Year: 2018

The Atlantic – by Alexis C. Madrigal

As multiple devastating wildfires raged across California, a private firefighting crew reportedly helped save Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s home in Calabasas, TMZ reported this week. The successful defense of the $50 million mansion is the most prominent example of a trend that’s begun to receive national attention: for-hire firefighters protecting homes, usually on the payroll of an insurance company with a lot at risk.

Continue reading “Kim Kardashian’s Private Firefighters Expose America’s Fault Lines”

Gizmodo – by Rhett Jones

Customers of the Infowars store are getting scammed every day but this time it’s different. A security researcher discovered a form of malware embedded in the conspiracy site’s checkout process that records credit card details and transmits them to a remote server.

ZDNet interviewed Dutch security researcher Willem de Groot about his discovery of a strain of malware known as Magecart on the Infowars store. De Groot uses a custom-built malware scanner to monitor various websites for infections and he told ZDNet that he’s kept tabs on Infowars for three and a half years with no signs of foul play. Continue reading “Infowars Infected With Credit Card-Stealing Malware, Alex Jones Claims It’s a Conspiracy”

The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark

A self-driving car program, now known as Waymo, is about to quietly launch a fleet of paid rides in the world’s very first commercial driverless car service.

Imagine a world where you hail a cab and step into an empty vehicle. This empty car takes you to your destination while you sit in the back, read and swipe the app for payment.   Continue reading “Google’s Self-Driving Cars: The Big-Tech Takeover Continues”

9 News

Lloyd Bates worked in construction almost all his life.

That’s why it came as a surprise to his wife, Carol, when the day came that he couldn’t remember the basics of carpentry. Being that he’s blind in one eye and partially losing his hearing, she wrote most of Lloyd’s missteps off as aging.

“He couldn’t figure out how to put plugs in drywall. He couldn’t see to put them in,” Carol said. “I attributed a lot of what was happening to his inability to see.”   Continue reading “Should a family remove their guns after a dementia diagnosis? Here’s why this one did”

Daily Mail

Instead of opening their arms to welcome Amazon, some Queens residents are fearing a ‘Scamazon’.

After the Seattle-based retail giant announced plans to build part of its second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, locals took to the street on Wednesday to decry to massive tax incentives New York offered to lure Amazon.   Continue reading “Fury at Amazon deal in which New York taxpayers PAY the company $61,200 per job”

Daily Mail

As a pediatrician-scientist who develops new vaccines for neglected diseases, I spent most of my career in the Boston-Washington, DC corridor.

While working in the Northeast, I had heard a few things about the anti-vaccine movement.

As both a vaccine scientist and a father-of-four, including a daughter diagnosed with autism and intellectual disabilities, I followed the emergence of doubt over vaccine safety in the general public.    Continue reading “The anti-vaxxer maps of America: Where states allow parents to opt-out for ‘personal belief’ reasons – and where the trend is taking hold”

American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

The first migrant caravan arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border this week to find a fortified Tijuana port of entry, and they’re now resting up at Airbnbs in upscale neighborhoods in Playas de Tijuana provided by their American attorneys.

Locals haven’t exactly greeted the group with open arms, according to Mexican journalist Jorge Nieto.   Continue reading “Tijuana Airbnbs ‘completely booked’ for caravaners — paid for by American attorneys”

FAIR – by Matthew O’Brien and Spencer Raley

At the end of 2016, the United Nations estimates that a record-setting 65.3 million people had been forcibly displaced from their homes due to conflict or persecution. Many of those people will seek refuge in the developed countries of the West, including the United States. Reflecting America’s long tradition of providing refuge to the oppressed, we have admitted over 3.5 million people since 1980 and 96,900 refugees just in the last year in 2016. Continue reading “The Fiscal Cost of Resettling Refugees in the United States”

WCAX 3 – by Neliana Ferraro

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Migrant Justice is suing the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The group claims the two government agencies colluded to target Migrant Justice leaders, who are in the country illegally, because of their activism.

Our Neliana Ferraro has been sorting through the evidence submitted in federal court. Migrant Justice provided anecdotal evidence Wednesday and says it obtained public records to prove its members have been targeted. But ICE says it does not target people based on their free speech.   Continue reading “Migrant Justice sues Vt. DMV, ICE over detainment of member leaders”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

On Wednesday Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited soldiers at the border in Texas, sent by Trump to bolster US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents ahead of waves of migrants expected to come as part of the much hyped caravan, in numbers totaling nearly 6,000 active duty troops, according to the Washington Post.

During televised comments Mattis avoided identifying either the short or long term mission of the border deployment, but said “we’ll let you know” when one soldier asked whether the Army would be removing the miles of concertina wire troops have been erecting on border choke points considered weak or previously easy to breach. Another soldier bluntly asked Mattis precisely about official goals of the non-conventional mission, to which which he responded:   Continue reading “Mattis Tells Army Troops On Border: Ignore Media Hype Over The Mission, “You’ll Go Nuts””

The Unz Review – by Paul Craig Roberts

When the Southern states seceded, they were concerned to do so legally or constitutionally under the Constitution so that the North could not legally claim that it was an act of rebellion and invade the Southern states. To make this case, the South needed to make a case that the North had broken the Constitutional contract and that the South was seceding because the North had not kept to the Constitution.   Continue reading “A “Civil War” Lesson for the Uneducated”

The Jamestown Sun – by Jack Dura

BISMARCK – North Dakota lawmakers of the interim Judiciary Committee have no recommendations for Marsy’s Law after a study brought about last session.

State voters overwhelmingly approved Marsy’s Law as an initiated measure in the 2016 general election, planting crime victim rights in the state Constitution. Continue reading “Marsy’s Law adds ‘very little’ to state statute, ND lawmakers’ review concludes”

The Globe and Mail – by Bill Curry

Canadians strongly oppose Statistics Canada’s plan to obtain personal banking records – and most would not consent to participating, according to a new Nanos Research survey.

The survey suggests the federal government is on the wrong side of public opinion in its defence of the plan, with 74 per cent of respondents either opposing, or somewhat opposing, Statscan accessing those records without permission. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet repeatedly defended it this month in the House of Commons in response to criticism from opposition MPs.   Continue reading “Canadians strongly oppose Statscan’s plan to obtain the banking records of 500,000 households: poll”

RT

The Woolsey fire that engulfed over 90,000 acres in California last weekend may have spread toxic and radioactive substances from a Superfund site, according to activists who believe authorities might be downplaying the risks.

The fire passed through the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a federal Superfund site in the Simi Hills that was the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in US history in 1959. While the California Department of Toxic Substances Control said there was no reason to be concerned of “any risks other than those normally present in a wildfire situation,” locals aren’t so sure, pointing out that the agency has dragged its feet in cleaning up toxic sites and accusing it of a possible cover-up.    Continue reading “California wildfire rips through nuclear waste site, fueling airborne toxin risk concerns”

Sputnik

US President Donald Trump has deployed 5,000 military personnel to the US-Mexico border as the migrant caravan comes closer to the southern border; the number of troops could increase to 15,000.

The first group of caravan migrants consisting of more than 350 people, has arrived in the border town of Tijuana, from where they plan to get to the US, the web portal reported. Continue reading “First Group of Central American Caravan Migrants Arrives at US Border – Reports”