keogh / Reuters
Austria's move to close mosques and expel "foreign-funded" imams has infuriated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warning of a war "between cross and crescent" and threatening that Ankara will not sit idle.

"These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul on Sunday. Crescent, which can be seen on mosques and other Muslim entities, symbolizes Islamic religion since time immemorial.

"They say they're going to kick our religious men out of Austria. Do you think we will not react if you do such a thing?" he asked, quoted by AFP. "That means we're going to have to do something," Erdogan added without elaborating.
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