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The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) annual SHOT Show was held January 23-26 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and seven firearms stood out as perfect additions for those who buy their guns for concealed carry and home defense.
Five of the seven guns are brand new, while two are staples with recent changes that improved on something that was already great. Continue reading “SHOT Show: 7 Great Firearms for Concealed Carry, Home Defense”
Mastercard has set a deadline for widespread use of biometric identification for its services across the whole of the EU: April 2019. Mastercard Identity Check, currently available in 37 countries, enables individuals to use biometric identifiers, such as fingerprint, facial, and iris recognition, to verify their identities when using a mobile device for online shopping and banking. The technology is not mandatory for customers, but from next year it will be vigorously promoted throughout the EU and many consumers will welcome it. Continue reading “Mastercard Pushes Biometrics, Banks Follow”
Electronic Intifada – by Asa Winstanley
When Sima Vaknin-Gil took over as director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs at the start of 2016, a crucial fact went largely unnoticed.
For years, she had been a high-ranking officer with an Israeli spy agency.
This means that for the last two years a former intelligence officer has been running Israel’s global war against BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Continue reading “Meet the spies injecting Israeli propaganda into your news feed”
The College Fix – by Greg Piper
Judge compared its policies to ‘1984’
Kellogg Community College in Michigan jailed a student for passing out pocket copies of the Constitution on campus.
An administrator said that students from “rural farm areas … might not feel like they have the choice to ignore” the supposed solicitation by the nascent Young Americans for Liberty chapter. Continue reading “Settlement forces college that jailed student for passing out Constitutions to ditch policies”
BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been charged with resisting arrest and biting a police dog.
Police say the man unsuccessfully tried to hide under a pile of clothes to evade arrest over the weekend and then put the police dog in a chokehold and bit it on the head. Continue reading “Police: Dog bites man, man bites dog, then man is arrested”
Throughout the near entirety of human history, a population’s understanding of what’s going on in the world has been controlled by those in power. The men in charge controlled what the people were told about rival populations, the history of their tribe and its leadership, etc. When the written word was invented, men in charge dictated what books were permitted to be written and circulated, what ideas were allowed, what narratives the public would be granted access to. Continue reading “Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening”
After passing the House last week and the Senate on Thursday, President Trump has signed the FISA 702 bill, renewing the section of FISA that allows the NSA to engage in mass surveillance of Americans’ Internet communications without a warrant.
The bill faced some bipartisan resistance, as promised reforms and safeguards never materialized, or were dismissed by Congressional leadership on the grounds that they would weaken the broad ability of the NSA to operate unchecked with Americans’ data. Continue reading “Trump Signs Bill Renewing Warrantless NSA Surveillance”
Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas
LAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — The 1 October massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival ended with two single gunshots that were fired less than a minute after the last fully automatic volley stopped, contradicting the official narrative given to the public.
The two single gunshots can be heard at 3:25 and at 3:36 into the following video, trailing the last fully automatic volley of gunfire by 38 seconds. Continue reading “Final two shots from Stephen Paddock’s handgun contradict official narrative of suicide”
Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas
LAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — Photographic evidence available in the public domain suggests that the dead guy in the leaked photos is not Stephen Paddock.
No this is not a joke.
Let’s take a closer look. Continue reading “Photo evidence proves the dead guy in the leaked photos is not Stephen Paddock”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened communism to Christianity and Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square to the veneration of the relics of saints.
Maybe I’ll say something that someone might dislike, but that’s the way I see it,” Putin said in an interview for the documentary Valaam, an excerpt of which was broadcast on Russia 1. “First of all, faith has always accompanied us, becoming stronger every time our country, our people, have been through hard times. Continue reading “Putin: Communist ideology similar to Christianity, Lenin’s body like saintly relics”
Update 3: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been renewed by the House of Representatives. Originally enacted in 1978, the act outlines the lawful procedure for collecting foreign intelligence. FISA Section 702 allows the US government to pull in communications from foreign nationals but does not permit surveillance of US citizens, even if they are suspected of criminality or terrorism. Ahead of a vote to extend FISA for six years, US President Donald Trump initially hit out at the key intelligence provision, although later updated his stance through a tweet declaring that the country needs FISA. Continue reading “House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program”
Donald Trump has not only continued his predecessor’s crackdown on whistleblowers, but ramped up the effort, John Kiriakou told RT. He said Julian Assange should sit tight unless he wants to end up in a US jail.
Hopes that WikiLeaks co-founder Assange will be able to walk free from the Ecuadorian embassy after five years of effective imprisonment have reemerged amid reports he has been granted an ID card, and potentially citizenship, by the Latin American country on Wednesday. Continue reading “‘Trump intensified war on whistleblowers, wants Assange’s head on a platter’ – ex-CIA officer to RT”
In order to quell rumors spread on social media, the North Little Rock Police Department has released disturbing dashcam footage that shows 17-year-old Charles Smith firing a gun at officers before being shot dead.
During a Wednesday press conference, North Little Rock Police Chief Mike Davis said it was necessary to release footage of the shooting in order to clear up a “great deal of misinformation” that was being spread on social media. Continue reading “Graphic video shows suspect firing on Arkansas police before fatal shooting”
In a long and circuitous piece intended to explain that national reciprocity violates states’ rights, the Christian Science Monitor claimed the right to self-defense was added to the Second Amendment “only recently.”
Their exact claim: “[National reciprocity legislation] has pitted a sense of overriding states’ individual wishes and local character against shifting legal views of the Second Amendment, which the Supreme Court has expanded only recently to include self-defense.” Continue reading “Christian Science Monitor: Right to Self-Defense Added to 2nd Amendment ‘Only Recently’”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an “urgent public safety issue,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday as he sought to renew a contentious debate over privacy and security.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was unable to access data from nearly 7,800 devices in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 with technical tools despite possessing proper legal authority to pry them open, a growing figure that impacts every area of the agency’s work, Wray said during a speech at a cyber security conference in New York. Continue reading “FBI chief calls unbreakable encryption ‘urgent public safety issue’”
The man who opened fire on Douglas County sheriff’s deputies Sunday, killing one, was a University of Wyoming law school graduate with no criminal history.
The deceased gunman has been identified as 37-year-old Matthew Riehl.
On December 31 Breitbart News reported that the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office ordered residents in the area of Colorado Blvd. to University Blvd., south of Denver, to shelter in place. Five deputies were injured by gunfire upon responding to a domestic disturbance call shortly after 5:00 a.m. The injuries of one deputy, 29-year-old Zackeri Parrish, proved fatal. Continue reading “Colorado Cop Killer a Law School Graduate, No Criminal History”
(Reuters) – A man claiming to be the person who delivered a gift-wrapped package of horse manure at the Los Angeles home of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday he did it to protest the federal tax overhaul signed into law last week by President Donald Trump.
Robert Strong, 45, a psychologist for the Los Angeles County Public Health Department, said by telephone he left the poop-filled parcel addressed to Mnuchin and Trump in the driveway outside Mnuchin’s home in the posh Bel Air community. Continue reading “Man says he delivered manure to Mnuchin to protest new U.S. tax law”
A passenger on a flight from Houston to Washington D.C. has accused United Airlines of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. D-Houston, and then threatening to remove her from the plane for complaining and snapping a photo of the Houston congresswoman.
“It was just so completely humiliating,” said Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher who used 140,000 miles on Dec. 3 to purchase the first-class tickets to take her from Washington D.C. to Guatemala and back home. Continue reading “Teacher ‘was evicted from her first class United seat so that the airline could give it to a US Congresswoman and was threatened by staff when she complained’”
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Brazilian police looking for criminals ended up targets of a sting themselves when a swarm of bees attacked, sending seven officers to the hospital.
The officers were searching a piece of forest by a farm in Resende, northwest of Rio de Janeiro, on Friday when “they found a box,” the state police force said in a statement Saturday. Continue reading “Bees attack Brazilian cops in sting gone wrong”
An 84-year-old woman claims Walmart fired her after she found a $1 bill on the floor while she was closing the store and didn’t return it right away.
Frankie Ruffino began working at a Walmart in Brenham, Texas, in 2008 as a door greeter before becoming a phone operator after developing health problems, KBTX reported.
The two-time breast cancer survivor maintains that she had a flawless employment record during her nine years of employment — that is until October 10. Continue reading “84-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Fired From Walmart For Taking $1 Bill Found On Floor”