Trump wants to create an ‘Arab NATO’ in the Middle East
https://nypost.com/2017/05/17/trump-wants-to-create-an-arab-nato-in-the-middle-east/
China-Style Total Surveillance Technology Comes To Detroit
TN has repeatedly warned that the China model of Technocracy and Scientific Dictatorship was coming to America, and here it is. Detroit, New Orleans and San Diego are all bent on total surveillance of their citizens. ⁃ TN Editor
The push to turn America’s cities into Chinese-style surveillance networks has found a new partner in Detroit, Michigan
The only difference between what is happening in San Diego and what is happening in Detroit is, they are not using the same smart street lights to spy on everyone. Detroit uses Intellistreets a company known to have strong ties to Homeland Security.
What started out as a ‘voluntary’ police-cam share program in Saginaw, Michigan has morphed into a massive 1000 surveillance camera network which includes 500 businesses in Detroit.
https://www.technocracy.news/china-style-total-surveillance-technology-comes-to-detroit/
Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost
NEW YORK — On March 13, a report in the Daily Beast revealed that the New York-based outlet The Intercept would be shutting down its archive of the trove of government documents entrusted to a handful of journalists, including Intercept co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, by whistleblower Edward Snowden. However, that account did not include the role of Greenwald, as well as Jeremy Scahill — another Intercept co-founder, in the controversial decision to shutter the archive.
According to a timeline of events written by Poitras that was shared and published by journalist and former Intercept columnist Barrett Brown, both Scahill and Greenwald were intimately involved in the decision to close the Snowden archive.
While other outlets — such as the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post and the New York Times — also possess much (though not all) of the archive, the Intercept was the only outlet with the (full) archive that had continued to publish documents, albeit at a remarkably slow pace, in recent years. In total, fewer than 10 percent of the Snowden documents have been published since 2013. Thus, the closing of the publication’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Greenwald’s promise of finding “the right partner … that has the funds to robustly publish” is fulfilled.
Poitras told Brown that she first caught wind of the coming end of the Snowden archive on March 6, when Scahill and Intercept editor-in-chief Betsy Reed asked to meet with her “to explain how we’ve assessed our priorities in the course of the budget process, and made some restructuring decisions.” During the resulting two-hour meeting, which Poitras described as “tense,” she realized that they had “decided to eliminate the research department. I object to this on the grounds Field of Vision [Intercept sister company where Poitras works] is dependent [on the] research department, and the Snowden archive security protocols are overseen by them
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/71880/silencing-the-whistle-the-intercept-shutters-snowden-archive-citing.html
The stock market just had its best quarter in nearly 10 years
“There was nothing to fear in Q4 but fear itself.” The stock market’s terrifying tumble at the end of last year proved short-lived, noted Howard Silverblatt, a senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
In fact, the S&P 500’s bounce in the first quarter of this year regained almost all of the ground lost in the previous three months. It was the best quarterly performance since the second quarter of 2009, and the biggest gain in a first quarter since 1998.
After flirting with a bear market at the end of 2018, the S&P 500 is now just 3% short of its all-time high. Investors fell over themselves to invest in Lyft’s IPO on the last day of the quarter, suggesting that there is plenty of pent-up bullishness out there.
https://qz.com/1584099/the-sp-500-had-its-best-first-quarter-in-nearly-10-years/
Restricting Gun Sales Cost Dick’s $150 Million Last Year
When CEO of Dick’s, Edward Stack, went on Good Morning America a few weeks after the Parkland Shooting in Feb. 2018 and said that the sporting-goods retailer, the largest in the country, with stores in 47 states, would no longer be selling assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines and would not be selling any weapons to those under 21 he knew it might be costly.
He was right. Dick’s estimates the policy change cost the company about $150 million in lost sales, an amount equivalent to 1.7 percent of annual revenue. Stacks maintains it was worth it.
https://www.thedailysheeple.com/restricting-gun-sales-cost-dicks-150-million-last-year_032019
Closer Everyday.. Is this any different then what they do in China
YOUR STREET, OUR ALGO
US intelligence wants to use your face to train AI systems
The US government research unit serving intelligence agencies is looking to expand its ability to monitor thousands of people at once, with a new request for companies, cities, and the academic sector to help compile a massive video dataset.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) team, which falls under the purview of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), posted the solicitation to a federal contracting database.
Artificial-intelligence algorithms like the ones the government wants to train require large amounts of data to be accurate.
“Further research in the area of computer vision within multi-camera networks may support post-event crime scene reconstruction, protection of critical infrastructure and transportation facilities, military force protection, and in the operations of National Special Security Events,” the IARPA posting explains.
https://qz.com/1583219/us-intelligence-wants-to-use-you-to-train-facial-recognition-systems/
Billy Joel - Keeping the Faith (Official Video)
Senseless Secrets: The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from George Washington to the Present
From the Revolutionary War to Somalian relief, American intelligence has consistently failed. The system, designed to gather, analyse, and distribute critical information, has cost American lives while squandering enormous amounts of taxpayers' money. In this book, a career soldier who has directly observed recent inadequacies from the inside, looks at these failures and tells how and why they occurred
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444697.Senseless_Secrets
Nine Major Grain-Producing States Under Water