The Verge – by Adi Robertson

Iowa state officials and Democratic Party members are fighting online misinformation and conspiracies alongside widespread technical problems, and the resulting chaos is putting platforms’ newly released misinformation policies to the test.

Companies like Facebook and Twitter take a hard line on some voting-related false information, including posts that give incorrect election dates, encourage people to not vote, or promote fake systems like “voting by text message.” Outside these clear-cut cases, though, the options get much more complicated, and social media companies have long struggled with the distinction between a disputed claim and a malicious falsehood. Continue reading “Iowa conspiracy theories are testing Facebook’s misinformation policy”

Dr. Joseph Mercola

Would you want your medical records, including your vaccination records, permanently embedded into your skin, so anyone with a smartphone device could read them? The privacy implications are immense, as are the ethical considerations of what could, perhaps, become mandated along with vaccinations.  Continue reading “MIT Wants Permanent Vaccine Record Embedded in Your Skin”

WBRC 6 News

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) – Authorities have booked a man for capital murder after a Kimberly police officer was shot late Tuesday night.

Jail records show 37-year-old Preston Cheyenne Johnson has been booked with capital murder for shooting a police officer. Johnson and three other people were taken into custody near Highway 78 in Dora after 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Continue reading “Suspect booked for capital murder after Kimberly police officer killed Tuesday night”

Video Rebel’s Blog

In a year we might not be allowed to freely exchange ideas on the web so I have decided to talk today when we know little rather than wait a year when we will know more but not be allowed to say it.

We know very little about the Coronavirus. We hear stories that patents who die are being taken directly to crematorium. We hear stories about a young boy whose family got the disease. He had no symptoms but did test positive. A woman in Germany survived the virus but tested positive for high viral load after recovery. Are they both immune carriers? Just how many people are dying and how many are surviving? We don’t know yet.  Continue reading “Wuhan Virus: Made In The USA?”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

President Trump is allegedly set to release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to Israel in the coming weeks to aid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election campaign. Continue reading “Report: Trump to Release Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard to Israel to Aid Netanyahu’s Re-election”

The Weather Channel

Ten people on board a cruise ship docked in Japan have tested positive for novel coronavirus, according to Japanese media reports.

A passenger on the Diamond Princess, operated by Carnival Corp.’s Princess Cruises, tested positive for the virus after leaving the ship in Hong Kong on Jan. 25. That prompted officials in Japan, where the ship had later arrived, to delay the Diamond Princess. A team of quarantine officials and medical staff boarded the ship and began medical checks of everyone on board, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed health ministry official.  Continue reading “10 Passengers on Cruise Ship in Japan Test Positive for Coronavirus; China Travelers Banned, Cruises Canceled”

AP

MIAMI (AP) — Two men charged with drug trafficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled “Bag Full of Drugs,” Florida authorities said.

Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhardt, both 34, were pulled over in Santa Rosa County on Saturday after a trooper clocked them going 95 mph on Interstate 10 on the state’s Panhandle, according to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest report. Continue reading “Package labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ leads to Florida arrests”

The Great Recession

Having predicted last year that a recession would begin in the summer of 2019 and that it would likely start with a major repo crisis, I am now proven wrong by 2019’s fourth-quarter GDP. If the repo crisis that started in the final week of summer had actually been the start of a recession, we would have seen fourth-quarter GDP go negative. Instead, it came in at 2.1% growth.  Continue reading “GDP is In, and Recession is Out … or is it?”

Sputnik

Four US bases are prepared to assist the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and house US citizens who may have been exposed to the Wuhan coronavirus overseas, Pentagon officials revealed Saturday.

According to Military.com, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper approved an HHS request to house around 1,000 people who may have been exposed to the deadly virus while traveling abroad. Continue reading “Pentagon Designates Four Additional Military Bases as Coronavirus Quarantine Centers”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Fresno, CA — All too often, families in need of medical help for their family members in a crisis will call 911 and receive anything but help. All too often, police—who have zero training in dealing with the mentally or physically ill—will show up to these medical calls for help and abuse, assault, arrest, and sometimes even kill those in need of help. A California woman learned this the hard way over the weekend when she called for an ambulance, got police instead, and watched her child endure a horrifying fate at the hands of Fresno’s finest. Continue reading “Cops Mistake Autistic Child’s Seizure for Drug Use, Beat and Handcuff Him”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has deployed a new addition to its nuclear arsenal — a long-range missile armed with a nuclear warhead of reduced destructive power. The so-called low-yield missile joins other, more powerful weapons aboard stealthy submarines prowling the oceans.

The debut deployment aboard long-range submarines, known as boomers, is a landmark in U.S. nuclear weapons policy. It is the first major addition to the strategic nuclear arsenal in recent decades and is a departure from the Obama administration’s policy of lessening dependence on nuclear weapons in pursuit of a nuclear-free world.  Continue reading “US adds ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon to its submarine arsenal”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Livingston, LA — As TFTP reported late last year, a high level Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy — who commanded the SWAT team — and his wife were indicted on more than 150 felonies for unspeakable crimes against children and animals. Dennis Perkins, 44, and and his wife Cynthia Perkins, 34, are accused of multiple counts of child rape and the production of child pornography, among other disturbing charges. Now, another former cop, Melanie Barnett Curtin, 41, of Denham Springs, was arrested Saturday, Feb. 1 as she returned from a cruise in New Orleans.  Continue reading “Another Fmr Cop Arrested in Connection to Child Sex Ring Run by High-Level SWAT Commander”