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Pussy Riot - Revolt in Russia, Putin’s got scared!

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Egypt Footbal Match 70 Dead, Thousands pay Homage at the train carrying Ultra fans from Portsaid

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Bloomberg Cancels the Thanksgiving Day Parade

New York - Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called off the Thanksgiving Day Parade, charging that the event is a public health and safety hazard.

Following a strategy he developed in evicting Occupy Wall Street from the financial district, Bloomberg threatened that anyone marching in the parade or observing the event would be arrested by NYPD riot police.

“Those big balloons and huge floats are nothing but a threat to the physical and emotional well-being of New Yorkers,” the pint-size politician said. “A giant Underdog, a humongous Spiderman, a SpongeBob as big as a building. These are frightening to little people, and they scare the children too.”

NYPD Public Confiscation Units have already raided warehouses throughout metropolitan area, where Macy’s, the parade’s organizer, stores millions of dollars worth of parade paraphernalia. They brought it all to the Sanitation Department’s garages for “inventorying.”

A sanitation spokesman said that Macy’s could retrieve its property “on the day after Christmas, so we can be sure that no holiday celebration with these dangerous objects will be forthcoming.”

In a related incident that occurred during the raid, Max Baris, a 67-year-old retiree from Greenpoint, died in a hail of police gun fire. Baris was attempting to take a cell phone shot of a deflated Charlie Brown balloon as it was taken into custody.

“We developed a new, more effective policy toward unauthorized photography of our brave police officers in action,” Bloomberg said. “We call it: ‘If They See Something, Slay Something.‘ You’ll be seeing that slogan posted throughout the city, and you’ll heed its message if you know what’s good for you.”

As to the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Bloomberg took full responsibility for ordering an end to the 85 year holiday tradition, but he noted that the initial idea came from Wall Street.

“The financial gurus pointed out that the parade costs the city millions and that we should be saving those dollars during these austere times,” the mayor said. “There’s going to be a little something extra in their bonus stockings this year for that gem.”

Citing similar health, financial and safety issues, Bloomberg said he is considering the termination by the city of such events as the St. Patrick’s Day parade, the Columbus Day parade, the Puerto Rican Day parade, and the Fourth of July fireworks. “Someone could get an eye poked out by those things,” Bloomberg declared.New York - Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called off the Thanksgiving Day Parade,... more

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The Future of Riots

"I don't think we'll ever be able to predict the behavior of crowds, because they're notoriously unpredictable," says James Orwell, of the computing and information systems department at London's Kingston University. Still, Orwell, who has been developing recognition and tracking systems, says that the proliferation of cameras and technologies that help authorities make more efficient use of the increasing volume of video may make an individual think twice.

Researchers working with Orwell and his colleague Sergio Velastin have developed software that allows for the automatic detection of objects or events in video footage, creating continuity between cameras that lets the police track someone's movements. The technology also makes it possible to search video for specific actions, such as people running or cars pulling over to a curb. "It can search content-based metadata such as 'guy in the red tracksuit,' to see if there is a better shot that lets his face be compared with those in online databases," explains Orwell.

Orwell's system can plow through video footage to retrace a person's movements, maybe even to his home. Still, Orwell is quick to issue this caveat: "If they're really intent on evading identification, there's no easy way around that."

The tracking software relies on video footage that's available only to authorities. The system may seem Orwellian, but because of a convergence of technological trends we're near the point where almost anyone can use facial recognition to pick you out of a crowd. And what they can do next is worrisome.

"Your face is a veritable conduit between the off-line and online worlds, and you can't change it," says Alessandro Acquisti, a professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh.

In research presented just prior to the London riots, Acquisti's team used a combination of off-the-shelf face recognition software, cloud computing, and data publicly available from social networks to uncover information about people just from their photographs. His group was able to identify students on campus caught on a webcam and then use algorithms developed earlier to probabilistically infer such information as date and place of birth, as well as Social Security number and credit score.

"As photos become scannable and matchable against online databases, it is creating a form of identification that the person being identified doesn't control," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

This is not necessarily bad, Rotenberg says, pointing to the potential for identifying missing children or fugitives. But he is quick to turn to the flip side of the coin—a scenario in which people at a public demonstration expressing unpopular views are identified and subsequently harassed.

"I don't think the end of privacy is upon us," Rotenberg says. But he is concerned that as the ability to remain anonymous disappears, the rules governing interpersonal conduct and commerce may not change quickly enough to keep people from being exploited.

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London Riots - "Why has this happened?"

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Jacked at London riot

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Ealing riot: Richard Mannington Bowes dies after attack

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Shocking Chelsea Ives an Olympic Ambassador Girl is one of London's Rioters? - YouTube

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Six new weapons the police and military can use to subdue unarmed people

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Ahmadinejad tells Britain's government to listen to the demands of their people, while the propaganda machine gets turned up a notch

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Top five anti riot vehicles for the London commute

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‪2nd Night Of London Rioting (Live Amateur Video) 2012 Olympic City Tottenham‬‏ - YouTube

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‪Santiago Chile Riot Police Detain 552 people Aug 4th, 2011 (Amature Video)‬‏ - YouTube

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‪Tahrir Square Riot is it the start of a Massive War between Islamists and Muslim Secularists?‬‏ - YouTube

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The Last recorded moments of the Libyan leader Major General Abdel Fattah Younes 28.07.2011‬‏

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‪RAW, INCREDABLE EXPLOSION, At Least 18 Killed in Ukraine Coal Mine Blast‬‏

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‪Half naked protesters attacked by Georgian embassy staff in Kiev‬‏

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‪Chile Riot 1st Nationwide Strike in 20 years July 11 2011 (Raw Video)‬‏ - YouTube

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