Qatar approves setting up global data centre for Microsoft

The Qatari cabinet yesterday approved plans to set up a global data centre for Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure and took measures to draft a law to create a Media City.

The cabinet said in a statement that the Media City will have an independent budget and its borders and coordinates will be determined by the Council of Ministers.

The Media City aims to manage and develop media activity and attract international media and technology companies as well as research and training institutions in the fields of media and digital media.

South Africa’s Cape Town and Johannesburg were also among Abu Dhabi and Dubai as newly announced Middle Eastern and African regions that Microsoft have secured. Azure has 54 regions worldwide and is available in 140 countries.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190103-qatar-approves-setting-up-global-data-centre-for-microsoft/

Antifa destroys bar rented to German populist party to fight “fascism”

The Schneiders, a married couple, came onto Antifa’s radar because they rented a hall to the right-wing Alternative for Germany for an event in Leipzig.

The bar was attacked by Antifa and had to remain closed for six weeks after the attack.

Multiple windows were broken in the restaurant and hall, tar colour was spread on roughly 100 square meters, all of the furniture was ruined as well as the floor. The damages totalled 55,000 euros.

Prior to the attack people called to take pictures of the premises under false pretences. On 9 November, shortly before the AfD district party convention, the incident took place.

Indymedia a left-wing extremist website celebrated the attack as a fight against fascism because the bar had been rented to the AfD multiple times since 2016 and called for the fight against “fascism” to continue.

The anonymous operators of the website are afraid the AfD will become the second if not strongest party in the state elections in 2019.

Saxony experienced a total of 13 similar incidents since March. Special police units dealing with terrorism and extremism are leading the investigations.

Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their former Prime Minister of Saxony Kurt Biedenkopf are also said to have been to the bar before.

The Schneiders have now installed cameras and alarm systems. They believe there is no way around it anymore.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/01/antifa-destroys-bar-rented-to-german-populist-party-to-fight-fascism/

Irony overload

The FBI is Trying Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Software

The software allows the FBI to go through video surveillance footage much faster than agents can.

The FBI is piloting Amazon’s facial matching software—Amazon Rekognition—as a means to sift through mountains of video surveillance footage the agency routinely collects during investigations.

The pilot kicked off in early 2018 following a string of high-profile counterterrorism investigations that tested the limits of the FBI’s technological capabilities, according to FBI officials.

For example, in the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas carried out by Stephen Paddock, the law enforcement agency collected a petabyte worth of data, much of it video from cellphones and surveillance cameras.

“We had agents and analysts, eight per shift, working 24/7 for three weeks going through the video footage of everywhere Stephen Paddock was the month leading up to him coming and doing the shooting,” said FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Christine Halvorsen.

Halvorsen made those remarks in November at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, where she described how the FBI is using Amazon’s cloud platforms to carry out counterterrorism investigations. She said Amazon Rekognition could have gone through the same trove of data from the Las Vegas shooting “in 24 hours”—or three weeks faster than it took human FBI agents to find every instance of Paddock’s face in the mountain of video.

“Think about that,” Halvorsen said, noting that technology like Amazon Rekognition frees up FBI agents and analysts to apply their skills to other aspects of the investigation or other cases.

“The cases don’t stop, the threats keep going,” Halvorsen added. “Being able to not pull people off that and have computers do it is very important.”

While Amazon is now a significant supplier of technology to the government—much of it through its cloud business, AWS, which includes the CIA and Defense Department as customers—it is less clear how its facial recognition software is being used in the public sector. The Daily Beast reported the company pitched the software to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last summer, a move that has lawmakers and Amazon employees asking questions. The company does not list any federal clients on its customer page, and currently only identifies as a customer one local law enforcement agency, the Washington County Sheriff Office.

Once a customer, the city of Orlando canceled its own pilot of Amazon Rekognition last June after public outcry over civil liberties.

The FBI did not respond to questions about its use of Amazon Rekognition from Nextgov.

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/01/fbi-trying-amazons-facial-recognition-software/153888/

Colombia coca production: US 'deeply concerned' by rise

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is "deeply concerned" about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia.

At a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque, Mr Pompeo said the two countries would try to reduce coca production by 50% by 2023.

Colombia has already vowed to step up its coca eradication programme.

A recent UN report said the amount of agricultural land used for coca crops in Colombia had hit record levels.

The country has fought for years to tackle cocaine production, with the US providing about $400m (£318m) annually to help combat the producers and traffickers.

Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine, while the US is the world's largest consumer.

"The United States remains deeply concerned about the surge in coca cultivation and cocaine production in Colombia since 2013, and its impact on each of our two countries," Mr Pompeo said while alongside President Duque in Cartagena.

"We know we must do our part to reduce demand in our country and we'll work alongside you here as well."

Mr Duque thanked the US for its support in the drugs war.

Speaking last month, Mr Duque said that more than 80,000 hectares of illicit crops had been eradicated in 2018. The government says it aims to remove another 100,000 hectares in 2019.

But Colombia says more money is needed to persuade farmers to switch to less lucrative, legal crops.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46743902

Nancy Pelosi Elected Speaker of the House with 220 Votes

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat who represents San Francisco in the U.S. House of Representatives, was elected Speaker of the House on Thursday with 220 votes.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, received the second-highest amount of votes with 192.

Pelosi was the Democrats’ nominee for Speaker. McCarthy was the GOP’s nominee.

Eighteen members voted for someone other than the official nominee of either party, while three members voted present.

Pelosi’s win caps a remarkable comeback for the first woman ever elected Speaker of the House back in early 2007, a perch from which she served for two terms before the GOP took back the House majority in 2010’s midterm elections and held it until this past November’s midterms when the Democrats took it back.

Pelosi fended off an organized intra-Democrat Party rebellion, where she spent the last couple months since the midterm election flipping dissidents who had pledged to vote against her into allies who voted for her.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/03/nancy-pelosi-elected-speaker-of-the-house-with-220-votes/

Mainstream Media Gaslighting Trump and Country With Constant Negative Coverage

It’s never been so urgent to understand the sheer depth and breadth of the seditious globalist plot against the POTUS.

No U.S. President has ever been under such blistering and constant siege by the perfidious Mainstream Media (MSM).

The unrelenting and highly negative media coverage of President Trump’s every move and word is being executed with great purpose and extraordinary calculation. See Gaslighting the POTUS!

The globalist’s covert plan is quite simple: Carry out a comprehensive and scorching campaign of character assassination against Trump prior to implementing “Phase 2” of their seditious scheme to overthrow the POTUS. Incidentally, TPTB have already put the prez on notice: Deep State Warning to Trump

When even the all-powerful Federal Reserve is playing a BIG public part in this otherwise clandestine conspiracy to subvert the US government, it’s quite evident that something very BIG is about to go down. See: Federal Reserve Bank Colludes with Deep State to Crash Stock Market

The one-two punch MO

Who doesn’t know that the first punch of a boxing knockout is much more important than the second one?

Well that’s exactly why the CIA’s Mockingbird Media (MM) has been employed by the Very Deep State to conduct a searing and unceasing propaganda campaign against Trump.

This complex and deliberate strategy actually employs multiple tactics of personal destruction and political liquidation. In the process, Donald Trump has been turned into a veritable pin cushion.

The most obvious rogue CIA tactics are the use of character assassination by any means possible. Of course, this includes defamation of character via vicious slander and reckless libel, outright prevarication and pejorative slurs, misleading innuendo and false rumors.

The New World Order globalist cabal, that uses this same blueprint for neutralizing nationalist leaders around the globe, has set their sights on Trump like no other leader in modern history.

But why such a transparent and relentless and outrageous plot to a presidential takedown?

Because the perps know that, were they to resort to physical assassination, a critical mass of American people must first be brainwashed to hate Trump.

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=112556

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