Above Photo: EFF’s Dave Maass. CounterSpin interview with Dave Maass on transparency and journalism. Janine Jackson: A functioning democracy relies on an informed citizenry. But what you read in a high school textbook, and what you see when you look up from it, are different things. Importantly, transparency—a free flow of information—should be the norm. But it isn’t. That makes even more important the role of journalists who dig out critical information the public needs to hear, whether we know it or not: information we need to challenge the powerful. And it reminds us of the need to protect that role and […]
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Lula Gains Access To US/Lava Jato Partnership Information By Brian Mier, Brasil Wire. March 12, 2022 Lula Gains Access To US/Lava Jato Partnership Information2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-7.jpg200px200px Lula has been exonerated from all Lava Jato charges. The investigation into the US role in the greatest travesty of justice in Brazilian history continues. This week Brazil’s Superior Justice Court ordered the Justice Ministry to grant former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his defense team access to previously sealed information on the existence of partnerships between the US Department of Justice and the Lava Jato investigation task force. As US Attorney General William Barr pointed out in […]
Above Photo: Unidentified gunmen on patrol at Simferopol Airport in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. The AK-74 carried by the rifleman on the right does not have a magazine inserted. (Elizabeth Arrott / VOA – Public Domain). The threat of war is difficult to beat when it comes to mending or enhancing a damaged reputation. President Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, both derided as ineffective in domestic policy only a few weeks ago, are now reborn as statesmen capable of guiding their countries through the minefield of Eastern European politics. The American and British intelligence services seldom got things right during the Iraq, Libyan and […]
Above Photo: Sina Weibo screenshot of Chinese volunteer welcoming Tessa Maud and U.S. athletes to China Global Times. Tessa Maud And Aaron Blunk Didn’t Need To Use Many Words To Show Us That The U.S. Media Has China All Wrong. Few events have been more politicized than the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. New cold warriors and atrocity propagandists led by the United States did everything in their power to generate popular support for a full boycott of the Games. NED-backed organizations formed a coalition for the cause, the corporate media engaged in a full-scale “China bad” propaganda blitz, and the political […]
To fight disinformation. Billionaire CIA-linked “overt operative” George Soros teams up on a shady media venture with tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who financed a Facebook disinfo operation that framed Russia for meddling in US elections. On Tuesday, billionaires Reid Hoffman and George Soros launched Good Information Inc., a “public benefit corporation” to serve as a conduit of funds to newsrooms that “cut through the echo chambers with fact-based information.” On its website, Good Information further describes itself as a “civic incubator” aimed at fostering and financially backing projects that “counter disinformation where it spreads by increasing the flow of good information online.” But […]
Twitter has removed a tweet from White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Scott Atlas questioning the effectiveness of mask mandates, claiming the message violated the platform’s Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy. “Twitter seems to be censoring the science if it goes against their own goals of public indoctrination,” Atlas told Newsweek on Sunday about his tweet being removed. In the original tweet, Atlas wrote, “Masks work? NO,” before citing various examples and quotes from health officials pushing back against the protection face coverings can provide. Also on rt.com Kansas man arrested for threatening to ‘kidnap’ and ‘slash’ the throat of Wichita […]
A truck sits in still water after Hurricane Laura swept through Cameron Parish, La. The hurricane inflicted at least $8 billion in damage to southwest Louisiana when it hit in late August. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Ryan Kellman/NPR A truck sits in still water after Hurricane Laura swept through Cameron Parish, La. The hurricane inflicted at least $8 billion in damage to southwest Louisiana when it hit in late August. Ryan Kellman/NPR Each family had their reasons for ending up in harm’s way. For the Harts, it was the chance to have a large backyard in a quiet part […]
Coinbase received more than 1,800 request for information from law enforcement in the first half of 2020, largely in the form of subpoenas, the company announced Friday. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange released the information in its first ever transparency report. Earlier this year, digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) requested that the exchange be more transparent in how it handles authorities’ requests for users’ private financial data. In addition to the criminal information requests, Coinbase received a number of civil or administrative requests from government agencies, for a total of over 1,900 requests. Source link
Earlier on Saturday, US President Donald Trump’s personal physician announced in a statement that Trump no longer posed a risk of transmitting the coronavirus to others – after over a week of the president’s COVID recovery process. Shortly after Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that it is “very nice to know” that he “can’t get it [COVID-19] and can’t give it”, the social media platform flagged the post as disinformation, noting that it violated Twitter rules. “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in […]
JPMorgan Blockchain Lead Christine Moy has been promoted to lead the bank’s Ethereum-based Interbank Information Network (INN). Source link
Commenting on the issue, White House spokesperson Sarah Matthews said Trump consults with many health experts both inside and outside the federal government, who sometimes have different opinions on how to deal with the coronavirs outbreak. Dr Robert Redfield, director of US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, is allegedly concerned that one doctor has been providing President Donald Trump with misleading information about the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, CNN reported, citing an unnamed federal official. The doctor in question is Scott Atlas, who recently became a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. On 27 September, NBC News […]
Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg, pictured in 2019, tells NPR there’s “real appetite for people to find out more for themselves” when it comes to climate change and factual information. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg, pictured in 2019, tells NPR there’s “real appetite for people to find out more for themselves” when it comes to climate change and factual information. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images Facebook is launching a climate change information page in an effort to promote facts about climate change from trusted sources. Users in […]
The Los Angeles County governing body has earmarked $100,000 for tip-offs that might help police to nab a suspect, described as a young black man, who shot two deputies multiple times in their car on Saturday while unprovoked. “The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has authorized a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect,” the LA county’s five-member governing body announced on Sunday, as the point-blank shooting of two police officers near a metro station in the city of Compton has attracted nationwide attention, including that of US President Donald Trump. An unknown attacker, […]
Discussion Of Wikileaks Or ‘Hacked Information’ Banned Under New YouTube Rules By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. August 17, 2020 Discussion Of Wikileaks Or ‘Hacked Information’ Banned Under New YouTube Rules2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/snowden-and-assange-e1597675654189.jpg200px200px Above photo: Posters of Edward Snowden, left, and Julian Assange, right. MintPress via Shutterstock. AP. YouTube’s decision to ban discussion of hacked information on its platform is unlikely to improve election integrity in the US, it will, however, continue to tilt the balance in favor of established corporate-funded outlets like Fox News and CNN. Social media giant YouTube announced yesterday a host of new measures it says are aimed at preventing any interference in […]
Black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell was murdered on July 23rd just hours after a pro-Trump interview. Trammell was gunned down shortly after noon. He as a popular supporter of President Trump. Bernell Trammell was shot in the head execution style broad daylight yesterday in front of his store. He was a God fearing Trump supporting man. Was it because he was a Trump supporter? He didn’t look for fights, he lived a good life. Sick and sad! @GovTonyEvers get it together! pic.twitter.com/Y75V7UODZM — Stephanie Lee (@Stephan47781670) July 24, 2020 TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Killer Cuomo Not Only Murdered Thousands of Elderly In Homes, […]
Above photo: The only known photograph of district judge Vanessa Baraitser — who will rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US — in the public domain. Anonymisation by Declassified. From Instagram. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US in what appears to be an irregular application of the Freedom of Information Act, it can be revealed. Declassified has also discovered that the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, has ordered extradition in 96% of the cases she has presided over for which information is publicly […]
Former CIA director John Brennan is working on a memoir but can’t access his own classified notes. He found this out recently because he is working on a book and tried to access them. It couldn’t happen to a nicer member of the deep state. The Washington Examiner reports: TRENDING: TGP at Tech Hearing: Rep. Greg Steube Grills Google CEO on Why Google Is Hiding Gateway Pundit — Steube Demands Evidence Within 2 Weeks! (VIDEO) John Brennan blocked from accessing classified information Former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of President Trump, found out he had been blocked from accessing […]
CDC headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, photo via CDC The Trump administration announced new guidelines on Wednesday. Starting today hospitals will be ordered to bypass the CDC and send ALL COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington DC. This comes after TGP’s Tuesday report on the likely fraudulent numbers coming from the CDC. EXCLUSIVE: Three Reasons the China Coronavirus Incidence and Mortality Counts Reported by the CDC Are Likely Fraudulent The CDC is just the latest government entity that has become politicized by the American left. TRENDING: Nick Cannon Canned and Canceled – After Anti-Semitic Slurs and Anti-White Filth (Video) The […]
Everyone knows Kamala Harris is on the short list to be Joe Biden’s running mate. Now something is happening which suggests she might be the final choice. Her Wikipedia page is apparently being heavily scrubbed for anything that could potentially be used against her. Breitbart reports: TRENDING: Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems” (VIDEO) Wikipedia Editors Sanitize the Page of Potential Biden VP Kamala Harris An article in the Intercept last week reported that a Wikipedia editor was scrubbing the page of former Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), considered a prominent […]
Adam Schiff A couple weeks ago The New York Times published a story claiming that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill US troops, citing “officials briefed on the matter.” President Trump early Sunday morning dismissed the New York Times report on the GRU-Taliban allegations. “Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an “anonymous source” by the Fake News New York Times.” Trump said in a pair of tweets Sunday morning. House Intel Chairman and impeachment ringleader Adam Schiff […]
A face even his mother (one of two deeply insane parents) hated By Gordon Duff VT has not played games whatsoever and has exposed whatever is really behind this. Yes, we think it is man made and yes also, we think some very nasty people dropped this on the US with an agenda. That said… I hate masks but am wearing one, a damned KN95 I hate. My summer home is in a vacation resort area so I am either in Grand Haven or Saugetuck daily and both are loaded with thousands of tourists, sometimes tens of thousands, just like those […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on with Sean Hannity on Monday night. During their segment Secretary of State Pompeo weighed in on John Bolton’s book release. Secretary of State Pompeo: It’s both sad and dangerous. I haven’t read the book in its entirety but the excerpts I’ve seen, lots of falsehoods, lots of lies. Indeed the cover itself, “The Room Where It Happened,” isn’t completely true. The president and others myself included had to cut him out of meetings because he was leaking or he would twist things or he would lie. It was a really difficult situation for the […]
Court Refuses To Block Information On Who Police Targeted In Social Media By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal. June 22, 2020 Court Refuses To Block Information On Who Police Targeted In Social Media2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/police-face-off-with-protesters-on-manahattan-bridge-by-ap-e1591635911272.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police face off with activists during a protest march near the Manhattan Bridge on Sunday, May 31, 2020, in New York. Demonstrators took to the streets of New York to protest the death of George Floyd, who died May 25 after he was pinned at the neck by a Minneapolis police officer. Kevin Hagen, AP. District Attorney Rachael Rollins sought to block the disclosure of records that could show Boston […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107967/70/1079677085_0:104:2861:1713_1200x675_80_0_0_498783af45caaf9a73a39443ccf4cc5b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006211079677070-pyongyang-refuses-to-reconsider-retaliatory-plan-to-spread-information-leaflets–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – North Korean authorities will not reconsider a plan to spread leaflets as part of an information campaign against South Korea, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Seoul has called on Pyongyang to abandon the idea. North Korea understands that the spread of leaflets is a violation of the inter-Korean agreement but it does not intend to change its plan at a time when relations between the North and the South are rapidly failing, according to KCNA, citing a Sunday comment by a spokesperson with the United Front Department […]
President Donald Trump has responded to the bombshell allegations made in his former national security adviser John Bolton’s upcoming book by claiming Bolton is at once lying and also divulging sensitive classified information. During a Wednesday night interview with the president, Fox News host and close confidant Sean Hannity brought up the Justice Department’s attempts to prevent Bolton’s book from hitting bookshelves ahead of its June 23 release. Hannity also noted that federal prosecutors are apparently considering bringing up criminal charges against Bolton for allegedly sharing classified information. Without specifically mentioning Bolton’s claims, which included accusations that Trump pleaded with China […]
The Department of Justice has slapped ex-national security advisor John Bolton with a lawsuit, seeking to stop the publication of his upcoming book, insisting it contains classified material and must complete a pre-print review. Filed on Tuesday, the 27-page complaint requests that Bolton be ordered to obtain “written authorization” to publish the memoir – ‘The Room Where It Happened’ – which has been billed as a tell-all account of his time working in the White House under the Donald Trump administration. Publishing the book would be a “clear breach of agreements [Bolton] signed as a condition of his employment and as […]
Mena Dyaha Yousif and her boyfriend Jose Felan, Jr. (ATF) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering two rewards of up to $5,000 each for information that leads to the apprehension of a man and/or his girlfriend. The couple was caught on camera lighting fires in Minneapolis during the rioting and looting by violent leftists last month. Here is the video link of the two lovers during the riots two weeks ago. TRENDING: BREAKING: CNN Crew Attacked by Rioters in Atlanta – Beaten at Wendy’s (VIDEO) Mena Dyaha Yousif and her boyfriend Jose Felan, Jr. are “on the […]
Opinion 00:52 GMT 09.06.2020Get short URL While the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been conducting surveillance and collecting information on protesters in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, web developer and technologist Chris Garaffa and technology and security analyst Patricia Gorky told Sputnik the agency has long peered into activists’ communications. “William Barr – who’s attorney general, who we’ve talked about many times as an absolute enemy of privacy and civil liberties – last week put out a statement staying that because of ‘anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics,’ he was deploying the FBI, the DEA […]
Europe 09:24 GMT 08.06.2020(updated 09:34 GMT 08.06.2020) Get short URL US authorities have informed the Netherlands of being unable to provide additional information about a missile fired at the Malaysian Airlines Boeing, МН17, apart from a document sent in 2014, presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis has stated at the resumed hearings in the MH17 case. “The court asked whether classified satellite images of the missile launch, presented to Dutch special services, could be attached to the case … The prosecution said that the request had been sent to the US back in 2014, and in response a memorandum was sent. The Dutch […]
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced a controversial rule earlier this week that would wipe out restaurants in his state. The governor said he will require restaurants to keep a log, including contact information, on every customer who dines at their establishment. Advertisement – story continues below Inslee also wants all restaurants to open at half capacity. This crazed tyrant wanted to be president. TRENDING: BREAKING: Video Surfaces of Joe Scarborough Joking About Having Affair With Intern and Having to Kill Her This was another example of pure liberal insanity. Here’s the update—On Friday the governor of Washington walked back his […]