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From CNN Business:
Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US
By Rachel Metz, CNN BusinessUpdated 8:06 PM ET, Wed September 9, 2020
(CNN Business) The city of Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday banned the use of facial-recognition technology by city departments — including local police — as well as public-facing businesses such as stores, restaurants and hotels.
Portland joins a growing number of places in the United States, such as San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston, that have outlawed city use of the surveillance technology, which is meant to identify a person from an image of their face. But its decision to prevent both local government and businesses from employing the technology appears to be the most sweeping ban yet by an individual city.
Facial recognition technology has grown in prevalence — and controversy — in recent years, popping up everywhere from airport check-in lines to police departments and drugstores. Yet while it could add a sense of security and convenience for businesses that roll it out, the technology has been widely criticized by privacy advocates for built-in racial biases and potential for misuse.
The huge breakthrough in recent years appears to have been that one firm came up with a system with virtually no false positives.
These worries were clearly on the minds of city council commissioners who voted unanimously for the ban. In addition to halting city use of the surveillance technology, the new rule prevents “private entities in places of public accommodation” in Portland from using it, too, referring to businesses that serve the general public — a grocery store or a pizza place, for instance. It does not prevent individuals from setting up facial-recognition technology at home, such as a Google Nest camera that can spot familiar faces, or gadgets that use facial-recognition software for authenticating users, like Apple’s Face ID feature for unlocking an iPhone.
The big worry among Portland politicians is not that facial recognition technology will fail but that it will succeed in putting their supporters in jail for arson, vandalism, and mayhem.
Landlords aren’t public facing businesses, are they? Someone should underwrite the complete Orwellification of Portland’s leased buildings. Installation and repair, internet connectivity, facial recognition (albeit without DMV image data).
All data is uploaded to the Amazon cloud and the CIA.
Actually, according to modern vocabulary, one could argue that facial recognition is
if anything anti-racist since it has a harder time detecting black faces than whites.
That’s why the Detroit City Council wants the DPD to stop using it!
Detroit - where the city’s Civilian Board of Police Commissioners are arrested for disorderly conduct DURING MEETINGS!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1045046Replies: @Reg Cæsar
That just means it has set the dial to reject anything where the machine isn’t completely sure. Which is a good approach, but how many matches does it really get at that point?
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OT:
Steve, what do you think of this hot conservative babe Andrews? She is pretty sharp.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/270035/
There seems to be a pattern of aging beauties who are right wing pundits. Over 30’s 40’s sexy plus brains. I guess Noonan was the vanguard although Schafly looks great in some youth photos.
Anyway this part of Andrew’s excellent article is bull:
But if affirmative action is abolished, the result will be an ethnically lopsided Ivy League and, soon, an ethnically lopsided national elite…
Uhh … high tide for Jews is passing (overall effect on institutions was very negative —- Ivy League & Media & Law all more corrupt and poisoned with Jewish revolutionary spirit aka intellectually defective Bolshevism) … military left standing as America’s most trusted institution. Wonder why. Coincidentally very few Jews in the military.
…And the Asian elite thing in America was/is just not happening. Asian intellect is heavily skewed to math/science. Sorry they are not elite otherwise. Sorry. I’m sick of waiting for them to kick our supposedly lame white asses. That scenario is a joke.
Jews are great math/science people and overrated otherwise. Look at the entire history of modern Israel. None of those leaders would make it big in America. None.
And the Asian thing is even more impossible. Ludicrous to think they will rule as the new American elite. We are not f*cking Peru.
They've done a better job of keeping the ethnic balance, although (1) that's been less efficient than many here think (a lot of their workers are Arabs/Thai etc, because Bidness want cheap labor) and (2) that brings the new challenge of assimilating the Chasidim into something other than being parasites. (It's an interesting question of nature and nurture, because once pushed into the wider economy (in both the US and Israel), they've turned out to be quite bright.)
Plus, not being able to make it as an elite in the US doesn't have to mean you'd make a bad one. In fact, considering the incentives, quite the opposite. You don't have to like then or their means but, in the situation they're in, they're doing a decent enough job for their country.
“Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
What about surgical masks and more extensive face coverings? (Like Halloween masks?) Do these things take height and body shape into account?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/09/iraq-troop-withdrawl-410723
Anyhow Trump is beginning another troop withdrawal from our quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan....probably why many in the officer corp & the military industrial complex pipeline are so pissy w him.....hes f--king up their racketeering and sinecure "industries".....the military.....especially the Chair Force is a gravy train service....
My uncle who lives in the Bay Area retired at 38 with a naval pension & then had a 2nd career as a DoD civilian goldbricker where he draws a 2nd pension and even managed to pull another partial 15 yr CALPERS pension by riding that train.
I seriously need to get into govt....the private sector truly is overrated despite the Art Laffer types and the Reaganites spouting it as free market gospel....i guess if they mean private sector they mean a cushy military industrial complex contractor job pushing paper or something.....Replies: @Brian Reilly, @Kronos
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https://youtu.be/f35fcXWqli8Replies: @Neoconned, @anon
Supposedly Juggalo clown make up can dodge most or all of these tech processes. I’m kinda on the fence on this 1 myself. I see the obvious usage to nab arsonists etc but even Drudge fears this Phillip K Dick type fusion of police surveillance state bulls-it and corporate power. I’m kinda of the opinion of “…..yea you may use it while Trump is in power but what happens when the pendulum swings the other way & the thugs in charge turn the pre-cog tech on your ass & you have to pull a Minority Report….?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/09/iraq-troop-withdrawl-410723
Anyhow Trump is beginning another troop withdrawal from our quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan….probably why many in the officer corp & the military industrial complex pipeline are so pissy w him…..hes f–king up their racketeering and sinecure “industries”…..the military…..especially the Chair Force is a gravy train service….
My uncle who lives in the Bay Area retired at 38 with a naval pension & then had a 2nd career as a DoD civilian goldbricker where he draws a 2nd pension and even managed to pull another partial 15 yr CALPERS pension by riding that train.
I seriously need to get into govt….the private sector truly is overrated despite the Art Laffer types and the Reaganites spouting it as free market gospel….i guess if they mean private sector they mean a cushy military industrial complex contractor job pushing paper or something…..
https://youtu.be/Gj3bnyI3TLoReplies: @Neoconned, @Alden
My unprincipled view is that because I personally don’t have access to facial id tech, it is good for the government to stop those who do, like Jeff Bezos and Walgreens and CVS.
I have little problem with law enforcement using it however.
Does Portland PD even have a use for it though? They catch and release violent criminals by the hundreds, and then eventually “no complaint” them.
It isn’t just a Portland issue, Oregon in general has a crap justice system. I know of one case, a guy with open warrants in six different counties, mostly several open warrants in each one. Theft, sexual assault, lots of meth charges, many driving drunk and without a license. Each county is too cheap to prosecute or even jail him, so he drifts along, bringing dysfunction, addiction, STDs, and general misery to those he encounters.
Hire 4-chan. Those crazy bastards are better than any algorithm.
Kristina Narayan was arrested for interfering with police during the Forever Riot in Portland. She’s the legislative director for Oregon Democrat Speaker of the House Tina Kotek. That law is just a desperate attempt by the Democrats to protect their own people from arrest, and to hide the fact that Democratic politicians in Oregon are coordinating the riots behind the scenes. The Democrats must be deranged if they think they’re going to get votes by promoting chaos. They think exactly like retarded Arab terrorists.
1. Riot!
2. ?
3. Profit!
They’re stupid as hell.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/
Of course, that's not because they're not retarded, but because we are retarded.Replies: @AnotherDad
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https://youtu.be/f35fcXWqli8Replies: @Neoconned, @anon
it’s otay by me coz I’se tired of bein’ mistaken fo’ Buckwheat
Oh, they’ll still use it, but this ban will be a convenient “Get out of Jail Free Card” for their pets. When they use it against you, they’ll simply use a parallel construction of other data they have on you to make the case after having identified you by camera.
I think this is more the issue. Just as that Microsoft chatbot turned out to be racist and nazi, they are afraid that the facial recognition thing will excel at detecting black criminals and shoplifters, mainly.
And secondarily gypsy pickpockets, “people with golden chains” scammers, and such and such.
It’s racist!!!! Those DNA samples cleared so many old cases committed by blacks. There was talk of ACLU ADL AJC NAACP lawsuits filed with the intention of getting findings and rulings by liberal judges that using DNA to solve crimes and file criminal charges has the dreaded disparate impact. Well it does.
Like requiring a steel mill foreman to be able to read the operations manual. Kaiser vs Weber, 1979. The Supreme representatives of Satan on earth ruled it is discriminatory to require a steel mill foreman be able to read. Or learn the basic middle school facts about how iron,Replies: @David In TN
It stands to reason that they don’t want you to know how many undercover cops, government and intelligence agents are involved in the riots. Think of them as “community organizers”.
I read one article, cannot vouch for the veracity, that claimed the reason the US closed the Chinese Consulate in Houston is that they are identifying the protesters and communicating with them via snap chat and they are probably using IIA. The Chinese are trying their own color revolution on us here.Replies: @BB753, @Feryl, @Nicholas Stix
I have assumed that antifa (especially) and even BLM rioters would have amongst them quite a few undercovers from the feds, even state and local LEOs. But either they do and they aren't being used for anything legal like arrests, or they don't exist.
For commie Portland, it seems like regular policing and riot control is barely operational. That comes from the top, not the rank and file.
So the reality might be that the locusts are free to eat all of your grain. No one is going to try and prevent that. As I wrote in a prior comment about the Santa Monica looter caravans, what use is a police state if the police won't stop actual crime? Even in 'normal' police states of every political type they are normally pretty strict about street crime and things like assault, robbery, theft, etc.
So Woketopia is going to be overrun with violent/insane criminals while the cops hand out speeding tickets and zoning violations to the victim public? In the Woketopia microcosms (Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc.) that seems to be the reality.Replies: @AndrewR, @BB753
Not allowed to use technology to identify criminals
NOT allowed to gather information about criminals
This is just another of the many rules that favors criminals and reduce safety for law abiding citizens, including, or especially safety for Blacks
Not allowed to tell the race of criminals
Not allowed to show photos and details about underage criminals, or allegedly underage adult criminals
Not allowed to show cruelty perpetrated by criminals
Human Rights are for Criminals
https://sincerity.net/sensational-violence/
2. ?
3. Profit! They're stupid as hell. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @anonymous, @duncsbaby, @Libre
Forever Riot is good.
A lot.
There really has been a big leap forward in facial recognition in the last few years.
I have little problem with law enforcement using it however.
Does Portland PD even have a use for it though? They catch and release violent criminals by the hundreds, and then eventually “no complaint” them.
It isn’t just a Portland issue, Oregon in general has a crap justice system. I know of one case, a guy with open warrants in six different counties, mostly several open warrants in each one. Theft, sexual assault, lots of meth charges, many driving drunk and without a license. Each county is too cheap to prosecute or even jail him, so he drifts along, bringing dysfunction, addiction, STDs, and general misery to those he encounters.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Agree. Since the local DAs just release all the rioters anyway, not IDing them doesn’t change much, except it makes it harder for the public to notice who the rioters are (the pets of the people passing the facial recog ban).
For private parties, I’m not sure how this ban is supposed to work. Technically, the data processing probably happens at some center out of town/state, so not in Portland’s jurisdiction. Legally, even if the government has technical jurisdiction, they can’t ban you from noticing stuff, even with a machine assist, or from communicating with a machine/person elsewhere who has noticed stuff (facially recognized someone). I suppose they can ban you from acting on what you notice, but that’s mostly banned already.
South Africa: Nationwide protests about hair-care advert.
https://mol.im/a/8713505 [Daily Mail]
"We are not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now."
2. ?
3. Profit! They're stupid as hell. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @anonymous, @duncsbaby, @Libre
To be fair, after 9/11 the US doubled Muslim immigration. So the
sequence really did work for them.
Of course, that’s not because they’re not retarded, but because we are retarded.
I’m with you on the use of this tool for after-the-fact investigation of crime. However, some people do look ahead, or across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and see the Orwellian programs that are being developed and in use already based on facial recognition. The networking of the cameras and the tracking of people in real time, even picture-taking of drivers for later tracking (whether for red-light tickets, toll avoidance, whatever) is sick, sick stuff.
There could be a middle ground, as the FAA/NTSB/airlines/pilots unions did with CVRs (Cockpit Voice Recorders). However, that takes people involved that are concerned with safeguarding rights and preventing abuse. For some of this Orwellian spying on citizens, who really knows if it’s even going on?
I’d want to be on the safe side. If I saw the antifa goofballs tearing down or shooting out cameras rather than destroying businesses and beating (or trying to beat) up on actual peaceful protest groups, I’d be very much on their side.
I always thought a flame thrower would be the best tool against rioters, but I guess I’m approaching this from a more pragmatic angle.
Unless of course the Soros Ford Kellog ACT BLUE DNC etc foundations provide their on call rioters with health insurance. Actually, as employees independent contractors day labor the burned rioters would be covered by workmen’s compensation, the worst health insurance system in the country.
Technically, the rioters are classified as day labor.
Our law enforcement teams have plenty of useful tools to disperse the protesters, in addition to tear gas, pepper spray, water hoses, Sound Cannons, etc...
Like small children, they aren't capable of using fire or matches without hurting themselves.
OT: I bet they’ll make their first episode about the political lobby so powerful it’s just called ‘The Lobby’ and which controls the levels of war and peace.
The ban will be lifted if the civil disobedience becomes predominantly right-wing.
But not making fun of it. It's also a statement that precisely outlines the nature of contemporary politics in the West and the nature of our "left".
I bet they’d repeal the ban pretty quick if there were “neo-Nazi white supremacist Klansmen” rioting in their city for 100 days straight…
I doubt the motivation for this is to protect the rioters. The ban applies to local law enforcement, which isn’t arresting and prosecuting the rioters anyway, so this doesn’t add much.
That leaves some other possibilities: the council wants to encourage crime, or the council truly believes in the privacy argument.
Steve, what do you think of this hot conservative babe Andrews? She is pretty sharp.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/270035/
There seems to be a pattern of aging beauties who are right wing pundits. Over 30's 40's sexy plus brains. I guess Noonan was the vanguard although Schafly looks great in some youth photos.
Anyway this part of Andrew's excellent article is bull:
But if affirmative action is abolished, the result will be an ethnically lopsided Ivy League and, soon, an ethnically lopsided national elite...
Uhh ... high tide for Jews is passing (overall effect on institutions was very negative ---- Ivy League & Media & Law all more corrupt and poisoned with Jewish revolutionary spirit aka intellectually defective Bolshevism) ... military left standing as America's most trusted institution. Wonder why. Coincidentally very few Jews in the military.
...And the Asian elite thing in America was/is just not happening. Asian intellect is heavily skewed to math/science. Sorry they are not elite otherwise. Sorry. I'm sick of waiting for them to kick our supposedly lame white asses. That scenario is a joke.
Jews are great math/science people and overrated otherwise. Look at the entire history of modern Israel. None of those leaders would make it big in America. None.
And the Asian thing is even more impossible. Ludicrous to think they will rule as the new American elite. We are not f*cking Peru.Replies: @clyde, @dfordoom, @Jesse, @AnotherDad
You are hallucinating about the battle hardened Israeli leaders. Plus they are all nationalists.
This is politics, when people show up and support you, you protect them. You can’t expect to win when your supporters face arrest or face poverty because of their support for you, and you also won’t give them any material benefit after you win.
The GOP equivalent of this would be a ban on political or social media related firings. Failing that, how about a month cushion. Everyone must get full pay and benefits until the end of the next calendar month after the incident.
What will actually happen instead is red zones will get big money to implement facial recognition technology so that we can be more easily controlled.
Precisely, Doc. So the ban itself should be taken as proof that the rioters are NOT mysterious right-wing agitators. The very fact of its passage shows that Portland decision-makers know full well that the rioters are fellow leftists, to whom they are extending a professional courtesy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/09/iraq-troop-withdrawl-410723
Anyhow Trump is beginning another troop withdrawal from our quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan....probably why many in the officer corp & the military industrial complex pipeline are so pissy w him.....hes f--king up their racketeering and sinecure "industries".....the military.....especially the Chair Force is a gravy train service....
My uncle who lives in the Bay Area retired at 38 with a naval pension & then had a 2nd career as a DoD civilian goldbricker where he draws a 2nd pension and even managed to pull another partial 15 yr CALPERS pension by riding that train.
I seriously need to get into govt....the private sector truly is overrated despite the Art Laffer types and the Reaganites spouting it as free market gospel....i guess if they mean private sector they mean a cushy military industrial complex contractor job pushing paper or something.....Replies: @Brian Reilly, @Kronos
Neo, You are too late to get into and profit from a government job as your uncle did. It was a ponzi-style scheme from the start, and now we are in the time when it collapses. Math and all of that.
Steve, what do you think of this hot conservative babe Andrews? She is pretty sharp.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/270035/
There seems to be a pattern of aging beauties who are right wing pundits. Over 30's 40's sexy plus brains. I guess Noonan was the vanguard although Schafly looks great in some youth photos.
Anyway this part of Andrew's excellent article is bull:
But if affirmative action is abolished, the result will be an ethnically lopsided Ivy League and, soon, an ethnically lopsided national elite...
Uhh ... high tide for Jews is passing (overall effect on institutions was very negative ---- Ivy League & Media & Law all more corrupt and poisoned with Jewish revolutionary spirit aka intellectually defective Bolshevism) ... military left standing as America's most trusted institution. Wonder why. Coincidentally very few Jews in the military.
...And the Asian elite thing in America was/is just not happening. Asian intellect is heavily skewed to math/science. Sorry they are not elite otherwise. Sorry. I'm sick of waiting for them to kick our supposedly lame white asses. That scenario is a joke.
Jews are great math/science people and overrated otherwise. Look at the entire history of modern Israel. None of those leaders would make it big in America. None.
And the Asian thing is even more impossible. Ludicrous to think they will rule as the new American elite. We are not f*cking Peru.Replies: @clyde, @dfordoom, @Jesse, @AnotherDad
There are people who trust the American military? Dear God.
Portland can vote for a new city council next election, or not. Its their choice.
Was the CIA similarly banned from reporting, on the pandemic spreading in Wuhan in late 2019/early 2020, to the President and the Congressional intelligence committees?
And secondarily gypsy pickpockets, "people with golden chains" scammers, and such and such.Replies: @unit472, @Alden, @gent, @guest
Got to agree this facial recognition technology would be a boon for companies like Walmart, Kroger, Target etc. who typically trespass anyone caught shoplifting at their stores. Of course the problem you have is to identify them when they return to the same or a different store. If loss prevention can be automatically notified that a trespassed individual has entered the store they can be located and held for police.
Huge numbers of problem shoppers can thereby be excluded from entering America’s biggest retail establishments. This would reduce theft and enhance the shopping experience of good customers.
I haven’t thought much about this, but my first take is that privacy in public spaces isn’t assured. If a happenstance eye-witness is allowed to testify, why shouldn’t a machine?
Private spaces are a completely different matter, of course.
I’m not sure the legal definition of public/private. For the above, I mean “can you arrange so that it’s reasonable to believe that no one can see what you do”. Your home? Yes. A bathroom stall in a restaurant? Yes. A hotel lobby? No.
True, except there aren’t enough “neo-nazi white supremacist klansmen ” for a proper riot.
And secondarily gypsy pickpockets, "people with golden chains" scammers, and such and such.Replies: @unit472, @Alden, @gent, @guest
Liberals also object to the practice in many states of taking DNA samples of everyone arrested and putting the samples in the data bases of unsolved crimes.
It’s racist!!!! Those DNA samples cleared so many old cases committed by blacks. There was talk of ACLU ADL AJC NAACP lawsuits filed with the intention of getting findings and rulings by liberal judges that using DNA to solve crimes and file criminal charges has the dreaded disparate impact. Well it does.
Like requiring a steel mill foreman to be able to read the operations manual. Kaiser vs Weber, 1979. The Supreme representatives of Satan on earth ruled it is discriminatory to require a steel mill foreman be able to read. Or learn the basic middle school facts about how iron,
Too much screaming ……. beehive anti personnel round…….
The Chicago Police Department has created a web page with photos of looters and has asked the public to help identify them. Apparently the CPD has also been denied use of facial-recognition software, so it has to go about identifying criminals 1990s style.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-ask-public-to-help-identify-suspected-downtown-looters/2321401/
As with the border wall and e-verify, the left pretends to object that it won’t work, but actually fears that it will.
The cost of caring for the surving burn victims would be prohibitive.
Unless of course the Soros Ford Kellog ACT BLUE DNC etc foundations provide their on call rioters with health insurance. Actually, as employees independent contractors day labor the burned rioters would be covered by workmen’s compensation, the worst health insurance system in the country.
Technically, the rioters are classified as day labor.
2. ?
3. Profit! They're stupid as hell. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @anonymous, @duncsbaby, @Libre
Not only are some of rioters connected to Democratic elites, but facial recognition will allow the tracking of the movement of anarchists across various rioting hot spots. Given that there are now numerous links showing that rioters are being sheltered at so called homeless and refugee centers it is not hard to believe direct government and NGO logistical support for the anarcho-terrorist war against the kulaks.
I assumed they had banned tear gas when i glanced at the headline.
Our law enforcement teams have plenty of useful tools to disperse the protesters, in addition to tear gas, pepper spray, water hoses, Sound Cannons, etc…
Facial recognition technology is one bad step on a very bad path to the extinction of privacy. A better policy against the riots and looting would be one that says “No means no” and then unhesitatingly uses very strong applications of clubbing etc. The resort to technical solutions is almost always due to the want of courage to apply force where it’s needed.
Private spaces are a completely different matter, of course.
I'm not sure the legal definition of public/private. For the above, I mean "can you arrange so that it's reasonable to believe that no one can see what you do". Your home? Yes. A bathroom stall in a restaurant? Yes. A hotel lobby? No.Replies: @Tono Bungay
I disagree, although your logic is good. I think we all need public spaces in which we can be relatively sure that we’re not being watched by hypercompetent machines. When we’ve lost them we’ll miss them.
I get it. For example, I oppose cameras that hand out traffic violations, even though a cop can do the same.
The reasons for the difference are nuanced, having to do with the severity of crimes being prevented, the abuse in the name of revenue-raising, and, if I'm being honest, how annoying it is to me personally.
I still disagree with you, but I'm not committed to my position.
Portland bans air travel because it allows people to get somewhere too quickly.
“Banned” meaning what? A fine? It seems like “parallel construction” would come in handy here, like the FBI does to conceal 4th Amendment violations. ID someone with facial recognition, put up a wanted flyer with a contract method, then claim you got an anonymous tip.
The feds can ignore this for federal property, rioters crossing state lines, multistate conspiracies like Antifa RICO actions, and any number of other federal nexus situations. Trump, get on the ball!
Biden has a TV AD claiming that the rioters are right wing militias and that Trump is fanning the flames.
Democrats; one week claiming the rioters are righteous, peaceful protesters against racist White police who hunt down innocent blacks like Floyd
Next week claiming the rioters are White KKK militia cheered on by Trump.
I wish Trump would just run TV ADs showing not just the 2020 riots but Rodney King and other riots going back to the 196os. With just one sentence. This is X, a democrat run city. Do you want your town destroyed by Democrats?
Now Biden is chastising Trump for not wearing a mask.
Ha; being surrounded by secret service other politicians all the time, the fact that elderly Trump hasn’t got covid hoax in 6 months of not wearing a mask is not conclusive , but a great deal of evidence that there’s no need to wear a mask. Trump’s respiratory system is probably in better shape than most mask wearers because he hasn’t been breathing carbon dioxide for the last 6 months.
Saw 2 Drs in March. Both assured me those medical masks are totally useless. Because the open flaps let in every virus germs bacteria even dust and dirt.
I knew covid was a hoax from day one. Why? Because the NYSLIMES Chicago Tribune LASLIMES Washington Post and every newspaper claimed it was the new Spanish Flu. Every word in the MSM is a lie.
That is more true than you know. Foreign intelligence of all countries, ours included, are mapping each other’s operatives and with 5G, it will only get more difficult to hide. The days of James Bond flitting around are over and done with. We are constantly being hacked by the Chinese and others and one of the things they are aiming for are general databases that can give ‘tells’ on all the little things that would reveal who someone really is and what they would be up to. The standard cover stories of the past don’t mean shit now.
I read one article, cannot vouch for the veracity, that claimed the reason the US closed the Chinese Consulate in Houston is that they are identifying the protesters and communicating with them via snap chat and they are probably using IIA. The Chinese are trying their own color revolution on us here.
*If you read about true crime, back in the 70's and 80's there were thousands of serial rapists and hundreds of serial killers, yet investigations often went nowhere because local law enforcement agencies often didn't share information, evidence, or ideas with each other. Possible connections between crimes in different cities were often dissmissed based on vague hunches. Thanks to DNA, we now know a relatively small group of people commit most violent sex crimes.
Since those days never existed, your implied contrast collapses.
Government workers need to be mic’d, on-camera, and live-streamed for the entirety of their “duty” shifts; I am absolutely loving how schoolteachers are balking at that.
For elected officials, 24×7.
Trigger warning: World Socialist Web Site
Democrats and media silent on execution of Michael Reinoehl by US Marshals
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/10/rein-s10.html
That may be true but I agree with them. Facial recognition software, really any technology that makes privacy impossible, is a profane attack on basic human rights.
People are not free if their movements are tracked.
Not necessarily. The ones in the ranks further back will refuse to move so the ones up front get crisped for the cameras. It’s all about publicity, you know.
Frankly I fail to see how they intend to put that particular genie back into the bottle, with apps and smart goggles already in the pipeline, only just held back from becoming socialised by a timid popo unwilling to give up their monopoly.
It´s over – get over it.
Steve, what do you think of this hot conservative babe Andrews? She is pretty sharp.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/270035/
There seems to be a pattern of aging beauties who are right wing pundits. Over 30's 40's sexy plus brains. I guess Noonan was the vanguard although Schafly looks great in some youth photos.
Anyway this part of Andrew's excellent article is bull:
But if affirmative action is abolished, the result will be an ethnically lopsided Ivy League and, soon, an ethnically lopsided national elite...
Uhh ... high tide for Jews is passing (overall effect on institutions was very negative ---- Ivy League & Media & Law all more corrupt and poisoned with Jewish revolutionary spirit aka intellectually defective Bolshevism) ... military left standing as America's most trusted institution. Wonder why. Coincidentally very few Jews in the military.
...And the Asian elite thing in America was/is just not happening. Asian intellect is heavily skewed to math/science. Sorry they are not elite otherwise. Sorry. I'm sick of waiting for them to kick our supposedly lame white asses. That scenario is a joke.
Jews are great math/science people and overrated otherwise. Look at the entire history of modern Israel. None of those leaders would make it big in America. None.
And the Asian thing is even more impossible. Ludicrous to think they will rule as the new American elite. We are not f*cking Peru.Replies: @clyde, @dfordoom, @Jesse, @AnotherDad
Apples versus oranges. Israeli leaders have done a decent job of surviving (no mean feat) and gradually dismantling local/regional hatreds. (That the Palestinians are the Florida Man of the region probably helps.)
They’ve done a better job of keeping the ethnic balance, although (1) that’s been less efficient than many here think (a lot of their workers are Arabs/Thai etc, because Bidness want cheap labor) and (2) that brings the new challenge of assimilating the Chasidim into something other than being parasites. (It’s an interesting question of nature and nurture, because once pushed into the wider economy (in both the US and Israel), they’ve turned out to be quite bright.)
Plus, not being able to make it as an elite in the US doesn’t have to mean you’d make a bad one. In fact, considering the incentives, quite the opposite. You don’t have to like then or their means but, in the situation they’re in, they’re doing a decent enough job for their country.
If businesses can’t be protected by the local municipalities, they should be allowed to identify the criminal through software. I thought NYC had the most useless mayor but Portland proves there’s a bigger hack out there. Can the local businesses file a class action suit against the city/mayor?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/09/iraq-troop-withdrawl-410723
Anyhow Trump is beginning another troop withdrawal from our quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan....probably why many in the officer corp & the military industrial complex pipeline are so pissy w him.....hes f--king up their racketeering and sinecure "industries".....the military.....especially the Chair Force is a gravy train service....
My uncle who lives in the Bay Area retired at 38 with a naval pension & then had a 2nd career as a DoD civilian goldbricker where he draws a 2nd pension and even managed to pull another partial 15 yr CALPERS pension by riding that train.
I seriously need to get into govt....the private sector truly is overrated despite the Art Laffer types and the Reaganites spouting it as free market gospel....i guess if they mean private sector they mean a cushy military industrial complex contractor job pushing paper or something.....Replies: @Brian Reilly, @Kronos
Make it rain money baby! Where do I sign up?
She was an Rn. She went to nursing school when the RN program was only 3 years. So at age 20 she went to work for the state of California public health department.
When she was 46, her parents became old and sickly and needed a caretaker. Mary was the only child who’d worked long enough to get a pension. So the family agreed that Mary would quit her job, get her pension and take of her parents.
In return, the parents would put Mary as joint tenant on their paid for, mortgage free house. That meant there’d be just title transfer tax, no inheritance tax when the parents died.
Everyone agreed and Mary quit work and began receiving her pension.
Mary lived to be 104 years old. Received her cost of living increase state pension for 58 years.Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Truth
https://youtu.be/Gj3bnyI3TLoReplies: @Neoconned, @Alden
Hes 80 now….i guess he was in on the Good Old Boy system pipeline officers use to get MIC jobs after they leave the service.
https://i.imgflip.com/t5jc4.jpg
https://youtu.be/Gj3bnyI3TLoReplies: @Neoconned, @Alden
Here’s the greatest and longest pension story I’ve ever heard. Mary, my grandmother’s cousin.
She was an Rn. She went to nursing school when the RN program was only 3 years. So at age 20 she went to work for the state of California public health department.
When she was 46, her parents became old and sickly and needed a caretaker. Mary was the only child who’d worked long enough to get a pension. So the family agreed that Mary would quit her job, get her pension and take of her parents.
In return, the parents would put Mary as joint tenant on their paid for, mortgage free house. That meant there’d be just title transfer tax, no inheritance tax when the parents died.
Everyone agreed and Mary quit work and began receiving her pension.
Mary lived to be 104 years old. Received her cost of living increase state pension for 58 years.
Honkees greedy.
it’s almost like the authorities support the riots and want them to continue.
sorry guys, but the police are NOT on your side in some jurisdictions. police officers are clearly the bad guys in some Democrat cities. gonna have to accept that and deal with it.
many officers are happy to attack law abiding, rule following patriots. beat their asses, arrest them, and send them to merciless leftist AGs. at the same time they’ll stand around doing nothing while leftist rioters burn down businesses and assault other citizens.
better not resist the street leftists though. somehow, the police magically show up in 30 seconds if you shoot a looter or get the upper hand on some leftist loser in a street fight.
if anything anti-racist since it has a harder time detecting black faces than whites.Replies: @Paul Jolliffe
The simple reason the left is terrified of facial recognition software is not because it’s inaccurate, but because it’s so accurate!
That’s why the Detroit City Council wants the DPD to stop using it!
Detroit – where the city’s Civilian Board of Police Commissioners are arrested for disorderly conduct DURING MEETINGS!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1045046
It’s just another piece of kindling to stoke the war of hate on whites for the EFF.
“We are not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now.”
But isn’t this facial recognition technology easily foiled . . . .
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-ask-public-to-help-identify-suspected-downtown-looters/2321401/
As with the border wall and e-verify, the left pretends to object that it won't work, but actually fears that it will.Replies: @S
But, just to be safe, they’ll ban whatever it is they say won’t work, (but really does). 😀
I am uncharacteristically with Portland on this one. The less government is able to track its citizens day to day, the better. It unbalances the power relationship between people and government.
I am satisfied with the success rate of old-fashioned methods of policing. Where policing is failing today seems to me to be more matters of will, policy and politics than the actual ability to catch criminals.
I vote no to the Panopticon simply out of prudence.
So how many are there? You seem confident that there are many.
I have assumed that antifa (especially) and even BLM rioters would have amongst them quite a few undercovers from the feds, even state and local LEOs. But either they do and they aren’t being used for anything legal like arrests, or they don’t exist.
For commie Portland, it seems like regular policing and riot control is barely operational. That comes from the top, not the rank and file.
So the reality might be that the locusts are free to eat all of your grain. No one is going to try and prevent that. As I wrote in a prior comment about the Santa Monica looter caravans, what use is a police state if the police won’t stop actual crime? Even in ‘normal’ police states of every political type they are normally pretty strict about street crime and things like assault, robbery, theft, etc.
So Woketopia is going to be overrun with violent/insane criminals while the cops hand out speeding tickets and zoning violations to the victim public? In the Woketopia microcosms (Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc.) that seems to be the reality.
Your woketopia is a textbook definition of the modern police state, which only polices the law-abiding while letting loose or cooperating with the criminals.
Sam Francis used to call such a state of affairs" anarcho-tyranny".
While there might be some uncercover cops and cointel agents monitoring the BLM and Antifa movements, I have little doubt that the FBI and CIA are working with them to create havoc, with corporate money funding and following orders from the Democrats and the Deep "Deep State", just as some majors and governors are openly doing.
Yes. And thanks to that hilarious hotfoot Portland antifa goon and his flaming slippers Molotov cocktail dance, we know that the rioters are not going to be using actual flamethrowers themselves.
Like small children, they aren’t capable of using fire or matches without hurting themselves.
And secondarily gypsy pickpockets, "people with golden chains" scammers, and such and such.Replies: @unit472, @Alden, @gent, @guest
They’re afraid that law enforcement will occur.
Really? Last thing I read said that most of the systems did real well on the standard test facial database of 5000 people, but not so well on one of a million people, which says to me that they had been tuned to pass the test.
Steve, what do you think of this hot conservative babe Andrews? She is pretty sharp.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/270035/
There seems to be a pattern of aging beauties who are right wing pundits. Over 30's 40's sexy plus brains. I guess Noonan was the vanguard although Schafly looks great in some youth photos.
Anyway this part of Andrew's excellent article is bull:
But if affirmative action is abolished, the result will be an ethnically lopsided Ivy League and, soon, an ethnically lopsided national elite...
Uhh ... high tide for Jews is passing (overall effect on institutions was very negative ---- Ivy League & Media & Law all more corrupt and poisoned with Jewish revolutionary spirit aka intellectually defective Bolshevism) ... military left standing as America's most trusted institution. Wonder why. Coincidentally very few Jews in the military.
...And the Asian elite thing in America was/is just not happening. Asian intellect is heavily skewed to math/science. Sorry they are not elite otherwise. Sorry. I'm sick of waiting for them to kick our supposedly lame white asses. That scenario is a joke.
Jews are great math/science people and overrated otherwise. Look at the entire history of modern Israel. None of those leaders would make it big in America. None.
And the Asian thing is even more impossible. Ludicrous to think they will rule as the new American elite. We are not f*cking Peru.Replies: @clyde, @dfordoom, @Jesse, @AnotherDad
This is a bit simplistic.
The Jewish IQ profile–relative to whites–is more or less opposite the East Asians. Strong verbally, good at math, weak at visio-spatial.
Jewish work outside of math and science is indeed mostly miserable. But it’s not because Jews are untalented, it’s because that work mostly consists of whining and lying for minoritarianism–scratching and clawing at the gentiles’ traditions, norms, religion, culture, nation, race and civilization.
The problem is “reality is conservative”. People have their norms, traditions … because they work! (They are culturally evolved.) And, of course, white gentiles developed the most productive and successful civilization on the planet.
And the Jews goal–make life good for a hostile middle man minority outgroup–is pretty much the worse possible organizing principle for any nation to adopt. (Short of flinging open the borders and inviting in the barbarians in to loot your stuff and have a go at your women.)
Bottom line: Not a lack of talent, but an evil, destructive agenda.
>The big worry among Portland politicians is not that facial recognition technology will fail but that it will succeed in putting their supporters in jail for arson, vandalism, and mayhem.
I think that’s right, which makes this statement:
>the technology has been widely criticized by privacy advocates for built-in racial biases
somewhat surprising. Wouldn’t racial bias (i.e., less adept at recognizing black faces) be a “good thing” here? At least from the perspective of Portland politicians??
As ever, reality is racist. If cameras catch crime, they’ll catch black people doing it. And that’s bad.
Of course, that's not because they're not retarded, but because we are retarded.Replies: @AnotherDad
This was absolutely, the dumbest response to a terrorist attack–ever.
I could forgive Bush, the “invade”–a traditional “you f’d with me” response–if he would have skipped the “invite” and instead said the obvious: “Hey this diversity thing is a bit tricky, let’s put a hold on that” and battened down the hatches.
Imagine if we’d responded to Pearl Harbor by both bombing Japanese cities and inviting Japanese to come to America and join our military, intelligence and internal security services.
"Is immigration good for your children?"
"Is immigration good for the environment?"
"Is immigration good for American workers?"
"Do you think integration / assimilation happens?"
"Do you want your country back?"
"Do you feel safe?"
"E Pluribus Unum?"
etc.
I have assumed that antifa (especially) and even BLM rioters would have amongst them quite a few undercovers from the feds, even state and local LEOs. But either they do and they aren't being used for anything legal like arrests, or they don't exist.
For commie Portland, it seems like regular policing and riot control is barely operational. That comes from the top, not the rank and file.
So the reality might be that the locusts are free to eat all of your grain. No one is going to try and prevent that. As I wrote in a prior comment about the Santa Monica looter caravans, what use is a police state if the police won't stop actual crime? Even in 'normal' police states of every political type they are normally pretty strict about street crime and things like assault, robbery, theft, etc.
So Woketopia is going to be overrun with violent/insane criminals while the cops hand out speeding tickets and zoning violations to the victim public? In the Woketopia microcosms (Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc.) that seems to be the reality.Replies: @AndrewR, @BB753
Amarcho-tyranny and selective enforcement. James Fields will die in prison because he had the audacity to not want to be killed by a leftist mob. Or at least he’ll die in prison unless we free him.
One of the most obvious statements imaginable.
But not making fun of it. It’s also a statement that precisely outlines the nature of contemporary politics in the West and the nature of our “left”.
I have assumed that antifa (especially) and even BLM rioters would have amongst them quite a few undercovers from the feds, even state and local LEOs. But either they do and they aren't being used for anything legal like arrests, or they don't exist.
For commie Portland, it seems like regular policing and riot control is barely operational. That comes from the top, not the rank and file.
So the reality might be that the locusts are free to eat all of your grain. No one is going to try and prevent that. As I wrote in a prior comment about the Santa Monica looter caravans, what use is a police state if the police won't stop actual crime? Even in 'normal' police states of every political type they are normally pretty strict about street crime and things like assault, robbery, theft, etc.
So Woketopia is going to be overrun with violent/insane criminals while the cops hand out speeding tickets and zoning violations to the victim public? In the Woketopia microcosms (Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc.) that seems to be the reality.Replies: @AndrewR, @BB753
“So Woketopia is going to be overrun with violent/insane criminals while the cops hand out speeding tickets and zoning violations to the victim public?”
Your woketopia is a textbook definition of the modern police state, which only polices the law-abiding while letting loose or cooperating with the criminals.
Sam Francis used to call such a state of affairs” anarcho-tyranny”.
While there might be some uncercover cops and cointel agents monitoring the BLM and Antifa movements, I have little doubt that the FBI and CIA are working with them to create havoc, with corporate money funding and following orders from the Democrats and the Deep “Deep State”, just as some majors and governors are openly doing.
She was an Rn. She went to nursing school when the RN program was only 3 years. So at age 20 she went to work for the state of California public health department.
When she was 46, her parents became old and sickly and needed a caretaker. Mary was the only child who’d worked long enough to get a pension. So the family agreed that Mary would quit her job, get her pension and take of her parents.
In return, the parents would put Mary as joint tenant on their paid for, mortgage free house. That meant there’d be just title transfer tax, no inheritance tax when the parents died.
Everyone agreed and Mary quit work and began receiving her pension.
Mary lived to be 104 years old. Received her cost of living increase state pension for 58 years.Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Truth
These public pension windfall (abuse of taxpayer) stories really make me PO. Despite what participants always claim about the modest size of the average, government pension, the system is intrinsically a big scheme.
To this day, I hear adults talking among themselves, and even to their kids just starting out in the workforce, about how a government pension — availability of early retirement! — really magnifies the attractiveness of civil service employment.
Again: Many Americans born this year, and those in years to come, will some twenty years further out be paying higher taxes in order to clear the pension checks of many recently retired, government workers.
Outrageous!
Read Den of Thieves. It’s about 1980s Wall Street raiders who took over big private sector companies and then stole the pension fund. Think about it. A couple hundred of dollars a month for 30-40 years contribution. And then Ivan Boesky and other (( crooks)) just steal your pension and you’re left with a meager $1,500 a month social security. Boesky and friends raided the steel mills, factories all the big industrial companies pension funds. Outright theft.
They could have nipped this racist outrage in the bud about 180 years ago by just banning photography.
I read one article, cannot vouch for the veracity, that claimed the reason the US closed the Chinese Consulate in Houston is that they are identifying the protesters and communicating with them via snap chat and they are probably using IIA. The Chinese are trying their own color revolution on us here.Replies: @BB753, @Feryl, @Nicholas Stix
Every sign points to a home-made color revolution, but maybe the Chinese or the Israeli are joining in the fun. Who knows?
Nearly 20,000 fake ID's from outside the US that were seized by customs since January is surely just a coincidence.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/over-19k-fraudulent-ids-seized-cbp-officers-chicago
Given a fake ID and some kind of credit / debit in the same name, one can rent cars and other things easily.Replies: @BB753
I think that's right, which makes this statement:
>the technology has been widely criticized by privacy advocates for built-in racial biases
somewhat surprising. Wouldn't racial bias (i.e., less adept at recognizing black faces) be a "good thing" here? At least from the perspective of Portland politicians??Replies: @Hibernian, @guest
Opponents of facial recognition technology base their opposition on false positives. However, it is just a first line screening tool, and their real objection is to true positives.
NOT allowed to gather information about criminals
This is just another of the many rules that favors criminals and reduce safety for law abiding citizens, including, or especially safety for Blacks
Not allowed to tell the race of criminals
Not allowed to show photos and details about underage criminals, or allegedly underage adult criminals
Not allowed to show cruelty perpetrated by criminals
Human Rights are for Criminals
https://sincerity.net/sensational-violence/Replies: @Fun
Law enforcement agencies all over the world have been gradually adopting facial recognition tech without much public awareness or protest. They claim this is to “fight crime”, an excuse that gives them unlimited license to deploy the technology. Big tech is compiling massive, universal databases for tracking people in real time. Governments are building up surveillance infrastructure, and using all that data for whatever purposes they desire. There’s no strong legal regime preventing or even slowing this down.
It’s a bigger problem than the MSM self-censoring on race. If Portland does the right thing for the wrong reason, fine with that.
> I think we all need public spaces in which we can be relatively sure that we’re not being watched by hypercompetent machines.
I get it. For example, I oppose cameras that hand out traffic violations, even though a cop can do the same.
The reasons for the difference are nuanced, having to do with the severity of crimes being prevented, the abuse in the name of revenue-raising, and, if I’m being honest, how annoying it is to me personally.
I still disagree with you, but I’m not committed to my position.
As always, South Africa leads the way:
I wouldn’t agree. For instance, Jews or people of visibly Jewish heritage made a very significant contribution to many areas of culture, both high-brow & low-brow. If we count also the converts to Christianity, they were essential to the 20th German-language literature (Joseph Roth, Kafka, Kraus, Broch, Canetti, Werfel, Doeblin, …) & to a lesser degree Russian (Il’f & Petrov, Babel’, Marshak, Mandel’shtam, Grossman, .. we could also add problematic Pasternak & Aksyonov). Even in Italy, where they are not numerous, Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz) wrote what I consider to be the best 20th C Italian novel.
Kafka and Broch are among 10-15 greatest 20th C Western authors.
In the US, Jews were strongly represented in post-WW2 era (Kazin, Fiedler, Mailer, Roth, Malamud, Bellow, Doctorow,..), but I don’t think much of it will survive. Less known Nathanael West was, probably, an author of greater significance.
Then, music (Mahler, Schoenberg, Bloch, Milhaud, Gershwin, … plus 2 American gays); add numerous conductors & a whole bunch of violin virtuosi without whom musical scene is unimaginable- what can be more?
Even in visual arts they got Pissaro, Modigliani, Soutine & Chagall, which is not something negligible.
Add comics & other areas of popular culture- I rest my case.
Well, so much for high hopes…
I agree. Using facial recognition technology to combat crime during a time of social unrest reeks of passing the Patriot Act to combat terrorism after 9/11. Unforeseen consequences factor is likely pretty high.
When George W. Bush was president, I kept trying to figure out hat his problem was: was he stupid or was he crazy? One of those would fit some of his actions the the other fit others. In the end, though, I decided he was neither dumb nor crazy, just evil.
All those idiot thugs attacked a blue city. So, we should congratulate them.
And if Democrat leaders want to protect Democrat thugs who destroy Democrat cities, why should we care?
Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland just issued an order to the police department to not use tear gas. Meanwhile, Oregon highway patrol and forestry service claims the forest fires are arson, not natural and set intentionally. Many set about a quarter mile from the freeways, sure sign of arson.
Shouldn’t the local chambers of commerce and business organizations from NYC to Minneapolis to Portland and Seattle be lobbying for local governments and NG to crack down on the insurrection? Or are they too busy lobbying for more illegal immigrants to work in closed down restaurants?
And what’s with the big real estate owners? Are they happy to see the value of their property fall by thousands a month? Happy to see their commercial tenants breaking the leases? It’s all very well to say sue tenants for the remainder of the rent but can’t recover damages if the company has no more money.
Seems to this skeptic that the entire business community has either surrendered to the liberals or has joined the conspiracy to destroy the cities.
And secondarily gypsy pickpockets, "people with golden chains" scammers, and such and such.Replies: @unit472, @Alden, @gent, @guest
If there are any built-in racial biases, they run against lighter-skinned people. Because computers have an easier time recognizing that kind of person.
In reality, the so-called “bias” derives from the fact that technology allows favored races to get caught doing things government and businesses don’t like.
I think that's right, which makes this statement:
>the technology has been widely criticized by privacy advocates for built-in racial biases
somewhat surprising. Wouldn't racial bias (i.e., less adept at recognizing black faces) be a "good thing" here? At least from the perspective of Portland politicians??Replies: @Hibernian, @guest
It *would* be. But you must realize these people are liars, and they’re not actually worried about bias. They’re worried about un-bias.
As ever, reality is racist. If cameras catch crime, they’ll catch black people doing it. And that’s bad.
Then you should practice your English more.
I read one article, cannot vouch for the veracity, that claimed the reason the US closed the Chinese Consulate in Houston is that they are identifying the protesters and communicating with them via snap chat and they are probably using IIA. The Chinese are trying their own color revolution on us here.Replies: @BB753, @Feryl, @Nicholas Stix
I think it’s been the case that since the mid-20th century, developed countries have had the means to identify/apprehend the vast majority of spies, terrorists, criminal masterminds, etc. But there isn’t always the will, or the competence*, among leadership to nullify all the bad guys. Plus, we often “turn” dubious characters to be on “our” side. Why arrest a monster when he can used by us for a change? Then there’s the fact that many of the “white hat” power players and their minions are often themselves sociopathic.
*If you read about true crime, back in the 70’s and 80’s there were thousands of serial rapists and hundreds of serial killers, yet investigations often went nowhere because local law enforcement agencies often didn’t share information, evidence, or ideas with each other. Possible connections between crimes in different cities were often dissmissed based on vague hunches. Thanks to DNA, we now know a relatively small group of people commit most violent sex crimes.
She was an Rn. She went to nursing school when the RN program was only 3 years. So at age 20 she went to work for the state of California public health department.
When she was 46, her parents became old and sickly and needed a caretaker. Mary was the only child who’d worked long enough to get a pension. So the family agreed that Mary would quit her job, get her pension and take of her parents.
In return, the parents would put Mary as joint tenant on their paid for, mortgage free house. That meant there’d be just title transfer tax, no inheritance tax when the parents died.
Everyone agreed and Mary quit work and began receiving her pension.
Mary lived to be 104 years old. Received her cost of living increase state pension for 58 years.Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Truth
Yeah…
Honkees greedy.
Not all, but many other governments have a national pension system. All the pension deduction payments go into one big pot managed by the government. The government manages, invests and sends out the pension checks. It’s better than our system in which your pension depends on who your employer is.
Read Den of Thieves. It’s about 1980s Wall Street raiders who took over big private sector companies and then stole the pension fund. Think about it. A couple hundred of dollars a month for 30-40 years contribution. And then Ivan Boesky and other (( crooks)) just steal your pension and you’re left with a meager $1,500 a month social security. Boesky and friends raided the steel mills, factories all the big industrial companies pension funds. Outright theft.
It’s racist!!!! Those DNA samples cleared so many old cases committed by blacks. There was talk of ACLU ADL AJC NAACP lawsuits filed with the intention of getting findings and rulings by liberal judges that using DNA to solve crimes and file criminal charges has the dreaded disparate impact. Well it does.
Like requiring a steel mill foreman to be able to read the operations manual. Kaiser vs Weber, 1979. The Supreme representatives of Satan on earth ruled it is discriminatory to require a steel mill foreman be able to read. Or learn the basic middle school facts about how iron,Replies: @David In TN
The LA Times and the MSM fought taking DNA samples and DNA databases in general. Among many cases cleared were John Floyd Thomas AKA Westside Rapist and Lonnie Franklin AKA The Grim Sleeper.
Thomas, ironically, was caught in a DNA sweep in 2009 intended for the Grim Sleeper. Thomas had raped and murdered elderly white women in Los Angeles County for decades.
Franklin was arrested a year after Thomas due to familial DNA, also opposed by the Usual Suspects.
Thomas pleaded guilty to LWOP. Franklin took six years to go to trial, in a surprise, got the death penalty.
Franklin died while on San Quentin’s “Death Row.” Thomas still lives incarcerated.
That’s why the Detroit City Council wants the DPD to stop using it!
Detroit - where the city’s Civilian Board of Police Commissioners are arrested for disorderly conduct DURING MEETINGS!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1045046Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Same with eVerify.
2. ?
3. Profit! They're stupid as hell. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @anonymous, @duncsbaby, @Libre
They seem to have a pretty good lock-down on Oregon politics. The only person running against Mayor Wheeler is a gal way to his left. She sports skirts w/Chairman Mao and Che patterns. The governor and state govt of Oregon are solidly left-wing Democrat. I keep hoping for common sense to descend upon the good voters of Oregon but if there is a cloud of common sense over Oregon it ain’t producing much rain.
Control Portland and you pretty much control Oregon. Just count the population.
Oregon is similar to other states in the US West, it consists of a number of small towns, one or two small cities, and one big city. Multonomah county (Portland plus suburbs) dominates Oregon politically. The whole east side of the state is mostly ignored, and would probably join Idaho if that were possible. The south side of the state would probably join with northern California counties to form the state of Jefferson if that were possible.
The D's have a fantasy of Washington, Oregon and California seceding to form a new progtard country, call it "Cascadia". They don't realize that many of the rural counties of "Cascadia" would promptly secede from it.Replies: @SaneClownPosse
Seriously, let’s try that approach. People are controlled by the limbic system (i.e. gut instinct), not the rational part of the brain. Instead of complicated, wordy arguments about morality or fertility or crime rates in Juarez, emotional appeals that are distinctly non-manipulative may work much better. Closed questions force you to make a quick, definitive choice.
“Is immigration good for your children?”
“Is immigration good for the environment?”
“Is immigration good for American workers?”
“Do you think integration / assimilation happens?”
“Do you want your country back?”
“Do you feel safe?”
“E Pluribus Unum?”
etc.
Every sign points to a home-made color revolution, but maybe the Chinese or the Israeli are joining in the fun. Who knows?
Nearly 20,000 fake ID’s from outside the US that were seized by customs since January is surely just a coincidence.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/over-19k-fraudulent-ids-seized-cbp-officers-chicago
Given a fake ID and some kind of credit / debit in the same name, one can rent cars and other things easily.
Well, it makes sense to have those fake id's made aboad and sent from anywhere else than Langley, Virginia. Plausible denial, they call it. Or a way of blaming China.
Wonder why they didn't think of Russia to pull this off.
They seem to have a pretty good lock-down on Oregon politics
Control Portland and you pretty much control Oregon. Just count the population.
Oregon is similar to other states in the US West, it consists of a number of small towns, one or two small cities, and one big city. Multonomah county (Portland plus suburbs) dominates Oregon politically. The whole east side of the state is mostly ignored, and would probably join Idaho if that were possible. The south side of the state would probably join with northern California counties to form the state of Jefferson if that were possible.
The D’s have a fantasy of Washington, Oregon and California seceding to form a new progtard country, call it “Cascadia”. They don’t realize that many of the rural counties of “Cascadia” would promptly secede from it.
Fair point. The question is, would a Gore administration or a Kerry administration have been any better? Or would they simply have been same old Invade-Invite with Poz characteristics?
Nearly 20,000 fake ID's from outside the US that were seized by customs since January is surely just a coincidence.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/over-19k-fraudulent-ids-seized-cbp-officers-chicago
Given a fake ID and some kind of credit / debit in the same name, one can rent cars and other things easily.Replies: @BB753
“The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea.”
Well, it makes sense to have those fake id’s made aboad and sent from anywhere else than Langley, Virginia. Plausible denial, they call it. Or a way of blaming China.
Wonder why they didn’t think of Russia to pull this off.
Landlords can now get Alexa units at a discount.
All data is uploaded to the Amazon cloud and the CIA.
Control Portland and you pretty much control Oregon. Just count the population.
Oregon is similar to other states in the US West, it consists of a number of small towns, one or two small cities, and one big city. Multonomah county (Portland plus suburbs) dominates Oregon politically. The whole east side of the state is mostly ignored, and would probably join Idaho if that were possible. The south side of the state would probably join with northern California counties to form the state of Jefferson if that were possible.
The D's have a fantasy of Washington, Oregon and California seceding to form a new progtard country, call it "Cascadia". They don't realize that many of the rural counties of "Cascadia" would promptly secede from it.Replies: @SaneClownPosse
Nevada has two counties that determine State level races. The only D counties in Nevada, Washoe (Reno-Sparks) and Clark (Las Vegas).
I read one article, cannot vouch for the veracity, that claimed the reason the US closed the Chinese Consulate in Houston is that they are identifying the protesters and communicating with them via snap chat and they are probably using IIA. The Chinese are trying their own color revolution on us here.Replies: @BB753, @Feryl, @Nicholas Stix
“The days of James Bond flitting around are over and done with.”
Since those days never existed, your implied contrast collapses.
Steve can it, this will 100 percent be used against us. It should be banned Nationwide. I don’t get why the alt right sucks off the government and cops so much. They literally are not our friends.
2. ?
3. Profit! They're stupid as hell. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/portland-police-arrest-dem-staffer-during-riot/Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @anonymous, @duncsbaby, @Libre
We can rest assured this will never ever be used against proud boys. 🤔
I want the one in Robocop.
For elected officials, 24x7.Replies: @BB753
Do you really want to see Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden naked?