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Berlin to crack down on Arab criminal gangs plaguing the city for decades

RT
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:54 UTC

Seized by fears of being labeled xenophobic, Berlin officials have allowed a parallel world to emerge in Germany's capital - one inhabited by criminal gangs of Middle Eastern origin. But is it too late for a crackdown?

After years of inaction, Berlin law enforcement authorities are finally taking the growing issue of migrant gangs seriously. The city's government on Monday announced a crackdown on migrant criminal gangs, unveiling a five-point plan which they said would help tackle the issue. Their new crime fighting strategy includes enhanced cooperation between police and the prosecutor's office, as well as social welfare and youth services. Together they hope to crowdsource information-gathering on gang activities.

Other measures will involve harsher punishments for minor violations committed by gang members and a system of youth crime prevention, which is designed to help young gang members avoid becoming career criminals.

Comment: Societal protections crunching to a halt for decades due to insufficient political correctness? What is the bigger infraction: nothing being done by law enforcement out of fear of being labeled xenophobic, or the actual crimes committed by actual criminals?

Marriott hotel chain reveals data breach of 500 million guests

Jordan Valinsky
CNN
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:24 UTC

Marriott says its guest reservation system has been hacked, potentially exposing the personal information of approximately 500 million guests.

The hotel chain said Friday the hack affects its Starwood reservation database, a group of hotels it bought in 2016 that includes the St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton and W Hotels.

Marriott said hackers had gained "unauthorized access" to the Starwood reservation system since 2014, but the company only identified the issue last week. "The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it," Marriott said in a statement.

For 327 million people, Marriott says the guests' exposed information includes their names, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, date of birth and arrival and departure information.

For millions others, their credit card numbers and card expiration dates were potentially compromised. Marriott warns that it can't confirm if the hackers were able to decrypt the credit card numbers. "We fell short of what our guests deserve and what we expect of ourselves. We are doing everything we can to support our guests, and using lessons learned to be better moving forward," said CEO Arne Sorenson.

The Guardian informs its readers to beware populists propagandizing... with cute cats!

RT
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:56 UTC

After a futile half decade of trying to explain the rise of anti-immigrant and law and order parties in Europe, mainstream media outlets believe they have solved the riddle of their success: cats.

The breakthrough was achieved when Italy's interior minister, Matteo Salvini, gave the game away by posting pictures of felines sent to him by his 3.3 million Facebook followers last week. He received not only an impressive 30,000 likes, but more pictures of cats - something he could use to further boost his popularity!

Comment: The Guardian is really plumbing the depths of stupidity here.

Hang on now, we've said that at least a dozen times in the last few years.

Oh well, what depth of stupidity WILL The Graun plumb next?!

Substitute teacher in Maryland tapes student to a chair when he wouldn't return to his seat

CBS News - Baltimore
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:38 UTC

A long-term substitute teacher at an Anne Arundel County Public School is no longer at the school after she was reported by a parent for taping a student to a chair.

The substitute teacher was reportedly in the classroom when she remarked to a student that if he did not return to his seat, she would tape him. When the student found the remark funny, the teacher did just that.

After the school learned of the incident from a parent Wednesday night, police were notified. The teacher was also not in school Thursday and will not be placed in any school at this time.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools chief communications officer Bob Mosier confirmed the incident occurred this Wednesday.

'Corpse smuggler' arrested in India with 50 human skeletons in his luggage

Saptarshi Ray
The Telegraph, UK
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:30 UTC

Indian police are investigating a skeleton smuggling gang after a man was caught with skulls and bones of 50 different people on a train.

Government Railway Police arrested the suspected "corpse smuggler" at Chapra railway station in India's eastern state of Bihar.

The arrested man, identified as Sanjay Prasad, was carrying 16 human skulls and 34 skeletal remains in his luggage and was travelling on the Balia-Sealdah Express to Kolkata, from where police said he was heading for the border to Bhutan.

Police suspect that the skeletons, which according to the suspect were brought from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, were then meant to be smuggled to China via Bhutan, reported the Times of India.

Mr Prasad was part of a gang who supplied human skeletons to "tantrics and occultists" in the Himalayan Kingdom, police said. They also claimed there was "huge demand for skeletons among medical students in China".

London mayor under pressure to stop armed police patrols amid rising crime

Vikram Dodd
The Guardian
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:34 UTC

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has come under pressure to order Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to stop plans for officers to patrol residential areas of the city with their guns on show.

The plans being considered by the Met are aimed at boosting community confidence and public safety, but triggered swingeing criticism on Thursday night.

An email sent to a number of community figures by the Met outlining the proposal said it was in response to knife crime and rising violent crime.

The Met email, seen by the Guardian, said: "We are sure you and your communities are all as troubled as we are by the unsettling number of young people being seriously and fatally stabbed in recent times."

It continues: "There has been recent internal discussion around using additional armed support to patrol on foot amongst local communities, with their weapons visible and accessible. The purpose of any such initiative must be to enhance public and unarmed officer safety, and to improve not hinder community confidence."

Conservative activist, Laura Loomer, chains herself to Twitter's office door in protest of social media censorship

RT
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:12 UTC

A week after being suspended from Twitter, conservative firebrand Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's New York offices in a protest against social media censorship of right-wing voices.

Calling out Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for "the double standards that exist here at Twitter," Loomer read out a list of offensive tweets that had been permitted to stay on Twitter while her own post criticizing Congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar for her alleged support of Sharia law had gotten her banned for "hate speech."

Loomer seemed almost disappointed when police declined to arrest her, opting instead to set up barricades to keep crowds away from the building entrance and allowing her to continue addressing onlookers through a miniature bullhorn. A spokesperson from the NYPD said she was cut free two hours after starting the protest and that Twitter did not want to press charges.

Comment: Twitter bans outspoken conservative activist Laura Loomer

'I almost died': Young French woman disfigured by an allergic reaction to hair dye

The Local
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:35 UTC

A young woman from Paris has shared photos showing the shocking disfigurement caused to her face by an allergic reaction to a common hair dye product.

Nineteen-year-old Estelle stunned social media users in France after she posted on Facebook a sequence of alarming photos in which her face looks increasingly swollen and intoxicated.

The English undergrad student almost died as a result of the allergic reaction she suffered to PPD - the abbreviation for paraphenylenediamine- a common compound found in 90 percent of hair dyes despite its known allergic risks.

"Look, here I could still see; here I was struggling to breathe, " she told French daily Le Parisien in an interview as she scrolled through the photos on her phone.

Convict confesses to murder of 90 people over 40-year span. The FBI believes him.

Eric Levenson and Chuck Johnston
CNN
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:27 UTC

Samuel Little has confessed to 90 murders, according to authorities.

Samuel Little was hoping to move prisons this past spring.

The 78-year-old was spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of killing three people. But his name had popped up in the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, known as ViCAP, in connection with a series of unsolved murders across the country.

One killing in Odessa, Texas, appeared to be particularly relevant, so two FBI crime analysts and James Holland of the Texas Rangers went out to see Little to try to get him to talk.

He was more than willing, according to the FBI.

Moscow railroad tests facial recognition payment to identify and charge passengers

RT
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:47 UTC

The operator of Moscow's passenger railroad service is testing a system, which would use facial recognition to identify and charge passengers. Similar pilot projects are underway or planned in other areas in the Russian capital.

As computational power and broadband communications become more accessible, using biometrics identification for screening of people gets cheaper and faster. So it's natural that the technology, initially meant for security and law enforcement, is finding its ways to new applications.

The company responsible for most railroad passenger traffic in the Russian capital is the latest player trying to use facial recognition as payment method. The TsPPK has introduced a system for this as a pilot project, its head Maksim Dyakonov said at a recent panel on the development of public transport in Moscow.

"We are testing a prototype on a couple of stations and want to see if it makes sense or not," he said as cited by TASS. "Anyway, the transit system moves towards a unified ticked, that would hopefully minimize time to check in."

Comment: See also: Swedish microchipping photos flood social media and it's insane

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Society's Child

Berlin to crack down on Arab criminal gangs plaguing the city for decades

Marriott hotel chain reveals data breach of 500 million guests

The Guardian informs its readers to beware populists propagandizing... with cute cats!

Substitute teacher in Maryland tapes student to a chair when he wouldn't return to his seat

'Corpse smuggler' arrested in India with 50 human skeletons in his luggage

London mayor under pressure to stop armed police patrols amid rising crime

Conservative activist, Laura Loomer, chains herself to Twitter's office door in protest of social media censorship

'I almost died': Young French woman disfigured by an allergic reaction to hair dye

Convict confesses to murder of 90 people over 40-year span. The FBI believes him.

Moscow railroad tests facial recognition payment to identify and charge passengers

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