Month: September 2013

MIT Technology Review- by Tom Simonite

Facebook is set to get an even better understanding of the 700 million people who share details of their personal lives using the social network each day.

A new research group within the company is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could allow for novel features, and perhaps boost the company’s ad targeting.   Continue reading “Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts”

Buzz Feed – by Andrew Kaczynski

Several of the House Republicans who voted Thursday for a bill that slashed billions of dollars from the food stamp program personally received large farm subsidies for family farms. The bill cutting the food stamp program narrowly passed on a mostly party line 217 to 210 vote.

During the food stamp debate, GOP Rep. Stephen Fincher, who received thousands in farm subsidies, responded to a Democratic Congressman during the debate over the cuts by quoting the bible, saying “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”   Continue reading “These Republicans Who Voted To Cut Food Stamps Personally Received Large Farm Subsidies”

Buzz Feed – by copyranter

Big Sugar

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The United States continues to fund terrorism. August 1st we posted an article titled, “Al-Qaeda, Taliban Receive U.S. Government Contracts Despite Being Sworn Enemy.” Where is the outrage among my American brethren? The American people do not support this, yet our tax dollars do. Our prayers go out to those affected by this travesty.

(Video, CNN) – Choir members and children attending Sunday school were among 81 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Protestant church in northwest Pakistan.   Continue reading “Taliban Funded by U.S. Kills 81 in Suicide Attack at Church in Peshawar, Pakistan”

Things that make you wonder.  If the human body produces these flu-fighting cells on its own, why would anyone need a vaccine? 

RT News

Scientists have reached a breakthrough in their pursuit of a universal vaccine for flu, which includes even future deadly strains. The answer lay within the human body itself, after eluding specialists for decades.

The foundations for a possible revolutionary flu vaccine were discovered as part of a UK study following the 2009 swine flu pandemic.    Continue reading “Through with flu? Universal influenza vaccine on its way”

Mail.com

FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) — By the time the woman perished, she had probably slogged 25 miles through dry ranch lands in her quest to enter the United States. She was found just feet from a highway where she might have been picked up and taken to Houston with other migrants making the same journey.

Not long ago, her body would have been taken to a funeral home for a cursory attempt at identification, then buried in this town an hour north of the Mexico border under a sign reading “unknown female.”   Continue reading “Rising immigrant deaths put burden on Texas county”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

We’ve talked a few times about how the USTR and the administration are asking Congress for “trade promotion authority,” which would effectively let it bypass Congressional oversight of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. In fact, in many ways the USTR has been acting as if it already has this. The specifics of “trade promotion authority” or “fast track authority” are a bit down in the weeds, but the short version is that it’s the administration asking Congress to completely abdicate its authority and mandate in overseeing international trade agreements. Basically, it removes the ability of Congress to seek any fixes or amendments to a trade agreement — only allowing them to give a yes or no vote.    Continue reading “President Obama Asks Congress To Give Up Its Oversight On Secret TPP Agreement”

Reuters – by Richard Lough and Matthew Mpoke Bigg

Powerful explosions sent thick smoke billowing from the Nairobi mall where militants from Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group threatened to kill hostages on the third day of a raid in which at least 59 have already died.

The blast was followed by other smaller detonations and volleys of gunfire but there was no indication of the fate of people whom the authorities say are being held by 10 to 15 Islamist gunmen who took the complex by storm on Saturday.   Continue reading “Blasts shake Nairobi mall, smoke pours from building”

France 24

AFP – President Barack Obama used a memorial service for the victims of America’s latest mass shooting on Sunday to make another impassioned appeal to reform gun ownership laws.

“No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None,” he declared, at a ceremony in the Washington Navy Yard, where a contractor killed 12 people in a gun rampage on Monday.   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: Obama: Navy Yard shooting must inspire gun law change”

Prospect Blog – by Tom Streithorst

On the night of 9th March 1945, 339 American bombers took off, heading for Tokyo. Their payload: incendiary bombs filled with a gelatinous mixture of coconut oil soap, aluminium naphthenate and gasoline, developed just a few years before at Harvard University. The B-29 flew in at low altitude, and dropped 690,000 pounds of napalm within an hour. Tokyo’s paper and wood houses were soon engulfed in flames. Explosives merely kill those within the range of the bomb’s impact. Incendiary weapons spread death more widely since their targets provide the fuel for their propagation.   Continue reading “Napalm’s death”

In the days, and years to come, should this Republic survive, there will be those who’ll come behind us asking questions. They’ll ask questions as to Why, How, and What, we as American Patriots did to preserve this great blessing, the Blessing known as America.

Q : Why – did we sacrifice our lives?

A :  This blessing, this land, this America, came directly from the very hand of God.   Continue reading “To Those Who Would But Ask”