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Leaked location data shows another Muslim prayer app tracking users

Joseph Cox
Vice
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:58 UTC
Location tracking illustration
© Cathryn Virginia
Salaat First has more than ten million downloads and sold location data to Predicio, which is linked to a U.S. contractor which works with ICE.

One user travelled through a park a few blocks south of an Islamic cultural center. Roughly every two minutes, their phone reported their physical location. Another was next to a bank two streets over from a different mosque. A third person was at a train station, again near a mosque.

Perhaps unbeknownst to these people, Salaat First (Prayer Times), an app that reminds Muslims when to pray, was recording and selling their granular location information to a data broker, which in turn sells location data to other clients. Motherboard has obtained a large dataset of those raw, precise movements of users of the app from a source. The source who provided the dataset was concerned that such sensitive information, which could potentially track Muslims going about their day including visiting places of worship, could be abused by those who buy and make use of the data. The company collecting the location data, a French firm called Predicio, has previously been linked to a supply chain of data involving a U.S. government contractor that worked with ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and the FBI.

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UK's poorest hit hardest by lockdown-induced economic recession - here's the proof

Dr Lisa McKenzie
Source
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:06 UTC
school meals
© ReutersProtest demanding free school meals for children, in London
The results are in and it turns out Britain's poorest communities situation currently resembles a walk through the pages of George Orwell's 'The Road to Wigan Pier', a harrowing account of Britain during the 1930's recession.

Research, evidence and data are coming in thick and fast now showing the strife plaguing these forgotten working class communities.

A year and a half ago the Institute for Fiscal Studies Deaton Review of Inequalities raised the possibility that inequalities in the UK were becoming so stark there would be a real threat to our economic, social and political systems unless they were properly addressed.

Comment: These problems are getting worse - particularly with nearly a year of tyrannical lockdown restrictions - but they're also nothing new, because UK citizens have been suffering the effects of crushing austerity measures for well over a decade now:

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Cambridge Analytica-linked Stanford scientist's study suggests he can tell by examining your face what your politics are


RT
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:55 UTC
People
© REUTERS/Leah MillisPeople rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the State Capitol building hours after news media declared Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 7, 2020. Picture taken November 7, 2020.
Facial recognition algorithms can be trained to recognize people's political views, Stanford-affiliated researcher Michal Kosinski claims, stating that his most recent study achieved 72 percent accuracy on liberal vs conservative.

Properly trained facial recognition algorithms can correctly guess a person's political orientation nearly three-quarters of the time, Kosinski claimed in a paper published on Monday in Scientific Reports. Using over a million profiles from Facebook and dating sites across the US, UK and Canada, the algorithm was able to accurately pick out conservatives from liberals in 72 percent of face pairs.

The most significant facial features in telling the political groups apart - aside from age, gender, and ethnicity - were head orientation and emotional expression, according to the study authors. They also explained that liberals were more likely to look directly at the camera and more likely to look surprised than disgusted.

Liberals were also supposed to smile "more intensely and genuinely," leaving them with a different pattern of wrinkles as they age. Conservatives, meanwhile, "tend to be healthier, consume less alcohol and tobacco, and have a different diet" - attributes that affected the health and texture of the skin.

Comment: Our reality is looking more and more like the movie Minority Report every single day. With this technology, there is nothing stopping them from declaring anyone who disagrees with them a "domestic terrorist," "enemy of the state" or "security threat."

The biggest tech companies and media are used by psychopathic elites to gaslight the population and to restrain real information and truth from reaching the people, in order to keep them in fear and ignorance, thus giving the elite more control and power.

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Best of the Web: North Idaho Internet Provider blocks Facebook, Twitter after customer complaints

Alana Mastrangelo
Brietbart
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
Mark Zuckerburg
© Alex wong/Getty Images
An internet service provider (ISP) in the North Idaho and the Spokane, Washington, area has decided to block Facebook and Twitter for its customers after some called in to complain about censorship on the platforms.

The ISP, Your T1 WIFI, confirmed that it will block Facebook and Twitter from its WIFI service for some customers starting this Wednesday, according to a report by KREM 2.

The move comes after Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump from its platform, and Facebook locked the president out of his account "indefinitely."

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Blackbox

Lisa Montgomery, Ken McElroy et al - Skidmore Missouri: A Cursed Town?


Sott.net
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:09 UTC
Skidmore
Skidmore is a small town in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 284 at the 2010 Census (estimated 269 as of 2016). Despite its small population, the town has a long history of violence, and an unusually high crime rate per capita (murder rate included).

Let's go through some of the more notorious cases. The first major murder case from Skidmore, Missouri, took place in 1981. It is arguably one of the most infamous modern cases of vigilante justice.
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Propaganda

Best of the Web: More than 40,000 extra deaths at home in England & Wales since lockdowns began, only 1 in 10 directly involved coronavirus


Express & Star
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:00 UTC
mask london
© PAThe UK went into lockdown for the first time in March.
Only one in 10 of these extra deaths directly involved Covid-19.

More than 40,000 extra deaths have taken place in private homes in England and Wales since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show.

Extra deaths - known as "excess deaths" - are the number of deaths that are above the average for the corresponding period in the previous five years.

A total of 40,114 excess deaths in homes in England and Wales were registered between March 7 2020 and January 1 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Comment: Despite the abundance of evidence showing that it is the lockdowns that are causing the excess deaths, numerous countries throughout Europe, acting in lockstep, have just enforced even harsher restrictions, and so it's likely that we will see yet another surge in preventable, excess deaths: And check out SOTT radio's:

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FBI opens 160 cases related to storming of US Capitol

Tim Ahmann
Yahoo!
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:28 UTC
storming capitol building
The FBI has opened 160 case files in its investigation of the storming of the U.S. Capitol by rioters supporting President Donald Trump last week, the head of the agency's Washington field office said on Tuesday.

The assistant director in charge of the field office, Steven D'Antuono, told a media briefing that the FBI had received 100,000 videos and pictures as tips.

Comment: More from MSN:
The "scope and scale" of the investigation into last week's deadly riot at the United States Capitol is "unprecedented" and prosecutors are treating it as a "significant counterterrorism or counterintelligence" probe, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin said during a Tuesday afternoon press briefing. FBI official Steven D'Antuono provided some numbers to prove that point, noting that the agency has opened more than 160 case files, charged 70 people, and received more than 100,000 tips so far, before clarifying "that's just the tip of the iceberg."

The charges represent a wide range of criminal activity, Sherwin said, going from simple trespassing to felony murder. He added that the Justice Department is looking at "significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy."

D'Antuono and Sherwin were fairly open about some of their findings — Sherwin explained that pipe bombs found on the Capitol grounds on the day of the riot were "real devices" with "explosive igniters," and it's unclear why they didn't go off — but they kept other matters under wraps, including whether they have made any progress in the investigation into U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick's death.

Sherwin went on to say that he thinks there are "a lot of misconceptions about what happened within the capitol" and he believes people will be "shocked with some of the egregious conduct" that took place.



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Sentences of 'extremist' group that planned armed takeover of Russia slashed weeks after Putin intervenes on human rights grounds


RT
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:16 UTC
men plot overthrow Russian government
© Sputnik / Alexey Kudenko
Four men at the center of a plot to overthrow the Russian government by force have had their sentences reduced by a Moscow court on Tuesday. All but one are currently serving a long term in a penal colony for their involvement.

The group, which went by the name 'New Greatness', was labeled by prosecutors as an extremist cell. However, during a widely publicized trial last year, the defendants insisted they had been encouraged to set it up by undercover operatives from the police and Russia's top security agency, the FSB.

Ruslan Kostylenkov, Peter Karamzin, and Vyacheslav Kryukov each had their prison term reduced by between three and six months. However, all are still serving terms of more than six years. Another activist, Maxim Roshchin, had been handed a suspended sentence, and similarly had six months shaved off its length. This came in response to challenges from their lawyers, who insist the verdicts didn't take into consideration the motives behind their actions.

Comment: See also: Two teenage members of extremist 'revolutionary' group on trial in Russia moved to house arrest

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's nonsensical likening of Capitol riot to Kristallnacht is a haunting pretext for dehumanizing Trump voters

Tony Cox
RT
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:55 UTC
Arnold Schwarzenegger
© TwitterArnold Schwarzenegger posted a video to Twitter comparing the Capitol riot to Kristallnacht.
It's disgusting enough when a manipulator diminishes the horrors of the Holocaust by disingenuously invoking the Nazis to demonize a political enemy. It's downright nauseating when the invoker is a morally bankrupt Hitler admirer.

Enter stage far-left, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The former Governor of California -- who said "I don't remember" when he was confronted in 2003 with an old interview transcript noting his admiration for the Fuhrer -- is winning plaudits on social media for posting a viral Twitter video on Sunday that absurdly compared 1938's Kristallnacht to last Wednesday's US Capitol riot.

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Bruce Willis asked to leave store for 'refusing' to wear a mask

Francesca Bacardi
Page Six
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:37 UTC
Bruce Willis
© BACKGRIDBruce Willis seen not wearing a mask inside of a Rite Aid pharmacy.
He'd rather live free.

Bruce Willis was asked to leave a Los Angeles Rite Aid on Monday after he refused to wear a mask, a spy tells Page Six.

The spy says people inside the store became upset that Willis, 65, wasn't wearing a mask — despite having a bandanna tied around his neck, which he could have easily pulled up.
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