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Oct 2, 2024 Which company is the premiere surveillance Big tech company that really seeks to know you well for their AI? The answer to this question will often be tainted by the marketing moves of these companies and guaranteed that for the normie, the answer will be wrong. The reason is that people don't understand the motives of each of these companies? Why do they need to know each of us so well? What's in it for them? If you really understand this, you will be surprised at the answer.

THE separatist militancy, which has gripped Balochistan for the past two decades, now seems to have escalated into a full-blown insurgency. Last week, hundreds of armed terrorists launched simultaneous attacks reportedly in 12 locations, including the provincial capital Quetta. They stormed security installations, set government buildings on fire and looted banks. Highly trained terrorists engaged the security forces in gun battles for hours, revealing their capacity to challenge the state. While the government claims to have killed 145 terrorists and restored order, such large-scale attacks, which breach even high security zones such as the provincial capital and cause many casualties...

BUDA, Texas (KEYE/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - A Texas man was arrested after a confrontation with a minor during a student protest Monday in Buda, police said. Chad Michael Watts, 45, was charged with two counts of assault causing bodily injury following an incident during a walkout by Hays Consolidated Independent School District students protesting immigration and law enforcement operations. Buda police identified Watts as the primary aggressor.

A new study published today (February 2) in Nature Geoscience finds that shifts in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely followed changes in marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean during past ice ages. However, the relationship did not work in the way scientists long assumed. The link centers on iron-rich sediment carried into the ocean by icebergs breaking away from West Antarctica. Iron typically acts as a nutrient that supports algae growth. But when researchers examined a sediment core collected in 2001 from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, taken from more than three miles below the...

Trump border czar Tom Homan announced a significant drawdown of federal agents in Minneapolis during a Wednesday morning press conference after receiving “unprecedented cooperation” from local officials. Homan was put in charge of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were both shot and killed during altercations with ICE and Border Patrol personnel. During a press conference last week, Homan struck a more optimistic tone about collaborating with local officials like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), and acknowledged that mistakes had been made. On Wednesday, Homan announced...

Two former Underdog Pet Rescue of Wisconsin dogs are headed to one of the most-watched sporting events of the year — the 2026 Puppy Bowl. Anson and Avro will represent Wisconsin in this year’s Puppy Bowl, making them the only dogs from Wisconsin selected to participate in the nationally televised event. Both pups have since been adopted by loving Madison-area families and will reunite with Underdog supporters at a Puppy Bowl viewing party hosted by Underdog Pet Rescue, where they will attend in person and meet fans. Event details can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/events/2450176842105030 Anson’s story is especially meaningful. A...

Documents mentioning the Rothschilds began to disappear from Epstein's files. The rules-based world has been slightly tweaked

Between the White House ballroom currently under construction, and the proposed Arc du Trump currently in the planning stage, Washington DC could look entirely different when President Trump leaves office. The classic elements are genuinely inspiring. PRESIDENT TRUMP – “This beautiful building will be, when complete, the much-anticipated White House Ballroom — The Greatest of its kind ever built! It is a rendering from the Treasury Building, directly across the street, and replaces the very small, dilapidated, and rebuilt many times, East Wing, with a magnificent New East Wing, consisting of a glorious Ballroom that has been asked for by...

A set of internal documents published by the Republican members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee (Judiciary GOP) has sent shockwaves through Brussels. Released under the title The EU Censorship Files, Part II, the investigation presents documentary evidence of a sustained strategy by the European Commission to influence public debate on social media and digital platforms, pressuring major tech companies to censor lawful content, alter their internal rules, and restrict certain political viewpoints. https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/2018683758006665352 The revelations go far beyond an abstract debate over content moderation. According to the material made public, the Commission has directly or indirectly intervened in at...

According to a statement released by the University of Vienna, an international team of researchers has identified a rare genetic condition in the remains of a mother and daughter who were buried in an embrace in the same grave more than 12,000 years ago. The burial was discovered in 1963 at Grotta del Romito in southern Italy. Romito 1, the remains of a woman who stood under five feet tall, held the remains of Romito 2, an adolescent girl with pronounced limb shortening, and an estimated height of about 3.5 feet. DNA analysis also showed that the daughter carried two...

One of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, has broken his silence following allegations surfacing in the latest round of documents released regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 'The focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people and he was saying he could get them to give money to global health,' Gates said in an interview with Nine News on Wednesday. Gates gave his 'only Australian TV interview' with the network during a trip to the country for the Australian Open, which ran from January 12 to February 1 at Melbourne Park. The billionaire continued: 'You know,...

STOP Everything! If You Use LINUX, You Need to Watch This NOW! The Hardware Report Feb 3, 2026 #Linux #OpenSource #CyberSecurity Is your Linux system actually secure? In today’s video, we’re breaking down a critical update every Linux user needs to see. Whether you’re on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, or Mint, the "set it and forget it" mentality could be putting your data at risk. #Linux #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #LinuxTips #TechNews #Ubuntu #ArchLinux #Privacy #LinuxTutorial #SysAdmin From hidden security vulnerabilities to essential kernel tweaks that boost performance, we cover the "must-do" steps to keep your distro running fast and safe. Don't wait...

alifornians have a right to be angry about Minnesota. It’s getting all the federal government attention for its illegal immigration, street violence, fraud and graft when California, in fact, is the king of all those civic sins. Yes, Minnesota and its lead city, Minneapolis, are impressive in the scale of fraud, estimated currently at billions of dollars, according to the Cato Institute’s recent “Fraud Update.” Not bad for a blue state, especially one with just 5.8 million people. But let’s be honest. Minnesota’s inhabitants are mere pikers compared to those in the Golden State. There, the level of fraud and...

BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, 1881.In its ‘Climate & Energy’ newsletter on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal’s report on Germany’s chemicals industry headlined ‘The Agonising Decline of One of Europe’s Core Industries’ reads less like an industry report than a forensic examination of an industrial autopsy. Once Europe’s formidable manufacturing powerhouse, Germany is now presiding over the steady dismantling of one of its most foundational industries – chemicals – under the combined weight of self-inflicted energy scarcity, climate moralism and geopolitical miscalculation. In Politico’s view, the auto sector has already assumed the role of Exhibit A in Germany’s economic self-harm. But...

A shocking new twist has unraveled in the disappearance of "TODAY" host Savannah Guthrie's kidnapped mother Nancy Guthrie -- Nancy's son-in-law allegedly may become a suspect. Thomas Cion -- the husband of Savannah's sister Annie -- "may be a prime suspect" in the shocking case, according to Ashleigh Banfield ... though we don't know why. Ashleigh reported the stunning possibility on Tuesday's episode of "Drop Dead Serious" and cited a source with "impeccable

As discussed in the previous post, the Federal Judicial Center’s recently-updated Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence contains a new chapter on Climate Science. That chapter focuses on the promoting the hocus pocus of “attribution” studies that seek to blame every latest hurricane or flood or drought on human emissions of CO2, and thus on fossil fuel producers in particular. In my post, I characterized the authors’ write-up of the methodology of these attribution studies as relying on “logical fallacy,” and as “double-talk and bafflegab.” But I think that I inadequately articulated the nature of the fallacy. So I will try...

The Super Bowl hasn’t even kicked off yet, but the halftime show is already a fumble in the eyes of over 100,000 disgruntled fans. A viral petition demanding the NFL ditch Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny in favor of country legend George Strait has gained a lot of internet interest, racking up more than 122,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning. The petition, started in October 2025 by Kar Shell, argues that Strait — the Texas-born country music icon with more than 60 No. 1 hits and decades of chart-topping success — better represents “American music’s rich heritage” and would be...

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The sudden delay of NASA's first moon mission in five decades has set off a wave of conspiracy theories, including one about astronauts discovering life on the lunar surface in 1969. AJ Gentile, host of the podcast 'The Why Files,' said that a long-lost radio transmission from the Apollo 11 moon landing allegedly mentioned the discovery of alien beings watching the astronauts arrive.Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin reportedly switched to a private medical channel during a radio blackout while approaching the moon.In this brief window, which NASA records exist, Armstrong and Aldrin allegedly told mission control back on Earth...

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