Washington Post

SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley companies and law enforcement are starting to talk about how to ward off meddling by malicious actors including Russia on social media in the November midterms, an attempt at dialogue and information-sharing that was absent during the 2016 presidential elections.

Facebook convened a meeting last month with representatives from the biggest players in the technology industry along with FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials who are responsible for protecting elections from foreign interference, according to eight people familiar with the discussions. Google, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Snap and the parent company of Yahoo and AOL, Verizon subsidiary Oath, attended, according to four of the people.   Continue reading “Tech didn’t spot Russian interference during the last election. Now it’s asking law enforcement for help.”

Breitbart – by Joel B Pollak

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein praised Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) for introducing H.R. 6095, the Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act (EAADA), which will help stop left-wing attempts to urge companies and consumers to boycott Israel.

The new law will expand upon, and strengthen, the provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1979, which was enacted to counter the Arab League boycott of Israel.  Continue reading “ZOA’s Morton Klein Praises Ron DeSantis, Bob Goodlatte for Bill Punishing Boycotts of Israel”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

House Speaker Paul Ryan has added a huge cheap-labor visa-worker program to his stalled amnesty bill in the hope of getting support from agriculture-district GOP legislators before the scheduled Wednesday vote.

The bill would allow food-sector employers to keep a population of up to 1.35 million “H-2C” guest-workers working on farms and in the food-processing industry. The law would allow employers to bring in 450,000 workers per year, under three-year visas, who would largely replace the existing population of roughly 1 million illegal immigrants — and also force wages down for many Americans and legal immigrants.   Continue reading “Ryan Adds 1.35 Million Low-Wage Visa-Workers to Revive His Fading Amnesty Bill”

Yahoo News

Police have arrested a popular Pennsylvania DJ in the cold case killing of a young woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered in her home back in 1992.

Christy Mirack was just 25 years old when she was beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted in her Greenfield Estate townhouse in East Lampeter Township on Dec. 21, 1992.    Continue reading “Man Arrested in 1992 Murder of Teacher After DNA Website Links Him to Killing”

New York Post – by Carl Campanile

Mike Bloomberg is mulling another run for president — but as a Democrat, sources close to the former three-term mayor said.

If he takes the plunge, Bloomberg would be 78 when he’s competing in Democratic primaries across the nation.  Continue reading “Bloomberg considering run for president as a Democrat”

Business Insider

The Supreme Court just quietly overturned a decision that upheld the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as part of a ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban that primarily targets majority-Muslim countries.

During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led the US government to force more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent into detention camps.   Continue reading “The Supreme Court just quietly overturned a decision that allowed the US government to place Japanese-Americans in ‘concentration camps’ during World War II”

CBS News

“Think about trying to live today on the income you had 15 years ago.” That’s how agriculture expert Chris Hurt describes the plight facing U.S. farmers today.

The unequal economy that’s emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care in rural areas, have had a severe impact on the people growing America’s food. Recent data shows just how much. Farmers are dying by suicide at a higher rate than any other occupational group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.    Continue reading “Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers”

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Clash Daily

Animal rights activists harass a couple of guys fishing and it gets ugly.

A couple of guys were out fishing on a bridge on a beautiful, sunny day.

It’s an age-old thing that people do — hunting, fishing, out in nature, and bringing home food.   Continue reading “Animal Activists Attack Two Bro’s For Fishing – All Hell Breaks Loose”

CNS News – by Natalia Mittelstadt

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy reportedly is proposing major hikes in gun-permit and licensing fees that include, for instance, a 2,400% increase in the permit fee for a handgun, from $2 to $50, reported NJ.com.

Such fees have not been raised since the 1960s in New Jersey and the governor’s plan has not been formally introduced in the State Legislature, said NJ.Com.  Continue reading “Report: NJ Gov. Proposes 2,400% Fee Hike on Handgun Permits”

The Organic Prepper

Editor’s note: A point I’ve been harping on a lot lately is how we in the United States have been divided by politics and the media lately. Many have become callous and lost their humanity. People have begged for laws and rulings against others but don’t like those laws and rulings when it later applies to them. It will ring familiar when you read this article as Selco shares how the media manipulated the population of the Balkans fanning the flames of hatred and fear. To paraphrase, if we don’t learn from history, we’ll repeat the mistakes, again and again. Don’t let yourself be manipulated by half-truths and hate-mongering propaganda. ~ Daisy   Continue reading “SELCO: “The media manipulated people, bombarding us with fear and hate” during the Balkan Wars. Sound familiar?”

Fox News

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Trump’s controversial travel ban affecting several mostly Muslim countries, offering a limited endorsement of the president’s executive authority on immigration in one of the hardest-fought battles of this term.

The 5-4 ruling marks the first major high court decision on a Trump administration policy. It upholds the selective travel restrictions, which critics called a discriminatory “Muslim ban” but the administration argued was needed for security reasons.   Continue reading “Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban on some Muslim-majority nations”

RT

Authorities are searching for a mysterious pilot who took a plane for a dangerous joyride before abandoning it on the grounds of a Coast Guard Training Center and disappearing.

Witnesses saw the small red Piper PA-12 plane flying erratically and dangerously close to the ground before it illegally landed on a restricted beach at the Coast Guard facility in Cape May, New Jersey on Sunday.
The Cape May County Police Department, the Coast Guard’s fire department, police department and investigative services, and even the Sheriff Department’s K-9 Unit were called the scene, the training center said in a statement.
 Continue reading “Mysterious joyride: Pilot disappears after abandoning stolen plane on New Jersey beach”

RT

A family trip to Ikea ended with a bang when a child fired a loaded handgun it found wedged in one of the store’s couches in Fishers, Indiana.

The child, whose age has not been released, found the gun in one of the store’s couches and pulled the trigger, firing at least one shot, Fishers Police Department said, the Indy Star reports. Luckily, no one was injured in the shooting.   Continue reading “Child fires gun found inside couch at Ikea store”

RT

Touted by some as the planet’s greenest vehicles, electric Teslas may be as bad for the environment as traditional petrol and diesel cars, the latest research reveals.

According to researchers at the UK-based climate data provider Engaged Tracking, the production of Tesla cars, as well as fossil fuel-powered plants used for generating electricity to charge the vehicles produce nearly the same amount of emissions that conventional engines do.   Continue reading “Teslas may produce as much CO2 as gasoline powered cars”

Mail.com

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The 4-month-old Honduran had just entered the United States illegally with a man who first claimed to be her father, then said he was her uncle, and presented what appeared to be a false birth certificate.

The girl, wrapped in white bedding, was placed in a white crib under close watch of U.S. investigators, who waited for a Honduran consular official to arrive Monday. She was among about 1,100 people in a former warehouse that tripled in size last year, largely to accommodate people — many from Central America — traveling as families, and children traveling alone.   Continue reading “A day with Border Patrol: imperiled infant, distraught dad”

Stars and Stripes

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — The Trump administration has chosen an Army base and an Air Force base, both in Texas, to house detained migrants swept up in the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday.

Mattis said he could not confirm specifics, such as the number of migrants to be sheltered at Fort Bliss and Goodfellow Air Force Base. He spoke to reporters in Alaska alongside Sen. Dan Sullivan, an Alaska Republican.   Continue reading “Migrant detainees to be housed at Fort Bliss, Goodfellow AFB”

The Hill

Border patrol agents have stopped referring adult immigrants who cross the southern U.S. border illegally for criminal prosecution, raising questions about the future of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.

The Associated Press reported Monday that Kevin McAleenan, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said he ordered his staff to halt referrals after President Trump signed an executive order last week to stop the separation of migrant families.  Continue reading “Border agents suspend prosecution referrals for illegal border crossers”