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Hotels like the Wynn Las Vegas and the Marriott are installing Amazon listening devices in every room.
Two years ago, Geek Wire revealed that the Wynn Las Vegas hotel installed Amazon Echo devices in all their rooms. Continue reading “Hotels are installing Amazon listening devices in every room”
Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten
On July 1, 2018, HB 1939, now Pu.. Ch. 880, will go into effect. The law creates a special exemption for county commissioners so they may legally exercise their Second Amendment rights in public buildings that contain courthouses. From wbir.com:
A new Tennessee state law will go into effect at the beginning of July that will allow county commissioners to bring their handguns into buildings where meetings are held. Continue reading “Tennessee Law to Exempt County Commissioners from Gun Law takes effect on July 1”
Illinois Policy – by Austin Berg
Paul Boron is 13 years old.
And he’s facing a felony eavesdropping charge that could change the course of the rest of his life.
His story stands as another chapter of controversy surrounding an eavesdropping law some experts have criticized as ripe for abuse and misapplication. Continue reading “Illinois 13-Year-Old Charged With Eavesdropping Felony For Recording Meeting With Principal”
California law enforcement organizations are in staunch opposition to a new bill which would restrict the circumstances under which police officers can use deadly force in the line of duty, reports Alexei Koseff of the Sacramento Bee.
Assembly Bill 931 would increase the state mandated standard for the use of lethal force from “reasonable” to “necessary” in order to become law. While the bill passed through its first policy committee on Tuesday, it faces an uphill battle in a state legislature that typically doesn’t cross law enforcement. Continue reading “California Cops Reject Bill That Would Limit Use Of Lethal Force”
The Organic Prepper – by Anonymous 411
As I revised my existing material and notes into the articles that this series became, my ideas advanced from a library that one person could accumulate into a bigger project. This final article will primarily discuss this bigger project: restarting civilization.
With this final article of this series I want to weave together the threads of the previous articles into a plan that, if fully executed, could prepare humankind to restore our technological civilization should a civilization-destroying disaster occur. Continue reading “After the End of the World: Restarting Civilization”
The Organic Prepper – by J. G. Martinez D.
Did you ever wonder what the life of a mother in Venezuela is like?
This is not a fictional story. It is a couple of days in the life of one of our best friends, in our country, under the current conditions. Her son suffers from diabetes. He is 12 years old and has lost one tooth because he is malnourished and needs a special diet. We’ll call her L. Continue reading “What Life Is Really Like for a Venezuelan Mom”
Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit charged the prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, for fraud with aggravated circumstances and breach of public trust in the “Prepared Food Affair,” in an explosive development which shook the country on Thursday.
When Leah Rabin was about to be indicted in 1977, then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin resigned from office due to his wife’s scandal. Continue reading “Sara Netanyahu Indicted For Falsely Charging State $100k For Meals”
A billboard near Vega, Texas, caused a bit of a stir with its message — so much so that the individual who rented it agreed to take it down.
The billboard, which Kyle Mccallie captured on his drive to work and posted on his Facebook, read: “Liberals please continue on I-40 until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.” Continue reading “A billboard in Texas has advice for liberals: Keep driving until you leave the Lone Star State”
WASHINGTON — The Obama White House’s chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia’s attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to “stand down” his efforts in the summer of 2016.
The comments by Michael Daniel, who served as White House “cyber security coordinator” between 2012 and January of last year, provided his first public confirmation of a much-discussed passage in the book, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” co-written by this reporter and David Corn, that detailed his thwarted efforts to respond to the Russian attack. Continue reading “Obama cyber chief confirms ‘stand down’ order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016”
Firefighters responding to a blaze in a San Antonio, Texas, apartment found the burned remains of a 20-year-old man who had been missing for three days, authorities said Monday.
A medical examiner’s office identified the body as that of Jared Vargas, the San Antonio Express News reported. Continue reading “Missing man’s burned body found by firefighters; suspect may be illegal immigrant, ICE says”
ST. CHARLES, Mo. – A Missouri mother faces legal action for all the days of school her son has reportedly missed.
Prosecutors have charged the woman, Jessica Pence-Nicholson, with educational neglect, according to KTVI.
Court documents show her 9-year-old son had a pattern of poor attendance — only showing up to Stephen Blackhurst Elementary School about 50 percent of the time between August and December of 2017. Continue reading “Mother charged after son misses too much school”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Politicians—who claim to be for limited government and free markets—are engaging in an insidious plot to seize homes from families and give them to the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn. Not surprisingly, the plot is being hypocritically championed by those who claim to be for ‘small government,’ like President Donald Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and Paul Ryan.
The factory will be used to manufacture LCD screens for iPhones, iPads, and other electronic devices. It’s being sold to the population as a means of creating jobs, but it’s hardly going to register as a blip on the job market especially considering the billion dollar endeavor that it will take to create it. Continue reading “‘Small Gov’t’ Politicians Stealing Homes from US Families to Give Foxconn a Factory to Make iPhones”
Great things can happen when the screens are turned off during a power outage.
The first-grader who won the US edition of this year’s Doodle 4 Google art contest with a charming paleontology-themed colored pencil drawing created it when her family’s electricity was knocked out by a snowstorm in March. Seven-year-old Sarah Lane-Gomez, from Falls Church, Virginia drew a sampler of prehistoric reptiles to spell “Google.” The judging panel, helmed by actor Neil Patrick Harris and celebrated humanities teacher Sydney Chaffee, chose Lane-Gomez’s dino-doodle over the 180,000 other entries created by students enrolled in grades K-12 schools in the US. Continue reading “A 7-Year-Old Girl’s $30,000 Google Doodle Was Drawn During A Power Outage”
There will be no broadcast today.
Blame Mark Schumacher.