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Police CCTV cameras turn citizens into stay-at-home spies, spying on their neighbors 24/7
Post Date: 2018-05-11 20:17:54 by Deckard
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Leave it to the great American police state to turn Reality TV into real-time spying of its citizens.Recently the Newark, New Jersey Police Department decided it needed to do more, much more to build trust between the police and the community.Here's a little background on police building trust in the community.Last year, the Newark Police Department received an award from the New Jersey Attorney General for Outstanding Community Policing for its innovative approach in fostering relationships of collaboration and trust between police and the community. How did the Newark Police foster trust between the police and community you ask? By creating a new community program ...
City Slaps Burn Victim with Violation for Not Mowing Lawn While He Was in the Hospital
Post Date: 2018-05-11 20:02:28 by Deckard
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Dallas, Texas – A homeowner who was severely injured after a natural gas explosion destroyed the heating unit in his home and left him with second-degree burns, was threatened by the city that he could face fines because he was not able to mow his lawn while he was in the hospital. The notice from the city stated that the homeowner had just 7 days “to remove litter, solid waste, and/or cut and remove weeds and grass.” If he did comply before the deadline, the city threatened to forcefully “remove the litter and/or cut and remove weeds and grass” at the homeowner’s expense. However, the man and his family have not been allowed on their property for nearly 3 ...
Secret FBI Program Now Jailing Activists for Speaking Out Against Police Brutality on Facebook
Post Date: 2018-05-11 19:48:58 by Deckard
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Dallas, TX – When militarized FBI agents clad in tactical gear raided the home of Rakem Balogun in December 2017—forcing him and his 15-year-old son outside in their underwear on the cold and windy night as agents ransacked his residence—he thought it had to be a mistake. In an exclusive report by The Guardian, Balogun explains that he was stunned to later learn that he was under investigation for “domestic terrorism” and had been under law enforcement surveillance for years. Incredibly, Balogun’s arrest and the FBI raid on his home were partially due to a simple, and constitutionally protected, Facebook post that was critical of police. ...
Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives In U.S. Since 2009
Post Date: 2018-05-11 17:53:52 by Willie Green
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Kremlin-linked Russian politician Alexander Torshin traveled frequently between Moscow and various destinations in the United States to build relationships with figures on the American right starting as early as 2009, beyond his previously known contacts with the National Rifle Association. Documents newly obtained by NPR show how he traveled throughout the United States to cultivate ties in ways well beyond his formal role as a member of the Russian legislature and later as a top official at the Russian central bank. These are steps a former top CIA official believes Torshin took in order to advance Moscow's long-term objectives in the United States, in part by establishing common ...
Spooky robotic watchdog
Post Date: 2018-05-11 16:37:04 by Willie Green
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Male professor faces sanction for elevator joke, calls it ‘chilling example of political correctness’
Post Date: 2018-05-11 14:04:19 by Deckard
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Simona Sharoni, left, filed a complaint against Richard Ned Lebow, right, for a joke he made in a crowded elevator at an academic conference. (Merrimack College/King's College London) A male professor who made a joke in a crowded elevator at an academic conference is now facing disciplinary charges after a female professor who was there filed a formal complaint. Richard Ned Lebow, professor of international political theory at King’s College in London, was in a jammed elevator when someone asked him what floor he needed to get off on, according to a Washington Post opinion piece. “Ladies’ lingerie,” he joked. He was ...
An FBI informant in the Trump campaign?
Post Date: 2018-05-11 09:53:28 by Tooconservative
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In her weekly Wall Street Journal column Kim Strassel delivers news and analysis you probably won’t see much of elsewhere. Following up on her own previous work that we noted here yesterday, Kim reports: The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications. Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information ...
Perfect: Iraqi-US intelligence op suckered 5 ISIS leaders into capture
Post Date: 2018-05-11 05:52:25 by Tooconservative
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The effort to find and destroy the last vestiges of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) may have gotten its biggest boost since the fall of Raqqa. Using a ruse, Iraqi intelligence enticed five of its top leaders into a trap, capturing them all alive. The operation was the culmination of a joint effort with the US and Turkey, pointing out the potential fault lines as well as synergy the combination provides: Iraq captured five Islamic State commanders after its intelligence services lured them into crossing from neighboring Syria, Iraqi state TV reported Wednesday. It described the five as “some of the most wanted” leaders of ISIS. They were named as Saddam al-Jammel, ...
US Envoy Tells German Companies to Wind Down Operations in Iran 'Immediately'
Post Date: 2018-05-11 05:46:38 by Tooconservative
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Following President Donald Trump’s decision to no longer abide by the Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has urged the German businesses to stop trading with the Islamic Republic of Iran. “US sanctions will target critical sectors of Iran’s economy. German companies doing business in Iran should wind down operations immediately,” Grenell tweeted on Tuesday. Besides Iranian regime, European countries like Germany and France have been the biggest beneficiaries of the economic windfall generated from the 2015 nuclear deal. Carmakers Daimler and Peugeot have joined forces with Iranian partners to set up manufacturing plants in the ...
Man Protests Police Department's Violation of Speech Rights, So Cops Arrest Him
Post Date: 2018-05-11 04:56:24 by Deckard
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Stamford, Connecticut, police chief objects to salty language on a sign. That’s not a crime.The chief of police of Stamford, Connecticut, personally oversaw the arrest of a protester who held a sign that criticized the police department's disrespect for freedom of speech. In April, Michael Picard staged a protest outside the Stamford courthouse with a sign that read "Fuck Free Speech —Stamford PD." Picard was showing support for a buddy, Michael Friend, who had been arrested earlier that month for standing around in public holding a sign warning drivers of a police checkpoint designed to catch and ticket distracted drivers. Police ordered Friend to dump the sign. He ...
20-Year-Old Whiskey in 6 Days: Will This Self-Taught Chemist Upend the Liquor Industry?
Post Date: 2018-05-11 04:50:23 by Deckard
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Bryan Davis created a chemical reactor that compresses time, bringing an artistic sensibility back to aged spirits. Why does a well-aged glass of smokey whiskey taste so good? It's all about the chemistry of sitting in a barrel for decades. "The polymer structures make the wood slowly fall apart," says Bryan Davis, a pioneering distiller who learned the science of liquor production by watching MIT classes on YouTube. "They shed all of these precursor chemicals that turn into different stuff that tastes really good." This time-consuming process is the reason distillers have to charge five figures for a top-shelf bottle. Not anymore. Davis, cofounder of the Los ...
Retired CIA Analyst Dragged from Senate Hearing for Exposing Gina Haspel’s War Crimes
Post Date: 2018-05-10 12:50:44 by Deckard
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Washington, D.C. — Retired CIA analyst and outspoken antiwar activist, Ray McGovern, who chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief, was forcibly removed from the United States Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday as Gina Haspel, the nominee for director of the CIA, was answering questions about her record of torture. McGovern is a highly decorated CIA analyst who received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement. He has since become an outspoken antiwar and anti-police state activist and returned the medal in 2006 in protest to the CIA’s involvement in torture. McGovern is also a ...
Autistic 5th-Grader Handcuffed, Arrested for Playing With ‘Imaginary Gun’ at School
Post Date: 2018-05-10 12:45:03 by Deckard
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Conroe, TX — After the shooting in a Parkland, Florida high school earlier this year, the entire nation is on edge and is taking steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Because authorities ignored the shooter’s threats, and essentially allowed the massacre to take place, police are being extra cautious now to ensure this does not happen again. Since that fateful day, school children across the country have been arrested for threatening behavior. Now, however, a case out of Texas has many wondering if this reaction to fear is going to far as a 5th grade autistic student was arrested for “brandishing an imaginary rifle.” On Monday, 12-year-old David Sims, a 5th ...
Trump Violates the Iran Nuclear Deal — Ignoring U.S. and Israeli Generals Who Support It
Post Date: 2018-05-10 12:34:50 by Deckard
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So he’s finally done it. Having spent the past three years denouncing the Iran nuclear deal as “horrible,” “disastrous,” and “insane,” Donald Trump arrived in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Tuesday afternoon to formally announce that “the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal” and would “begin reinstituting U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime.” “This will make America much safer,” the president declaimed, jabbing his fingers at the assembled reporters. Guess who’s celebrating the president’s decision to violate a nuclear nonproliferation agreement signed by the ...
America The Weird by Victor Davis Hanson
Post Date: 2018-05-10 11:31:33 by tpaine
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America The Weird by Victor Davis Hanson Tuesday, May 8, 2018 On first glance, America does not seem that exceptional. Like China and Russia, it is a superpower. And, also like those countries, it is huge territorially. It shares many affinities with Europe. And, like China, Japan and Germany, the United States is an economic powerhouse. And yet, it is a nation unlike any in the world. In general, outside the West, few of the seven billion people alive today enjoy human rights and the protection of property. The rule of law and freedom of expression are taken for granted in Europe and the United States, and residents there enjoy both economic prosperity and physical security. These ...
McCain Defends Giving Trump Dossier to Comey: ‘Duty Demanded I Do’ It
Post Date: 2018-05-10 11:27:11 by Justified
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In his new book, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) defends his decision to give a controversial dossier about President Trump to former FBI chief James Comey. “I agreed to receive a copy of what is now referred to as ‘the dossier,’” McCain writes in the upcoming book, titled The Restless Wave, referencing information compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. “I reviewed its contents. The allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if any were true. I could not independently verify any of it, and so I did what any American who cares about our nation’s security should have done.” The Daily Beast obtained an advance copy of the book, ...
David Hogg having trouble getting into college after high school
Post Date: 2018-05-10 11:18:06 by IbJensen
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(Publicity Hogg) Some state colleges in California are apparently not impressed by the Parkland high school shooting survivor who helped become a voice for a global gun control movement. David Hogg, 17, has so far been rejected by four University of California campuses — UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and UC Irvine, he told TMZ. According to the UC site, a minimum 3.4 GPA is required for non-California residents to get in. The Florida teen has a 4.2 GPA and an SAT score of 1270. He’s been accepted to Cal State San Marcos and Cal Poly, and in his home state, Florida Atlantic University — but he’s not yet sure what he’ll do after graduating, he said. “At this point, ...
VIDEO: Dem leader Nancy Pelosi gleefully laughing about taxing Americans if Democrats win mid-terms
Post Date: 2018-05-10 07:15:06 by IbJensen
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In a recent interview, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi promised to end the GOP tax cuts. That would mean a large cut in pay for most Americans. Businesses would be hit with a terrible corporate tax rate. It would lead to job losses, increases in the cost of living, and a murdered economy. The Democrats are out of touch, out of tune and out of time. I see no blue wave come November. I see a red tsunami. Keep talkin’, Nancy. Nancy Pelosi keeps giving the GOP talking points Washington Post, May 9, 2018 )thanks to van): Nancy Pelosi clearly wants to be speaker again, and she’s on the cusp of reclaiming that perch. But someone may be standing in her way: Nancy Pelosi. ...
Hidden 'War Codes' In Trump's Iran Proclamation?
Post Date: 2018-05-10 07:07:47 by Deckard
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Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Tuesday President Trump announced that he was canceling US participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA) otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. The president's assertions were ludicrous and factually incorrect, but the neocons who were no doubt behind the speech have never been all that wedded to the truth. It became obvious fairly early on that Trump's rationale was not to be taken seriously, when he cited last week's comical stage performance by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that "Iran Lied" about its nuclear program. Netanyahu's fairy tale ...
$25,000 Robot Barista Can Make 120 Cups Of Coffee An Hour
Post Date: 2018-05-10 06:54:26 by Deckard
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A San Francisco company has created a $25,000 robot barista that can crank out 120 allegedly good cups of coffee per hour, threatening human coffee shop employees far and wide. The machine was designed by the award-winning team behind Dr. Dre’s Beats products, the Ammunition Group. Cafe X is effectively a fully functional café with a six-axis animatronic arm as its centerpiece. Customers order coffee via a touchscreen at the kiosk, or the Cafe X app – where a text message is sent when one’s drink is ready. Like at a regular coffeehouse, you get a multitude of beverage options: latte, single-origin espresso, matcha latte, cortado and so on, and ...
MAGA Dumbness
Post Date: 2018-05-10 06:44:30 by Deckard
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In my exchanges in the twitterverse, I have experienced a remarkable degree of ignorance concerning the history of Iran and Syria. MAGA supporters, in particular, seem clueless. Iran hates us, they insist, and they want to wipe Israel off the map. Plus they are trying to get the capability to attack us with nukes, so that’s why we have to attack them first. I mentioned the CIA coup in Iran, ousting the democratically elected leader of that country, as part of the reason they hate us. One MAGA guy was unaware such a thing happened. I imagine he gets all his information from Fox News, which never puts anything about Iran or Syria in context. Fair and balanced, right? ...
Neocon John Bolton Tells a Big Lie about Iran
Post Date: 2018-05-10 06:42:35 by Deckard
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National Security Adviser John Bolton is lying again. He says the US has no intention of invading Iran, taking it back to the Stone Age like he and his fellow neocons did to Iraq in 2003. On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported: A reporter told Bolton there was speculation that the decision [exiting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] was a “precursor to the U.S. putting boots on the ground in Iran.” “They would be badly mistaken,” Bolton said at the off-camera briefing. Bolton might be right. No boots on the ground—just a sustained air campaign to destroy anything of value on the ground (and underneath). This is the ultimate objective. Make ...
Now Mossberg Discontinues Sales to Dick's Sporting Goods, Too
Post Date: 2018-05-10 01:07:09 by Tooconservative
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First, Springfield Armory decided to sellcot the 2nd-Amendment hostile Dick's. Then MKS Supply severed ties. And now Mossberg. Virtual signalling and alienating customers to get nice articles written about you for the non-customers of Buzzfeed's audience will cost you real cash money. Their press release: Mossberg(R) Terminates Relationship with Dick's Sporting Goods NORTH HAVEN, CT -- O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc., a leading American firearms manufacturer, announced today its decision to discontinue selling products to Dick's Sporting Goods, and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, in response to their hiring of gun control lobbyists in April 2018. Effective immediately, ...
Here’s How The Supreme Court Already Repealed The Second Amendment [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-05-09 11:31:39 by Deckard
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The Supreme Court effectively repealed the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller by restricting the amendment to common arms.In March, retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens called for repealing the Second Amendment, implicitly admitting that it does what, in his dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), he pretended it does not: prohibit laws infringing the right to keep and bear arms. Why Stevens called for repeal and dissented in Heller is a mystery, however. The Second Amendment was repealed, in effect, by Heller’s majority opinion. The opinion went beyond questions raised in the case and laid out a rationale by which Congress, states, and courts could ...
Stasi State - The NSA Continues to Abuse Americans by Intercepting Their Telephone Calls
Post Date: 2018-05-09 10:28:10 by Deckard
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One of the few positive things in the ill-named USA FREEDOM Act, enacted in 2015 after the Snowden revelations on NSA domestic spying, is that it required the Director of National Intelligence to regularly report on its domestic surveillance activities. On Friday, the latest report was released on just how much our own government is spying on us. The news is not good at all if you value freedom over tyranny.According to the annual report, named the Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities, the US government intercepted and stored information from more than a half-billion of our telephone calls and text messages in 2017. That is a 300 percent increase ...
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