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Ladies Professional Golf Association using facial recognition technology to surveil fans and spectators
Post Date: 2018-07-18 11:37:07 by Deckard
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Golf fans will be happy to know that the LPGA considers every fan a potential terrorist.Last week an article in Sport Techie revealed that the LPGA is using NEC’s biometric NeoFace facial recognition technology to identify every fan.Why would the LGPA use facial recognition to spy on fans?If you guessed public safety, give yourself a gold star.“I think people want to be safe,” said Lisa Johnson, who works a key business development role at NEC and assists stadium and arena operators with facial recognition solutions.Officially the LPGA announced they were partnering with NEC seven months ago, but the truth is they have been using facial biometrics ...
Papa John's founder 'isn't going quietly,' lawyer says — Schnatter just dragged Kanye West into fight with the board
Post Date: 2018-07-18 11:14:27 by Deckard
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Papa John's founder John Schnatter defends himself against charges of racism in a letter he sent to the board Saturday. He doubled down on his claims that media consultant Laundry Service tried to extort $6 million from the pizza chain. Schnatter said Laundry Service suggested using Kanye West as a co-spokesman, but Schnatter said he declined because West used the N-word in his music.Papa John's founder John Schnatter is "not going quietly," according to his lawyer Patricia Glaser. And he didn't want to work with singer Kanye West, he said in a letter sent to the board of directors Saturday. Schnatter doubled down on claims he made during a television interview ...
New Kentucky Law Puts Limits on Drone Spying, Will Help Thwart Federal Surveillance Program
Post Date: 2018-07-18 10:46:16 by Deckard
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By Michael Maharrey On Saturday, a Kentucky law went into effect requiring police to get a warrant before engaging in drone surveillance in most situations. The new law not only establishes important privacy protections at the state level, it will also help thwart the federal surveillance state. Rep. Diane St. Onge (R-Lakeside Park) and Rep. Reginald Meeks (D-Louisville) sponsored House Bill 22 (HB22). The new law prohibits the use of a drone for a “search” unless authorized under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 10 of the Kentucky Constitution. In effect, the officers will now have to get a warrant based on probable cause before gathering ...
Well, I think I am going to have to schedule a surgery
Post Date: 2018-07-18 08:50:39 by no gnu taxes
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I've had a hernia for some time, and figured I could just live with it. Well now, it is like a grapefruit was stuffed inside my nutsack. I guess I should have realized that hernias don't get better; they just get bigger. I just hope I can get it done with a local or spinal block anesthesia.
Las Vegas Police Body Cam: Cop Fires Through Windshield
Post Date: 2018-07-18 06:59:12 by Deckard
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A dramatic Las Vegas police body cam video shows an officer firing a gun through his own windshield during a chase with murder suspects. You can watch the video below as it appears on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s YouTube channel: Here’s a shorter version of the same video, which shows the police officer briefly take his hands off the steering wheel of his squad car to shoot at the fleeing vehicle through his own windshield. “Shots fired! Shots fired!” the officer says into his police radio during the chase. The Las Vegas Review Journal identified the officer who fired as Officer William Umana and named the suspects as Fidel Miranda, 22, and Rene ...
Cop Charged After Video Shows Him Execute Unarmed Mother by Shooting Her in the Head
Post Date: 2018-07-17 14:12:25 by Deckard
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A California police officer has been charged with manslaughter after he was caught on video executing an unarmed mother, shooting her in the head. Ripon, CA — Mother and wife, Evin Olsen Yadegar had her life stolen from her last year by Stanislaus County sheriff’s Deputy Justin Wall who publicly executed her for no reason. The senseless killing was captured on dashcam and was so unnecessary that Wall has just been charged with manslaughter. Evin Yadegar, according to her husband Hanibal, was undergoing a manic episode due to her bipolar disorder on February 26, 2017. He explained that she never would’ve hurt anyone and was merely trying to find a safe place after a ...
Cop Encounters Tortoise Going Too Slow on Highway, Overcomes His Fear and Doesn't Shoot.
Post Date: 2018-07-17 13:10:09 by Deckard
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OCALA, FL — The Marion County Sheriff's Office in Ocala used capital letters and double exclamation points to introduce a social media video about a police encounter with "a dude" traveling about 1 mph in a 30 mph zone. "THE NERVE OF THIS GUY!!" the post read. "I mean, the guy's easily 100," Deputy Bryan Bowman said on the video. "He shouldn't be out on the roadways to begin with. I tried to talk to him. He snapped at me. I don't know what this guy's deal is. C'mon, Grandpa, I got places to be. Everybody wants to drive slow when there's cop car behind them. Can't get nowhere on time." The slow-mover was a large ...
Keeping Cops’ Hands Out of Your Pockets
Post Date: 2018-07-17 12:43:27 by Deckard
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Finally, a case that might put a real crimp into civil asset forfeiture abuse.The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to rule on a case that could have a major impact on civil liberties and whether civil asset forfeiture can continue to serve as low hanging fruit for bureaucratic interests run amok. Timbs v. Indiana involves a man whose $42,000 Land Rover was confiscated via civil asset forfeiture. Attorneys from the libertarian public-interest law firm, Institute for Justice, don’t deny their client Tyson Timbs was convicted of selling $385 worth of heroin in two transactions and that his vehicle was used in the sale. What they do contest is that the confiscation of the Land ...
Mandalay Bay's owner MGM has sued the Las Vegas mass shooting victims, claiming it's not liable for the massacre
Post Date: 2018-07-17 11:03:13 by Deckard
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MGM Resorts International filed complaints Friday against the victims of the October 1 shooting in Las Vegas.The company said it cannot be held liable for deaths, injuries, or other damages that occurred in the massacre that killed 58 people. Mandalay Bay hotel and casino's corporate owner MGM has filed a lawsuit against the victims of last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas, claiming it has no liability for the massacre that killed 58 people. MGM Resorts International filed complaints in California and Nevada on Friday arguing that it cannot be held legally responsible for the October 1 deaths, injuries, or other damages. The company said that any claims against MGM parties ...
Eric July On Why The Only Rights Are ‘Negative Rights’
Post Date: 2018-07-17 10:46:37 by Deckard
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Breaking it down as simply as possible, Eric July smashed the leftist myth that food and healthcare are rights. Using the simplest means possible, July explains why humans, of course, have to eat to survive, but that doesn’t mean you have the right to enslave others in order to provide for your needs. <span data-mce-type="bookmark" st*l*="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> In the video titled “Foolish Blue Check Mark Thinks Food Is A Right,” July takes on a Twitter user who wants to use force and slavery to ensure she never has to ...
Tucker Carlson: Mexico has interfered in US elections 'more successfully' than Russia
Post Date: 2018-07-17 09:17:46 by Justified
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that Mexico had been more successful than Russia in influencing U.S. elections by "packing" the American electorate with its own people. Carlson said Russia has, in fact, sought to meddle in U.S. affairs. But other countries, like Mexico, had been more successful in doing so, he said. "I don’t think Russia is our close friend or anything like that," Carlson said. "I think of course they try to interfere in our affairs. They have for a long time. Many countries do. Some more successfully than Russia, like Mexico, which is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate." Carlson's remarks came ...
Months Before His Death, Anthony Bourdain Blasted ‘Rapey’ Bill Clinton, Exposed Hillary’s Complicity
Post Date: 2018-07-17 08:48:17 by Deckard
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An interview which took place just a few months before his tragic death, shows Anthony Bourdain was unafraid of calling out the establishment. The celebrity chef, TV personality, and staunch antiwar advocate sat down with Popula’s Maria Bustillos for a hard hitting interview during which he blasted Bill Clinton as “Rapey,” and noted how Hillary helped him get away with it. During the interview, Bourdain was asked whether or not he thought Bill Clinton should have been removed from office after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Bourdain said that despite Clinton being “A piece of shit,” who was “Entitled, rapey, gropey, grabby, disgusting” should ...
Police Come to Iraqi Veteran’s Home, Attempt to Confiscate His Guns, He Tells Them No
Post Date: 2018-07-17 08:33:40 by Deckard
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Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins Two New Jersey State Troopers showed up at Leonard Cottrell Jr.’s home to confiscate his guns and he told them no. Cottrell served three tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom and is a disabled vet. NJ.com reports that the that Troopers came to Cottrell’s house because “his 13-year-old son had [allegedly] made a comment at school about the Millstone Middle School’s security.” The troopers were attempting to operate under auspices of a new firearm confiscatory law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D). The law allows an individual’s guns to be seized if the person is “deemed a threat to themselves and ...
How Everything is Racist, And You’re a Terrible Person
Post Date: 2018-07-16 12:58:45 by Deckard
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Everything you do and think is racist, you probably just don’t realize it because you’re so super privileged. You can’t just sit back and hide in your white supremacist neighborhoods anymore. There’s no more abstaining from taking a side on this one. The sins of your ancestors have caught up to you! (Or at least the sins of the ancestors of people who look like you, considering most white Americans are descended from post-Civil War immigrants.) You may think that standing for the national anthem is a normal thing to do. You may have even gone on standing for the national anthem, ignoring the rest of the controversy surrounding the NFL. But it turns out that behaving ...
Chipped Tires
Post Date: 2018-07-16 08:29:32 by Deckard
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Tires are supposed to leave tracks – not track us.Someone should tell the tire companies. Who aren’t telling us about the tracking devices they’re embedding in the tires they’re selling to us – and which can be used to keep track of our comings and goings without our even knowing about it, much less having consented to it.The devices are called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags – chips, really. They are extremely small buggers – about the size of a grain of rice or even smaller than that – and have been in general use since at least the early 2000s for what is blandly styled Automatic Identification and Data Capture. Which means that ...
A collision of views as Bath Township calls artist's work 'junk,' heads to court
Post Date: 2018-07-16 06:51:51 by Deckard
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BATH TWP. – To artist Robert Park, his 1,000-foot-long outdoor installation called The Blue Loop is a creative outlet on his private property.To Bath Township officials, it’s just thousands of pieces of junk.Among the numerous objects are plastic coffee cans, pieces of children’s outdoor toys, watering cans, signs, bungee cords, cups, a rubber glove and a plastic duck — all in shades of blue — comprising the installation along a wooded pathway. Some of the objects are secured to trees or wires strung between trees. Some just sit on the ground.The Blue Loop is delightful and quirky. I've visited Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project in Detroit and this ...
How Elected Libertarians Are Making the World More Free
Post Date: 2018-07-16 06:37:42 by Deckard
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From occupational licensing reform to legalizing beer-drinking on stage, elected Libertarians are doing some pretty interesting thingsWhat exactly do Libertarians do? Wait — don't answer that. As someone who edited a small-l libertarian magazine for eight years, I know all your jokes: Libertarians are the people who lose (or spoil!) elections. They perform aesthetically challenging stripteases on CSPAN, conduct unfortunate personal experiments with colloidal silver. I GET IT. But at least 169 of these exotic creatures also hold elected office across the country, from a broke, 19-year-old college student who sits on the Board of Assessment Appeals in tiny Cromwell, Conn., to the ...
Police: Richmond homeowner shoots intruder several times (San Francisco)
Post Date: 2018-07-15 15:55:01 by Hondo68
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RICHMOND (KRON) - Police believe a Richmond homeowner was acting out of self-defense when an alleged robber entered his family's house early Friday morning.Around 12:14 a.m. police responded to a call of a home-invasion robbery in the 3100 block of Alta Mira Dr., according to Richmond Police Department.When officers arrived, they found the homeowner and his family.Police learned the 47-year-old suspect from Richmond tried breaking into two other houses before forcing his way into this home.The suspect allegedly broke a window to get inside."The homeowner had no choice but to defend his family and himself from the suspect," police said.The homeowner allegedly shot the ...
Family Calls for Help with Suicidal Child, Cops Show Up and Kill Him
Post Date: 2018-07-15 11:44:25 by Deckard
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Chanhassen, MN – A family is devastated after they called the police to help their 16-year-old son and the officers who responded shot and killed him instead, highlighting an ongoing trend in which the officers who promise to “serve and protect” their community are taking the lives of its most vulnerable members. Archer Amorosi was killed on Friday morning after his parents reached out to the same police officers who said they would help with no questions asked, as the teenager was battling mental health issues, and appeared to be suicidal. His father told KARE 11 News that the family called a crisis hotline and the police on Thursday, and then called the police again on ...
Jury Nullifies Georgia Weed Law, Finds Man Not Guilty Despite Admittedly Growing Marijuana
Post Date: 2018-07-15 11:32:45 by Deckard
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Laurens County, GA – Javonnie Mondrea McCoy is a medical marijuana patient in a state where the plant is still illegal and was recently in court facing charges of possession and manufacturing. McCoy grew cannabis for his own personal consumption to treat severe headaches and other pain that he has suffered since he spent two weeks in a coma in 2003 after being severely beaten. Instead of attempting to fight the case on the grounds that the evidence against him was wrong, McCoy instead argued that the laws were wrong. He was honest about his experience and his medical use of cannabis during the trial, and the jury acquitted his case, despite the evidence against him. ...
Meet The Air Force's $1200 Cup Of Coffee
Post Date: 2018-07-13 23:28:55 by Deckard
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Meet the Air Force's $1200 cup of coffee — or more precisely the $1220 coffee cup which keeps breaking, after which the military simply buys more and more cups. The Air Force's $1,220 reheating coffee cup. Image source: US Air Force Some outlets which have reported on the insanely pricey self reheating coffee mug commonly used aboard aerial refueling tankers have presented it as merely a human interest and innovative tech story as the US military is considering cheaper designs using 3-D printers. However, we doubt American taxpayers will see it that way, as the public has had to foot the bill to the tune of nearly $56,000 over the ...
Rosenstein Delivers Indictments For 12 Russians – Then Buries in Lock-box of DOJ National Security Division…
Post Date: 2018-07-13 23:27:43 by nolu chan
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Rosenstein Delivers Indictments For 12 Russians – Then Buries in Lock-box of DOJ National Security Division… by sundance The Conservative Treehouse Posted on July 13, 2018 If you are old enough to remember the Soviet-era propaganda approximately five years prior to the Polish solidarity movement, you are old enough to have a solid frame of reference for today’s announcement from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Truthfully, I never thought a constitutionally protected U.S. government apparatus would ever be able to pull-off propaganda so easily and readily consumed by an American electorate…. Alas, lesson learned. So here’s my take: Setting aside the ...
Cop Who Declined to Help Puerto Rican Woman Being Harassed for ‘Un-American’ T-Shirt Resigns
Post Date: 2018-07-13 23:01:47 by Deckard
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A Chicago police officer has resigned a month after a video of him standing by while an elderly man harassed a Puerto Rican woman for her “un-American” T-shirt went viral. Officer Patrick Connor of the Forest Preserves of Cook County Police Department resigned late Wednesday, and the police department say they are continuing to investigate the incident. In a video filmed last month that recently went viral, Connor can be seen standing by while an irate man harasses Mia Irizarry, who is dressed in a tank top with the Puerto Rican flag on it. Woman wears a Puerto Rico shirt. A man confronts her for wearing it, repeatedly approaches her within a couple feet, and questions her ...
Man Arrested for DUI Tells Cops He Only Drank at Stop Signs, Not While Driving: Police
Post Date: 2018-07-13 22:55:36 by nolu chan
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Man Arrested for DUI Tells Cops He Only Drank at Stop Signs, Not While Driving: Police Offbeat 9:36 AM PDT, July 12, 2018 - Inside Edition Staff A 69-year-old Florida man insisted to police that he was not drinking and driving, since he only took sips of bourbon at stop signs and red lights. Earle Stevens was arrested in Vero Beach on June 27 after a woman called police saying that he was bumping the back of her car repeatedly at a McDonald’s drive-thru, according to reports. When police arrived on the scene, they looked inside Stevens’ car and noticed an empty bottle of Jim Beam bourbon in the passenger seat, according to Indian River County Sheriff's Office. Stevens ...
New York's Department of Health Recommends Legalizing Marijuana
Post Date: 2018-07-13 22:38:40 by Deckard
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The positives of legalizing weed would outweigh the negatives, a study found.New York's Department of Health (DOH) has recommended that the state legalize marijuana for recreational use. In a 74-page report commissioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and published Friday, health officials insisted that the "positive effects of a regulated marijuana market" would "outweigh the potential negative impacts." Though the study cited many reasons, the two biggest ones had to do with the potential economic benefits and the effect legalization would have on the criminal justice system. The report noted that New York could collect up to $677.7 million a year in state and local tax ...
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