Year: 2017

Middle East Monitor – by Alastair Sloan

In an op-ed for a special annual edition of The Economist, Benjamin Netanyahu calls his country “Innovation Nation”. The Israeli Prime Minister writes that “people everywhere benefit from Israeli innovations in their mobile phones, car navigation systems, life-saving drugs, medical devices – even in the cherry tomatoes in their salads”.

Ever built a website using Wix, chatted with friends abroad using Viber, found your way across town using Waze? If you have asthma you might look to SmartAir, which helps patients with warnings about air quality, preventing potentially deadly asthma attacks. If you suffer from a debilitating stutter, therapy start-up Novotalk could help. Recently bashed yourself on the head? The similarly named BrainTalk can listen to a five minute recording of your voice and see if you have brain damage.   Continue reading “Everyone benefits from Israeli tech companies, except the Palestinians”

Activist Post – by Nicholas West

As we continue to chart our path down the slippery slope of biometric identification for human beings, we’ve had to speculate about how far we could slide. Well, it appears that China is providing an early example that we would all be wise to take notice of.

It is now a fact that nearly all areas of the modern world have adopted some form of surveillance camera apparatus. Meanwhile, biometric identification technology has advanced to a degree where it’s now possible to merge the two and create not only a pervasive surveillance network, but a nearly real-time identification system that police can use to act upon.   Continue reading “China Accused of Using Biometric Surveillance to Send Thousands to Political Detention Camps”

Washington Post – by Laurie McGinley

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a tougher enforcement policy toward homeopathic drugs, saying it would target products posing the greatest safety risks, including those containing potentially harmful ingredients or being marketed for cancer, heart disease and opioid and alcohol addictions.

Homeopathy is based on an 18th-century idea that substances that cause disease symptoms can, in very small doses, cure the same symptoms. Modern medicine, backed up by numerous studies, has disproved the central tenets of homeopathy and shown that the products are worthless at best and harmful at worst.   Continue reading “FDA takes more aggressive stance toward homeopathic drugs”

NPR

The National Transportation Safety Board says an Amtrak passenger train that derailed from an overpass south of Tacoma, Wash., leaving at least three people dead, was traveling at 80 mph in a 30 mph zone.

At a news conference late Monday Pacific Time, NTSB board member Bella Dinh-Zarr said that the speed of the train at the time of the accident had been determined by downloading the Event Data Recorder from the train’s rear locomotive.   Continue reading “NTSB: Amtrak Washington Train Doing 80 MPH In 30 MPH Zone”

Anti-Media

Durango, CO — A family in Durango, Colorado, is hoping for justice after police fatally shot their family dog, Dozer, at their home in October. Neil Anderson and Kerry Doyle, along with Doyle’s children, are seeking compensatory and punitive damages against three state troopers — Gablin Watkins, Randy Talbot, and Josiah Fuller, as well as the Colorado State Patrol.   Continue reading “Cops Illegally Break Into Property and Gun Down Family Dog for ‘Trotting’ in Their Direction”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across the globe earlier this year.

“The attack was widespread and cost billions, and North Korea is directly responsible,” Tom Bossert, homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump, wrote in a piece published on Monday night in the Wall Street Journal.   Continue reading “U.S. blames North Korea for ‘WannaCry’ cyber attack”

The Daily Caller – by Kerry Pickett

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed gun legislation late last week to help eradicate incidents of mass shootings, domestic violence, harassment. Cuomo interwove the issues as he teased the legislation he plans to unveil next year at New York’s State of the State.

“This year will be remembered as the year of reckoning, when both the tragedy of mass shootings and cultural and institutional harassment of women became impossible to ignore,” Governor Cuomo said. “Building on the Women’s Equality Agenda, we are continuing our mission for progressive values and women’s rights with this legislation to target the unquestionable relationship between domestic violence and gun violence.”  Continue reading “Cuomo Proposes Gun Control Legislation To Combat ‘Cultural And Institutional Harassment Of Women’”

VPR

The chairman of the House Committee on Transportation says he’ll push for more stringent seatbelt laws during the next legislative session.

Colchester Rep. Pat Brennan is a somewhat unlikely advocate for strengthening Vermont’s seatbelt law.

“Personally, I wasn’t until recently a real staunch user of seatbelts,” Brennan says.  Continue reading “Key Vermont Lawmaker Eyes Changes To Seatbelt Law In 2018”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

DUPONT, Wa. (INTELLIHUB) — Nearly six months after the Alt-Left group ANTIFA endorsed ‘pouring concrete on to train tracks to counter fracking in Olympia’ and even made a ‘how-to video’ an Amtrak train has derailed in a suburb of that exact city.

That’s right, on June 28 the ANTIFA tweeted from the “official” account the following statement proudly:   Continue reading “ANTIFA endorsed “pouring concrete on train tracks” and even made a “how-to video,” now a train has really derailed in the same city”

The Organic Prepper

If you are having some difficulty with money right now, let me share one very valuable truth with you: It is a whole lot easier to save money than to make more money. Once you apply this theory, you have the keys to the kingdom, no matter what your budget looks like.

Of all the things that you can do to better prepare your family for the future, making the switch to a frugal lifestyle is the most important. But there’s a lot more to living the cheapskate dream than simply buying generic instead of name brand at the store.  Continue reading “The Cheapskate’s Reader Round-Up: 25 Unusual Ways to Save Money”

“We cater to a small but highly discerning clientele. They are amongst those lucky few who have everything they could possibly desire. Our supply is restricted and we prefer to keep it that way as we are the only firm in the world that crafts these special products.”  Continue reading “Looking for Christmas gift ideas for the person that already has everything?”

Just two weeks ago, the mayor of Lakewood (just north of Dupont where the Amtrak train derailed) warned there would be accidents if this were to go through.

KOMO News, December 4, 2017

LAKEWOOD, Wash. – City leaders gave a chilly reception to a new high-speed rail plan for Amtrak trains that starts running later this month.

The idea is to use the Sound Transit tracks that cut through the city and open them up to Amtrak trains. However, huge safety concerns remain.   Continue reading “Two weeks ago: Lakewood, WA mayor predicts deadly accidents from high-speed train service”