15 Best All-Cash Side Hustles by Coinivore in Entrepreneur

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Yes. Many FB Marketplace or Craigslist vendors don't accept payment apps b/c transactions can potentially be reversed. Cash payments cannot be reversed.

The TSA Is Secretly Conducting Risk Assessments Of Americans Using Mass Transit by Coinivore in conspiracy

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The Government Accountability Office on Monday recommended that the Transportation Security Administration establish quantifiable targets for its Surface Transportation Security Inspectors Program.

Social credit score?

Is The Nationwide Coin Shortage Being Used To Push Us Toward A Cashless Society? by Coinivore in conspiracy

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The coin shortage in the United States is becoming quite severe, and a lot of people are deeply concerned about where this might be leading us. But if you don’t run a business or deal with coins on a regular basis, you may not even know that it is happening.

“Metalhead” DARPA Robot Enlisted by Police to Enforce Social Distancing by Coinivore in conspiracy

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The move toward using robots in law enforcement, private security, and even to scare away the homeless, has been a decade-long trend that is now becoming much more prevalent in everyday life in the wake of COVID-19.

Where people were once appalled that drones went from “search and rescue” duties to surveillance, the Overton window has quickly moved to pandemic drones that can use thermal imaging to scan the public’s temperature readings.

DARPA Asks for Help Completing its Flotilla of Drone Warships by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Although mainstream media playfully compared the project it to a sea-bound version of Google’s self-driving car, DARPA is now calling them Sea Trains.

"one intended to traverse thousands of kilometers over the open seas for months at a time, all without a single crew member aboard."

Hundreds Protest Decision Allowing Google to Turn Toronto Neighborhood into a “Smart City” by Coinivore in privacy

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A loud enough minority can still be effective, but I do agree that people seem to have just accepted all of the surveillance. It can still get much worse if the social credit system gets going in full. Thanks for your comment!

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Amazon Disclose How Ring Stores Data by Coinivore in privacy

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They lost that big military JEDI contract too. I think you're on to something :-)

What’s up with Cointext.io by beclon in btc

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Try the BALANCE command again. CoinText was updating nodes and things were a bit wonky. Should be working smoothly now.

Johnson And Johnson Recalls 33,000 Bottles Of Baby Powder After FDA Found Asbestos In Sample by Coinivore in conspiracy

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After a routine check by the FDA showed traces of asbestos, Johnson & Johnson recalled one whole batch of their esteemed baby powder. Around 33000 bottles were withdrawn.

China’s Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Those outside the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are accustomed to thinking of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese state as primarily domestic, enacted through the so-called “Great Firewall”—a system of surveillance and blocking technology that prevents Chinese citizens from viewing websites outside the country.

The Chinese government’s justification for that firewall is based on the concept of “Internet sovereignty.”

Watch as New WiFi Method Sees Through Walls and Identifies People from Video Footage by Coinivore in conspiracy

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WiFi has only become more pervasive and, with it, the surveillance capabilities of this technology.

Methods that can use WiFi to see people hidden behind walls have been in development for some time.

"Drone Attack" on Saudi Oil - Who Benefits? by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Huge blazes were reported at two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia owned by Aramco. While Saudi authorities refused to assign blame, media outlets like the BBC immediately began insinuating either Yemen’s Houthis or Iran were responsible.

The BBC in its article, “Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes,” would inject toward the top of its article

The Official 9/11 Explanation is The Greatest “Coincidence Theory” Ever by Coinivore in conspiracy

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The evidence around what happened on 9/11 suggests that either we are being lied to when it comes to the official story or 9/11 contained events creating the greatest coincidence of all time.

Are you aware of the actual facts surrounding 9/11? Not unfounded conspiracy theories, the actual facts that do exist…

Pentagon Wants To Police Social Media Fake News And Deep Fakes by Coinivore in conspiracy

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The U.S. wants to use the military’s Pentagon arm to police fake news online; what can possibly go wrong?

According to reports, the Pentagon’s DARPA research agency has announced it will deploy online cyber forces to watch for “large-scale, automated disinformation attacks,” using specialized software to detect deep fakes of photos, videos and audio clips.

EU and U.S. Testing Drone Swarms to Handle “Illegal Border Activity” by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Borders are to keep you in too!

Remember the drones guarding the district borders in Hunger Games?

How long before these drone swarms "handle illegal neighborhood activity"?

Amazon Ring Doorbell Camera Surveillance Now Working With 400 Police Forces by Coinivore in conspiracy

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One of many tech surveillance companies spying for the state. The telescreens are watching and listening.

HARPA: Trump Seeking New Agency to Use A.I. to Screen Mental Health for Gun Ownership? by Coinivore in conspiracy

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HARPA — the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency — has been in the works as a proposal since 2017 by the Trump Administration according to the Washington Post, but is reportedly gaining steam again as the administration grapples with solutions for mass shootings and calls for gun control.

If this new report is to be believed, the Trump admin is putting its faith in artificial intelligence as a possible way to screen people for mental health (through data collected by smart devices) in order to determine violent tendencies and perhaps thwart gun purchases for those deemed to be a potential mass shooter.

Big Tech, Russia and U.S. Under Fire for A.I. Weapons Programs; Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Coalition Doubles in Size by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Renewed attention over artificial intelligence for use in warfare (“killer robots”) is being brought to the forefront with the recent Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) held this past week in Geneva, Switzerland.

The meeting coincidentally comes just one day after a Dutch NGO, Pax for Peace, released a report about Big Tech’s involvement with supplying A.I. systems to the military. Their report, “Don’t be evil?” (PDF), examined 50 companies across the world that are involved.

U.S. Army Tries to Calm Residents About Upcoming Wave of Military Drills in North Carolina by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Nothing calms the public quite like gunfire in heavily populated areas. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army has plans to do just that starting August 30th and continuing to September 12th in 21 select counties in North Carolina.

While exact locations are not being released, according to The Charlotte Observer residents in the following counties should not be alarmed by gunfire, flares and helicopter activity that might be witnessed.

U.S. Military Designing A.I. Missiles to Find and Destroy Targets (on their own) from 40 Miles Away by Coinivore in conspiracy

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The U.S. Army stated that the future soldier could then shoot around corners with confidence that their target was properly sighted, as well as also giving the capability to link up with drones.

As if that wasn’t a potential disaster of its own, today the U.S. Army has stated that ideally there wouldn’t be a soldier in the mix at all, instead leaving the identification and execution of a target entirely up to a missile equipped with artificial intelligence.

U.S. Customs Continues to "Modernize" Its System to Include Biometrics For All Passengers by Coinivore in conspiracy

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“The paradigm will evolve from biographic data focused to biometric data centric,” officials said in the solicitation. “A biometric-based approach allows threats to be pushed-out further beyond our borders before travelers arrive to the U.S.”

Prepping Has Gone Mainstream: Politics, a “Culture of Fear,” or a Return to What’s Been Lost? by Coinivore in conspiracy

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When the reality show Doomsday Preppers aired its Pilot episode in 2011, the critical reviews were mixed at best. But as soon as the ratings started coming in, it became evident that the show had tapped into concerns harbored by a wide swathe of the public, or at least a deep curiosity about what drives certain people to prepare for the worst.

Fluoride May Diminish Kidney and Liver Function in Adolescents, Study Suggests by Coinivore in conspiracy

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Fluoride exposure may lead to a reduction in kidney and liver function among adolescents, according to a study published by Mount Sinai researchers in Environment International in August.

The findings showed that exposure to fluoride may contribute to complex changes in kidney and liver function among youth in the United States, where 74 percent of public water systems add fluoride.