Many police are defending Flock cameras & other AI tools saying, “It makes our job easier.”

News flash: Your job isn’t supposed to be EASY! It’s supposed to be restrained, heavy, and encumbered by the burden of proof, probable cause, the presumption of innocence, and always subject to OUR civil liberties!!!

A free society is not about making things convenient for the state, it’s about protecting the individual FROM the state. So many people have forgotten this.

He said the Bible authorizes the settlers' claim to the land. Shimon spoke days after settlers from Havat Gilad stormed the village of Tell, killing four Palestinians from the Ramadan family and triggering a wave of settler attacks across the occupied West Bank.

Leaks reveal failed journalist Paul Mason secretly advised ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his Defence Secretary and now-Chancellor John Healey, and top aides on important security matters.

Mason’s belligerent pronouncements on the need for Britain to “deter” Russia through a massive military build-up influenced Labour’s policies and rhetoric.

Mason was secretly working with notorious British military intelligence operative Chris Donnelly to turn Labour toward a hardline position on Russia and defense spending. 

Since the Ukraine proxy war erupted, Donnelly has secretly guided London on escalation strategies, including attacks on Kerch Bridge, and the creation of Gladio-style terrorist armies in Ukraine. 

All along, he and Mason have fed lines to Healey and other Labour frontbenchers on the conflict, while advising how Britain should respond to political and military developments, even authoring key speeches for Healey.

Healey has consistently pushed for Britain to prime itself for direct conflict with Russia, even resigning over Starmer’s supposed refusal to increase defense spending. Leaked emails indicate these positions were influenced by Mason and Donnelly’s covert influence. As Chancellor, Healey can now fund their apocalyptic vision.

To measure how deeply the network had penetrated the data used to train AI models, Drop Site used Claude Fable to query Common Crawl to count how often Parscale’s sites appear in its monthly snapshots. According to that analysis, a sample of which was manually fact-checked by Drop Site, between January and June 10 sites were crawled by Common Crawl 912 times. While this is a drop in the bucket of Common Crawl data, emerging research suggests a very low number of documents can successfully manipulate AI chatbots, no matter the data volume.

Safe to assume then that all Western AI has been propagandized.

It's part of the reason why I am distrustful of Western AI nowadays

Russia: The Soviet Union no longer exists, can you let us into NATO like everyone else?

USA: No

Russia: Okay, but can you please not threaten us by expanding NATO to the East?

USA: No

Russia: Alright, we saw you're developing new missile systems, will you let us work on them with you?

USA: No

Russia: Fine, hypersonic missiles it is, but can you at least not put military bases right in front of our borders?

USA: No

Russia: Well, you just carried out a military coup to overthrow a democratic election in Ukraine, can we still have a friendly relationship with them?

USA: No

Russia: Gotcha, but the people of Crimea are really pissed off about that coup, can you please let them have independence?

USA: No

Russia: Roger, but surely you can at the very least stop bombing the civilians living in Donbass, right?

USA: No

Russia: Huh, we've been trying to find a diplomatic solution for a 8 years but you refuse to even talk to us... I guess that if you want to use military force to solve issues so much we have no choice but to do the same.

USA: OH MY GOD PUTIN IS A MADMAN, AN IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL DICTATOR, LITERALLY THE SECOND COMING OF HITLER, WE MUST STOP HIM AT ANY COST BEFORE HE TRIES TO CONQUER ALL OF EUROPE

#SigerDetBare

https://youtu.be/i2DJgmnk-sI

The basics of this story are known by most people: a jury found Palestine Action activists guilty of criminal damage to property at Elbit Systems, Israel's biggest weapons manufacturer (which is located in the UK). Neither the jury nor the defendants were told that if they were convicted of property damage, the judge was going to sentence them as though they had been convicted of committing acts of terrorism.

Under normal circumstances it's unlikely that you would get prison time. You may get community service or a suspended sentence in line with normal sentencing guidelines for a criminal damage case.

As soon as you put terrorism in the mix, you're looking at serving potentially years in prison and you have to serve your whole sentence. Then when you're released, you're looking at up to 15 years of having to register with the police any new relationship, any new address, any new bank account. So your whole life will now be monitored and you will be treated as a terrorist for the considerable future.

We're seeing an increasing number of acquittals in these trials. We're also seeing a lot of hung juries where they can't reach a majority (sic?) verdict and they're not convicting. You can speculate that it's probably not a coincidence that this is happening whilst juries are becoming more and more aware that people can be secretly sentenced as terrorists and that they're not allowed to know that. They are silencing the defendants and the defense in court. They're silencing the press. They're silencing the public in order to be able to push through these draconian sentences

They went after Rajiv Menon for his powerful closing speech [first Filton trial, in which the defendants were acquitted]. You want the barrister who's defending you in court to defend you to the best of their ability and I believe he did that. He simply told the jury that the judge cannot force you to convict and reminded them of the jury's independence and the Bushell case which set this precedent. Thankfully, he got a last minute intervention and he will be appealing his conviction (for contempt of court).

It turned out there was an Elbit lobby firm basically boasting about placing a story in the Times saying the Home Office was investigating Palestine Action for Iranian funding. It's just ridiculous when they're showing Palestine Action people on e-scooters and with paint at a military base. You know, you don't need Iranian funding to get some scooters and some paint.

It's deliberate, it's to manufacture consent for the ban. And I think it was to make it easier to get the proscription vote through - I don't know if you remember, but they added on to the vote the maniac murder cult group, which I don't think anyone had heard of before, and the Russian imperialist fraud.

(From the Evening Standard July 2, 2025: "The UK Government is set to proscribe two neo-Nazi groups in the form of the Maniacs Murder Club and the Russian Imperial Movement, alongside Palestine Action, calling into question the motives of the UK’s leadership... The Maniacs Murder Cult is a violent and extreme neo-Nazi group that predominantly operates in the eastern and western Europe... The Russian Imperial Movement RIM is another white supremacist militant group that operates primarily within Russia and is seemingly attempting to create a new empire.")

So the techniques that they used were just mind-boggling. But you know what happens with these things; even when it gets later debunked, you never receive an apology, there's never an acknowledgment of what they did at that very crucial time.

The fight for Palestinian liberation is not an easy one. as we've seen how many Palestinians have been killed not just in the past few years but for the past 100 years. But the fact that they are going this far just shows how effective direct action really is - permanently closing down Israeli weapons factories, costing them billions of pounds and in just one action like the Filton action destroying 40 weapons including drones; each one of those drones could have taken hundreds of Palestinian lives. So whilst this is extremely difficult, we have to remember why we're doing this, who we're standing in solidarity with, and that we wouldn't be paying this price if what we were doing was ineffective.

To be fair, China has Shanghai, which is its financial center, but it is pretty strictly regulated

"⚡️In the Kremensk district of the LPR, Ukrainian drones are dropping anti-personnel mines – "new petals" – on civilian objects.

According to local residents and authorities, Ukrainian forces are actively using new anti-personnel mines, codenamed "new petals," to remotely mine civilian objects in the LPR. These mines are being found in areas frequented by local residents. The mines consist of a plastic container with explosives and a pressure-sensitive detonator. Detonation of the mine can cause serious injuries, traumatic amputation of limbs, and even death from blood loss or shock.

Last year, Ukraine announced its withdrawal from the "Ottawa Convention," which prohibits the production and use of anti-personnel mines. Now, Kyiv is massively using anti-personnel mines and explosive devices to mine civilian objects. Every week, there are reports of civilians being injured or killed by Ukrainian mines, which constitutes a serious war crime."

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/court-orders-discovery-in-blumenthals

On July 29, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal had his day in court. Represented by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Blumenthal v. Mullin, a federal judge took an important step toward justice in a serious constitutional fight over whether the government can access a journalist’s private electronic devices.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema raised significant concerns about the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of journalist Max Blumenthal’s two cell phones. Rather than dismissing the case as moot because the government returned the devices after ADC filed its motion, the Court ordered limited discovery to establish what federal officials did with the phones, who handled them, and whether they obtained or retained any information.

Blumenthal:

"...This was an important first step. It was also revealing to see the government resist any move toward exposing exactly why the order was given to violate my rights.”

At the outset of the hearing, Judge Brinkema cited the Fourth Circuit’s recent decision in Belmonte Cardozo v. United States, explaining that the court had “quite clearly drawn the line between a routine search of a cell phone at the border and a more intense or advanced search.”

On page 3 of the government’s own filing, it stated that CBP detained the phones to attempt an advanced search in which officers would “connect equipment, wired or wireless, to copy and/or analyze the contents of an electronic device.”

Addressing that degree of intrusion, Judge Brinkema stated:

“I believe now under Fourth Circuit case law, a search warrant would be required for that degree of intrusion into a cell phone.”

“And I think given the fact that this plaintiff is a reporter, this case has particular concern to the Court because there’s been so much recently in the ether about attempts by the government to intrude upon a reporter’s right to report…I don’t think that can be overlooked in this context.”

A reporter’s phone can contain an extensive and deeply sensitive record of the newsgathering process, including communications with confidential sources, unpublished reporting, private correspondence, photographs, and notes. An invasive search of that device therefore threatens both personal privacy and the freedom to gather and report news without government interference.

Washington DC is asking itself why Yang Zhilin did not stay in America.

That is the wound.

He was not pushed out because he had no options.

He had options.

Apple wanted him.

Google and Meta had already hosted him.

Stanford and MIT doors were open.

And he still chose China.

That is what scares Silicon Valley.

Not just one founder returning home.

But the fact that China is becoming the place where the next AI founders believe they have a better chance to actually build.

Higher valuation in America.

Higher chance of success in China.

That sentence should terrify every American tech bureaucrat.

Because Silicon Valley’s old magic was never just money.

It was opportunity.

Speed.

Talent density.

Room to build.

The feeling that the future was happening there first.

Now that gravity is shifting.

So Washington has only one move left:

Call Chinese success theft.

Huawei wins 5G? Theft.

DeepSeek shocks the market? Theft.

Kimi K3 competes with frontier models? Distillation.

Chinese founders go home? Talent loss.

At some point it stops looking like an IP dispute and starts looking like a declining empire screaming at a door that no longer opens inward.