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Cameroon developing civil war

mardi 5 juin 2018 à 02:00

Cameroon is developing a civil war between those whose second language is French and those whose second language is English.

As usual, they are not fighting about anything significant, it is mere factionalism. In that country, the factions have coalesced around one's second language. It could just as well have been which end of the egg to open.

Exiled Russian journalist

mardi 5 juin 2018 à 02:00

Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist exiled to Ukraine, reportedly faked his death in coordination with a state effort to catch real assassins that were sent to kill him.

I'd like to find out how the trick was intended to catch them.

Face recognition door camera

mardi 5 juin 2018 à 02:00

Google's face recognition door camera is a threat to people's privacy as they pass by on the street.

I think it would be legitimate to make such a camera system if it does not send people's image over the internet unless they approach very close to the system, and if it can recognize only the faces of specific people who have contributed their photos for the purpose.

Google's lobbying group

mardi 5 juin 2018 à 02:00

Google operates a lobbying group that pretends to represent new startups.

US deportation thugs

mardi 5 juin 2018 à 02:00

US deportation thugs seem to have killed asylum seeker Roxsana Hernandez by exposing her to cold for two weeks, combined with hunger and sleep deprivation.

None of those is legitimate treatment of prisoners &mdash not even prisoners that have been convicted of crimes.

Apparently the bully has unleashed the thugs' brutality, so that they eagerly new ways to make their prisoners suffer.