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'Disastrous' copyright bill vote approved
Post Date: 2018-06-20 08:35:47 by Willie Green
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A committee of MEPs has voted to accept major changes to European copyright law, which experts say could change the nature of the internet.They voted to approve the controversial Article 13, which critics warn could put an end to memes, remixes and other user-generated content.Article 11, requiring online platforms to pay publishers a fee if they link to their news content, was also approved.One organisation opposed to the changes called it a "dark day".The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs voted by 15 votes to 10 to adopt Article 13 and by 13 votes to 12 to adopt Article 11.It will now go to the wider European Parliament to vote on in ...
Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die
Post Date: 2018-06-19 18:38:36 by Hondo68
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AI advances by the 'Medical Brain' team could help the internet giant finally break into the health-care business A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital’s computers read her vital signs and estimated a 9.3 percent chance she would die during her stay.Then came Google’s turn. An new type of algorithm created by the company read up on the woman -- 175,639 data points -- and rendered its assessment of her death risk: 19.9 percent. She passed away in a matter of days.The harrowing account of the unidentified woman’s death was published ...
Tariffs Will Wipe Out the Benefits of Tax Reform
Post Date: 2018-06-19 13:37:36 by Deckard
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Yes, the lowering of the corporate tax rate gave businesses a nice profit bump, but new tariffs will probably cost them more than they saved. Former White House economist Gary Cohn expressed concerns yesterday that Trump’s tariffs would erode the benefits from tax reform. Since the on-again-off-again 25 percent tariffs on imports from China are—as of 3:23pm, Friday, June 15, 2018—“on again,” let me share this back-of-the-envelope analysis that shows why Cohn’s concerns are justified. The Numbers Don't Look Good Certainly, the additional profits expected from the reduction in corporate rates from 35 to 21 percent could be entirely wiped out for the ...
Study Confirms Most Psychopaths Live in Washington D.C.
Post Date: 2018-06-19 13:04:16 by Deckard
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by Joe Jarvis via The Daily Bell Murphy also included the District of Columbia in his research, and found it had a psychopathy level far higher than any other state. But this finding is an outlier, as Murphy notes, as it’s an entirely urban area and cannot be fairly compared with larger, more geographically diverse, US states. That said, as Murphy notes, “The presence of psychopaths in District of Columbia is consistent with the conjecture found in Murphy (2016) that psychopaths are likely to be effective in the political sphere.” Surprised? I didn’t think so. But still, fun to get some scientific confirmation. Psychos are drawn to power. It is not just that power ...
Can Police Arrest Person Carrying Gun Without First Checking If He's Licensed? |
Post Date: 2018-06-19 12:45:23 by tpaine
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Can Police Arrest Person Carrying Gun Without First Checking If He's Licensed? No, says the Illinois Appellate Court. Eugene Volokh|Jun. 17, 2018 8:58 pm Guns Fourth Amendment From Thursday's Illinois Appellate Court decision in State v. Penister (nonprecedential): Penister [argues that his arrest violated the Fourth Amendment because] his possession of a gun did not give Whitlock reason to believe he had committed any offense, because Whitlock had no grounds for concluding that Penister did not have a valid FOID [Firearms Owners' Identification] card. The State contends that Whitlock had probable cause to arrest Penister because the circumstances showed a substantial ...
Why America’s Trade War With China Will Be Absolutely Crippling For The U.S. Economy
Post Date: 2018-06-19 09:58:11 by Deckard
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Can the global financial system handle a full-blown trade war between the two largest economies on the entire planet? We have never seen anything like this happen in the modern age, and this is creating a tremendous amount of uncertainty for the financial markets. Yes, something had to be done, and I have been writing about this for years. China has been stealing our intellectual property, manipulating currency rates and slapping high tariffs on American goods. We simply could not allow China to continue to take advantage of us, but now we are so dependent on the Chinese that a trade war with them is going to inevitably produce a great deal of pain. We are all ...
Mainstream Media Confirms "Conspiracy Theory" That Walmart Stores Are Being Turned into Prison Camps
Post Date: 2018-06-19 09:49:12 by Deckard
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By Rachel Blevins When citizens began to ask questions about why Walmart stores were suddenly closing in in southern states in 2015, the mainstream media insisted that the closures were due to plumbing problems and that any suggestion of government involvement was a crazy conspiracy theory. Three years later, the MSM is finally admitting that several of those Walmart stores were converted into detention centers, which now house immigrant children who have been separated from their parents. At least 1,500 boys are currently being detained in Brownsville, Texas, where NBC News reported that they “spend 22 hours per day during the week (21 hours on weekends) locked inside a converted ...
AMA Says Take Your Meds While Doctors Take Your Guns
Post Date: 2018-06-19 09:44:14 by Deckard
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For some reason, the American Medical Association — which was founded to promote the American medical community — wants to wade into one of the premier political battles of our day: Gun control. The AMA has shifted at least some of its attention recently away from pushing Big Pharma meds that kill more than 100,000 Americans a year to jumping on the gun confiscation bandwagon pushed by the Marxist Left. As reported by TownHall, the organization last week approved a wide-ranging list of “common sense” gun control demands that include banning the sale of “all assault-type weapons, bump stocks and related devices, high-capacity ...
Wealthy Asians Are Getting Richer Faster Than Anyone Else
Post Date: 2018-06-19 09:22:30 by Willie Green
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Wealth assets held by high-net-worth individuals in the Asia-Pacific region jumped almost 15 percent to $21.6 trillion in 2017, according to a Capgemini SE report released Tuesday. Accelerating economic growth and equity market rallies helped push the global total to a record $70.2 trillion, the World Wealth Report showed.The rising number of millionaires in Asia is prompting financial firms from Credit Suisse Group AG to DBS Group Holdings Ltd. to expand private banking operations throughout the region. While Japan and China contributed the bulk of Asia’s wealth last year, India topped the global chart when it came to the growth rate. “Emerging markets in Asia, such as China and ...
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
Post Date: 2018-06-19 07:05:53 by Deckard
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“We’re run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy… We all live in a little Village. Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.”— Patrick McGoohan First broadcast in America 50 years ago, The Prisoner—a dystopian television series described as “James Bond meets George Orwell filtered through Franz Kafka”—confronted societal themes that are still relevant ...
Taxation=Theft
Post Date: 2018-06-19 06:56:09 by Deckard
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Theft is defined as “the taking of another person’s property or services without that person’s permission or consent.” Almost invariably, governments pass tax laws and set tax rates without any consultation with the citizenry. Further, no final approval is sought by the citizenry that they consent to the tax or the rates. It is simply imposed. Most of us tend not to regard taxation as theft, yet, by definition, that’s exactly what it is. But some countries, notably the US, go further in disguising the theft, by stating that the payment of tax is “voluntary.” I personally am not aware of a single instance in which an individual or corporation decided not to ...
Why Can't We Sue the TSA For Assault?
Post Date: 2018-06-19 06:46:16 by Deckard
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When I was in Congress and had to regularly fly between DC and Texas, I was routinely subjected to invasive “pat-downs” (physical assaults) by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). One time, exasperated with the constant insults to my privacy and dignity, I asked a TSA agent if he was proud to assault innocent Americans for a living. I thought of this incident after learning that the TSA has been compiling a “troublesome passengers” list. The list includes those who have engaged in conduct judged to be “offensive and without legal justification” or disruptive of the “safe and effective completion of screening.” Libertarian journalist James ...
HIT & RUN BLOG Trump Announces Plans for a 'Space Force.' Seriously
Post Date: 2018-06-19 05:41:04 by Deckard
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President Donald Trump says he supports the idea of creating a Space Force as a co-equal branch of the military in order to project U.S. dominance beyond the reaches of Earth's gravity. "When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space," Trump said at a Monday meeting of his National Space Council. "I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces." The idea of a Space Force admittedly sounds pretty badass. However, it is also likely unnecessary, unwise, ...
Cop Threatens to Kill an Innocent Man, Murder his Mom Too—Not Fired
Post Date: 2018-06-19 05:31:48 by Deckard
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West Palm Beach, FL — A sheriff’s deputy was caught on video walking into an innocent man’s place of work and threatening to murder him and his mother. Not only was he not arrested for making these threats to kill two innocent people but he wasn’t even fired. Surveillance footage from inside a Cricket Wireless store captured Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Deputy Javier Lasso breaking the law by threatening to murder his daughter’s boyfriend because he did not approve of their relationship. On June 7, 2017, while off-duty, Lasso got dressed in his uniform, got into his patrol vehicle and drove up to the Cricket Wireless. According to the internal affairs report and ...
Black woman declares ... 'I hate white people' --- before attacking Ride On bus passengers
Post Date: 2018-06-18 23:09:16 by BorisY
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Police: Black woman declares 'I hate white people' before attacking Ride On bus passengers by Kevin Lewis ABC7 Monday, June 18th 2018 Kimberly Jordan (Montgomery County Police Department) AA GAITHERSBURG, Md. (ABC7) — A black woman declared her disdain for "white people" before pummeling two white passengers on board a moving Ride On bus, Gaithersburg Police said. Kimberly Jordan, 24, of Silver Spring, is charged with racial harassment, obstructing and second-degree assault due to her alleged offensive and physically painful antics. It was 9 p.m. on a Monday. The Ride On bus was operating a route near the intersection of Frederick Avenue and Travis ...
James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warming
Post Date: 2018-06-18 09:50:22 by no gnu taxes
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NEW YORK (AP) — James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn't. NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases. The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen's predictions given the technology of the time. Hansen won't say, "I told you so." "I don't want to be right in that ...
More Revolutionaries Are Coming
Post Date: 2018-06-18 09:48:37 by Deckard
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"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." – Princess Leia, Star Wars Assange, Ulbricht, Manning, Snowden… we’ve seen a slow stream of revolutionaries over the past decade or so, a few of whom became well-known. More will be coming. The reason I’m sure of this is that the two forces driving it are increasing: On one hand, humanity is becoming better. You’ll never believe that if you watch “the news,” but out here in the real world humans are slowly improving. I’m tempted to say that I’d like the progress to be a bit more rapid, but the truth is that recent progress has sometimes been ...
9/11: The Greatest Gift the Status Quo Ever Got
Post Date: 2018-06-18 09:41:56 by Deckard
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I’m not saying that 9/11 was anything but a sick, evil disaster. Nor am I placing blame for it on any person or group; I’m not interested in wasting time in that quagmire. What I am saying is that the status quo in America – compliance without question, shutting our eyes to abuse, and forever finding reasons to believe – was aided by the 9/11 event more than anything else in our lifetimes. This has had consequences and will continue to have consequences, and not good ones. A compliant populace is an open doorway to abuse, and the American populace has set an all-time record for compliance since the event. Who Benefited? Whatever the reasons behind it, we have to admit ...
How Trump's Republican Party Went Soft on Communism
Post Date: 2018-06-18 09:36:31 by Deckard
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It’s the most astonishing reversal in modern American political history.If you had told Ronald Reagan in 1988 that in 30 years, the president of the United States would be chummy with communist dictators in China and North Korea, eager to please a brutal Kremlin autocrat, and indifferent to the needs of our military allies, he might have said: That's what you get for electing a Democrat. Today's Republicans make up a party he wouldn't recognize. For decades, the Russians and Chinese dispatched spies and enlisted American sympathizers to try to harm the United States and tilt its policies in their favor. Under Donald Trump, they don't have to. They have a friend in the ...
FATHER’S DAY: Bill Clinton ‘son’ calls for ‘dad’ to take paternity test
Post Date: 2018-06-18 08:21:13 by IbJensen
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Danney Williams still wants to have a relationship with the man he calls his “dad.” This Father’s Day, Williams, who says Bill Clinton is his father, is backing calls for Clinton to undergo a paternity test to prove — or disprove — his assertion. Bill Clinton ✔ @BillClinton On this Father’s Day I’m thinking of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the border. These children should not be a negotiating tool. And reuniting them with their families would reaffirm America’s belief in & support for all parents who love their children. “Retweet!” Williams tweeted, sharing a post from Carl Barvensky Paul, ...
Local Complementarian Lets Female Police Officer Off With A Warning
Post Date: 2018-06-17 22:00:34 by Liberator
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GREAT FALLS, MT—After getting pulled over for driving 40 miles per hour in a 35-mph zone Friday afternoon, local landscaper and Bible study leader Victor Jenkins graciously let Officer Elizabeth Carpenter of the Great Falls Police Department off with a stern warning for taking on the role of a police officer. “Do you know why I pulled you over?” Officer Carpenter asked after walking up to Jenkins’ rolled-down window. “Yes, yes I do. It’s because you’ve assumed a directly authoritative role in opposition to the naturally revealed guidelines of the Creator, ma’am,” Jenkins said calmly. “Since the curse in Genesis 3, woman has always ...
Kim Jong Un Criticized For Meeting With Nation That Has Killed 60 Million Babies
Post Date: 2018-06-17 21:22:28 by Liberator
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North Korean President Kim Jong Un came under intense scrutiny this week after meeting with a barbaric nation that has killed over 60 million of its young since legalizing abortion in 1973. Political commentators agreed that by meeting with the nation of savages that abort hundreds of thousands of their young each and every year, Kim Jong Un appeared to be legitimizing the backwards, depraved nation of America. “Just picture Kim Jong Un up there shaking hands with Hitler,” one pundit said. “That’s basically what this amounts to, when you consider that he’s meeting with a country that has killed over 60 million babies since Roe v. Wade. I’m just not sure ...
Salon Writer Recommends Shunning Friends and Family Who Support Trump
Post Date: 2018-06-17 15:30:17 by no gnu taxes
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Here’s a shocker. Leftists aren’t all too crazy about riders of the Trump train. Progressive types are known for denying MAGA people real estate transactions. Banning them from their concerts. Attempting to crater their skulls with 2x4s. Then there’s this. A writer over at salon is recommending you shun all of your Trump-loving friends and family until they repent. Yeah, for reals: If you have friends or relatives who support Donald Trump you should confront them. Explain to them that they are complicit with Trump’s cruelty and sadism. Then communicate that you will no longer speak with them, nor will you offer them emotional, financial or other types of support until ...
GOP will hit FBI, DOJ with 'full arsenal of constitutional weapons' if they don't comply with subpoena, Gowdy warns
Post Date: 2018-06-17 14:08:34 by Justified
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy told "Fox News Sunday" that House Speaker Paul Ryan led a meeting Friday night with senior members of the DOJ and FBI, and made it clear that “there’s going to be action on the floor of the House this week if FBI and DOJ do not comply with our subpoena request.” The House Judiciary Committee has requested more than a million documents from the FBI and DOJ relating to the Hillary Clinton email probe, the firing of former top FBI official Andrew McCabe, and reported surveillance of a Trump aide during the 2016 presidential election. But Republicans have accused the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and intentionally impeding ...
Ted Cruz Beats Jimmy Kimmel in Charity Basketball Game
Post Date: 2018-06-17 11:42:53 by Deckard
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) beat late night television host Jimmy Kimmel 11-9 in a charity one-on-one basketball game that came down to the wire. “Can you be embarrassed by a picture of someone else’s dad? Because I am,” Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” after Cruz was spotted at a Houston Rockets basketball game last month wearing a t-shirt over a polo shirt. “When Ted arrived at the Toyota Center, some of the fans mistakenly thought it was Grandpa Munster Bobblehead Night. I mean, look at him. He looks, and I’m not joking here, he looks like a blobfish.” Cruz responded by challenging Kimmel to a basketball game. All right, Big Guy…you talk a ...
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