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BriefCam’s “Transforming Video into Actionable Intelligence” allows law enforcement and retailers to secretly identify people by their gender, body size, color, direction, speed and more.
BriefCam’s Video Synopsis version V allows police and retail stores to use surveillance cameras to identify individuals and cars in real-time. Continue reading “Surveillance cameras equipped with thermal imaging allow police to identify people by their gender, body size and color of their skin”
Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries.
U.S. agents shot the gas, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem.
Mexico vowed Sunday to deport about 500 migrants who tried to ‘violently’ and ‘illegally’ cross the U.S. border, according to the Mexican Interior Ministry in a statement. Continue reading “US agents fire tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of migrants who try to storm the border fence and force authorities to shut the crossing down”
Rage rooms are new businesses where people are invited to break things like bottles and old electronics. The idea is to relieve stress. Work off a little tension. One recently opened in a Rochester suburb, but is breaking things really a good stress reliever?
In Henrietta, off Jefferson Road, in a shopping plaza, right next to the dollar tree – there’s a little shop with a big sign out front that says SMASH THERAPY – GRAND OPENING. Continue reading “Smashing things feels good, but are rage rooms OK?”
Activist Post – by Press for Truth
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. owns a company called Sidewalk Labs, and they are working with the Canadian government to launch a new “smart city” at the waterfront of downtown Toronto called “Quayside.”
Quayside is proposing a centralized identity management system which each resident uses to access public services such as library cards and health care. Other plans include driverless cars, “mixed-use” spaces that change according to the market’s demands, heated streets, and “sensor-enabled waste separation.” Continue reading “The AGENDA 2030 SMART CITY Challenge — Gov’t To Award $75 Million For Best Smart City Design”
Well, it’s that time again. Time for our annual Season’s Beatings video roundup. As I like to remind you each year, these folks aren’t even hungry. This year, they’re duking it out over all sorts of things in the Black Friday 2018 Hall of Shame. Seriously, fellow Americans. The rest of the world is looking at us and laughing today.
This year, there’s good news and bad news. Continue reading “Black Friday 2018 Video Hall of Shame: Keep in Mind They’re Not Even Hungry”
Police brutality across the US is now bad enough that the federal government is finally willing to look at the statistics – if the cops don’t mind. The FBI is starting a data collection effort, based on voluntary self-reports.
Federal investigators will soon begin actively tracking police use-of-force incidents on a national level, the FBI announced in a press release Tuesday. Following 2017’s pilot version of the program, the agency now says it will begin taking reports from forces on the Local, State, tribal and federal level starting January of next year. Continue reading “Rampant US police violence prompts nationwide FBI inquiry”
A shooting Thursday night at a mall in Alabama left one person dead and two teens hospitalized with bullet wounds, police said.
The shooting happened around 9:52 p.m. local time after a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man got into a physical altercation near the Footaction store at Riverchase Galleria mall, according to Capt. Gregg Rector of the Hoover Police Department. Continue reading “1 dead, 2 injured in Alabama mall shooting”
TOMS shoe company plans to donate $5 million to various gun control groups. The company also launched a campaign to mobilize their customers to support the gun control agenda.
One of TOMS’ campaigns includes a postcard campaign. Customers can input their name and address on their website and the company will send a postcard to their representative. Continue reading “TOMS Shoe Company Donated a Whopping $5 Million to Various Gun Control Groups”