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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Israel secretly tracking Palestinians with FRT
Israel’s most high-profile facial recognition technology (FRT) startup, Anyvision Interactive Technologies, is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at checkpoints on the way into Israel — while using a network of cameras deep inside the West Bank, Haaretz reported. Anyvision has cameras deep inside the West Bank, allowing Israel to spot and monitor potential assailants.
The US was in a mess before Trump came along
Donald Trump is probably the first US president since World War II without a war agenda. He is trying to draw down US troop deployment from Afghanistan, negotiate a settlement for the North Korean nuclear program, disengage from the Syrian civil war, and increase non-military pressure on Iran. Trump’s use of non-war pressure tactics has enemies in the media, academia, and among military-industrial complex lobbyists and politicians. To his detractors, Trump is the scapegoat for a litany of shortcomings faced by the US including the domestic economy, trade, and global policing, none of which are of his making.
Israel’s most high-profile facial recognition technology (FRT) startup, Anyvision Interactive Technologies, is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at checkpoints on the way into Israel — while using a network of cameras deep inside the West Bank, Haaretz reported. Anyvision has cameras deep inside the West Bank, allowing Israel to spot and monitor potential assailants.
Donald Trump is probably the first US president since World War II without a war agenda. He is trying to draw down US troop deployment from Afghanistan, negotiate a settlement for the North Korean nuclear program, disengage from the Syrian civil war, and increase non-military pressure on Iran. Trump’s use of non-war pressure tactics has enemies in the media, academia, and among military-industrial complex lobbyists and politicians. To his detractors, Trump is the scapegoat for a litany of shortcomings faced by the US including the domestic economy, trade, and global policing, none of which are of his making.
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
An investigation into far-right extremist groups in Italy led to the police finding an air-to-air missile, machine guns and rocket launchers. The huge weapons haul was almost without precedent, authorities said.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Health care. Education. Among others, these goods have been considered so important that most current governments make a huge effort to provide them to people with inadequate incomes. Surely, it would be crazy to deny how important these goods are. However, is publicization through state activity the only or best way to provide those services to the poor? Do we have alternatives? How about charity? Couldn’t charity replace taxation? It could—and with solid advantages.... Perhaps if the government demanded less (coercively), people would give more voluntarily.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Trump is fully employing malice as a political strategy. It’s not clever. It’s not shrewd. It’s destructive and wrong. The fact that so few Republicans can muster enough courage to state this obvious truth speaks to a sad reality — the rot extends far beyond 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Wise action needed to stop frankincense supplies running out
The Romans once sent an army to control the production of frankincense, a commodity that so beguiled the ancient Egyptians they called it “the sweat of the gods fallen to Earth”. The aromatic resin is in demand once again and scientists are warning that supplies are in danger of collapse. Their research suggests that the trees from which it comes are being destroyed by cattle farming, drought, war and a scramble to meet booming demand in the West, where it is marketed as an antidote to anxiety.
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from The Times and The Sunday Times
London, UKWise action needed to stop frankincense supplies running out
The Romans once sent an army to control the production of frankincense, a commodity that so beguiled the ancient Egyptians they called it “the sweat of the gods fallen to Earth”. The aromatic resin is in demand once again and scientists are warning that supplies are in danger of collapse. Their research suggests that the trees from which it comes are being destroyed by cattle farming, drought, war and a scramble to meet booming demand in the West, where it is marketed as an antidote to anxiety.
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