Month: August 2019

CNBC

The nearly two-year special counsel investigation of Russian election interference led by Robert Mueller cost nearly $32 million in total, a new filing shows.

The expenditures report, shared with CNBC by the Department of Justice on Friday, covers the final eight months of the probe, in which the special counsel spent about $6.56 million. About $4.12 million of that was spent through the special counsel’s office directly, and $2.44 million came from DOJ components that supported Mueller’s office. Continue reading “Robert Mueller’s Russia probe cost nearly $32 million in total, Justice Department says”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

In a column for The Hill, Ann Coulter, a conservative commentator criticized certain aspects of U.S. immigration policy which have contributed to its current mess.

She first started out by criticizing the U.S.’s “birthright citizenship” policy. She explained what this process entails: Continue reading “‘Birthright Citizenship Has Got To Go!’”

Daily Wire

The New York Police Department was reportedly hunkered down and prepared for riots on Thursday, as the decision was to be announced as to whether Daniel Pantaleo, the officer involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, would be fired from his job.  Continue reading “NYPD Prepared For Riots As Decision Whether To Fire Officer In Eric Garner Death Is Announced”

CNN

The US withdrawal puts an end to a landmark arms control pact that has limited the development of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers and is sparking fears of a new arms race.  Continue reading “US formally withdraws from nuclear treaty with Russia and prepares to test new missile”

The Guardian

The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal.

Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois.  Continue reading “Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US”

Independent

Human-animal hybrids are to be developed in embryo form in Japan after the government approved controversial stem-cell research.

Human cells will be grown in rat and mouse embryos, then brought to term in a surrogate animal, as part of experiments set to be carried out at the University of Tokyo.  Continue reading “Human-animal hybrids to be developed in Japan after ban controversially lifted”

Medium

In international peacekeeping operations of the present, private military companies occupy an equal position with regular armies. Moreover, based on the conclusions of American experts, such military corporations will play an increasingly important role in armed local conflicts and wars in the future.

As of today, it is quite obvious (from the experience of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq) that the existence of PMC influences the course of events, and sometimes they take on most of the functions of police and army.  Continue reading “War for money. Leading private military companies of the world.”

Vigilant Citizen

Mario Lopez is not known for voicing his social and political views. And the one time he does it, he almost gets “canceled” by mass media. Why? Because he dared to voice concerns regarding children being switched genders. Indeed, the 45-year old father of three, who is mostly known for being that good looking guy who hosts celeb gossip shows, found himself the object of celeb gossip … and extreme outrage.

The anger began when an interview that took place last month resurfaced in mainstream media, where Lopez dared to say that three-year-old children were too young to choose their gender. The two-minute bit from a forty-minute long interview was enough to cause a good-old-fashioned mainstream-media-blitz-of-outrage, followed by threats of being “canceled”. Yup, he committed thoughtcrime and he had to pay for it. Continue reading “Thoughtcrime: Mario Lopez Forced to Apologize For Comments About Transgender Kids”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Should it come as any surprise? And yet the details are shocking and outrageous. A whistleblower working for Apple has revealed to The Guardian that its popular voice activated spying device helpful virtual assistant Siri, now in millions of households, “regularly” records people having sex, and captures other “countless” invasive moments which it promptly sends to Apple contractors for their listening pleasure “quality control”:   Continue reading “Siri “Regularly” Listens In On Your Sexual Encounters, Apple Insists “Only For A Few Seconds””

CBS News

It’s been a year of crippling emotion for Cindy and Paul Tarashuk — a year since the death of their 26-year-old son also named Paul.

“Talking about him gets me really upset,” Cindy Tarashuk told CBS News. “Talking about this stuff gets me angry.”  Continue reading “Man suffering psychotic breakdown left alone near highway by South Carolina first responders”

New York Times

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of secret documents in 2013, has written a memoir expected to come out Sept. 17, his publisher said Thursday.

The publisher, Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, is releasing the book, “Permanent Record,” in the United States, though it will be published in more than 20 countries, including Britain and Germany, on the same date. A Metropolitan spokeswoman declined to say how much Mr. Snowden was paid.  Continue reading “Edward Snowden’s Memoir Is Coming in September”

AP

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A court on Thursday upheld the rape and sexual assault convictions and 263-year prison sentence of a former Oklahoma City police officer whose case has been watched closely by the Black Lives Matter movement and some conservatives.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously rejected appeals by Daniel Holtzclaw that included a lack of evidence, excessive sentence, prosecutorial misconduct, a “circus atmosphere” during his trial and a failure by the defense attorney to present an expert to offer an alternative explanation to how DNA of one victim wound up on Holtzclaw’s pants.  Continue reading “Oklahoma court upholds sentence for ex-cop convicted of rape”

Venture Beat – by Jeremy Horwitz

While AT&T and T-Mobile have both committed to nationwide rollouts of 5G cellular technology next year, an interview with Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg this morning suggests that 5G may actually take considerably longer than that to spread to customers. However, the prickly nature of the interview with CNBC’s David Faber this morning may have done some injustice to Vestberg’s intent.  Continue reading “Verizon CEO expects 5G in 50% of U.S. land by 2020, 50% of phones by 2024”

Daily Mail

Home improvement retailer Lowe’s has laid off thousands of workers as the company begins the process of outsourcing them to third-party companies.

The company is eliminating thousands of maintenance and assembly workers who put together products such as wheelbarrows and grills.    Continue reading “Home improvement firm Lowe’s lays off thousands of workers amid plans to outsource assembly and maintenance jobs”

Huffington Post – by Jess Mechanic

Kamala Harris has been deemed the democratic party establishment’s next big thing. They’re pushing her as the figure head of the resistance, the anti-Trump: a staunch, strong progressive who relies on her intelligence and empathy to combat the authoritarian belligerence of the current administration. While Harris is certainly poised and intelligent, her progressive credentials are fuzzy and her past is punctuated boldly by her decision to not prosecute OneWest Bank and the “foreclosure king” who ran it, current Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.  Continue reading “Kamala Harris Has To Answer For Not Prosecuting Steve Mnuchin”

Rutherford Institute – by John W Whitehead

“Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.”—Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties

Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn, the question is not whether Donald Trump is the new Adolf Hitler but whether the American Police State is the new Third Reich.  Continue reading “The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already Happened Here?”

Madness Hub

Oh, man . . . what a smart move. The images of Chinese cops, thugs and military going after Hong Kong protesters holding American flags will not play well here: Continue reading “American flags on Nike shoes? NO; American flags in the Hong Kong protests? YES”