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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Two men are dead and three injured in 'crew on crew' shooting in DC after '100 rounds are fired from automatic weapons that turned the city into a 'war zone': Cops hunt three suspects
[DM] But Automatic Weapons are illegal!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2023 09:34 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  No fotos, no names... the address pretty well sez it all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't know there were Amish in DC
Posted by: Chris || 09/28/2023 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  100 rounds and only two KIA, three WIA?
They really do need more gun control programs in DC!

Repeat after me boys, Sight alignment, Sight picture, B-R-A-S-S

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/28/2023 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Alec Baldwin film crew wars?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 12:46 Comments || Top||



#7  ^ A LARPer?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 13:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Were they actual automatic weapons or semi-auto?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/28/2023 14:50 Comments || Top||

#9  "crew on crew"? Like in a "work crew"? Can't say gangs now can we...nope! That's reserved for Italians, Irish n Russians. Albanians not available for comment.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/28/2023 17:35 Comments || Top||

#10  pretty sure that if you are intoxicated or in a drug haze your aim will be off
Posted by: lord garth || 09/28/2023 20:24 Comments || Top||


Influencer 'Meatball' appears to be arrested while livestreaming wild looting rampage in Philadelphia
[NYPOST] A popular social media influencer known as "Meatball" livestreamed the rabid looting spree that engulfed Philadelphia’s city center overnight, before she was seemingly arrested while cheering on the marauders.
Mob euphoria fades.
Meatball, whose real name is Dayjia Blackwell, shared video and photos on her Instagram Stories gleefully documenting the mass plunder of several businesses, including an Apple store, a Foot Locker, a Lululemon and a liquor store.

The content creator with close to 650,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok could be seen laughing, clapping and shouting "Let’s go!" as she witnessed suspected looters fleeing while she was driven across the city.

Blackwell later continued filming the frenzy on foot, capturing her apparent enthusiasm.

"Tell the police they’re either gonna lock me up tonight, or it’s gonna get lit, it’s gonna be a movie," she said at one point in her videos.

Joining a crowd of youngsters loitering in the street, a laughing Blackwell exclaimed at one point: "This is what happens when we don’t get justice in this city."

Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ...Feral.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/28/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Store chains that have locations in cities like Philadelphia should plan to be looted every national election cycle. When you do the revenue and expense calculations based on that likely cycle, there is no reason to empty any store that is looted. In the case of Illinois, every chain should exit the state. Cash bail enables daily looting that kills profitability. These wipeout events are the coup de grace.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/28/2023 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  WTF is the ratchet ass bitch influencing? Back in the day we just called this a lazy POS.
Posted by: Chris || 09/28/2023 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  'Influencer' is a catch-all for various activities, much like 'artist' and 'actor'.
Posted by: Joluque Whomomble9237 || 09/28/2023 11:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Has the Mark of the LGB on her face; expect her to bank.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 13:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Most insane is that she was/is an INFLUENCER. There are folks literally taking her word as inspiration. It's confirmation bias on a cultural scale. We've had 3 years of animals running amok and they've enshrined it. Imagine the force necessary to corral this up cuz it's coming.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/28/2023 17:41 Comments || Top||

#8  "You may not be interested in The Culture Wars..."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 17:48 Comments || Top||

#9  When I first that thing, i started pondering that age old question:”Why DO you never see Meatball and Stacy Abrams together?”
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/28/2023 21:08 Comments || Top||


Law enforcement finally steps in to stop the looting. This was Philly
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tactics: Police using their bicycles (?!) as snares.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Hundred years ago, they just shot looters. Looting stopped pretty quick. It was no 'game'. If you saw looting you knew to head the other way.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/28/2023 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought the Kamala narration was a nice touch.
Posted by: Warthog || 09/28/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||


#5  Nothing Shows More Outrage At A Justifiable Homicide Court Verdict For A Police Officer than A Liquor Store Looting

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/28/2023 12:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Just another night out on the town for these folks. The scrunt filming this pathetic display provides the perfect narration.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/28/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  looters, migrants. birdshot to the legs.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 09/28/2023 12:43 Comments || Top||

#8  "You have a Halon system in your liquor store?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 16:48 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ This
Posted by: Frank G || 09/28/2023 18:13 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Denver businessman dumps poop found outside his business on city hall steps, demands action on homeless crisis
[FoxNews] A Denver businessman dumped human poop that was found outside of his business on the steps of the Denver City and Council building on Monday, according to CBS Colorado.

Jon Caldara, the president of the Independence Institute think tank, dumped human feces on the steps of Denver's government building.

"This is a present from the homeless to the people who have kept this homeless problem going," he said, according to CBS.

Caldara told CBS Colorado that homeless people defecate outside his private business "at least twice a week."

Denver performed a homeless sweep on Monday and moved several of the homeless living at the camps into a hotel. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston hopes to find housing for over 1,000 homeless people by the end of 2023, according to the homelessness initiative listed on the city of Denver's website.

"We have to clean up vomit and urine and syringes and used condoms and feces," Caldara said, according to the outlet. "We didn't cause the homeless problem in Denver, but we have clean up after it."

He also called on others to do the same, as an "act of civil disobedience" the next time they find themselves cleaning up after the homeless.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2023 08:51 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  City management will respond by installing toilet paper roll holders on every street corner.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/28/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Snark-o-the-day.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/28/2023 14:54 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Uzbekistan explosion felt 20 miles away hits international airport: Mushroom cloud fireball hundreds of feet high 'triggered by detonating car batteries' kills one and injures 160
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A powerful explosion in the capital city of Uzbekistan which was reportedly triggered by detonating electric car batteries has killed one person and injured 160 more.

The blast inside a huge customs warehouse close to the Tashkent International Airport could be heard 20 miles away, with nearby buildings destroyed and untold damage caused to the airfield.

A 15-year-old boy was tragically killed after a frame collapsed on his head as a result of the explosion. It is unclear how many people were in the warehouse when it exploded but authorities say 163 people were injured.

Shocking footage shows the impact of the 2.43am explosion as a fireball erupted hundreds of feet high lighting up the night sky of the ex-Soviet republic.

Initial reports suggested the raging inferno had been caused by a plane crash, forcing the authorities to deny this was responsible for the thunderous explosion that shook much of the city.

The Uzbek Interior Ministry was initially reported as saying 'lightning struck a warehouse where electric cars and batteries were stored, causing a massive explosion and fire in Tashkent', said a report.

Later there were doubts that lightning had been a factor in the explosion.

Batteries for electric cars exploded at the airport warehouse, causing the destruction of the building in the shock wave, reported Mash media outlet.

There are suspicions explosives were also present in the Inter Logistics LLC warehouse given the scale of the blast, but this was officially denied.

Sixteen separate fire teams were seeking to extinguish the enormous blaze which covered more than 32,000 square feet.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2023 09:25 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Old: Internal Combustion Engines

New: External Combustion Engines

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 13:57 Comments || Top||

#2  "Is Tashkent burning?"
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - late co-nominee for SOTD
Posted by: Frank G || 09/28/2023 14:50 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
My Sister's Abduction: Rushan Abbas on the CCP's Tactics to Control and Manipulate the Uyghur Diaspora
[ET - American Thought Leaders YouTube]
Contains full transcript.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 04:02 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  What about the ongoing "Control and Manipulation" of the American Diaspora ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Confucius say, "FCCP!
Wish a big happy birthday to me!
Light a joss stick or two--"
"And get jabbed for my flu,"
Say his Pooh-faced boss "Institute" Xi.
Posted by: Spiting Uninese6703 || 09/28/2023 23:03 Comments || Top||


Economy
Black Rifle Coffee Company to perk up Myrtle Beach with first SC location
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — A fast-growing coffee chain is opening its first South Carolina location in Myrtle Beach.

Black Rifle Coffee Company is projected to open early November at 118 Loyola Drive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 05:43 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....Sadly, the Redneck Riviera ain't what it used to be - crime and general unpleasantness has gotten kinda bad. BRCC would have done better opening here in Columbia near FT Jackson.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/28/2023 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  BRCC threw Kyle Rittenhouse under the bus. Screw 'em.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/28/2023 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^
BRCC known anti Trumpers and haters of Conservative Values.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/28/2023 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Myrtle Beach - where NY and NE liberal college kids go to party - BRCC will fit right in.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/28/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  The coffee ain't that good anyway. They played everybody about being veterans.
Posted by: Joluque Whomomble9237 || 09/28/2023 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Whatever they were, they threw in when applying to go public.

Found another company with not only superior coffee, spot on social commentary.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||


#8  Even managed a cameo in Range 15.

Like trying to watch some classic sci-fi and then there is Whoopie Goldberg sucking the fun out of the story.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 14:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Yawn. Palmetto State Armory opened in Myrtle Beach this year as well, and their coffee sucks.
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/28/2023 15:58 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/28/2023 17:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Go to Hilton Head all those Ohioans will love it
Posted by: Beavis || 09/28/2023 18:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Go to Hilton Head all those Ohioans will love it
Posted by: Beavis 2023-09-28 18:21


Heh. Not!
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/28/2023 21:51 Comments || Top||


Movin' on up - oil, that is. The rest of us are toast
[HOT AIR] BREAKING: Crude oil prices surge toward $94 and are now trading at their highest levels since August 2022.

Oil prices are up 38% in just 3 months and the national average gas price is about to cross $4.00.

Furthermore, oil prices are now 35% ABOVE where the US wanted to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR).

Inventories in US reserves remain at their lowest levels since 1983.

If the US attempts to refill reserves now, we will see oil prices skyrocket.

What does the US do now as gas prices soar?[
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 03:37 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


#2  So, how's them Russia-crushing sanctions working?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 6:34 Comments || Top||

#3  They would probably be working well if the chief dumbass wasn't trying to destroy the US oil industry.
Posted by: Chris || 09/28/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  ^The same dumbass who initiated the sanctions?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||


#7  RE #4 either way he's a dumbass and always has been. What's your point?
Posted by: Chris || 09/28/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Democrats always tell the voters exactly what they plan to do, then the "polite" church-going white ladies vote for them anyway. That's why we end up with election results within the margin of the steal--guilt-ridden white people who ignore the words of the candidates they vote for.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/28/2023 11:24 Comments || Top||

#9  In Ga. its now $2.96 to $3.09 for Regular Ethanol per Gallon. Because Gov. Kemp eliminated the GA GAS tax ($0.30+/-) until sometime in Oct. Although Kemp is a Political opportunist weasel. He does understand a basic spending rule. "You got have it to spend it."

The lower prices will have people more likely to head out for food, restaurants, and stores sales. Which generate sales taxes and employment #'s will benefit going into the Holidays and the next scamdemic scare cycle.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/28/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Filled up yesterday.

Sum'bitch.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 13:35 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
A CIA Front Organization' - Revisiting EcoHealth COVID-19 Claims After Fauci 'Influence' Campaign Bombshell
[ZERO] Following Tuesday night's bombshell report from Congressional investigators that Dr. Anthony Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters "without a record of entry" where he "participated in the analysis to "influence" the Agency's" Covid-19 investigation," it's worth revisiting claims made by former EcoHealth Alliance scientist, Andrew Huff, about the CIA's alleged connections to EcoHealth and Covid-19.
Meet the Bag Man.
Recall that EcoHealth received lucrative contracts to perform experiments on bat Covid in Wuhan, China after the Obama administration banned gain-of-function research in 2014. Four months prior to the ban, the NIH effectively shifted this research to EcoHealth, headed by Peter Daszak. The research was shielded from government oversight by Fauci's NIAID, and Daszak was forced to report after the fact that he'd engaged in gain-of-function experiments.

"As a virologist, I personally think creating chimeras of SARS-related bat coronaviruses that are thought to pose high risk to humans entails unacceptable risks," virologist Jesse Bloom told The Intercept.

Burgeoning populations are an existential threat to the environment. Something must be done. [sarc off]

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 06:08 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doctor Wauter Basson to the white courtesy phone please. Doctor Basson.

Project Coast - Research on birth control methods to reduce the black birth rate was one such area. Dr. Daan Goosen, the managing director of Roodeplaat Research Laboratories between 1983 and 1986, told Tom Mangold of the BBC that Project Coast had supported a project to develop a contraceptive that would have been applied clandestinely to blacks. Goosen reported that the project had developed a "vaccine" for males and females and that the researchers were still searching for a means by which it could be delivered to make black people sterile without them being made aware. Dr Shalk Van Rensburg stated that “fertility and fertility control studies comprised 18% of all projects”.[9] Testimony given at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) suggested that Project Coast researchers were also looking into putting birth control substances in water supplies.[8] The project officer for Project Coast, Dr. Woutter Basson, was put on trial for 64 charges, all of which were committed while he held that position.[9] Goosen testified that when asked what motivated him, Basson had replied that “although we do not have any doubt that Black people will take over the country one day, when my daughter asks me what I did to prevent this, at least my conscience will be clean”[10] There is much mystery surrounding the international involvement in the project, as it would not have been able to develop without some form of international support, but no country has been directly implicated despite strong links to Israel and Libya.[9] While focus on Apartheid South Africa’s research into fertility is barely part of the ongoing discussion regarding Project Coast, it can be argued that what occurred constituted conspiracy to commit genocide in international law.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  EcoHealth Alliance Hid Nearly $40 Million in Pentagon Funding
Investigation reveals $34.6 million of the just-under $39 million EcoHealth Alliance received in Pentagon funding from 2013 to 2020 came from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a branch of the DOD tasked to “counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks.”
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 09/28/2023 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Somehow I have difficulty believing it was actually "Pentagon" funding.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||


#6  /\ Expect extremely heavy FLAK within 2 miles of the target area gentlemen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Didn't General Mills in his own words brag about having a direct line to Beijing to keep them appraised of current USA military situations?

DEFCLAIM Levels:

Casts Shade
Responds To
Slaps Back
Claps Back
Punches Back
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/28/2023 13:48 Comments || Top||


Population Control - U.S. Funding Pushes The World's Poor To Kill Their Own Kids
[Federalist] On World Contraception Day (Sept. 26) and International Safe Abortion Day (Sept. 28), the culture of death celebrates its efforts to depopulate the world. The Biden administration must publicly denounce the racist agenda behind its domestic and global policies regarding "sexual and reproductive health."

As outlined in the 1974 "National Security Study Memorandum 200," also known as "The Kissinger Report" and subtitled "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests," the agenda behind "sexual and reproductive health" is not health care but population suppression, particularly in the developing world.

Decisions made at the highest levels in the U.S. government and by wealthy Western foundations profoundly affect the lives of people halfway around the world. No country has escaped the pressure from agencies that advocate for "sexual and reproductive health," a euphemism that includes contraception, sterilization, and abortion.

The strategy behind this approach is explicitly detailed in "The Kissinger Report." The document serves as a blueprint for world depopulation and lays out the five-step strategy by which the U.S. government aggressively promotes population control in developing nations in order to have better access to the natural resources of these countries. "NSSM-200" was written because the U.S. National Security Council saw rapid population growth in the less-developed countries (LDCs) as a major threat to our national security.

"NSSM-200″ is devoid of morality or ethics and has directly encouraged atrocities and massive human rights violations in many nations, especially in Africa. As outlined in "NSSM-200," population control programs could include legalizing abortion, financial incentives for countries to increase abortion, sterilization, and contraception-use rates, indoctrination of children, and mandatory population control and coercion of other forms, such as withholding disaster and food aid unless a pooer country implements population control programs.

As Pope Benedict XVI emphasized in paragraph 28 of "Caritas in veritate," his encyclical on international development, "openness to life" is at the "center" of any authentic development, and "cannot in any way be detached from questions concerning the development of peoples." Some parts of the world, he said, "still experience practices of demographic control, on the part of governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose abortion."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 05:57 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would seem those demanding we protect the Earth by all types of weird, crazy and even deadly plans. Would offer to lower their Carbon Foot print start by eliminating their own Carbon Footprints 1st.

How about a Taxpayer paid sterilization and a tax-free check $1,000 for having the procedure between the ages of 18 and 30?

An for the older Tree Hugging Liberals. A strictly voluntary, festive Soylent Green week send off. The credit $$$$ amount based on their Carbon Footprint impact being eliminated? 😉

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/28/2023 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  New Warsaw Ghetto 'Federal Government territories' within the former states will solve the problem. Regional FEMA directors are hammering out new naming conventions which will soon be applied.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the poor been doing it, or selling their kids, for centuries.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  It's only fair - we're killing our own kids...
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/28/2023 16:13 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gantz admits: 'Violence used against worshipers' on Yom Kippur
[Jpost] National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz acknowledged the violence used against worshipers over Yom Kippur in a Wednesday statement at a memorial ceremony honoring the late Col. Navia Marai.

"In the name of the desire to supposedly protect the public space, violence was used against worshipers on the holy day, prayer was interrupted and the law was taken into their own hands," Gantz said. "For both sides, there is something to be reckoned with, and so for all of us as a society."
Our monkeys sure admire your Antifa!
Some of your monkeys are Antifa’s various branches in Israel. Much like the Islamic Movement and Ra’am are the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Actually, TW, I've seen - otherwise totally normal people - joining these demonstrations.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ My memory has once again failed me. Please define "normal people." Visuals are a plus.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/28/2023 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^Perhaps I can use a counterexample
Report: 94% of 323,094 New Jobs Among S&P 100 Went to Non-Whites in Year After BLM Protests
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/28/2023 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Pacification of the employables.
Whites remain disenfranchised.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/28/2023 8:30 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Fears mount over NGOs gathering biometric data
[Geographical] A reliance on biometric data in the humanitarian sector is on the rise, despite growing evidence of the risks
Always a comforting thought....
In 2021, as US troops withdrew from Afghanistan – the culmination of two decades of war – they left behind a vast collection of sensitive data that swiftly made its way into the hands of the Taliban. According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, this included biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints, as well as photographs, addresses and names of relatives, possibly endangering thousands of Afghans around the country. ‘Some of these people would have assisted or worked at US embassies and were likely made promises of resettlement opportunities in the USA,’ says Quito Tsui, one of the authors of a new report on the problem.

The practice of collecting biometric data from vulnerable individuals isn’t unique to Afghanistan. The report, written by Tsui and her colleagues at the Engine Room, a non-profit organisation with expertise in technology and data, details several high-profile incidents of the growing use – and risks – of biometrics in the humanitarian sector.

According to the UN, an estimated 360 million people worldwide are currently in need of humanitarian assistance, an increase of 30 per cent since the start of 2022. Humanitarian organisations are finding it increasingly challenging to meet those needs, and biometrics were first adopted during the early 2000s as a way of facilitating aid registration and distribution (many people in need of aid don’t possess identification documents such as a passport).

Since then, the use of digital biometric systems to collect data such as iris, hand or fingerprint scans has become normalised and a central part of humanitarian work. Some organisations have also been encouraged by donors that request detailed reports on how their money has been spent. By the end of 2020, almost 63.8 million biometric profiles were registered with the World Food Programme’s SCOPE database.

However, Tsui explains that while aid organisations cite the numerous benefits of using biometric data systems – such as increased efficiency and fraud control – there’s little in the way of evidence or research to actually support these claims. Most importantly, says Tsui, many organisations have failed to review their use of biometric data in light of the increased evidence of harm it can cause.

The main issues raised by the new report include function creep, data security and the misuse of data. ‘In most situations, the risks that individuals who depend upon humanitarian aid face when their data is collected are the same risks that you or I might face,’ says Tsui. ‘The key difference is that these risks are much more likely to occur.’ In 2018, Open Democracy reported that Rohingya refugees at a camp in Bangladesh protested against the issue of smart ID cards after the Bangladeshi government shared biometric data with the Myanmar junta, which has persecuted the Rohingya people.

Tsui says that of all the issues associated with biometric data collection, lack of consent is particularly tricky. ‘People fleeing harm often arrive in huge groups, in a rush, maybe even in the middle of the night,’ she says. ‘That’s not an environment that’s conducive to informed consent.’ More often than not, the reality is that individuals seeking aid are in no position to refuse. ‘When we’ve asked aid organisations about what happens if people do say no, they’ve been evasive,’ says Tsui. ‘In reality, there often is no alternative in place.’

It may seem as if it’s too late to turn back from the reliance on biometrics, but Belkis Wille, associate director with the Crisis and Conflict division at Human Rights Watch, says that the humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine suggests otherwise. Many Ukrainians and the smaller, local humanitarian groups supporting them didn’t want to share their biometric data with international agencies and, as a result, those agencies dropped the requirement. ‘Ukraine has certainly made the argument in favour of biometric data collection harder to justify,’ agrees Tsui.
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