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#China - Mass #homelessness is exposing the rot in Chinese society

by Gordon G. Chang, opinion contributor - 08/16/26

Excerpt: "This post-reform period, however, is seeing even more distressing signs of dislocation. Chinese people, for instance, are opting out of society with many choosing to flee, something evident with the unprecedented surge of Chinese nationals across America’s southern border during the Biden administration. Many of them were poor, but some were middle-class Chinese, evidently desperate to live in a free society.

"Most Chinese, however, cannot leave. Street dwellers often have low social credit scores. A person’s score reflects all interactions with society, and those with low ones are not allowed to, among other things, maintain bank accounts, buy train tickets or obtain coveted jobs. As a result, they have no home."

Read more:
https://thehill.com/homenews/6030358-china-homelessness-rising-youth-unemployment/

@newsbot

#WorldPol #Homeless #Unhoused #Orwellian #BigBrother #ChinaPol

Incarcerated for Life in #Trump’s War on the Left

#AutumnHill had already gone home when a #protest outside an #ICE facility turned violent. She was still sentenced to 50 years, over twice as long as any #Jan6 defendant

by MATTHEW COOLEY
August 12, 2026

"The battering ram took down the door first. A column of steel bolted to the front of a tactical vehicle slammed through Autumn Hill’s front entryway. Then the windows shattered. FBI agents threw flash-bang grenades through the glass, their concussions rattling the house’s front rooms. Hill was in the shared office space, in a thin red dress, puttering around on her computer. She heard screams from the other rooms. Then, the buzzing of a drone, as the police flew a quadcopter in through the splintered doorframe. A voice from the drone shrieked out, telling the residents of the house to come out with their hands up. Hill was terrified. She edged out of the door and immediately stared down a wall of gun barrels, masked agents screaming orders, the drone screaming in the air behind her.

" 'I remember thinking, ‘If I don’t do exactly what I’m told for the next minute of my life I’m going to die right now,' Hill says.

Through its loudspeaker, the #drone called repeatedly for one name: '#BenjaminSong.' Song wasn’t in the house, and no one inside knew them by that name. To Hill and her chosen family — an eclectic mix of personalities who lived together in what they called the '#BigGayHouse' — Song was 'Champagne,' a #genderfluid, politically #radical #activist who had, the night before, led a group to a demonstration outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility near #PrairielandTX. The protest, on July 4, 2025, was loosely organized in a collection of local activism group chats, and attracted a few dozen attendees, all of whom had their own idea of what they wanted to accomplish. Many, like Hill, planned a '#NoiseDemo,' or a loud protest involving fireworks and loud chants, aimed at disrupting the guards’ routine and letting the detainees inside know that they had supporters outside the fence."

Read more:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-war-antifa-protesters-prison-1235607065/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/eRg8I

#WarOnTheLeft #USPol #Prairieland #DetentionCenters #Fascism #NSPM7 #PrairielandDefendants #Orwellian #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #Prairieland8 #CharacteristicsOfFascism

You can’t make billions without hurting people

Wiping out world of work, & our ability to #sustain ourselves & live autonomous lives, is only the beginning, if you listen to #AI’s architects. Elon #Musk has called it the single greatest #threat to #human #civilisation

“AI people claim they’re about to create #God, by teaching words to a #word-guessing programme,” Doctorow says. “It’s grandiose.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/cory-doctorow-on-elon-musk-ai-bubble-bosses-cruel-fantasies

#Orwellian #poverty #PeopleNotProfits #CapitalismFail #CorporateTerrorism

Say no to Palantir in #NHS

NHS #England is rolling out software to run our health records from #Palantir, US #spy-tech firm that supports mass deportation in US & enabled #genocide in #Gaza

One of Palantirs founders is also openly against #OurNHS

Peter #Thiel claimed:
- It makes people sick
- #British people love our NHS because we’re suffering from #Stockholm syndrome

Is your local NHS Trust using Palantir’s software?

https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

#CorporateTerrorism #spying #Orwellian #BigData

#AndThen? And then #Mullvad was #censored in #UK

#UnitedKingdom is escalating its #censorship & mass #surveillance

When Mullvad tried to address this with #TV #ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television

Outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was also largely halted

Here, you can watch the banned ads and explore the entire campaign

https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk

#authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #privacy #security #ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #StarmerOut

Meet 21-year-old playing #bagpipes at #US #protests

He played in both #LA & #Portland (once following the death of Alex #Pretti) Duffy is playing in the face of #violent tactics to #suppress #demonstrations against #trump – especially when #TearGas is deployed

When asked how #police react, Duffy laughs, and says: “They’ve reacted pretty negatively”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25873187.meet-21-year-old-playing-bagpipes-us-protests/

#PoliceState #dictatorship #authoritarianism #trump #USAggression #lawlessness #fascism #oppression #Orwellian

#ICE & #DHS: #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver (HBO)

Feb 16, 2026 #lastweektonight

"John Oliver discusses ICE’s repeated atrocities over the past months and explores the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. How it started, who runs it, and how many hats #KristiNoem owns."

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KDUOHEZFk

#USPol #ICESucks #AbollishDHS #AbolishICE #SepareteFEMA #FEMA
#PrivatePrisons #DetentionCenters #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NineEleven #Profiling #WarantlessSurveillance #SurveillanceState #Orwellian #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

🚨 We all knew this would be coming... Don't like polluters? TOUGH SHIT! You're under arrest!!!

#FBI #Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a #ClimateActivist — Then Showed Up at His Door

The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into #ExtinctionRebellionNYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of #activist groups.

Jacqueline Sweet, February 12 2026

Excerpt: "Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a #ClimateActivism group for questioning last week, potentially signaling a new escalation in the Trump administration’s promise to criminalize #nonprofits and #ActivistGroups as #DomesticTerrorists.

"Two FBI agents, one from New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, told a former member of Extinction Rebellion NYC they wanted to ask him about the group at his home upstate on Friday, an attorney for the group told The Intercept. The visit followed a prior attempt to reach him at his old address.

"The FBI’s apparent probe of Extinction Rebellion NYC comes as the Justice Department ramps up its surveillance of activists protesting immigration enforcement and the Trump administration creates secret lists of domestic enemies under Trump’s National Security Presidential #Memorandum7, or #NSPM7.

" 'I believe this to be a significant escalation of the criminal legal system against #XR and find it very troubling,' said Ron Kuby, the Extinction Rebellion attorney. 'This is usually the way we find out an actual investigation is underway and is often followed by other visits and other actions.'

"The former Extinction Rebellion member, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for his safety, said that the visit came after a phone call in January from a special agent that he assumed was a scam.

" 'I was skeptical the phone call was really from the FBI, but after I declined to speak with the agent, she said that she was standing outside my door,' he said. She was actually at the activist’s former address, which he said made him additionally dubious. But last week, when the agents showed up at his current address, he said he saw the agent’s business card through his door."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/fbi-counterterror-extinction-rebellion/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4Nq3X

#USPol #ExtinctionRebellion #CriminalizingDissent #AntiProtestLaws #EPAFail #Polluters #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #EnvironmentalActivists #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ResistFascism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #CorporationsAreTheRealTerrorists

🚨 We all knew this would be coming... Don't like polluters? TOUGH SHIT! You're under arrest!!!

#FBI #Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a #ClimateActivist — Then Showed Up at His Door

The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into #ExtinctionRebellionNYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of #activist groups.

Jacqueline Sweet, February 12 2026

Excerpt: "Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a #ClimateActivism group for questioning last week, potentially signaling a new escalation in the Trump administration’s promise to criminalize #nonprofits and #ActivistGroups as #DomesticTerrorists.

"Two FBI agents, one from New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, told a former member of Extinction Rebellion NYC they wanted to ask him about the group at his home upstate on Friday, an attorney for the group told The Intercept. The visit followed a prior attempt to reach him at his old address.

"The FBI’s apparent probe of Extinction Rebellion NYC comes as the Justice Department ramps up its surveillance of activists protesting immigration enforcement and the Trump administration creates secret lists of domestic enemies under Trump’s National Security Presidential #Memorandum7, or #NSPM7.

" 'I believe this to be a significant escalation of the criminal legal system against #XR and find it very troubling,' said Ron Kuby, the Extinction Rebellion attorney. 'This is usually the way we find out an actual investigation is underway and is often followed by other visits and other actions.'

"The former Extinction Rebellion member, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for his safety, said that the visit came after a phone call in January from a special agent that he assumed was a scam.

" 'I was skeptical the phone call was really from the FBI, but after I declined to speak with the agent, she said that she was standing outside my door,' he said. She was actually at the activist’s former address, which he said made him additionally dubious. But last week, when the agents showed up at his current address, he said he saw the agent’s business card through his door."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/fbi-counterterror-extinction-rebellion/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4Nq3X

#USPol #ExtinctionRebellion #CriminalizingDissent #AntiProtestLaws #EPAFail #Polluters #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #EnvironmentalActivists #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ResistFascism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #CorporationsAreTheRealTerrorists

“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of #Minneapolis #LegalObservers

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as #Trump’s #BorderCzar #TomHoman calls on locals to “end the #resistance.”

By Ryan Devereaux, February 9, 2026

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice-minneapolis-legal-observers-abduction/

#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #DefundCBD #Disappeared
#DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #IndefiniteDetention #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

@adamsaidsomething @eff Oh! Here we go: I feel

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towards the Spanish🇪🇸 regime when I am seeing this. I feel

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towards the UK🇬🇧 regime when I am seeing this. I feel

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towards the Danish🇩🇰 regime when I am seeing this. I feel

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towards the Australian🇦🇺 regime when I am seeing this. I feel

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towards the French🇫🇷 regime when I am seeing this. I feel

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towards the Malaysian🇲🇾 regime when I am seeing this.

#censorship #authoritarian #orwell #orwellian #privacy #surveillance #concentrationcamp #dictatorship #totalitarianism #totalitarian #authoritarianism #kafkaesque #denmark #spain #uk #france #australia #ageverification #socialmedia #contempt #teenagers #identitytheft #teen #teens #teenager #youth #herewego #hereyougo

So much for rules-based order and 1917 agreement over #Danish #WestIndies https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/americas/what-to-know-us-west-indies-greenland-history-denmark.html My take on new #Orwellian #geopolitical #dystopia here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/01/23/are-we-headed-toward-an-orwellian-geopolitical-dystopia/ #trump #imperialism #denmark #greenland #ukraine #russia #ukrainewar #putin #fionahill #orwell

#Peter_thiel is a threat to everyone but #billionaires.

#peterthiel #privacy #Democracy #freedom #OrwellianSurveillance #Orwellian #Dystopia

#trump #maga #republicans #republican #ChristianNationalism #RightWingExtremism #AmericanTaliban #ConservativeChristians #ChristianNationalists #fascism #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #Dystopia #unitedstates #project2025

#UKGovernment expands #police use of #FacialRecognition vans

by Kate Whannel, August 13, 2025

"More live facial recognition (#LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced.

"The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras, which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people.

"The government says the technology has been used in London to make 580 arrests in 12 months, including 52 registered sex offenders who breached their conditions.

"However, campaign group #BigBrotherWatch said the 'significant expansion of the #SurveillanceState' was 'alarming'.

"Live facial recognition was first used in #England and #Wales in 2017 during the Uefa Champions League final football match in Cardiff.

"Since then its use has largely been confined to #SouthWales, #London and #Essex including at a Beyoncé concert to scan for paedophiles and terrorists [like elderly Palestine Action activists!]

"The government is now funding 10 vans equipped with LFR to be shared between seven forces, approximately doubling the number of vehicles.

"The seven forces are Greater #Manchester, #WestYorkshire, #Bedfordshire, #Surrey, #Sussex, #ThamesValley and #Hampshire.

"The technology identifies people by taking measurements of facial features including the distance between the eyes and the length of the jawline and then comparing the data to to an existing watchlist.

"Each van will be staffed with a trained officer who checks the matches identified by the technology.

"Simultaneously, the government is holding a consultation on what safeguards are needed to "ensure transparency and public confidence", ahead of drawing up a new legal framework.

"Big Brother Watch is bringing a legal challenge against the #MetPolice's use of the technology, alongside #ShaunThompson, who was wrongly identified by an LFR camera.

#Rebecca Vincent, interim director of Big Brother Watch, said: 'Police have interpreted the absence of any legislative basis authorising the use of this intrusive technology as carte blanche to continue to roll it out unfettered, despite the fact that a crucial judicial review on the matter is pending.

" ;The #HomeOffice must scrap its plans to roll out further live facial recognition capacity until robust legislative safeguards are established.'

"Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti told the BBC the technology was 'incredibly intrusive' and 'some would say this is yet another move towards a total #surveillance society'."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/I2g32

#Orwellian #UKPol #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #ThoughtCrime #PalestineAction #Censorship #Authoritarianism

#BorderPatrol Wants Advanced #AI to #Spy on American Cities

A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for #drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.

by Sam Biddle
July 23 2025

Excerpt: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking 'advanced AI' technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated #autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.

"A CBP presentation for an 'Industry Day' summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for #SurveillanceTowers along the #border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s #AntiImmigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.

"The recent passage of Trump’s sprawling flagship legislation funnels tens of billions of dollars to the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity. While much of that funding will go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bolster the administration’s arrest and deportation operations, a great deal is earmarked to purchase new technology and equipment for federal offices tasked with preventing immigrants from arriving in the first place: Customs and Border Protection, which administers the country’s border surveillance apparatus, and its subsidiary, the U.S. Border Patrol.

"One page of the presentation, describing the wishlist of Border Patrol’s Law Enforcement Operations Division, says the agency needs '#AdvancedAI to identify and track suspicious activity in urban environment [sic],' citing the 'challenges' posed by 'Dense residential areas.' What’s considered '#SuspiciousActivity' is left unmentioned.
Customs and Border Protection did not respond to questions posed about the slides by The Intercept."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/cbp-border-patrol-ai-surveillance/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ohLtM

#ThoughtCrime #PoliceDrones #AISucks #SurveillanceState #USPol #CPB #DHS #ICE #ICEKidnapping #Disappeared #Orwellian #NoPrivacy #MinorityReport #ElectronicBigBrother #BrotherEye #DoublePlusUngood #BigBrotherIsWatching #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ukraine rebukes Slovak FM’s call to ‘perhaps forgive’ Moscow — UN analysis finds Russia responsible for 2022 Olenivka prison explosion killing Ukrainian POWs — Smashing previous monthly record, Russia launches 5,337 kamikaze drones against Ukraine during June — Russia-Iran alliance wavers as Tehran suffers major blows — China unveils its new graphite bomb; here’s how they work … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/tuesday-july-1-2025/

Inciting #rioters in #Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for #America

The presidential election is three months away.

What if the billionaire contests the result?

What if he decides #democracy is overrated?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america

#Musk #traitor #violence #extremist #FarRight #terrorism #CorporateTerrorism #billionaires #Orwellian