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Big Brother: Governor Cuomo unveils facial scanning at New York toll plazas

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:14 UTC
RFK toll plaza
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that facial recognition cameras installed at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across New York City are scanning every driver's face and feeding them into a massive database designed to catch suspected criminals.

"When it reads that license plate, it reads it for scofflaws . . . [but] the toll is almost the least significant contribution that this electronic equipment can actually perform," Cuomo said at a press conference outside the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

"We are now moving to facial-recognition technology, which takes it to a whole new level, where it can see the face of the person in the car and run that technology against databases... Because many times a person will turn their head when they see a security camera, so they are now experimenting with technology that just identifies a person by their ear, believe it or not," he continued.
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Black Cat

Entitlement AND guilt-tripping: 'Jesus said give to men in need': Refugee says Austrians should share money & homes with migrants


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:14 UTC
migrants austria
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters / FileAn Austrian army soldier observes migrants as they wait to cross the border from Slovenia
A Syrian refugee living in Germany and writing columns for the local Huffington Post edition says all Austrians should take migrants into their homes, if they want integration to work.

Aras Bacho, who says he is 19 and has lived in Germany for the past eight years, has penned an open letter in the Austrian daily newspaper OE24. According to Bacho, "integration only works on two sides - one side is not enough."

"Those who ask for integration should begin to wonder why integration takes longer or why it does not work in part for many refugees and migrants," Bacho writes. Therefore, he says, Austrians and migrants should not only go out together and communicate by learning each other's languages, he also wants to see every Austrian take in a migrant at home, and donate money to those migrants.

Comment: He thinks Jesus said 'gimme your stuff'?

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58% of Russians blame Georgia, US, NATO for 2008 war with Georgia in South Ossetia


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:31 UTC
Tskhinvali residents
© Grigoriy Sisoev / SputnikTskhinvali residents light candles in memory of 2008 war victims
The largest share of Russians think the 2008 military conflict between their country and Georgia was initiated by the West and Georgia's pro-Western leadership while Russian authorities did all they could to prevent bloodshed.

In a poll conducted by the Russian independent think-tank Levada on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, researchers asked members of the Russian public who, in their opinion, bore principal responsibility for the military conflict. Some 34 percent said that it was the president and government of Georgia, 24 percent pinned the blame on the United States and NATO and 20 percent said that the responsibility should be shared by all parties.

Only five percent of respondents agreed that the initiation of the military conflict was Russia's fault and three percent said the blame lay with the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Some 59 percent of those polled told researchers that they believe Russian leaders did everything they could to prevent the armed conflict. However, 22 percent feel that Russia reacted to a provocation on Georgia's part and "allowed itself to be dragged into the conflict."

Comment: Then they agree with the independent report commissioned by the EU:
"In the Mission's view, it was Georgia which triggered off the war when it attacked Tskhinvali (in South Ossetia) with heavy artillery on the night of 7 to 8 August 2008," said Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, who led the investigation.
But that doesn't stop the Western media and governments from continuing to blame Russia for "attacking" and "invading" Georgia...

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Stop

Day 2 of the purge: Twitter suspends Ron Paul Institute, more libertarian accounts


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:51 UTC
Twitter HQ
© Josh Edelson / AFPTwitter HQ in San Francisco.
Several Libertarian figures, including the Ron Paul Institute director, have found their Twitter accounts suspended. It comes after tech giants went after right-wing journalist Alex Jones, banning his show from their platforms.

Radio host and editorial director of antiwar.com Scott Horton, former State Department employee and author Peter Van Buren, and Dan McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, found their twitter accounts suspended on Monday, according to Antiwar.com.


Comment: This isn't looking good: Chilling precedent? InfoWars purge exposes Big Tech as no friend of free speech

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'We must speak up': Surgeon aboard Gaza flotilla tells harrowing story of Israeli theft, assault & detention

Dr. Swee Ang
Mondoweiss
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:09 UTC
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© Freedom Flotilla CoaltionThe al-Awda departs from Bergen, Norway on April 20, 2018.
The last leg of the journey of al-Awda (the boat of return) was scheduled to reach Gaza on 29 July 2018. We were on target to reach Gaza that evening. There are 22 on board including crew with $15,000 of antibiotics and bandages for Gaza. At 12.31 p.m. we received a missed call from a number beginning with +81... Mikkel was steering the boat at that time. The phone rang again with the message that we were trespassing into Israeli waters. Mikkel replied that we were in International waters and had right of innocent passage according to maritime laws. The accusation of trespassing was repeated again and again with Mikkel repeating the message that we were sailing in international waters. This carried on for about half an hour, while al-Awda was 42 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza.

Prior to the beginning of this last leg, we had spent two days learning non-violent actions and had prepared ourselves in anticipation of Israeli invasion of our boat. Vulnerable individuals especially those with medical conditions were to sit at the rear of the top deck with their hands on the deck table. The leader of this group was Gerd, a 75-year-old elite Norwegian athlete and she had the help of Lucia, a Spanish nurse in her group.
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'This isn't censorship': Sky News and social media giants block showing of interview with Australian anti-immigration activist


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:26 UTC
Sky news
© David Moir/ Reuters
Sky News Australia Political Editor David Speers says the outlet's ban on an anti-immigration commentator is not censorship but about taking a platform away from "a self-confessed neo-Nazi."

Blair Cottrell appeared on a segment of The Adam Giles Show on Sunday evening.

Chairperson of the United Patriots Front, a nationalist street movement, Cottrell is a controversial figure in Australia. His interview for Sky New Australia's current affairs program was broadcast live on Sunday but the station has now washed its hands of it.

In a statement, the channel's CEO Angelos Frangopoulos said the interview was "an error of judgement." He said The Adam Giles Show has now been suspended pending a structural change.

Comment: Have people become so incapable of thinking for themselves and so fragile that the media needs to protect them from particular viewpoints? What are the mainstream media so afraid of? Also check out SOTT radio's Meet some of the 'protesters' from the 'left':




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Parkland school under fire for not acting in accordance with disability laws in dealing with school shooter Nikolas Cruz

Allison Quinn
Daily Beast
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 23:43 UTC
Parkland shooter
© Taimy Alvarez/ Sun-Sentinel/ Pool via Reuters
A new report found Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz asked school officials for help months before he allegedly gunned down 14 fellow classmates and three adults-but the school district "did not follow through."

That failure by school officials was singled out in a court-ordered report released Friday into the school district's handling of Cruz's behavioral issues. While more than half of the report was redacted, the blacked-out sections of the document could still easily be read by copying and pasting into a separate document, a trick used by The Sun-Sentinel to release the unredacted report on Friday.

Among the conclusions in the report, authored by the Collaborative Educational Network of Tallahassee, are two glaring instances in which Broward school officials failed to act in accordance with laws governing the treatment of students with disabilities.

Comment: It's actually not clear from the reporting that Cruz actually asked for help. The problem here wasn't any developmental disability but a severe disturbance in character. It's possible a transfer could have changed some things, but it's very likely that Cruz was a ticking time bomb no matter what. See the Sott Focus article: Florida School Shooting: A Culture of Narcissistic Entitlement and Resentment

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Nuke

Islamic State propaganda video warns of unleashing biological warfare on West


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 23:43 UTC
biohazard
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Despite crushing defeats in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State's propaganda outlets urged lone-wolf attackers to unleash biological warfare on the West, including dissemination of viruses from feces and droppings of rats.

A propaganda video released by pro-Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) propaganda mouthpieces had threatened to use the "silent destructive weapon" on Western countries, according to Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) which had made a transcript of the recording.

It states that a carefully engineered lone-wolf biological attack would come in response to US-led bombings of Islamist-held cities of Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria. The video also accused the "crusader alliance" of turning Muslim countries into a testing ground of "phosphorus bombs and toxin gas."

Comment: Yep, don't underestimate rats in a cage. They're willing to

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Israeli-controlled child prostitution market busted in Colombia, where 250 underage sex slaves were branded with tattoos' by their 'owners'

Phoebe Cooke
The Sun
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:22 UTC
Ringleader 'Madame' Campos Puello
Ringleader 'Madame' Campos Puello is said to have hired the girls from poor neighbourhoods in Columbia and Venezuela before forcing them into prostitution
A Child prostitution ring where 250 underage sex slaves were branded with tattoos by their "owners" has been smashed in dramatic raids.

Cops arrested 18 people after dozens of underage girls were recruited for sex parties under the pretence of getting modelling work in the Colombian resort of Cartagena.

Of those seized "Madame" Liliana del Carmen Campos Puello and several unnamed Israelis were believed to be the network's ringleaders.

They allegedly raped and tattooed all their underage victims, aged between 14 and 17.
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Black conservative Candace Owens attacked by crazy Antifa mob


RT
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Anitfa
© Stephanie Keith / ReutersAntifa members wave flags at a protest in Michigan
Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk, two leaders of the pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA, were mobbed and harassed by 'Antifa' activists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Video shared by the pair show them harassed by 'antifa' activists, several of whom cover their faces, as they were eating breakfast in Philadelphia on Monday morning.

Comment: See also:

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