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May 17, 2025
Coinbase Personal Data Stolen in Hack, Stock Drops
HP McLovingcraft
The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was recently targeted in a hacking incident that led to the personal data of thousands of customers being stolen, the company said in a May 15 statement.
According to a March 31 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Coinbase had 9.7 million monthly transaction users (MTU) by the end of that month.
Since the company claims that less than 1 percent of MTUs have been impacted by the hack, the number of affected individuals could be around 97,000.
Hackers got access to names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, last four digits of Social Security numbers, masked bank account numbers and identifiers, government ID images such as driver’s licenses and passports, and account data such as balance snapshots and transaction history.
Hackers did not get access to login credentials or 2FA codes, private keys, customer funds and the ability to move these funds, Coinbase Prime accounts, Coinbase or Coinbase customer hot or cold wallets.
Following the revelation, Coinbase shares crashed by 7.2 percent on Thursday.
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Via https://hellboundanddown.com/2025/05/17/coinbase-customers-personal-data-stolen-in-hack-stock-drops/
Homeschooling: Our Best Defense Against the State
Heather Carson
There’s a battle going on right now in our neighboring state of Illinois concerning the Illinois Homeschool Act. This Act takes the current minimal oversight of homeschoolers in Illinois and places families at risk of violation by state appointed truant officers right in their homes. The bill would require parents to file a homeschool declaration form as well as an education portfolio to their local school district effectively putting their children under the jurisdiction of the very system from which many of these parents are trying to get away. The form discloses personal information of the child and opens each family to the mercy of a truancy officer who might show up at the child’s home to demand evidence of the child’s education.
The American education system is a disaster on its way to self-destruction. It was always going to fail, but so committed are some Americans to the unrealistic ideal that education can be carried out by a centralized state, they cannot see its failure even when the quality of education has been in consistent decline for decades. This decline is evidenced by the ever-decreasing test performances, lowered quality of education, and the increasingly violent atmosphere of the schools. Homeschooling parents saw the red flags and slowly began to secede from the public schools back in the 1970’s. Since then, homeschooling has experienced a gradual increase, until the pandemic, when the number of homeschooling families doubled.
And something else happened during the pandemic. Parents began to realize with horror that their children couldn’t read, despite being reassured by various “assessments” given by the government schools that their children were on the appropriate level. The fraudulent teaching practices involved in the reading scandal currently rocking the education community were covered extensively by education reporter Emily Hanford in her docu-series Sold A Story. Those running the education system failed American children at a most basic skill: reading. Yet somehow, these same administrators believe they are qualified to offer proper evaluation of children who are being homeschooled.
The fact that education administrators want to do everything they can to keep control over homeschooling families is understandable. Homeschooled children are primarily cared for and educated by their parents. A parent’s first duty is to their children. Raising children is hard work. It is physically and emotionally taxing. The moment you bring your baby into the world there is a shift. Suddenly, each day’s rhythm revolves around your child. For some, this shift grounds them ever-more deeply to a sense of family and belonging. They surrender to the rhythm, welcoming the obligations of training and teaching their offspring, passing on their cultural and religious beliefs that define them as a family, or clan, or community. They lean into the demands and respond by stepping up and deepening their bond.
It makes sense that the state would want to somehow disrupt this. Families represent resistance to the state. Families have their own organization that is separate from and predates the state. If the state can insert itself into the family organization and relieve parents of the burden of raising and educating their children, then the children would effectively belong to the state. Furthermore, parents would be free to pursue an individual identity beyond the confines of family obligations. In his book, The Total State, Auron MacIntyre points out that:
…human identity is not an individual construction; it’s assembled through dependencies and duties in relation to the surrounding community. Human identity is not forged through a set of absolute freedoms or rights; it’s found in the limitations that culture and circumstance impose on the individual.
Being a parent is a limitation—a very meaningful one—but a limitation nonetheless. If however, one’s identity is grounded in something else—something beyond family, such as the limitless pursuit of self—then handing over one’s children to the state via the education system seems essential to the pursuit of that ideal.
A system is what it does, and what the education system does is seek to separate children from their parents in order to install a set of beliefs that reinforces support for itself. The state is a jealous god, and it will take over any area of influence that competes with it, including the roles of the parents. Parents are not supposed to be liberated from their duties to their children. This Illinois Homeschool Act is just another attempt by the state to transfer the healthy interdependency evident in thriving homeschool families and communities onto itself.
Homeschooling is a family pursuit and it is a limitation. In order to homeschool both parents must be committed to it. Families must belong to an interconnected community with shared beliefs and work ethic. This connectedness reinforces the commitment and the family bond. If homeschooling falls prey to any state oversight, it will lose what has given it life and success in the first place.
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Via https://mises.org/mises-wire/homeschooling-our-best-defense-against-state
US considering migrant reality TV show
FILE PHOTO: Asylum seekers looking to enter the US from Mexico. © Getty Images / Carlos MorenoRT
Contestants would engage in challenges such as gold mining in California and making cars in Detroit.
The US Department of Homeland Security is considering being part of a reality TV show in which migrants compete against each other for American citizenship, the agency’s assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, has said.
In each episode, contestants would take part in American-themed challenges such as digging for gold in California and assembling a car at a plant in Detroit, according to the pitch, which has been seen by a number of outlets. It would reportedly conclude with a town hall meeting and a final vote to select the winner.
The idea for the series, which has the working title ‘The American’, comes from Rob Worsoff, the producer behind reality shows such as ‘The Millionaire Matchmaker’, ‘Duck Dynasty’, and ‘The Biggest Loser’.
The Daily Mail, which was one of the first outlets to report on the development on Thursday, claimed that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been pushing for the series to be made.
McLaughlin denied the report in a post on X on Friday, calling it “false” and “an affront to journalism.” Noem is not “even aware” of the reality TV show pitch, she insisted.
The DHS receives hundreds of TV show proposals every year and each of them “undergoes a thorough vetting process prior to denial or approval,” the assistant secretary said. The pitch for ‘The American’ “has not received approval or denial by staff,” she added.The pitch reportedly says:
“contestants will represent a wide demographic of ages, ethnicities, and talents. We will join in the laughter, tears, frustration and joy – hearing their backstories – as we are reminded of how amazing it is to be American, through the eyes of 12 wonderful people, who want nothing more than to have what we have – and what we often take for granted: the freedom, opportunity and honor of what it means to be American.”
Worsoff, who immigrated to the US from Canada, told the Wall Street Journal on Friday that none of the losers in the show would be penalized or face deportation. “This is not ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” he said.
In an interview with CNN, Worsoff noted that he first pitched the idea for the series to the DHS during the administration of US President Barack Obama. He added that he recently held three meetings with DHS officials regarding the show. “I feel like we are trending in a good way,” he said.
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Via https://www.rt.com/news/617752-migrants-us-reality-show/
Can digital dollars be as anonymous as cash? A pilot of e-Cash that’s as private as physical coins
Liam Tung, Contributing WriterMarch 29, 2022 A US House of Representatives bill is proposing a trial of digital dollars that would replicate the privacy and anonymity of physical currency such as coins and notes.
If passed, the ‘Electronic Currency And Secure Hardware Act” (ECASH Act)‘ would “direct the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and pilot digital dollar technologies that replicate the privacy-respecting features of physical cash.”
The ECASH Act “would promote greater financial inclusion, maximize consumer protection and data privacy, and advance U.S. efforts to develop and regulate digital assets,” according to an announcement by US representative Stephen Lynch, who introduced the bill.
Lynch says the ECASH Act would “complement and advance” the current research being undertaken by the Federal Reserve.
“By establishing a pilot program within Treasury for the development of an electronic U.S. Dollar, the ECASH Act will greatly complement and advance ongoing efforts undertaken by the Federal Reserve and President Biden to examine potential design and deployment options for a digital dollar. Importantly, this pilot program will also preserve a role in our financial system for smaller anonymous cash-like transactions which are currently transacted in physical dollars and which have seen a rapid decline in use,” he says.
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Ed:
This bill was introduced on March 28, 2022, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote. Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills). See https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr7231
Nightmare of Jerusalem Part IV – Why Israel Bombed Uganda in 1976
Nightmare of Jerusalem Part 4
Press TV
Film Review
This episode provides historical background of the 1976 PLO hijacking of an Air France airliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. The hijackers ordered the plane to fly to Uganda, where they were warmly welcomed by Ugandan dictator Idy Amin. The version in this film differs from that reported by Wikipedia. The film reports the hostages had already been released when the Israelis, under the command of Bibi Netanyahu’s brother Yonatan (who died in the mission), bombed Uganda’s Entebbe Airport.
Hezbollah (an outgrowth of the Shia Amal movement covered in later episodes) retaliated by attacking northern Israel’s anti-ballistic system. There were also massive popular protests in Israel against the Israeli bombing of Uganda.
Following Iran’s April 24, 2024 missile attack on Israel, the US initially warned Israel not to respond (stressing the US wouldn’t support a war on Iran) but ultimately approved a April 29, 2024 Israeli bombing mission in Iran.
Gaza is the most densely populated region on earth, and Israel has killed 1/20 of its population since it began its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. IDF forces are deliberately targeting children by shooting them in the head.
Gaza separated from Egypt in June 1967 after Israeli’s Six Day War, with the IDF capturing the Gaza strip, along with the West Bank (formerly part of Jordan) and the Golan Heights (part of Syria).
May 16, 2025
President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It be Done?
Ellen Brown
The latest plan, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is to abolish income taxes for people who earn less than $150,000 yearly. That move would affect roughly 75% of workers, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. On its face, this could narrow the wealth gap by boosting disposable income for low- and middle-income households without raising taxes on the wealthy — a politically clever alternative to progressive tax hikes.
Eliminating the burden of income taxes is an exciting proposition, due to savings not just in money but in man-hours — the time spent anguishing over ledgers, forms and receipts. In 2024, according to the Tax Foundation, Americans spent 7.9 billion hours complying with IRS tax filing and reporting requirements. That is equivalent to 3.8 million full-time workers—roughly the population of Los Angeles — doing nothing but tax paperwork for the full year.
The question is, can tariffs and DOGE replace income taxes? If not, how else could the government fund itself? Is a growing debt bubble that is now carrying a $1.2 trillion interest tab, which must continue to expand just to sustain itself, the only alternative?
How Eliminating Middle Class Taxes Would Affect the BudgetIn a March 21 article titled “Ending Taxes Below $150,000 Would Lose $10 to $15 Trillion,” the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget concludes:
Even if enacted in a targeted manner, we estimate such a change would reduce revenue by roughly $10 trillion through 2035 if applied to income taxes only and $15 trillion if applied to employee-side payroll taxes as well. …
If enacted relative to current law, ending taxes on income below $150,000 would boost debt by $12 to $18 trillion with interest, increasing debt-to-GDP to between 145 and 160 percent – compared to 118 percent under current law.… Importantly, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said the proposal would be contingent on achieving budget balance first.
Dividing the $10 trillion lost over 10 years (2025–2035) gives a $1 trillion loss per year on average, though there may be year-to-year variations. Trump’s team proposes to offset this loss with savings from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and new tariff revenues, but the math doesn’t look good.
The Prospects from Tariffs and DOGEElon Musk’s DOGE has identified significant areas of federal “waste, fraud and abuse,” but the program was originally projected to save $2 trillion by slashing misused funds. At Trump’s cabinet meeting on April 10, Musk said he expects the agency to find $150 billion in savings in fiscal year 2026, a number significantly lower than even the $1 trillion he said in February he was confident DOGE would find.
Tariffs remain Trump’s primary funding mechanism. He has frequently referenced the 19th century, when there was no income tax, and tariffs were the principal source of revenue for the U.S. government. In his Liberation Day speech on April 2, he said,
“From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.”
Trump’s particular hero is Pres. William McKinley, whose 1890 tariff of nearly 50% was a high point of the tariff policy.
The problem is that in the 19th century, the U.S. government had far fewer costs. Among other expenses, there was no Social Security, no Medicare and no trillion dollar interest to be paid to investors.
As originally proposed, Trump’s tariffs included a 10–20% universal tariff and up to 60% on Chinese imports. At that rate, the Tax Foundation estimated that the tariffs could raise $1 trillion over a decade ($100 billion/year) after accounting for reduced imports, while the Tax Policy Center put the figure as high as $2.8 trillion ($280 billion/year).
These projections remain speculative, since the results of the trade deals being negotiated are yet to be reported. On April 30, the president stated that negotiations had already resulted in $8 trillion in promised investment in U.S. production, an impressive number, but investments take several years to manifest as new tax income.
For the near term, DOGE cuts at $150 billion per year and tariffs estimated at $280 billion per year would cover less than half the trillion dollar loss projected from middle-class tax cuts. And that is without touching the $1.9 trillion deficit already projected by the Congressional Budget Office, something Commerce Sec. Lutnick said would have to be eliminated before income tax relief could be considered.
How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap. U.S. Debt is Now $36 Trillion!The Elephant in the RoomEven if new trade deals manage to cover the full deficit, the unprecedented federal debt will continue to loom. Currently standing at $36.21 trillion, the debt comes with interest payments projected to hit $1.2 trillion in 2025. That works out to $3.3 billion per day. In effect, all of our middle-class income taxes are being spent just to pay interest to bondholders, foreign and domestic.
Interest costs are expected to rise from 9% of federal revenue in 2021 to 23% by 2034, crowding out federal priorities like infrastructure and healthcare. And that assumes bond buyers keep rolling over the debt at current rates. For FY 2025, an estimated $9.2 trillion — fully a quarter of the debt — will come due and need to be refinanced. What if foreign countries, which hold approximately 30% of the debt, decide to invest elsewhere?
The most efficient to fill the trillion dollar hole left in the budget if middle-class income taxes are eliminated might be to take an axe to the trillion dollar interest tab and the federal debt sustaining it. But how?
Even Quantitative Easing Won’t Work to Eliminate the Interest BurdenMany economists think new rounds of quantitative easing (QE) are necessary, as the only way to keep Treasury interest rates low. QE is a maneuver by which Treasury debt is purchased by the Federal Reserve with newly issued bank reserves. The debt could theoretically be eliminated by having the Fed buy the securities as they come due. Assuming $9.2 trillion in debt maturing annually, the whole debt could be moved onto the books of the Fed in about four years, and since the Fed is required to rebate its profits to the Treasury after deducting its costs, this could theoretically eliminate the interest burden. But there are two wrinkles:
(1) The Fed is not allowed to buy federal securities directly from the Treasury. It primarily conducts its open market operations, including QE Treasury purchases, through primary dealers, a select group of large financial institutions designated by the Fed to act as its counterparties in the open market.
(2) Ever since 2008, the Fed has been paying interest on the banks’ reserve balances (IORB), which counts in the costs it deducts from the profits it returns to the Treasury. The rate on IORB set by the Fed is 4.4% as of May 2, 2025, while the average interest rate on the federal debt is approximately 3.3% for the fiscal year-to-date 2025.
Thus if the Fed were to buy $9.2 trillion in federal securities this year, it would receive $9.2 trillion × 3.3% in interest but would have to pay IORB on the same $9.2 trillion at 4.4% to the banks, a net loss to the Fed. In effect, the banks would be receiving the interest rather than the Treasury, unless a couple of laws were changed, and changing them would no doubt meet with heavy resistance from the powerful banking lobby.
Why, you may ask, does the Fed feel it needs to pay interest on bank reserves? Good question. It’s a monetary policy tool designed to curb inflation by setting a floor on the fed funds rate, the rate at which banks lend to each other. Since banks won’t lend at rates lower than they can safely earn from the Fed, it’s a way to keep interest rates high. But the result has been that the banks have simply reduced their lending. Why lend to risky local businesses when they can sit back and collect a safe and ample return from the Fed itself?
It’s a controversial windfall to the banks, to support an interest rate that is itself controversial. But the bottom line is that the Fed is not able to bail out the government from its trillion dollar interest tab. What then is to be done?
A Radical Alternative Whose Time Has ComeGiven the president’s predilection for 19th century economics, he could go a bit further back than to President McKinley. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, avoided a crippling national debt by resorting to the funding mechanism of the American colonists: let the government print the money directly, not through a banker-controlled central bank but through the Treasury. The government could buy back its debt with U.S. Notes or “Greenbacks,” as permitted under the Constitution (Article I, Section 8) and declared legal by the Supreme Court. These new currencies could then be used to repurchase maturing Treasury securities debt- and interest-free.
Critics will cry “hyperinflation,” arguing that the newly-issued currency would flood the economy, spiking demand and prices. But if new money is directed to productive investments — for example infrastructure, energy, and healthcare — supply and demand will rise together, stabilizing prices. The Chinese demonstrated this in the 25 years from 1996 to 2025, when their domestic money supply was inflated from 4,840 CNY (Chinese yuan) to 320,526 CNY, or by 5500%; yet the price level remained stable and low. For a fuller explanation with data, see my earlier article here.
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Image of one dollar “Greenback”, first issued in 1862 (Public Domain)
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To ensure that the Greenbacks finance growth, a national infrastructure bank could channel funds into projects such as affordable housing, high-speed rail, broadband, the power grid and large water and transportation projects. China is again the modern model. It has three giant “policy banks” assigned to implement the policies of the government, including China Development Bank, the world’s largest infrastructure and development bank. A U.S. version could prioritize projects with high economic returns, vetted by transparent, DOGE-like algorithms to prevent waste and cronyism.
We desperately need infrastructure funding, and the current federal budget has no room to adequately address those needs. A viable proposal for a national infrastructure bank, H.R. 4052, currently has 47 cosponsors. The bank would use off-budget financing on the model of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the federal financial agency that rebuilt the country’s infrastructure during the banking crisis of the 1930s. For more information, see the NIB Coalition website.
For state and city governments, public banks on the model of the Bank of North Dakota could address local infrastructure needs. See my earlier article here and the Public Banking Institute website.
Prosperity Without DebtIt has been argued that “just printing the money” would jeopardize the federal government’s credit rating. Perhaps, but we wouldn’t need credit if we could create our own, debt-free. To repeat an editorial directed against Lincoln’s debt-free Greenbacks attributed to the 1865 London Times, which may be apocryphal but nevertheless demonstrates the possibilities:
If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.
Lincoln’s Greenback policy was indeed destroyed, along with the president who dared to implement it. But the U.S. government is powerful enough today to pull that “mischievous financial policy” off. A Greenback-funded debt buyback could offer a way to pay down debt without interest costs, while spurring growth through targeted investments monitored through a national infrastructure bank and local public banks to absorb demand productively. In several years, the whole $1.2 trillion interest tab could be slashed from the budget, making our trillion dollar middle-class income tax payments that barely cover that expense unnecessary.
The full budget could even be funded with Treasury-issued Greenbacks, eliminating the need for taxes at all. DOGE has demonstrated the possibilities for monitoring the government’s expenditures transparently and accountably with artificial intelligence.
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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/president-trump-proposal-eliminate-income-taxes/5886578
Health Secretary RFK Jr. to End COVID Vaccine Recommendations for Children, Teens, and Pregnant Women
By Jim Hoft
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., long demonized by the corporate media and Big Tech for daring to question vaccine safety, now finds himself at the helm of one of the most powerful agencies in the federal government — and he’s using that power to protect America’s most vulnerable.
The HHS is reportedly going to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendations for routine COVID-19 vaccinations for children, teenagers, and pregnant women, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This decision reflects the Trump administration’s commitment to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.
On Monday, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary revealed that the agency is actively re-evaluating the inclusion of COVID-19 shots on the childhood vaccination schedule
Appearing on The Charlie Kirk Show, Dr. Makary said the FDA would not be rubber-stamping another round of COVID boosters for young, healthy children, stating unequivocally: “That evidence does not exist.”
“I’d love to see the evidence to show that giving young, healthy children another COVID shot, a sixth COVID booster, would help them. But that evidence does not exist. And so we’re not just going to rubber stamp things at the FDA,” Makary said.
He continued, “I know they are trying to review all of the scientific data. And guess what? There’s no data, there’s no good COVID-19 randomized control data, that the current version, the latest formulation of the COVID shot, is necessary for young healthy children.”
Makary hinted that both the FDA and CDC are quietly backing away from aggressive COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children, especially as nations across Europe have already abandoned the practice for this age group.
“Other countries have already recommended against it. Other leading countries in Europe have recommended against it for young, healthy children. So I think you’re going to see a look at this and you’re going to hear something forthcoming.”
Now, it is being reported that the Kennedy-led HHS is expected to scrap routine recommendations for children, teenagers, and pregnant women to receive the controversial COVID jabs.
RFK Jr. has long warned of the risks posed by mRNA vaccines, particularly for young and healthy populations, citing insufficient long-term safety data and concerning side effects like myocarditis in adolescents.
The WSJ reported:
The Trump administration is planning to drop recommendations that pregnant women, teenagers and children get Covid-19 vaccines as a matter of routine, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Department of Health and Human Services, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is expected to remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups around the same time it launches a new framework for approving vaccines, the people said.
The exact timing of the announcement wasn’t clear, the people said, though it was expected in the coming days.
The CDC currently recommends that everyone six months and older, including pregnant women, receive Covid vaccines. It wasn’t clear if the department is planning to remove the recommendation for Covid shots entirely for those groups, or just suggest that patients talk with their doctors about risks and benefits.
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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/good-news-health-secretary-rfk-jr-end-covid/
Israel turns to facial recognition to restrict Palestinian access to aid
Palestinians cross a biometric gate as they enter into Israel at the Qalandia crossing in al-Quds.
Press TV
The Israeli regime has approved a scheme allowing the use of advanced facial recognition technology to “screen” the Palestinians in need of humanitarian aid.
Media reports said Israeli cabinet members had agreed to slap new restrictions on the distribution of humanitarian aid and food supplies to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, including mandatory facial recognition.
“Palestinians would be coming to these places, registered and screened through facial recognition technology. They’d pick up parcels for their family,” news outlets NPR reported, citing an Israeli official.
“It’s actually part of a bigger strategy to get Palestinian civilians to move en masse to a smaller, more consolidated area of Gaza so that the military can expand the territory that it’s taking over in Gaza,” added the report.
A Sweden-based human rights group strongly slammed the plan, noting that it is a “dangerous shift from traditional humanitarian organizations to for-profit companies controlling aid distribution.”
“It is not merely a change in how aid is delivered, but rather an oppressive transaction, forcing Palestinians to surrender their biometric data—such as facial and iris scans—in exchange for essential aid like food, water, and medical care,” the Skyline International for Human Rights (SIHR) said in a Thursday report.
“What’s being presented as humanitarian relief is, in reality, a system of mass surveillance,” it said, adding, “Gaza’s civilian population—already subjected to years of surveillance—now faces a new phase of techno-dystopian experimentation, one that seeks to divide the territory into digitally enforced zones of control and entrench surveillance deeper into the ongoing blockade.”
Microsoft collaborates with Israel, deeply embroiled in Gaza genocideThe New York Times had reported earlier this year that the Israeli regime was already using facial recognition technology purchased from private Israeli company Corsight, as well as Google Photos.
However, the Israeli-made technology failed to do its job, the NYT report added.
The United Nations has condemned the latest Israeli move, criticizing the added restrictions against the Palestinians. UNICEF spokesman James Elder said it “contravenes basic humanitarian principles” and is designed to “reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic.”
The world body has repeatedly warned of a man-made famine across the entirety of Gaza if the Israeli regime forces continue to block aid to the Palestinian land.
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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/16/748022/Israel-facial-recognition-screen-Palestinians-aid
Yemen Launches Third Hyperonic Strike on Tel Aviv Airport in 24 Hours
Yemeni military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree delivers a televised statement broadcast from Sana’a, Yemen, on May 15, 2025. (Photo via social media)
Press TV
The spokesperson for the Yemeni armed forces has announced a missile attack on Ben Gurion International Airport in the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for Yemen’s military, stated on Thursday night that Yemeni missile units targeted Ben Gurion airport, located 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the southeast of Tel Aviv, with a homegrown hypersonic ballistic missile.
Saree noted that the retaliatory strike attained its desired objectives successfully, sending hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers into shelters.
He emphasized that Yemeni armed forces, together with the country’s freedom-loving nation, consider it a religious, moral, and humanitarian responsibility to demonstrate solidarity with Gazans in light of unfolding developments in the region, the daily massacre of ordinary people there, the weeks-long aid blockade, and the inaction of Muslim states.
The senior Yemeni military official stated the country will continue to beef up and expand their military operations until the bloody aggression against Yemen stops, and the crippling siege on Palestinians in the coastal sliver is completely lifted.
Yemeni Armed Forces, for that sake, will impose a complete aerial blockade on Ben Gurion International Airport, and will continue to prevent Israeli-linked ships from navigating in the Red and Arabian Seas, Saree pointed out.
As the genocidal war on Gaza escalated, the Yemenis enacted a strategic blockade on essential maritime routes to obstruct the delivery of military supplies to Israel and urge the international community to take action regarding the ongoing humanitarian emergency in Gaza.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have declared they will continue their assaults until Israel ceases its ground and aerial offensives in Gaza.
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May 15, 2025
Trump Sends Aid To Gaza. Israel Will Not Distribute It.
Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBy Kassy Akiva
Trump advances Gaza aid plan using private firms, as Israel provides security but does not help with distribution.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced on Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing forward with his plans to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Speaking at a press conference outside the embassy in Jerusalem, Huckabee said that private firms, not Israel, would be tasked with distributing the aid.
“President Trump has made very clear that one of the most urgent things that needs to happen is humanitarian aid into Gaza,” Huckabee said. “President Trump wants food distributed in Gaza safely and efficiently.”
Israel will be involved in providing military security but will not be tasked with bringing the food into Gaza or distributing it, Huckabee said.
“Their role will remain on the perimeter as is necessary to make sure that those who are bringing the food in and distributing the food are kept safe and out of harm’s way in the midst of a war zone,” the ambassador said.
According to Huckabee, Israel is “supportive” of the plan.
“The Israelis are supportive of this program, they want it to happen, but they are not operating it,” Huckabee said. “That’s important because there are some entities that would not want to participate if they thought it was an IDF operation.”
The announcement drew criticism from Israelis who say the move undermines Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian deliveries in March in order to prevent Hamas from stealing and profiting from the goods, and to pressure the terror group to release the 59 remaining hostages.
“The next factor is that all of this be done in a way where Hamas cannot get its hands on it,” Huckabee said. “Nobody is interested in helping Hamas because Hamas has taken food that was intended to help very desperate citizens and stolen it from them, sold it on the black market, and then took the money to buy weaponry to murder more people.”
Huckabee added that the aid mission is not a condition of any possible ceasefire deals and that it “will not depend on anything other than our ability to get the food into Gaza.”
Several partners will be included in the operation, including both governments and NGOs with several already agreeing to be involved. Huckabee declined to name the partners because their exact involvement is still being determined.
“There has been a good initial response,” he said. “There are nonprofit organizations that will be a part of the leadership.”
Huckabee said that the plan is a “logistical challenge” and will “not be perfect in the early days,” adding that more details will be revealed in days to come.
The plan so far includes delivering food in a way that attempts to keep Hamas from taking control of it by creating distribution centers that could initially feed “perhaps over a million people” before being beefed up to feed the entire population.
On Sunday, Israel approved an expanded ground operation plan that includes plans to conquer and retain more areas of the Gaza Strip. The plan, named “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” will go into effect if Hamas fails to make an agreement with Israel by the end of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East next week, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates from May 13 to 16, the second foreign trip of his second term.
[…]Via https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-humanitarian-aid-delivered-gazaThe Most Revolutionary Act
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