British banks are now making it harder for customers to even deposit cash in their own accounts, while three of Australia’s Big Four banks are eliminating cash services altogether from many of their branches. More
From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape
The Home Office is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement. Retailers are also embracing the technology to monitor their customers.More
The World’s Most Indebted Oil Company, Pemex, Is in Serious Trouble (Or So We Are Told)
At the beginning of July, the AMLO government’s biggest bet on energy self-sufficiency — the Dos Bocas refinery in Tabasco — began processing crude oil. But since then, things have not gone according to plan.More
The Fallout from the Nigel Farage Debanking Scandal Continues to Spread
The share price of Coutts’ parent bank, semi-state owned Natwest, has slumped 8% over the past 10 days, wiping £1 billion off its market cap and generating juicy returns for short-selling hedge funds.More
No Joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission Just Received “World Prize for Peace and Freedom”
Few political figures have done more to keep Ukrainians fighting — and dying in huge numbers — in a bloody, futile proxy war of attrition than Von der Leyen.More
Latin America Again Refuses to Fall In Line With the Collective West on Ukraine, This Time from Brussels
Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.More
The Dark, Shady Past of Spain’s Likely Next Prime Minister, Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Spain’s general elections this Sunday (July 22) could be a milestone event — of the bad rather than good kind.More
A Transatlantic Trend: Banks in UK and US Are Closing Customer Accounts With Little to No Warning Or Explanation
“The escalation team just reached out to me. They told me that the account was being shut down, and they wouldn’t give me a reason. I asked them if they would ever give me a reason. They said no.”More
Is Peru About to Descend Into Another Wave of Political Violence, This Time With US Troops on the Ground?
The Boluarte government has next to no democratic legitimacy, is broadly rejected by the public and under investigation for numerous human rights violations. Now, with roughly 1,000 US troops stationed in the country, it faces a third massive march on Lima. More
The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?
Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.More
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