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Cheesecake

Popular US restaurants, Olive Garden, Chili's, etc., have cameras and mics on your table. Are they spying on you?

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You can place your order, spill your secrets, refill your drink, use the wifi, be photo-filed, swipe your credit card, print your receipt, donate to a charity, redeem rewards, sell your info to third parties, trigger the NSA?...all by this one little handy dandy machine!
The Ziosk tablets on the tables have cameras and microphones built in to the top left corner of the device . Next time you visit check it out. Its extremely creepy. Everyone is being spyed on. I discovered this tonight and it is very disturbing...

You can order, pay your bill and even play games on tablets some restaurants now have at the table. But one of our viewers, Howard Fergarsky noticed a camera on a tablet and wanted to know if the restaurant is watching him.

"Is this a camera or something" our undercover producer asked a Chili's server. "Oh no, it's not," she answered. Despite what the Chili's server is telling our producer, there is a camera on the restaurant's tablet on the table. "I found the camera. Why is it there?" Fergarsky asked. "It doesn't need to be there."

He and friend, Cheryl Keith are afraid restaurants like Chili's, Red Robin and Applebee's which now have tablets for ordering, paying for food, even entertaining your kids with games could also be spying on us, watching and eavesdropping on our conversations or listening to what we're saying about their servers or food. "It concerns me that we're not seeing the hidden risks," said Keith.


Comment: The next creepy thing is already here. They track your preferences and financial information. They know who you are. They listen to your private conversations. They have you on camera... Anyone else feel a bit exposed? Assume all networks, at some point, enter the same information stream...and we know where that goes. It ain't about the appetizers and the kiddie table games!

Some of the US restaurant chains that use Ziosk and Olo (back-end platform) technology: Darden's Olive Garden, Chili's, Applebee's, Red Robin, Five Guys, Noodles, Dicky's BBQ, Abuelo's, Chipotle, Lime Fresh (pending), Johnny Rockets, UNO Pizzeria & Grill. These chains also have franchises in many countries, such as Boston-based UNO: 23 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, South Korea, UAE, Honduras, Mexico, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Non-restaurant chains are also considering Ziosk equipment, such as Ruby Tuesday (44 states and 13 foreign countries).


Light Sabers

Turkish police fire tear gas at protestors dissatisfied with snap election results

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© Stoyan Nenov/ReutersPeople burn flares as they celebrate outside the headquarters of Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party in Diyarbakir, Turkey November 1, 2015.
Scores of people rallied in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, Turkey's southeast, to protest the results of Sunday's parliamentary snap poll. The rally turned into clashes with police, prompting security forces to deploy tear gas.The rally blocked a road near Diyarbakir's center and some of the demonstrators threw stones before police responded with tear gas, Reuters reports. Security in the largest city in the south east had been beefed up all day in anticipation.


Sunday saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development party winning in the snap poll with the pro-Kurdish opposition falling close to the 10 percent threshold required to enter parliament.


The snap parliamentary election was called in Turkey after the previous vote in June failed to produce a government.

Comment: Turkish journalists condemn 'unprecedented' crackdown on media ahead of elections


Quenelle

Paris march, protesters show support for Russia and Assad

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© www.vbox7.com by image France Protesters show support for Russia and Assad at Paris march
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Paris, Saturday, to show their support for Russia and the Syrian government.

Comment: Good to see people coming together and showing support for Russia and the Syrian government.


Bad Guys

Hitler's swastika-stamped belongings auctioned off in Kirchheim, Germany

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Silver utensils - reportedly taken from the Reich Chancellery - belonging to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were auctioned off for high prices in Germany. The lots included silver plates, wine cups and even Eva Braun's powder box, all marked with swastikas and Hitler's initials. All the lots were auctioned off on Saturday in the city of Kirchheim unter Teck by Andreas Thies' auction house, Bild reports.

The bid included cut glasses, a silver plate, one silver cigar box and matchbox and Eva Braun's powder compact. Each item was explicitly marked with a combination of swastika, Reichsadler (the 'Imperial Eagle', used as a symbol by Nazi Germany) and Hitler's initials'AH'. The powder box, which reportedly belonged to Hitler's companion Eva Braun, was marked with her initials 'EB'. The buyer of the items remains undisclosed, perhaps due to the sensitive nature of the bid itself, but it's known all the lots were sold for quite high prices.

The silver cigar box - apparently part of the Fuehrer's personal table service - went for €25,000, thus being the most expensive item. Eva Braun's powder box was sold for €6,000 Euro with two wineglasses and a silver plate being snapped up for €3,600 and €2,500 respectively.


All the items sold at the auction belonged to Adolf Hitler and were found at his residences in Berghof and Obersalzberg, as well as at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, according to auctioneer Andreas Thies. Auctions of such sort frequently spark controversy among the German public, as the Nazi past is still a sensitive issue. In Germany and Austria public demonstration of Nazi symbols is forbidden by law and unwelcomed by society.

Bild's contributor, Stefan Hauck, believes that auctioning items such as these - given they belonged to the leader of the Third Reich - is not illegal but 'disgusting' whatsoever. He adds it is an issue of respect towards victims of the Nazi regime 'to enact a legislation that would prevent beneficiaries from making profit in this perverted way.'

Comment: Who goes Nazi? Reflections on the Nazi-personalities around us


Hearts

Sinai plane crash: 224 people died in Russian tragedy

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© vk.com/id72829© vk.com/id72829Darina Gromova
A 10-month-old girl gazing at the planes in St. Petersburg airport before departing to Egypt - this picture of Darina has become the symbol of the plane crash in Sinai on social media. People continue to bring flowers to mourn the tragedy.

Darina Gromova was among the 224 people who died on Kolavia flight 7K9268. It was returning from Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh resort to Russia's St. Petersburg on Saturday morning when it suddenly vanished from radar over the Sinai Peninsula.

Her parents - mother Tatiana and father Aleksey - were also among those killed in the crash.

"Main passenger. #family. #darinagromova. Pulkovo International Airport Saint-Petersburg New Terminal 1," wrote Tatiana hours before their plane took off from St. Petersburg to Sinai. Little did she know that this photo would become the grieving symbol of the tragic flight.

Comment: Read more on the Airbus A321 plane crash:
  • 'Structural failure'? Western propaganda rag creates narrative on the Russian A321 plane crash
  • Russian investigators begin operations at the Airbus A321 crash site



Light Saber

Hundreds march In Sicily protesting NATO drills - 'Sicily is not a war lab!'

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Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Sicily protesting against Trident Juncture 2015, the largest military maneuvers in more than a decade, which NATO claims are designed to adapt the alliance to "emerging security challenges."

The protesters marched through the streets of the city of Marsala, less than 10 miles (16km) from Vincenzo Florio Airport. The airport is a base for the 37th Wing of the Italian air force and is one of the forward operating bases (FOBs) used by NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control.

Organized by the "No war, no NATO" group, activists from all corners of the Italian island marched with banners reading "Sicily is not laboratory of the war" and "Sicily is no war zone". People urged the Italian government to better invest in education and the medical sector rather than military activity.

Accompanied by police in riot gear, the procession blocked traffic in the city center as protesters proceeded to reach Victory Square. A large portion of the crowd expressed concern with NATO activities disturbing the local tourism industry.

The US-led Trident Juncture 2015 military exercises which began on October 19 involve 36,000 troops from 30 countries. More than 160 aircraft including fighter jets, helicopters, surveillance planes, and drones, operating from 15 air bases in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, the three Allies hosting Trident Juncture are also taken part in the maneuvers. The exercises are the biggest NATO military exercise to take place since 2002.

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Comment: It's great to see more people taking a stand and protesting such a destructive force as NATO.

Warwhores: NATO launches biggest war games in 13 years; 36,000 troops, 200 aircraft & 60 vessels


USA

"I'm in fear of my life because I'm black": American seeks asylum in Canada to avoid being killed by cops

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A black American man has applied for refugee status in Canada claiming he risks being killed by police in his home country because of his race.

Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, filed a claim for asylum and told a hearing of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board that black people in America were "being exterminated at an alarming rate".

To back up his claim Mr Canty used the examples of the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the death of Eric Garner, who was put in a choke hold by police in New York.

Mr Canty told the hearing in Vancouver: "I'm in fear of my life because I'm black. This is a well-rounded fear."

According to the IRB he submitted a "significant amount of evidence" to back up his claim, including video footage of his own interactions with police in six US states where he had lived.

Comment: Police brutality disproportionately affects blacks, though people of all races are feeling the sting of these tools of the state. We are living in a police state, after all. So with cops going berserk all over the country, can one really blame Mr. Canty? Maybe he won't experience the same harassment from Canadian police.


Cell Phone

The real Zombie Apocalypse? People check their Smart Phones 85 times a day!

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Used to be, stats on how much television the average person watches in a given day were pretty horrifying. Hours of people's lives, gobbled up in front of the never ending stream of propaganda on the "boob tube"...

But these days we have computers! And tablets! And smart phones! (Oh my...)

Now a study by led by Nottingham Trent University has found that the average person is checking their smart phone a whopping 85 times a day. And many of them don't even realize how often they are doing it. People get up in the morning and check it first thing, and it is the last thing they look at before they close their eyes to go to sleep at night.

Comment: Is Your Cell Phone Killing You? Or turning you into a zombie?!


Eye 1

UK police ask for the legal right to view everyone's internet search history

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UK Police are asking the government for new surveillance powers to be able to view the Internet search history of every single person in the country.

Richard Berry, the National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman told The Guardian that "We want to police by consent, and we want to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place. But we need to balance this with the needs of the vulnerable and the victims. We essentially need the 'who, where, when and what' of any communication - who initiated it, where were they and when did it happened. And a little bit of the 'what', were they on Facebook, or a banking site, or an illegal child-abuse image-sharing website?"

"Five years ago, [a suspect] could have physically walked into a bank and carried out a transaction. We could have put a surveillance team on that but now, most of it is done online. We just want to know about the visit," he added.

Cardboard Box

Truth teller: After 14 years in Gitmo, Shaker Aamer faces hard task reintegrating

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After spending 14 years at the Guantanamo Bay camp, the last British inmate, Shaker Aamer will have a difficult task reintegrating into society. Besides his family and health, the only thing Aamer cares about is spreading the truth about what he had gone through.

Aamer, 46, was repatriated to the UK on Friday, after spending years in the American military prison in Cuba with no charges ever having been pressed - and no chance of getting any compensation. But getting reparations is not something that Aamer is looking for, his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith explained to RT.

"You got to remember that the overwhelming majority of people who have been held for many years without trial in Guantanamo Bay by the United States received not one penny of compensation. And Shaker will never receive a single penny of compensation from the United State for everything that he has gone through," Smith said.


Comment: The global "self-righteous" dictator for humanity has finally done "way too little" "way too late." Good luck to Aamer, his campaign for truth and justice and his return to a life stolen without cause. We all pay a price for the blatant violation of law and innocence of any human being, no matter the circumstances, no matter the country, no matter the outcome.