https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qwLH-5_g4Ray McGovern: Sabotaging Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234586356/THE FBI’S GREATEST HITS: WHY THESE POP STARS WERE TRACKED BY THE BUREAU
The Monkees weren't the only artists monitored by the Feds, as a look into the agency's files shows
By DAVID BROWNE
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ting-pointTemperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole
Ajit Niranjan Tue 4 Feb 2025
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/0 ... much-else/Donald Trump Revokes Security Clearances of 51 CIA Officers Who Got It Wrong About Hunter Biden Laptop—and So Much Else
By John Kiriakou - January 31, 2025
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/30/us- ... computers/US Gov’t Again Hacks Thousands Of Computers To Thwart Foreign Gov’t Hackers Who Hacked Thousands Of Computers
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the nothing-to-worry-about-here dept
Thu, Jan 30th 2025 11:07am - Tim Cushing
It’s not the first time. It certainly won’t be the last. But every time, we’re expected to hang back and assume the FBI is on the right side of history.
Something the FBI has tried a couple of times previously is back in the news: the remote access of thousands of computers containing foreign spyware for the purpose of dismantling botnets and/or thwarting foreign access to US-based devices.
The first attempt was made more than a half-decade ago, right after federal law (specifically Rule 41) was altered to allow the feds to ignore jurisdictional limitations when crafting warrants. This issue presented itself during the FBI’s “Playpen” investigation — one in which it took over a server hosting CSAM and kept it running while it deployed its remote access tool to visitors’ computers, forcing their devices to give up identifying info, including where these devices might be located (IP addresses, in other words).
A single warrant obtained in Virginia resulted in the FBI accessing computers all over the nation (and all over the world). While this raised constitutional questions, most courts were fine with this
because, well, the defendants were just people facing CSAM-related charges. The Rule 41 alterations codified the FBI’s previous abuse of the legal process.
Now, with a single warrant, the FBI can access computers anywhere in the US. Which it has. Multiple times. The incidents the FBI actually wants to talk about publicly involve rooting
https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-fb ... musicians/The FBI’s Long, Alarming History of Investigating Black Musicians
JACK DENTON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpjysrcuOmkScott Ritter: F-16s No Match for Russia’s S-400 – Total NATO Humiliation
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/notific ... ral-bureauNotification of Concerns Regarding the Drug Enforcement Administration’s and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Handling of Employee Issued Firearms Pending Destruction
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/gun ... -shooting/Gun Detection Tech Fails To Detect Gun, Prevent School Shooting
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the yeah-just-keep-throwing-AI-at-it dept
Fri, Jan 31st 2025 09:20am - Tim Cushing
There are lots of things we could be doing to limit school shootings. But none of those have been tried because most people, lobbyists, and politicians continue to believe issuing “thoughts and prayers” statements while standing on children’s graves is the absolute utmost they should be expected to do.
Instead of common sense measures that have managed to keep every other First World country almost completely free of school shootings, the US continues to take a hands-off approach… I mean, not counting the pallbearers asked to deliver innocent children to their final place of rest.
One of the so-called solutions is making tech companies
https://eurweb.com/2025/trump-declassif ... s-caution/Trump declassifies MLK files, but Roland Martin urges caution
Roland Martin Shares Belief That Trump is Out to Ruin MLK’s Legacy with Release of FBI Files | WATCH
By Chris Richburg February 2, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opin ... olicy.htmlThis essay fits Trump into the Sovereigntist movement born in the early 20th century -worth the read to comprehend his thinking (beyond merely stupid):
Isolationist? Nationalist? No, Trump Is Something Else Entirely.
Feb. 2, 2025
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... aturestackBoston police detective charged with drunk driving after Brookline crash
A Boston police detective has been charged with operating under the influence after he allegedly crashed into another car on the VFW Parkway in Brookline
By Darin Zullo
February 3, 2025
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/audit-f ... m-pursuantAudit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Analytical Tools Environment System Pursuant to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, Fiscal Year 2024
Read Report Posted Date January 15, 2025
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/29/hi- ... -division/Hi Kids, Do You Like (Police) Violence? Trump’s DOJ Shuts Down Civil Rights Division
Legal Issues
from the let-the-bad-apples-cook! dept
Wed, Jan 29th 2025 01:55pm - Tim Cushing
Well, we can go ahead and erase “perhaps” from this not-all-that-prescient-actually-given-the-circumstances headline:
DOJ Issues Perhaps The Last Law Enforcement Investigation Report We’ll See For The Next Four Years
It was inevitable. Trump’s DOJ kicked the Civil Rights Division to the curb faster than Trump cycled through Attorneys General during his first term. Trump promised the police a police state when he first took office following the 2016 election.
His few years away from the Oval Office haven’t softened his stance. Police are right (except when they’re standing in the way of insurrectionists), and the DOJ is good (so long as it isn’t prosecuting Trump supporters who assaulted police officers), and anyone compl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FTH_nkQPfMJourney to the Mystical City of Rumi
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety ... i-AA1yoWYMApplications for FBI Citizens Academy open
February 2, 2025
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/review- ... ources-andA Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Handling of Its Confidential Human Sources and Intelligence Collection Efforts in the Lead Up to the January 6, 2021 Electoral Certification
Read Report Posted Date December 12, 2024
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... i-in-foia/January 8, 2025
We asked federal agencies about their efforts to use AI in FOIA
Written by Dillon Bergin
Edited by Samantha Sunne
We want to know more about how federal agencies are using AI initiatives in the FOIA process, described in their yearly Chief FOIA Officer Reports. We’re asking them for the docs.
We’ve filed requests to several agencies for documents related to AI testing in their FOIA offices, including contracts with third party vendors and assessments or audits of the programs so far. To follow along as agencies respond, you can check out our AI in FOIA page, home to all the requests, articles and updates.
Each agency is required to submit a report to the Attorney General, answering questions about the functions of their FOIA office. In 2023, senior FOIA officials had to answer a question that hadn’t been included the year before:
“Does your agency currently use any technology to automate record processing? For example, does your agency use machine learning, predictive coding, technology assisted review or similar tools to conduct searches or make redactions?”
MuckRock readers and volunteers helped review the reports and highlight which agencies were testing artificial intelligence. MuckRock reporters then
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/two ... uals-four/To Stop The Coup, We Must Be Clear About The Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four
Say That Again
from the here's-what-we-must-do dept
Tue, Feb 4th 2025 10:46am - Mike Brock
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the ultimate act of rebellion comes when Winston Smith insists that two plus two equals four, defying a system that demands he accept whatever reality the Party declares. The Party doesn’t just want him to say two plus two equals five—they want him to believe it. This demand that citizens deny obvious truth isn’t just about controlling specific facts; it’s about breaking their capacity to think clearly about reality itself.
Today, Americans face our own version of this test. A coup is underway in plain sight, yet acknowledging this basic truth has become its own act of resistance. In just the past few days, we’ve watched Elon Musk gain control of Treasury payment systems while security officials who followed classification protocols were removed. Career civil servants are being systematically purged for having complied with previous legal requirements. Congressionally established agencies are being illegally shuttered. The president openly declares he won’t enforce laws he dislikes.
Just as the Party in 1984 demands Winston deny the evidence of his own eyes, we’re being asked to accept increasingly absurd explanations for what we’re witnessing. We’re told this is about “government efficiency” when it’s clearly about seizing control of state power.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1ym8CcSecretive FBI Group Probing UFOs Worried They'll Get Purged by DOGE: Report
Story by Hannah Parry • February 3, 2025
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/inves ... r-AA1ylH4FInvestigation finds faults with GSA's search into new FBI Headquarters location
Christian Flores February 3, 2025
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/investi ... harassmentInvestigative Summary: Findings of Misconduct by an FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Discrimination Against an Applicant Based on Applicant’s Disability, and Lack of Candor and by an FBI Special Agent in Charge for Failing to Properly Report Harassment Allegations
Read Report Posted Date November 6, 2024
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/pol ... p-malware/Poland’s Justice Minister Arrested For Illegal Use Of NSO Group Malware
Legal Issues
from the wow-justice-what-a-weird-concept dept
Mon, Feb 3rd 2025 03:30pm - Tim Cushing
After several months of pretending this sort of thing just didn’t happen there, the Polish government finally admitted some of its members had abused powerful smartphone malware it had purchased from Israeli spyware firm, NSO Group.
This came to light following an investigation that found someone in the government had illegally targeted a Polish government prosecutor who had been investigating election irregularities. He was notified by Apple, which had implemented a program to inform customers of suspected state-sponsored hacking.
As NSO Group’s future prospects continued to crumble, more investigations were opened. And now another abuser of NSO malware has been taken down by the same government that employed them. Here’s Suzanne Smalley, reporting for The Record:
Polish police on Friday arrested the country’s former justice minister, alleging that he signed off on the use of government money to pay for spyware used to snoop on opposition leaders and supervised cases where the technology was deployed.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... ing-fbi-/jRequester’s Voice: Ryan Shapiro
The MIT researcher gives tips on how to “street fight with the FBI and win
Written by George LeVines
https://www.cleveland19.com/video/2025/ ... -question/Controversial Elyria cop placed on ‘Brady List’ after credibility called into question
Published: Feb. 4, 2025
https://nj1015.com/piscataway-nj-cop-wi ... -behavior/Piscataway, NJ cop wins $750K after accusing chief of disgusting behavior
Rick Rickman Published: February 4, 2025
Read More: NJ cop wins $750K after accusing chief of disgusting behavior |
https://nj1015.com/piscataway-nj-cop-wi ... m=referralhttps://www.thehour.com/news/article/no ... 145991.phpNorwalk cop gets more time to consider offer in road rage case Tuesday
By Pat Tomlinson, BUpdated Feb 4, 2025
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/crime ... 5130a0b1c4Buffalo cop pleads guilty to charges in connection with shooting teenager
Antonio Roman, 66, pleads guilty to two charges to avoid trial, sparing him a potential 25 year sentence.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/04/ ... probation/NYPD cop who killed husband in booze-fueled crash pleads guilty; will get probation
https://www.aol.com/horrifying-dashcam- ... 41611.htmlHorrifying dashcam shows Houston mom getting mowed down by cop in front of kids: ‘You didn’t see them?’
EMILY CRANE November 29, 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/c ... ngNewsVerpCalls for Police Ombudsman to fast-track powers after cop's dismissal took years
Story by James Martin McCarthy •February 4,2025
https://www.news-journalonline.com/stor ... 206816007/Ormond Beach Police officer arrested, accused of throwing handcuffed woman to floor
The woman was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center where she required seven sutures on her head.
Frank Fernandez Daytona Beach News-Journal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgT_u2rWs0Trump/Musk Attack CIA Fronts USAID & NED: With Mike Benz
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/ne ... -away.htmlCommand an Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter from 300 Miles Away
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... mentcloud/Documenting Brazil’s January coup attempt using DocumentCloud
Written by Kelly Kauffman and Sanjin
Edited by Derek Kravitz
Brazilian newsroom Aos Fatos offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their reporting process covering the January coup attempt and their use of DocumentCloud in a webinar.
Last year, the newsroom received a Gateway Grant from MuckRock that allowed them to create an archive of millions of data points collected from social media networks during the January coup attempt.
The coup involved a group of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro, who ransacked federal buildings in the capital city of Brasília, including the Supreme Federal Court, in order to overthrow the newly-elected government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In the webinar, the Aos Fatos team showed how they consoli
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/02/for ... NewsletterA Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.
Jordan Smith
Parabon NanoLabs sells police composite images of suspects built on DNA. Critics say the product is snake-oil science fiction that can exacerbate problems in the criminal legal system.
https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/produc ... WrQiZajsdAFOLK SINGERS AND THE BUREAU: THE FBI, THE FOLK ARTISTS AND THE SUPPRESSION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, USA-1939-1956
The first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl Ives.
Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives, etc., were also political activists with various associations with the American Communist Party. As a consequence, the FBI, along with other governmental and right-wing organizations, were monitoring them, keeping meticulous files running many thousands of pages, and making (and carrying out) plans to purge them from the cultural realm.
In The Folk Singers and the Bureau, Aaron J Leonard draws on an unprecedented array of declassified documents and never before released files to shed light on the interplay between left-wing folk artists and their relationship with the American Communist Party, and how it put them in the US government's repressive cross hairs.
At a time of increasing state surveillance and repression, The Folk Singers and the Bureau shows how the FBI and other governmental agencies have attempted to shape and repress American culture.
By Aaron Leonard
Thinking About George Washington's Teeth on MLK, Jr. Day
I wonder if we are all taught the story about the wooden teeth to cover up the story of the slaves' teeth. Perhaps Washington himself, ashamed of the truth, promoted the wooden teeth story.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019 ... mlk-jr-dayROBERT SHETTERLY Jan 22, 2019 Common Dreams
I was having dinner a few nights ago with friends when one of them mentioned she was reading Jill Lepore's new book, These Truths: A History of the United States.
My friend was only 150 pages into the book and proceeding, like me, at a pace of about 20 pages at a sitting because any more was overload. She said she had to put the book down and stop reading for a while after learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUFewGHLLgQuantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin PhD
https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/the ... dium=emailThe Covid Dossier: A record of military and intelligence coordination of the global Covid event.
US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy
SASHA LATYPOVA FEB 04, 2025
https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/the ... dium=emailThe COVID Dossier
A Record of Military & Intelligence Coordination of the Global COVID Event
DEBBIE LERMAN FEB 04, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-f0V335D8EShocking stories from The Exorcist | Art Bell
https://0201.nccdn.net/4_2/000/000/00f/ ... wledge.pdfCOSMOS AND CONSCIOUSNESS 2003
An Exciting Weekend at Loon Lodge, Rangeley Maine
https://0201.nccdn.net/4_2/000/000/05e/ ... EUNION.pdfIn 2017
https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-m ... an-53.htmlRonald Bryan
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... e_ElectronMental Control of a Single Electron?
June 2006Physics Essays 19(2)
DOI:10.4006/1.3025789
Authors: Ronald A. Bryan
Over the years there have been numerous accounts of certain individuals ' purported ability to affect material bodies by mental intent alone. I propose to look for such an effect, but with an experiment requiring far less energy than needed in previous accounts, i.e., some 23 orders of magnitude less. The experiment is to mentally flip the spin of the valence electron of a single Mg+ ion undergoing laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) at 280 nm in a 50-G (gauss) magnetic field. Flipping the spin would turn off the LIF. If the person could flip the electron's spin again, restoring LIF, then spin flips creating long and short intervals of LIF could send a message in International Morse Code. If the person could also control the ion's LIF at a distance, as suggested by frequent reports of distant healing, etc., then it would appear that his or her intent is not mediated by the electromagnetic, weak, strong, or gravitational field. Instead a new kind of field might be responsible. It might propagate as a soliton, since solitons do not weaken with distance.
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... efunctionsConsciousness and Quantum-Mechanical Wavefunctions
August 2004
Authors: Ronald Bryan
Abstract
Comparing the continuity of an e v e − (electron–neutrino) world line and a human consciousness, I show that the analogy can be extended to wavelike behavior, as when an electron undergoes diffraction and a human consciousness appears to be bilocal. I hypothesize that human consciousness and human wavelike behavior are but two aspects of the same thing, which I call the conscious human wavefunction. Since reports by Robert Monroe and research directed by Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne et al. suggest mental action at a distance, I propose an experiment in which a person attempts to flip the spin of an electron by directing his or her conscious wave-function to the electron's wavefunction. I hypothesize that the two wave-functions interact, possibly through the exchange of qi, or perhaps a quantum of a conjectured M-field. The electron could be the valence electron of a barium ion confined in a Paul trap in a 50 -gauss magnetic field. Flipping the electron's spin would require less than 10 6 − eV. The ion could be seen directly in the trap by shining 455 10 9 × − meter laser light on it, causing it to emit blue-violet fluorescent light. If the electron's spin were flipped, then the fluorescence would cease. A second flip could restore the fluorescence. A person who could flip the spin near the apparatus might also be able to flip the spin from across the street, or from across the country. He or she could send a message in Morse Code by having the ion fluoresce for suitable short and long intervals (dots and dashes). This experiment could be performed in a well-equipped atomic physics lab
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/L ... 504d2278e6Looking into Higher Dimensions: Research with Joseph McMoneagle
* R. Bryan 1 June 2008 Australian journal of parapsychology
Looking for a portal that allow UFO craft to enter our dimension.
