Reuters

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Diners at a KFC store in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will have a new way to pay for their meal. Just smile.

Customers will be able to use a “Smile to Pay” facial recognition system at the tech-heavy, health-focused concept store, part of a drive by Yum China Holdings Inc to lure a younger generation of consumers.

Yum China, which spun off from its U.S. parent Yum Brands Inc last year, is trying to rev up growth in the world’s second largest economy, where food safety scares and changing consumer tastes have dented sales since 2012.   Continue reading “Just smile: In KFC China store, diners have new way to pay”

In case anyone wants to dive deep, this is on the yearly Burning Man festival, out in the Nevada desert on gov land.  Ha!!  It also covers other deceitful and destructive agendas that look like love and freedom but lead to debauchery and compliance.  One of the broadcasters calls Burning Man “The greatest psy-op of all time.”   Makes me wonder how to protect the young ones from this highly-crafted and near irresistible lure.  I’m only half-way through but there’s powerful dot-connecting.  It’s 5 hours, and so far, for me, riveting:
Continue reading “Steve Outtrim – “Shadow History of Burners, Pt 7: Social Engineering on the Electronic Frontier””

Fox 4 KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At least three families in the Brookside neighborhood have had encounters with swooping owls while walking or jogging the street. It’s the reason Janice Allen looks up into the trees while working out in her neighborhood.

“I used to walk looking down at different things that had fallen, sticks and acorns, so I don`t trip on them when I`m walking my dog. And now I find myself looking up at the trees to see where maybe the owls might be,” Allen said. “We have a group email going that alerts us when we have attacks in the area and one of the neighbors recently was attacked when she was running with her dog.”   Continue reading “Swooping owl attacks have Brookside neighbors on alert, experts scratching their heads”

New York Post – by Susan Edelman

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office says it has “found no evidence” that newspaper reporter and TV star Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered as she dug deep into the JFK assassination.

After announcing last January it would take a new look at Kilgallen’s Nov. 8, 1965, death, a “thorough, eight-month-long investigation” could not conclude that it was a homicide, the DA said in a statement. It thanked her supporters, and promised to review any new evidence that emerges.   Continue reading “DA: ‘No evidence’ reporter investigating JFK assassination was murdered”

Chron

Oil from the Exxon Mobil Beaumont refinery has spilled outside the facility onto a nearby county road, the company reported.

“We are monitoring a sheen. There is not a reported oil spill,” spokeswoman Charlotte Huffaker said by email.

She said company emergency response teams were on hand. The flooding was attributed to rising water on the Neches River.   Continue reading “Exxon Mobil Beaumont refinery reports oil spill”

Activist Post – by Carey Wedler

Though outrage over mass surveillance swept the United States after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, there is little discussion of these invasive practices just four years later.

This apathy comes despite former President Barack Obama’s move to expand to information sharing between agencies just days before Trump took office and after the Trump administration signaled its desire to continue widespread surveillance.   Continue reading “Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights”

BBC News

It is 250 years since America’s Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the two British men who created it?

“It was the equivalent of the moon landings today,” according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler.   Continue reading “The men who drew the Mason-Dixon Line”

Life Site News – by Lisa Bourne

August 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Multiple professors at one college are using their positions of authority to regulate their students’ speech, threatening to flunk or even expel young people from class if they use certain offending phrases in class – like “referring to women/men as females or males.”

Gender and homosexuality politics are among the areas the professors are looking to influence the young people in their classes, along with race and immigration ideology.  Continue reading “Professor will flunk students who refer to students as ‘male’ or ‘female’”

DW

An 87-year-old woman has been sentenced to prison after she claimed that Jews were never exterminated in Auschwitz. Her criminal record includes two fines and another sentence for sedition.

A court in Detmold on Friday sentenced Ursula Haverbeck to eight months in jail on charges of sedition. The presiding judge ruled out the possibility of parole and said that Haverbeck had a lack of “any kind of respect” and that she had made more offensive comments in the courtroom.   Continue reading “‘Nazi Grandma’ holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck sentenced to jail”

Huffington Post – by Carla Herreria

The police officer seen in a viral video arresting a nurse in Salt Lake City is now under criminal investigation, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill ordered a criminal investigation Friday into the actions of Detective Jeff Payne who aggressively arrested nurse Alex Wubbels on July 26 for refusing to draw blood from a severely injured patient.
Continue reading “Officer Who Arrested Utah Nurse In Viral Video Is Now Under Criminal Investigation”

The Organic Prepper

Survival Saturday is a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared.

This Week in the News

This week, Survival Saturday focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the largest rainfall ever to hit the continental United States. It’s important to remember that a disaster doesn’t end when the initial event is over. It’s a series of cascading events, and Hurricane Harvey has proven this to be true yet again.   Continue reading “It’s Not Over: The Terrible Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey”