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Report: NYPD Has Systematically Undercounted Rapes In NYC For Years
A new analysis of city crime stats has found that the NYPD systematically undercounted rape statistics for the last seven years. [ more › ]
John Bolton to present his evidence that Iran was behind Gulf attacks
AKA: Updated and remixed WMD lies from 2002!

Trump national security adviser says he can show evidence as early as next week
The US national security adviser, John Bolton, has said he is to present evidence to the UN security council as early as next week that he claims will show Iran was behind recent attacks on oil tankers and pipelines in the Gulf.
Bolton has previously said Iran was almost certainly responsible for the attacks, but without presenting evidence.In what is likely to be a showdown over the US’s aggressive Iran strategy, in which Bolton has taken a leading role, much will depend on how credibly the US intelligence agencies can show the Iranian government is directing attacks by proxies.
New Hampshire abolishes death penalty after state senate overrides governor

Vote came a week after the 400-member house voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill to repeal capital punishment
New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, has became the latest US state to abolish the death penalty when the state senate voted to override the governor’s veto.
“Now it’s up to us to stop this practice that is archaic, costly, discriminatory and final,” said New Hampshire state senator Melanie Levesque.
Nuclear watchdog chief: no evidence that Russia is violating test ban

- US general said Moscow had ‘probably’ violated moratorium
- Lassina Zerbo contradicts claims of testing at remote island
The head of the international watchdog that monitors signs of nuclear testing has said there is no evidence to support a US allegation that Russia has conducted low-yield tests in violation of an international ban.
Lassina Zerbo, the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), said the agency had already investigated the claim made on Wednesday by the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt Gen Robert Ashley, that Russia had “probably” violated the moratorium on tests of any yield.
Erase Your Computer Hard Drive Before You Die Unless You’re a Republican Operative Known as the ‘Michelangelo of Gerrymandering’

When the Republican political consultant Thomas Hofeller died last year, he left behind a toxic legacy—as one of the key architects of his party’s efforts to consolidate political power through redistricting and gerrymandering.
Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019)
All of us here in the 2010s have, at one time or another, been street photographers. But up until 1838, nobody had ever been a street photographer. In that year when camera phones were well beyond even the ken of science fiction, Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the daguerreotype process and one of the fathers of photography itself, took the first photo of a human being. In so doing he also became the first street photographer, capturing as his picture did not just a human being but the urban environment inhabited by that human being, in this case Paris’ Boulevard du Temple. Daguerre’s picture begins the historical journey through 181 years of street photography, one street photo per year all soundtracked with period-appropriate songs, in the video above.
From the dawn of the practice, street photography (unlike smile-free early photographic portraiture) has shown life as it’s actually lived. Like the lone Parisian who happened to be standing still long enough for Daguerre’s camera to capture, the people populating these images go about their business with no concern for, or even awareness of, being photographed.
The earliest street photographs come mostly from Europe — London’s Trafalgar Square, Copenhagen’s former Ulfeldts Plads (now Gråbrødretorv), Rome’s Via di Ripetta — but as photography spread, so spread street photography. Rapidly industrializing cities in America and elsewhere in the former British Empire soon get in on the action, and a few decades later scenes from the cities of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East begin to appear.
Each of these 181 street photographs was taken for a reason, though most of those reasons are now unknown to us. But some pictures make it obvious, especially in the case of the startlingly common subgenre of post-disaster street photography: we see the aftermath of an 1858 brewery fire in Montreal, an 1866 explosion in Sydney, an 1874 flood in Pittsburgh, a 1906 hurricane in San Francisco, and a 1920 bombing in New York. Each of these pictures tells a story of a moment in the life of a particular city, but together they tell the story of the city itself, as it has over the past two centuries grown outward, upward, and in every other way necessary to accommodate growing populations; transportation technologies like bicycles, streetcars, automobiles; spaces like squares, cinemas, and cafés; and above all, the ever-diversifying forms of human life lived within them.
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19-Year-Old Student Uses Early Spy Camera to Take Candid Street Photos (Circa 1895)
Vivian Maier, Street Photographer, Discovered
See the First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre (1838)
The History of Photography in Five Animated Minutes: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall, on Facebook, or on Instagram.
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What Would Happen If LA Banned Right-On-Red?
Mass insurrection would be best bet – lol San Francisco is considering making the change to prevent crashes between cars and pedestrians.
I can, if I try.
The N.R.A.’s Questionable, Unreported Donations to Wayne LaPierre’s Wife’s Charity

The N.R.A. Foundation faces potential regulatory problems for not disclosing its financial support for the Christian organization Youth for Tomorrow, Mike Spies writes.

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