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By Todd Haselton | 28 January 2019 A bug in FaceTime lets you listen in to the audio if you try to call someone — even if they don’t pick up. You first video call […]
Even after losing roughly a third of its market cap, it still may prove one of the great shorts of all time. By Tyler Durden | 27 January 2019 ZERO HEDGE (13D RESEARCH) — “There’s […]
Editor’s Note: Kay Stevenson is a guest contributor to Winter Watch who lives four miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. By Kay Stevenson The federal government has not paid U.S. Border Patrol agents since the […]
25 January 2019 YAHOO (AFP) — YouTube said Friday it will stop recommending specious videos such as those claiming the earth is flat or promoting bogus theories about the September 11, 2001 attacks. The global video […]
By Tyler Durden | 24 January 2019 ZERO HEDGE — As bad as things have been for Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke one year ago, one team of researchers, led by a former peer of […]
Exclusive: Daniel J. Pilla explains agency’s plan to surveil your finances By Daniel J. Pilla | 20 January 2019 WND — One of the reasons identify theft is considered by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax […]
By Ed Cara | 7 January 2019 GIZMODO — For the time being, pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers-Squibb and others will not be allowed to avoid a billion-dollar civil lawsuit over their alleged roles in a […]
By Matt Agorist | 15 January 2019 THE FREE THOUGHT PROJECT — Over the weekend, members and owners of multiple alternative media outlets gathered in Houston, Texas to discuss the heavy hand of corporate and government […]
Stanford-educated founder’s treatment intended to fight aging By Ethan Baron | 17 January 2019 THE MERCURY NEWS — You don’t have to drink the blood of children to reclaim the vigor of your lost youth. […]
Proctor & Gamble and their overrated ad agency Grey appear to be flushing their Gillette razor brand down the toilet, and it is not just us saying it. Forbes ran a editorial as well, describing […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 9 January 2018 MEDIUM — The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in […]
Meet one Tomas Åberg, a steaming lump of subhuman excrement who Sweden’s Marxist elites chose to bestow the honorific of “National Hero.” Now, you might be asking, “How does a piece of shit (PoS) become […]
The results aren’t 100% convincing, but it’s a sign of things to come By James Vincent | 24 April 2017 THE VERGE — Artificial intelligence is making human speech as malleable and replicable as pixels. […]
9 March 2018 RT — Some €10 billion of Libyan government funds, frozen as part of sanctions against the late Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle, has mysteriously disappeared from a Belgian bank somewhere between 2013 and 2017, […]
By Tyler Durden | 11 January 2018 ZERO HEDGE — For PG&E, just like for AIG ten years ago, this is the beginning of the end. As we discussed on Tuesday, one of the biggest surprises involving […]
Winter Watch used Google’s translate feature to convert the following article from Swedish to English. 5 December 2018 SVT NEWS — Telia, Ericsson and KTH today pressed the button for what is Sweden’s first 5G network. […]
NTT DoCoMo said it expects to start deploying this new 5G antenna next year By Juan Pedro Tomás | 30 April 2018 RCR WIRELESS NEWS — Japanese telecommunications operator NTT DoCoMo has developed a 5G base station […]
Law enforcement leaders say civil asset forfeiture is a necessary tool for fighting crime, but several lawmakers see it as a violation of Americans’ civil liberties. Texas legislators are poised to take up the issue […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 2 January 2019 MEDIUM — A journalist with NBC has resigned from the network with a statement which highlights the immense resistance that ostensibly liberal mass media outlets have to antiwar narratives, […]
From the ‘shopped-images-are-so-yesterday dept. By Glyn Moody | 2 May 2017 TECH DIRTY — Fake images, often produced using sophisticated software-like Photoshop or the GIMP, were around long before so-called “fake news” became an issue. They […]
29 December 2018 THE LOCAL (AFP) — Influential German news weekly Der Spiegel, shaken by a scandal over a reporter who admitted faking stories for years, said it has suspended two senior editors. The contracts […]
By Selwyn Duke | 11 December 2018 THE NEW AMERICAN — “Your time is up, black people!” said the politician. Actually, no, that would create a media stir. What really was said, by a South African […]
By Claire Chretien | 13 February 2018 LIFE SITE NEWS — The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) announced its 2018 “dirty dozen” list naming top facilitators of sexual exploitation in mainstream society. The list calls out mainstream corporations “which […]
Private equity tail wagging the public infrastructure dog? By Leonard Hyman and Willian Tilles | 14 February 2018 WOLF STREET — About two years [ago], we came across an article discussing infrastructure in a relatively obscure […]
By Brandon Smith | 26 October 2016 ALT-MARKET — When people unfamiliar with the liberty movement stumble onto the undeniable fact of the “conspiracy” of globalism they tend to look for easy answers to understand what […]
Chemicals known as endocrine disrupters, commonly found in hygiene products, may mimic hormones and lead children to mature well before their natural time Over the past 20 years, girls have been reaching puberty earlier, with […]
Many of those on board the Kindertransport trains to UK never saw their parents again By Josie Le Blond | 17 December 2018 THE GUARDIAN — Germany will give a one-off payment to mostly Jewish survivors […]
By Jennifer Jacobs, Saleha Mohsin and Margaret Talev | 21 December 2018 BLOOMBERG — President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as his frustration with the central bank chief intensified following this […]
By Brandon Morse | 19 December 2018 RED STATE — The mainstream media isn’t trustworthy on its best day, and it would appear that the generation born and raised amid the most high-tech era of the […]
Directors at the company instructed staff to use data provided by hackers, and in two cases in 2015 employees refused using such materials, the Guardian reports 21 May 2018 HAARETZ — Israeli hackers offered Cambridge Analytica, […]