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Remember when the intelligence community in the US was collecting endless phone data from its citizens for unknown use. This makes that program look like playing with crayons.
Maajid Nawaz from Italy on the Pope's encyclical address warning about Ai:
“Peter Thiel’s Palantir as a company, using the UK as a case study, already has, due to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, already has contracts to manage the nation’s, all of the nation’s health data unified on one platform and that health data being interpreted as it is by Palantir’s autonomous AI, making life and death decisions on the nation’s health. Palantir also separately has a contract with the Metropolitan Police using a combination of not just facial recognition but predictive programming to determine crime and to set the police’s priorities. This is something that, they already have this deal with the Metropolitan Police, but in addition, if you add Palantir’s contracts with the Ministry of Defence in the UK, like it has in the Department of Defence in the United States of America, you can see how a combination of health data, domestic crime surveillance and foreign war-mongering, being all under the auspices of one private company called Palantir, in the UK and in the US, it’s the same, it is a particularly worrying scenario.”
Remember Jim Caviezel's 'Person of Interest'? That was predictive programming. Remember the government were the bad guys in that series. I have no reason to believe it will be otherwise in real life.
Boeing dodges criminal charge over 737 MAX crashes that killed 346
The conspiracy conviction could have made the aerospace giant ineligible for US government contracts
A federal judge in Texas has granted the US government’s request to dismiss a conspiracy charge against Boeing stemming from two fatal 737 MAX crashes that together resulted in 346 fatalities, an outcome critics say spares the aerospace company from full criminal accountability.
Under the agreement announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Boeing will pay approximately $1.1 billion in fines, compensation for victims’ families, and investments in safety improvements – in exchange for avoiding prosecution on a charge that it defrauded regulators by misleading them about key flight control software.
Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas approved the dismissal on Thursday, ruling that the government had not acted in bad faith and had met its obligations under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act – even as he expressed serious concern about the deal’s lack of a provision which would subject Boeing to independent monitoring.
The controversy dates back to the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019 – both tied to the 737 MAX’s faulty MCAS flight control system. The two tragedies prompted a 20-month grounding of the aircraft and increased scrutiny of the company, including whistleblower allegations and suspicious deaths.
In 2021, Boeing entered a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) after admitting to defrauding the Federal Aviation Administration during the 737 MAX certification process.
Boeing paid about $243.6 million in criminal penalties and more than $1.7 billion in related settlements at that time. However, in 2024, the DOJ found that Boeing had violated the terms of the DPA by failing to implement a proper compliance and ethics program.
The dismissal ensures that Boeing avoids the felony conviction that could have jeopardized its status as a government contractor, although civil lawsuits from crash victims continue to move forward.
Victims’ families have previously criticized the deal as “morally repugnant,” arguing that it allows Boeing to avoid true criminal responsibility despite the gravity of the crashes. Their attorney has vowed to appeal the decision.
Boeing and the DOJ insist that the financial settlement and promised reforms serve the public interest and bring closure to a complex case whose outcome might otherwise have been uncertain.
Leslyn Lewis warns: BlackRock CEO joins globalist WEF’s leadership team
Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is sounding the alarm after the World Economic Forum tapped BlackRock CEO Larry Fink as an interim co-chair of its board of directors.
Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is sounding the alarm after the World Economic Forum tapped BlackRock CEO Larry Fink as an interim co-chair of its board of directors.
Fink, who is a key proponent of stakeholder capitalism will co-chair the globalist organization alongside Roche Holding’s vice-chair Andre Hoffman.
The globalist elite forum announced Friday that an investigation into alleged mismanagement of funds from the WEF’s founder Klaus Schwab yielded no evidence, clearing Schwab and his wife Hilde of accusations of wrongdoing.
“Minor irregularities, stemming from blurred lines between personal contributions and Forum operations, reflect deep commitment rather than intent of misconduct,” the WEF said in a statement. “The Board has taken action to address all issues identified throughout the investigation, including strengthening the governance in general.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney is a regular speaker at the elite Davos conference, which champions environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. ESG promotes ranking private companies on social and environmental responsibility, often charging significant fees for assessments.
At the time the investigation was launched Schwab resigned as the chair of the WEF Board of Trustees and the vice chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the former CEO of Nestlé, was appointed chairman in the interim.
Following the WEF’s findings, Brabeck-Letmathe will no longer serve as the interim chairman. The WEF instead appointed Fink and Hoffman as interim co-chairs.
Fink is the CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management organization, which manages assets for governments, central banks, and the private sector.
“This moment marks a pivotal transition for the World Economic Forum. The board will now focus its attention on institutionalizing the forum as a resilient international organization for public-private cooperation,” the WEF statement said. “This next chapter will be guided by the original mission developed by Klaus Schwab: Bringing together government, business and civil society to improve the state of the world.”
In a co-authored statement, Fink and Hoffman said the world needs the WEF now more than ever.
“We remain optimistic. The forum has an opportunity to help drive international collaboration in a way that not only generates prosperity but distributes it more broadly,” the statement read. “This renewed vision can promote open markets and national priorities side by side, while advancing the interests of workers and stakeholders globally.”
Lewis, who has a history of targeting global entities such as the WEF and World Health Organization, criticized the new appointees, raising concerns about what their involvement could mean for the global economy.
In a post on X, Lewis said the WEF’s announcement that it will blend finance, sustainability, and digital innovation more than ever before was cause for alarm.
“BlackRock manages trillions in global assets, so there are strong financial assets steering WEF’s agenda,” Lewis said in the post. “Fink is a champion of Environmental Social Governance & climate finance, which aligns with WEF’s stated world goals. “
Lewis also noted BlackRock has pushed for crypto and digital assets. She predicted blockchain and tokenization would become more prominent on the “Davos agenda.”
