Sometimes to tell a story completely, you have to go a ways back, so be patient with me.

Prior to the 1954 termination, a delegation of the Klamath Tribes went to Washington DC to lobby for the sale of their reservation lands.  The tribal members voted and the land was sold.  If my numbers are correct, 2,100 members on the rolls received the equivalent of $1.5 billion in today’s dollars, which was absolutely their right to do.  With the sale of the land, the tribe was terminated.   Continue reading “White Privilege – The Smoking Gun”

Globe and Mail

When it comes to attractiveness, I fall short of perfection by only the narrowest of margins. On a scale of 100, I am a 99. And on one recent day, I looked better than 100 per cent of others inquiring about their looks.

I have evidence: An artificial intelligence system developed by a Chinese company that is one of the world’s top computer vision firms scanned my face and rated me.   Continue reading “From rating your looks to shaming jaywalkers, China’s recognition technology is in your face”

Western Journal

If you’ve ever been proud of a parking job, this guy’s about to show you how it’s done. And he’s not in a Volkswagen Passat.

His daily driver is an F/A-18 Hornet.   Continue reading “F/A-18F Super Hornet Screams to Carrier, Executes Flawless Landing”

Middle East Eye

Waed Tamimi, the brother of recently released Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, was sentenced to more than a year in prison for stone-throwing, the Israeli army announced on Tuesday.

Ahed Tamimi attracted global attention when a video was shared of her slapping an Israeli soldier in December, just hours after learning that Israeli forces had shot her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed in the head.   Continue reading “Israel sentences Ahed Tamimi’s brother to 14 months for stone-throwing”

Daily Mail

A woman whose eczema was so bad she ended up in hospital and said she wanted to ‘rip her skin off’ says smoking a cannabis oil in a vape pen has cured her.

Cheryl Halliburton, from Elgin in Scotland, suffered with severe outbreaks of the uncomfortable skin condition for years after having her daughter, Alexis.   Continue reading “Scottish mother says inhaling cannabis oil cured her eczema”

Anti-Media

Prisoners in 17 states across the country started a two-week strike Tuesday, calling for an end to “modern slavery.” Prisoners will abstain from going to work at their jobs, halt commissary spending, engage in sit-ins, and refuse to eat.

The main reason for the strike was an April prison riot at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina that left seven inmates dead and a dozen more injured. The strike launched Tuesday was planned for next year, but following the violent incident, Lee prisoners wanted to take more immediate action.   Continue reading “American Inmates Stage Nationwide Prison Labor Strike over ‘Modern Slavery’”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

At DEFCON 26, the world’s largest hacking convention that recently took place in Las Vegas, an 11-year-old boy managed to hack a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results in less than 10 minutes. Organizers of the event said that at least 30 children were able to hack similar replica websites in under a half hour, including an 11-year-old girl who completed the job in just under 15 minutes.

One of the attractions of the event was the “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” which allowed kids as young as 8 to take a shot at stealing a simulated election.   Continue reading “The State of Democracy: 11-Year-Old Hacks A State Election Replica Website in Just 10 Minutes”

BuzzFeed – by Leticia Miranda

Retailers are turning to facial recognition software to identify potential thieves by comparing scanned images of shoppers’ faces against a database of known shoplifters. But as more retail stores consider using the technology, privacy advocates and industry stakeholders are debating how the technology should be regulated and how shoppers should be informed about when their faces are scanned.   Continue reading “Thousands Of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition, And They Won’t Need Your Consent”

Anti-Media

A U.S. special forces soldier is accused of attempting to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Cali, Colombia, into the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

Army Master Sgt. Daniel Gould, assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group, reportedly tried to smuggle the drugs on a military plane, but they were caught before the aircraft ever left Colombia and before the drugs made it onto the plane. He was already back in the United States but was promptly arrested by the DEA after the two backpacks of cocaine were discovered.   Continue reading “U.S. Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Trying to Smuggle 90 Pounds of Cocaine into Florida”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Agreement between Mexico and the United States on outstanding bilateral issues in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could be just a few hours away, Mexican officials said on Wednesday.  Continue reading “Mexico says deal with U.S. on NAFTA issues may be ‘hours’ away”

ABC 30 Action News

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Following a string of Apple store robberies throughout the state, shoppers in Southern California finally said enough is enough and tackled two men caught in the act near the Apple store in Thousand Oaks over the weekend.

“These items are small and expensive so if they get away with a few things in their hands they’re very easy to transfer into cash,” said Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Cpt. Garo Kuredjian.   Continue reading “Apple store thieves arrested after good Samaritans in Ventura County hold them down”

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Daily Mail

The prominent Republican family which owns the farm where Mollie Tibbetts’ alleged killer worked have insisted that he passed background checks for migrant workers.

Christhian Rivera, 24, who is from Mexico, was charged with first degree murder on Tuesday after leading police to a corn field where Mollie’s body was dumped.   Continue reading “Farm which hired Mollie Tibbetts’ ‘killer’ insist he passed vetting”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

A 24-year-old woman riding her motorcycle in Pierce County, Washington, came under a road rage attack from a 60-year-old man and ultimately shot and killed him to stop his assault on her.

The Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office has ruled that the woman, Aubrey Bowlin, will not face prosecution for the death.   Continue reading “Road Rage: Man Attacks Woman Riding Motorcycle, Gets Shot Dead”

The Jamestown Sun – by Jack Dura

BISMARCK—Police in Bismarck responded around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, to a call about a squirrel struck by a dart.

Bismarck Police Sgt. Tim Sass said officers responded after the caller described the squirrel as “acting weird” when it was running along a fence, and then it fell to the ground. The caller told police the squirrel had been struck by a large dart. The squirrel died as a result.

Continue reading “Bismarck man may be charged in connection to squirrel’s death”

RT

A local police department in Michigan is under scrutiny for tasering a suspect who was holding a two-month-old baby. While the child was left unharmed, social media users criticized the department’s use of excessive force.

Responding to a report about a possible physical assault of a woman, the Westland Police Department rushed to Raymurez Brown’s residence on Friday night. When officers arrived at the scene, they found Brown having a barbecue with friends. According to officials, Brown was yelling and confronting people outside his home. Telling the officers that they had the wrong house, the suspect then allegedly began an argument with representatives of the force.   Continue reading “Michigan cops taser man holding 2-month-old baby”