Month: July 2018

USA Today – by Gregory Korte

WASHINGTON — President Trump has become the third president to renew a post-9/11 emergency proclamation, stretching what was supposed to be a temporary state of national emergency after the 2001 terror attacks into its 17th year.

But the ongoing effects of that perpetual emergency aren’t immediately clear, because the executive branch has ignored a law requiring it to report to Congress every six months on how much the president has spent under those extraordinary powers, USA TODAY has found.    Continue reading “A permanent emergency: Trump becomes third president to renew extraordinary post-9/11 powers”

American Partisan – by NC Scout

The Avtomat Kalashnikova: a weapon that should require no introduction to anyone anywhere in the world. Ubiquitous with warlords, guerrillas, communism, and underground capitalism, its either met with praise by its users or scorn by those on the business end of it. Full of rumors, myths, and legends, it is a weapon that is seldom understood by most in the armchair and cosplay crowd, but in the business of real-world killing, the AK is unparalleled as the small arm of choice. Why? Because it works. That’s why.   Continue reading “Venezuela’s Kalashnikov Factory to be at Full Capacity in 2019”

Yahoo News

Concerned about the potential for readily available downloadable instructions to make 3D-printed guns, a group of state attorneys general has filed suit to block a Trump administration settlement with an organization Defense Distributed, a Texas non-profit. Until June 29, the federal government had maintained that the printer files and tutorials violated firearms export laws.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson leads a group of eight states and Washington, D.C., in suing the Trump administation in case filed in federal court in Seattle. Ferguson alleges that the feds violated both the Administrative Procedure Act and the Tenth Amendment. Besides Washington, attorney generals in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania have joined in.   Continue reading “States Sue to Block Downloads of 3D-Printed Gun Instructions”

Anti-War – by Grant Smith

The Virginia-Israel Advisory Board VIAB has one key difference with scores of privately funded state chambers of commerce created to foster closer economic integration between the United States and Israel while supporting the Israeli government’s policy agenda.

Originally created by an uncodified act in 2001, VIAB has been funded by Commonwealth of Virginia taxpayers. Its charter is to “advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and the State of Israel, with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, art and education, and general government.” VIAB is a pilot for how Israel can quietly obtain taxpayer funding and official status for networked entities that advance Israel from within key state governments.   Continue reading “Meet VIAB: Virginia’s Taxpayer-Funded Israel Lobby”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

China is using artificial intelligence as a tool to help it decide its foreign policy, detaching from the emotions of useless humans that get in the way of the thought process. What could possibly go wrong allowing A.I. to help decide foreign policy with other countries?

The South China Morning Post has reported that “Several prototypes of diplomatic systems using artificial intelligence are under development in China, according to researchers involved or familiar with the projects.”   Continue reading “China Explores Using Artificial Intelligence To Help Shape Its Foreign Policy”

MassPrivateI

A non-profit association of law-enforcement personnel is being used to track where people drink and much more.

Iowa is preparing to use the National Liquor Law Enforcement Association’s (NLLEA) “Place of Last Drink” or POLD to collect data on businesses and drivers.   Continue reading “A police run non-profit has created a national tracking program called “Place of Last Drink””

RT

Blue Lives Matter, a group advocating for greater protections for police in the US, has claimed that Facebook’s new rules to combat fake news has almost halved the number of people it can reach on the platform.

The group said that the introduction of Facebook’s quality surveys, in which the platform asks users to rate a news source in terms of its trustworthiness, has already seen the audience for its content fall by 40 percent in the last week. Blue Lives Matter believes the drop is down to partisan social media users voting down pages run by opposition groups.  Continue reading “Blue Lives Matter claims Facebook’s ‘fake news’ rules have halved its audience”

Fox News

Hundreds of gun owners in Florida have been ordered to give up their guns under a new law that took effect after the deadly Parkland shooting in February, according to a report published Monday.

The Risk Protection Order, signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott just three weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas, aims to temporarily remove weapons from gun owners who have been deemed by a judge to possibly be a threat to themselves or others.   Continue reading “More than 450 people in Florida ordered to give up guns under new law, report says”

Life News – by Steven Erthelt

The British Supreme Court has ruled that doctors and families can revoke a patient’s life support and withhold food and water without his or her consent and without a court hearing.

The decision is particularly concerning — because it comes from a nation that is already pushing towards euthanasia. In the UK, with its government-run health care system, doctors and hospitals are routinely giving up on patients they believe are too far gone, even children such as Charlie Gard or Alfie Evans. In such instances they are pressuring families to allow life support to be revoked from patients they believe have no chance at life — even though other doctors and medical professionals disagree.   Continue reading “British Supreme Court Rules Patients Can be Starved to Death Without Consent, Without a Court Hearing”

Breitbart – by John Binder

A Florida police officer has died after allegedly being shot in the head by an illegal alien.

Law enforcement confirmed to the media this week that Fort Meyers Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller died in the hospital after being in critical condition for a week following a shootout with an illegal alien from Haiti.  Continue reading “Florida Police Officer Dies After Allegedly Shot by Illegal Alien”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

We may have an idea what was the (leaked) reason for today’s selloff in Treasurys, which pushed the 10Y yield just shy of 3.00%.

According to the NYT, the Trump administration is considering a $100 billion unilateral tax cut meant to mainly help the wealthy, and is hopes to bypass Congress in implementing it “a legally tenuous maneuver that would cut capital gains taxation and fulfill a long-held ambition of many investors and conservatives.”   Continue reading “Trump Considering Unilateral $100 Billion Tax Cut On The Wealthy”