Manabí prison warden killed during referendum voting day in Ecuador

The murder of the head of the El Rodeo penitentiary is the third murder in five days of an authority in Ecuador, after the murders of two mayors of municipalities in the south of the country.

The director of a prison in Ecuador was murdered this Sunday, when the country is celebrating nationwide the voting day of the referendum called by the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, to push forward reforms to boost the fight against organized crime, attract investment and create jobs.

The victim is Cosme Parrales, who was the director of the El Rodeo prison, located in the city of Portoviejo, which belongs to the coastal province of Manabí, the state prison agency, the National Service of Integral Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), confirmed in a statement.

This is the third murder in five days of an authority in Ecuador, after the murders on Wednesday and Friday of two mayors of municipalities in the south of the country that have in their territory the presence of illegal mining activities.

"The SNAI will provide all the facilities to the entities in charge of the investigations to determine the causes and those responsible for this event that mourns the entire National System of Social Rehabilitation," the report adds.

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Desai and Hudson got Jill Stein for this week's Geopolitical Economy Hour

A potential series of AI scandals is in the making in Denmark where tax authorities are implementing secretive "artificial intelligence" models in their auditing process without having analysed the consequences. In 16 out of 23 instances the tax authorities had not completed their own analysis of the systems and their consequences. In eight of those instances the systems have already been deployed.

In 2021 the regime passed legislation giving taxation authorities a blanket permission to collect and process "all necessary data" from all public bodies as well as all publicly available data. For instance taxation authorities are monitoring Facebook and platforms for classified ads.

Little is known about how exactly this monitoring works, what dates is collected or how it is being used as authorities are extremely secretive about their use of AI for tax audits. Freedom of information requests from journalists into these systems are being severely limited, in 14 out of 23 instances the regime refuses to tell what the purpose of the system is, in 7 instances they won't tell what types of personal data is being processed and in four instances they won't even tell the name of the system. The regime claims that this lack of transparency is necessary as giving the public even the slightest idea of how they are being spied on will endanger the tax auditing process and make tax fraud easier.

So we have a whole bunch of bazinga TaxGPT's that are singling people out for harassment by the regime. The regime itself doesn't know how the stuff works or how it will affect the tax system. And nobody else is allowed to know anything about how it works or doesn't work.

I'm sure this is all going to be fine.

So what if there were drones sent, they were shot down by Iran, but explosions also did happen (and were triggered cybernetically). So that Israel says we bombed them look there were explosions and Iran says no you didn’t, and then both are correct

ECUADOR RESULTS

Calculated: 6.37%

Question A: Do you agree with allowing the complementary support of the Armed Forces in the functions of the National Police to combat organized crime, by partially reforming the Constitution?

• YES 73.52%

• NO 26.48%

Question B: Do you agree with allowing the extradition of Ecuadorians, with the conditions, requirements, restrictions and impediments established in the Constitution, international instruments and the law, by amending the Constitution and reforming the laws?

• YES 66.61%

• NO 33.39%

Question C: Do you agree with the creation of magistrates specialized in constitutional matters, both in the first and second instance, for the knowledge of the jurisdictional guarantees that correspond to them, by amending the Constitution and reforming the Organic Law on Jurisdictional Guarantees and Constitutional Control?

• YES 62.44%

• NO 37.56%

Question D: Do you agree that the Ecuadorian state recognizes international arbitration as a method for resolving investment, contractual or commercial disputes?

• NO 60.44%

• YES 39.56%

Question E: Do you agree with the amendment of the Constitution of the Republic and the reform of the Labor Code for fixed-term and hourly employment contracts, when these are concluded for the first time between the same employer and worker, without prejudice to workers' acquired rights?

• NO 64.42%

• YES 35.58%

Question F: Do you agree with the Armed Forces carrying out permanent checks on weapons, ammunition, explosives and accessories on the roads, paths, highways and corridors authorized for entry into social rehabilitation centers?

• YES 71.67%

• NO 28.33%

Question G: Do you agree with increasing the penalties for crimes of terrorism and its financing, illicit production and trafficking of scheduled substances subject to control, organized crime, homicide, murder for hire, trafficking in human beings, kidnapping for ransom, drug trafficking, money laundering and illicit activity of mining resources, by reforming the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code?

• YES 69.58%

• NO 30.42%

Question H: Do you agree that people deprived of their liberty should serve their full sentence in a social rehabilitation center for the crimes detailed in the Annex to the question, by reforming the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code?

• YES 68.99%

• NO 31.01%

Question I: Do you agree with criminalizing the possession or carrying of weapons, ammunition or components that are for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces or the National Police, without affecting firearms permitted for civilian use, by reforming the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code?

• YES 66.56%

• NO 33.44%

Question J: Do you agree that weapons, their parts, explosives, ammunition or accessories that have been instruments or material objects of a crime can be used immediately by the National Police or the Armed Forces, reforming the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code?

• YES 66.63%

• NO 33.37%

Question K: Do you agree that the State should become the holder (owner) of assets of illicit or unjustified origin, simplifying the procedure of the Organic Law on the Forfeiture of Assets?

• YES 63.94%

• NO 36.06%

2000 lol

the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.

~~has the knesset always met in Jerusalem or was it moved from Tel Aviv at some point?~~

it was basically in Tel Aviv for a year or two before it moved to Jerusalem in 1949

Before the construction of its current location, the Knesset met in Tel Aviv, before moving to the Froumine building in Jerusalem.