EXCLUSIVE: Former United Nations Employee Warns of the Dangers of the UN Digital ID Program

A former United Nations employee is speaking out regarding his concerns about the UN’s internal digital ID program, as well as what it means for digital ID initiatives be...

by Derrick Broze

“My biggest concern on the internal rollout is that the UN is establishing an extremely risky and invasive technology without transparent consultation with staff. So far there’s no consideration that staff may not consent to this,” says Alexander Ray, a former communications officer at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)…

Seeing Truth in the Age of Information Overload

How the health of your perceptual filters shapes the health of your reality

by A Midwestern Doctor

•Information Overload Crisis: Today’s endless data flood overwhelms the mind, triggering instability and reliance on simplistic narratives—ancient meditation practices build the inner stability needed to navigate this chaos clearly…

Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed

Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations

by Ken Klippenstein

Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis — these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out “illegals,” but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show…

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities

by Joseph Cox

Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address, 404 Media has learned. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based…

The Censorship Network: Regulation and Repression in Germany Today

Mapping the “Censorship Industrial Complex”: How over 330 organizations coordinate digital speech control in Germany.

by Liber-net

Over the past several years, investigative reporting has uncovered a range of coordinated efforts to suppress online speech in Western countries. Often described as the Censorship-Industrial Complex, these networks of information suppression (mostly operating under the guise of countering “disinformation” or “hate speech”) have been particularly widespread in the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union. In the EU, Germany plays a central role in this system, with numerous governmental and private actors monitoring online speech and urging ever-greater levels of content suppression…

Gambling Now Underpins the Entire US Economy and Is Extremely Addictive

The Gambling Economy: How mass-scale betting became a dangerous and addictive pillar of U.S. financial growth.

by Breaking Points, TEDx and Reuters

The American Gaming Association reported a 23.6% rise in sports betting in the United States in 2024, with Americans placing $147.9 billion in sports bets. Gambling releases dopamine in the brain, whether the bettor wins or loses. The suicide rate for those with a gambling addiction is 12 times higher than that of any other addiction…

HHS Quietly Restores Title X Funding for Abortion Providers

Quiet Restoration: HHS reinstates Title X federal funding for abortion providers.

by Veronika Kyrylenko

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has withdrawn its legal challenge to the Trump administration after federal health officials reversed course and released tens of millions of dollars in previously frozen Title X “family planning” funds. The money, held back for most of last year, flowed largely to Planned Parenthood and several allied clinics. The funding reversal became public through reporting by Politico on Tuesday…

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