J Bjornsson

🚨 THE CEO OF FLOCK JUST SAID THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING IT Remember when Flock cameras were only supposed to read license plates? Apparently that's not enough anymore. Now we're talking about AI that can find a vehicle from a simple description. Microphones that are always listening for so called "sounds of distress." Drones that can be launched automatically after a 911 call. And camera networks that can follow movement across entire cities. Every year the cameras get smarter. The databases get bigger. The AI gets more powerful. And the amount of information being collected keeps growing. Then came the comment that really got people's attention. The CEO behind Flock, one of the largest camera networks in America reportedly compared people who map camera locations to terrorists. Think about that for a second. The cameras aren't the problem. The people tracking the cameras are. Some people see a tool that makes communities safer. Others see a system that knows where you've been, where you are, and eventually where you're likely to go next. If mapping Flock cameras makes you a "terrorist," what does that make the people putting cameras everywhere?

Winston exposes National's panic over the disastrous India FTA

Serious questions need answering on NZ-India FTA For six months, we have been warning that the India-New Zealand FTA would, under current policy settings, mean open slather immigration from India to New Zealand. We have recently discovered that there has been an abrupt change of course – with changes being made to immigration settings which target Indians and Indians alone. Officials have warned Ministers that these changes could have impacts on our bilateral relationship with India and our reputation as a place to do business, and be open to legal challenge or retaliation from India. We have also seen evidence of officials discussing the importance of these changes not being publicly announced for fear of the Indian reaction. This discriminatory treatment, approved by the Minister of Immigration, includes: - imposing on Indian citizens a labour market/economic needs test that doesn’t apply to citizens of other relevant FTA partners; - precluding Indian citizens from applying for a temporary employment entry visa from within New Zealand, an option available to citizens of other relevant FTA partners; - treating Indian citizens worse than the citizens of other relevant FTA partners when it comes to their partners and children; and - precluding Indian citizens from counting work experience on a temporary employment entry visa towards residency requirements, a right extended to citizens of other relevant FTA partners. The Indian Government has the right to know about National’s intention to treat Indian citizens in a discriminatory manner relative to citizens of other FTA partners, such as China, Thailand, or South Korea. New Zealand First would have preferred that the India FTA not include any migration concessions whatsoever. But if the Government has negotiated such commitments it is only fitting and proper that it be transparent with India about how it intends to apply them – and in what respects it intends to treat Indians worse than Chinese, Thais, Koreans and nationals from other New Zealand FTA partners. We suggest that if additional restrictions are applied to Indians travelling to New Zealand under this FTA, the only consistent and principled step would be to apply these restrictions to citizens of all FTA partners. This, sadly, is palpably not the approach being contemplated by our coalition partners and Labour – and they need to explain why. These issues will be important to both the Indian Government and to New Zealand’s Indian community, who will be concerned to ensure that Indians receive equitable treatment to people of other nationalities. Labour is now complicit in National’s plan to treat Indians inequitably. But it is not too late for Labour to change course and oppose this shoddy FTA. We urge the Prime Minister, the Trade Minister and the Immigration Minister to make clear to India, before the FTA legislation is passed into law, about the ways in which they intend to implement this FTA differently from our previous relevant FTAs. We look forward to the Prime Minister, Trade Minister and Immigration Minister clarifying these matters publicly with urgency, so as to avoid any potential trade retaliation, legal action, or reputational damage. There must be equitable treatment for citizens of all countries coming into New Zealand under our various FTAs. Discriminatory treatment is not the New Zealand way.

Louisiana pastor beats up a man who allegedly threatened to r*pe and kill his wife and grandchildren. Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church says he was working on a church bus when the neighbor's son started shouting at him. Spell said that it is his job as the natural protector to protect his church and family. "He said, 'Tony, I'm gonna r*pe your wife, I'm gonna r*pe all of your grandchildren,' and he said, 'The next time you go out of town, I'm gonna kill them, and what the F are you going to do about it?" Spell said. The neighbors, the Sherwin family, claim Spell is not telling the truth, but during a press conference, Spell was backed by members of his church who say they've made multiple complaints about the Sherwin family to police. Spell's attorney says the Sherwin family has "a large, industrial-scale camera that could see from across the street all the way into the pulpit." Spell was hit with multiple misdemeanor summonses in 2020 during the COVID lockdowns when he refused to close his church. "The Central City police are friends with these folks across the street. When Pastor Spell was being surveilled 24/7, it was with the help of the man across the street," Spell's lawyer said. The pastor was reportedly arrested and booked for second-degree battery.

The India FTA will go down as the most substantial and sustained reputational damage National has ever faced. Ironically it was self inflicted. Nat MPs stood by while their 'leader' served an agenda rather than his constituents. Time to wake up and take your party back before it's a memory. Social media biometric verification will likely be bigger, more hated across political ideologies and more damaging than Luxon's infinite migration deal. Surely his MPs realise these policies are intrinsically anti-Kiwi. Continued support for this will destroy their own credibility.

There are only 5 animals considered human hunters in the world, and polar bears are one of them. And that's why you never turn off your vehicles in the Arctic. There's a town where you have to take a plane in and out anyways, so it's not like a car could be stolen. Thus it's mandated that all cars be left unlocked at polar bear shelters.