Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
I thought I'd remind people of this old article from 2017 on the CIA/NSA origins of Google and how it was specifically designed to make the tracking and surveiling of internet users as easy as possible.
From its very inception, the programs and capabilities that make Google such a powerful search engine were created using CIA/NSA research funds passed along through unclassified NSF (National Science Foundation) grants to develop the technologies necessary to closely track American citizens and foreign users of the internet. Even the internet itself was created as part of a DARPA research program.
So should it come as a surprise to anyone that Google is filled with US and NATO propaganda today? Now I know that's not what this article is specifically referring to, however I think it's a continuation of the same kind of processes for surveillance and information space control between tech giants like Google and the CIA.
An example of what I mean would be any attempts search Google about its record of displaying Western propaganda. You can make the search as specific as possible, specifically referencing US and NATO propaganda or even specific incidents, but your search results will always display endless articles about how Google is supposedly filled with Chinese and Russian propaganda. No mention at all of US or NATO propaganda, even though I can name probably a dozen or so articles I've read over the years about just that. None of them show. Just the articles about how Chinese and Russian propaganda are proliferating online.
Yet, when I search for any kind of contested incidents where it's generally accepted that no one knows whether the incident was caused by Russia or the US, only the articles with the US Govt narrative will show. Again, even though I know of at least a few specific English-language articles about the issue from the Russian perspective. Those articles cannot be found in a simple search and I must go to the source site to find the articles. Only the US government narrative shows on Google.
And you can repeat this pattern for various contentious issues where the US Govt's propaganda dominates search engines like Google and alternative views must be sought directly from their source sites.
So it should come as no surprise that Google itself was created thanks to CIA/NSA grants passed along through the NSF. Similar to how the CIA/NSA passes along grants to promote Western Propaganda outlets in foreign countries using the National Endowment For Democracy or the NED.
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A heads up about this new Times article, which somhow passed the editors despite consisting solely of "anonymous sources" and being written by a journalist with a history of anti-ukrainian bias.
Olexiy Arestovych recently came out as one of the sources Shuster spoke with. For an average person Arestovych is just a former speaker. But his less known lore is that Arestovych is a self-described exorcist; he has several scandals with ukrainephobic narratives; he has on several occasions spread straigt up russian propaganda about the war; and one of his recent scandals was a leak from his private seminar, in which he shared his opinions that, I quote, "a natural desire a man has towards a woman is to choke her, I mean of course fuck her first, but then choke, and keep your hands on her neck for several hours to be sure that that thing is really dead".
Sharing this tidbit just to give you a prespective of the quality of Shuster's "sources" and, as a consequence, Time's journalistic standards.
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“but nesta needed HELP, you obviously don’t understand what it’s like to have a loved one with an addiction!” if you think the inner circle’s intervention methods are good & something to be emulated stay AWAY from your struggling friends & family and i’m so serious. you are going to make it worse. stay away!!!
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Good evening CANDIDE NATION
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Tim Drake in Nightwing (1996) #25 | Damian Wayne in Batman and Robin (2009) #2
Pick the character that most represents a police officer, according to your own understanding. [more info]
Tim Drake - Robin, Red Robin
Thinks his mentor becoming a police officer is "pretty cool". -- Nightwing (1996) #25
A detective seeks out his help to do police work without a warrant. -- DC Pride: Tim Drake Special AKA Batman: Urban Legends #5
Affinity for surveillance. Future self creates dystopian police state. -- Detective Comics by James Tynion IV, see #935, #970
Anti-shoplifting. -- Robin (1993) #56
Anti-marijuana. Uses hospitalized friend as an example in an anti-marijuana school lecture on what could happen when someone consumes "one joint". -- Batman: Shadow of the Bat #56-58
Tim: "You're part of this team! You're accountable! Especially when you abscond with top-secret government property!" Superboy: "Dude, it was a baby!" Tim: "It was government property!" -- Young Justice: Our Worlds at War
Damian Wayne - Robin
"I already promised my father I wouldn't kill. Now I'm supposed to be nice to the police as well?" -- Batman and Robin (2009) #2
Uses physical intimidation against criminals (under supervision of his adult mentor). -- Batman 2011 #5, Batman: Streets of Gotham #4
Fights the GCPD-backed police commissioner Batman. -- Robin War #1
Constructs secret underground prison to torture and brainwash villains. -- Teen Titans (2016) #20
Detective Comics #935
Detective Comics #970
Batman 2011 #5
DC Pride: Tim Drake Special AKA Batman: Urban Legends #5
Robin War #1
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #58
Teen Titans (2016) #20
Robin (1993) #56
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vote for elia in the @a-poll-of-ice-and-fire challenge (real)
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EXCITING NEW TOURNAMENT.
I collect every single named character in septimus heap and make them fight and u all get to participate <3 just submit any character as long as they have a name. I don't care if they're a main character or not. If they have a name then put them in the poll <3
There's going to be ideally a bracket for every book + one at the end where all the winners get to fight. That's why I need u to say what book they were introduced in in the form it's so I can sort them like that
Propaganda not only allowed but HIGHLY encouraged this is the dumbest idea I've ever had I need smth to make it even sillier
Rules r in the form but also extra rule. U have to be super niceys to me or I'll cry <3
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Seraph: he gave me a bamboo rat snake
Jayden: no. You can’t break. Lily smiled at him this morning. Smiled!!!!
Seraph: …I think the scales kinda match his hair
Jayden: that conniving bitch. He got seraph!
Ky: NOOOOOO. I WILL AVENGE YOU BROTHER
Reno: Hey kid I know you like Loveless and materia
Ky: Nothing you can say will break me.
Reno: I have a mastered Fire materia and an exclusive edition of Loveless that was thought to be lost after meteorfall
Ky: …
Reno: I’ll even help you learn to cast higher spells
Ky: I am… weak
Jayden: No! Brother don’t listen to him! He is a demon! He lies!
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Colin cake... (patiently waiting for the Radiohead collab with Marks & Spencer from this day onward).
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