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"As G7 leaders who are to meet in Italy this week prepare expanded sanctions on Russia, President Vladmir Putin is soon expected in North Korea. Kim Jong Un on Wednesday hailed his country's ties with Moscow, calling the two powers which actually share a tiny far eastern border "invincible comrades-in-arms"
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Putin To Arrive In North Korea As Kim Hails "Invincible Comrades-in-Arms"
As G7 leaders who are to meet in Italy this week prepare expanded sanctions on Russia, President Vladmir Putin is soon expected in North Korea. Kim Jong Un on Wednesday hailed his country's ties with Moscow, calling the two powers which actually share a tiny…
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"The fiat money system will not disappear just like that. Any expectations or hopes to that end should be tempered. Yes, the fiat money system could collapse; yet there is a significant likelihood it will persist longer than most people might think. This prolonged existence may come at a cost: a fascist state encroachment on the freedoms of citizens and entrepreneurs would be more profound than most people realize.
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The Achilles’ heel of the fiat money system lies in its dependence on the demand for money. However, what does this demand for money signify? Essentially, it reflects people’s desire to hold money, influenced by a multitude of factors.
For instance, people tend to maintain money balances relative to their income. As income rises, so does the desire to hold money. The demand for money typically diminishes when interest rates rise. This is because holding onto money entails opportunity costs when higher returns could be earned through, say, bank deposits and bonds.
History demonstrates that the demand for money remains relatively steady when there is a high level of trust in the currency, meaning people are not worried that the purchasing power of their money will decline or be destroyed. Given this insight, it’s clear how states and their central banks seek to handle the fiat money system in their favor. Their primary strategy involves creating illusions and deceiving the populace to maintain control and influence.
For instance, people are often fed the narrative that inflation of 2 percent equates to “stable money”—a claim that is, of course, inherently false. In reality, a 2-percent inflation rate destroys the purchasing power of money by 2 percent every year. Furthermore, statistical goods price indices are often cobbled together to present a lower inflation rate than experienced in the market. This manipulation serves to downplay the true extent of monetary debasement."
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The Achilles Heel of the Fiat Money System
The fiat money system will not disappear just like that. Any expectations or hopes to that end should be tempered. Yes, the fiat money system could collapse; yet there is a significant likelihood it will persist longer than most people might think. This prolonged…
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"Today is a truly historic day. We signed the strongest agreement between Ukraine and the USA during the entire period of our independence.
The first is that the agreement contains a very detailed legally binding part, and that is the reliability of America's support for our independence.
Second, security guarantees from the United States are based, in particular, on the stability of the level of security and defense support. And not only for the time of this war, but also for the time of peace after the war. And we will definitely ensure peace.
Third, it is clearly stated that America supports Ukraine's efforts to win this war.
Fourth, the agreement has good positions on weapons for our defense. Very specifically — about Patriot systems, very specifically — about supplying Ukraine with fighter squadrons — that's right, in the plural: squadrons — including, but not limited to, F-16s. We worked for a long time for this.
Fifth, it is very important that the agreement also contains the issue of Russia's just responsibility for this war and for its efforts to destroy Ukrainians. America supports both fair compensation for the damage caused by Russian strikes and the development of ways for frozen Russian assets to be used to protect and restore Ukraine.
Thank you to President Biden and team, the United States Congress for your support — both parties, both chambers, thank you. And thank you to every American heart that does not betray freedom and supports us."
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Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.
Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.
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Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’
Photoshop's newest terms of service has users agree to allow Adobe access to their active projects for the purposes of "content moderation" and other various reasons. This has caused concern among…
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⚡️Apple & Google WiFi Surveillance Can Track Death & Destruction
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Chances are, if you’ve used Google Maps or Apple Maps, you’ve contributed to one of the biggest surveillance databases in the world.
Known for their accuracy, big tech maps can locate your phone within a few meters and even indoors.
No, these big tech maps aren’t using GPS - they’re using WPS or Wi-Fi positioning system.
These WPS systems collect millions of WiFi networks and tag them with locations.
Researchers in Maryland discovered through a flaw in Apple’s WPS that they could gather at least 2B (2 Billion) WiFi location points by requesting WiFi networks at random.
That’s enough points to cover the world’s populated areas, notably China was nearly empty except for a few thousand points. Looks like even the CCP can’t opt out of this surveillance.
We did the work for them.
When you use Google or Apple maps, your phone will send the nearby WiFi networks along with their signal strength to the WPS. The WPS will look up these networks in a database that has hundreds of millions of networks along with their location. The calculation is then performed on the server for Google location’s service, and on the phone for Apple location’s service - which sent a list of 400 additional WiFi points back.
And this is how you get a precise location for your phone. Any new WiFi networks you scanned are potentially added to the WPS databases.
Apple & Google have made their users the instrument of their surveillance.
And the things you can do with this surveillance are harrowing. The researchers were able to see how many WiFi access points went offline in Gaza due to the constant bombardment that caused the deaths of 40,000 civilians.
Similarly the researchers were able to see the damage from the August 2023 Maui fires, and the emigration of people from Ukraine to escape forced connoscription.
Apple, Google and any organization they choose to share this WiFi data will have incredible capabilities. Don’t worry though - because these companies care so much about privacy - they give you a way to opt out.
Solutions
Add _nomap to the end of your WiFi SSID (name), Google and Apple promise not to index Wifi networks ending with those names.
Turn off your WiFi network and use ethernet cable.
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Chances are, if you’ve used Google Maps or Apple Maps, you’ve contributed to one of the biggest surveillance databases in the world.
Known for their accuracy, big tech maps can locate your phone within a few meters and even indoors.
No, these big tech maps aren’t using GPS - they’re using WPS or Wi-Fi positioning system.
These WPS systems collect millions of WiFi networks and tag them with locations.
Researchers in Maryland discovered through a flaw in Apple’s WPS that they could gather at least 2B (2 Billion) WiFi location points by requesting WiFi networks at random.
That’s enough points to cover the world’s populated areas, notably China was nearly empty except for a few thousand points. Looks like even the CCP can’t opt out of this surveillance.
We did the work for them.
When you use Google or Apple maps, your phone will send the nearby WiFi networks along with their signal strength to the WPS. The WPS will look up these networks in a database that has hundreds of millions of networks along with their location. The calculation is then performed on the server for Google location’s service, and on the phone for Apple location’s service - which sent a list of 400 additional WiFi points back.
And this is how you get a precise location for your phone. Any new WiFi networks you scanned are potentially added to the WPS databases.
Apple & Google have made their users the instrument of their surveillance.
And the things you can do with this surveillance are harrowing. The researchers were able to see how many WiFi access points went offline in Gaza due to the constant bombardment that caused the deaths of 40,000 civilians.
Similarly the researchers were able to see the damage from the August 2023 Maui fires, and the emigration of people from Ukraine to escape forced connoscription.
Apple, Google and any organization they choose to share this WiFi data will have incredible capabilities. Don’t worry though - because these companies care so much about privacy - they give you a way to opt out.
Solutions
Add _nomap to the end of your WiFi SSID (name), Google and Apple promise not to index Wifi networks ending with those names.
Turn off your WiFi network and use ethernet cable.
Read primary source material here.
Get the latest updates on our mailing list: Above Phone
Above Book: Learn about our privacy laptop: https://abovephone.com/book
Above Suite: Use our privacy services: https://abovephone.com/suite
#TBOT #AbovePhone #WiFi #Surveillance #Big_Tech
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Google & Apple Steal 2B+ Wifi Access Points
Chances are, if you’ve used Google Maps or Apple Maps, you’ve contributed to one of the biggest surveillance databases in the world.
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🇫🇷 - Joint statement by free masonry to back the Republic against the National Rally.
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STATEMENT: The fast-attack submarine USS Helena is in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of a routine port visit as it transits the U.S. Southern Command geographic area of responsibility while conducting its global maritime security and national defense mission. The vessel's location and transit were previously planned.
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💵 🇺🇸 The Income an Individual Needs to live comfortably in the U.S.
🔶️ In September 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report on 2021 U.S. income. It's the most recent data available. However, the report focused on household income, and did not provide detailed information on how much individual earners made.
🔶️ The report found 37.6% of Black households made under $35,000 in 2021; 35.3% of American Indian and Alaska Native households made less than $35,000; 27.9% of households who were two or more races; 23.4% of white households; and 19.1% of Asian households, according to the report. (Some 28.9% of Hispanic households of any race made less than $35,000 in 2021, and at the time of this writing, the census defined Hispanic as an ethnicity, not a race.)
🔶️ According to the report, 9.3% of American households across all races made under $15,000; 8.1% of American households made $15,000 to $24,999; and 7.8% of Americans made $25,000 to $34,999. Added together, 25.2% of American households across all races made under $35,000 in 2021.
🔶️ In 2022, just over 50 percent of Americans had an annual household income that was less than 75,000 U.S. dollars. The median household income was 74,580 U.S. dollars in 2022.
🔶️ West Virginia is the least expensive for a single adult, who only needs to make an estimated $37.88 per hour, or $78,790 annually.
🔶️ To live comfortably on your own in the top five states, a person would need to earn nearly double the typical income for single earners, as the U.S. median income for single, full-time workers is around $60,000, according to Labor Bureau data.
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🔶️ In September 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report on 2021 U.S. income. It's the most recent data available. However, the report focused on household income, and did not provide detailed information on how much individual earners made.
🔶️ The report found 37.6% of Black households made under $35,000 in 2021; 35.3% of American Indian and Alaska Native households made less than $35,000; 27.9% of households who were two or more races; 23.4% of white households; and 19.1% of Asian households, according to the report. (Some 28.9% of Hispanic households of any race made less than $35,000 in 2021, and at the time of this writing, the census defined Hispanic as an ethnicity, not a race.)
🔶️ According to the report, 9.3% of American households across all races made under $15,000; 8.1% of American households made $15,000 to $24,999; and 7.8% of Americans made $25,000 to $34,999. Added together, 25.2% of American households across all races made under $35,000 in 2021.
🔶️ In 2022, just over 50 percent of Americans had an annual household income that was less than 75,000 U.S. dollars. The median household income was 74,580 U.S. dollars in 2022.
🔶️ West Virginia is the least expensive for a single adult, who only needs to make an estimated $37.88 per hour, or $78,790 annually.
🔶️ To live comfortably on your own in the top five states, a person would need to earn nearly double the typical income for single earners, as the U.S. median income for single, full-time workers is around $60,000, according to Labor Bureau data.
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— 🇮🇱 BREAKING: Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has dissolved the Israeli War Cabinet due to internal conflicts
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🔶️ Ben Gvir and Smotrich’s continued influence, even from outside the war cabinet, was partly the reason for the resignation of war cabinet members Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot last week. The two centrists said they joined the cabinet to ensure the war was conducted responsibly, but have since concluded they couldn’t work with Netanyahu as long as he refused to commit to a day-after strategy for Gaza.
🔶️ The departure came after a string of military leaders made rare public statements airing their grievances with Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza, with many saying that Israel cannot afford to continue it indefinitely, especially with tensions escalating on the Lebanese border.
🔶️ Brig. Gen. Efraim Sneh, a former deputy minister of defense, said that Israel has achieved its military objectives of degrading the majority of Hamas capabilities and can afford to declare an end to the war in Gaza, get back the hostages, and redirect its focus to distancing Hezbollah forces from its northern border.
🔶️ “Israel is in an unacceptable situation, in which a big part of the country has been deserted,” he said. He added that, while “Israel’s forces are stretched thin between Gaza and the Lebanese border,” Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners are exacerbating the situation by blocking hundreds of thousands of Palestinian day laborers from entering Israel and enacting punitive measures against the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.
🔶️ The IDF is moving closer to a larger war with Hezbollah, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli military, said in a video message Sunday. Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has intensified in recent weeks at the Lebanese border. “Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation — one that could have devastating consequences for Lebanon and the entire region,” Hagari said. After an Israeli strike killed a Hezbollah commander last week, a Hezbollah official said the militant group would retaliate with increased operations “in intensity, strength, quantity and quality.”
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Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet but plans to keep far right sidelined
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may still discuss general matters with his wider security cabinet, but sensitive issues will be decided by “smaller forums.”
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"The declining imperialism has never had such poor and ridiculous leadership as that exhibited by the G7 today. Rejected by their own people, they intend to resort to colonial practices and meddle in matters that do not concern them.
Our revolutionary democracy will once again tell them on July 28 that we are free and sovereign and that their lackeys [referring to the opposition grouped in the United Democratic Platform] will not return!"
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🇰🇵🇷🇺 North Korea has sent 10,000 containers to Russia, which may contain about 5 million artillery shells, says the South Korean Defense Minister.
Putin will visit North Korea next week for the first time since 2000.
Putin will visit North Korea next week for the first time since 2000.
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"KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, June 16 (Reuters) - China views the annexation and "elimination" of Taiwan as its great national cause, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, telling cadets at the military's premier academy they must know their enemy and not give in to defeatism."
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China views Taiwan's 'elimination' as national cause, Taiwan president says
China views the annexation and "elimination" of Taiwan as its great national cause, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, telling cadets at the military's premier academy they must know their enemy and not give in to defeatism.
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🇹🇼 🇨🇳 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang proudly presents a graphic showcasing all of his company's partners in Taiwan
📸 Nvidia’s Jensen Huang’s presentation at NTU
📝 Taiwan is the center of a new industrial revolution. The US and the west must become technological pioneers once again, especially with domestic industries before the island is lost.
https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/digitimes-asia-nvidia-s-jensen-huang-discloses-next-gen-ruben-platform-and-physical-ai-vision-at-ntu-keynote-50809588
📸 Nvidia’s Jensen Huang’s presentation at NTU
📝 Taiwan is the center of a new industrial revolution. The US and the west must become technological pioneers once again, especially with domestic industries before the island is lost.
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