Category Archives: anthropocene

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 →

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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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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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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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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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PROMIS to Pegasus: enablers of horror

1933: the stirrings of WWII and opportunities for lucrative trade emerging. I refer you to the book (published 2001) by Edwin Black ‘IBM and the Holocaust’. It is a magnificent piece of work and reveals the integral aspect of trade … Continue reading →

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Normalizing relations

Trade has played a major role in human benefits where mutual agreements occur. The expansion of the Roman Empire created great wealth and power through trade. Military prowess protected gains more for the Romans than those who traded under Roman … Continue reading →

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Finite Resources: land grabs – is it all about oil?

As we humans covet what fossil fuels still lie in the ground, we literally battle to obtain them, no matter what doom laden messages COP28 might proclaim about incurring a planet on fire. Apparently we are now ‘transitioning’ away from … Continue reading →

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Military Expansion and pre-meditated Genocide

I recently read in the World Atlas that before the region now known as China, it was the Qing dynasty (1636 to 1912) in power and they constantly used military strength to expand over lands around them with a dream … Continue reading →

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Genocidal attempts: Yazidis

The Genocide Convention is an international treaty approved in 1948 with the intent to prevent genocides in the future. It defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial … Continue reading →

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