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Sunday, November 1, 2026
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DARIUSZ WIEWIORKA: Germany, to save its industry, must take control of Poland, and that's exactly what they're doing.
This is good commentary. Another way to look at it however is that NS2 represented another attempt by Germany to centralize gas flows into Europe, especially Poland by using the Opal pipeline as a cudgel Open NS2, use Ukraine to cut off the old pipelines to Poland and then force Polish compliance through gas quotas in the name of “green energy” This is why @NakedHedgie snd I surmised that it was Britain and Poland who were ultimately behind blowing up NS2 in the GGnG podcast we did right after it happened https://t.co/DWsgKAReK7
— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) November 1, 2026
Dariusz Wiewiorka explains,
I'll explain to you exactly what's happening in Poland.
After the destruction of Nord Stream, the German industry fell into an extreme crisis and is simply dying without cheap Russian gas. Due to the war in Ukraine, it's through Poland that the last two functioning pipelines from Russia to Germany are running. Yamal with a capacity of 33 billion m³ and the Druzhba oil pipeline. Germany, to save its industry, must take control of Poland, and that's exactly what they're doing. The rest is just background.
Your Tax Dollars Don't Mean that You Own Public Streets; Just Means You Pay for Your Own Surveillance
Yes. What you're describing is an increasingly interconnected surveillance environment in which cameras operated by police departments, transportation agencies, municipalities, private security companies, retailers, and commercial property owners can all observe portions of the same public streets.
The important distinction is that not every camera is simply a security camera. Some are designed to read license plates, some monitor traffic flow, some record pedestrians, and others provide security footage that may be accessible to outside agencies.
Below is a fairly comprehensive inventory of the types you can encounter on American streets and intersections, including Southern California.
1. Street-mounted and municipal surveillance cameras
Government-operated or government-contracted systems
1. Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR/LPR)
Examples: Flock Safety, Motorola Vigilant, Rekor.
Photograph passing vehicles, extract license plate numbers, record time and location, and potentially retain vehicle characteristics and images.
2. Municipal CCTV cameras
Conventional closed-circuit television cameras installed at intersections, street corners, public buildings and roadways. May be fixed or remotely operated.
3. PTZ cameras (Pan-Tilt-Zoom)
Remotely controlled cameras that can rotate, tilt and zoom. An operator may change the viewing direction and magnification.
4. Smart streetlight cameras
Cameras incorporated into streetlight fixtures or attached to streetlight poles. Some are part of smart-city systems with networking, environmental sensors and traffic-monitoring capabilities.
5. Smart-pole surveillance systems
More extensive installations combining cameras, communications equipment, wireless access points, sensors and sometimes ALPR equipment.
6. Traffic intersection cameras
Mounted on signal arms, signal poles and intersection structures. Used for traffic observation, congestion monitoring, incident detection and sometimes recording.
7. Highway monitoring cameras
Caltrans and other transportation agencies use cameras to monitor freeway conditions, traffic congestion, accidents and road conditions.
2. Traffic enforcement cameras
These are different from ordinary traffic-monitoring cameras because they can be used to identify violations or generate enforcement evidence.
8. Red-light enforcement cameras
Photograph vehicles entering intersections after a traffic signal turns red.
9. Speed enforcement cameras
Measure vehicle speed and may photograph vehicles exceeding the posted limit.
10. Toll-road and toll-gantry cameras
Photograph license plates and vehicles for electronic toll collection and enforcement.
11. Parking enforcement cameras
Mounted on parking enforcement vehicles or parking infrastructure. Can identify plates, parking violations and vehicles occupying restricted spaces.
12. Bus-lane and transit enforcement cameras
Record vehicles improperly using bus lanes, restricted transit corridors or other designated areas.
3. Retail businesses and privately operated cameras
This is an especially important category because these cameras aren't necessarily confined to a business's property.
13. Retail exterior security cameras
Grocery stores, pharmacies, shopping centers and other retailers install cameras on exterior walls, rooflines and entrances. Depending on placement and lens, they can capture sidewalks, adjoining parking areas and portions of public streets.
14. Parking-lot surveillance cameras
Mounted on poles throughout shopping centers and commercial parking lots. Some cover substantial portions of a parking area and its entrances and exits.
15. Retail PTZ cameras
Remotely controlled cameras that can look across parking lots, driveways and neighboring areas, depending on their installation and configuration.
16. Private-property ALPR cameras
Businesses, apartment complexes, shopping centers and private security operators can use license plate recognition systems to document vehicle movements.
17. Rooftop and elevated building cameras
Mounted high on commercial buildings, hotels, warehouses and office buildings. Elevated placement can give them a wide viewing area.
18. Residential doorbell and exterior cameras
Privately owned cameras that may capture sidewalks, streets, passing pedestrians and vehicles.
4. Police and law-enforcement surveillance systems
19. Mobile surveillance trailers
Temporary camera installations placed in parking lots, commercial districts, public events and street locations. Some have elevated telescoping masts.
20. Police vehicle-mounted ALPR
Multiple cameras mounted on patrol vehicles read plates from vehicles parked along streets or traveling nearby.
21. Police drones
Aerial cameras used for observation, searches, emergencies, events and investigations.
22. Body-worn cameras
Cameras worn by police officers and some security personnel. Record encounters and activities.
23. Police dash cameras
Record traffic stops, driving activity and incidents from inside patrol vehicles.
5. Specialized imaging cameras
These systems can be less recognizable than conventional security cameras.
Type | Purpose |
|---|---|
24. Infrared cameras | Capture images using infrared illumination, including at night. |
25. Thermal imaging cameras | Detect heat signatures rather than ordinary visible-light images. |
26. 360-degree cameras | Capture a panoramic view of an intersection or surrounding area. |
27. Facial-recognition cameras/systems | Analyze facial images to attempt to identify individuals. |
28. Object-recognition cameras | Classify vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles and other objects. |
29. Behavior-analysis cameras | Analyze movements and activity patterns. |
30. High-resolution telephoto cameras | Capture distant objects at greater magnification. |
31. Low-light cameras | Capture images in very dim lighting. |
32. Multispectral cameras | Capture information in multiple portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
An important distinction: facial recognition, object recognition and behavioral analytics are often software capabilities added to existing cameras, rather than separate physical camera installations.
6. Cameras and sensors that aren't necessarily recording video
These are worth knowing about because some street infrastructure looks like surveillance equipment but actually measures traffic or other activity without producing conventional video.
Type | What it detects |
|---|---|
33. Radar traffic sensors | Vehicle speed, distance and movement. |
34. LIDAR sensors | Distance, position and movement using laser pulses. |
35. Infrared traffic detectors | Vehicle and pedestrian presence. |
36. Bluetooth tracking sensors | Detect Bluetooth-enabled devices and potentially estimate travel patterns. |
37. Wi-Fi tracking sensors | Detect wireless device signals and potentially estimate movement. |
38. Acoustic sensors | Detect sounds, traffic noise or gunshots. |
39. Magnetic vehicle detectors | Detect vehicles through changes in magnetic fields. |
40. Inductive loop detectors | Detect vehicles using wire loops embedded in road pavement. |
41. Pedestrian detection sensors | Detect pedestrians waiting at intersections or crossing streets. |
These technologies may be combined with camera systems, but their presence alone does not establish that video surveillance is taking place. The Federal Highway Administration documents many of these traffic-monitoring technologies.
Federal Highway Administration+2
7. The bigger issue: interconnected surveillance networks
The cameras themselves are only one part of the picture. There are also systems that allow different organizations to access or exchange information.
Here are several important examples:
System or network | What it can involve |
|---|---|
Flock Safety | ALPR cameras and searchable vehicle records |
Motorola Vigilant | License plate recognition and vehicle intelligence |
Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCC) | Consolidated police access to multiple camera feeds and databases |
Public-private camera partnerships | Businesses sharing footage with police |
Camera registries | Records of privately owned cameras that police may request footage from |
Video management systems (VMS) | Centralized management of multiple camera networks |
Facial recognition databases | Comparison of facial images against stored images |
ALPR data-sharing networks | Sharing license plate records between participating agencies |
Smart-city platforms | Integration of traffic, camera, environmental and infrastructure sensors |
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a particularly useful explanation of how public and private surveillance networks can overlap.
Street Level Surveillance+2
8. What I would pay particular attention to in Southern California
Given your interest in the Arcadia, Pasadena, San Gabriel and surrounding areas, I would distinguish five separate surveillance environments:
City infrastructure: Streetlights, traffic signals, municipal CCTV and smart-city installations.
Police infrastructure: Flock ALPR, patrol-car readers, mobile surveillance trailers and real-time crime centers.
Caltrans infrastructure: Freeway cameras, traffic-monitoring equipment and toll-road systems.
Retail infrastructure: Grocery stores, shopping centers, gas stations, pharmacies and commercial parking lots.
Private security infrastructure: Cameras operated by contracted security companies, apartment complexes, office buildings and commercial property owners.
One caution: a camera pointed toward a public street does not necessarily have the ability to identify every person or vehicle passing through its field of view. Its actual capabilities depend on its resolution, lens, angle, recording configuration and software.
A useful next step: identify the actual cameras in your area
I would suggest going beyond a generic camera inventory and identifying the installations and networks that exist in specific cities.
For example, we could investigate:
Arcadia, California
Pasadena, California
San Gabriel, California
Monrovia, California
Claremont and Upland, California
That would let us distinguish documented Flock installations, municipal cameras, traffic cameras, smart streetlights and private retail surveillance from equipment that is merely suspected to exist.
A particularly useful starting reference is the EFF's Surveillance Camera Networks guide.
I can also put together a surveillance-camera identification guide, showing what each type looks like physically, where it is commonly mounted, and what information it can collect.
SAMA HOOLE: Between birth and twenty, a body builds everything it will ever have. The brain triples in size in three years and is mostly fat. Nine tenths of the bone a person will own is laid down before they are twenty, and the window does not reopen.
Let kids be kids is the sentence that lets a parent off the hook at the exact moment the child cannot afford it. A friend said it to me last week, handing a four-year-old a pouch of something purple at half past three because he was whining. The whining stopped. The pouch went in the bin. Everyone relaxed. That is the deal, and it is a good one for the adult. The child is the one paying. Between birth and twenty, a body builds everything it will ever have. The brain triples in size in three years and is mostly fat. Nine tenths of the bone a person will own is laid down before they are twenty, and the window does not reopen. Every brick comes off a plate, and a four-year-old does not fill his own plate. He also does not choose what he gets used to. That is done for him, before he can read. A child who grows up on pouches, squash and cereal bars learns that food is sweet, soft, instant and arrives when he makes a noise. His tongue is calibrated to it. His afternoon is built around it. By seven it is a habit. By seventeen it is a craving. By thirty it has a prescription. Nobody kicks a food habit at thirty that was laid down at four. Ask anyone who has tried. You would never say let kids be kids about the seatbelt, the sun cream, the swimming lessons or the reading. Only about the one thing with a deadline the body never extends. Letting them be kids is giving them the egg, the butter, the mince, the milk and the lamb chop while the bones and the brain are still being poured, and letting the sugar wait at the door until the tongue is grown up enough to ignore it.Let kids be kids is the sentence that lets a parent off the hook at the exact moment the child cannot afford it. A friend said it to me last week, handing a four-year-old a pouch of something purple at half past three because he was whining. The whining stopped. The pouch went in the bin. Everyone relaxed. That is the deal, and it is a good one for the adult. The child is the one paying. Between birth and twenty, a body builds everything it will ever have. The brain triples in size in three years and is mostly fat. Nine tenths of the bone a person will own is laid down before they are twenty, and the window does not reopen. Every brick comes off a plate, and a four-year-old does not fill his own plate. He also does not choose what he gets used to. That is done for him, before he can read. A child who grows up on pouches, squash and cereal bars learns that food is sweet, soft, instant and arrives when he makes a noise. His tongue is calibrated to it. His afternoon is built around it. By seven it is a habit. By seventeen it is a craving. By thirty it has a prescription. Nobody kicks a food habit at thirty that was laid down at four. Ask anyone who has tried. You would never say let kids be kids about the seatbelt, the sun cream, the swimming lessons or the reading. Only about the one thing with a deadline the body never extends. Letting them be kids is giving them the egg, the butter, the mince, the milk and the lamb chop while the bones and the brain are still being poured, and letting the sugar wait at the door until the tongue is grown up enough to ignore it. The pouch at half past three was never for him. It was for you. He is the one who gets to keep it.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 1, 2026
The pouch at half past three was never for him. It was for you. He is the one who gets to keep it.
“I’d like to sincerely apologize by lifelessly reading a scripted statement that my lawyer cooked up”
The ghoulish Left reading her Charlie Kirk version of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
Not an apology. Will a legal statement suffice?This is why you must go vote for common sense conservatives. The Left wants to kill us. I’m not surprised that for over a year the radical left has mocked, celebrated, and justified Charlie Kirk’s assassination. For more than a decade they have played fast and loose with labels like Nazi, fascist, and racist against ordinary conservatives. They have lied about our positions, demonized us as existential threats to democracy, and treated disagreement itself as violence. Those weren’t just insults thrown for effect. They created the conditions in which Charlie Kirk, a man who showed up for conversation, could be murdered for being effective. He made arguments, sought common humanity, and refused to hate the people who hated him. The left couldn’t tolerate that, so they celebrated the bullet that stopped it. That same spirit has not faded. It has continued. Just this week, a transgender individual at the University of Utah told College Republicans, “I think Republicans should be shot in the street,” then assaulted one of them. At a Turning Point USA open-mic event in Texas, a student recited a poem she called a “Kirkiversary,” gleefully referencing the fatal shot to Charlie Kirk’s neck and telling the speaker he was “brave” for appearing without a neck brace. In Oregon, Alex Stein’s TPUSA event was met with protesters screaming “fascist scum,” “Nazi,” and “we all fucking hate you,” with at least one sign mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination and multiple arrests for disorderly conduct and harassment. Protesters also directed vulgar sexual insults at Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk. Earlier this year, a man in Texas was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat after he allegedly posted online threats to bomb a Turning Point USA event and kill Erika Kirk along with other speakers. Locally, a Democrat volunteer liked a post expressing a desire to see ICE supporters in body bags. That same volunteer also mocked and criticized us for attempting to have a civil dialogue with them at the county fair in which she likened us to monsters and continued to use the aforementioned rhetoric to demonize us. These are not isolated fringe comments. They are the logical outcome of years of dehumanizing rhetoric that labels conservatives as enemies rather than fellow citizens. Political disagreement has been replaced by open hostility, celebration of murder, and explicit calls for violence. We reject this. Political violence and the gleeful endorsement of it have no place in a free society. The only peaceful, constitutional answer is at the ballot box. Vote early tomorrow. Vote on Election Day. Vote Republican down the ballot in the midterms. The radical elements that mock assassinations, call for Republicans to be shot, and cheer on political violence will not stop on their own. They stop when we show up and reject them.
— Chase Edward (@CSEdward77) October 29, 2026
“I’d like to sincerely apologize by lifelessly reading a scripted statement that my lawyer cooked up” https://t.co/idocH1YIOE
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) November 1, 2026
I imagine the shotguns are being held just outside the camera frame. https://t.co/rySLCcZkQO
— Andrew Branca Show (@TheBrancaShow) November 1, 2026
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