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Utterly Flocked: "We-Don't-Track-People" Firm Deploys Nationwide Network Of Warrantless Pedestrian-Tracking Cameras

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:26 UTC
FLOCK camera
Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based private surveillance firm, insists its cameras are not tracking people. Yet its own systems, training materials, and expanding product line tell a different story - one of a rapidly growing, warrantless mass surveillance infrastructure that logs vehicle movements, follows pedestrians with AI, and feeds data-hungry police departments across the country.

A new investigative report highlights how Flock's network - now encompassing tens of thousands of cameras - enables police to reconstruct months of travel history for any vehicle with a few clicks, no warrant required. Security researchers and activists are pushing back, mapping the devices and exposing security lapses that leave feeds openly accessible online.
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Che Guevara

Radical woke Mount Sinai Hospital exposed: DEI, child sex changes & Epstein ties were prioritized over patients

Tate Rosentreter
The Center Square
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:24 UTC
Mount Sinai Hospital new york city
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
Consumer protection organization Consumers' Research began a campaign Monday highlighting New York City-based nonprofit Mount Sinai Hospital's prioritization of what Consumers' calls the hospital's woke and political ideology as well as having what it says are questionable partnerships such as ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Executive director of Consumers' Research Will Hild told The Center Square that "Mount Sinai is another example of a nonprofit hospital that has seemingly abandoned its core mission of patient care in favor of a radical political agenda."

"The hospital has a history of prioritizing radical causes like DEI, child sex-change procedures, and climate activism, and has maintained a deeply troubling and disturbing relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, accepting donations and giving him special access to doctors and hospital resources," Hild said.
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A villainous blueprint for managed poverty

Veronique de Rugy
ZeroHedge
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:59 UTC
earth burning climate change globalist poverty wef elites
Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains.

Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in "The Fountainhead" would scheme to seize the global economy's commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice.

But the people who hold such ideas don't just appear in cartoons or in Rand's novels.

Enter Thomas Piketty and company.

In early June, Piketty - the French economist whose work on inequality has made him something of a rock star even while being serially challenged for methodological errors, data imputations and cherry-picked baselines - and his large team unveiled what can only be described as a villainous plan.

Comment: Piketty has made some good points about the failings of capitalism over the years, but his prescription for the remedy is still dangerous.

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Thousands of Italians take to the streets of Rome demanding remigration

Robert Semonsen
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:02 UTC
remigration protest italy
© via XRemigration march in Rome
Several thousand Italians marched through the capital on Saturday demanding remigration, strict border control, and a decisive break with the mass-immigration model that has transformed Italy without meaningful public consent.

The demonstration, according to a report from Remix News, was organized by the citizen initiative "Remigration and Reconquest," which has built support around a legislative proposal focused on illegal migrant returns, deportations, and national recovery. Marchers carried Italian flags and rallied behind a message that is now spreading across Europe: immigration must not only be slowed — it must be reversed.

Organizers say their initiative has collected roughly 50,000 signatures in support of the proposal, while other reports cited more than 150,000. Either way, the campaign has cleared the threshold needed to force Italy's political class to confront a question it has long tried to avoid.
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Well, duh: Violent crime drops as more Americans pack heat

John R. Lott Jr.
RealClearWire
Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:50 UTC
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© lifesizepotato from San Antonio, TX, Wikimedia Commons

Comment: The real gun safety . . . .


Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail with her 2-year-old daughter and dog two-and-a-half years ago when a man began yelling at her and threatened to kill her dog. When the petite single mom made it back to her Utah home, she decided she needed a firearm for protection.

A few months later, while living in what she described as a "shady part of town," a homeless man threatened her. After that encounter, she began regularly carrying a firearm under Utah's Constitutional Carry law.

Coote, who just graduated this spring from the University of Utah, says carrying the gun has given her the confidence to feel safe in public. "It's been life-changing," she told RealClearInvestigations. Although she has never had to draw or fire the weapon, she has faced a threatening individual when she was armed, but stopped the attack by merely letting the man know she was carrying.

Comment: Switzerland, with a well-armed citizenry, is the model:

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Che Guevara

New study reveals how the Left turned mental illness into a political identity

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:22 UTC
Social justice warriors
Something researchers have observed for decades is finally crystallizing into a measurable cultural phenomenon. Political conservatives consistently report higher levels of happiness, better mental health, and stronger psychological well-being than their liberal counterparts. A new study published in Political Behavior takes that finding several steps further, arguing that mental illness has begun functioning as its own political identity, and that identity clusters most tightly on the left.

Columbia University's magazine originally flagged the underlying trend back in 2023, reporting that "American adults who identify as politically liberal have long reported lower levels of happiness and psychological well-being than conservatives," Based on the data of four different studies, researchers from the Universities of Florida and Toronto, found an explanation: conservatives tend to exhibit greater personal agency, religiosity, moral clarity, self-worth, and a more optimistic general disposition.
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The Dutch Covid inquiry is not looking for the truth

Elisabeth Bennink
Brownstone Institute
Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
Dotch covid inquiry
Across the world, the response to Covid looked strangely alike: the same lockdowns, the same shuttered schools and businesses, the same insistence that there was only one responsible course and that to question it was to put lives at risk. Country after country moved in near lockstep.

To me, that uniformity remains one of the most troubling features of those years. Measures so similar, so sweeping, and adopted so quickly are difficult to explain as dozens of governments independently reach the same conclusion. Whatever the truth behind that coordination, the Covid era cannot be understood one nation at a time. What was done to people's freedoms — and how each country now chooses to examine it, or to look away — concerns us all. What follows is one country's reckoning.

From a distance, the Netherlands can look like an open society settling its accounts with the pandemic.
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'Trump has sold us out': Israelis react with anger and anxiety to new Iran deal

Elizabeth Blade
RT
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:04 UTC
Israelis and Neti
© RT compositeIsraelis and PM Benjamin Netanyahu
As Washington and Tehran prepare to sign a historic peace agreement, many Israelis fear the deal preserves Iran's military power and sets the stage for the next war.

After more than three and a half months of fighting and intense back-and-forth negotiations, US President Donald Trump announced that Washington and Tehran, under Pakistani mediation, have reached a final agreement to end hostilities between them.

The deal is expected to be signed in Geneva on June 19.

According to reports, the memorandum of understanding stipulates that upon signing, both sides will declare an immediate, complete, and permanent end to all hostilities across the region, including in Lebanon. The blockade on Iran would be lifted, Washington would commit not to interfere in Iran's domestic affairs, refrain from increasing troop levels in the region, and release half of Iran's frozen assets, an amount totaling approximately $12 billion.In exchange, Iran would reaffirm its commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and confirm that it will never produce, develop or acquire nuclear weapons. Tehran would also reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial maritime traffic within 30 days, according to arrangements specified by Iran. Israel has not taken the news lightly.
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Major U-turn: Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants


Remix News
Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:45 UTC
Swedish flag and Parliament House
© scandification.comSwedish flag and Parliament House
The Swedish Parliament has officially passed a government bill to end permanent residence permits, which will offer a vastly stricter approach to the country's immigration policy. Under the new legislation, the government "eliminates the possibility of granting permanent residence permits to asylum seekers" and other immigrant groups specified in the reform.

Set to take effect on July 12, the updated rules dictate that affected individuals will now only be eligible to receive temporary residence permits. However, those who currently hold valid permanent residence will keep their existing status and remain unaffected by the change.

While temporary permits have become standard practice in Sweden over recent years, this reform goes significantly further by preventing specific groups from converting those temporary stays into permanent ones. Through this measure, the Swedish Executive aims to tighten its oversight regarding the long-term status of foreigners within its borders.

Comment: See also:
'The suicide of Europe' - Historic EU Migration Pact goes into force today as fracture lines grow

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Canada's social media ban for under-16s goes to parliament


The Guardian
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:16 UTC
Children with cell phones
© FatCamera/Getty ImagesCanada has introduced legislation to parliament that could ban children younger than 16 having social media accounts
Legislation would exempt platforms that can prove they have safeguards for children in place.

Canada's government has introduced legislation to parliament that could ban children younger than 16 from having social media accounts unless the companies show they can make their platforms safe.

Ottawa is joining a growing global effort to tighten online safety. Canadian government officials said social media platforms can obtain an exemption if they have put in place sufficient safeguards.

"We are failing our children. Enough is enough," said Marc Miller, Canada's culture minister. "We need basic protection in place."

The legislation covers seven types of harmful content including content that induces children to harm themselves, content that incites violence and foments hatred and non-consensual intimate images.

A digital safety commission will be created. Criteria for what exemptions would look like will be announced at a later date. Miller said setting up the regulator could take up to 18 months. Miller said platforms will need to prove they are safe. Age verification will also be established.
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