Shlomi Cardi, who was praised for saving dozens of lives at the musical festival attacked by Hamas in the October massacre, has been jailed on gun possession charges. Cardi escaped the massacre with other party goers but, after bringing them to safety, returned with his vehicle, again and again, to rescue additional people, some already injured from Hamas attacks.&nbsp;Days after the massacre, police found a gun in Cardi's yard. Unable to obtain a gun license due to an earlier weapons charge, he was imprisoned and is being held without bail.Facebook campaignCardi's friends have initiated a social media campaign asking the people he saved to record their stories in an effort to persuade authorities to release Cardi. They point to the fact that Hamas fighters were still roaming the area outside Gaza, where Cardi lives, at the time of his arrest, making his desire to be able to defend himself more understandable:<blockquote>Instead of a certificate of courage, a recognition of his heroism, he is detained in jail until trial.Let this sink in; a man saved dozens from certain deaths, rescued wounded . . . , assisted security forces in fighting the cursed terrorists (. . . using binoculars to direct the forces towards terrorist snipers), saw the threatening displays we were all exposed to in the videos (only he saw them live), returned the injured to their doorsteps!!! . . .All the other victims from the nature party receive psychological/psychiatric treatment, assistance and mental support and only our Shlomi, the hero, is behind bars.A weapon was found in the yard of Shlomi's house after a few days and he was arrested for that. It is clear to all of us that anyone else would have done the same and not rushed to return weapons after the massacre and the trauma he saw, the threat of infiltration by terrorists who are still roaming freely in the southern region (where Shlomi lives).But Shlomi has a problem, because somewhere in 2005 he was arrested for the crime of weapons possession - he served his full sentence and since he was released he turned for the good, worked for a living and behaved like an ordinary citizen, until that cursed day when he had to fight for his life and the lives of others.He must not be allowed to sit one more day in prison!!!Please help us reach more people whom Shlomi helped, saved . . . [Emphases added].</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fzehavithen%2Fposts%2F10159207259826082&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500" width="500" height="697" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe></div>Entire communities disarmedCardi was not charged with harming another individual, but with a possession crime. He is not alone in being denied a defensive weapon. The very communities most at risk from a Hamas invasion “banged on the table” for more protection but not only saw IDF forces removed from the area around Gaza, they had the automatic weapons used by their local security patrols <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article/.premium/idf-took-away-weapons-from-gaza-border-towns-and-armed-w-bank-settlers-in-the-thousands/0000018b-4d6d-dbe0-a38b-cdfd0d4f0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">taken away</a> in the last two years:&nbsp;<blockquote>The IDF Took Away Weapons From Gaza Border Communities in Recent Years . . .The Israeli army believed that the chance of terrorist incursion after the erection of the border fence was 'close to nil.' They removed forces from the area, leaving local security as the last line of defense. 'As much as we banged on the table, it didn’t help,' says one local security coordinator . . .The main turning point . . . is the erection of the fence along the border with the Gaza Strip. Since it was completed two years ago, and in fact even after only segments were completed, the IDF changed its attitude toward the defense of the locales – and toward who was supposed to be their first line of defense. The locales closest to the fence had the weapons taken from the homes of the members of the security details and put in a vault. . . .[L]ocales at a distance of four to seven kilometers from the fence had their weapons taken, leaving the locales with only two rifles apiece. [Emphases added].</blockquote>Nation disarmedFrontline News has <a href="https://frontline.news/post/8-ways-bibi-betrayed-the-jewish-nation-analysis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> that, contrary to popular belief, most Israelis are not, in fact, armed. Israel has extremely restrictive gun control laws and no analogue to the Second Amendment, ranking just 81st among nations for firearms per capita, at 0.073. The U.S. has the highest rate in the world.&nbsp;Israel's strict gun laws were <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/israels-gun-control-laws-can-make-the-us-safer-too/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">detailed</a> in the New York Post, which bar the kind of automatic weapons needed to combat a Hamas invasion:<blockquote>Israel exists under constant threat of attack — and requires citizens to serve in the military — but still has much stricter gun laws than the United States. . . .Even those Israelis who pass through extensive hoops to get a firearm permit can only own one gun. And that’s a handgun — not a semi-automatic rifle capable of rapid fire. There are also limits on ammunition. . . .Israel limits gun permits to people who meet strict requirements of residency, occupation, or army rank. For instance, security workers, jewelers, hunters and West Bank residents are eligible for permits. . . .The Israeli government has even restricted firearm access to current Israeli soldiers when off-duty on weekends. [Emphases added].</blockquote>Even a slight easing of gun regulations instituted during the current war has not changed the picture, as <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/09/israel-loosens-strict-gun-control-laws-to-arm-as-many-citizens-as-possible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> by The Federalist:<blockquote>Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Sunday in Hebrew an emergency declaration that will “allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves.” Currently, a mere 1.5 percent of the civilian population has a license to own a gun.[Nonetheless, t]he laws that require proving “a need” to own and carry a gun have not changed.</blockquote>Ominously, Israel's first gun control act, in 1949, was adopted under socialist Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, who <a href="https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/11/ben-gurions-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">eulogized</a> Vladimir Lenin as "a man of iron will who does not spare human life and the blood of innocent children for the revolution.” [Emphases added].Unequal enforcementWhile Israeli Jews are going through hoops to obtain a hand gun, Arab cities and villages in Israel are rife with automatic weapons. Much like no-go zones in Europe, Israeli police are reluctant to enter Arab areas to confiscate illegal weapons unless they have specific information of planned attacks. While police found time to search Cardi's yard, they failed to conduct a weapons check on two Hamas convicts who served time on terrorism charges and were living in Jerusalem, close to police headquarters. They used an illegal hand gun and automatic rifle (pictured below) in a deadly assault.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1701365585/Screenshot_2023_11_30_at_19_30_49_0bb70758fd.png"></figure>&nbsp;Intelligence disarmedFrontline News <a href="https://frontline.news/post/israeli-soldiers-who-warned-about-impending-attack-were-threatened-says-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">covered</a> the failure of Israel's intelligence leaders to take warnings from the field seriously:<blockquote>The observers reported . . . “training, anomalies and preparations” they had witnessed to their commanders but were snubbed. When one observer went to a senior commander with her concerns, she was told, “I don't want to hear about this nonsense again. If you bother with these things again, you will stand trial.”</blockquote>Not only was the intelligence ignored, it was prevented, as the equipment that the IDF had provided for years to civilian hacker Rafael Hayun, to monitor Hamas communications, was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381191" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">seized</a> from him five months before the massacre. That was just as Hayun began sending the government reports on the increasing intensity of Hamas training to penetrate the security fence at multiple points, invade Israel, take over communities and commit mass murder and kidnapping.&nbsp;<blockquote>Five months before the assault, his colleagues in the IDF were ordered to seize all of his and stop working with him. Around the same time, the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate Unit 8200 signals intelligence unit also stopped monitoring Hamas’s communications.Hayun said that his military colleagues told him the order to cut him off came from “senior leadership,” and they had no explanation for the decision. Hayun told reporters he is convinced that if he had been listening in the weeks before Oct. 7, the invasion would have been prevented.</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This is Raphael Hayon, crying out his pain. Raphael is an Israeli citizen who dedicated his life to listen on (radio waves of) Hamas communications and alert Israeli authorities on his findings, to help protect the Israeli citizens residing in the Gaza envelope. Raphael had… <a href="https://t.co/1lgp92Fx1f">pic.twitter.com/1lgp92Fx1f</a>— Efrat Fenigson (@efenigson) <a href="https://twitter.com/efenigson/status/1727381333595373656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>See our additional coverage of the Middle East:<ol><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/arab-kings-egypt-block-iran-at-summit-on-israel">Arab kings, Egypt block Iran at summit on Israel</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/our-revolution-is-a-phase-of-world-revolution-it-is-not-limited-to-reconquering-palestine">'Our revolution is a phase of world revolution: it is not limited to reconquering Palestine'</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/globalists-cremate-care-for-gaza-refugees">Globalists cremate care for Gaza refugees</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/how-one-defector-got-it-right">How one defector got it right</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/how-the-soviets-faked-their-collapse-before-perestroika">100 years of fake communist collapses</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/did-the-soviet-union-fake-its-own-funeral">Did the Soviet Union fake its own funeral?</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/level-gaza-before-sending-ground-troops-former-knesset-deputy-speaker">'Victory means total destruction, occupation, expulsion, and settlement' - Former Knesset Deputy Speaker</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/pressure-builds-for-total-victory-while-leaders-stall-analysis">Israel: Pressure builds for total victory while leaders stall - analysis</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/don-t-starve-you-can-release-kidnapped-children-and-surrender-anytime-former-us-naval-officer">'Don't starve; you can release kidnapped children and surrender anytime' - former US Naval Officer</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/8-ways-bibi-betrayed-the-jewish-nation-analysis">8 ways Bibi betrayed the Jewish nation - analysis</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/state-department-pressing-foreign-nations-to-concede-to-marxist-revolutionaries">State Department pressing allies to concede to Marxist revolutionaries</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/israel-s-chief-justice-approves-confession-extracted-under-torture-denies-appeal">Israel's chief justice approves confession extracted under torture, denies appeal</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/friends-of-israel-concerned-over-ruling-allowing-confessions-extracted-under-torture">Friends of Israel concerned over ruling allowing confessions extracted under torture</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/us-refuses-to-support-iranian-protestors">US refuses to support Iranian protestors</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/everybody-knows-corruption-in-america-and-around-the-world">‘Everybody Knows: Corruption in America’ and around the world</a></li><li><a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/israel-vs-israelis">Israel vs Israelis</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/why-biden-is-pressuring-israel-on-judicial-reform">Biden sides with socialists; pressures Israel to protect activist judges</a></li></ol>

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<h2>Move over book burning, hello de-platforming?</h2>Closed out of your Facebook or Instagram account? Maybe your website suddenly disappeared, or your YouTube channel was demonetized or deleted? Perhaps you lost access to thousands of hours of posts and videos you produced, and your years of work were gone in an instant? That's de-platforming; the modern version of book burning, a “punishment” for going against the mainstream narrative. And, the censorship doesn't stop with social media, it includes PayPal accounts and more.<h3>Getting up again</h3>How do individuals who went afoul of the globalists, who didn't keep quiet and let others do their thinking for them, respond when they find themselves de-platformed by social media companies and other services? Here's what London Real's Brian Rose, Americas Frontline Doctor founder Dr. Simone Gold, and independent researcher James Roguski did to pick themselves up and continue their work despite the heavy-handed censorship they experienced.Brian RoseWhen London Real YouTuber Brian Rose publicly began trying to understand COVID-19 and its countermeasures, he soon found his entire life seemingly deleted from the internet by the social media giants.&nbsp;Not only did he lose all his years of work, amounting to thousands of videos which he had uploaded to the internet. He also lost access to his Paypal account, and more, because in his search for the truth about the pandemic; his counter-narrative interviews with David Icke were too dangerous for the globalists to allow. &nbsp;In his below documentary, Rose&nbsp;recounts his experiences and how he ultimately started a channel of his own. He explains that he was wholly unprepared for what happened on May 3, 2020, even though he knew that many would want to stop the interview (@about 3:36):<blockquote>Over the past few weeks, our entire world has been transformed. Everything we took for granted has now been taken away and our freedoms have been replaced with fear. All those rights we fought centuries for have been handed over without a second thought.&nbsp;We all process fear in different ways. I cope by immersing myself in my work and today my job is to ask questions. One million people will be watching and they all want answers.&nbsp;Countless others are trying to stop this from happening. At any moment they can walk through that door or lock this broadcast. I'm scared but I don't know what else to do. I prepared my whole life for a moment like This. But nothing would prepare me for what happened next. . .</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">WATCH THE MOVIE THAT YouTube DOES NOT Want YOU TO SEE (and SHARE IT Far And Wide ) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonReal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonReal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillNotBeSilenced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeWillNotBeSilenced</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopCensorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopCensorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz">https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz</a>— Brian Rose, Founder &amp; Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1796285778517221575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Dr. Simone GoldDr. Simone Gold, founder of <a href="https://www.aflds.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Frontline Doctors</a>, was one of the first doctors to understand that how she was being told to treat COVID patients wasn't normal. Very alarmed at what was taking place she, along with other doctors, held the “<a href="https://www.whitecoatsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Coat Summit</a>” on July 27, 2020, as well as a press conference on the Supreme Court steps. As she tweeted below, the press conference went viral, garnering millions of views before Big Tech and Big Media took the video down.She concluded by explaining their purpose and the result:<blockquote>Our fight was to show America the propaganda vs the truth, and then we were censored.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Our press conference in front of the Supreme Court on July 27th, 2020 was a turning point in the fight against COVID Tyranny. After 20 million views in 8 hours, Big Tech colluded to wipe the video from online platforms. We knew in this moment that we would win the fight. <a href="https://t.co/9CP0Ogpnfp">pic.twitter.com/9CP0Ogpnfp</a>— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1610416861723729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Dr. Gold continues to <a href="https://aflds.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advance</a> the mission of America's Frontline Doctors, to protect medical freedom and civil liberties.'James RoguskiIndependent researcher James Roguski who, <a href="http://jamesroguski.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to his website, has been calling out lies and propaganda for decades, found years of work gone when the company that hosted most of his websites terminated his account for what they said were “terms of service” violations. It did not deter him from continuing his work, either.<blockquote>They deleted many of my websites, but they ignited my passion to burn even brighter. I now have most of my work on Substack.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roguski is interested in building a holistic alternative to the WHO and <a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruits</a> others to join him.<blockquote>The old system is crumbling, and I intend to help speed its demise, but we must build its replacement quickly.If you are fed up with the government, hospital, medical, pharmaceutical, media, industrial complex and would like to help , then feel free to contact me directly anytime.</blockquote>&nbsp;The information contained in this article is for educational and information purposes only and is not intended as health, medical, financial or legal advice. Always consult a physician, lawyer or other qualified professional regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition, health objectives, or legal issues.&nbsp;Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/covid-sceptics-won-out-globalists-fear-an-increasingly-disbelieving-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">'COVID skeptics won out' — Globalists fear an increasingly disbelieving public</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/colorado-governor-signs-off-on-bill-establishing-state-ministry-of-truth-students-atarget-of-new-law">Colorado governor signs off on bill establishing state 'ministry of truth'? Students a target of new law</a></li></ul>

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Globalism

How three individuals got up again after being de-platformed

Who's afraid of Big Bad Tech? 

A British vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” is receiving widespread support from British taxpayers as it continues to destroy climate surveillance cameras across London.<h2>The ULEZ mandate</h2>By order of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city is peppered with ultra-low emission zones (ULEZs), areas accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, a fine is levied against the car owner.&nbsp;The ULEZ climate mandate has drawn heavy&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-hundreds-protest-against-climate-mandates">protests</a> from residents, including&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/british-veteran-launches-hunger-strike-as-unrest-grows-over-climate-mandates">hunger strikes</a> and refusals to pay fines. Taxpayers have also taken to disabling the ANPR surveillance cameras which Transport for London (TfL), the city’s transportation department, said will be used both for climate and law enforcement.<h2>Taxpayers cheer the ‘Blade Runners’</h2>Since the climate restrictions were expanded last year, the Blade Runners have taken to disabling and destroying hundreds of cameras. Between April and September 2023, Metropolitan Police recorded 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 reports of cameras being vandalized.TfL began placing black boxes around ULEZ camera wirings to protect them from being cut, but taxpayers found other ways to disable the cameras — like removing them completely.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> MUST SEE: Blade Runners topple THREE ULEZ cameras in a coordinated strike… The people are fighting back! <a href="https://t.co/Yvr2Xr7Lun">pic.twitter.com/Yvr2Xr7Lun</a>— David Morgan #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1802726912050995623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In response, the city&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-taxpayers-attack-surveillance-vans-in-continued-revolt">deployed</a> mobile surveillance vans mounted with ANPR cameras across London in the hopes of evading attacks, but Blade Runners soon began targeting those as well. Some surveillance vans have been spotted covered in graffiti with their tires slashed, while others have been completely covered in tarp.Last month, 21 cameras were destroyed in the hours after Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London, the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13538797/Moment-Blade-Runner-uses-power-tool-cut-ULEZ-camera-traffic-light-latest-attack-Sadiq-Khans-hated-scheme.html">reported</a>. Last weekend, Blade Runners used power tools to topple a ULEZ camera and traffic lights to the delight of some fellow taxpayers. In a video that was posted to social media, passing cars can be heard honking in support.The video received over 37,000 likes. Comments on the post were largely supportive, with users writing that, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” and “Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.”Blade Runner Matt Hardy told the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;that the Blade Runners are “people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”<h2>‘These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control’</h2>British actor and influencer Laurence Fox said this week he was just given back his electronic devices by police after being arrested earlier this year for cheering on the Blade Runners:<blockquote>These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control. They are the primary infrastructure for all sorts of things that ideologues like the midget dictator [Sadiq Khan] would like to impose upon us.I can now finally say the word ‘Bladerunners’ again. One of the ridiculous restrictions on free speech imposed by the police.It’s a dreadful shame to see so many of these cameras dying suddenly. I’m not at all thrilled about it. Just because I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat, it doesn’t mean that I am over the moon that these scameras continue to topple in high winds.&nbsp;Vive la résistance!</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">POLICE UPDATE Following 6 coppers bursting into my house earlier this year to arrest me for saying how pleased I was that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ULEZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ULEZ</a> scam was meeting such robust resistance, this morning the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> were ordered by the magistrate to hand back all my devices, including my…— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1803030521095622912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> &nbsp;

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Climate Change

‘Pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us’

British taxpayers cheer vigilante group destroying climate cams

Fisker is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the electric vehicle (EV) company announced Tuesday.<h2>‘Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry’</h2>“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” a spokesperson <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cghen8gr8e1n/6W19OiEBJDVIFVEmo4feHA/df902c5cb2b067251a300efb0b35f611/Fisker-Filing-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.The California-based company added it is not the only EV maker that has been struggling to stay in business.“We are proud of our achievements, and we have put thousands of Fisker Ocean SUVs in customers’ hands in both North American [sic] and Europe. But like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently. After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”Fisker’s collapse is the latest indication that the EV industry is folding due to sinking demand. Other EV industry players are also cutting their losses as they jump ship.<h2>Hertz</h2>In March, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motorfinanceonline.com/news/hertz-ceo-resigns-amid-ev-investment-setback/#:~:text=Scherr's%20departure%20coincides%20with%20Hertz's,electric%20vehicle%20(EV)%20rentals">resigned</a> after his bet on EVs cost the car rental giant its biggest quarterly loss since 2020. Hertz had been praised by the Biden administration for its ambition to convert 25% of its fleet to EVs by the end of this year. In January, however, the company announced it would instead be selling its 20,000 EVs — including Teslas — at heavily discounted prices and replacing them with gas-powered cars.<h2>Mercedes-Benz</h2>Mercedes-Benz also recently had to give up its ambition to only sell electric cars by 2030. Instead, EVs are expected to make up only 50% of the German carmaker’s sales over the next decade.<h2>Apple</h2>In February, Apple abandoned its multi-billion dollar effort to create an electric car. Despite being a decade in the works and employing 2,000 people, Project Titan was axed due to falling consumer demand.<h2>Aston Martin</h2>A lack of consumer demand is also partly to blame for Aston Martin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138123/Aston-Martin-puts-brakes-new-electric-supercar-2026-bosses-say-drivers-want-engines-throaty-roar.html">placing</a> its battery-operated “supercar” on hold until 2026.“Demand, certainly at an Aston Martin price point, is not what we thought it was going to be two years ago,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll.&nbsp;<h2>Ford</h2>In December, Ford slashed production of its flagship EV at its assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan by half. The automaker cut the monthly production quote for the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck from 3,200 units to 1,600 units per month.<h2>Biden administration continues to force EV production</h2>Nevertheless, the Biden administration in March issued new climate mandates aimed at forcing more EV production. The new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain tight emissions standards that will&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epa-electric-vehicles-emissions-limits-climate-biden-e6d581324af51294048df24269b5d20a">require</a> 56% of new vehicle sales to be fully electric by 2032, with an additional 13% required to be hybrids.

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For the last two years, British authorities have been testing AI-powered emotion recognition cameras on travelers in train stations, according to recently disclosed documents.<h2>What can the cameras see?</h2>In each of eight train stations around the UK, five to seven cameras or sensors scan the passing crowds. Using AI software from Amazon, the cameras use object recognition algorithms to spot criminal activity, trespassing, weapons, wet floors, overcrowding, and overstuffed trash cans.&nbsp;They can also alert authorities when passengers engage in “unusual behavior,” such as shouting, running, smoking, or skateboarding.&nbsp;A combination of existing cameras and newly installed smart cameras are being used for the surveillance project. All are equipped with Amazon’s Rekognition surveillance system.<h2>Emotional recognition</h2>Through a combination of facial and behavioral analyses, the Rekognition software allows officials to also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze visitors’ emotions</a>. Internal documents note that the cameras can detect whether a passenger is “happy, sad [or] angry.” They can also recognize passenger satisfaction, which “could be utilized to maximum advertising and retail revenue.”<h2>Anti-social behavior</h2>Authorities can also detect passengers who exhibit “anti-social behaviour,” which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/what-is-antisocial-behaviour/">according</a> to London’s Metropolitan Police Service means “behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.”<h2>Social distancing, face masks, and demographics</h2>Other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24757655-usecases_dpas_review_managed_stations?responsive=1&amp;title=1">use cases</a> for the surveillance cameras include detecting whether passengers are keeping to social distancing rules and wearing face masks. The cameras can also scan for demographics by identifying people’s age profiles and “socio-economic classification,” which the documents note can create “revenue opportunities for better targeted advertising and product placement.”<h2>‘Quite a concerning step’</h2>The documents were obtained by Big Brother Watch, a civil rights and government watchdog group, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Network Rail, a body within the Department of Transportation which manages most of the country’s train network, has been overseeing the surveillance project.&nbsp;“The rollout and normalization of AI surveillance in these public spaces, without much consultation and conversation, is quite a concerning step,” Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/">told</a> Wired.As of now, the surveillance systems do not use facial recognition technology, which analyzes faces and matches them against facial images stored in certain databases.

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