Tech Crunch – by Zack Whittaker

A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments to demand tech companies build backdoor access to their users’ encrypted data — or face measures to force companies to comply.

The international pact — the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, known as the so-called “Five Eyes” group of nations — quietly issued the memo last week demanding that providers “create customized solutions, tailored to their individual system architectures that are capable of meeting lawful access requirements.”   Continue reading “‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

California lawmakers are going to war with the Second Amendment.

From Guns.com:

A series of four anti-gun bills were approved late this week and are heading to Gov. Jerry Brown for signature. The measures — Assembly Bill 2888 and Senate Bills 221, 1100, and 1177 — passed the state legislature and now head to the state’s Democratic governor for further consideration. Continue reading “CA Lawmakers Pass 8 Bills to Raise Gun Purchase Age to 21, Ban Gun Shows, Ration Gun Purchases & More”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

With a net worth of over $7 billion, Liu ‘Richard’ Qiangdong, founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, is China’s 20th richest man.   Continue reading “One Of China’s Richest Men Arrested In Minneapolis For “Criminal Sexual Misconduct””

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This is another headline that has come to light during the last few years. This is like a bad dream, walking your child into the library only to see the guest is a man dressed as a woman. What exactly is the message here?

This is utter confusion. Continue reading “Drag Queen Story Hour Sparks Protests In Conservative Towns”

Fox News

A team of scientists has singled out what it claims left U.S. diplomats in Cuba sickened by mysterious ailments and symptoms in recent months, according to a new report.

Douglas H. Smith, director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania, told The New York Times that microwaves, which can trick the brain into perceiving what seem to be ordinary sounds — known as the Frey effect, named after American scientist Allan H. Frey — most likely caused the trauma.   Continue reading “‘Microwave weapons’ eyed as likely source of mystery ailments for US diplomats in Cuba, scientists say”

Fox News

At least 10 people have been shot in an apartment complex in San Bernardino, Calif., with at least three of the victims in “extremely critical” condition, according to reports.

Police have set up a large perimeter around the crime scene, according to KTVN-TV in Los Angeles.   Continue reading “At least 10 shot at San Bernardino, Calif., apartment complex; 3 victims reported ‘critical’”

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Sac Bee – by Don Sweeny

A Columbus, Ohio, police officer had to shoot his own K9 partner Saturday after the dog turned on him during a training exercise, police say.

Officer Brian Carter was “verbally correcting” Benzi, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, when the dog began biting him about 9 a.m. at the department’s K9 center, police wrote in a press release.   Continue reading “An officer is attacked by his own police dog. He had to shoot it to escape, police say”

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says, “The media is really tearing you apart for that Scandal.”
Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”   Continue reading “Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar.”

Ammoland

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- This is one for the annals of fake news. A federal agency is blundering around with erroneous but inflammatory data on a major topic of national contention, it gets called out by a government-supported news outlet … and it does nothing about it. Our Corruption Chronicles blog peeks into the window of this fun house.

In an amusing story, a government-funded media outlet notorious for its liberal slant found that the overwhelming majority of school shootings listed in a federal report never occurred.   Continue reading “Most School Shootings in Federal Report Just Didn’t Happen”

Middle East Monitor

After a successful campaign to have the Iran nuclear deal torn up, Israel has now taken up the role of enforcer. With US President Donald Trump set to announce second rounds of sanctions in November, America and Israel have set up a joint team that will enforce economic sanctions against Iran in the high-tech sector.

Israel’s Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin yesterday announced the establishment of the joint team. The two are reported to have met in Washington for the fourth time in their tenures. According to the Israeli Haaretz, the meeting was also attended by the Director General of the Ministry of Finance, Shai Babad, and the Israeli economic attaché in the US Eran Nitzan.   Continue reading “Israel, US set up joint team to enforce Iran sanctions”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Ogden City, UT — For years, some of the most read stories we produce involve instances when police officers kill family pets, getting away with the killings by way of their qualified immunity. But the following story is one of the worst we’ve ever posted. An Ogden City Utah police officer actually shot a family dog while the pet was secured on the owners leash.   Continue reading “Family Outraged After Cop Shoots Their Dog—Who Was on a LEASH”