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New Berlin law allows police to install spyware in homes


RT
Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:48 UTC
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© File/Getty ImagesSurveillance
Critics warn that the new rules could be misused, enabling overreach and intrusion into privacy.

Berlin police will be allowed to secretly enter private homes to install spyware, after the German House of Representatives approved sweeping changes to the city's police law.

Backed by the governing CDU-SPD coalition and opposition AfD, the law gives police broad new powers over both physical and digital surveillance.

The new law allows the authorities to secretly enter a suspect's home to install spyware if remote access isn't possible.

Berlin police can now legally conduct physical break-ins for digital surveillance. The updated rules also allow phones and computers to be hacked to monitor communication. Police can also turn on their bodycams inside private homes if they believe someone is in serious danger.

Passed on Thursday, the law also expands surveillance in public areas. The authorities can now collect phone data from everyone in a location, scan license plates, and counter drones. They can use facial and voice recognition to identify people from surveillance images. Real police data can also be used to train AI. Critics say this risks misuse and intrudes on private life.
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Nine in ten college students think 'words can be violence': survey

Gabrielle Temaat
The College Fix
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Shhh!
© Konstantin-Postumitenko.CanvaPro72Silence
Nine out of ten undergraduate students think that "words can be violence" at least "somewhat," according to a new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey.

The poll also showed that ideological gaps between left-leaning and right-leaning students are widening.

When respondents were asked how much the statement "words can be violence" describes their thoughts, 47 percent answered with "completely" or "mostly." Twenty-eight percent said it describes their thoughts "somewhat," and 15 percent said "slightly."

Additionally, around 59 percent of students said "silence is violence" describes their views at least "somewhat," though only 28 percent said it describes their thoughts "completely" or "mostly."

Comment: May all our problems be as disposable as borderline sensitivity to words!

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Family

Generational betrayal: HUD reveals Biden gave illegal aliens FHA-backed mortgages

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:40 UTC
house for sale sign
© Reuters
HUD Secretary Scott Turner told Fox Business on Friday that illegal aliens received federally backed mortgages during the Biden-Harris regime years. Turner characterized this as a significant policy failure by the previous administration and evidence of what he called misplaced priorities that favored illegals over American homebuyers.

"You know, during the Biden Administration, there were over 12 million illegal aliens that came over the border, straining our housing supply and making the costs go up," Turner told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.

He continued, "And so we worked with Secretary Noem at DHS, as you alluded to, to make sure that only American citizens are living in HUD-funded housing. We also took away FHA-backed mortgages from illegal aliens. During the Biden Administration, they turned a blind eye. But we're going to keep the law to make sure these mortgages, which are backed by the taxpayer, go only to the American people."

Comment:

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Dollars

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Muslim 'EPIC City' developers for fraud

Thomas Stevenson
The Post Millennial
Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:21 UTC
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
"The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets," Paxton said.

Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) and the Community Capital Partners (CCP) in Texas for "engaging in an illegal development scheme that violated Texas securities law." He alleged that the group was running an illegal securities scheme tied to a 400-acre community that was going to be known as "EPIC City."

"The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets," Paxton said in a press release. "I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans. The unlawful land project known as EPIC City will be stopped, and those responsible will be barred from ever creating another fraudulent operation like this again."
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Briefcase

AT&T execs see the writing on the wall: Scraps DEI amid broader corporate shift toward merit-based policies

Tom Ozimek
ZeroHedge
Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:08 UTC
at&t
AT&T told federal regulators this week that it has eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and programs across its business, becoming the latest major corporation to unwind such initiatives amid a broader shift toward merit-based employment practices and heightened scrutiny from the Trump administration.

In a Dec. 1 letter filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as part of AT&T's bid to acquire U.S. Cellular spectrum licenses for roughly $1 billion, the company said it is "ending DEI-related policies ... not just in name but in substance," following recent executive orders, Supreme Court rulings, and guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

AT&T said it has adjusted its employment and business practices "to ensure that they comply with all applicable laws and related requirements," AT&T wrote to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, adding that its hiring, training, and promotion practices "are not and will not be based on or limited by race, gender, or other protected characteristics."
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Best of the Web: A look inside the United States evangelical power market

Freddie Ponton
21st Century Wire
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:25 UTC
Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, , Bibi Netanyahu
© 21 Century Wire(L-R) Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, , Bibi Netanyahu
Candace Owens has broken her silence, raising unsettling questions about the world behind Turning Point USA and its religious arm. Her concern centers on the sudden death of Charlie Kirk, a rising conservative figure whose growing doubts about unwavering support for Israel may have made him a target. Owens has publicly criticized Turning Point USA (TPUSA) leadership and Pastor Rob McCoy, asking why neither has done more, and pressed for a full investigation or demanded accountability from the FBI, whose limited findings and exotic stories have left the public unconvinced. With receipts showing Kirk's ideological shift and McCoy's deep entanglement in faith-based political mobilization, Owens hints at a shadowed network where political ambition, religious authority, financial gains, and potentially foreign interests intersect, in a world where the line between spiritual guidance and covert influence is dangerously blurred.

In recent months, conservative media have watched with sharpened curiosity as Owens openly distanced herself from Turning Point USA, hinting at deeper concerns about the political recuperation and its machinery forming around the organization's religious arm. Owens, who once shared stages and audiences with the group, has increasingly alluded to what she sees as unhealthy entanglements between spiritual authority, financial gain, political ambition, and a culture of uncritical hero worship. Though she has never accused McCoy directly, her comments about the "pastor-politician pipeline" and the "danger of merging church platforms with political mobilization" have fueled speculation about figures like him.
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Extinguisher

Media doing 'damage control' as widely reported study on cost of climate change gets retracted

Kevin Killough
Just the News
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:58 UTC
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When a peer-reviewed study last year concluded that the burning of fossil fuels was going to make the world $38 trillion poorer over the next century, journalists across multiple outlets reported on its findings. Even though the peer-review file showed that some of the reviewers had concerns about the study's conclusions, many climate journalists didn't question the study's findings and conclusion.

In the months after its publication, as Just the News reported in August, the study, which was written by researchers at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, was found to have profound flaws. Only The Washington Post had reported on these at the time Just the News covered the controversy. On Wednesday, the authors retracted the study.

The impacts of flawed climate research that gets widely circulated can go beyond the walls of academia into the realm of policymaking. The now-retracted study has been cited by organizations influencing policy around the globe, including the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., cited the study last year and again in July — both times entering it into the Congressional Record.

Comment: We fondly remember: 'Largely inaccurate tripe': Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth', fifteen years on

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No Entry

Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

Philip Oltermann, Lisa O'Carroll
The Guardian
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:25 UTC
Israeli fans
© Martin Meissner/APIsraeli fans cheer for Yuval Raphael • Eurovision • Basil, Switzerland
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel's participation.

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year's Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.

No vote on Israel's participation was held on Thursday at the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body that organises the competition. Instead, participating broadcasters voted only to introduce new rules designed to stop governments and third parties from disproportionately promoting songs to influence voters.

"A large majority of members agreed that there was no need for a further vote on participation and that the Eurovision song contest 2026 should proceed as planned, with the additional safeguards in place," the EBU said in a statement.

In response, the Irish broadcaster RTÉ said it would not participate in the 2026 contest or broadcast the competition. "RTÉ feels that Ireland's participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there, which continues to put the lives of so many civilians at risk," the broadcaster said in a statement.
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Jet5

Drone war in Ukraine leaves battlefields littered with fiber optic cables

Paul Serran
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:28 UTC
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© Lord Bebo/XAn area cluttered with "fiber optics cables" near Orekhov.
Web of death covers the Ukrainian fields.

Drones have become the most lethal weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war, from small user-quality quadcopters dropping bombs, up to sophisticated attack drones like the Iranian Shahed (called by Russians 'Geran') flying in swarms.

The inexpensive devices have all but retired the million-dollar tanks, and a technological EW race was on to find ways to jam the frequencies of the drones, disturbing the operator's control and crashing them off-target.

That was going on for a while, until small, unjammable drones controlled by fiber-optic cables began dominating the battlefields.

Comment: Cleaning up after Ukraine's idiotic, self-destructive actions will be the work of decades, and probably will be shouldered by Russia, at least in the territories it will claim in any peace deal. The Banderites in Galicia and other western provinces will likely have to appeal to the EU for aid. Problem is, those EU countries are almost as broke as Ukraine.

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Jet3

F-16 fighter jet crashes in Southern California

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:11 UTC
Thunderbird jet
© Lauren Clevenger/USAFUSAF Demonstration Squadron 'Thunderbirds' February 2025
Southern California's ABC7 reports that an F-16 fighter jet has crashed near Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake.
Breaking911 has posted what appear to be images of the aftermath of the jet crash.

Comment: Details regarding this crash incident:
An Air Force Thunderbird pilot ejected safely from an F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft Wednesday during a training mission over controlled airspace in California. The pilot is in stable condition and receiving follow-on care, the Air Force said. The jet crashed at about 10:45 a.m. PST near the airport in Trona, Calif., about 27 miles from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake., about 130 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The unpopulated desert area is a major live weapons firing range used by all services.


Edwards Air Force Base said it was sending an environmental response team to the crash site to deal with any toxic materials, including highly flammable hydrazine, which is used in the F-16 Emergency Power Unit (EPU). In the event of an engine flameout, the EPU is activated to push the hydrazine through the system to maintain power and control. The F-16's ejection seat uses a solid propellant rocket to propel the pilot out of the cockpit. Hydrazine emits fumes that are highly toxic and require decontamination.

The San Bernardino County Fire Department reported it was responding with resources from Station 57 to an "aircraft emergency" near the San Bernardino and Inyo County lines. The Thunderbirds were created in 1953, seven years after the United States Navy Demonstration Flight Squadron, known as "the Blue Angels," was formed in 1946. The Thunderbirds have experienced crashes during their history, though the last fatal incident occurred in 2018.


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