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Tech companies are trying to sell police real-time facial recognition systems, which can track and identify people as they walk down the street. As NPR reported two weeks ago, American police have generally held off, but there’s new evidence that one police department — Orlando, Fla. — has decided to try it out.
What’s more, Orlando ordered its facial recognition system from Amazon. Continue reading “Orlando Police Testing Amazon’s Real-Time Facial Recognition”
The Duran – by Terrence Leveck
Here are key excerpts from the most concise, accurate, and clearest, news-reports about something that almost all U.S. news-media have been completely hiding (issuing no reports about, though the theft indisputably happened and grows each year) — a theft of $65,000 from each American.
Consequently, this composite news-report (which is herewith being submitted to all U.S. news-media) will likewise probably be hidden by them. But, the few news-media that have already reported on this very important matter are linked-to here, and deserve great praise for having done so, because the vast majority still haven’t yet reported on this important matter, at all. Continue reading “How $65,000 was stolen from each American”
Last month the Drive reported that an Israeli firm called Plasan, wants to sell their version of a “Batmobile” to U.S. police.
Plasan which bills itself as the leader in ‘vehicle protection’ unveiled their new ‘Yagu’ an ultralight armored vehicle at the Expo Seguridad 2018 exhibition in Mexico City. Continue reading “How long before police “batmobiles” patrol our streets?”
A police officer with the Virginia Beach Police Department recently issued a $100 ticket to a driver who was smoking a cigarette with a child in the car.
The police department posted a photo of the ticket on Twitter, writing: “Protect your children and keep $100 in your pocket! #NoSmoking #WeAreWatching.” Continue reading “Virginia police issue $100 ticket to driver smoking with child in car: ‘We are watching’”
Cape Cod Today – by Cyndy Lane
Facial recognition tech during driver’s license photos? Are there any states that this will be implemented soon? What are the outcomes from this technology?
To thwart identity theft, facial recognition is used when obtaining driver’s licenses. Read on to find what this technology is and how your state is using it. Continue reading “Facial Recognition Is Now A Part Of The Driver’s License Renewal Process. Here’s What That Means”
The government is still trying to land a conviction from its mass arrest of participants in last year’s Inauguration Day protests in Washington, DC. So far, it has nothing to show for its efforts but a far-too-casual disregard for civil liberties.
The prosecutions began with the government’s breathtaking demand for the personal info of all 1 million+ visitors to the Disrupt J20 website. From there, things did not improve. The government’s prosecutors accused protest participants of “hiding behind the First Amendment” while attempting to strip away First Amendment protections. One of those charged by the government with rioting was journalist Alexi Wood, who had filmed the protests and had the footage to show he wasn’t a participant in violent or destructive acts. Continue reading “DOJ Still Wants To Lock People Up For Protesting The Government, Or Even Just Talking About It”
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Neighbors say they’re furious over a drone that’s flying over the neighborhood, and we’ve found out it’s tied to a government agency not many people have even heard of.
The mysterious drone has been spotted during late-night hours, hovering over residential neighborhoods and looking down on homes. Continue reading “Why Is A Government Drone Flying Over A Sacramento Neighborhood?”
In the video, the cyclist gets thrown from his bike, sails through the air, and hits the ground hard.
Heins Rodriguez, a 26-year-old from Queens, New York, was riding his bike in the Corona neighborhood on August 13, 2015. Based on surveillance footage from the area, we know how the ride ended: A pair of police officers following Rodriguez in an unmarked car veered toward him, running him off the road and possibly striking him. Rodriguez crashed on the sidewalk, landing on his side. Continue reading “Why Did Police Run This Cyclist Off His Bike?”
Scott Peterson, the Broward County sheriff’s deputy who failed to engage the Parkland high school shooter, is eligible to receive an annual pension in excess of six figures.
The Sun Sentinel obtained records from the Florida Department of Management Services showing that Peterson, who retired in the weeks after the March shooting, is due to collect $8,700 per month. That works out to slightly more than $104,000 a year. Peterson, who is 55 years old, will be able to receive that pension for the rest of his life, and Broward County taxpayers will cover 50 percent of his health insurance premiums. Continue reading “Deputy Who Failed to Engage Parkland Shooter Gets $104,000 Annual Pension for Life”
Reason – by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“Protect and Serve Act” passes House. File under bipartisan-is-just-another-word-for-both-sides-licking-the-same-boot: majorities of both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have voted in favorof new hate crime legislation that sets up cops as a protected class.
Overall, just 35 House members voted against the bill (H.R. 5698), which isn’t far from making it a federal crime to resist arrest. Under the so-called “Protect and Serve Act,” anyone who injures or attempts to injure a police officer will be guilty of a federal offense—no matter how small the injury and no matter if it was intentional—if the offense has some connection to or effect on interstate commerce. Continue reading “New Hate Crime Bill Protecting Cops Passes House Despite Clear 10th Amendment Violation”
It appears the police in Brookhaven, Georgia are not content with just having their own ‘Operation Plugged In’ cam-share program.
What they have done is create one of the most disturbing corporate/police relationships I have had the displeasure of writing about. Continue reading “Georgia Power Company leasing license plate readers to police departments”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent a clear message to millions of gun owners in California: You’re living in a Second Amendment-free zone.
In an order on Monday, without explanation or comment, the Court rejected a civil rights lawsuit brought by the Calguns Foundation and the Second Amendment Foundation. Those groups had hoped the justices would rule that the Second Amendment continues to apply even in the progressive enclaves of the left coast—and that law-abiding California residents possess the right to buy and sell firearms. Continue reading “California Cities Are Free to Regulate Gun Stores Out of Existence”
The United Nations’ International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) is finishing up their Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence. According to IANSA, the goal of the week-long meeting is “for us to advocate collectively for an end to illicit trade and misuse of small arms and light weapons.”
We all know what that really means: the United Nations presumes they have authority over every human being on earth, and as such, seeks to ban guns from the slaves they want to control. Of course, they aren’t going to come right out and say it just it. It took liberals decades before they simply admitted what we already knew: they are coming for our guns. Continue reading “The UN Quietly Pushes INTERNATIONAL Gun Control”
Campus Reform – by Toni Airaksinen
The president of Santa Monica College is urging students who witness “hate speech” to file a report with campus police.
“Reaffirming SMC’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion” was emailed to all students and staff on May 3 after an unknown “outside visitor brought hate speech onto one of Santa Monica College’s campuses.” Continue reading “College tells students to report ‘hate speech’ to police”
It seems like all I have been writing about lately, is how police are using cam-share programs to create city-wide surveillance networks.
When I first heard about ‘Ring’ a smart doorbell with a video camera, I didn’t think much of it.
I mean how could the police state turn what appeared to be an innocuous smart device into another surveillance tool? Continue reading “Police use spying doorbells to create digital neighborhood watch networks”
A lifetime civil servant peacefully protested against Gina Haspel’s nomination to lead the CIA last week on the floor or the US Senate. US government personnel responded by throwing the 78-year-old man to the ground and forcing his hands behind his back to be handcuffed, dislocating his shoulder in the process.
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, a decorated intelligence officer who served under seven presidents, was rushed out of the Senate for speaking out of turn as an audience member during Haspel’s confirmation hearing. As a former CIA employee, McGovern seemed intent on letting Congress know he didn’t think it was prudent for someone intimately involved with the CIA’s illegal torture program to be running the agency. Continue reading “Ex-CIA Agent Recounts Violent Arrest on Capitol Hill for Protesting CIA Torture”
Can cheering at this South Carolina high school graduation really cost you $1,030? It depends on whom you ask.
Yes, warns Greenville High School.
Maybe, suggests the Greenville County school district. Continue reading “Parents could be fined $1,030 for cheering at this South Carolina high school graduation”
Centre Daily News – by Jared Gilmour
If there’s a lesson to this story, it’s probably this: Enunciate when you’re talking to police.
A high school in Holliston, Massachusetts — not far from Boston — had a scary Friday morning when an anonymous tipster called police to report a suspicious item in the school’s parking lot, according to a Holliston Public Schools Facebook post. Continue reading “Student had a bong in his car, tipster said. Massachusetts police heard ‘bomb.’”
The Mind Unleashed – by Markab Algedi
At the beginning of the month (May 2018) the British Ministry of Defence seemingly on accident revealed for the first time that they are unloading horrifyingly inhumane, thermobaric weapons out of drones onto the people of Syria: and it wasn’t even in this recent April 2018 escalation of tension, but last year. They are doing it more often than they’d like to admit.
Somehow the use of thermobaric weapons seems less humane than ripping a person to shreds with shrapnel. Continue reading “UK Accidentally Admits use of Horrifying, Organ Rupturing Weapons in Syria”