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Tag Archives: oppression
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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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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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
Crimean Tatars
I am reproducing this article from The Conversation which arrived today in my mailbox: Ukraine war: why Crimean Tatar fighters are playing an increasing role in resistance to Russian occupation A resistance group of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group native to … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, Crimea, ethnic persecution, hate, human suffering, oppression, retribution, Tatars, trauma, war
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Rare Earth Elements and Balance of Power
I write these blogs for me. I ask questions and search for answers in books and, mostly, exploring the Internet. Without Rare Earth Elements I would not be doing this. When I was born just after World War II, if … Continue reading
The 19th century European Curse across Africa: Part Two
To understand the influence of a little country (Belgium) over another 80 times as big as it, (the Congo in Africa) I had to read the history. Coming from Britain, I knew too well of our tiny size but the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Seeley Harris, Belgium, Britain, Congo, european colonisation of africa, germany, land grabs, Leopold II, oppression, slavery, white supremacy
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Adam Smith: Part XII
George Wade – an example of a loyal military man, wholly anti Catholic, particularly anti Jacobite. When Wade was commissioned the British monarch was Protestant Dutch William and Mary (of Orange). You get a feel for the kind of military experience a … Continue reading
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