Apparently in NYC a “Suicide Watch” means they sit around and watch you commit suicide.
Time to pay the winner. Who had Saturday 8/10 by hanging in the betting pool.
Time to pay the winner. Who had Saturday 8/10 by hanging in the betting pool.
When police partner with Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance camera company, they get access to the “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal,” an interactive map that allows officers to request footage directly from camera owners. Police don’t need a warrant to request this footage, but they do need permission from camera owners.
Emails and documents obtained by Motherboard reveal that people aren’t always willing to provide police with their Ring camera footage. However, Ring works with law enforcement and gives them advice on how to persuade people to give them footage. Emails obtained from police department in Maywood, NJ — and emails from the police department of Bloomfield, NJ, which were also posted by Wired — show that Ring coaches police on how to obtain footage. The company provides cops with templates for requesting footage, which they do not need a court warrant to do.
Ring suggests cops post often on Neighbors, Ring’s free “neighborhood watch” app, where Ring camera owners have the option of sharing their camera footage. As reported by GovTech on Friday, police can request Ring camera footage directly from Amazon, even if a Ring customer denies to provide police with the footage. It’s a workaround that allows police to essentially “subpoena” anything captured on Ring cameras.
Last week, Motherboard also found that at least 200 law enforcement agencies around the country have entered into partnerships with Amazon’s home surveillance company Ring.
Heinrich Himmler would have KILLED for this kind of surveillance. It’s a Police State’s wet dream.
Here’s an intriguing question, can your neighbor across the street legally give the police permission to watch and use the camera footage from a camera that is basically looking across the street at your house?
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressional Democrats recently noticed a problem in our nation: many of the people who voted for Donald Trump have yet to be beaten up.
Our Democratic leaders in Washington decided it was time to solve this problem because they are really good at identifying problems we didn’t even know we had and then solving them.
Presidential candidate Joaquin Castro, who spearheaded the program, explained, “The solution is simple and cost-effective: a national Trump Voter Registry, forcing anyone who voted for Trump to register so people around them will be able to be cautious and vigilant while living among such reckless hate.”
Anyone who voted for Trump will have to sign up on the national registry’s website. Then, their name and address will automatically appear on a map of the country so that their neighbors can avoid them and hopefully beat them up.
The bill also contains many other requirements for Trump voters:
“With this new registry, we can finally have healing in our nation,” said Nancy Pelosi. “Especially Trump voters. They’ll have to have a lot of healing after they get punched in the face.”
The Federal Communications Commission voted to approve laws that ban fraudulent text messages and international robocalls last week.
The new rules in effect neutralize loopholes in the Truth in Caller ID Act, which banned spoofing domestic calls but made it hard for the FCC to prosecute against perpetrators of scam text messages and international calls. Now, the FCC can monitor and penalize “bad actors” behind these types of schemes.
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To address this mounting problem, the House last week also passed a bipartisan bill that requires carriers to authenticate every call and to offer opt-out blocking for free. The Federal Trade Commission has increased enforcement by bringing lawsuits against groups responsible for more than a billion robocalls.
Again, we shall see. First don’t hold your breath waiting for that “Bi-partisan Bill” to get through Congress (Spit!…). Not with the posturing posse of press prostitutes currently fighting each other for attention. One of them will attach a rider to the bill and it will be for something stupid; transgender ‘rights’, or building a skyway over the border wall to transport illegals into the country, or some other horseshit and McConnell will drop kick that bill out of the Senate so fast that it will get back to the Moon before NASA does.
And then the “Free” Opt-Out blocking will be attacked by the operating companies.
Because after destroying the usefulness of Caller ID by allowing everyone and anyone to “spoof” that system, they found a new source of revenue in charging for the right to ‘opt-out’ and “Whitelist” numbers. Do the operating companies have Lobbyists in Congress, you bet your bippy they do!
Short of a Presidential Executive Order, I don’t see this getting done anytime soon.
Epstein testified, based on 13,000 saved search results of American citizens and dozens of controlled experiments in the United States and abroad, that the power of the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) generated by Google’s search algorithm likely impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Epstein explained:
SEME is one of the most powerful forms of influence ever discovered in the behavioral sciences, and it is especially dangerous because it is invisible to people—“subliminal,” in effect. It leaves people thinking they have made up their own minds, which is very much an illusion. It also leaves no paper trail for authorities to trace. Worse still, the very few people who can detect bias in search results shift even farther in the direction of the bias, so merely being able to see the bias doesn’t protect you from it. Bottom line: biased search results can easily produce shifts in the opinions and voting preference of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups.
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“Big Tech in 2020, because if these companies all support the same candidate—and that’s likely, needless to say—they will be able to shift upwards of 15 million votes to that candidate with no one knowing and without leaving a paper trail,” Epstein said.
If they can do that much while being “subtle”, imagine the effect when they pull out all the stops? They reason (correctly?) that it won’t matter legally as long as their candidate wins!
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In his 29-hour-long testimony to Congress earlier this week, former special counsel Robert Mueller was quick to remind lawmakers that his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election did not exonerate Trump from the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
“Now I want to be clear,” he said, “that while this report did not find the president guilty of obstruction of justice or collusion with the Russians, it also does not exonerate him from the assassination of President Lincoln.”
Confused congresspeople sat in silence, looking at one another awkwardly.
“While we couldn’t place him at Ford’s Theatre on the evening of April 14, 1865, we could not confirm he wasn’t present, either,” Mueller continued. “That is for Congress to decide.”
One congressperson asked Mueller if Trump could be charged with the crime of shooting Lincoln in the head when he leaves the White House.
Mueller thought for a moment. “I don’t want to answer that. But yes.”
(Of course, The Babylon Bee)