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View More NewsLast week, the Trump administration teased a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz closed by war. President Donald Trump said on August 4 that the deal “could happen tomorrow or the next day.” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said the same day that “we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the strait and move towards a more normalized position.” It is now August 10, and no deal is in sight. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary declared on Saturday that it would only allow the Strait of Hormuz to reopen with a permanent end…
from the cop-specific-sickness dept Flock Safety is happy it’s the go-to choice for tons of law enforcement agencies. While it does suffer some occasional bleeding, its supercharged automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) — ones that not only capture plates, but pictures of drivers/passengers and full vehicle images to capture any other distinctive features — are so widely deployed they’re now capturing 20 billion images per month across the nation. Not bad for a company that started out pitching its spy wares to HOAs and gated communities. Most cops in America now have access to Flock’s databases, either directly or by…
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In late November 2023, seven weeks after Hamas’s 7 October terrorist attacks, I attended a private roundtable at the Jordanian Embassy in London. There, Ambassador Manar Dabbas discussed the unfolding regional catastrophe with the composure of someone reviewing the previous night’s football scores. Some 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, had been murdered; around 250 had been taken hostage into Gaza; and pro-terror rhetoric was spreading across the world. But at this juncture, Dabbas emphasised the importance of de-escalation and the need for Israeli restraint. With respect to Jordan’s position, he remarked: “We sometimes joke among ourselves that we are…
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