Katherine Smith PhD

Information is power, government records access is a valuable resource for anyone who yearns to have a transparent and accountable government. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is perhaps the strongest method for obtaining access to government files, shedding light on the activities of public bodies and figures and bringing to light the truths that lie buried in the dark.

The Origins and Evolution of FOIA

The United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was enacted into law in 1966 with the objective of opening up government federal records to citizens. It was a milestone towards openness that would give assurances that information within the custody of government agencies could no longer be confidential unless exempted by specific exceptions. Though initiated at the national level, the FOIA principles have shaped the enactment of comparable legislations in other nations, significantly advancing the world's demand for government accountability. FOIA requests can reveal the most mundane aspects of government, such as reports, letters, and policy responses, to surveillance records and classified information that was declassified over the years. 

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Chris Spencer

The Global Potemkin Village of mass surveillance, digital precrime scores and death by algorithm. Resistance is mandatory.

Journalists asassinated by IDF in Gaza August 10, 2025:

Anas al-Sharif — Al Jazeera correspondent, age ~28
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Mohammed Qreiqeh — Al Jazeera correspondent
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Al Jazeera

Ibrahim Zaher — Al Jazeera cameraman
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Al Jazeera

Mohammed Noufal — Al Jazeera cameraman
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Al Jazeera

Moamen Aliwa — Al Jazeera cameraman
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Al Jazeera

Anas al-Sharif’s nephew — a journalism student (name not specified)
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Mohammed al-Khaldi — a freelance journalist (died from injuries sustained in the same strike)

I. The Human Genocide Hook

A Palestinian family telephone call is not private. It goes through a Microsoft Azure cloud server utilized by the Israeli military. The call is copied, stored, indexed, and analyzed by AI scrutiny. The system grades participants on their "threat level" based on voice, location, word usage, and contact history. THE PEOPLE USING PHONES ARE TARGETED BY DRONES AND MISSILES.

Our shared Panopticon (e-Cage) is not targeted eavesdropping. This is dragnet intercept—every call, every message, every signal vacuumed up by intention. The machinery is private. The intent is military. Gaza is a proving ground for a global kill system. In the words of George W. Bush, either you are with us, or (we kill you) you are against us.

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Robert David

Welcome to the Grocery Game of Loophole Laws

Walk into any Von’s, Albertsons, or Safeway in the U.S. or Canada, and you’re stepping into a modern-day chemical carnival dressed as a grocery store. These supermarket titans dominate aisle after aisle, peddling products that often contain ingredients banned elsewhere or wrapped in packaging saturated with forever chemicals—all thanks to gaping loopholes in food safety laws.

Under the winsome soft "natural" labels and silky advertisements, however, is a shadow economy of poisons, additives, and hormone-fed meat repudiated by European and Canadian regulators years ago. But back here in North America, Von's and its ilk operate behind the scenes, using technical loopholes to generate profits as consumers pay the price in compromised health.

The story isn't so much about what's in the product—but about what's not being told in the labels. What these chains won't disclose, and the chemicals they still pump into millions, is one of corporate greed and regulatory failure.

1.    The PFAS Packaging Poison: Forever Chemicals Hidden in Your Lunch

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By Ned Lud

No Service, No Consent, No Escape: Inside Meta's Global Surveillance Cathedral

A dossier on voyeurism, digital stalking, and the corporate-state merger that now controls thought itself. Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center which will dwarf the NSA’s Utah Data Center (and undoubtedly will aid the NSA in preventing free speech/free press/free expression on the “open” Internet.

I.              Zuckerberg the Voyeur

A.  The Psychology of a Digital Peeping Tom

Zuckerberg's college-era "FaceMash" and dorm hacks

A Harvard-exclusive website Zuckerberg built in one night to rate students' attractiveness using photos scraped without permission from dorm directories ("face books"). Think of it as a voyeur’s bathroom cam gone digital.

Fixation on cataloging human behavior

Complete crucifixion obsession, consumed by cataloguing human behavior and human interpersonal relationships as “data” and “profit.” Who you are inside and who you love, and hate is cannon fodder for Meta’s spy system. Infamous for his warrantless data dumps to Big Brother Homeland “Security.”

Public confessions: "They trust me… dumb f***s"

This statement, straight from Mark Zucker, is the Rosetta Stone of his psychological core – a smug, smarmy, anti-social, devious trillionaire who uses money, power and tech to betray your confidence in him. This is the one true, immutable lens into Mark’s soul: "They trust me… dumb f***s." 

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Chris Spencer

The Atomic Burden We Inherit

From Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" farce to Biden's nuclear entrenchment anew, every U.S. president since FDR has sacrificed public safety at the altar of atomic power. Commercial plutonium profiteers have wrapped America's highest office in a radioactive matrix of deceit, disinformation, and lethal heritage. The brainwash disinformation is to call 4.5 billion year half-lives poisons "safe" and "clean" and "green" – to tell soccer Moms what they most want to hear.

Donald Trump's nuclear agenda is the culmination of this continuum: gratuitous deregulation, scandalous subsidies, and willful forgetting of Fukushima-type disasters on the horizon. Cancer coming to you or yours is Trump's Nuclear Plumegate—a poisoned imitation of Obama's cover-ups and a symptom of the bipartisan betrayals of American lives.

Trump's arrogant ignorance of radiological science is a molecular death warrant writ large.

Plutonium-239, with a 24,100-year half-life, and Cesium-137's 30-year decay chain emit harmful alpha, beta, and gamma radiation—each penetrating cells, damaging DNA, and fueling carcinogenic mutations for millennia. Alpha particles, although short-ranged, can destroy lung tissue when inhaled; beta radiation can pierce skin and organs; gamma rays can penetrate deeply, breaking molecular bonds and potentially altering life's code. Trump's wanton deregulation and nuclear bailouts wink at this nuclear carnage, playing million-year poisons as "clean" energy. It's not just negligence—it's an intergenerational biochemical war crime, sentencing unborn generations by the thousands to a future of genetic ruin and environmental wasteland.

Chapter 1: Trump's Nuclear Faustian Bargain

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The arrangement crafted by the Trump administration is “unusual,” analysts told CNBC, but underscores the president's transactional nature. Nvidia and AMD have agreed to share 15% of their revenue from sales to China with the U.S. government, the White House confirmed Monday, sparking debate about whether the move could affect the chip giants’ business and whether Washington might seek similar deals. In exchange for the revenue cut, the two semiconductor companies will receive export licenses to sell Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s MI308 chips in China, according to the Financial Times. “We follow rules the U.S. government sets for our participation in worldwide markets. While we haven’t shipped H20 to China for months, we hope export control rules will let America compete in China and worldwide,” Nvidia said in a statement to NBC News. “America cannot repeat 5G and lose telecommunication leadership. America’s AI tech stack can be the world’s standard if we race.”

The Digital Services Act is a direct assault on free speech and the US State Department wants it repealed. Washington is taking aim at Europe’s internet censorship regulation, with the Trump administration launching a coordinated diplomatic push against the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). US officials argue the law places unreasonable burdens on American technology firms and chips away at the foundations of free expression. A classified State Department cable obtained by Reuters reveals that embassies across Europe have been instructed to lobby aggressively against the DSA. Signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and dated August 4, the cable accuses Brussels of exploiting concerns about “misinformation” and “hate speech” to justify what it describes as excessive restrictions on speech.

In terms of geopolitics one could argue that allies don’t have to like each other, they just have to provide a mutual benefit that serves the greater purposes of peace. One could also argue that through cultural exchange the good habits of one country could easily influence the bad habits of another, but that kind of influence can also happen in reverse. Though we might think of American culture as the content driver of the planet, the reality is that our ideals are an exceedingly rare dynamic found in no other society. We provide sanctuary to a fragile ember of free thought in an otherwise gloomy world of globalist oppression. It is something that must be protected at all costs.

The next time someone sneers “conspiracy theorist,” “anti-vaxxer,” “climate denier,” “far right,” “hate speech,” “terrorist,” or the ever-popular “racist,” understand what they are really saying: stop thinking. These words are a linguistic kill-switch—engineered to short-circuit thought by triggering a reflexive emotional spasm. If you encounter someone using these words, you can be certain you are not dealing with someone interested in a good faith effort to find the truth. These terms are precision-guided psychological weapons, fired by unseen hands to herd the public mind. Recall the CIA’s own 1967 memo coining “conspiracy theorist” expressly to silence anyone doubting the magic-bullet fairy tale that supposedly killed JFK.

The Trump administration will no longer distribute disaster relief funds to states—unless their cities pledge not to boycott Israeli companies. The revision targets the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to curb Israel’s violence in Gaza by peeling financial support away from the nation and its businesses. Trump’s condition will affect $1.9 billion that is supposed to be distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and that would apply to grants for search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries, backup power systems, and other emergency-related equipment, according to nearly a dozen grant notices reviewed by Reuters. More than a quarter of the funds—approximately $553.5 million—are earmarked for terrorism prevention in high-risk areas such as New York, which stands to receive the largest chunk at $92.2 million.

The long-running scandal surrounding the disgraced late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein broadened on Tuesday after the New York Times published a trove of previously unseen letters to Epstein from numerous powerful figures as well as unseen photographs from inside his Manhattan mansion. The letters, written to Epstein by a number of high-profile individuals, were reportedly compiled as a birthday gift for Epstein’s 63rd birthday in 2016. Their publication comes amid intense speculation around Donald Trump’s ties to Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 and had long cultivated a celebrity social circle of the rich and powerful.

Imagine waking up in a hospital bed after a bad vehicle wreck and the surgeons have removed several of your organs and are just finishing sewing you up, when they all look at you in shock and say, “Wow, you’re alive.” A federal investigation released in July 2025 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has raised troubling ethical and medical concerns surrounding organ donation practices in the United States. The inquiry uncovered that organ procurement procedures were, in some cases, initiated before patients were fully confirmed dead, calling into question both medical protocols and the integrity of the donation system.

Washington has financed the Israeli war machine for decades, ensuring Tel Aviv’s impunity. Since October 7, 2023, with the direct support of the U.S. and its Western allies, Israel has unleashed an unprecedented campaign of terror against the Palestinian people. Under the false pretext of “fighting terrorism,” entire families are being wiped out, neighborhoods are being erased from the map, and all norms of international law are being systematically violated. But instead of strengthening its authority, Tel Aviv only demonstrates its vulnerability to the world. The facts show and prove that Israel’s military aggression is nothing but an illusion of strength and the reality of failure. The U.S. Is the Main Sponsor of Palestinian Genocide

A nurse has leaked a bombshell of hidden data exposing a devastating cover-up of the known links between Covid mRNA “vaccines” and skyrocketing reports of stillbirths. The alarming data was revealed in a lawsuit filed in California against Community Medical Centers (CMC), a hospital chain in Fresno. According to the court filings, CMC concealed disturbing data linking a “catastrophic surge” in stillbirths to the Covid “vaccinations” of pregnant women. The shocking data was leaked by Michelle Spencer, a nurse at the hospital who filed the lawsuit. As Slay News previously reported, Spencer recently blew the whistle to expose a staggering 5,000% spike in fetal deaths recorded among pregnant women who received the mRNA injections.

Several of Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (D-TX) former aides have spoken out to expose the Democrat congresswoman. Crockett, has garnered attention for her fiery rhetoric against President Donald Trump and his supporters. However, behind the scenes, she’s facing serious criticism for her treatment of staff and her behavior in Congress. According to multiple sources who have worked with or for Crockett, the 44-year-old Texas Democrat has earned a reputation for being rude, unprofessional, and more focused on building her social media brand than serving her constituents. Crockett, who has been outspoken against Trump and other Republicans, has become known for her fiery speeches and dramatic moments, especially in committee hearings where she often directs her attacks at the president. But those who have worked with her say her public persona is starkly different from the way she behaves when the cameras are off.

The leaders of Brazil and India have agreed to strengthen bilateral ties and expand cooperation
Lula and Modi push back against US tariffs. The leaders of Brazil and India have reaffirmed their support for multilateralism and fair trade in response to sweeping US tariffs, according to a statement by the Brazilian government. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva held a one-hour phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to discuss the global economic outlook and rising trade tensions.

Even though Russiagate was one of the most egregious crimes ever committed, it pales in comparison to what they did in 2020. After the Russia hoax failed, they quickly transitioned to Covid. Tulsi already confirmed in May that she was looking into C19 origins. She knows. Once the public have digested Russiagate, have seen that a Deep State exists, and have seen that the MSM are corrupt, they will be more willing to believe the disturbing revelations about Covid. Then once the public are told the truth about the man-made origins of Covid, why Fauci’s pardon begins in 2014 (Ukraine), mail-in ballots, 2020 election fraud, etc., the masses will be demanding justice, not just here in the US, but worldwide.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday slammed AIPAC, blasting the pro-Israel lobbying group for attacking her in recent fundraising emails, while doubling down on her America First stance. Rep. Greene made her remarks on X, blasting the group for taking members of Congress away from their duties and effectively bribing mostly Republicans with trips to Israel, while failing to register as a foreign lobbying group. “AIPAC is sending fundraising emails attacking me for saying, ‘the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,'” Rep. MTG wrote

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump demanded the resignation of Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan, citing “highly conflicted” ties to Chinese firms. The demand follows a report that revealed Tan’s investments in hundreds of Chinese companies, some linked to the Chinese military. Trump’s statement came after U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to Intel’s board chair raising concerns over Tan’s connections to China and a criminal case involving his previous company, Cadence Design. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, leading Intel shares to drop by approximately 4 percent in premarket trading.

The Guardian and ITV News have released aerial footage revealing the complete and total devastation wrecked upon the civilian population of Gaza by the Jewish state with US-supplied bombs. The videos were taken from Jordanian planes as they flew over the Strip to drop aid for the Palestinians -- whom Israel has been actively trying to starve into submission. Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out. But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time. Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.

JUST IN: MULTIPLE staffers have turned against Jasmine Crockett, accusing her of being a no-show boss from hell, per NYP

LMAO!

“She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls— that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things,” a former… pic.twitter.com/O04K8TSZ0r

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 7, 2025

“She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls— that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things,” a former aide said “She is laying around her apartment, won’t come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them,” another aide said A THIRD aide added “she is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress” Crockett also DEMANDS to be driven around in the backseat of an Escalade any time she’s in Washington, requiring a staffer to wait HOURS next to the car just to be ready to open the door for her.

The ramblings of a lunatic really... Mad cow disease, professional propagandist payed tens of millions of dollars a year by the Global Elite, Big Brother, to obfuscate, spin, gaslight, propagandize. It's all hyperbole, distraction, fearmongering, the endless media bastardization of Trump that began in 2016.

The Krasheninnikov volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted for the first time in modern history, after a massive offshore earthquake triggered renewed volcanic activity in the Far East, local authorities have said.