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Nearly two dozen critically ill children were evacuated from the ravaged Gaza Strip and brought to Egypt for medical treatment on June 27. unicornriot.ninja/2024/critica...
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Two men's cases - Bobo & Ferguson - prosecuted for murder & given life in prison when Amy Klobuchar was Hennepin County Attorney, have striking similarities to two others recently freed from their wrongful convictions & life sentences, Myon Burrell & Marvin Haynes.
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Energy Transfer Has Appealed to the MN Supreme Court After Unicorn Riot’s Win in Appeals Court 🚨
Continuing its three-plus year quest to have the courts force UR to hand over documents, oil company Energy Transfer filed an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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Unicorn Riot was covering the July 3, 2020 protest live. You can watch our 4.5-hour long stream here: unicornriot.ninja/2020/over-10...
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Four years ago yesterday, over 100 protesters blocked the road to Mt. Rushmore during July 4th festivities which included then-President Trump and then-Vice President Pence. The July 3, 2020 protest resulted in a more than 4-hour long road block and 21 arrests.
Video here: vimeo.com/437066440
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Family members and advocates of two men serving life sentences in Minnesota — Deaunteze Bobo and Jermaine Ferguson — renewed their demands for their loved ones to be released from prison, saying they were wrongfully convicted. [Videos]
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During large protests around the U.S. have you ever wondered why heavily armored police formations usually look so interchangeable? This is called "Mobile Field Force" and it's part of a national training doctrine. We got the manual (2016) >
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Critically Ill Children Leave Gaza for Treatment in Egypt
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Renewed Calls for ‘Wrongfully Convicted’ Men to be Released From Prison vimeo.com/973247979
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NEW: Nineteen critically ill minors, five with cancer, were evacuated from the ravaged Gaza Strip and brought to Egypt for medical treatment last week. This was the first medical evacuation of Palestinians since May when Israel invaded Rafah.
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NEW: Family members and advocates of two men serving life sentences in Minnesota — Deaunteze Bobo and Jermaine Ferguson — renewed their demands for their loved ones to be released from prison, saying they were wrongfully convicted. [Videos]
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Democratic Republic of Congo – The Genocide That Implicates Us All
The Third in a Series ‘Visualizing an Era of Genocide’
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A year ago French police killed Nahel Merzouk, 17, during a traffic stop, leading to a week of mass revolt.
A pattern of deadly traffic stops in France show that police in the U.S. aren’t the only authority figures who regularly kill Black motorists.
2023 report: unicornriot.ninja/2023/french-...
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Unicorn Riot is gearing up to cover the upcoming 2024 RNC/DNC conventions, and we need your support to help us provide an independent voice on the ground!
Please consider supporting our work: unicornriot.ninja/2024/rnc-dnc...
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Inside Enclave Rabia Caracol — An Anarchist Community Center and Cafe in Tijuana, Mexico
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Greece: Students in Solidarity with Gaza – Universities in Ties with Israel
Greece is not only a long-standing ally of Israel, but also cooperates heavily with Israel on research and development.
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“Our family is so different. We struggle with depression, PTSD,” Karina Palacios-Carbajal, Bernardo’s older sister, told Unicorn Riot.
Four Years After Police Kill Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, Family and Friends Gather to Remember Their Loved One
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“We want all the guilty to be punished, and we want justice,” said a survivor of the Pylos shipwreck which left several hundred refugees & migrants dead in the Mediterranean Sea last June.
Survivors blame the Greek Coast Guard, Frontex, & EU policies.
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As election season heats up in the U.S., Unicorn Riot is gearing up to cover the upcoming 2024 RNC/DNC conventions, and we need your support to help us provide an independent voice on the ground! Donate here: unicornriot.ninja/2024/rnc-dnc...
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NEW: A year after the Pylos shipwreck, one of the deadliest shipwrecks ever, relatives & survivors protest in Athens. Some of the survivors say a Greek Coast Guard vessel caused the shipwreck while attempting to tow the fishing boat carrying 750 refugees & migrants.
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Continuing its three-plus year quest to have the courts force Unicorn Riot to hand over documents, oil company Energy Transfer filed an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court on June 5, 2024. This follows the May 6 ruling favoring UR by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
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Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke in Minneapolis on June 6 at a banquet for the Center of the American Experiment, a right-wing think tank based in the suburb of Golden Valley. He was greeted by hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters. 🎥
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As independent media continues to lose funding, and legacy media tows talking points from government, having experienced reporters on the ground for independent, fact-based and non-corporate news coverage of protest events is vitally important.
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The DNC appears headed for turbulence, as tens of thousands of protesters are expected to crash the party. Echoing generation-defining events of 1968, Chicago police have been observed preparing in riot gear for managing protests at the Democratic National Convention.
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The “Coalition to March on the RNC 2024” is July 15. Wisconsin could deploy up to 4,500 officers &National Guard. Secret Service will activate federal law enforcement & military elements.
2016: Cleveland RNC Police & Military Docs: FEMA Base to Setup at NASA
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Various political organizations will organize protests at both conventions, which will be highly policed National Special Security Events.
Our 2016 Report: NSSEs Feed Millions of Dollars Toward Militarization of Police Across American Cities
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The conventions that lead up to the election may be historic. The Republican National Convention (RNC) will happen first, taking place between July 15–18 in Milwaukee, WI, followed by the Democratic National Convention (DNC) from August 19–22 in Chicago, IL. #rnc #dnc
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👉Support UR’s Upcoming RNC/DNC Convention Coverage ✨
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As election season heats up in the U.S., Unicorn Riot is gearing up to cover the upcoming 2024 RNC/DNC conventions, and we need your support to help us provide an independent voice on the ground!
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Greeted by Hundreds of Protesters in Minneapolis
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The man killed by Minneapolis Police last week has been ID'd as Michael Ristow, 39. The MPD officers that killed him are Enoch Langford, Abdirizaq Mumin & Chaz Wilson. In a mental crisis Ristow reportedly ran from cops w/ a gun & turned around at a fence when shot.
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Short video + full thread covers main points of our new report on how Israeli-American firm Cobwebs' platform is contracted with Homeland Security after being used to build dossiers on protesters in 2020:
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New report this weekend:
Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed
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Learn more in the full story - new tonight:
Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed
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Even during a chaotic wave of mass protests, some Homeland Security staff believed these practices were dangerous to civil liberties & possibly illegal. How could technologies like Cobwebs be used against protesters in the future, and what privacy protections would be in place?
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Other Cobwebs features on DHS Statement of Work: Target identification, social network analysis, Bitcoin tracking, building leads on users, locating deleted posts, aggregating "all Social Media", algorithms for generating suspected links
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Cobwebs software features direct access to social media sites via Homeland Security owned API connections, user targeting, real-time AI algorithms and "Avatar management" (likely sockpuppet account herding) -- this is in the "Statement of Work"
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The Cobwebs "cloud-based web live platform" is deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) massive US-EAST-2 cloud region for Homeland Security
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The material produced by Tangles to generate profiles of activists echoes COINTELPRO-era “cards” produced by the FBI.
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This Cobwebs Statement of Work also includes “avatar management” capabilities — a term also used by Royi Burstien, CEO of another Israeli electronic intelligence firm, Percepto International, to describe how his group manages sophisticated sockpuppet accounts.
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A section of the Meta report reads: “In addition to collecting information about their targets, the accounts used by Cobwebs customers also engaged in social engineering to join closed communities and forums and trick people into revealing personal information.”
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Cobwebs has been accused of facilitating fake social media accounts. In 2021, Meta removed 200 fake accounts from Facebook associated with Cobwebs & its customers. (Re “Cyber Mercenaries,” Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote “Israel’s Spyware Industry is Getting Slammed Around the World.”)
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Cobwebs described its product LYNX as a “global proxy infrastructure” that allows users to “join darknet forums, hacker communities and other platforms without their cover being blown.”
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Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Homeland Security Contractor - 50 second video introduces how Cobwebs and DHS work together.
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The SIC would later act as the hub for Operation Safety Net, a program aimed at unrest around Derek Chauvin’s murder trial--an interagency collaboration between the MPD, FBI, DHS, & numerous other state & local law enforcement groups. www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/27/1...
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Unicorn Riot documented fake “sockpuppet” accounts tied to DHS-affiliated fusion centers in 2019. Social profiles for an Angel Garcia-Lonetree appeared to be operated by Strategic Information Center -- a fusion center run by Minneapolis Police Department. unicornriot.ninja/2019/police-...
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In the years since its founding, DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis has delivered on fears its existence would lead to abuse: - I&A overseen Overt Human Intelligence Collection program talking to prisoners and immigrants without lawyers - "media monitoring services" - a database of journalists
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Why does data mining about protesters matter? FBI's COINTELPRO depended on careful record collection. DHS units like Office of Intelligence and Analysis and affiliated fusion centers have attracted criticism. Cobwebs software was part of 2020 Portland spying controversies.
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