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Daily Archives: 22. August 2026
Today In Dystopia: “We Have Cameras Everywhere In That Town”
Reason shared a police body cam video of a cop confidently handing a court summons to a woman for package theft, telling her and her husband that it was “100 percent” certain she was guilty because Flock surveillance had her on camera committing the crime.
“We have cameras everywhere in that town; you can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing,” the officer asserts on camera, saying “It is her, it is 100 percent, it is locked in, there is zero doubt; I wouldn’t have come here unless I was 100 percent sure.”
If that wasn’t Orwellian enough for you, Reason reports that the woman was only able to exonerate herself by providing police with “her cellphone tracking data, camera footage from her truck, and video placing her elsewhere at the time of the theft.” In other words, she was only saved from wrongful conviction based on faulty mass surveillance by providing correct information from other forms of mass surveillance.
Israeli forces reportedly use phosphorus shells in attacks on southern Lebanon
In 2024, images and footage shared by Human Rights Watch showed the munitions hitting residential buildings in the southern Lebanese border villages of Kafr Kila, Mays al-Jabal, Boustane, Markaba, and Aita al-Chaab.
Inhalation of white phosphorus fumes can cause respiratory injuries and asphyxiation, and inflict second- and third-degree burns to the skin.
In 2023, HRW revealed that Israeli forces had used the weapon on the densely populated Gaza Strip and on two rural areas along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Turkey seeks Interpol arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza flotilla detention
Turkey said Friday it is seeking an international arrest warrant from Interpol for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case over Israel‘s interception and detention of dozens of activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip in May.
Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu wegen Ăśberfall auf Gaza-Flottille
Ankara. Im Rahmen von Ermittlungen zu Gewalt gegen Aktivisten einer Gaza-Hilfsflotte hat die Türkei einen internationalen Haftbefehl gegen den israelischen Regierungschef Benjamin Netanjahu erlassen. Justizminister Akın Gürlek teilte am Freitag im Onlinedienst X mit, Netanjahu und ein weiterer israelischer Staatsbürger würden der »Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit, des Völkermords, der schweren Freiheitsberaubung« sowie weiterer Vergehen beschuldigt, darunter Folter.