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Researchers identify Twitter users with 'with 96.7% accuracy' from Tweets and publicly available metadata


RT
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:25 UTC
metadata reveals user information,
Twitter's metadata contains an array of revealing information on its users, a new study proves, and can be used to identify a user with unnerving accuracy - even those who go to great lengths to hide that information.

Researchers at University College London and the Alan Turing Institute found they could correctly identify a Twitter user from a group of 10,000 with 96.7 percent accuracy, using just their tweets and publicly available metadata.

The goal was "to determine if the information contained in users' metadata is sufficient to fingerprint an account," and the results reveal how much identifying information is tied to Twitter accounts, whose users may believe they are tweeting anonymously. A single tweet contains about 144 fields of metadata.

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Trump tweets: 'FBI lovers' who exchanged anti-Trump texts getting 'cold feet' ahead of hearings


RT
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:47 UTC
Strzok
© Leah Millis / Reuters
FBI agent Peter Strzok
Two former FBI officials who worked on the Russia probe may be getting "cold feet" ahead of planned appearances on Capitol Hill this week, US President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet on Tuesday.

Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are due to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee, to answer questions about anti-Trump text messages they'd exchanged, which led to them being taken off the investigating team - but there have been conflicting reports about whether the pair will show up for the hearings.

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Swedish dentist who revealed 80% of migrant 'children' are adults fired, may lose home

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:57 UTC
Bernt Herlitz
Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz revealed to authorities that after checking the molar teeth of hundreds of migrant children that 80% of the so-called children were actually adults. Herlitz was quickly fired and now may lose his home.

In June 2016 two migrants were arrested in February for raping a twelve year-old boy at a housing center for unaccompanied migrants in Sweden. The men said they were 15 but social media shows they were born in 1997 and 1971.

The men raped the child and recorded the attack on a cellphone.

The Swedish Migration Agency claims up to 70 percent of child migrants are actually adults.

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Bernt believes that he had done a right thing for exposing the migrants lying about their age. "I don't think they should lie to come to Sweden," he explained, speaking to RT.

RT sent a request to Gotland regional authorities, asking them to clarify the situation. No response has so far been received.

The problem of adult refugees claiming to be "unaccompanied minors" is not new in Europe, which has been facing a large influx of migrants since 2015. A German government report leaked to media revealed in 2017 that some 43 percent of migrants in the country who claim to be children are actually adults. In Denmark such a number stands at 74 percent.

Some migrants provide false data on their age, seemingly in order to get more benefits from the welfare systems of the European countries. However, others claim to be 'children' in an apparent attempt to be tried as juveniles for alleged crimes. An Afghani immigrant, Hussein Khavari, accused of raping and murdering a 19-year-old German woman, turned out to be an adult. At the time of his arrest, Hussein told police he was 17 years old. However, after analysis of one of the suspect's teeth from the upper jaw showed that the accused was about 26 years old, probably 30.


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Iranian woman sentenced to 2 years for anti-hijab protest


Sputnik
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:13 UTC
Iranian woman
© Screenshot / mahsti25
An Iranian woman who removed her hijab in public in protest in December says that she was sentenced to two years in prison and given another 18 years as a suspended sentence. Suspended sentences are a legal arrangement that lets a person skip jail time so long as they don't break any more laws.

The woman, Shepark Shajarizadeh, 42, made the claims in a video posted to social media on July 10. On her personal website she wrote that she was imprisoned for "opposing the compulsory hijab" and "waving a white flag of peace in the street."

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New Zealand's biggest mass strike in decades: Teachers, nurses and civil servants to walk out after "years of neglect"


RT
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:59 UTC
Teachers in New Zealand will strike for the first time in 24 years
© Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
Teachers in New Zealand will strike for the first time in 24 years
A wave of strike action is surging in New Zealand, as disgruntled teachers, nurses, and government staffers prepare to walk off the job in a row over better pay. The workers reject proposals put to them by the NZ government.

The first Labour Government in ten years is pointing the finger back at the Opposition, saying that "years of neglect" cannot be addressed in one go. A range of government-paid sectors have rejected this sentiment.

Teachers will walk off the job next month, nurses will strike this week and civil servants walked off the job last month, all over claims that they are not paid enough. The median New Zealand wage is $48,800 NZD. Teachers, nurses and civil servants are earning less than that amount or close to it, if they have more experience and education. While the government proposed some increases over the months of negotiations, those are believed to be insufficiently index-linked.

Comment: What has happened to pretty much all the Western economies that they are no longer able to fund the essentials in society? Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Poverty and Homelessness in America

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Granting amnesty to illegal aliens insults legal immigrants

Kenny Xu
The Federalist
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:10 UTC
new citizens
© National Park Service/Michael Quinn
At Grand Canyon National Park, 23 individuals from 12 different countries become naturalized citizens.
Why grant illegal immigrants amnesty when so many potential legal immigrants would sacrifice everything for such an opportunity, and are already waiting in line?

Many automatically assume that to be "pro-immigrant" is to support amnesty for illegal immigrants. But many legal immigrants view amnesty another way: as a gift to lawbreakers at the expense of those who wait in line to come to America lawfully.

"I'm very happy they're helping the 11 million people here illegally, but what are they doing for us?" said Mexican visa holder Juan De La Torre, who is waiting for naturalization, in a 2013 CNN interview. If you wouldn't let the random bloke off the street cut you in line, why would you desire that someone who committed a crime by entering this country unlawfully would get what he wants as a result, instead of those who followed the rules?
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Fringe NY gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon calls ICE 'a terrorist organization'

Lukas Mikelionis
Fox News
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:34 UTC
Cynthia Nixon
© Reuters
Actress Cynthia Nixon announces that she is running for governor of New York at a campaign stop in Brooklyn, March 20, 2018.
New York gubernatorial candidate and former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon on Thursday called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "a terrorist organization" and called for its abolition, pitting progressive New Yorkers against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Nixon made her remarks at a church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where an illegal immigrant is taking sanctuary after being threatened with deportation after she failed to show a driver's license during a traffic stop by ICE agents.

"ICE has strayed so far away from its mission. It is supposed to be here to keep Americans safe but what it has turned into, frankly, is a terrorist organization of its own that is terrorizing people who are coming to this country," she said, according to NY1 News.
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Michael Jackson's former doctor claims singer was 'chemically castrated' as a boy by his father


RT
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:06 UTC
michael jackson
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
Michael Jackson's doctor has claimed the singer's father "chemically castrated" him as a boy to prevent him from developing - and to maintain his high voice.

Conrad Murray, who was Jackson's personal physician and was imprisoned for two years for the involuntary manslaughter of the pop music icon, made the claim in a video in which he condemned Joe Jackson, who died last month.

"The fact that he [Michael] was chemically castrated to maintain his high-pitched voice is beyond words," Murray said in a video released by The Blast. Murray claimed Jackson was given hormone injections when he was 12 in a bid to cure his acne and stop his voice from deepening, an allegation the physician first outlined in his self-published book in 2016.
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Spiteful Bild editor calls German footballer who met with Putin a 'Kremlin propaganda tool'


RT
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:42 UTC
putin and matthaus
© Aleksey Druzhinin
Former German player Lothar Matthaus and Russian President Vladimir Putin
In a spiteful piece, a senior Bild editor called German football star Lothar Matthaus a Kremlin propaganda tool for meeting Putin. Matthaus countered that for fans like himself, hosting a wonderful World Cup beats politics.

When it comes to judging the quality of a football championship, Matthaus is as qualified as they come. After all, he played in five World Cups in his career, winning one in 1990. So last Friday, he and several other football figures went to the Kremlin and personally thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for a well-organized tournament.

This drew the ire of Julian Reichelt, the editor-in-chief of German tabloid Bild. In an editorial, he called Putin a murderer and said Matthaus should not have shaken his "bloody hand."
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Sisterhood: Iranian women share dancing videos in support of jailed Instagram star Maedeh Hojabri


Sputnik
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Teenage dancer Maedeh Hojabri arrested Iran
Iranian women are sharing videos of themselves dancing on social media after an Iranian teenager was arrested last week for uploading videos of herself dancing on Instagram.

Maedeh Hojabri, an 18-year-old Instagram star in Iran who has almost 70,000 followers, was detained last week after she shared videos of herself dancing on the social media platform. In many of the videos, she was not wearing a hijab, which women in Iran are required to wear in public.


On Friday, Iranian state TV broadcaster IRIB aired a video in which a crying and shaking Hojabri says she regrets recording and uploading the clips. Some have noted that the confession may have been forced, allegedly a common tactic used by Iranian authorities.

Comment: No doubt they will be receiving more encouragement and support from those with vested interests in stirring up societal unrest in Iran.

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