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Category Archives: anthropocene
US: Social Democracy coinciding with Jim Crow
In the US, after WWII, the way to peaceful coexistence between North and Southern States was to exclude any benefit to African Americans, despite their contribution during World War II. https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination The Republican Right had been opposed to Franklyn D … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918 to 1950s, Africa, African Americans, American Dream, apartheid, British, complicit in human harm, democracy, discrimination, exclusion, FDR, French, human rights, israel, Jim Crow, Jordan, League of Nations, left vs right, marginalising, Palestinians, peace, polarization, populism, Republicans, socialist, subjugation, utopia, war, welfare state, white supremacy, WW1, WWII
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Journalists in the Crosshairs
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Tagged awareness, historic, IDF, israel, journalists, live reporting, murder, Palestine, silencing truth, targeted killings, world press freedom day
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Spyware: Who gets targeted?
Of the 50,000 phone numbers in the data, we had been able to verify, with multiple sources for each, the identities of more than 1,000 people from fifty countries. The count included more than 600 politicians and government officials, including … Continue reading
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Tagged amnesty international, AWS, capitalism, DarkMatters, data servers, greed, human suffering, illegal settlements, imprisoning citizens, israel, journalism, Nimbus Project, Palestine, Pegasus, private intrusion as a service industry, profit before people, Security Lab, spyware, UAE, violence, wealth, yemen
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Jamal Kashoggi
Many of us remember how Jamal Kashoggi was tortured to death in the most slow and medically precise way by a top Saudi surgeon with a team of assistants. It is believed MBS instructed this manner of death to the … Continue reading
Pro Human Rights North African Journalists targeted by malware infection
The Pegasus book (by Richard and Rigaud) describes the Kafkaesque experience of a young Moroccan investigative journalist, Omar Radi. June 22, 2020: Forbidden Stories posted a story of the Pegasus attack on Omar Radi…..2 days later, Omar was summoned to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazigh, atlas mountains, autocrats, Berbers, dictators, earthquake region, exploitation, human rights, human water shortages, industrial water use, journalists, land grabs, malware, mining, Omar Radi, oppression, Pegasus phone infection, poor protection, profit before people, spyware
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US generous with bombs
US has agreed to send more bombs and warplanes to Israel, sources say By Humeyra Pamuk and Idrees Ali March 29, 20249:06 PM GMTUpdated 12 hours ago https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-has-signed-off-more-bombs-warplanes-israel-washington-post-reports-2024-03-29 It is with mounting horror the world watches the US continue to supply Israel’s war … Continue reading
White or Black Hats?
2023: Mexico’s former public security chief convicted in U.S. drug case https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-former-public-security-chief-convicted-in-u-s-drug-case I present here extracts from the Pegasus book to introduce the software/malware birth story: Yet building the case to prove the use of NSO Pegasus, the bribery by … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse of power, billionaires, bribery, drug addiction, drug cartels, human rights violations, journalism, Mexico, poverty, trade, US taxpayers, war on drugs
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Mexico: targeting journalists
So many journalists have been murdered since the Mexican government acquired the NSO malware, Pegasus. We were essentially picking up reporting threads left unfinished by a handful of brave Mexican journalists who had been killed, most likely by assassins from … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 to 21st century, bribery, corruption, destruction, drug cartels, drug trade history, greed, inside job, israel, kidnapping, Mexico, migrants, murder, NSO, Pegasus malware, people trafficking, poverty, President Bush, Presidents of Mexico, spyware, thugs, violence
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Pegasus continually updated
2019: WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists’ phones https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/29/whatsapp-sues-israeli-firm-accusing-it-of-hacking-activists-phones ……August 5, 2020, from somebody in senior management at the NSO Group. Cherie Blair, former First Lady of the United Kingdom, longtime barrister, noted advocate for women entrepreneurs … Continue reading
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Tagged blacklisted, Covid, democracy, human rights, israel, journalists targeted, malware, opponents targeted, oppression, Pegasus, software sales, Tel Aviv, thoughts targeted, tracking
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Consequences of Spyware use: Track, torture, execute
Here are some extracts from the current book I’ve begun reading about the spread of an evolved spyware application, Pegasus. The authors describe earlier spyware consequences and now believe each and every one of us who has a phone is … Continue reading
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Tagged Algeria, Amesys, Amysis, Arab Spring, colonial repression, coup, cyber weapons, egypt, france, Gadhafi, middle east, Muslim Brotherhood, oppression, Pegasus, Sisi, spyware, United Arab Emirates
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