Search Engine Land – by Danny Sullivan

Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers. It hopes this will prevent such content from crowding out factual, accurate and trustworthy information in the top search results.

“We’re explicitly avoiding the term ‘fake news,’ because we think it is too vague,” said Paul Haahr, one of Google’s senior engineers who is involved with search quality. “Demonstrably inaccurate information, however, we want to target.”   Continue reading “Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search”

The Columbus Dispatch – by Tim Feran

In the first few months of the Do Not Call Registry in 2003, it was such a success that humorist Dave Barry dubbed it “the most popular federal concept since the Elvis stamp.”

But in the past few years, the number of scammers making illegal sales calls, particularly pre-recorded “robocalls,” has grown faster than you can say “Viva Las Vegas.”

Everyone from the Federal Trade Commission to your local phone company has noticed, said Holly Hollingsworth of AT&T Ohio.   Continue reading “On the Do Not Call list but still getting calls? Here’s why”

MassPrivateI

Two years ago, I warned everyone that Paramedics and EMS teams were training for urban warfare and people claimed, I had no clue what I was talking about.

I wish they were right, but as you’ll see it’s getting worse. For two years now, paramedics nationwide have been competing in marksmanship contests!   Continue reading “EMS teams compete against each other in national shooting contests”

The Newspaper

A car with a reclined passenger seat and a torn plastic bag in the center console can be searched by police at any time without a warrant under a divided Kansas Supreme Court ruling issued on Friday. The high court majority concluded that these two factors, taken together, were enough to establish a belief that Cameron Howard was involved in a crime on September 15, 2011, when he was spotted pulling into a gas station in Prairie Village.  Continue reading “Kansas Supreme Court Declares Reclined Seats Suspicious”

EFF – by Nate Cardozo

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today held that foreign governments are free to spy on, injure, or even kill Americans in their own homes–so long as they do so by remote control. The decision comes in a case called Kidane v. Ethiopia, which we filed in February 2014.   Continue reading “D.C. Circuit Court Issues Dangerous Decision for Cybersecurity: Ethiopia is Free to Spy on Americans in Their Own Homes”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Hat tip to Washington’s Blog for collating much of this information.

With the recent back and forth seemingly taking place between two different factions of the American Deep State and playing out before the entire country, a few alternative media outlets have begun to question whether or not certain mainstream media outlets are actually connected to the Deep State, most notably the CIA. With an unimaginable scale of disinformation being released and promoted throughout mainstream channels on a daily basis, all propagandizing the public to go along with the desired direction of the American establishment, few could assume otherwise. However, such connections between American mainstream outlets and the CIA are more than mere conjecture, they are well known and have been documented for some time.   Continue reading “American Corporate MSM Is Merged With CIA And Has Been Since The 1950s”

The Columbus Dispatch

A state representative from southwestern Ohio was found passed out in his vehicle at a McDonald’s drive-thru with a loaded firearm Sunday morning.

Wes Retherford, R-Hamilton, was arrested by Butler County sheriff’s deputies and faces charges of operating a vehicle while under the influence and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.   Continue reading “Ohio House Rep. Retherford found passed out in car, with loaded firearm”

Courthouse News Service – by Nicholas Iovino

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge ruled Monday that the Department of Justice may withhold records on its rules for spying on journalists without a warrant.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation sued the Department of Justice in July 2015, claiming it failed to disclose Freedom of Information Act-requested documents on guidelines for its warrantless surveillance of journalists.   Continue reading “FBI Need Not Tell How It Snoops on Journalists”

The Telegraph – by Cara McGoogan

A facial recognition app that can identify strangers from a photograph has been created by a British entrepreneur.

Facezam can identify people by matching a photo of them with their Facebook profile. All users have to do is take a picture of someone on the street and run it through the app, which will tell them who it thinks the person in the photo is.   Continue reading “This creepy facial recognition app lets users find strangers on Facebook by taking their picture”

WSOC TV – by Ken Lemon, Tina Terry

LOWELL, N.C. – A Lowell police officer pleaded guilty Thursday after impregnating a 14-year-old girl.

James Blair will spend up to 19 years in prison for statutory rape. He will also have to wear an ankle monitor for the rest of his life as well as register as a sex offender.    Continue reading “Lowell police officer pleads guilty to impregnating 14-year-old”

Campus Reform – by Anthony Gockowski

Harvard University recently created a research guide on “fake news” that identifies dozens of respectable conservative websites as “unreliable” or simply “fake” while rating many of their liberal counterparts as “credible.”

Harvard’s new research guide, called “Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda,” encourages students to acquaint themselves with a “huge list of fake news sites,” many of which are legitimately deceptive, but others of which are merely conservative or libertarian-leaning.   Continue reading “Harvard pushes list calling conservative websites ‘fake news’”

US Army Acquisition Center – by Mr. Seung kook “Sunny” Burns and Mr. James Zunino

Researchers at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) successfully fired the first grenade created with a 3-D printer from a grenade launcher that was produced the same way. This demonstration shows that additive manufacturing (commonly known as 3-D printing) has a potential future in weapon prototype development, which could allow engineers to provide munitions to Soldiers more quickly.   Continue reading “The Army’s New 3D-Printed Grenade Launcher”

Institute for Justice – by Matt Powers

Can an odor be so offensive that it would be punishable by law? Las Vegas code enforcement officials think so. The city council is considering an ordinance to fine residents $1,000 for nuisance smells and code enforcement officials would use a Nasal Ranger device to enforce the proposed ordinance.

The ordinance was inspired by a cat-hoarding house with such a dire stench it could be smelled from across the street. Even after the house was sanitized the odor lingered. The owner of the home was willing to work with code enforcement, but the city wanted the power to deal with less cooperative property owners in the future.   Continue reading “Las Vegas Considers $1,000 Fine for Bad Smells”

Muck Rock – by Curtis Waltman

The Indiana Department of Homeland Security has provided us with a remarkably unredacted look at their EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact) agreement with North Dakota. 37 sworn law enforcement officers from nine different Indiana agencies including Indianapolis Metropolitan PD, were deployed to Morton County. Their mission lasted for 18 days and went through late October to early November.

Along with an identical EMAC request to the one we saw from the Governor of Wyoming, we also got more detailed information about what North Dakota was actually paying for. Like in the case of Dane County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin, Indiana DHS provided North Dakota with estimates for how much things would cost- $50,814 for travel, $277,694 on equipment, and $399,928 to the responding officers. That breaks down to a grand total of $727,808.   Continue reading “Indiana reveals the arsenal they brought with them to Standing Rock”

MassPrivateI

Pegasus Global Holdings (PGH) a Trademark of Mobile Arch Partners (MAP) is working with DHS, the CIA , the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to create total surveillance Smart Cities.

The Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation, the University of New Mexico (UNM) and numerous high-tech companies are helping design Smart Cities that will spy on everyone.   Continue reading “CIA “Signature School” is creating Smart Cities with thousands of cameras and microphones”

The College Fix – by Dominic Mancini

‘As members of the Redbird community we should all be aware of microaggressions and be prepared to intervene’

See something, say something comes to campus.

Illinois State University officials are preparing to roll out a new “bystander training program on microaggressions.”   Continue reading “Public university to roll out ‘bystander training program on microaggressions’”

If This Doesn’t Scream Police State Then I guess I’m crazy!

Bloomberg – by Justin Bachman

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has declined to say exactly where—and how—employees will be touching air travelers as part of the more invasive physical pat-down procedure it recently ordered.

But the agency does expect some passengers to consider the examination unusual. In fact, the TSA decided to inform local police in case anyone calls to report an “abnormal” federal frisking, according to a memo from an airport trade association obtained by Bloomberg News. The physical search, for those selected to have one, is what the agency described as a more “comprehensive” screening, replacing five separate kinds of pat-downs it previously used.   Continue reading “TSA Warns Local Police About Its New Airport Pat-Downs”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

SALEM, Ore. (March 5, 2017) – A bill introduced in the Oregon House would significantly limit the impact of federal programs that militarize local police.

Rep. Chris Gorsek (D-Troutdale) and Rep. Carla Piluso (D-Gresham) introduced House Bill 3243 (HB3243) on March 2. The legislation would bar state and local police departments from acquiring certain types of military gear from federal military surplus programs, and would require public disclosure before police could obtain allowable equipment. The law would apply both to the well-known 1033 program along with any other military surplus program operated by the federal government.   Continue reading “Oregon Bill Would Help Block Federal Militarization of Police”

Victoria Advocate – by Gabriella Canales

After checking out the anime series “One Piece” for her children about four years ago, Sarrah Pitts, 35, of Chillicothe, has the potential to face jail time.

The library material that was due Sept. 7, 2013, and began with a lost item fee of $21.75 has snowballed into a $784.98 warrant for failure to return library property.   Continue reading “Lost library material results in $784 warrant”

Las Cruces Sun-News – by Carlos Andres López

LAS CRUCES – Four years ago, a dispute between neighbors turned violent when a Las Cruces police officer threw a stay-at-home mother onto gravel and intentionally slammed her face into the rocks, causing profuse bleeding, a broken nose and a fractured wrist.

On Friday, after more than three years of legal wrangling, an eight-member federal jury awarded the woman and her husband, Jillian and Andrew Beck, both formerly of Las Cruces, $1.6 million in damages.   Continue reading “Jury awards couple $1.6M in suit against LCPD officers”