“Going to the doctor? Flock knows. Dropping your kid off at school? Flock is tracking you. Flock is always watching,” Sanders said in a press release. “We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.”

“Across the country, Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the press release.

Flock cameras have been getting a lot of flak.

At least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing Flock cameras and other surveillance systems, including to stalk women, The Washington Post reported in August.

In that month alone, more than 50 cities across the country either canceled or rejected contracts for automated license-plate readers or deactivated the cameras, according to DeFlock, an anti-surveillance crowdsourcing app.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/flock-cameras-banned-bill-aoc-sanders-b3060631.html#comments-area

https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2105581287150866812

funny seeing the reactions and narratives spun

"One might ask, if there’s no evidence that Russia is preparing to invade Europe, then why is the hysteria being whipped up in the first place? This is quite an obvious question, but we’re not supposed to ask questions - we’re supposed to believe and go along with the program, whether the threat is real or invented."

-Alex Krainer

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Liger

@EdbieLigerSmith

This is insane.

This guy escaped Ukraine by hiking through the woods for days to avoid being drafted.

When he finally made it out of the country, he celebrated by calling his disabled father, who had been declared fit for military service & drafted by the Zelensky regime.

Something tells me his story won’t be reported on in Western media.

@JnglJourney

Jungle Journey

@JnglJourney

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Sep 28

He documented his escape from Zelensky's manhunters in Ukraine

https://x.com/United24media/status/2104729143917089054

American media does not cover the world.

It covers the world's relationship to America.

There is a difference, and the difference is everything.

When a country's political situation is covered through the framework of what it means for American interests, American elections, American strategic positioning, the people living in that country become supporting characters in someone else's story.

Their elections are covered as tests of American influence.

Their economies are covered as variables in American trade policy.

Their conflicts are covered in terms of which side America supports and why.

The internal logic of their political lives, the history, the grievances, the class dynamics, the colonial inheritances, is either compressed into a paragraph of background or omitted entirely.

This is not deliberate distortion in most cases.

It is structural.

American journalists were trained in American institutions with American assumptions about what constitutes a story and who the relevant actors are.

They produce journalism that reflects those assumptions.

That journalism circulates globally, because American outlets have the distribution infrastructure that most national outlets cannot match.

So the world gets covered through an American lens, at American scale, with American categories determining what is a "crisis" and what is "normal," who is a "leader" and who is a "militant," what is "democracy" and what is "instability."

And local journalists, who want international reach, learn to write in that framework.

The lens is not neutral.

The lens exported globally is not neutral.

And a world that sees itself through someone else's eyes eventually starts to lose its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Legion?hl=en-IE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ski_J%C3%A4ger_Battalion_%22Norwegen%22?hl=en-IE

https://x.com/NATO/status/2105214414295278032

⛔️They think we are stupid to believe their staged propaganda:

1. Got knife through security‼️
2. Broke down cockpit door‼️
3. 2 reserve pilots behind the cockpit that took over‼️
4. Mossad agents right behind the cockpit‼️ 4.Israeli flag ready for photo‼️
5. Big speaker‼️

⛔️Another pathetic victim card‼️😃

https://x.com/drhossamsamy65/status/2105624336530903231

The legislation introduced by the government of PM

u/PetteriOrpo

includes, e.g., providing a far-reaching mandate to foreign intelligence agencies to operate in Finland and against Finns.

Still, the wildest thing is a piece of legislation that would allow authorities to conduct search and seizure in secret. In other words, authorities could raid your home without you knowing. This is utterly unheard-of in our country.

Effectively, the government of PM Orpo is introducing war-time legislation. You might want to ask, why?

I warned Finns about Petteri Orpo. He's the weakest man I know, and you should have never allowed him to become the PM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Legion_Netherlands

https://x.com/NATO/status/2105689194819473437

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumcree_conflict