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The books Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Author Daniel Suarez describe a dystopian future where the world has a alt form of commerce based on fictional Dark Market credits. Chapters begin with the Dark Market to dollar exchange rate.
The book describes a faction tribe system based around individual members skills, and people interacting with each other with a “reputation score” of one to five stars with one star being the lowest. Continue reading “Earning a living in the Dark Market.”
DC Clothesline – by Dean Garrison
This is a story of leftist hypocrisy.
Some may recall a story from December of 2013 about a Denver Cakeshop refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Jack Phillips, refused service to two men who were married in Massachusetts. The irony is that homosexual marriage was not legal in Colorado at the time of request, though the state did have provisions for “civil unions”. The ACLU quickly became involved and Mr. Phillips had more legal troubles than he could have ever imagined. Continue reading “13 Gay Bakeries Refuse to Bake Cake for Heterosexual Christian Man”
The US Senate has approved a multi-billion-dollar military spending bill that includes $350 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile system.
The Senate passed the bill on Friday by a 89-11 vote.
The bill was sent to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature. Continue reading “US to give Israel $350mn for Iron Dome”
The Guardian – by Kate Connolly
Attempts by opposition parties in Germany to bring Edward Snowden to Berlin to give evidence about the NSA’s operations have been thwarted by the country’s highest court.
The Green and Left parties wanted the whistleblower to give evidence in person to a parliamentary committee investigating espionage by the US agency, but Germany’s constitutional court ruled against them on Friday. Continue reading “Court rejects attempt to allow Edward Snowden into Germany”
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jafari says that his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, has made an offer to help Iraq fight Islamic State militants. Beijing has volunteered to assist with airstrikes, though it will not join the US-led coalition against ISIS.
The conversation between the ministers took place during a UN anti-terrorism meeting in New York back in September, the Financial Times reports. Continue reading “China offers military help to Iraq to defeat ISIS – report”
Japan’s nuclear watchdog says the radioactive water that has accumulated at the battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant must be decontaminated and dumped into the ocean, local media reported. The news has sparked concern from local fisherman.
“We have to dispose of the water,” Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), told a media conference after visiting the crippled nuclear power plant on Friday, Asahi Shimbun reported. Continue reading “Watchdog: Radioactive Fukushima water to be cleaned, dumped into Pacific”
Dashcams have filmed many amazing things in the past, such as the meteor shower over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. However, this could be the first time a Star Wars imperial Tie Fighter has ever been caught on camera by a driver Continue reading “Dashcam ‘captures’ Star Wars TIE fighter crash on snowy German highway”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at Target last year, the 36-year-old tech worker signed up for the retailer’s free credit monitoring offer so he would be notified if someone used his identity to commit fraud.
Someone did. The first monitoring report showed crooks opened accounts in his name at Macy’s and Kohl’s department stores, where they racked up more than $7,000 in charges. “My heart basically sank,” he said. Over the next seven months the New York City resident spent hours on the phone, most of a day in a police station filing a report, and countless time sending documents to banks and credit reporting agencies to clear his credit history. Continue reading “Identity theft victims face months of hassle”
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday presented to the media an American man who says he illegally crossed into the country but has not been put into custody and is seeking asylum in Venezuela.
Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, of El Paso, Texas, said he entered North Korea by crossing the river border with China. Details of how and when he got into the country were not immediately clear. In his comments to reporters, Martinez strongly criticized the U.S. for alleged human rights violations. Continue reading “US man illegally in NKorea says he’s not detained”
WASHINGTON (AP) — One colleague called the tactics of tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz on the $1.1 trillion spending bill a painful echo of last year’s 16-day partial government shutdown.
Another senator said it was a strategy without an end game. And that sniping came from Cruz’s fellow Republicans. The 43-year-old Texas freshman in a political hurry — he’s considering a 2016 presidential run — infuriated several GOP colleagues with a last-minute attempt to force a vote on President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Continue reading “Ted Cruz’s moves on spending bill roil Republicans”
From Jerry Pournelle:
Jerry,
After spending more than a week trying to locate and read the putative presidential Executive Order on Immigration I am now sure that no such E.O. exists!
After failing to get responses from my various Congresscritters, the public library, and the New York Times….I finally put in a call to the Cato Institute where I was immediately connected to Mr. Alex Nowrasteh, the senior immigration policy analyst. Continue reading “This Is Life Under Totalitarianism – Vol. II”
Washington Examiner- by Eddie Scarry
Matt Drudge of the influential Drudge Report news aggregation site expressed discontent over a federal spending bill that passed with votes from both Republicans and Democrats in the House.
The $1.1 trillion spending bill that runs through September 2015 is now up for a vote in the Democratically-led Senate. Many conservatives, including Drudge, are upset that the bill funds both Obamacare and President Obama’s immigration executive orders. Continue reading “Matt Drudge says spending bill passed because NSA has ‘dirt’ on John Boehner”
Fox News – by Perry Chiaramonte
Students at one northern California high school are learning more than just the birds and the bees.
Along with local area groups, some parents are irate that their children’s sex ed class at Acalanes High School in Lafayette is being taught by employees of Planned Parenthood without their prior knowledge. They are also fuming over the methods and materials being used, including a checklist that asks students if they are “ready for sex” and another worksheet that describes how to give and obtain consent, as well as a diagram that uses a “genderbread” person for lessons in gender identity. Continue reading “Parents angry after school tells 13-year-olds they can have sex, choose gender”
OLYMPIA — About 1,000 gun-rights advocates, many openly carrying rifles and handguns, rallied Saturday outside the Capitol to protest a new expanded gun background check law in Washington state.
Organizers of the “I Will Not Comply” rally promised to exchange and sell firearms without conducting background checks during the daylong rally in opposition to the state’s voter-approved universal background check law.
“We’re going to stand up for our rights,” rally organizer Gavin Seim said. “Our rights are not up for negotiation.” Continue reading “1,000 protest new Washington gun law”
PORTLAND, Ore. — A 22-year-old man arrested in connection with a shooting outside an alternative high school in Portland has ties to a gang, as do two of the victims, police said Saturday.
Sgt. Pete Simpson said Lonzo Murphy is a person of interest in the Friday shooting, but officers aren’t prepared to say whether he was the gunman, Simpson said. Continue reading “Gang ties cited in school shooting arrest in Portland, Ore.”
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