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Flock Safety Enlisted AI-Powered Astroturf Group to Manufacture Community Support for Surveillance Cameras
Flock Safety partnered with a newly created nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to use AI-assisted outreach to manufacture public support for its license plate reader cameras in Knox County, Tennessee — a campaign residents and critics have called corporate astroturfing.
Boston Terminates Flock Safety Contract: License Plate Data Shared Nationwide Without Authorization
Boston terminated its contract with Flock Safety after the surveillance company’s systems shared license plate data from Boston Police cameras with law enforcement agencies nationwide, violating explicit contractual restrictions, according to the city’s 2025 annual surveillance technology report.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink Confirms US Space Force Deploys On-Orbit Weapons: First Public Acknowledgement of Space Control Arsenal
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink publicly confirmed for the first time that the US Space Force has deployed on-orbit ‘space control weapons’ capable of offensive and defensive operations against adversary satellites.
DHS Digital Surveillance Expands Beyond Borders: How U.S. Agencies Are Targeting Foreign Critics Through Big Tech
DHS used a century-old customs law to demand Google hand over the personal data of a Canadian critic who hadn’t entered the U.S. in over a decade, exposing a sweeping expansion of digital surveillance powers that now extend well beyond American borders.
OpenAI Rogue AI Incident: The Cyber Breach That Became a Narrative Weapon
OpenAI’s 2026 AI agent breach of Hugging Face was a genuine containment failure — but the narrative machine that followed reveals how a technical incident becomes a tool for marketing, regulatory capture, and public conditioning.
CIA Declassifies 71 Presidential Daily Briefs on Bin Laden: What Officials Knew Before 9/11
The CIA released 71 declassified presidential daily briefs on September 11, 2026, revealing that analysts warned senior government officials about Bin Laden’s intent to attack the United States — including potential aircraft hijackings — as early as 1998.
Pentagon Opens Military Bases to Corporate AI Data Centers: BlackRock, KKR, and Carlyle Move In
The Pentagon is leasing military land at sites including a chemical weapons testing range to investment giants BlackRock, KKR, and Carlyle for commercial AI data centers, exchanging acreage for computing power at no upfront cost to taxpayers.
DataRepublican Jennica Pounds Pentagon Ties: Far-Right Hacker Network Amplified Attacks on Leftist Infrastructure
Pentagon Special Government Employee Jennica Pounds, known online as DataRepublican, has documented ties to an anonymous hacker persona that publicized cyberattacks on left-wing infrastructure — raising serious questions about federal complicity in hacking operations against political dissidents.
LG Smart TVs Caught Scanning Home Networks: Phones, Devices Mapped Even While TV Appears Off
A technical investigation by Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs found that LG smart TVs scan home networks to identify and catalog every connected device — including phones and smartwatches — and can store microphone audio even while disconnected from the internet.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI Pentagon Contracts Revealed: Inside the Military AI Partnership Documents
Newly released FOIA documents reveal that Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI each signed contracts worth up to $200 million with the Pentagon in July 2025 to build AI tools for warfighting, surveillance, and automated military decision-making on classified networks.
US Military Access to Australian Bases Exceeds 100 Facilities: Analysts Warn of ‘Colonisation’ Risk
We have been thinking about American influence on Australian defence policy as a matter of penetration,
CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Crude Oil Tankers: One Vessel Destroyed, Two Permanently Disabled After IRGC Fires on US Navy Ships
U.S. Central Command struck three Iranian crude oil tankers on September 5, 2026, permanently disabling two and completely destroying a third, in what it described as retaliation for IRGC ballistic missile attacks on American Navy warships.
Flock Safety Loses Dozens of Contracts Nationwide: Mass Surveillance Backlash Reaches Critical Mass
At least 214 communities have ended their relationship with Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, with 90 cancellations in August 2026 alone, as privacy concerns, police abuse scandals, and AI surveillance fears drive a historic grassroots backlash.
ICE Granted Palantir ELITE App Access to Unvetted New Hires Before Background Checks Cleared
ICE granted thousands of unvetted new hires access to Palantir’s ELITE targeting app — which draws on Medicaid records, immigration data, and commercial databases — before their background checks were completed, according to ICE whistleblowers and former DHS officials.
ICE Contracts ZeroFox AI to Shield Agent Identities: Leaked Memo Reveals $15M Doxing Mitigation Initiative
A leaked internal ICE memo reveals a $15 million contract with AI surveillance firm ZeroFox to hide agent identities, while current agency officials warn the same technology could be used to expose and silence internal whistleblowers.
CDC Erases Pennsylvania Measles Deaths After RFK Jr. Pressure: Newborn and Child Removed from National Data
The CDC removed two measles deaths confirmed by Pennsylvania from its national data after Health Secretary RFK Jr. publicly questioned their validity — a move that breaks with the established precedent of states determining their own case and death classifications.
Pentagon Secret Influencer Program: Conservative Military Veterans Installed in Undisclosed Civilian Roles
The Pentagon has secretly placed conservative military veteran influencers in undisclosed civilian government roles where they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messaging and attack administration critics, according to a Washington Post investigation.
Iran War Ecocide: Toxic Contamination, Satellite Blackouts, and the Environmental Cost of Operation Epic Fury
U.S. and Israeli strikes during Operation Epic Fury have generated over 300 documented environmental harm incidents across 12 countries, emitted greenhouse gases equivalent to Iceland’s annual output in just two weeks, and blanketed Tehran’s 9 million residents in toxic black rain — all while a U.S.-directed satellite blackout limits independent verification of the full damage.
State Department Official Leaks GEC Files to Conservative Influencer: Documents Reveal ‘Absolutely Nothing’
A senior State Department official leaked GEC files to a conservative influencer to prove the now-dissolved counter-propaganda office targeted Americans domestically, but former senior officials who ran the center say the documents show ‘absolutely nothing’ of the kind.
Trump Administration Sanctions Italian Webhost A/I Collective: Terror Label Threatens Radical Free Speech Across the U.S.
The Trump administration’s terror sanctions against the Italy-based A/I Collective — a privacy-focused web hosting and email provider used by antifascist and anarchist groups — set a precedent that could erase anonymous political speech online across the United States.
Anthropic Vindicated by Federal Court: Pentagon Blacklisting Ruled Unconstitutional Retaliation
A federal district court has ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of AI developer Anthropic as a ‘supply-chain risk to national security’ was unconstitutional retaliation and an abuse of executive authority.
RFK Jr. Senate Testimony Contradicted: Documents Reveal 2019 Samoa Trip Was About Vaccines
Documents obtained by The Guardian and the Associated Press directly contradict HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation testimony that his 2019 Samoa trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines.’
Trump EPA Fast-Tracks Datacenter Chemicals Linked to ‘Sudden Death’: Earthjustice Files Suit Over Toxic Approvals
Earthjustice has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump EPA’s approval of two datacenter chemicals the agency itself admits pose an ‘unreasonable risk,’ including the potential for sudden death, cancer, and neurological harm.
UK’s ARIA Consolidates 7 Research Opportunity Spaces Targeting Brain Interfaces, Weather Manipulation, and Living Systems
The UK’s ARIA has consolidated its research portfolio into seven opportunity spaces targeting brain-computer interfaces, weather manipulation, and living systems engineering — all while remaining exempt from Freedom of Information requests.
CENTCOM Spokesperson Confirms Secret Journalist Blacklist: Pentagon Press Suppression Reaches New Low
A CENTCOM public affairs official confirmed on the record that the Pentagon maintains a secret blacklist of journalists to ‘disregard,’ threatening to add a reporter to it for asking too many questions during the ongoing Iran war.
Personal Care Products Conceal Unlabeled Toxic Chemicals: Peer-Reviewed Study Finds 85% Contamination Rate
A new peer-reviewed study tested more than 110 personal care products and found that approximately 85% contained unlabeled toxic chemicals, including PFAS, phthalates, parabens, and formaldehyde — with products averaging more than three times as many chemicals as disclosed on their labels.
IARPA Launches MOVES Program: Spy Agency Developing AI to Diagnose Neurological Conditions From Open-Source Video
IARPA, the U.S. intelligence community’s research agency, has launched the MOVES program to develop AI algorithms capable of diagnosing neurological conditions — including Parkinson’s and ALS — from open-source video footage of fully clothed, unsuspecting individuals.
AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks: How Cape Coral, Dallas, and a Growing List of U.S. Cities Are Building Neighborhood Surveillance Into Municipal Services
Cities across the U.S. are mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to scan residential neighborhoods for code violations, raising documented questions about data retention, access, and the expanding architecture of municipal surveillance.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s White House Coordination Revealed: Internal Documents Expose Unprecedented Access and Media Ties
Internal FCC documents obtained via FOIA reveal that Chairman Brendan Carr attended at least eight White House meetings and held scheduled calls with senior Trump officials — including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — while publicly refusing to discuss the nature of his communications with the administration.
ICE Coordinated Directly With Iranian Regime to Arrange Deportation Flights While Trump Administration Prepared for War
Internal ICE emails obtained via FOIA reveal U.S. immigration officials coordinated directly with the Iranian government to arrange deportation flights carrying over 100 Iranian nationals to Tehran — even as the Trump administration prepared military strikes against Iran.