The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers

Cities across the US have established RTCCs that police say protect the rights of innocent people, but critics warn of creeping surveillance

In the 90s, London built the Ring of Steel : a network of concrete barriers, checkpoints, and thousands of video cameras around the City of London after bombings by the Irish Republican Army. The idea was to monitor everyone entering and leaving the Square Mile, what the The New York Times later called “fortress urbanism.”

After the September 11, 2001, attacks, city planners looking to defend New York from terrorism turned to London and fortress urbanism for inspiration. Fusion centers, where US law enforcement agencies share intelligence at a federal level to be analyzed and build a bigger picture of crime, had been around for a few years. But officials began asking, what if fusion centers could be localized? What if local law enforcement could analyze and gather masses of intelligence from one city?

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Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google
EU-US data pact approved; privacy advocates to appeal because of US surveillance.

#BigData #EU #US

🎙 RT Interview: Cambodian PM Hun Sen Condemns US Move to Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

▪️Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who sided with Ukraine at the beginning of the SMO nonetheless is condemning the US and warning of the impact of cluster munitions for the Ukrainian people;

▪️Cambodia (along with Laos & Vietnam) had millions of munitions/submunitions dropped on them by the US during the Vietnam War. 20,000 Cambodians have died from unexploded ordnance since the end of the war;

▪️US cluster munitions do not fulfill a capability Ukrainian troops require and are being sent because of shortages of conventional rounds;

▪️The cluster munitions will not help Ukraine win the conflict, only prolong it, and will only compound the clean up/reconstruction once the conflict ends;

◾In Ukraine foreign mercenaries are leaving the fight after the fiasco of the Ukrainian offensive:

- On 'zero line' it's horror. It's horror. There is just a genocide. It's slaughter. There are dead people everywhere. Russians dead. Ukrainian people dead…. the biggest problem we get when we're going into trenches is stepping over all the dead bodies that are already there.

◾Irish mercenary "Rambo" describes 'terrifying' Russian tank chase, they were sent to attack without air support, the Ukrainian tanks withdrew at the sight of a Russian T- 32 leaving them exposed.

◾As NATO pledges more weapons for Ukraine, the mercenaries start pulling out.

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💢 Mercenary Ryhs "Rambo" Byrne, an Irish merc tells about his experience in Ukraine.

Byrne needs a safe space so he can deal with the trauma. He also paints a pretty clear picture to the tactics Ukrainian command uses. No wonder the counteroffensive is a total mess.

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Erdogan explained how the commanders from Azovstal were handed over to Ukraine despite the position of the Russian Federation

European Pravda (Truth) — actually, on most occasions they have nothing in common.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes that the permission to take Azovstal's defense commanders to Ukraine eventually "came positive" in relations with Russia.

He said this at a press conference following the NATO summit in Vilnius, according to a correspondent for "European Truth".

Erdogan assured that agreements that military commanders defending Azovstal should remain in Turkey had been reached bilaterally between Ukraine and Russia. Turkey has granted them asylum to fulfill the Russian-Ukrainian agreement.

"It was first the result of a discussion between Ukraine and Russia, and we had it until Friday," he explained.

According to Erdogan, he gave the defenders to Azovstal only because President Vladimir Zelensky asked for it. "When we received this request, we gave these commanders away," said the Turkish president.

However, he does not believe that this has affected relations with Russia. "First Russia was outraged, and then it went into a positive way," he said, and predicted a discussion at a meeting with Putin in September.
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Five commanders from "Azovstal" were in Turkey under personal guarantees of protection and security of President Erdogan.

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Erdogan — bloody son of a gun... (It makes me write in rhymes)
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EU Commissioner Says Social Media “Didn’t Do Enough” To Censor French Riot Posts
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Remember: When #Iran or #Russia or #Venezuela etc, does this it's EVIL, ....... but when the EU does it ......... it's for your safety ...... 🤷‍♂😂

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#EU Digital Commissioner is threatening to shut down #SocialMedia platforms in the event of social unrest.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000178352/e

Biden Admin Opposes Provision Requiring Military Promotions Only Be On Merit (Not Gender, Or Race) | ZeroHedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-admin-opposes-provision-requiring-military-promotions-only-be-merit-not-gender-or

Antonovsky bridge, or rather, all that is left of it.

From the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 40 rockets flew into the area of the Antonovsky bridge.