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⚡️⚠️ ALERT - Graphic : Horrific images from the ongoing massacre that targeted civilians and displaced people in the western area of Gaza that killed 7 people, including this child seen lying in his own blood.

Images of the situation in Gaza are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, with more than 240 journalists killed by Israeli air strikes.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇲 NEW - Benjamin Netanyahu tells Donald Trump's supporters they 'can't be MAGA' unless they support Israel

⚡️🃏🇫🇷 NEW - Emmanuel Macron promotes a Yu-Gi-Oh card tournament... at a time when the country is going through a budget crisis.

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⚡️🚨 FYI - Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.

This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.

The name of this Israeli app was Onavo.

It promised to “secure your data” and reduce mobile data usage.

When Facebook bought it in 2013, Zuck said the app would help them connect more people to the internet.

Facebook even promised to keep Onavo running as a standalone brand.

But Onavo operated as a VPN that routed all your phone's internet traffic through Facebook's servers before sending it anywhere else.

Facebook could see:

• Every app you opened

• How long you used it

• Which websites you visited

• And at what time you used each app

What did this mean for Facebook?

It meant that Zuck could see exactly which one of Facebook's competitor was growing popular among people.

Look how Facebook was tracking these apps (revealed in the court later)

By 2016, this data revealed Snapchat was exploding in popularity.

But there was one problem: Snapchat's traffic was encrypted, so Facebook couldn't see how people were using it.

In an email, Zuck says:

It seems important to figure out a way to get reliable analytics about them

Facebook's started "Project Ghostbusters" - named after Snapchat's ghost logo.

They would use "man-in-the-middle" attacks to break Snapchat's encryption.

Within a month, Facebook's engineers built "kits" that could intercept Snapchat's data before it got encrypted.

Facebook created custom client & server side code based on Onavo’s VPN proxy app.

This code included a client-side “kit” that installed a root certificate on Snapchat users’ mobile devices.

Then Facebook’s servers created fake digital certificates to impersonate Snapchat analytics servers to redirect & decrypt secure traffic from those apps to Facebook.

Seeing Snapchat's success, Zuckerberg offered to buy it for $3 billion.

But when Snap's CEO refused the offer, Facebook launched Snap's most famous feature on Instagram - Stories.

But this wasn't just about Snapchat.

Facebook used Onavo to systematically monitor Houseparty, YouTube, Amazon, and dozens of other apps.

Any rising competitor was identified, analyzed, and neutralized.

Apple forced Onavo off the App Store for violating privacy rules.

So Facebook rebranded it as "Facebook Research" and started paying teens $20/month to install it on their phones.

When Apple found out, they revoked Facebook's certificates, breaking ALL of Facebook's iOS apps.

Onavo shows how Big Tech weaponizes our trust.

33 million people installed privacy protection that was actually the most sophisticated corporate surveillance tool ever built.

I'm posting all the screenshots as comments.

I didn’t know you were on Nostr it was 2 months ago now. Sorry 🤝

⚡️🎬🍿 NEW - Pixar’s current movie slate:

• Hoppers — March ‘26

• Toy Story 5 — June ‘26

• Gatto — June ‘27

• Incredibles 3

• Coco 2

⚡️🚨 NEW - Elon Musk's xAI sues Chinese engineer Xuechen Li for allegedly uploading Grok's codebase to OpenAI after being hired by them, then selling $7 million in xAI shares.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - David Sacks: “[Jerome Powell] went along with this whole ‘transitory’ narrative to get re-nominated by Biden … and it's the only reason he's in the job right now. It caused an asset bubble in 2021, and it caused the 9% inflation that we had the following year.”

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - John Brennan expresses his concerns on a chilling message sent to the CIA, where employees worry about their future in the face of an administration using the institutions for its personal agenda, thus weakening the agency in his view.

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Former President Bill Clinton is sparking health concerns after being spotted in the Hamptons with what appeared to be a portable defibrillator — Fox News

⚡️🚨🇫🇷 ALERT - A massive outage is hitting several French banks, including Crédit Mutuel, CIC, Crédit Agricole, and Société Générale: card payments and withdrawals are IMPOSSIBLE. Toll booths are JAMMED with holiday traffic, and card terminals are showing declined payments.

⚡️🏃‍♂️🇨🇳 NEW - Chinese runner Yu Biao raised the Palestinian flag at the finish line of the “OCC” race, part of the UTMB events, covering his mouth in protest against the silence over the massacres in Gaza.

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⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - PayPal is now banning accounts for buying explicit e-books.

⚡️👀 SEE IT - Gold vs. Bitcoin: A visual snapshot of gold’s shifting value measured in Bitcoin, highlighting the evolving dynamics between traditional and digital stores of value.

⚡️🇨🇳🐈 NEW - A Chinese man has built an entire town for his cats, says it’s worth it because it makes his son happy.

YouTuber Xing Zhilei has built an entire town for his cats which includes a supermarket, a theater, a spa, a parking garage, a Cybertruck and a working subway system.

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Calley Means: “There is a memo going around at the CDC, and throughout HHS, about how to subvert President Trump and how to subvert Secretary Kennedy. They are saying we are going to outlast them.”

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⚡️💬 ARCHIVE - Climate activist argues it's selfish and immoral to have children because of the "carbon" they will emit over their lifetimes.

"Every single child in an industrial country like ours is around 500 tonnes of carbon over their lifetime. That's the equivalent of 1000 years of electricity for a household. So each child has an impact."

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⚡️📈🇺🇸 ALERT - US M2 money supply hits a new all-time high of $22.1 TRILLION

The rise in the US money supply is ACCELERATING

US M2 money supply jumped 4.8% year-over-year in July, to $22.1 TRILLION, an all-time high.

By comparison, the March 2022 record was $21.86 trillion

For perspective, the 2000-2025 annual growth rate has been 6.3%.

⚡️🇵🇹 NEW - President of Portugal on Trump:

"The leader of the world's greatest superpower is objectively a Soviet or Russian asset. He functions as an asset."

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Eric Trump says, “There is no question #Bitcoin hits a million dollars.”

“Everyone is buying Bitcoin”

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As long as the limits are not crossed. Let's continue to respect our elders, because there's no telling how we'll be a

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Judas' new gameplay trailer from BioShock Infinite creator Ken Levine's new game.

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Makary: “We removed the Emergency Use Authorization for COVID vaccines which will eliminate the possibility of doing mandates in young healthy subjects. Mandates are no longer legally possible.”

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⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - "The situation is extremely serious. France has never been so close to a financial abyss” — said the country's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau

Retailleau noted that "54% of French national debt is held by foreign holders," emphasizing that this is no longer just an economic problem, but a matter of national independence and sovereignty.

⚡️🗣️ NEW - Jack Mallers says Bitcoin is a $500 TRILLION asset in the making.

That's a 200x from here.

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⚡️🚨 NEW - For the first time in nearly 30 years, foreign Central banks hold more gold than Treasuries.

The world is turning away from fiat and towards hard money.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The European Union is proposing to remove all tariffs on US industrial products by the end of the week in response to Donald Trump's demands, according to Bloomberg.

⚡️🎙️ WATCH - Dave Smith: "We would put an end to wars if they tried to raise everybody's taxes enough to come up with $10 trillion (89,133,709 BTC) … So they just print the money and then essentially what happens is that the price of everything just goes up and up."

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⚡️🔎 NEW - Bitcoin ETFs now hold more Bitcoin than the major exchanges.

⚡️ MORE - In an interview with WELT TV in the context of the military conscription debate, CDU defense politician Kiesewetter said, "the incentive could be to obtain German citizenship after military service."

⚡️🚨🇩🇪 ALERT - Germany to introduce "mandatory medical examination" for 18-year-old men to "regain control" over who the country's military can draft in "an emergency," Bild reports.

⚡️🎙️ WATCH - Did you know the EU plans to launch its digital currency, the digital euro, in October 2025?

"This will give those in control the power to make people do less harmful things, like eating meat, buying petrol, or not complying with the government."

"Or make privacy go bye-bye by making it possible to monitor everything you do, and perhaps connect it to a social credit system."

"Luckily, a similar system has been tested in China, and they are very happy with the amount of control it has given them over their slaves."

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⚡️🚨 NEW - Blackrock Buys 413 BTC

Now holds 745,600 Bitcoin