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Amazon's Ring And Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal The Severity Of The U.S. Surveillance State Authored by Glenn Greenwald via Substack, That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become. One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s...

Saudi Arabia Vs UAE By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank The Little Red Hen Markets are bulled-up this morning on prospects for peace in the Iran war. The S&P500 and NASDAQ closed at fresh all-time highs and Brent crude prices closed 7.8% lower at $101.27/bbl. While some analysts are understandably wary of another Axios report touting progress in Middle East relations (and therefore lower oil prices!), markets are clearly not in a mood to look a gift horse in the mouth. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ismail Baghieri told news sources that...

Unearthed DOJ Files Implicate Hunter Biden In Potential Sex Trafficking Violations Authored by Luis Cornelio via HeadlineUSA, Newly released internal DOJ files appear to implicate President Joe Biden’s disgraced son, Hunter Biden, in alleged prostitution-related activity, corroborating accusations raised years earlier by Senate Republicans. Hunter Biden / PHOTO: AP The files, obtained Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, showed Hunter exchanging text messages with several women discussing payments, travel arrangements and extended meetings. Some of the exchanges appeared to raise potential issues under the Mann Act. This...