The Council on Foreign Relations maintains an online <a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Global Conflict Tracker</a>. According to an <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-are-the-worlds-ongoing-conflicts-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analysis</a> of the tracker by Visual Capitalist, most of the violent conflicts in the world today are not between different nations but uprisings within nations. In fact, even some of the disputes they do list as territorial are actually uprisings within a single nation, such as the insurrections in Turkey and Israel.<figure class="image"><img src="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mapping_World_Ongoing_Conflicts_vertical.jpg" alt="Mapping World's Ongoing Conflicts"></figure>Thou shalt respect thy neighbor's bordersInvasions of recognized nations are increasingly met with economic isolation, as with Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and occasionally with international military action, as with Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Such invasions are thus increasingly rare. Even the Ukraine war may be nothing more than a staged conflict designed to drain taxpayer funds and arms from the West, as described in “<a href="https://www.frontline.news/post/proof-of-a-controlled-conflict-in-ukraine">Proof of controlled conflict in Ukraine</a>.”In particular, wars between superpowers have <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">become</a> a thing of the past.<figure class="image"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-709x550.png" alt="Percentage of years in which the great powers fought one another 1500–2000" srcset="https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-709x550.png 709w, https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-400x310.png 400w, https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-150x116.png 150w, https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-768x595.png 768w, https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-1536x1191.png 1536w, https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/04/Percentage-of-years-in-which-the-great-powers-fought-one-another-1500–2000-2048x1588.png 2048w" sizes="100vw" width="709"></figure>Such a reduction in conflicts is not the case, though, with so-called “wars of national liberation” led by minority ethnic groups against their host country.Independence for all?Pat Buchanan <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/will-the-secessionist-epidemic-ever-end/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">describes</a> the philosophy to carve new, smaller nations out of existing nations as “secessionism” and <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/will-the-secessionist-epidemic-ever-end/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">refers</a> to the frequency of the birth of new nations as “epidemic”:<blockquote>Where does this phenomenon, this continuing unraveling of old and proliferation of new nations, this epidemic of secessionism, end?</blockquote>Indeed, independent nationhood for every separate ethnic group would require the members of the UN General Assembly to hold their meetings in a large stadium, according to data from <a href="https://www.infoplease.com/world/social-statistics/ethnicity-and-race-countries" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">infoplease</a>.<blockquote>Papua New Guinea has hundreds of ethnic groups and 839 spoken languages, many of which are completely unrelated to the others. Not bad for a population of 9.5 million.With a population of more than 55 million people, Tanzania has more than one hundred ethnic groups.The Democratic Republic of Congo has 81.6 million people who comprise 200 ethnic groups that speak 242 languages.</blockquote>Wikipedia's partial "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_ethnic_groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">List of contemporary ethnic groups</a>" extends from the Abagusii in Kenya to the Zuni (Pueblo peoples from the Zuni River valley), in western New Mexico, who still speak their own language, Zuni, at home. The Zunis, like many of the thousands of distinct ethnic groups worldwide, do not seek an independent nation. Which ones do?Wars of National LiberationNo choiceIn some instances, minority ethnic groups are treated so poorly that independence movements form naturally without any coercion. Such is the case with the Kurds, who have <a href="https://frontline.news/post/hopes-for-independent-kurdistan-dashed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">suffered</a> massacres at the hands of the Turks and Iraqis. In Syria they cannot vote or own property or businesses. Unable to live freely and safely, they have formed their own military with dedicated soldiers.ProvokedIn other cases, minority groups enjoy the same legal rights as the majority and live in safety, but nonetheless feel like outsiders, lacking connections for government jobs and other opportunities and sometimes subjected to discrimination on an individual, though not governmental, level.&nbsp;Socialists often seize the opportunity presented by this tension to advance their interests in overthrowing conservative governments. The socialist Sinn Féin party thus exploited Catholic-Protestant tensions in supporting the revolutionary, paramilitary Irish Republican Army's revolt against British rule in mostly Protestant Northern Ireland following its split from the mostly Catholic Irish Free State in the 1921 partition.Even in the absence of any ethnic or religious differences, socialists attempt to find a source of tension, as communist Fidel Castro did in recruiting rural peasants to drive landowners out of the Cuban country side and help Castro's guerrilla army close in on Havana. Little did those peasants know to what they lent a hand. The New York Times — which ironically declared to the world in 1957 that Castro was to be trusted to <a href="https://www.thegrayladywinked.com/new-york-times-created-fidel-castro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bring</a> a “new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist” — published <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/books/surviving-castro-s-tortures.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prison memoirs</a> in 1986 of a Castro supporter who was nonetheless arrested for speaking against communism:<blockquote>"The beating felt as if they were branding me with a red-hot branding iron, but then suddenly I experienced the most intense, unbearable, and brutal pain of my life. One of the guards had jumped with all his weight on my broken, throbbing leg.''That treatment was typical. In the punishment cells, prisoners were kept in total darkness. Guards dumped buckets of urine and feces over the prisoners who warded off rats and roaches as they tried to sleep. Fungus grew on Mr. Valladares because he was not allowed to wash off the filth. Sleep was impossible. Guards constantly awoke the men with long poles to insure they got no rest. Illness and disease were a constant.&nbsp;</blockquote>CoercedSocialists may even exploit potential tensions where they don't yet exist, turning Sunni Muslims against their Shi'ite brothers, Muslims against Christians or Hindus, workers against employers and so on. Of course, such differences have in fact led to wars in the past, and in some places they continue to result in violence. But socialists will resurrect such conflicts when dormant where possible.&nbsp;In Israel, for example, the Arab minority is not only not discriminated against in education and employment but actually benefits from affirmative action, such that an Arab-Israeli with lower grades than a Jewish-Israeli can be the one offered a university placement or job. According to the Syrian-Lebanese American founder of WorldNetDaily, <a href="https://www.middle-east-info.org/gateway/arabsinisrael/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joseph Farah</a>, life is indeed good for Arab-Israelis:<blockquote>Arabs in Israel vote. They elect leaders to the Knesset [Israeli parliament]. They have their own political parties. They have their own newspapers. They have full rights to citizenship. They are free to speak their minds.&nbsp;As an Arab-American journalist who has spent a good deal of time covering the region, I can tell you there is more freedom for Arabs in Israel than in any Arab state.</blockquote>In fact, when Arab-Israelis marry Arabs from Arab nations, they generally choose to live in Israel, not the Arab nation of the spouse. Israel <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210831-israel-approves-5000-family-unification-requests-for-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">grants</a> citizenship to spouses of Israeli-Arabs when requested. Almost all Arab-Israeli spouses are the result of <a href="https://en.mida.org.il/2018/05/16/origins-arab-settlers-land-israel-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voluntary Arab immigration</a> to Israel, as Arabs have voted with their feet on the quality of life in Israel. Arabs even report their <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/12/15/93-of-east-jerusalem-arabs-prefer-israeli-rule-poll-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">preference</a> to live under Israeli jurisdiction to Arab media:<blockquote>An overwhelming majority – some 93% -- of Arab residents of east Jerusalem prefer to live under Israeli governance than that of the Palestinian Authority [PA], a new poll from the Palestine News Network shows. The survey asked respondents whether they supported continued Israeli control of the city or a transfer of it to the Palestinian Authority.Of the 1,200 Arab residents queried, 1,116 said that they preferred the former. Only 84 respondents answered that they would prefer the city to be under the responsibility of the PA, although they also noted that they would refuse to give up their Israeli identity cards and/or residency documents. Only five respondents said they would prefer to carry PA identity cards.</blockquote>In such circumstances, even with the displeasure some Arab-Israelis may have initially felt with the Israeli victories against invading Arab armies in the early days of the newly formed Jewish state, there was no support for a general uprising. Scientist and strategic analyst Bryan Ellison, educated at the University of California, Berkeley, <a href="http://www.plo.attacreport.com/bd_part2.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explains</a> that socialists therefore resorted to outright coercion of Arabs.&nbsp;PLO founder Yasir Arafat, a life-long socialist who served as a representative at the Communist World Festival of Youth, used his guerrilla fighters to employ the coercion scheme. According to Ellison, Arafat's henchmen poured acid on the faces of young Arab men as one of the seven steps socialists use to promote so-called “wars of national liberation” to overthrow or weaken capitalist countries' governments.&nbsp;<blockquote>Step 5) As in any Communist revolution, the PLO must use terrorism against the very people it claims to be liberating, in order to create an illusion of popular support for the intifada. For many years, the PLO had already been directing many of its terrorist attacks against palestinians and Arabs in general . . .“Palestinians live in daily terror of these squads. Some common murder techniques are beheading, mutilation, gouging out eyes, cutting off ears or limbs, and pouring molten plastic or acid on a victim’s face.”&nbsp;Often the victim is shot or stabbed in broad daylight, in full view of palestinian bystanders. Merchants who fail to close their shops when a strike is called, or who do not pay taxes to the PLO, have their shops burned to the ground; buses that carry palestinians to work in Israel are also burned, keeping the workers from earning the money to feed their families. Some one thousand palestinians have been killed by the terror squads, and many others injured.</blockquote>Check back as we lay out all seven steps of the socialists' Wars of National Liberation.&nbsp;

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Minority ethnic groups provoked into endless wars of 'national liberation'

What's driving today's wars?

<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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