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profit is a hell of a drugThe Eastern Euro's are guinea pig testing "pay with your eyes" for us...
Mastercard, Empik and PayEye are launching an in-store biometric payment pilot leveraging iris and facial biometrics.
Thanks to the cooperation with PayEye fintech, and technology partner Planet Pay, customers will be able to test paying for purchases with their glance in five Empik stores across Poland. This is the first Biometric Checkout Program pilot in Europe.
The pilot is launching in response to the growing popularity of biometric technology. Globally, 74 percent of consumers say they have a positive attitude toward biometric technologies[1]. In Poland, meanwhile, 4 out of 5 respondents say that they use or have used biometric technology, and among 18–25-year-olds, virtually all are familiar with using biometrics.
Mastercard's global Biometric Checkout Program, represents a first-of-its-kind technology framework to help establish standards for new ways to pay, allowing cardholders to use a wide range of biometric payment authentication methods such as palm, face or iris scan. This simplifies the checkout process in store, as consumers no longer need to use a physical payment card, cash or a mobile device to pay for purchases. With Mastercard Biometric Checkout Program, secure and convenient experiences are possible simply by using your biometrics.
Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!
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“Odor of marijuana” still remains — even in an era of widespread legalization — a favorite method of justifying warrantless searches. It’s an odor, so it can’t be caught on camera, which are becoming far more prevalent, whether they’re mounted to cop cars, pinned to officers’ chests, or carried by passersby.
Any claim an odor was detected pits the officer’s word against the criminal defendant’s. Even though this is a nation where innocence is supposed to be presumed, the reality of the criminal justice system is that everyone from the cops to the court to the jury tend to view people only accused of crimes as guilty.
Seventh Circuit Shrugs, Says The Odor Of Legal Weed Can Justify A Warrantless Vehicle Search
“Odor of marijuana” still remains — even in an era of widespread legalization — a favorite method of justifying warrantless searches. It’s an odor, so it can’t b…www.techdirt.com
How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals
Of the estimated 350,000 chemicals now on the global market, only a handful have been properly tested. And as the looming crises with forever chemicals and micro-plastics make clear, we are only just…lpeproject.org
definitely a legendary.
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Rare white grizzly bear and two cubs killed in Canada in separate car strikes
Cubs killed by cars earlier in the day before spooked Nakoda ran on to highway, where another vehicle struck her
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Elephants have names — and they use them with each other
A new study reveals elephants can call each other by name. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?
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Not All Earthworms Are Cool - Ambrook Research
Scientists are now warning about the spread of many non-native earthworm species across North America, leaving big damage in their wake.
According to Semonides of Amorgos, a male poet working in Greece in the 7th Century BC, there are 10 main kinds of women.
There are women who are like pigs, because they prefer eating to cleaning;
women who resemble foxes, as they are peculiarly observant;
donkey-women, who are sexually promiscuous;
dog-women, marked for their disobedience.
There are stormy sea-women, greedy Earth-women, thieving weasel-women, lazy horse-women, unattractive ape-women, and – the one good kind – hard-working bee-women.
Of all the women described in this list, which pulsates with the misogyny of the time, those so-called sexually promiscuous "donkey-women" are perhaps the most mysterious.
'A woman should cast off her shame together with her clothes': What women in ancient times really thought about sex
A new book tells the history of the ancient world through women and what they had to say about their own sexuality – flying in the face of misogynist male stereotypes.
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Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half – $3.3 trillion – went towards fossil fuel expansion.
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After all of these devastating fires, the promise had been to bury the lines. But because of the inflated costs of undertaking such a task, power companies have fallen back on the easiest option: turning the power off on windy and hot days or if there are Red Flag Warnings.
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Biden 'fixes' US healthcare by forcing pharmacies to wear the entire cost of his new measures, putting the few remaining small pharmacies out of business once and for all...
Months into a new Biden administration policy intended to lower drug costs for Medicare patients, independent pharmacists say they’re struggling to afford to keep some prescription drugs in stock.
“It would not matter if the governor himself walked in and said, ‘I need to get this prescription filled,’” said Clint Hopkins, a pharmacist and co-owner of Pucci’s Pharmacy in Sacramento, California. “If I’m losing money on it, it’s a no.”
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In an agency known for offices working in their own silos, Welu had the rare ability to move between divisions, dissecting and learning each office’s particular customs and procedures. But that experience had its own consequence for Welu: Seeing disparities in how the separate divisions treated different tiers of taxpayers left him exasperated and helped drive him into early retirement.
For more than 30 years, Welu watched the agency struggle with budget cuts and dwindling staff. What troubled Welu, he says, went deeper than just resource constraints.
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New data obtained by ICIJ shows that over the past five years, LB&I flagged no more than 22 instances of possible tax crimes for the agency’s criminal investigators to review further — out of trillions of dollars in annual income from large corporations and ultrawealthy people that the office oversees. During the same five years, the IRS office that covers small businesses and self-employed people flagged roughly 40 times more possible crimes
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“I was putting butchers, bakers and candlestick makers in jail, but the big stuff we really wanted to go after was being ignored,” Welu told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. “It could be the most egregious, ridiculous scheme and they were just not interested.”
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How long before Aussies are using this kind of service?
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Sure is mate...
Several former employees said they were neither shocked nor surprised at OceanGate’s deadly accident. Three had left the company on safety grounds, and two separately described Titan as a ticking time bomb.
"I had a friend from Denmark who thought tasteless breaded shrimp with a little bit of ground pepper on it was too spicy. Not surprised they think this ramen is poison," read one top-liked comment on the Reddit r/Korea group.
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Some of the explosive clips from this cultural phenomenon have to be seen to be believed...
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The biggest banks are financing climate chaos | Climate & Capitalism
Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels…
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After all of these devastating fires, the promise had been to bury the lines. But because of the inflated costs of undertaking such a task, power companies have fallen back on the easiest option: turning the power off on windy and hot days or if there are Red Flag Warnings.
They Shut Grandma's Power Off... For Your Safety.
The now very popular Wildfire Public Safety Power Shutoff Program.
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Biden 'fixes' US healthcare by forcing pharmacies to wear the entire cost of his new measures, putting the few remaining small pharmacies out of business once and for all...
Months into a new Biden administration policy intended to lower drug costs for Medicare patients, independent pharmacists say they’re struggling to afford to keep some prescription drugs in stock.
“It would not matter if the governor himself walked in and said, ‘I need to get this prescription filled,’” said Clint Hopkins, a pharmacist and co-owner of Pucci’s Pharmacy in Sacramento, California. “If I’m losing money on it, it’s a no.”
Biden Plan to Save Medicare Patients Money on Drugs Risks Empty Shelves, Pharmacists Say - KFF Health News
President Joe Biden is campaigning for reelection on his efforts to cut costs for Medicare patients at the pharmacy counter. But independent pharmacists say one strategy makes it unaffordable for them to keep some brand-name medicines in stock.
kffhealthnews.org
In an agency known for offices working in their own silos, Welu had the rare ability to move between divisions, dissecting and learning each office’s particular customs and procedures. But that experience had its own consequence for Welu: Seeing disparities in how the separate divisions treated different tiers of taxpayers left him exasperated and helped drive him into early retirement.
For more than 30 years, Welu watched the agency struggle with budget cuts and dwindling staff. What troubled Welu, he says, went deeper than just resource constraints.
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New data obtained by ICIJ shows that over the past five years, LB&I flagged no more than 22 instances of possible tax crimes for the agency’s criminal investigators to review further — out of trillions of dollars in annual income from large corporations and ultrawealthy people that the office oversees. During the same five years, the IRS office that covers small businesses and self-employed people flagged roughly 40 times more possible crimes
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“I was putting butchers, bakers and candlestick makers in jail, but the big stuff we really wanted to go after was being ignored,” Welu told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. “It could be the most egregious, ridiculous scheme and they were just not interested.”
How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats - ICIJ
Newly obtained data shows the IRS division that audits corporations and the ultrarich flagged no more than 22 possible tax crimes over the past five years — roughly 40 times fewer criminal referrals than from the unit covering small businesses.
www.icij.org
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Americans Are Hiring People in the Philippines to Help Them Find Adderall
For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or WeGovy.
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‘AI Call Center Software’ Is Powering a Scam Call Center
Internal data from a scam call center shows it is using Voiso to power its scam operation. Voiso does offer some AI-powered features, although it's unclear if the scammers are using those particular products.
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Several former employees said they were neither shocked nor surprised at OceanGate’s deadly accident. Three had left the company on safety grounds, and two separately described Titan as a ticking time bomb.
"I had a friend from Denmark who thought tasteless breaded shrimp with a little bit of ground pepper on it was too spicy. Not surprised they think this ramen is poison," read one top-liked comment on the Reddit r/Korea group.
Samyang: Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy
The food authorities said the instant ramen contained such high capsaicin levels consumers could be poisoned.
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Some of the explosive clips from this cultural phenomenon have to be seen to be believed...
‘Rearing stinky water’ becomes a fad among students in China despite safety, health risks
Adding “bugs, milk, hand lotion” and anything else they can get their hands on, students in China have been mixing bottles of “stinky water” to watch them “explode”.
Hillary and her ilk are beyond horrified that their base can read and form their own judgements...
The former first lady, presidential candidate and US secretary of state, and now Professor Hillary Clinton, recently went out of her way to accuse Columbia students and others protesting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in their homeland of historical ignorance.
“I have had many conversations … with a lot of young people over the last many months now,” Clinton said on MSNBC last month. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country.”
How should we gauge Clinton’s assessment of students in the very same university where she is now teaching as a “professor of practice”?
Clinton was on the US network to promote a new musical she has produced, Suffs, about American suffragists and their fight for voting rights.
Even before she became a Broadway musical producer, Clinton had a long and distinguished career in what is euphemistically called “public service” in this country, which might seem to justify her capacity to pass such harsh and categorical judgements on younger Americans now risking their lives and livelihoods to protest the state’s active engagement in a colossal genocide halfway around the globe.
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Let us put her own sustained record of warmongering on the table: there is a reason she is known as “Hillary the Hawk”.
From Iraq in 2002, to Pakistan throughout the Obama years, to Afghanistan in 2009, to Libya in 2011, to Syria in 2012, she is proven and documented to have been a consistently wild warmonger, promoting American military domination around the globe. Her vast erudition and knowledge are of the sort that when push comes to shove, and she is in a position of power, she opts to drop bombs on people rather than reason with them.
www.middleeasteye.net
Says so much about the true state of the US Empire.
Kennedy was able to get the USSR to back down on its plan to base missiles in Cuba because the US had a credible mutual destruction counter threat. These days? Russia can do whatever it likes - just like China and even the Houthi's can - while the US will just have to increasingly suck it up and pretend it doesn't matter...
The US does not see the move as threatening, but the US Navy will monitor the exercises, a US official told reporters last week.
“This is about Russia showing that it’s still capable of some level of global power projection,” the official said. []
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The Admiral Gorshkov is armed with new Zircon hypersonic missiles. The weapon has been designed to arm Russian cruisers, frigates and submarines and could be used against sea and ground targets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has touted Zircon as a potent weapon capable of penetrating any existing antimissile defences by flying nine times faster than the speed of sound at a range of more than 1,000km (more than 620 miles).
www.aljazeera.com
Only took 17 years to prosecute them...
In what case litigants are calling the first time an American jury has held a U.S. corporation legally liable for atrocities abroad, federal jurors in Florida on Monday found that Chiquita Brands International financed a Colombian paramilitary death squad that murdered, tortured, and terrorized workers in a bid to crush labor unrest in the 1990s and 2000s.
The federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida found the banana giant responsible for funding the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) and awarded eight families whose members were murdered by the right-wing paramilitary group $38.3 million in damages.
EarthRights International, which first filed the case—Doe v. Chiquita—in 2007, called the verdict “a milestone for justice.”
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The former first lady, presidential candidate and US secretary of state, and now Professor Hillary Clinton, recently went out of her way to accuse Columbia students and others protesting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in their homeland of historical ignorance.
“I have had many conversations … with a lot of young people over the last many months now,” Clinton said on MSNBC last month. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country.”
How should we gauge Clinton’s assessment of students in the very same university where she is now teaching as a “professor of practice”?
Clinton was on the US network to promote a new musical she has produced, Suffs, about American suffragists and their fight for voting rights.
Even before she became a Broadway musical producer, Clinton had a long and distinguished career in what is euphemistically called “public service” in this country, which might seem to justify her capacity to pass such harsh and categorical judgements on younger Americans now risking their lives and livelihoods to protest the state’s active engagement in a colossal genocide halfway around the globe.
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Let us put her own sustained record of warmongering on the table: there is a reason she is known as “Hillary the Hawk”.
From Iraq in 2002, to Pakistan throughout the Obama years, to Afghanistan in 2009, to Libya in 2011, to Syria in 2012, she is proven and documented to have been a consistently wild warmonger, promoting American military domination around the globe. Her vast erudition and knowledge are of the sort that when push comes to shove, and she is in a position of power, she opts to drop bombs on people rather than reason with them.
Why Hillary Clinton fails to grasp the moral power of US campus protests
The former secretary of state accuses today's youth of not understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict. This is a symptom of her limited imperial imagination
www.middleeasteye.net
Says so much about the true state of the US Empire.
Kennedy was able to get the USSR to back down on its plan to base missiles in Cuba because the US had a credible mutual destruction counter threat. These days? Russia can do whatever it likes - just like China and even the Houthi's can - while the US will just have to increasingly suck it up and pretend it doesn't matter...
The US does not see the move as threatening, but the US Navy will monitor the exercises, a US official told reporters last week.
“This is about Russia showing that it’s still capable of some level of global power projection,” the official said. [
]…
The Admiral Gorshkov is armed with new Zircon hypersonic missiles. The weapon has been designed to arm Russian cruisers, frigates and submarines and could be used against sea and ground targets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has touted Zircon as a potent weapon capable of penetrating any existing antimissile defences by flying nine times faster than the speed of sound at a range of more than 1,000km (more than 620 miles).
Russian vessels conduct missile drills in Atlantic on way to Cuba
The frigate and submarine are part of a four-strong fleet that is due to arrive in Cuba on Wednesday.
Only took 17 years to prosecute them...
In what case litigants are calling the first time an American jury has held a U.S. corporation legally liable for atrocities abroad, federal jurors in Florida on Monday found that Chiquita Brands International financed a Colombian paramilitary death squad that murdered, tortured, and terrorized workers in a bid to crush labor unrest in the 1990s and 2000s.
The federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida found the banana giant responsible for funding the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) and awarded eight families whose members were murdered by the right-wing paramilitary group $38.3 million in damages.
EarthRights International, which first filed the case—Doe v. Chiquita—in 2007, called the verdict “a milestone for justice.”
US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad's Murder of Banana Workers | Common Dreams
"The verdict does not bring back the husbands and sons who were killed," said one attorney, "but it sets the record straight and places accountability for funding terrorism where it belongs: at Chiquita's doorstep."
www.commondreams.org
US Court Hears Appeal in US Genocide Complicity Case
At the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the Center for Constitutional Rights on Monday pushed ahead with its case against the U.S. president and the secretaries of state and defense. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Following the dismissal earlier this year of a federal lawsui
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Intel halts construction of new $25 billion factory in Israel | CTech
Intel's suppliers received notice of the cancellation of contracts for the supply of equipment and materials required for the establishment of the company's new factory over recent days. The Ministry of Finance was aware of the company's decision to halt the establishment of the plant.
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look at first reply. Nothing to see here..
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