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offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 09, 2025 01:00 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Ukraine Must Lose The War, Then Win The Peace Mon Sep 08, 2025 19:02 | Clive Pinder
With Ukraine realists sounding like Putin apologists while idealists inhabit a fantasy world where Ukraine can defeat Russia, Clive Pinder suggests a middle way: Kyiv must accept the war is lost, but win the peace.
The post Ukraine Must Lose The War, Then Win The Peace appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain to Suspend Visas for Countries Failing to Take Back Illegal Migrants, Says Mahmood Mon Sep 08, 2025 17:39 | Will Jones
The UK will suspend visas from countries that refuse to "play ball" on taking back illegal migrants and foreign criminals, new?Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood?has said.
The post Britain to Suspend Visas for Countries Failing to Take Back Illegal Migrants, Says Mahmood appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Fiddling the GDP Figures? Mon Sep 08, 2025 15:13 | David Craig
Labour keeps bragging about growth, but David Craig reckons that the ONS's dubious new method of counting overseas output as part of the UK's GDP is giving a false impression of economic vitality.
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offsite link Starmer ?Tried to Sack Ed Miliband From Net Zero Brief But He Refused to Go? Mon Sep 08, 2025 13:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?tried to sack Ed Miliband from his Net Zero brief in the reshuffle amid worries about economic growth, but he refused to budge, it was claimed today. Downing Street did not deny it when asked.
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones

category international | sci-tech | news report author Tuesday April 26, 2022 17:12author by x Report this post to the editors

In the months leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two obscure American startups met to discuss a potential surveillance partnership that would merge the ability to track the movements of billions of people via their phones with a constant stream of data purchased directly from Twitter.
American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users. See the links for videos and more.

https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracking-zignal-surveillance-cia-nsa/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government-contractor-embedded-software-in-apps-to-track-phones-11596808801

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