Month: September 2017

Activist Post – by Carey Wedler

Though outrage over mass surveillance swept the United States after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, there is little discussion of these invasive practices just four years later.

This apathy comes despite former President Barack Obama’s move to expand to information sharing between agencies just days before Trump took office and after the Trump administration signaled its desire to continue widespread surveillance.   Continue reading “Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights”

BBC News

It is 250 years since America’s Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the two British men who created it?

“It was the equivalent of the moon landings today,” according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler.   Continue reading “The men who drew the Mason-Dixon Line”

Life Site News – by Lisa Bourne

August 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Multiple professors at one college are using their positions of authority to regulate their students’ speech, threatening to flunk or even expel young people from class if they use certain offending phrases in class – like “referring to women/men as females or males.”

Gender and homosexuality politics are among the areas the professors are looking to influence the young people in their classes, along with race and immigration ideology.  Continue reading “Professor will flunk students who refer to students as ‘male’ or ‘female’”

DW

An 87-year-old woman has been sentenced to prison after she claimed that Jews were never exterminated in Auschwitz. Her criminal record includes two fines and another sentence for sedition.

A court in Detmold on Friday sentenced Ursula Haverbeck to eight months in jail on charges of sedition. The presiding judge ruled out the possibility of parole and said that Haverbeck had a lack of “any kind of respect” and that she had made more offensive comments in the courtroom.   Continue reading “‘Nazi Grandma’ holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck sentenced to jail”

The Organic Prepper

Survival Saturday is a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared.

This Week in the News

This week, Survival Saturday focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the largest rainfall ever to hit the continental United States. It’s important to remember that a disaster doesn’t end when the initial event is over. It’s a series of cascading events, and Hurricane Harvey has proven this to be true yet again.   Continue reading “It’s Not Over: The Terrible Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey”

Business Insider – by Bob Price

For many people, online reviews are the first port of call when looking for a restaurant and hotel.

As such, they’ve become the lifeblood for many businesses — a permanent record of the quality of their services and products. And these businesses are constantly on the watch for unfair or fake reviews, planted by disgruntled rivals or angry customers.

But there will soon be a major new threat to the world of online reviews: Fake reviews written automatically by artificial intelligence (AI).   Continue reading “Researchers taught AI to write totally believable fake reviews, and the implications are terrifying”

Chron

Arkema, the company that owns the chemical plant in Crosby on the verge of more explosions, is refusing to provide a chemical inventory and facility map to the public, one day after promising to provide the information.

Speaking to reporters this morning, Arkema CEO Richard Rowe said the company was balancing “the public’s right to know and the public’s right to be secure.”

Late Thursday night, the company provided a list, detailing the names of the chemicals on the site. It did not provide the amounts of the chemicals, where those chemicals were located or in what types of containers the chemicals were stored in.  Continue reading “Arkema backtracks, refuses to provide chemical inventory to the public”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

President Barack Obama’s deputies opened a little-known immigration backdoor to put 45,000 DACA illegals on a multistep path to citizenship, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

According to the committee, the “advanced parole” loophole has ensured:

As of August 21, 2017, 45,447 DACA recipients have been approved for advance parole through an I-131 Application for travel documents. This approval allows a DACA recipient to travel out of the country and legally return, making them eligible to adjust their immigration status and receive a green card.

Continue reading “45,000 Illegals Using DACA Backdoor to Get Green Cards”

Sputnik

TOKYO (Sputnik) — In a message carried by the KCNA news agency, the Foreign Ministry hit back at the United Nations for saying Tuesday’s launch of a ballistic missile over northern Japan undermined regional security.

Pyongyang said it rejected UN criticism as a violation of its right as a sovereign nation to defend itself against the United States and South Korea and promised to launch more projectiles into the Pacific.   Continue reading “North Korea Declares Start of Pacific Offensive Amid Missile Standoff”