Breitbart – by Milo Yiannopoulos

Rumours that Twitter has begun ‘shadowbanning’ politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech. His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.

According to the source, Twitter maintains a ‘whitelist’ of favoured Twitter accounts and a ‘blacklist’ of unfavoured accounts. Accounts on the whitelist are prioritised in search results, even if they’re not the most popular among users. Meanwhile, accounts on the blacklist have their posts hidden from both search results and other users’ timelines.   Continue reading “Twitter Shadowbanning ‘Real and Happening Every Day’ Says Inside Source”

Sovereign Man – by Simon Black

According to financial research firm ICI, total retirement assets in the Land of the Free now exceed $23 trillion.

$7.3 trillion of that is held in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).

That’s an appetizing figure, especially for a government that just passed $19 trillion in debt and is in pressing need of new funding sources.   Continue reading “Here’s why (and how) the government will ‘borrow’ your retirement savings”

Watchdog – by Eric Boehm

This week’s Nanny State involves a trip into the Way-Back Machine, to a time almost 100 years ago.

You see, kids, back in the early 20th Century, there was actually a time when drinking alcohol was illegal in this country. It was called Prohibition, and for about 12 years it was a serious crime to be caught making or selling booze.   Continue reading “Nanny State of the Week: Minnesota men facing felony charges for selling beer”

The Salt Lake Tribune – by Pamela Manson

A federal magistrate on Tuesday ordered a Utahn charged with conspiracy in the armed takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon to be detained, ruling the defendant is a flight risk and a danger to the community.

Wesley Kjar, a 32-year-old Manti native who lives in Salt Lake City, will be sent to Oregon to face prosecution there.   Continue reading “Utahn who allegedly served as Ammon Bundy’s bodyguard will face charge in Oregon”

Washington Post – by Simon Denyer

BEIJING — China apparently has deployed surface-to-air missile batteries on a disputed island in the South China Sea, officials in Taiwan and the United States said, even as President Obama met leaders from nations making rival maritime claims in the region.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement that it had “grasped that Communist China had deployed” missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel group, and urged “relevant parties to refrain from any unilateral measure that would increase tensions.”   Continue reading “Chinese missiles apparently deployed in South China Sea as Obama meets rivals”

Yahoo News

The debate over encryption has reached new heights in a legal battle between Apple and the FBI.

In response to a federal magistrate’s order requiring Apple to assist the agency in accessing data from the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the company is pushing back, pledging to challenge the request in the name of its customers’ privacy.   Continue reading “Apple vows to fight federal order to unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

One of the most insidious abuses of state power lies in the practice of civil asset forfeiture (CAF), where government agents can seize cash and property from citizens who are not charged with a crime. Law enforcement needs only the suspicion (often concocted) of a crime to immediately steal a person’s belongings, and the person must then prove his or her innocence with costly attorney’s fees to get their property back.   Continue reading “Co-creator of Civil Asset Forfeiture Wants to Abolish It, No More Policing for Profit”

The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin

We’ve reported before on how calling the police for help these days in the modern American police state usually ends in less help and more death, pets included.

This time the woman was actually calling for an ambulance and not the cops, but since all first response tech is now integrated, the cops were sent anyway.   Continue reading “Police Shoot Suicidal Dad 11 Times… While He Lay In Bed Crying”

Rueters

The handgun used in last week’s apparent murder-suicide of two 15-year-old girls found shot dead at their suburban Phoenix high school was furnished by a fellow student at the request of one of the girls, police said on Tuesday.

Sergeant David Vidaure, a spokesman for the police department in Glendale, Arizona, said the girl had obtained the weapon from her classmate, a 15-year-old boy, on the eve of last Friday’s fatal shooting after telling him “she needed it for protection”.   Continue reading “Police find classmate gave gun to Arizona girls in murder-suicide”

Reuters

Russia will send the first S-300 air defense missile system to Iran on Thursday, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday quoting an unidentified source.

The missile system will be delivered under the terms of an earlier contract.    Continue reading “Russia will send first S-300 missile system to Iran on Thursday: RIA”

RT

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump wrote an Op-Ed in support of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques. It’s not the first time he’s spoken in favor of torture. While some fellow candidates agree with him, others do not.

Waterboarding was an “enhanced interrogation technique” employed in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But the practice was eventually banned by the George W. Bush administration ‒ after it simulated drowning for its prisoners for years ‒ because waterboarding was deemed to be torture.   Continue reading “‘Nothing should be taken off the table’: Trump supports torture, where do other candidates stand?”

The Guardian – by Lois Beckett

When the supreme court ruled in 2008 that the second amendment gives Americans an individual right to own a firearm, it was Justice Antonin Scalia who wrote the historic and controversial majority opinion. The decision in that District of Columbia v Heller case, which struck down a local handgun ban, was 5-4.   Continue reading “Antonin Scalia’s death calls supreme court gun rights stance into question”

BATR- by James Hall

The test run proved that negative interest rates can push savers into minus territory. Public outrage, while registered is not heard by the central bankers. The reasoning that commercial banks will start making loans because of the cost of sitting on deposits is pure fantasy thinking. As the article, Low Interest Rates Impoverish Savers shows,

“How long will people accept this thief? The options to parking cash in hand with a FDIC insured institution seems worth an examination. However, few alternatives for working class savers exist. Surely, this occurrence is intentional because the real objective of the “New Normal” is to bankrupt Middle America. What other conclusion makes sense?”   Continue reading “U.S. Banks Ready for Negative Interest Rates?”

Yahoo News

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on federal criminal charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy (all times local):

2:30 p.m.

A federal judge says Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy should stay behind bars because he’s a danger to the community and a risk for failing to show up for future court dates.   Continue reading “Rancher Cliven Bundy to stay behind bars”

Rich Soil

This could be the cleanest and most sustainable way to heat a conventional home. Some people have reported that they heat their home with nothing more than the dead branches that fall off the trees in their yard. And they burn so clean, that a lot of sneaky people are using them illegally, in cities, without detection.

When somebody first told me about rocket mass heaters, none of it made sense. The fire burns sideways? No smoke? If a conventional wood stove is 75% efficient, doesn’t that mean the most wood you could possibly save is something like 25%? How do you have a big hole right over the fire and not have the house fill with smoke? I was skeptical.   Continue reading “Rocket stove mass heater”

Natural Society – by  Elizabeth Renter

Heavy metals can do significant damage to the body. Historically, they’ve been used as “an instrument of murder” (in the case of arsenic) and instruments of war. But most people who are exposed to heavy metals in today’s times are through their food, water, vaccines, or the air around them. The good news is that there are natural ways to chelate heavy metals from your body.   Continue reading “6 Foods For Natural Heavy Metal Chelation”

The Hill – by Cory Bennett and Julian Hattem

Republicans are refusing to use the Benghazi playbook to go after Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Instead of launching formal investigations or propping up a new special committee to investigate the emails — as they did with the 2012 Libya terror attack — House Republicans have gone out of their way to avoid formal inquiries into allegations that classified information was mishandled on Clinton’s personal machine.   Continue reading “Republicans stand down for FBI investigation of Clinton server”