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Companies in the United States, and more specifically, Silicon Valley, are building a social credit system for individuals. Much like the social credit system communist China uses to control its population, this authoritarian control is different in one way: it is being done by corporations as opposed to the government. Continue reading “Silicon Valley Is Building A Chinese-Style Social Credit System”
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Off the Grid News – by Adam C.
The average range environment tends to box shooters into a situation that focuses more on safety than it does on developing the skills you need to survive a gun battle. The safety angle isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Most shooting ranges are designed to accommodate both the expert shooter and the first-time shooter who has never handled a weapon in his or her life. In order to accomplish this mission, ranges operate under a series of safety rules that prevent things like prone, crouching, or kneeling shooting positions as well as any sort of movement or deviation from the firing line. Drawing from the holster is usually not permitted, unless the shooter happens to be law enforcement. The net result is that range shooters will typically have an incredibly narrow and focused shooting ability that is far less tactical than their military or law enforcement counterparts. Continue reading “Why You Must Practice Off-Hand Shooting For Survival”
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – It was just after 10 in the morning on Sept. 6, 1949 when Philip Buxton flipped to the back of the phone book and found Howard Unruh’s number.
Buxton called. Unruh surprisingly answered.
Buxton, a reporter with the Camden Courier-Post staff, asked Unruh how many people he had killed. Continue reading “America’s first mass shooting: 70 years ago, a WWII veteran killed 13 of his neighbors”
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- We’ve all been in a situation where a flamethrower could have been handy, right? Maybe someone needs a huge brush pile roasted, but it’s pouring rain. Perhaps your guitar riffing friend is putting on a concert, but the lack of pyrotechnics really shows how little he’s been practicing. Or maybe you just want to celebrate freedom and the American way by slinging flammable dino juice out to “first down” territory. Let’s not get bogged down in the why of a flamethrower, rather we should dive into the how of a flamethrower. Introducing the XM42 Lite Flamethrower. Continue reading “XM42 Lite Flamethrower, Handheld & Civilian Legal – Review”
Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market—an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute—dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby. Continue reading “Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship”
President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary flopped hard when he tried to warm up an audience of angry farmers in Minnesota.
Sonny Perdue met earlier this month with farmers at the annual Farmfest in Redwood Falls, where he tried to cut the tension with a joke toward the end of a contentious town hall meeting, reported the New York Times. Continue reading “Trump’s agriculture secretary met with a ‘cascade of boos’ at disastrous town hall with farmers”
A 75-year-old man who has an artificial leg and says he is hard of hearing was cited for disorderly conduct after he yelled at a police officer to close the bathroom door after the officer used the restroom at a Belton restaurant.
Part of the Tuesday incident was captured on video by a bystander who was told by the officer to stop filming the incident. Continue reading “Man, 75, tells Belton officer to close bathroom door then gets fined $257”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Atlanta, GA — Police officers beat people on video, a lot. And, more often than not, the officers will keep their jobs in spite of video evidence of the attack. However, an attack on a teenager by an Atlanta cop was so egregious that it did, in fact, cost him his job. And now, it is costing him his freedom. Officer Matthew Johns was indicted on eight felonies for the savage beating of a 15-year-old boy last year and this week, he was sentenced to 20 years. Continue reading “Cop Gets Rare 5 Year Prison Sentence for Beating 15yo Boy to the Point of Hospitalization”
A New Jersey police department has unveiled technology that allows 911 operators to stream video from callers’ smartphones. Sounds like a good idea, at first – but where does the surveillance stop?
Gloucester Township Police’s new 911eye emergency dispatch system lets emergency service operators see video live-streamed from a caller’s phone, giving first responders an idea of what they’re getting into before anyone is sent to the scene. For now, the caller has to activate the livestream with a link sent by the 911 dispatcher, which allows operators to use the phone’s camera and microphone. But this is the first step down a very slippery slope. Continue reading “New Jersey cops turn citizens’ phones into surveillance devices – for their own good, of course”
A previously deported illegal alien has pleaded guilty to strangling and drowning his ten-year-old cousin after attempting to sexually assault her in 2016 in Cherokee County, Texas.
Gustavo Zavala-Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico, pleaded guilty on Thursday to murdering Kayla Gomez-Orozco, his cousin by marriage, in 2016 after the girl went missing, CBS Austin reports. Continue reading “Previously Deported Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty to Brutally Murdering 10-Year-Old Girl”
Epstein’s own defense team doesn’t buy the suicide narrative, apparently, as one of his lawyers on Tuesday voiced deep skepticism that he hanged himself while addressing a final hearing in a Manhattan US District Court on Tuesday, which was held to formally dismiss the charges as is typical when the accused is deceased, but also to still allow testimony of some of the victims. Continue reading “Epstein’s Own Lawyers Tell Court He Likely Died By “Assault” As Federal Case Dropped”
At a veterans event in Kentucky last week, President Donald Trump touted what he called an “incredible” new drug he says could help American veterans struggling with depression.
The drug, called esketamine and marketed as Spravato, was produced by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals and billed as a breakthrough treatment for patients who have not responded to other antidepressants. Continue reading “Could a new drug treat veterans with severe depression? President Trump thinks so”
An illegal immigrant in Maryland is alleged to have crawled into the bed of a teenage girl while she was taking a nap and placed a knife against her throat before proceeding to rape her, according to authorities.
Federal officials have requested to keep the man in custody. Continue reading “Illegal immigrant raped Maryland girl, 16, at knifepoint in her bedroom, police say”
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Exasperated with the government’s unflinching attitude to escalating civil unrest, Jason Tse quit his job in Australia and jumped on a plane to join what he believes is a do-or-die fight for Hong Kong’s future.
The Chinese territory is grappling with its biggest crisis since its handover to Beijing 22 years ago as many residents fret over what they see as China’s tightening grip over the city and a relentless march toward mainland control. Continue reading “‘Now or never’: Hong Kong protesters say they have nothing to lose”
J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA — Anti-Semitic fliers saying that Jews and Israel were behind the 9/11 attacks appeared in Northern California about 30 miles from San Francisco.
The fliers discovered last weekend in Novato, a city of about 52,000 in the North Bay area, were plastered on telephone poles, storefronts and a high school campus. They said Israelis were seen dancing on the site of the collapsed Twin Towers, that a Jewish-Israeli man made billions in insurance money and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the attacks. Continue reading “Fliers accusing Jews of being behind 9/11 attacks appear in San Francisco area”