Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Google is extending its AI-driven age estimation system beyond YouTube and into its flagship search engine, raising renewed concerns over user surveillance and the growing reliance on opaque algorithmic profiling.
The technology, supposed to predict a user’s age by analyzing massive amounts of behavioral data such as search queries and watch history, has already triggered significant backlash.
Users are now encountering age verification prompts within Google Search.
One individual described to Reclaim The Net being asked to verify their age while watching a video on YouTube, only to face a similar prompt during later Google searches.
This suggests that once a user is tagged for age checking, the requirement may be enforced across their entire Google profile.
While sightings of the feature on Search are still limited, users have noticed the demands for more data across the European Union. The full extent of the deployment is still unclear.
Integrating this system into search could have broad consequences that go even further than more behavioral profiling. Routine access to information could now be gated by requests to confirm one’s age, turning one of the most widely used tools on the internet into a more restrictive experience.
Google Search has already undergone major changes with the introduction of AI-generated summaries, a shift that has drawn both usability concerns and competitive attention. The potential for further disruptions and the fact that Google is now more openly profiling users may drive more users toward privacy-conscious alternatives.
The US Navy is sending at least three destroyers and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity.
In response, Maduro has mobilized 4 million members of the national militia. Trump “hasn’t ruled out” boots on the ground, but in fairness, he can hardly say anything else when asked.
It’s all come out of nowhere, considering it was only a few days ago Trump was eagerly pursuing his Nobel Peace Prize with the Putin summit in Alaska followed by the Zelenskey et al. meeting at the White House.
Only a few weeks ago, Maduro’s government renewed its oil license with Chevron and agreed to an exchange of political prisoners.
Then, suddenly, the Trump administration issued a statement increasing the reward for Maduro’s arrest and accused the Venezuelan President of leading the Cartel of the Suns.
Venezuela has responded by accusing the US of kidnapping 66 Venezuelan children during recent deportations.
Why the escalation? What changed?
The discussion amongst what you could call the old-fashioned anti-war crowd is already focusing on Venezuela’s oil reserves, the biggest in the world, but is that vintage cliche still applicable?
Just like other conflicts, anything that erupts between Venezuela and the US needs to be seen in the post-Covid context.
Venezuela took full part in the Covid lie. Testing, lockdowns, masks and vaccines. All of it. Alongside that, Maduro’s government used the “emergency” to reverse Chavez’s rejection of the IMF and take out a $5billion “emergency” loan.
They are compromised, part of the international government cooperation, and therefore any conflict is likely just as real as Covid was.
Luis Arce slammed the recent deployment of American armed forces in the southern Caribbean Sea
Washington is using the so-called war on drugs as a cover for seeking political and economic domination of Latin America, Bolivian President Luis Arce claimed on Wednesday. He strongly criticized the US military deployment to the southern Caribbean, calling it an attempt to control the region rather than genuinely combat narcotics trafficking.
The US sent air and naval forces to the southern Caribbean Sea earlier this month in what the White House called part of a broader campaign against drug trafficking groups operating in Latin America, particularly those linked to Venezuela.
“We know that behind this failed international war on drugs lies the real objective to geopolitically control Latin America for its natural resources and to dismantle organized peoples, so that we cannot follow our own sovereign path,” Arce said, speaking via video link at the 13th Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.
The Bolivian leader also called on the US government to address the root causes of drug trafficking at home, urging it to curb domestic demand for narcotics and dismantle the arms industry and the shallow culture that, he argued, sustains the drug trade.
Arce also decried Washington’s latest steps against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as an insult to regional sovereignty and a direct attack on a democratically elected leader.
Last month, the US administration expanded its crackdown by designating the Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles as a criminal organization, alleging that it is personally led by Maduro and includes other senior officials in his government and military.
Maduro, who was indicted on federal drug charges by a US court in 2020 during Trump’s first term, has consistently denied the accusations, calling them politically motivated and part of Washington’s broader campaign to topple his government.
Earlier this month, tensions escalated further after the US Justice and State Departments announced a doubling of the reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest, raising it to $50 million, while also claiming the Venezuelan leader is now collaborating with the Tren de Aragua and Sinaloa cartels.
Convicted far-right extremist Sven Liebich reportedly took advantage of a recent law prior to being incarcerated
A German neo-Nazi will serve his sentence in a women’s prison after taking advantage of a new law permitting registration under a different gender, media have reported.
Sven Liebich, a former member of the banned far-right group Blood and Honor, was convicted in 2023 on multiple counts, including incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. He appealed the sentence and lost.
However, late last year, Liebich registered as female under Germany’s Self-Determination Act, a reform passed during Olaf Scholz’s government that came into effect in November. The law allows people to change their gender and first name at a registry office without a court ruling. Critics have warned the reform could be open to abuse.
According to German daily FAZ, he has now been ordered to serve 18 months at Chemnitz women’s prison in Saxony. Liebich appeared in court wearing a leopard-print top, a large hat, make-up and carrying a handbag.
Now officially listed as Marla-Svenja, Liebich argued the change was necessary to avoid “discrimination” in a male facility. He has since appeared in public in women’s clothing while still sporting a moustache.
Liebich was convicted on multiple counts, including incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. Domestic intelligence services in Saxony reportedly classify him as a far-right extremist active both locally and nationwide. He has been photographed wearing a Nazi-style armband at rallies where black-clad demonstrators marched with red, white and black flags. The armband carried the slogan ‘Sicherheits-Abteilung,’ or SA, echoing the abbreviation of Hitler’s stormtrooper division.
This film follows Russian troops as they search the village of Sudzha (near Kursk) for civilian atrocities committed by Ukrainian forces prior to their withdrawal in March 2025.
The filmmakers who accompany them provide stark footage of a village that has been totally destroyed, as well as interviewing survivors about the atrocities they witnessed.
The Ukrainians ransacked nearly every house, torturing, raping and killing residents who failed to evacuate in time and stealing phones, video machines, diesel and gasoline. In several instances, they lobbed grenades into cellars where residents crowded for shelter. The requisitioned nearly every other house for weapons and stored food.
Many elderly villagers froze to death, with no food, water, heat and with all their windows broken.
The Ukrainians took 100 civilians hostage when they withdrew. Following negotiations the Red Cross returned 25 to their families.
The film includes an interview with a Ukrainian POW captured as his unit retreated. He talks about participating in he gang rape of a young girl after being ordered to do so by squad leaders. He also talks about systematically going house to kill all the men they find and rape and execute the women.
Maduro activates Bolivarian National Militia in response to US “threats”, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence.
President Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday, August 18, that he is activating “over 4.5 million militia members across the entire national territory” of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in response to the US deployment of three Navy guided-missile destroyers and 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean. The White House has described the deployment as an anti-drug trafficking operation in the region, while some analysts have called it a new threat against Venezuela – the country with the largest oil reserves in the world.
The “extravagant, bizarre, and outlandish threats” of the United States have been firmly rejected by the Venezuelan government.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Yván Gil described the accusations as a sign of desperation, revealing Washington’s “lack of credibility and the failure of its policies in the region”. He also pointed out that Venezuela has made major gains against drug trafficking after expelling the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) – who many Venezuelans call “the planet’s chief drug traffickers” – from the country in 2005.
No US agency or international body has produced concrete evidence of drug production and distribution being concentrated in Venezuela or linked to Maduro. In fact, available global drug data makes almost no mention of the Caribbean nation or the alleged “Cartel of Suns” at all. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the epicenter of activity is in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, with the US identified as the main destination for distribution, recording the highest level of drug consumption in the world.
UNODC data reports that only 5% of Colombian drugs transit through Venezuela, and that the country is free of coca leaf cultivation, and marijuana and cocaine processing. The Trump administration, on the other hand, has maintained its position that the Venezuelan government is a “narco-terror cartel”.
Venezuela mobilizes as the US bares its teeth
Last week, mass protests across Venezuela denounced the “interventionist policies of the US government” following the bounty increase on Maduro and the accusation of cartel ties. However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the deployment of US troops to the region on August 14. On Tuesday, August 19, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked if the administration was open to “boots on the ground” in Venezuela, to which she responded, “[Trump] is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country.”
This week, Venezuela’s “prepared, activated, and armed” militia members are being deployed “throughout the entire territory, and meticulously, sector by sector”, as part of what the government is calling a peace plan to defend the principles of sovereignty and shared economic development.
“The Bolivarian National Militia is the people in arms, it is the genuine expression of civic-military union,” said Maduro in 2019, as he announced the incorporation of the militia that Hugo Chávez created – which has surged to nearly 5 million members, according to the government – into the Armed Forces as an official “combat unit”.
“We are also deployed throughout the Caribbean,” Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello reminded the public. “Our sea, which is Venezuelan territory.”
The Venezuelan government is not alone in speaking out against the escalation of tensions in the Caribbean. When asked about the US military deployment during a regular press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico’s message to the region is, “No to interventionism. This is not just a conviction, it’s in the Constitution.”
To this day, the US does not recognize President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela, claiming that opposition figure Edmundo González is the true president. In the months following the election, Washington targeted dozens of officials in the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) and other government departments with sanctions and visa bans, on top of the long-standing US economic blockade of the Bolivarian nation.
Despite the mounting pressure, Venezuelan officials are confident that the nation can defend its sovereignty. “It’s not about Maduro, it’s about the ordinary people, the people in the neighborhoods, the communities,” says Nahum Fernández, head of government in Caracas.
“This country belongs to Venezuelans; in the face of any threat, the Venezuelan people will not remain silent.”
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
As I have reported multiple times since Trump has come back into office for his second term, his entire cabinet consists of those who supported his Operation Warp Speed COVID-19 military mass-vaccination program during his first term.
If someone did not previously support it, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was a very vocal opposition voice against it, then they had to kiss Trump’s @$$ and change their tune by supporting it, which is exactly what Kennedy did during his confirmation hearings so he could become the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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In this investigative report by Max Jones at Unlimited Hangout, he does a deep dive into Susan Monarez, Kennedy and Trump’s choice to lead the CDC.
Jones writes that a look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugenics, the militarization of healthcare and the expansion of the bio-surveillance state.
Meet Trump’s CDC Director: Susan Monarez
A closer look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugenics, the militarization of healthcare and the expansion of the bio-surveillance state.
As the Trump administration has spent its first few months in The White House constructing the physical and digital infrastructure required for a pre-crime, technocratic police state, little attention has been paid to the ways in which the institutions ostensibly dedicated to “public health” are helping build out this digital control grid.
As Unlimited Hangout has been reporting for many years now, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a prominent subgroup of the surveillance state has emerged at the intersection of Big Tech, Big Pharma and the military industrial complex — one that is laying the groundwork to implement the final frontier of mass surveillance: the bio-surveillance apparatus.
During his first term, Trump implemented the notorious Operation Warp Speed, the Pentagon-ran COVID-19 response plan which issued emergency deregulatory measures and massive funding for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Now, his second administration has successfully managed to become associated with COVID-era dissidence. This was primarily accomplished through Trump successfully securing the endorsements of figures who were skeptical of the official line on COVID-19, most prominently comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan and longtime environmental litigator and founder of Children’s Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Since taking office, however, the second Trump administration has consistently contradicted this unofficial commitment to the spirit of COVID-era dissent and public health institutional overhaul.
Just last week, the President toutedOperation Warp Speed as one of the “most incredible things ever done in this country.”
The week before, he announced an initiative to enable the vast sharing of individuals’ health data across a myriad of “health systems and apps,” in partnership with Pentagon-contracting Big Tech companies.
More quietly, however, Trump nominated a seasoned official of the biosecurity apparatus named Susan Monarez to be the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Monarez, whose background is perfectly in line with this technocratic approach to healthcare that the administration has embarked on, was “handpicked” by Kennedy after the previous nominee, Dave Weldon, withdrew his nomination in March.
Monarez had been acting director of the CDC for several months and was confirmed at the end of July with little fanfare.
Susan Monarez is a biosecurity veteran who has a long history embedded in what could be described as a gray zone of public governance — one where national security merges with healthcare.
These connections and her life’s work suggest that Monarez is a useful tool, knowingly or not, of the biosecurity/surveillance apparatus, a group which has helped expand the sprawling American mass surveillance system under the auspices of wellness, mental health and innovation.
It is likely that her entry into the world of militarized science began at Stanford University when she was carrying out her work as a postdoctoral researcher. The Chair of her department notably boasted deep ties to some of the leading figures in the genetic science boom of the latter half of the 20th century — figures whose research was entangled with the eugenics movement of that era and the increasing securitization of science that occurred in the midst of the Cold War.
From Stanford, Monarez was catapulted into prestigious positions within the domestic parts of DHS, HHS, as well as the White House itself.
Notably, the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa emerged during Monarez’s tenure in the Executive Branch, and she played an important role in the government response.
That outbreak may have marked one of the first times that the US commissioned the pre-crime, mass surveillance company Palantir with conducting biosurveillance during a public health epidemic. It most certainly established a significant step towards the total transformation of the US public health system into a militarized extension of the surveillance state.
Monarez’s time working in agencies such as the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) made Monarez a perfect candidate for the position she maintained until she was most recently nominated to be the director of the CDC: the Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
From its conception, the HHS-housed ARPA-H was meant to serve as a “health” version of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Monarez’s appointment to the CDC, however, indicates further melding of America’s public health institutions with the national security state.
While it has been more or less given that most heads of public health agencies in recent years must be supportive of technocratic biotechnology measures, Monarez has presided over significant initiatives and programs that have deepened the militarization of healthcare.
She has also been appointed to be the Director of the CDC within the context of the ever-increasing integration of the pre-crime company Palantir, which privatized much of the George Bush-era Total Information Awareness mass surveillance project –– including its “Bio-surveillance” component — intogovernment.
People are waking up now, as this is quickly becoming a huge story in the financial and economic news sectors, especially after Sam Altman has now admitted that there is an AI bubble.
US tech stocks sold off on Tuesday as a wave of concerns that intense enthusiasm surrounding artificial intelligence could be overdone slammed into some of Wall Street’s most speculative companies.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed down 1.4 per cent, with software group Palantir falling 9.4 per cent and chipmaker Arm Holdings shedding 5 per cent.
The decline marked the biggest one-day drop for the index since August 1. The blue-chip S&P 500 closed 0.7 per cent lower.
Traders pinned some of the decline on a report released late on Monday by a branch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which researchers said that “95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return” from their investments in generative AI, the technology that has sent US stocks soaring to a series of record highs in recent months.
“The story is spooking people,” said one trader close to a multibillion-dollar US tech fund.
“Just 5 per cent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value, while the vast majority remain stuck with no measurable [profit and loss] impact,” the MIT report said.
The stock drop also came days after OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman signalled that an AI bubble might be forming.
“Are investors over excited? My opinion is yes,” Altman told reporters this week.
He also said: “I do think some investors are likely to lose a lot of money, and I don’t want to minimise that, that sucks. There will be periods of irrational exuberance.”
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China has informed India that it will look to resolve key economic concerns including the supply of rare earth materials, fertilizers, and tunnel-boring machines, Indian media outlets reported on Tuesday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly made the assurance during talks with Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, according to the ANI news agency.
The development was also confirmed by RT sources in the Indian government. The Economic Times reported that Wang told Jaishankar that Beijing had already started responding to Indian requests on the three export categories. The outlet also said that shipments have already begun.
Wang is currently on a three-day visit to New Delhi, where he will hold border talks with Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
China, the world’s largest producer of rare earth magnets, announced restrictions in April on exports of seven medium-to-heavy rare earth products and some magnets. This has affected supply chains that are critical for the aerospace, automobile, and semiconductor industries.
Indian media outlets have also reported that Beijing has restricted the export of fertilizers and tunnel-boring machines to the South Asian country, affecting agriculture and infrastructure projects.
Asia’s two largest countries are also looking at broadening their economic cooperation at a time when both face steep tariffs from the US.
In a veiled reference to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Wang told Jaishankar that the world is currently experiencing rapid changes, with unilateral bullying on the rise and free trade and the international order facing significant threats, according to a report by the Xinhua news agency.
Wang also called on India and China to demonstrate a sense of global responsibility, act as major powers, and contribute to promoting a multipolar world, according to the report.
Mobilization of the Bolivarian Militia in April 2025. Photo: Prensa Presidencial / Telegram
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