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The relatively new style of warrant orders Google to track and provide user data on anyone who searches specific names, addresses or telephone numbers.Cybersecurity experts fear that keyword warrants set a precedent for breaching the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable searches
Google, however, has defended its decision to respond to the federal government's keyword warrants and claims they protect users when doing so
Both the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been cited as entities that have or may use keyword warrants.
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I have to agree with the NYCLU when back on Dec. 10th, 2020. They filed a complaint letter with the Fed's and called Google not honor the unconstitutional “geofence warrants”.
In part their letter said.
"These blanket warrants circumvent constitutional checks on police surveillance, creating a virtual dragnet of our religious practices, political affiliations, sexual orientation, and more."
The question is how much more will this Congress and Admin mimic the typical Rise to Power of other Socialist Coups.
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VPN to mask your endpoint. And use a non logging search engine.
And if you really want to up the security use TOR for your searches, then use your regular browser to open the links. TOR is too slow for anything else.
Welcome to the Socialist/Fascist surveillance state, sponsored by the leftists at Big Tech.
There are other way that allow ISP's and the Fed's to track and provide DNS lookup data, IP Connection info to VPN's, Google cookie funded websites tracking, your MAC id, data load and etc... All open the door to Super System correlation of data.
EXAMPLE:
Ever have a VPN and forget to disconnect before using G-Mail? Remember all those followup security questions?
Like was this you? That then ties you to the VPN issued address.
Also as reported back in 2007 the replacement snooping systems is now located "inside an ISP's network at the junction point of a router or network switch" and capable of storing vast amounts of data flowing through the provider's network.
But either way Big Brother is Already Here....
Stop using your IMEI coded Cell Phone to surf ☺☺ yeah right good luck on that ☺☺. Start using an application like Mad Mac. to change your MAC ID, go USB flash drive Boot OS, find Wifi open Hotspots out of CCTV Cam view.
Right or wrong about his political opinions, the colonel is right about this. Thank goodness publicity worked this time.
[EpochTimes] Lt. Col. Stuart Schellerhas been sprung from pretrial detention, but could still face charges for criticizing senior military officials over the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, The Epoch Times has learned.
Scheller was scheduled for a pretrial confinement initial review hearing Tuesday. Military officials planned to conduct the hearing in secret, sparking anger from some media outlets and members of the public.
But prior to the hearing, the Marine Corps agreed to free Scheller, cancelling the pretrial review as a result, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... Scheller has submitted a request for resignation of his commission in lieu of trial to the Secretary of the Navy, the source said, speaking under the condition of anonymity to avoid backlash from the military.
Scheller could still face trial by court martial, the source said.
Scheller captured headlines in late August for criticizing senior military leadership on the handling of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. His initial video was posted on the same day that 13 U.S. troops and more than 100 Afghans were killed in an attack outside of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
He published another video on Sept. 16, saying that he was calling for "accountability of my big shots" over "obvious mistakes that were made." In that video, Scheller also said he was "submitting charges" against Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie for his role in the disastrous withdrawal.
Scheller was reportedly thrown in the brig on Sept. 27, sparking outrage from some politicians and members of the public.
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Not surprised given all the attention the case was given. Then the personally unverified Anti-Trump remarks was the icing for the DC Brass & Socialcrats needed for the key to the jail door.
While I doubt it will happen.
It would not surprise me if next we read how the LTC. comments were misquoted..... after Social Media rewrites history.
#4
He got the attention he was seeking, and more. After the dust settles and the propaganda wars move on, I expect the actual truth will emerge, to little notice since its past the sell by date for news.
[ToloNews] The Passport Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs on Tuesday announced the resumption of its services to Afghans, saying that at least 25,000 passports are ready to be issued in the first place.
The acting head of the department, Alim Gul Haqqani, who appeared at a presser in his office, said their services have also resumed in provinces.
The halt in the passport department's services happened on August 15 after the fall of the previous government.
Saeed Khosti, head of media department of the interior ministry, at a news conference said that for the time being, the new passports will be issued with their previous title: the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Khosti added that all female employees of the passport department have been asked to return to their jobs.
TOLOnews news hound Abdulhaq Omeri reporting from the passport department said some female employees of the department have returned to their jobs.
According to the department’s officials, in the last nearly two months, at least 170,000 people have filled applications for getting passports.
The officials also said they have enough passport booklets and that there will be no need for printing new passports for the next eight months.
Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan resumed the issuance of passports on Tuesday, October 5, and promised that the previous government was issuing three thousand passports but they intend to issue six thousand passports per day.
Anything the non-Taliban can do, the Talibs can do better, by gum!
The department of passport opens nearly two months after the Taliban took over the country.
Head of the department Alamgul Haqqani said that they currently have one million notebooks of passport-on which they print passports- and added that there are 25 thousand passports ready to be issued.
Unlike other government bodies-except for education and health sectors- the Taliban asked the female employees of the department to come to their jobs and promised to pay the salaries for the past three months.
The Taliban does not intend to print their own passport having their logo and said that they will continue with the passports and NIDs of the previous government, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan had promised to resume the issuance of NIDs as well but they did not comment on the issue in Tuesday’s press conference.
As per the policy of the previous government, those who apply for passports should have electronic NID thus, there is desperate need for the issuance of NIDs first so that the applicants get eligible to apply for passports.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate late Monday announced 38 new members of the caretaker government, in military and civil positions.
The new recruitments include a political deputy for the prime minister, acting minister for the Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled, deputy ministers, and commanders of corps.
In the meantime, the Islamic Emirate’s officials at the cultural commission said they believe that hiring experienced military people will be the first step to forming a powerful army in Afghanistan.
"We are forming a powerful army. Introducing corps’ leadership is the first step forward," said Rohullah Omar, a member of the cultural commission.
In the new list, the names of Afghanistan’s military corps have changed. Now "Mazar corps" is mentioned instead of Afghanistan’s 209 Shaheen Corps.
"We hope the new army can defend Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and respond to any possible movements by enemies and forces opposed to the current government," said Mohammad Sadeq Shinwari, a former military figure.
Names of some key members of the caretaker cabinet:
Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, Political Deputy for Prime Minister
Mullah Abdul Majid, acting Minister for the Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled Affairs
Mawlawi Muti-ul Haq, the head of Afghan Red Islamic Thingy Society
Mawlawi Nooruddin Turabi Deputy Head of the Red Islamic Thingy Society
Mullah Mehrullah Hemad, the commander of Kandahar Corps
Mawlawi Hamdullah, the commander of Kabul Corps
Mawlawi Attaullah Omari, the commander of Mazar Corps
Mawlawi Mohammad Zarif Mozafar, the commander of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... Corps
Mawlawi Sharafuddin Taqi the commander of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Corps
Mullah Rahmarullah Mohammad the commander of Kunduz Corps
Abod Jana, the commander of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... Corps
Qari Mohammad Ayoub, the commander of Paktia corps
[KhaamaPress] The Khorasan branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS-K) grabbed credit for the deadly explosion on the Eidgah mosque on Sunday, October 3.
The explosion took the lives of at least eight and leftover 20 more maimed among them the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters.
The Taliban did not disclose an exact number of their fighters killed and maimed though, a source told the Khaama Press that most of them were the Taliban fighters.
The explosion which is said to have been conducted by a jacket wallah targeted a big mosque close to the Presidential Palace where people and the Taliban officials had gathered for the mourning and prayer ceremony of the slain mother of Zabiullah Mujahid- spokesperson and deputy minister of information and culture.
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[RT] Mali has summoned its French ambassador following "unfriendly and derogatory" remarks by the French president, who argued that Bamako lacks legitimacy to criticize the withdrawal of the French troops from the country.
A diplomatic row raging between La Belle France and Mali deepened further on Tuesday after the Malian Foreign Ministry summoned the French envoy to express "indignation and disapproval" over French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks suggesting that the current Malian government has no right to question La Belle France’s military maneuvers in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , where Gay Paree has long kept a presence.The ministry urged French authorities to "exercise restraint," adding that instead of passing "value judgements," they ought to build a relationship based on "mutual respect," with a focus on the fight against terrorism.
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2012: Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Algeria reaffirmed the cooperation between Algiers and Washington on counterterrorism measures, particularly in West Africa's troubled Sahel region and Algeria's neighbor Mali.
In remarks following her October 29 meeting with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Clinton said the two had discussed Mali's internal insecurity and "the terrorist and drug trafficking threat that is posed to the region and beyond."
[AlAhram] Two rival Libyan factions have again disagreed over legislation governing elections planned for December, raising further doubts Tuesday over whether the UN-backed polls can take place.
In the latest dispute the equivalent of Libya's senate, based in the western city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , said on Tuesday that it had rejected a law that eastern-based MPs adopted a day earlier on the planned legislative elections scheduled for December 24.
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[IsraelTimes] IMPACT-se report says ’profound changes’ taking place in the kingdom; but problematic material on Zionism, gender roles remains.
Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... n textbooks showed significant improvement in 2021 in their treatment of non-Moslems and of violence in the name of Islam, according to a study by an Israel-based research organization.
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[AlAhram] Azerbaijan has closed a mosque linked to Iran's supreme leader, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported Tuesday, days after Tehran launched war games near their shared border in a move denounced by Baku.
"The mosque and representative office of Seyyed Ali Akbar Ojaghnejad, representative of supreme leader (Ayatollah) Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... in Baku, were sealed and closed today by order of the authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan," Tasnim said, without giving further details.
Ojaghnejad has held the post since 1996, according to the website of his office, which is located inside the mosque.
Azerbaijan's interior ministry front man Eskhan Zahidov said in a statement that the move was necessary because of "a surge in Covid-19 cases in several locations in Baku" and that the mosque's operation had been "suspended temporarily".
Iran's embassy in Baku said in a statement on Tuesday evening that it had followed up on the matter via diplomatic channels, adding that there had been no advanced warning of the move.
Since mid-September, tensions have soared between the two neighbours, who share a 700-kilometre (430-mile) border.
On Friday, the Iranian army's ground forces began manoeuvres near the frontier, a move criticised by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
"Every country can carry out any military drill on its own territory. It's their sovereign right. But why now, and why on our border?" Aliyev had told Ottoman Turkish news agency Anadolu..
Another recent bone of contention was Baku's decision to impose customs taxes on Iranian trucks crossing its territory to Armenia.
To avoid the route, Iran's roads ministry announced on Monday that it was sending a delegation to Yerevan to discuss the completion of a road that directly links Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to Armenia.
The statement said Azerbaijan "currently controls 20 kilometres of this 400 kilometre road that runs from Norduz (in Iran) to Yerevan".
Iran was "ready to complete the remaining part of the road as soon as possible," said the statement, which called the road "strategic" for Iranian trade.
Said Nursi is a Turkish Isamic theologian
[KakazUzel] For 12 years, a resident of Izberbash attended meetings of the banned religious association "Nurdzhular." Now he will stand trial, the investigation said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote , after the death of the Turkish educator, thinker, philosopher and politician Said Nursi (1878-1960), his followers formed the Nurcular movement, which the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation declared extremist on April 10, 2008, its activities on the territory of Russia are prohibited. Nursi's books were included in the all-Russian list of printed and other materials recognized by the court as extremist.
In Dagestan, the investigation of a criminal case on participation in the activities of an extremist organization against a 37-year-old resident of Izberbash has been completed. According to the investigation, in 2008 he joined the international religious association "Nurcular"
...which has millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, has been banned in Russia since 2008. They want a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions...
and until March 2020 took part in its activities, in particular, attended meetings "to study ideological sources," the ICR department for Dagestan reported today.
The criminal case with the approved indictment was sent to the court, the investigation informed.
Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) provides for up to six years in prison.
The "Caucasian Knot" has not yet received any comments from the accused or his official representatives regarding the version of the investigation.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on August 28, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case "Ibragimov and Others v. Russia," where the publisher challenged the decisions of the Russian courts, which recognized 14 books from the collected works of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi as extremist.
The ECtHR concluded that, when considering cases on recognizing Nursi's books as extremist, the Russian courts did not provide sufficient grounds to interfere with the applicants' right to freedom of expression. The decision of the ECHR will become the basis for challenging the sentences to the followers of the Turkish theologian, said the former imam of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Asian part of Russia, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, associate professor Ilkhom Merazhov.
[HotAir] A little-known area outside of Yuma, Arizona is becoming a popular crossing spot for illegal Haitian migrants colonists. The remote area is referred to as The Gap because it is a break in the border fence close to the Morelos Dam. The break allows migrants colonists an easy crossing of the Colorado River from Los Algodones in Mexico. The Yuma sector is reporting that the crossings are relentless and happening twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
The number of illegal aliens is exploding and the Border Patrol facilities are overwhelmed. While we’ve been focused on areas like Del Rio, Texas, for obvious reasons, other hot spots are popping up. So far, there has been a 2,399.6% spike in arrivals compared to this time last year, with up to 900 people crossing each day. They are not just Haitians but also from Colombia and Honduras. Word has been spread that The Gap is the place to go for easy entry.
In August, the most recent month for which figures are available, 17,000 crossed into Yuma compared to just 694 for the same time in 2020.
As a result, Border Patrol facilities are overwhelmed: even the tented overflow camp built in April and designed to hold 500 people is stuffed with 1,300 inmates.
Vincent Dulesky of Border Patrol Yuma Station said many of the arrivals come from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador but added they are seeing increasing numbers of Haitians — who made up the majority of new arrivals when DailyMail.com visited.
Known to Haitians as ’le Trou’, the migrants colonists told DailyMail.com that word has spread that The Gap is an easy place to cross.
’We had heard of The Gap and people said this is the place to come,’ Wendell Fify, 17, said before he was bundled into a Border Patrol van.
He added: ’It’s a gap in the fence so we came here. I came to the US because my family are here — my mom and dad. I was in Brazil before. I want to have a life here and work.’
That teenager traveled with a family of Haitians. They had been living in Chile but heard about The Gap and decided to come. They came up through Mexico. Many of the Haitians illegally seeking admittance to the U.S. are coming from South America and Central America, not directly from Haiti. Panama’s foreign minister sounded the alarm recently in Washington, D.C. to the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... but he said his warning fell on deaf ears. Shocker, I know.
This comes as Panama’s foreign minister warned that another wave of some 60,000 migrants colonists, mostly Haitian nationals, is now headed toward the southern US border.
Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes expressed exasperation during a visit to Washington DC this week, saying that Panama has been warning the Biden administration for months about the recent surge in irregular migration.
’We sounded the alarm when we should have,’ Mouynes told Axios. ’We’ve engaged with every single authority that we can think of, that we can come across, to say, ’Please, let’s pay attention to this."
Some of the illegal aliens are crossing further east in the Cabreza Pieta National Wildlife Refuge. One news hound witnessed a group of 10 — 20 people coming across every half hour.
[Rudaw] Iraq will hold early elections Sunday as a concession to a youth-led protest movement, but in Nasiriyah, the city at the heart of the revolt, most young people won't vote.
Ahead of the parliamentary polls, the mood in Nasiriyah and much of Iraq is sombre with little hope the election will bring much-needed change to the war-scarred country.
"Elections in Iraq are rigged," said 21-year-old Anas, echoing a common sentiment among young adults in the impoverished southern city.
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[IsraelTimes] In meeting with Israeli counterpart in DC, US national security adviser reiterates that Washington is prepared to consider other options if talks to revive JCPOA fail.
For a given value of thwart that actually means facilitate.
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I agree that diplomacy is the best path. Diplomacy and cruise missiles. And the occasional airstrike for when it absolutely has to be blown up right now.
The carrot and the stick, man Without the stick, you can carrot all you want, but you're just going to get rolled.
The Iranian Leadership has maintained power by selling the USA/Israel as the GREAT EVILS and they have done this for 40+ years. So short of a Duck Photo discrediting and removing the Ayatollah regime, I doubt it will happen.
Many of you might remember a few year back when the Iranians citizenry was having a massive uprisings against Ayatollah and his oppressive leadership.
But the DC swamp / State Dept DID NOTHING because they were working with the Ayatollah "diplomatically" They still are trying to make THE BOMB correct? Despite past so called Plane Loads of $$$$$$$$$ diplomacy
Sometimes I wonder if the DC SWAMP / State Dept. are using Iran as its 1984 Emmanuel Goldstein?
BTW: The term Duck Photo is an old Southern Political term. Meaning to having caught your political opponent in the most 100% vial immoral act and have solid undeniable proof of it. I'll leave the rest to y'alls vivid imagination.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[AlAhram] Two rival Libyan factions have again disagreed over legislation governing elections planned for December, raising further doubts Tuesday over whether the UN-backed polls can take place.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
