Pacific Standard – by David M Perry

There’s a new psychiatric medication on the market called Abilify MyCite. On its own, the drug Abilify is a partial dopamine agonist that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 2013 as an anti-psychotic medication. It’s generally prescribed to people with conditions such as such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, though questions remain about its effectiveness and the severity of its side effects. The “MyCite” pill, approved just last year, does something new. It contains a digital sensor that tracks whether a patient has ingested the drug, then shares that information with doctors, family, or whoever is programmed to receive it.  Continue reading “Your Pills Are Spying on You”

The Washington Examiner

California is seeking to treat homeschool families as presumptive child abusers. Lawmakers in that state have indicated plans to categorically require homeschool parents to prove — through home visits, interviews, and other government oversight — that indeed the parent is not abusive if they choose to exercise a legally protected and valid option for school choice. This measure would shift the burden to the parent to prove to the government’s satisfaction his or her parental fitness.   Continue reading “California overreacts and presumes every homeschooling parent is a child abuser”

The Intercept – by Ali Winston

LATE LAST MONTH, a Manhattan judge ordered the New York City Police Department to release documentation about the department’s use of secretive and highly controversial “predictive policing” surveillance technology, scoring a win for advocates of transparency on police policy. The documents came to light as part of a lawsuit against the city filed by the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York-based policy institute.
Continue reading “Transparency Advocates Win Release of NYPD “Predictive Policing” Documents”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Helen Mirren’s film “Winchester” highlights the “rapid firing” allowed by repeating rifles and questions the morality of profiting from firearm manufacturers.

Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, the wife of the creator of the famous Winchester repeating rifle.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film adheres to lore about Sarah, depicting her in a state of gnawing concern over the paranormal presence of individuals killed with the rifles her late husband created.   Continue reading “Helen Mirren: ‘Winchester’ Film Questions the Morality of Profiting from Manufacturing Guns”

John Kaminski

We have been manipulated into a nightmare. The world will be destroyed because we believed what the experts told us. And with no one smart enough to know the difference, the experts lied.

The biggest lie of all? We can trust bankers with our money.

Second biggest? Doctors try to make you healthy. As they prescribe their deadly pills, very few of them ever talk about nutrition, which is why following doctors’ orders is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. today.   Continue reading “Prescription for a nightmare”

Breitbart – by Robert Kraychik

“Cultural genocide [is] being promulgated against Caucasians by Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democrat-Hollywood establishment,” said Michael Savage on Monday, responding to Pelosi’s recentrebranding of Donald Trump’s campaign slogan to “Make America White Again.”

Savage made his comments during his eponymous radio show on Monday.  Continue reading “Michael Savage: Pelosi’s ‘White-Bashing’ and ‘Cultural Genocide’ Will ‘Result in Deaths and Violence’”

Arutz Sheva

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs revealed a new and unique platform for realtime information and analysis of online anti-Semitism.

Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett on Thursday revealed the tool, developed by the Ministry over the past year: the Anti-Semitism Cyber Monitoring System (ACMS), capable of providing real time data and analysis of online anti-Semitism.   Continue reading “Introducing the ‘Anti-Semitism Cyber Monitoring System’”

FAIR – by Adam Johnson

The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in shootings; victims are not victims, but “suspects” “fleeing”; human beings become premortem cadavers as bullets “enter the torso” rather than the chest of a person; guns and bullets act on their own as they “discharge” or “enter the right femur,” rather than being fired by autonomous individuals with agency and purpose. Headlines become 14-word, jargon-heavy tangles where a simple five-word description would suffice.   Continue reading “6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak”

RT

Catholics in Australia could soon be forced to register as agents of the Vatican if a proposed foreign interference law come into place, bishops are warning.

The Australian government is pushing for lobbyists and representatives of foreign governments to be listed on a new register as part its crackdown on espionage and political interference – a move which could, technically, be extended to members of the Catholic church.   Continue reading “Anything to confess? Aussie Catholics will be branded foreign agents, bishops warn”

ABC Au

An Israeli legal rights group has said it is suing two New Zealanders for allegedly convincing the pop singer Lorde to cancel her performance in Israel, in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under a contentious Israeli anti-boycott law.

The 2011 law opens the door to civil lawsuits against anyone calling for a boycott against Israel, including of lands it has occupied, if that call could knowingly lead to a boycott.  Continue reading “Israeli rights group sues New Zealanders who urged Lorde to boycott concert”

Life Site News – by Doug Mainwaring

HOLLYWOOD, January 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Despite the fact that Hollywood is still swirling in a vortex of sexual harassment allegations, “Call Me by Your Name,” a movie about an older man’s homosexual “romance” with a 17-year-old boy, has picked up four Academy Award nominations.

The film is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Song.   Continue reading “‘Abuse’: Boston Globe slams academy-award nominated gay film that normalizes man-boy sex”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

The State of California has the highest poverty rate in the U.S. — nearly one out of five residents is poor. The state also has a pension debt that’s the largest in America — of $610.3 billion in 2013, or $4,425 for every man, woman and child in the state.

But the Majority Leader of California’s State Assembly, pretty-boy Ian Calderon, 32, who calls himself a Democratic-Socialist, thinks what is really important is to concoct a new law that criminalizes restaurant waiters giving customers an unasked-for plastic drinking straw.   Continue reading “California AB 1884 would punish waiters with 6 months jail for giving customers an unrequested plastic straw”

The New Nationalist

REUTERS — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union’s role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail.

The law, described by critics as an attempt to curb freedom of expression to appease conservative Russians, the ex-KGB spy’s main support base, also criminalises the public desecration of war memorials.   Continue reading “‘Holocaust Deniers’ in Russia Now Face 5 Years in Prison”

Campus Reform – by Anthony Gockowski

Emory University will now require every member of its Campus Life staff to undergo “several” mandatory trainings on “cultural humility and social justice.”

According to an email obtained by Campus Reform, the Campus Life Executive Leadership Team is “developing a new competency focused on cultural humility and social justice,” and will thus offer “several mandatory professional development programs in 2018” on the topic.   Continue reading “University makes staffers take ‘cultural humility’ training”