UK Cops May Begin Scanning Faces on The Streets
In an ongoing bid to combat retail crime, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office has launched a £55.5 million plan Wednesday to roll out state of the art surveillance technologies on the streets of the Anglo nation.
The new technology consists of a major increase in facial recognition systems used to identify people in public.
“This will include £4 million for bespoke mobile units that can be deployed to high streets across the country with live facial recognition used in crowded areas to identify people wanted by the police – including repeat shoplifters,” the official statement published Wednesday said.
The government funded plan will utilize mobile units that record people in towns and main streets, comparing the captured images to specific suspects the police are searching for, or those banned from certain locations. Law enforcement will then be notified to intercept the targets.
According to the government announcement the initiative expands on the Retail Crime Action Plan with 5 key points:
- creating a new offense of assaulting a retail worker
- expanding the use of electronic monitoring for frequent shoplifters
- using new technologies to prevent and detect retail crime
- designing out crime, to reduce opportunities to steal and sell stolen goods
- making it easier to report crime and share information between businesses and police
Civil liberties nongovernmental organization [NGO] Big Brother Watch has launched a campaign against the measure, and is seeking signatories on a petition against the program.
“It’s an abysmal waste of public money on a dangerously authoritarian and inaccurate technology that neither the public nor parliament has ever voted on. This will cost not only the public purse but the public’s privacy and civil liberties. Live facial recognition may be commonplace in China and Russia but these Government plans put the UK completely out of sync with the rest of the democratic world,” Silkie Carlo, Director of civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch said Wednesday. “This Orwellian tech has no place in Britain.”
Carlo’s use of the term ‘inaccurate technology’ is especially concerning, as false positives will result in innocent bystanders being detained, swept up in an investigation which could potentially result in their arrest and imprisonment until they are able to prove their innocence.
“The UK is known for mass use of CCTV cameras, with London being the most surveilled city in Europe, and unsurprisingly, facial recognition has been welcomed with great enthusiasm,” Reclaim The Net’s Didi Rankovic wrote Friday.
The Prime Minister’s press release included numerous quotes from individuals lauding the new initiative, yet non detracting from its perceived benefits.
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BREAKING: Priest and Three Others Stabbed During Service in Australia, Attack Caught on Live Stream
A priest at the church of Christ the Good Shepherd in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley has been stabbed during a service at the church. The attack, which was captured on a live broadcast, took place on Monday evening in front of a terrified congregation.
The priest, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, was delivering mass at the church when his assailant, dressed in black, attacked him with a knife. Three others were injured during the incident. At this stage, no-one has died.
Officers have arrested the attacker and are questioning him.
An attack on a priest has just been captured on a live stream at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley. pic.twitter.com/s17sHHHVw7
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Bishop Emmanuel gained a huge following on social media and notoriety for speaking out against the pandemic’s social restrictions and vaccine mandates, which he described as “mass slavery.”
“Are we humans? Because we are being treated like animals,” he asked in a sermon in 2021.
“They are encouraging people to go and take vaccine and stay at home. They have had enough.”
Reporting of the incident refers to him as an “anti-vaxxer.”
The attack comes just two days after another terrifying stabbing incident in Sydney. Six people, including the attacker, Joel Cauchi, were left dead after a rampage at Westfield Bondi shopping mall.
After initial suggestions that the attack might be terror-related, it appears the police are now treating the incident as one in which women were specifically targeted. The majority of the victims were women.
It has now been revealed that Cauchi worked as a male escort and that he stalked other shopping centers in the run-up to the fatal attack. His search histories have apparently revealed a fixation with killing which suggest the attack was planned.
Israel May Stage False Flag Attacks in America, Army Intel Officer Warns
Geopolitical analyst and former Army intelligence officer Scott Bennett spoke with Alex Jones on Sunday about the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Middle East, possibly leading to a false flag terror attack carried out by Israel against the U.S. which will cause more civil rights to be curtailed.
“Well we talked about this weeks ago, that the FBI, CIA, Mossad were going to be doing terrorist attacks inside the United States and blaming it Iran, that’s been my speculation for a long time,” Bennett said. “And I do think they’re going to do it.”
The analyst went on to say that such attacks will allow for a greater perennial police state.
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VIDEO: Robert Barnes Responds to Israel Committing Political Suicide, Trump’s First Criminal Trial, & More
Attorney Robert Barnes joined Alex Jones Sunday to discuss current political events and the law-fare attacks against presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“Trump was the victim of extortion by Stormy Danials, not the person who perpetrated it, and they’re trying to convert an accounting issue into a criminal issue,” Barnes said. “And the idea that it interfered in the election is ludicrous, there’s no evidentiary bases for that, and of course they’re focused on things that Trump did while President of the United States and pretending somehow he can’t be immune from prosecution by politically motivated prosecutors for this, so I think what the judge is doing he thinks is going to advance the Democrat Party’s interest, I think it’s going to undermine it.”
Barnes went on to explain how the political prosecution of Trump will put more pressure on the Supreme Court to grant the former president full immunity in all these cases.
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Israel Purposely Dragging America Into World War III
On his Sunday show, Alex Jones covered how Israel is dragging the US into World War III.
“All over the internet Israel is so hated now by the majority of people, when Hamas attacked I thought it was terrible, and then I saw the howls of enjoyment from the pro-Israel people when they were carpet bombing innocent people, and I thought that was disgusting and horrible,” the talkshow host said. “And now I’m seeing howls of excitement over Iran hitting Israel, and now I’m seeing all the lip-smacking by the other side, both the neocons and war-mongers and some people in Israel, their leadership, ‘oh we’re going to destroy Iran now’ and we’re all hurtling over the edge of total destruction.”
Jones went on to say nuclear war is unwindable for anybody, and called for it to stop immediately.
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Guatemala Investigating US NGOs for Child Trafficking, Seeking Help from Texas Attorney General
Guatemala is seeking help from the Texas Attorney General to investigate child trafficking in the country by US NGOs, according to investigative journalist Sara Carter.
On her website yesterday, Carter described obtaining an official letter sent by the Guatemalan government to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The letter was sent to Paxton on Saturday.
“Guatemala’s Attorney General is investigating ongoing criminal claims that a number of American tax payer funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating both inside and outside the United States are complicit in the ongoing trafficking, abuse and disappearance of children from its nation, according to an official Guatemalan letter obtained by this investigative columnist.”
The letter alleges that unaccompanied minors and adolescents are being trafficked from Guatemala into the US and suffering “sexual and physical abuse” at facilities that are run by NGOs funded by the US taxpayer.
#BREAKING Guatemala is investigating U.S. NGOs for child trafficking, seeks Texas AG collaboration
Guatemala’s Attorney General is investigating ongoing criminal claims that a number of American tax payer funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating both inside and…— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) April 15, 2024
Billions of dollars have been granted by the US to NGOs working to aid illegal migrants entering the US.
“As a Prosecutor’s Office, Ministerio Publico of Guatemala, have received a criminal complaint that states some criminal actions, which we see with great concern,” Angel Pineda, Guatemala’s Secretary General, told Carter.
“Due to the situation that is happening in Texas, regarding different forms of abuses of some Guatemalan children and adolescents, when the institution received that criminal complaint, the institution has started investigations, so it is necessary to work on this matter in an integral way.
“That is why, I have been authorized to ask for the collaboration of prosecutor Paxton so we can work together and protect Guatemalan children, and have sent a letter in that matter.”
In the letter, Attorney General María Consuelo Porras lays out in detail the shocking allegations against these government-funded American NGOs.
“These Guatemalan children have reportedly been placed in shelters and organizations throughout Texas under the guise of providing them with a family environment. Disturbingly, there have been reports and documented situations of sexual abuse in these shelters, which is a huge violation of the rights and dignity of these children.”
The letter places a significant portion of the blame for the abuses on the State of Texas.
“The State of Texas bears much of the responsibility for these lost children, who have been transferred to the border and processed migratory (through migration procedures) in Texas apparently fully aware of this situation.”
Porras continues: “You know, deficiencies in security and diplomacy related to the border between the United States and Mexico have resulted in a significant increase in drug trafficking, but also a devastating emergence of human trafficking. In relation to the new complaint that has been filed with this institution, a horrifying pattern of the disappearance of children from Guatemala has been brought to our attention, and it has been reported to the Public Ministry that a complex network involving Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating within Guatemala, who collaborate with specific entities in the State of Texas, are implicated in the abuse of Guatemalan children when they are away from their parents and do not have someone to protect them.”
Carter reached out to Attorney General Paxton for comment, but at time of publication had received no response.
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19,000+ child illegals have flooded NYC school system
American students were turned away on the first day of classes last month, even though many are dependent on school programs for meals
How many American children went hungry so illegals could eat? pic.twitter.com/cpLSREPEbE
American NGOs have already attracted the attention of lawmakers for violations of the law and for failing to protect the migrants in their custody. As Carter notes, these NGOs have included Christian organisations like Annunciation House, a Catholic NGO that is currently being sued by Attorney General Paxton.
In February last year, The New York Times published a detailed exposé on the abuse of migrant children in jobs across the United States. Many are forced to work in violation of child-labour laws. Nearly 130,000 unaccompanied migrant children entered the US governments shelter system in the fiscal year 2022.
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