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Required Reading – July 24 Evening Update

Required reading from around the web of the best, most interesting, or most though provoking things we’ve read:

Durden: Big Brother Surveillance Begins: Cuomo Unveils Facial Scanning At New York Toll Plazas

“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Friday that facial recognition cameras installed at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across New York City are scanning every driver’s face and feeding them into a massive database designed to catch suspected criminals. […]  ‘We are now moving to facial-recognition technology, which takes it to a whole new level, where it can see the face of the person in the car and run that technology against databases… Because many times a person will turn their head when they see a security camera, so they are now experimenting with technology that just identifies a person by their ear, believe it or not,’ he continued.”

Read more at Zero Hedge.

Enloe: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina met with Obama administration officials in 2015, new report says

“Reuters reported that Butina and Alexander Torshin, the former Russian Central Bank deputy governor, met with Stanley Fischer, then-vice chair of the Fed, and Nathan Sheets, then-Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, in separate meetings in 2015. […] According to Reuters, the meetings ‘reveal a wider circle of high-powered connections that Butina sought to cultivate with American political leaders and special interest groups.'”

Read more at The Blaze.

Powell: What Happens to the Future When It’s Severed From the Past

“We’re seeing it right now.  […] And while peoples’ standard of living has been greatly improved and their longevity significantly increased, many Americans now seem oblivious to how we got here. The incredible benefits attributable to the application of both the scientific method and the spiritual truths of Judeo-Christian heritage are increasingly taken for granted at best. At worst they are viewed as unnecessary, even obsolete. We are told that our culture and the way we live is now post-Christian and that the need for redemption by God has been replaced by the imperatives of a secular redemption defined by political correctness. That new framework is largely based on the one-two approach of promoting guilt among largely successful white males for their alleged biases and misdeeds, past and present, and then providing them a solution in the form of relief and good feelings through making amends and accommodation to new groups and minorities. In short the path of the new P.C. redemption has nothing to do with . . .”

Read more at Spectator.

Hemingway: Confirmed: DOJ Used Materially False Information To Secure Wiretaps On Trump Associate

“Here is what the highly redacted FISA applications show us thus far.”

Read more at The Federalist.

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