Movie Review: Dear Comrades

 This is a place-holder for movie review of the Russian film 'Dear Comrades'

The world did not know about the Novocherkassk massacre when it happened, or for several decades after it happened.  On June 2, 1962, several dozen protesters were killed by the Soviet forces in the town of Novocherkassk, over 650 miles south of Moscow.

You wonder what goes on in closed societies.  You wonder what stories will come out of North Korea after the fall of the Sung dynasty.


I loved the movie and wished my filmmaker friend Irina Sosnovaya would have made it.

I will write more, later.

Photo, courtesy of Wikipedia ('Dear Comrades' film poster)

Forgot your passport? No worries. Your face is now your passport

Passengers Can Now Enter the US Without Showing Their Passports

US Immigration is now using facial recognition software to screen travelers arriving in the US.  The working of the artificial intelligence technology was observed by this correspondent on July 30 at LAX when all arriving passengers, regardless of their nationality, were asked to stand in one line; each passenger was let in after their picture was taken and the immigration officer checked the information popping up on the computer screen based on the latest photo; passengers were not even asked for their passports.
Presumably the US Immigration is not only using the database of its own citizens, it is also using data obtained from the US embassies around the world of the non-US citizens being granted visas, and has information about the citizens of other countries that are able to enter the US without a visa.  It is estimated that the US Immigration has key information of over half a billion people (US citizens and citizens of other countries) that its facial recognition software can capitalize on.

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You don’t need your passport to enter the US
You no longer need a passport to enter the US
Forgot your passport? No worries.  Your face is now your passport