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Mali: Zehn Jahre blutige Krise | DW | 30.03.2022
Vor zehn Jahren zerfiel der malische Staat. Am 31. März 2012 fiel die Stadt Gao an Tuareg-Separatisten und islamistische Gruppen. Seither steckt Mali in der Krise.#Mali #Separatisten #Putsch #ATT #Azawad #AmadouToumaniTouré
Mali: Zehn Jahre blutige Krise | DW | 30.03.2022
AT&T has an image problem
Let's End Corporate Support for Extreme Legislation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mw4UITv5HU
30 sec video
#att #anti-abortion #texas #law https://offthebanwagon.wpengine.com/
This does not sound innocent or accidental, as suggested on CNN last night - following a disclaimer CNN is owned by AT&T.
A lot of #TrumpVirus minds are, too. I am happy I have zero relationship with AT&T! Nor will I, going forward. Too much harm & lies...
To say nothing of their willingness to hand over ALL phone data for scrutiny at the front end. Privacy? What's that?
A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”
#TrumpVirus #OAN #propaganda #disinformation #socialmedia #media #ATT #OAN #MakeAmericaSaneAgain
How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
... OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”
Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant. ...
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oneamerica-att/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28776710
#ATT #OANN #OAN #OneAmericaNews #DirecTV #WarnerMedia #HBO #AWE #Fascism #Disinformation #Misinformation #Propaganda #Monopoly
US Domestic Surveillance Disclosures pre-dating Edward Snowden's Revelations
Asking for sources of any current activities met with some resistance at HN. Challenged for any awareness of pre-Snowden programmes, I listed a few I was aware of, off the top of my head:
Regards pre-Snowden, the situation was far more than an "open secret", there were multiple documented projects and methods employed. Among them:
2013: Hemisphere, an AT&T call records database dating to the 1980s accessible by the US DEA. (This was publicised near-simultaneously with Snowden's own 2013 disclosures.) https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere
2006: Mark Klein and the Room 641A revelations concerning AT&T's beam splitters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
2005, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe, NSA whistleblower, warrantless surveillance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_official)
2004, Russell Tice, NSA surveillance including of congressional members. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/01/why-nsa-whistle-blower-russ-tice-may-be-right.html
There were very strong suspicions around the TIA (total information awareness) and USA PATRIOT ACT (2003, 2001). I recall much chatter about this at the time, and the related FISA court, though little by way of specific details of technological measures and methods involved.
Carnivore, a WinNT workstation-based tool, disclosed ~2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
There are telephnic data retention programmes, including MAINWAY (revealed in 2006), containing an estimated over 1.9 trillion call-detail records, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAINWAY
Project ECHELON, with disclosures of varying aspects from 1972 -- 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
There are earlier periods, notably addressed by the FBI's own COINTELPRO archives (https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro), though for my purposes I'm considering "modern" projects to be circa 1990 onwards. (COINTELPRO and the Church Committee hearings resulted in substantial changes, at least publically, to US domestic surveillance).
And I've compiled a long list of pre-1990 references of concerns regarding significant technologists who'd warned of the risks of information technology as a tool of surveillance and control, largely as no such list seemed extant: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193
I'm well aware that documentation of clandestine and national security issues is difficult to come by, see the TK case for one reason why that is.
But that's also why specific documentation is so valuable and why I'd requested that.
Adapted from an HN comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184956 )
#surveillance #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism #NSA #CIA #FBI #Carnivore #ECHELON #PatriotAct #FISA #MAINWAY #Room614A #ATT #MarkKlein #WilliamBinney #RussellTice #Hemisphere #EdwardSnowden #COINTELPRO #ChurchCommittee
