Leak of Nations

Israeli authorities are increasingly monitoring Palestinian social media traffic in order to identify potential threats. Recently, over 400 Palestinians have been pre-emptively arrested due to their online activity, and Facebook have approved 158 requests to remove content submitted by Palestinians on the site.

The Israeli internal security service Shin Bet (roughly equivalent to the FBI or MI5) have been using software which analyses key words combined with semantic patterns in order to flag and rank potential threats to the Israeli state.   Continue reading “Israel uses social media crawler to detain 400 Palestinians without charge.”

Fox News

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the state as rapidly growing Hurricane Irma, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall later this week.

The state of emergency has been issued for all of Florida’s 67 counties. Scott said that the state would “prepare for the worst and hope for the best” as Irma is expected to hit the state around Friday.

The governor tweeted Monday that he urges “all Floridians to remain vigilant and stay alert to local weather and news and visit FLGetAPlan.com today to get prepared.”  Continue reading “Florida Gov. Rick Scott declares state of emergency ahead of Category 4 Hurricane Irma”

Sgt. Report – by Martin Barillas, Speroforum.com

The lifeless body of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kurt Smolek was found in the Potomac River on Wednesday evening. Smolek (45) had been declared a “critical missing person” in a tweet released by the police department of the District of Columbia.

According to a Missing Persons report by the DC Metropolitan Police Department, Smolek was last seen on August 28, 2017 at approximately 10 pm, in the 600 Block of Water Street, Southwest, Washington. “He was last seen wearing a blue oxford shirt and khaki pants,”read the report. “Kurt was last seen operating a grey 2011 GMC Terrain SUV, bearing Virginia tags XGG6532 with tinted windows.”
Continue reading “Another Dead Hillary Clinton Associate, Special Agent Kurt Smolek Found Dead in a River”

Tech Republic – by Conner Forrest

A new artificial intelligence tool created by Google and Oxford University researchers could significantly improve the success of lip-reading and understanding for the hearing impaired. In a recently released paper on the work, the pair explained how the Google DeepMind-powered system was able to correctly interpret more words than a trained human expert.

The tool is called Watch, Listen, Attend and Spell (WLAS), and the paper describes it as a “network that learns to transcribe videos of mouth motion to characters.” Using videos from the BBC, the team trained the system with a dataset of more than 100,000 natural sentences.   Continue reading “Google DeepMind AI destroys human expert in lip reading competition”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Private security guards have become a common sight across our society, whether they’re escorting cash in transit, patrolling shopping malls, conducting screening at airports or protecting VIPs. In many places, the guards dress like police officers and are equipped with firearms.

As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, private security is booming and the sector is worth approximately $180 billion, a number that’s expected to increase to $240 billion by 2020. That’s greater than the GDPs of 100 countries including Portugal, Romania and Hungary. An estimated 20 million workers are employed in the private security sector while its biggest company, G4S, has 585,000 employees and revenues of nearly $10 billion.   Continue reading “Where Private Security Outnumbers The Police”

Wolf Street – by Don Quijones

The first country to fully legalize the recreational use of marijuana, Uruguay, has suddenly found itself facing an unexpected obstacle: the international banking industry.

It all began a few weeks ago when one of the 15 pharmacies that had agreed to sell the two varieties of cannabis distributed by the Uruguayan State announced that it was withdrawing from the scheme after its bank, Santander, had threatened to close its account unless it stopped providing services for the state-controlled sales. Shortly afterwards it was revealed that other banks, including Brazil’s Itaú, had canceled the accounts of the private companies that had been granted a license to produce marijuana as well as some cannabis clubs.   Continue reading “Global Banks Sabotage Uruguay’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana”

Intel News – by Joseph Fitsanakis

American officials have revealed more information about a mysterious sonic device that is believed to have caused numerous diplomats to suffer hearing loss and other serious ailments. Last month, the Associated Press reported that the first hearing-loss symptoms were reported by personnel at the US embassy in Havana in the fall of 2016. The news agency said that at least five embassy personnel reported suffering from sudden and unexplained loss of hearing. The symptoms were so serious that caused some American diplomats “to cancel their tours early and return to the United States”, according to the Associated Press.   Continue reading “More facts revealed about mystery sonic attacks on US embassy in Cuba”

Haaretz

Sara Netanyahu is expected to be indicted, pending a hearing, on charges of fraudulently receiving items worth 400,000 shekels ($111,851), Haaretz has learned. Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit is expected to inform Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of the charges against her in a few weeks.

Sara Netanyahu is suspected of ordering chef’s meals at the prime minister’s official residence, which is against regulations, and concealing the fact that she did so. She and her husband have accused the former chief caretaker of the official residence, Meni Naftali, who is currently leading protests against the prime minister, of inflating the residence’s expenses.   Continue reading “Sara Netanyahu Expected to Be Indicted for Fraud in Pocketing $110,000 in Goods”

The Goldwater

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has said that Director of the Air Force’s School for Advanced Nuclear Deterrence Studies on Kirtland Air Force Base has been charged in the rape of a 4-year-old girl.

41 year old Adam Lowther was arrested and charged with the horrific crimes, being one charge first degree criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13 and two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor.   Continue reading “US Air Force’s Nuclear Director in New Mexico Arrested for Raping 4 Year Old”

Journal Sentinel

As we celebrate Labor Day, we are reminded of the inherent dignity of work and the American worker. In America, we honor grit. We honor determination. We honor craftsmanship. And we honor the men and women who turn dreams into reality with their own two hands.

Earlier this year, I traveled to Wisconsin to sign the Buy American and Hire American executive order. With that action, we sent a powerful signal to the world that we are going to defend our workers, protect our jobs and put America first.   Continue reading “Trump: We must fix our self-destructive tax code”

NPR – by Ron Elving

Some years back a hit song filled the summertime airwaves with its chorus of “See You In September.”

It was meant to be a lover’s promise of joyful reunion at summer’s end.

But to use those words in Washington, D.C., right now sounds more like a warning … or even a threat.   Continue reading “On Capitol Hill, ‘See You in September’ Is A Refrain Without Romance”

Tucson.com

After months of tough campaign rhetoric, the Trump administration touted a steep decline in border-crossing arrests as evidence of a “new era.”

In Arizona, the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant at a Pima County court and a raid on a humanitarian aid camp near Arivaca offered further signs of an immigration crackdown.

But what exactly has changed along Arizona’s border with Mexico? Continue reading “Big talk, little change on Trump’s border”

Fox 10

HOUSTON (FOX26) – KATY, TX – For some of the residents of the counties surrounding Houston, Texas, relying on each other for supplies through Hurricane Harvey has become a hallmark of the strength of their communities.

Active duty Soldiers assigned to the 36th Engineer Brigade and other supporting units from Fort Hood, Texas are continuing their efforts to build on each community’s strengths and give the residents additional help as they recover from the devastation the hurricane caused.   Continue reading “Soldiers begin re-supply and recon Houston area”

NPR – by Scott Neuman

Updated at 12:05 p.m. ET

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells the U.N. Security Council that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “begging for war,” with the latest nuclear test that Pyongyang says is its first fusion device, a much more powerful weapon than it has exploded in the past.

“Enough is enough. War is never something the United States wants. We don’t want it now. But our country’s patience is not unlimited,” Haley told an emergency session of the 15-member Security Council in New York.   Continue reading “Haley: North Korea ‘Begging For War’”

Need to Know

Leftist militant groups, Antifa and By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), are led by public school teachers. BAMN organizer, Steve Conn and his wife, who also was a teacher, were fired from a Detroit high school for leading a protest which involved the use of pepper spray.  They sued and got their jobs back plus $300,000.  Conn was elected president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers in 2015.  Last year, 17 different BAMN members ran for elected positions on the Detroit Federation of Teachers.  BAMN also ran five candidates for different national leadership positions with the NEA in 2017. [If you think it is time for peaceful and sane people to hold positions of leadership and authority, Freedom Force awaits you.] –GEG

Public school teachers are behind a leading far-left militant group that is part of the Antifa network that federal officials say is committing “domestic terrorist violence.”   Continue reading “Antifa and BAMN Leaders Are Seeking Positions of Authority – And Obtaining Them”