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Apple is removing its most robust data protection tool from UK users.

This decision by Apple is the regrettable consequence of the Home Office’s outrageous order attempting to force Apple to breach encryption. As a result, from today Apple’s UK customers are less safe and secure than they were yesterday – and this will quickly prove to have much wider implications for internet users in the UK.

No matter how this is framed, there is simply no such thing as a “back door” that can be limited only to criminals or that can be kept safe from hackers or foreign adversaries. Once encryption is broken for anyone, it’s broken for everyone, and as we have cautioned: this will not stop with Apple.

We once again call on the Home Office to immediately rescind this draconian order and cease attempts to break encryption before the privacy rights of millions are eroded and the UK further ostracises itself from other democracies around the world.

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"Brown’s public support of Black Lives Matter after the police killing of George Floyd had made him fodder for the administration's wars against “wokeism” in the military. His ouster is the latest upheaval at the Pentagon, which plans to cut 5,400 civilian probationary workers starting next week and identify $50 billion in programs that could be cut next year to redirect those savings to fund Trump’s priorities."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-chairman-joint-chiefs-004046181.html

"We beat the pants off all of them. Little people in their pjamas in front of laptops, reading, typing, and analyzing patterns and talking to each other, without any money, or power or organization, killed the most powerful army of power-mad supposed brainiacs in the world, wielding billions of dollars against us.

We beat them.

Not one more red cent goes out.

And, we are going to get our money back.

All of it."

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Trump signs order to claim power over independent agencies
Feb 18 2025
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798
...But the order has broad — and potentially immediate — implications for a host of other independent agencies that have not yet been penetrated by the administration. And while it doesn’t apply to the Federal Reserve’s handling of monetary policy, it does apply to the Fed’s other responsibilities, including overseeing banks and other financial institutions.

It Just Keeps Getting Better: President Trump Is Selling the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/it-keeps-getting-better-president-trump-is-selling/

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"For several years, I have been predicting that missing British toddler, Madeleine McCann, will be found alive. For newer readers, I reproduce my theory below, with a new section added at the end to reflect the latest developments regarding alleged "impostor", Julia Wendell, who claims to have new evidence that she is the missing girl..."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157386642#:~:text=For%20several%20years,the%20missing%20girl...

A graveyard of electric green scooters that have run out of battery life

Since it's very expensive to replace the batteries, electric scooters that have reached the end of battery life cycle are being completely abandoned, also disposing them in any other way would be dangerous and expensive.

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"An Oregon woman’s nude photos ended up the topic of conversation in her small town after a prosecutor looked through her sensitive cellphone data and told the county sheriff what he found despite no warrant, no consent and no suspicion that she had committed a crime."

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/02/an-oregon-womans-nude-cellphone-photos-ended-up-the-talk-of-town-she-tracked-it-back-to-the-da.html

Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 15 February 2025

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Echoes of Extinction (The Voidwalker Chronicles #1) – Sean Robins One man must lead the charge in the name of humanity. Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth’s near-extinction event was the pinnacle […]

http://www.castaliahouse.com/science-fiction-and-fantasy-new-releases-15-february-2025/

Apple removes end-to-end encryption betraying its customers & bending the knee to the UK government allowing easier access into iphone data.

Claims it won't build a "backdoor" into its system but then removes encryption.

The company said Friday that Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature that adds end-to-end encryption — a stronger form of security — to a wide assortment of user data is no longer available in the UK for new users. This layer of security covers iCloud data storage, device backups, web bookmarks, voice memos, notes, photos, reminders and text message backups.

"Being associated with conservatives or libertarians gets you blacklisted in science fiction and fantasy circles, as author M.S. Olney found out when an author was kicked out of a BookFunnel promotion for associating with him and the Based Book Sale."

https://open.substack.com/pub/fandompulse/p/sci-fi-and-fantasy-bookfunnel-promo?r=lp6h7

In this Kharkiv detention center, US citizen Gonzalo Lira was tortured and money extorted from him. According to publications in his social networks and private correspondence, which I have at my disposal, Gonzalo Lira says that he was extorted for $70,000 dollars and gave it to the SBU officers of Kharkiv region, who opened a criminal case against him and kept him in the detention center. And they extorted money from him by means of abuse and torture, which were carried out on him in the Kharkiv detention center. These correspondence of Gonzalo Lira indicates that they beat him there, broke his ribs, tried to pull out his eye with a toothpick. This is how a U.S. citizen was treated in the 21st century in the center of Europe, in European Ukraine. Think about how stupid they are. I mean, people realized they were dealing with an American citizen, but they didn’t care. They tortured him, killed him, beat him to death, gouged out his eyes – so that he would just give them the money. Impunity and stupidity, under the guise of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Gonzalo Lira ended up with a broken rib. He suffered a so-called pneumothorax as a result of this fracture. This is when bone fragments after broken ribs as a result of beating or trauma, which pierced the lung. Water begins to accumulate there, and the person dies. So, in the Ukrainian Register of Court Decisions there is a decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv, in which Gonzalo Lira is present via video link, and he already has bilateral inflammation of the lungs at that time, which is January 2024. His lawyer demands to transfer him under house arrest, because the man was really dying, but at the same time the prosecutor’s office, representatives of the SBU, judges and most importantly – the medical part of Kharkiv pre-trial detention center – claimed there was nothing threatening the life of Gonzalo Lira. And he literally in a few weeks dies in Kharkiv pre-trial detention center from pulmonary hydrocele, which was caused by broken ribs that punctured his lungs. It is obvious that he was not released from the Kharkiv SIZO after the beatings for three reasons. One: he would have clearly stated that he was seriously injured. And I emphasize again – I have his correspondence and statements, where he clearly describes what torture was, and how he was tortured in the Kharkiv detention center. The second reason is that he would have reported extortion by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, and I also have these documents. And, finally, the third reason – if he was released with such fractures and such injuries, it would be obvious to everyone that he was tortured, and information would come out about the SBU concentration camp “Gym”, where foreign citizens were kept, and about the SBU torture in Kharkiv. And most importantly, the administration of outgoing President Biden, represented by Secretary of State Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, actually gave the go-ahead for an American citizen to be killed in a Ukrainian prison. Why did it give the go-ahead for this? Because Gonzalo Lira in his videos criticized not only the Ukrainian leadership, but criticized Americans as well, calling them out as responsible for unleashing the war in Ukraine. That’s what he was essentially killed for. https://21stcenturywire.com/2025/02/19/ukrainian-whistleblower-how-the-sbu-robbed-and-killed-a-u-s-citizen/