Will NSO's IPO be DOA? "working for NSO does not necessarily go hand-in-hand with the ideal of making the world a better place." haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
We have peak antisemite. The perfect union of ice cream and espionage. Let's mix in some Broidy, MBS and Epstein, sprinkle it with Carbyne, season it with Banoun and towhead, stir in some covid tracking and 911 to cook up a pan-Abrahamic clusterfuck. vice.com/en/article/qj8…
"Millions of people around the world are sleeping well at night, and safely walking in the streets, thanks to Pegasus and similar technologies which help intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies around the world.....
....to prevent and investigate crime, terrorism, and paedophilia rings that are hiding under the umbrella of end-to-End encryption apps," a spokesperson for NSO said."
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We can blame Gustav Holst and his work "The Planets" for Black Sabbath.
That was 1970 but you could argue that the Kinks did the heavy riff first with You Really Got Me in 1964 which is really based on the jazz song, 1957 The Train and the River by Jimmy Giuffre.
By 1968 everyone was playing some form of "heavy" guitar lick. One of my faves was Inna Gadda Da Video and Summertime Blues which was originally done in 1958 by Eddie Cochran. But they didn't have the amps to make it "heavy". Just loud.
Is there a movie about "Blood Copper" on the horizon? "On average, an internal combustion engine uses 55 pounds of copper. A hybrid uses about 110 pounds and an EV uses 165 pounds." katusaresearch.com/believe-im-rig…
2014: “Promoting a stock is like making a movie,” Friedland once said. “You’ve got to have stars, props, and a good script.” proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news…
2019: “Every time I go and see him I first zip my pocket,” says Pierre Lassonde, a Canadian mining veteran" ft.com/content/2f170b…
Poor Little Rich Kid Syndrome: "As a posture, it’s also sort of shrewd. Trump Jr. can’t relate to the material conditions of most Americans’ lives, but he can relate to his followers’ frustration with feeling under-seen on the internet." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
It seems clear from the fund raising grifts based on faux outrage that the right is doing OK rattling the tin cup, albeit striking fast. It just might be that the right is just not into Junior anymore. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
You can be famous as an asshole and confuse visibility of your message with public approval of that message. You have to stick to the wrestler bad guy rules of fame. Always have a fake nasty public persona and and real private one that is nice. today.yougov.com/topics/politic…
The idea of journalism done in secrecy is odd. Sources need to be protected but in reality there is no legal protection for journalists or their sources. An example: John Walker Lindh's lawyer insisted that I was working for the USG and entrapped him. cnn.com/2002/LAW/07/12…
non LEO phone surveillance/recording is illegal in most states but the fines are trivial. Data capture isn't technically illegal because of user agreements on apps. criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/crim…
When MBz and MBS were gangstering American ally, Qatar with Trump's blessing, they were obsessed with getting their hands on dissidents and silencing al Jazeera. This obsessive goal has not stopped. aljazeera.com/news/2017/7/12…
Much of this enmity comes from who historically owns the Arab (or is it Persian?) "lake" along with control of passage via the tiny islands of Abu Musa, Lesser Tunb, and Greater Tunb. And the gas that springs from beneath tiny islands that lights Europe files.ethz.ch/isn/194095/GRM…