Hundreds more foreigners nabbed for visa offences
A total of 435 foreigners, all but six from Asian countries, were arrested for immigration offences in coordinated raids targetting 220 locations across the country in the early hours of Friday. Eighty-seven…
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/1629735/hundreds-more-foreigners-nabbed-for-visa-offences
Afghan Taliban likely to meet Saudi crown prince in Pakistan – sources
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is likely to meet Afghan Taliban representatives during his visit to Pakistan starting on Sunday, Pakistani government sources said, part of efforts to broker an end to Afghanistan’s 17-year-old civil war.
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a graduation ceremony for the 95th batch of cadets from the King Faisal Air Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 23, 2018. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Pakistan has been playing an increasingly vital role in the Afghanistan peace talks, which have been gathering momentum in recent months amid a growing U.S. desire to pull out its troops.
Along with other Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia has been part of the peace negotiations and is seen to have some sway over the Afghan Taliban militants due to Riyadh’s historical ties with the hardline Islamist group and the kingdom’s religious clout as the birthplace of Islam.
https://intnet.org/2019/02/16/afghan-taliban-likely-to-meet-saudi-crown-prince-in-pakistan-sources/
Chinese facial recognition database exposes 2.5m people
A company operating a facial recognition system in China has exposed millions of residents’ personal information online.
Shenzen-based SenseNets is an artificial intelligence company that uses a network of tracking cameras to spot people and log their movements in its database. Unfortunately, the company exposed that information publicly online allowing anyone to access the information in plain text, it emerged this week.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/15/chinese-facial-recognition-database-exposes-25m-people/
Houthi forces unleash massive missile attack on southern Saudi Arabia
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) – The Houthi forces unleashed a massive missile barrage on southern Saudi Arabia, today, the Yemeni group’s official media wing said in a statement.
According to the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired approximately ten domestically-made Zilzal-1 missiles towards the Qyis Mountains in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan province.
The Houthi forces claimed their missiles were targeting the Saudi Army’s positions at the Qyis Mountains, adding that their projectiles managed to hit their intended targets in the process.
This latest attack by the Houthi forces comes just 24 hours after they fired missiles towards the same mountains in southern Saudi Arabia.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/houthi-forces-unleash-massive-missile-attack-on-southern-saudi-arabia/
‘Digisexuals’ Demand Human Rights At UN To Have Sex With AI Robots
Is technology causing humanity to go mad? The rise of ‘digisexuals’ will lead to demographic disaster as well as the most dysfunctional human relationships in the history of the world. ⁃ TN Editor
ECH-savvy “digisexuals” who lust after AI software and realistic robots are demanding human rights.
An emerging sexual identity known as “digisexuality” is said to be gaining traction among open-minded youngsters in Britain, Japan, Russia and the United States.
Research by academics Neil McArthur and Markie Twist, who co-authored a paper titled “The Rise of Digisexuality”, suggests the trend is becoming more commonplace.
These digisexuals are forgoing humans in favour of intimate, and even sexual, relationships with advanced computer software and lifelike robots, according to Markie and McArthur.
One digisexual Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old school administrator who married a virtual reality singer in Japan, deems himself to be sexual minority facing discrimination.
For those who identity as digisexuals, Markie and McArthur believe they may be resistance akin to the pushback against other sexual minorities such as homo, trans, and bisexuals.
Pressuring for human rights protections could be one way in which digisexuals attempt to achieve recognition.
https://www.technocracy.news/digisexuals-demand-human-rights-at-un-to-have-sex-with-ai-robots/
Kim Jong Un to arrive in Vietnam on February 25 ahead of Trump summit
HANOI (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will arrive in Vietnam on Feb. 25 ahead of a planned second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, three sources with direct knowledge of Kim's schedule told Reuters on Saturday.
Trump and Kim are due to meet in Hanoi on Feb. 27 and 28 following their historic first meeting last June in Singapore. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday Washington aims to "get as far down the road as we can" at the summit.
Kim will meet with Vietnamese officials when he arrives in Hanoi, said the sources, who requested anonymity citing the sensitivity and secrecy surrounding the movements of the North Korean leader.
He will also visit the Vietnamese manufacturing base of Bac Ninh and the industrial port town of Hai Phong, one source said.
Vietnam's president and general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, will meet Kim ahead of a planned trip by Trong to neighboring Laos, one of the sources with direct knowledge told Reuters.
http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/us/kim-jong-un-to/
Two humanitarian corridors will be opened for the evacuation of displaced citizens from al-Rukban camp in al-Tanf
Damascus, SANA-Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that the Syrian government, in cooperation with Federal Russia, decided to open two humanitarian corridors as of Tuesday in Jabal al-Ghurab and Jleib towns on the outskirts of al-Tanf region.
The move comes to evacuate the displaced citizens besieged by the US occupation forces and their terrorist mercenaries from al-Rukban camp in al-Tanf near the Syrian-Jordanian borders.
A statement by the Syrian-Russian joint coordination bodies for the Return of the displaced people said that centers would be set up to facilitate the voluntary and safe evacuation of the Syrian displaced to residential areas according to their choices.
“Those centers will work 24 hours as of next Tuesday to receive all the displaced, including those who lost their personal identity documents,” the statement added.
Nearly 50 thousand displaced Syrians live catastrophic conditions in al-Rukban camp in al-Tanf where US occupation forces exist.
https://sana.sy/en/?p=158692
Gun background check bill may lead to federal gun registry
The most substantial gun measure to go before the House Judiciary Committee passed on Wednesday and, if passed by Congress in full, could pave the way for the creation of a federal gun registry that Democrats have supported in the past.
The bill is now headed to the House floor for a vote, while little is known about how it could be enforced.
The measure, which underwent nine hours of deliberation in the committee before being passed by a 21-14 vote, would require federal background checks for private gun purchases in the U.S., according to the Washington Post.
Democrats Express Openness To Federal Gun Registry https://t.co/ZmAEyB66Ba via @dailycaller
— Kerry Picket (@KerryPicket) February 14, 2019
Democratic House Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said, “The Department of Justice and the FBI will have primary responsibility for enforcing the requirements that we hope will be enacted into law consistent with the values of the overwhelming majority of the American people,” according to the Daily Caller.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/house-background-check-bill-could-pave-way-for-federal-gun-registry/
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 2525
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 2525
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 2525
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa
When People Claim There’s No Media Bias Against Guns, Show This
There is an idea out there that the media isn’t biased against guns. After all, I’ve heard argued, Hollywood has a love affair with guns. Just look at how many they use in their movies. There’s no way they’re anti-gun.
However, let’s take a look at what Hollywood has to say about guns for a moment.
The innocent event of a parade was used to spout anti-gun dialogue because, if you listen to the doctors on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, random gunfire is everywhere and no one is able to avoid being a victim.
In the February 14 episode titled “I Walk the Line,” a teenage boy is brought in to Grey Sloan Memorial after he was shot by a random bullet as he performed in a Scottish bagpipe band in a parade. This isn’t the act of a mad man, though, it came from a bullet shot into the air in celebration of the parade. Nonetheless, the grief-stricken father lets the doctors know that more gun laws are needed, even if he had to reach back twenty years to tell a story justifying his opinion.
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/02/16/people-claim-theres-no-media-bias-show/
What Is and Isn’t a Big Deal in Trump’s Executive Actions Related to the Border
On Feb. 15, President Trump took a number of legal steps, including declaring a national emergency and invoking emergency authorities, in connection with his efforts to construct a wall on the southern border. There are important senses in which Trump’s actions are a big deal, and important senses in which they are not nearly as big a deal as many contend.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-and-isnt-big-deal-trumps-executive-actions-related-border
Facebook “Exploring Additional Measures” to Fight Anti-Vaccine Information: Report
As the “fake news” phenomenon continues to sweep across the Web, and the purge of independent media accelerates, lawmakers are calling on Facebook and Big Tech to take responsibility for anti-vaccine messaging that appears on their platform(s).
According to a new report at Geek.com, lawmakers such as Adam Schiff (D-CA) are blaming the measles outbreak in the U.S. on social media systems that offer anti-vaccine messaging in their “recommended reading and groups” areas. Schiff would like Big Tech to step up and combat exposure to the information, according to a letter he sent directly to the heads of Google and Facebook. Geek.com cites Bloomberg:
Legitimate scientific inquiry into the dangers and/or validity of vaccination is by now voluminous and certainly well known to readers of independent media. Evidently, the fact that a level playing field of information — which is exactly what the Internet was promised to be — is skewing toward anti-vaccination (and other holistic healing) must be worrying to those who rely on the financial support of Big Pharma and establishment medicine.
The fact of the matter is that once someone learns the truth, there is no going back to sleep. The urge to share one’s awareness that is intended to help others who are still unaware is a powerful one. It is, after all, a reason why these “threatening” anti-vaccine messages go viral on social media. From Bloomberg:
The first result under a search for “vaccines” on YouTube is a video showing a “middle ground” debate between supporters of vaccines and those who think they’re dangerous. The fourth result is first episode of a popular anti-vaccine documentary series called “The Truth About Vaccines.” It has almost 1.2 million views.
Rather than acknowledge the organic nature of information sharing, many in the pro-vaccine camp are likening the anti-vaccine movement to some sort of Russian bot-op in an American election that is mobilizing to force propaganda on the impressionable readers that populate social media.
https://www.activistpost.com/2019/02/facebook-exploring-additional-measures-to-fight-anti-vaccine-information-report.html
Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525
Moscow court orders US investor of Baring Vostok to be held in custody over $37mn fraud allegations
The founder and senior partner of Baring Vostok private equity fund, Michael Calvey, will be detained in Moscow for two months after his bail got rejected. The US citizen is accused of a large-scale fraud involving a Russian bank.
The investor was put in pre-trial custody by a Moscow court on Saturday. The court rejected the request of Calvey’s defense to release him on 5 million rubles ($75.5 thousand) bail. The prosecution, on its part, insisted that the detention was an absolute necessity, as the US citizen might try and flee the country.
Calvey's defense has already vowed to challenge the detention order.
“We do not agree with the court's ruling and we will challenge it at the Moscow city court. We'll request either home arrest or bail,” Calvey's attorney, Dmitry Kletochkin told TASS.
https://www.rt.com/business/451634-us-investor-baring-fund-arrested/
Mueller Panics After McCabe Admits to Deep State Coup to Remove Trump — Recycles Debunked Roger Stone Smear
Fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe told CBS News Thursday that top officials at the Department of Justice and FBI discussed recruiting cabinet members to push President Trump out of office.
McCabe, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein and the top officials at the DOJ were actively strategizing how to remove the duly elected President of the United States.
In third world banana republics they call this a coup d’etat.
Treason is punishable by death in the United States.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/mueller-panics-after-mccabe-admits-to-deep-state-coup-to-remove-trump-recycles-debunked-roger-stone-smear/
Ignored by Media: Trump Is Using Obama’s National Emergency on Mexican Cartels to Build the Border Wall
Ignored by Media: Trump Is Using Obama’s National Emergency on Mexican Cartels to Build the Border Wall
Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft February 16, 2019 216 Comments
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President Trump declared a State of Emergency at the US southern border on Friday.
Declaring the immigration crisis a national emergency was overdue.
Presidents have declared national emergencies for nearly 50 years.
Barack Obama declared 13 national emergencies, 11 of which continue to this day.
The Obama emergencies included the Swine Flu, Flint water crisis and Iran.
And Obama declared the Mexican drug cartels a national emergency in 2011.
Congress believes President Trump has $21 billion in unobligated military construction funding money available for the border wall with Mexico.
Now this was mostly ignored by the liberal media.
President Trump is using Barack Obama’s previous national emergency on Mexican drug cartels to get funding for the border wall.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/ignored-by-media-trump-is-using-obama-national-emergency-on-mexican-cartels-to-build-the-border-wall/
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'You Lie, You Die': Cops Admit to Lying About Raid that Left Innocent Couple Murdered
(Support Free Thought) - Houston, TX — A botched drug raid last month shook the nation as a couple was killed by police in their own home and four officers shot. Now, after controversy and rumors have swarmed the case, the Houston police department has admitted that the entire raid was based on the lies of one of their own.
As TFTP reported last week, one of the officers involved in the raid was suspended and the department refused to elaborate as to why. Now we know. This criminal cop, lied on the sworn affidavit that led to a raid in which two innocent people were murdered by Houston police officers.
“That’s totally unacceptable. I’ve told my police department that if you lie, you die,” Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Friday. “When you lie on an affidavit, that’s not sloppy police work, that’s a crime.”
As KHOU reports,
The case agent obtained a search warrant to conduct the no-knock raid on Jan. 28 after he swore a confidential informant bought heroin at the home the night before. He said the informant told him he saw a 9mm handgun and a large amount of heroin in the house.
Turns out, there never was a drug buy at the house or an informant who saw a large amount of heroin and weapons.
When detectives with HPD’s Special Investigations Unit interviewed the veteran case agent at the hospital, they asked for the name of his informant.
The officer wasn’t able to talk, but he wrote down the name of an informant he said bought the heroin. Investigators then interviewed that informant, who told them he wasn’t involved in a drug buy on Harding Street. He also said the case agent sometimes paid him for work he didn’t do, according to the affidavit.
Investigators interviewed the case agent again and said he wrote down a different informant’s name. That informant said he worked with the case agent on a buy on Jan. 25 but it was at a different house in the Third Ward, about five miles from Harding Street.
Both informants named, along with all other informants the case agent had worked with in the past, were shown photos of Tuttle and Nicholas and their home. None recognized the couple or the home, according to investigators.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/71081/you-lie-you-die-cops-admit-to-lying-about-raid-that-left-innocent-couple.html