NPR

Los Angeles’ public transit system has announced that it is the first in the U.S. to purchase millimeter wave scanners to screen metro riders for suspicious objects as they move through stations.

The technology “will help detect weapon and explosive device security threats on the county’s transit system,” the system says in a joint press release with the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday.   Continue reading “Los Angeles Is Deploying Body Scanners To Screen Metro Riders”

Daily Beast

A major human rights crisis is unfolding in northwestern China, according to the United Nations, which said last week that there were credible reports that the Chinese government is holding one million or more ethnic minorities in secretive detention camps.

Yet even for those who have escaped China, surveillance and intimidation have followed. As part of a massive campaign to monitor and intimidate its ethnic minorities no matter where they are, Chinese authorities are creating a global registry of Uighurs who live outside of China, threatening to detain their relatives if they do not provide personal and identifying information to Chinese police. This campaign is now reaching even Uighurs who live in the United States.
Continue reading “Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil”

BBC

Packages, letters and even a wheelchair intended for Palestinians have arrived in the occupied West Bank after Israel released years of undelivered mail.

The post, which includes internet orders that never arrived, had been held in Jordan since 2010 and was released under a one-time agreement.

Palestinian postal workers in the city of Jericho are now faced with sorting through more than 10 tonnes of goods.   Continue reading “Palestinian mail blocked by Israel arrives eight years late”

RT

High school-age children in the United States are set to receive “life-saving trauma training” funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an effort to prepare them for “mass casualty events”.

The DHS has issued a $1.8 million grant to create the program, according to federal procurement documents obtained by The Young Turks (TYT) news organization.  Continue reading “US high school students to receive ‘trauma training’ to prepare for ‘mass casualty events’ – report”

Middle East Monitor

Al Jazeera received a secret report prepared by former military officials who worked with the Saudi-UAE alliance in Yemen on the conditions of prisons and secret detention centres and forced disappearances.

The information in the report matched the testimonies of prisoners and abductees given to human rights activists. Such details also reinforced what had been revealed by the Associated Press in previous investigations.   Continue reading “Methods of torture in Saudi-led coalition prisons in Yemen: Rape using devices, hot pepper, salt and bone smashing”

The Ugly Truth – by Mark Glen

Famous is thy beauty majesty, but behold, a lovely maid I see…Rags cannot hide her gentle grace…Alas, she is more fair than thee…’

–The Magic Mirror in Walt Disney’s Snow White speaking to Grimhilde, the jealous queen/evil witch.  

Continue reading “‘Magic Mirror, On the Wall’ …Judaic Pathological Narcissism as the Sparkplug of Armageddon”

BPR

You won’t hear about it from “fake news” CNN, but on Saturday far-left thugs, reportedly affiliated with the terrorist group Antifa, marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, while beating up cops, attacking reporters and chanting anti-police slogans.

Here’s just one example that shows the thugs chanting “cops and the Klan go hand in hand.”:   Continue reading “Charlottesville Antifa crowd attack police and reporters, chant, ‘Cops and Klan Go Hand in Hand!’”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr Eowyn

The Oxford Dictionaries defines “norm” as something that is usual, typical, or standard. To “normalize” some deviant thing or behavior, therefore, is to make that object or behavior a “norm” — that is, making it acceptable by having the public perceive it as usual, typical, standard, and humdrum ordinary.

America has already surrendered to sodomy and “transgenderism” (a biological impossibility). What is underway now is the normalization of evil — of deviant predilection and behaviors like pedophilia, bestiality, cannibalism, and satanism. See:  Continue reading “Normalizing Satanism in America: Demon statue in Arkansas state capitol; satanic highway cleanup in Indiana”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

The National Park Service is asking for the public’s opinion on proposed revisions to Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 7.96 for the National Mall, President’s Park and other national parks in the Washington, D.C. area, proposing a First Amendment permit for those locations.

Yes, you read that right a “First Amendment permit” with regulations is being proposed in Washington D.C., which could potentially set a precedent for anyone who wants to stand up for a cause elsewhere in the United States.   Continue reading “Proposed First Amendment Regulations In Washington, D.C. Could Set A Precedent”

Science Alert

Annually, between July 17 and August 24, the Perseid meteor shower puts on one of the brightest cosmic events of the year.

This year the meteor shower is predicted to reach its peak on the night of August 12, as Earth passes through the densest part of the Comet 109/Swift-Tuttle‘s trail.   Continue reading “Catch The Best of This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower This Weekend”

RT

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the company reviews real world activity when dealing with accounts of racists and hate-mongers. Some users were chilled by the prospect of being monitored offline, while others plain confused.

“We look at off-platform behavior as well. At things that aren’t just happening on Twitter, but happening on other platforms or in the real world,” Dorsey told political commentator and TV host Sean Hannity on his radio show on Wednesday.   Continue reading “‘Dystopian screenplay’? Twitter considers ‘off-platform behavior’ when banning hate speech”

Daily Mail

YouTube is fighting back against climate change deniers by implementing a fact-checking box below user-uploaded videos on the controversial topic.

The system will surface information from Wikipedia or Britannica Encyclopedia to display factual information in bitesize chunks below videos on climate change.

YouTube already implemented the feature for videos on a slew of other contentious topics, including the MMR vaccination, the moon landing and UFOs.    Continue reading “YouTube will now place Wikipedia entries about global warming below videos ‘refuting evidence of rising temperatures’”