Anti-War – by Grant Smith

The Virginia-Israel Advisory Board VIAB has one key difference with scores of privately funded state chambers of commerce created to foster closer economic integration between the United States and Israel while supporting the Israeli government’s policy agenda.

Originally created by an uncodified act in 2001, VIAB has been funded by Commonwealth of Virginia taxpayers. Its charter is to “advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and the State of Israel, with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, art and education, and general government.” VIAB is a pilot for how Israel can quietly obtain taxpayer funding and official status for networked entities that advance Israel from within key state governments.   Continue reading “Meet VIAB: Virginia’s Taxpayer-Funded Israel Lobby”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

China is using artificial intelligence as a tool to help it decide its foreign policy, detaching from the emotions of useless humans that get in the way of the thought process. What could possibly go wrong allowing A.I. to help decide foreign policy with other countries?

The South China Morning Post has reported that “Several prototypes of diplomatic systems using artificial intelligence are under development in China, according to researchers involved or familiar with the projects.”   Continue reading “China Explores Using Artificial Intelligence To Help Shape Its Foreign Policy”

MassPrivateI

A non-profit association of law-enforcement personnel is being used to track where people drink and much more.

Iowa is preparing to use the National Liquor Law Enforcement Association’s (NLLEA) “Place of Last Drink” or POLD to collect data on businesses and drivers.   Continue reading “A police run non-profit has created a national tracking program called “Place of Last Drink””

RT

Blue Lives Matter, a group advocating for greater protections for police in the US, has claimed that Facebook’s new rules to combat fake news has almost halved the number of people it can reach on the platform.

The group said that the introduction of Facebook’s quality surveys, in which the platform asks users to rate a news source in terms of its trustworthiness, has already seen the audience for its content fall by 40 percent in the last week. Blue Lives Matter believes the drop is down to partisan social media users voting down pages run by opposition groups.  Continue reading “Blue Lives Matter claims Facebook’s ‘fake news’ rules have halved its audience”

Fox News

Hundreds of gun owners in Florida have been ordered to give up their guns under a new law that took effect after the deadly Parkland shooting in February, according to a report published Monday.

The Risk Protection Order, signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott just three weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas, aims to temporarily remove weapons from gun owners who have been deemed by a judge to possibly be a threat to themselves or others.   Continue reading “More than 450 people in Florida ordered to give up guns under new law, report says”

Life News – by Steven Erthelt

The British Supreme Court has ruled that doctors and families can revoke a patient’s life support and withhold food and water without his or her consent and without a court hearing.

The decision is particularly concerning — because it comes from a nation that is already pushing towards euthanasia. In the UK, with its government-run health care system, doctors and hospitals are routinely giving up on patients they believe are too far gone, even children such as Charlie Gard or Alfie Evans. In such instances they are pressuring families to allow life support to be revoked from patients they believe have no chance at life — even though other doctors and medical professionals disagree.   Continue reading “British Supreme Court Rules Patients Can be Starved to Death Without Consent, Without a Court Hearing”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Southport, NC — All too often those who continuously apologize for crimes committed by police officers are able to justify some of the most egregious instances of outright murder by claiming the officer was a bad apple. Almost as often, however, as TFTP has shown numerous times, the bad apple theory is exactly that—a theory—with no evidence to support it.

Illustrating the nature of the bad apple theory is the fact that another entire police department in North Carolina was suspended recently after the department’s chief and lieutenant were arrested on conspiracy charges.   Continue reading “One Bad Apple? Entire Police Dept Suspended Multiple Cops Charged with Conspiracy”

Breitbart – by John Binder

A Florida police officer has died after allegedly being shot in the head by an illegal alien.

Law enforcement confirmed to the media this week that Fort Meyers Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller died in the hospital after being in critical condition for a week following a shootout with an illegal alien from Haiti.  Continue reading “Florida Police Officer Dies After Allegedly Shot by Illegal Alien”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A violent Antifa cell based in Portland, Oregon is planning a “direct confrontation” with participants in a pro-Trump rally next Saturday, according to a call to action on the leftist website “It’s Going Down.”

“Rose City Antifa has continued their great work of doxxing the Portland area Proud Boys involved in this violence, and is also calling for militant antifascist resistance against Patriot Prayer,” reads the posting first reported by Cassandra Fairbanks of the Gateway Pundit.   Continue reading ““Better Bring Our Own Guns” – Portland Antifa Plotting “Direct Confrontation” At Pro-Trump Rally””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

We may have an idea what was the (leaked) reason for today’s selloff in Treasurys, which pushed the 10Y yield just shy of 3.00%.

According to the NYT, the Trump administration is considering a $100 billion unilateral tax cut meant to mainly help the wealthy, and is hopes to bypass Congress in implementing it “a legally tenuous maneuver that would cut capital gains taxation and fulfill a long-held ambition of many investors and conservatives.”   Continue reading “Trump Considering Unilateral $100 Billion Tax Cut On The Wealthy”

CBC News

No traceable gun parts, no background checks, no need for much more than a computer and a 3D printer at home to build one.

They could become the firearms of the future: Plastic-and-resin weapons that American gunsmith and self-described anarchist Cody Wilson wants to spread widely.

On Aug. 1, the 30-year-old Texan intends to legally distribute online blueprints for his single-shot “Liberator” pistol, as well as manuals to complete guns such as the AR-15.  Continue reading “3D-printed ‘downloadable’ firearms are coming as soon as Wednesday. They could reshape U.S. gun control”

Christopher Bollyn

Israeli Transtech Control “Airfield Management” software provided by a senior Israeli spymaster was running on the computer systems of many of the airports and U.S. Air Force bases involved in the events of 9/11.

“The deathly precision” and “magnitude of planning” behind the 9-11 attacks would have needed “years of planning.”  Such a sophisticated operation would require the “fixed frame” of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a “loose group” of terrorists like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg.
– Eckart Werthebach, former president of German intelligence service to Christopher Bollyn, December 2001   Continue reading “The Computer Crimes of 9/11: How Critical U.S. Airport Computers Were Compromised with Israeli Spyware”

Campus Reform – by Toni Airaksinen

Eugene Lang College, part of The New School in Lower Manhattan, will offer a course next semester for students who wish to fight “heterosexist” explanations of animals and nature.

Taught by Heather Davis, “Queer Ecologies” is a four-credit course offered by the school’s Culture and Media department for students who wish to “disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature.”    Continue reading “Course disputes idea that heterosexual sex is ‘natural’”