Society's ChildS


Network

AI technology to flag child porn images... but can't distinguish between nudes & desert landscapes


RT
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 16:57 UTC
feet in sand
© imagebroker / Matthias Hauser / Global Look Press
UK police want artificial intelligence to assume the upsetting task of intercepting child-abuse images on suspects' phones and computers. However, existing software can't distinguish between a naked body and a desert landscape.

London Metropolitan Police Head of Digital and Electronic Forensics Mark Stokes told The Telegraph that although the force, which examined 53,000 devices last year, already uses image recognition software, it still lacks the capability to spot indecent images and video.
Read More...
Info

End of 'terrible siege': Aleppo returns to pre-war normalcy


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:38 UTC
Aleppo
© Sputnik
December 23 marked the first anniversary of the liberation of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo from terrorists. Syrian political scientist Kemal Jafa has told Sputnik that a year on, one can safely say that life has returned to normal in Aleppo.

Syrian political commentator Kemal Jafa said that in the past twelve months, "everything [in Aleppo] has changed significantly".

"We have survived five years of horror which saw a constant change of power and more names of terrorist groups that fought the [Syrian] Army," Jafa added, describing Aleppo as "the second Stalingrad."

He mentioned the two-year "terrible siege" of the city, during which Aleppo residents "ate only wheat and water."
Read More...
Star of David

Disgusting Israeli journalist: Israel 'should exact a price' from Ahed Tamimi 'in the dark'

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:08 UTC
Ben Caspit
Ben Caspit
Israeli society became incensed this week with the video of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her 20-year-old cousin Nour, who slapped the Israeli soldiers occupying their family yard in Nabi Saleh. The story of the women's 15-year-old cousin Mohammed being shot in the head by soldiers (and put into coma) just prior to that hardly played any part in what the mainstream media was focusing upon - the humiliation of the soldiers, as it were. As Yossi Gurvitz noted, "the Israeli media did not pay any attention to an Israeli jackboot firing a bullet at the head of 15 years old. As everyone knows, daily events are not news. Nothing to report."

The discussion amongst Israelis became all about the humiliation suffered by heavily armed soldiers, from a fearless 16-year old girl and her bare hands. Culture Minister Miri Regev said: "When I watched that, I felt humiliated, I felt crushed". She called the incident "damaging to the honor of the military and the state of Israel." She was echoing her own words from 2015, when Ahed also appeared in a viral video, wrestling a masked Israeli soldier, who was holding her little brother in a headlock and pressing him down on a rock, his broken arm in cast. Then Regev was "shocked to see the video this morning of Palestinians hitting an IDF soldier," adding that, "It cannot be that our soldiers will be sent on missions with their hands tied behind their backs. It's simply a disgrace!....We must immediately order that a soldier under attack be able to return fire. Period."

Comment: Further reading: The IDF vs The Teenage Girl: Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Arrested For Slapping Soldiers Who Shot Boy

Read More...
People 2

Study claims women who don't go to college 'more likely to experience sexual assault'

Alice B. Lloyd
Weekly Standard
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:08 UTC
college students lecture
© Stefan Puchner/AFP/Getty ImagesA college lecturer gave a workshop at the University of Texas to warn students of the damaging effects of "white privilege."
Women are more likely to have been sexually assaulted by the age of 44 if they didn't go to college, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. The study, spearheaded by sociology professor and researcher William Axinn, found that the risk of "experiencing forced intercourse" is more than 2.5 times greater for women who've attended little or no college.

After more than six years' intense focus on a purported campus rape crisis, Axinn's study exposes the Obama administration's Title IX regime for the elitist and politically-motivated overcorrection it was. Axinn and his team analyzed data from the National Survey of Family Growth, which asks Americans between the ages of 15 and 44-among other awkward and sensitive things-whether they've experienced forced intercourse. And they found that the women most likely to be forced into unwanted sex are the least likely to set foot on campus.

Comment: Further reading: Lawyers, Girls and Money - Cui Bono with #MeToo?

Read More...
Mr. Potato

Idiot Antifa Communist-Lover Gets Himself Knocked Down by Truck While Protesting Christian Event in Portland (VIDEO)


Sott.net
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 11:36 UTC
Oregon antifa hit by car
The idiocy of those who espouse radical Marxist/Communist views was on full display yesterday in Portland, Oregon, USA, in more ways than one.

As a pro-Christian Christmas march got underway, a counter protest of few strident 'anarchist Communists' confronted them.
Read More...
Pistol

Justine Damond's family question whether investigation into her fatal shooting by police was botched

Michael McGowan
The Guardian
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:15 UTC
justine damond family
© AFPJustine Damond's father questions US police shooting investigation
The family of Justine Damond Ruszczyk say they're "deeply concerned" that US officials may have botched an investigation into the Australian woman's fatal shooting by a police officer in Minnesota.

John Ruszczyk has issued an emotional plea for prosecutors in the US to "continue to pursue a rigorous investigation and examination" of the events that led to his daughter's death in July.

Speaking in Sydney on Thursday, Ruszyczyk said he was "deeply concerned about the possibility that the initial investigation was not done properly and with greatest integrity and sense of completeness".

Comment: Kinda seems like the Minneapolis police are going for the 'ignore it and it will go away' strategy. We'll see how that works for them. See also:

Read More...
Pirates

UK finds £490million to redesign its 'humiliating' passports, meanwhile 130,000 children will be homeless this Christmas

Rachel Roberts
Independent
Sun, 02 Apr 2017 11:15 UTC
The Independent Online British passports were blue from the founding of the Passport Office in 1920 until machine-readable red EU ones were introduced in 1988
© Getty/iStockphotoThe Independent Online British passports were blue from the founding of the Passport Office in 1920 until machine-readable red EU ones were introduced in 1988
The Home Office has confirmed it will spend almost £500m redesigning passports for British citizens once the UK has left the European Union, paving the way for a possible return to the old dark-blue style.

Since the referendum last June, some pro-Brexit MPs and campaign groups have called for the return of blue passports to replace the current burgundy ones carried by all EU citizens.

The Home Office has invited businesses to apply for the £490m redesign project, with the new passports set to come into existence in 2019 - although it stressed this is because the current contract is ending, rather than because of the exit process.
Read More...
Document

Alt media journalist arrested, charged with felonies for breaking story before local news

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:41 UTC
Priscilla Villarreal
© The Free Thought Project
If you report a story before the police department is scheduled to release it to local media, you can and will be arrested and charged with a felony. For those that seek proof that alternative media is under attack, one needn't look any further than the case of Priscilla Villarreal.

Villarreal runs an alternative media platform out of Laredo and operates it on a news page on Facebook called LaGordiloca. Earlier this month, Villarreal was arrested and charged with two counts of "misuse of official information," a third-degree felony for operating that page.
Read More...
Newspaper

Norwegian court orders mass reindeer execution


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:34 UTC
reindeer
© CCO
For the sake of preserving Norway's fragile landscape, judges on the country's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a local reindeer herder must cull 125 members of his herd.

Though Jovsset Ante Sara, the 25-year-old herder, argued that the order would breach human rights norms and make it unable for him to make a living, judges in Oslo ultimately decided the slaughter was necessary to ensure the sustainability of the land, the Telegraph reported.
Read More...
Bizarro Earth

Prosecutors finally test 11k neglected rape kits, found cops let over 800 serial rapists walk free

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:29 UTC
sexual assault evidence kit
© The Free Thought Project
A team led by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has devoted countless hours over the last 8 years to test a backlog of more than 11,300 rape kits that were found in a police storage warehouse. As a result, they have found that nearly 1,000 serial rapists assaulted multiple victims, and because of the inefficiency of Detroit Police, the rapists were never charged.

The prosecutor and her team began tackling the major task of testing each one of the 11,341 rape kits back in 2009. The Detroit Free Press interviewed Worthy to discuss her team's findings, the most disturbing of which is that there are 817 serial rapists still on the loose who have attacked more than one person. Worthy discussed her county's plight, as well as the battle the rest of the nation is facing. She said in part:

Comment: America has trillions to spend on wars in other countries, but doesn't have the money to arrest the predators preying on our sisters, mothers, wives, and daughters? Worse still, it sounds like putting the top offenders away would significantly reduce the number of rapes committed.

Where are our priorities?

Read More...