Anti-Media – by Jake Anderson

With all the attention paid to Facebook in recent weeks over ‘data breaches’ and privacy violations (even though what happened with Cambridge Analytica is part of their standard business model), it’s easy to forget that there are four other Big Tech corporations collecting just as much — if not more — of our personal info. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all central players in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data. New reports suggest that Google may actually harvest ten times as much as Facebook.  Continue reading “Google’s File on You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s — Here’s How to View It”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

If everything keeps falling apart in Massachusetts, there won’t be a drug conviction left in the state. The eventual fallout from the 2012 conviction of drug lab technician Annie Dookhan was the reversal of nearly 21,000 drug convictions. Dookhan was an efficient drug lab worker — so efficient she often never performed the tests she was required to. The state moved much slower, dragging its feet notifying those possibly affected by Dookhan’s lab misconduct until a judge told it to stop screwing around. There still could be more reversed convictions on the way as the state continues to make its way through a 40,000-case backlog.  Continue reading “More Drug Lab Misconduct Results In Massachusetts Court Tossing Nearly 12,000 Convictions”

The Daily Caller – by Amber Randall

A New York police department “arrested” winter Friday for sticking around for so long.

The Depew Police Department sent out a Facebook post notifying winter that it had been placed under arrest, reports the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Police Department Vows To Arrest Winter For Staying Around”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a day full of bizarre twist and turns, and not long after the FBI raided the office and home of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, moments ago the UK’s Telegraph reported that the British headquarters of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission.

As Bloomberg adds, Fox Networks Group was said to be cooperating fully with the commission inspection.  Continue reading “EU Raids London HQ Of Murdoch’s Fox; Documents, Computer Records Seized”

ArsTechnica – by Timothy B. Lee

Tyler Barriss stands accused of making a fake emergency call, a crime known as “swatting,” that led to the death of a Kansas man. He has been held in a Sedgewick County Jail since January. He is not supposed to have Internet access there, but on Friday the Wichita Eagle noticed Barriss tweeting.

“How am I on the Internet if I’m in jail?” Barriss wrote. “Oh, because I’m an eGod, that’s how.”  Continue reading ““Your ass is about to get swatted,” swatting suspect tweets from jail”

Leaf Science – December 13, 2013

GW Pharmaceuticals announced Wednesday that it has been issued a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent Office for a patent application involving the use of THCand CBD, the two main chemicals in marijuana, for treating gliomas.

Once a patent application is deemed a genuine invention, the Patent Office sends a Notice of Allowance that outlines the fees involved with final approval.   Continue reading “Drug Maker Will Soon Hold Patent On THC, CBD As Cancer Cures”

Who are we and what do we believe?

We, the members of the International Criminals Union, declare our position that all free and sovereign nations unite to ban the possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens.

It is our belief that our profession becomes more dangerous without strong and strict laws to regulate and prevent law-abiding citizens from possessing firearms. When only criminals and police can own a firearm our union’s potential for growth will be unsurpassed.   Continue reading “Criminals for Gun Control”

Daily Mail

The governor of Oregon says she’ll resist any attempt by Donald Trump to deploy her state’s National Guard detachment to protect America’s southern border, and California‘s governor appears poised to follow suit.

The president signed a proclamation on Wednesday that orders Defense Secretary James Mattis to ‘request use of National Guard personnel to assist’ with the Homeland Security Department’s existing border patrol operations.    Continue reading “Oregon governor tells Trump she’ll REFUSE to send National Guard troops to the Mexican border if he calls them up”

Gateway Pundit – by Brock Simmons

Sam Carpenter is on a mission to Make Oregon Great Again. The self made businessman is capitalizing on the Trump momentum, even marketing “Make Oregon Great Again” hats in the style of University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State University Beavers for his campaign for Governor. In a state where Trump lost bigly, and where democrats have held the governor’s seat since 1987, the latest polls show Carpenter leading incumbent democrat Kate Brown by 5.3 points, 45.8% to 40.5%, with 13.6% undecided.  Continue reading “Trump Style Candidate BEATING DEMS IN OREGON Governor Poll”

Investment Watch

Memorandum on the New 10-Year 
$38 billion U.S. Aid Package to Israel

Starting in 2019, the U.S. will give Israel $38 billion over the next 10 years – $3.8 billion per year, which is $10.41 million per day.   Continue reading “Starting in 2019, the U.S. will give Israel $38 billion over the next 10 years – $3.8 billion per year, which is $10.41 million per day…America could really use that money right now…”

Investment Watch

Earlier this year, a Michigan State University economist, working with graduate students and a former government official, found $21 trillion in unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.

The work of Mark Skidmore and his team, which included digging into government websites and repeated queries to U.S. agencies that went unanswered, coincided with the Office of Inspector General, at one point, disabling the links to all key documents showing the unsupported spending. (Luckily, the researchers downloaded and stored the documents.)  Continue reading “Scholars at Michigan State University discover an unauthorized 21 TRILLION dollars in the United States government spending budget, causing them to conduct their first audit in history.”

Daily Mail

Shocking images have emerged showing lines of cars stretching out as far as the eye can see in the Californian desert after Volkswagen was forced to buy back 350,000 cars for $7.4billion over the diesel scandal.

The German automaker has been forced to get creative when it comes to responsibly storing the hundreds of thousands of vehicles they had to buy back.   Continue reading “Shocking images of VW cars dumped in Californian desert”

In Shape

According to the FDA’s online Biologics Blood Vaccines document, a vaccine manufacturer admits on its package insert that their vaccination can cause autism as one of many adverse reactions.

These adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea. Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.   Continue reading “Now It’s Official: FDA Announced That Vaccines Are Causing Autism”

CBS 4 Denver

CBS Local — Lockheed Martin has reportedly been working on a revolutionary new type of reactor that can power anything from cities to aircraft carriers.

The Maryland-based defense contractor recently received a patent for the compact fusion reactor (CFR) after filing plans for the device in 2014. According to reports, one generator would be as small as a shipping container but produce the energy to power 80,000 homes or one of the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class carriers.   Continue reading “Lockheed Martin Receives Patent For ‘World Changing’ Fusion Reactor”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

The US gives Israel record military aid annually, and that aid is always growing. One of the biggest avenues for growth is funding for Israel’s missile defense systems. This year, Congress has committed $705 million to this scheme, up from just about $550 million last year.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a statement of thanks to the US Congress for the funding, saying that Israel’s enemies would be “surprised” at how good the missile defense systems work with all this money.  Continue reading “US Pledges Record $705 Million to Israel for Missile Defense Systems”

Firearms History, Technology & Development

In today’s post, we will study an early machine gun: the Puckle Gun. We’d first mentioned this gun many months ago, when we studied the history of revolvers. We will now study this firearm in more detail.

The Puckle gun was invented by a London based lawyer named James Puckle, who had an interest in firearm design. He received a patent for his design in 1718.   Continue reading “The Puckle Gun”