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Whistleblowing site WikiLeaks has confirmed it was Ecuador that cut off Julian Assange’s internet access on Saturday after another batch of leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair was released.

WikiLeaks did not elaborate on the grounds for Ecuador’s London embassy, where Assange has spent more than four years after being granted asylum over fears of persecution over his publications, to restrict the whistleblower’s web access.   Continue reading “WikiLeaks says Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet after new Clinton emails published”

Forbes – by Thomas Fox-Brewster

In what’s believed to be an unprecedented attempt to bypass the security of Apple iPhones, or any smartphone that uses fingerprints to unlock, California’s top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices.

FORBES found a court filing, dated May 9 2016, in which the Department of Justice sought to search a Lancaster, California, property. But there was a more remarkable aspect of the search, as pointed out in the memorandum: “authorization to depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device that is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES and falls within the scope of the warrant.” The warrant was not available to the public, nor were other documents related to the case.   Continue reading “Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones”

The Washington Post – by Matt Zapotosky

The private prison industry is lobbying against a Justice Department directive to end the use of their facilities, encouraging legislators to question the policy change and legally protesting one significant contract reduction.

The moves by the GEO Group and others demonstrate the practical and political hurdles that stand in the way of the Bureau of Prisons actually ending its use of for-profit facilities to manage federal inmates. The private prison industry claims that the decision to do so was based on faulty research and that officials need contractors because of overcrowding in the federal prison system.   Continue reading “Private prison industry fights Justice Department directive to end the use of contract facilities”

The Daily Signal – by Melissa Quinn

For the past 15 years, Warren Jones has had the same health insurance plan with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City.

But over the years, Jones, of Kansas City, Missouri, has watched the coverage offered in his policy “erode” over time.   Continue reading “In 3 Years, His Insurance Premiums Double as Options Decline Under Obamacare”

Natural Society – by Anthony Gucciardi

Yet another disturbing reason has emerged as to why you should be avoiding health-devastating genetically modified organisms, and it may be one of the most concerning yet. We know that GMO consumption has been linked to a host of serious conditions, but one thing we are not so sure about is the recent discovery of a hidden viral gene deep within genetically modified crops.   Continue reading “Safety Group Blows Lid On ‘Secret Virus’ Hidden In GMO Crops”

Watchdog Texas Bureau – by Kenric Ward

A plan to abolish Texas’ property tax system – the longest of political long shots – is getting slightly better odds with a push from the top Democrat in San Antonio.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff says he could support replacing property taxes with a consumption-based sales tax.   Continue reading “Top Democrat supports scrapping property tax for sales tax”

CBC News – by Lee Berthiaume

Canadian troops are supporting Kurdish fighters as they push toward the Iraqi city of Mosul, says Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.

Kurdish and Iraqi military forces launched the much-anticipated offensive Monday in a bid to free Iraq’s second-largest city from the clutches of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.   Continue reading “Canadian troops supporting Kurds in fight to free Mosul from ISIS”

CNBC – by Everett Rosenfeld

A new trove of interview summaries and notes from the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails lays out a series of allegations that could prove fodder for future attacks on the Democratic presidential nominee.

The 100 pages, released Monday morning, include claims that Clinton “blatantly” disregarded protocol. Other claims include that a group of powerful State Department employees attempted to coordinate a document release, and that a department official asked for a “quid pro quo” related to the former secretary of state’s emails.   Continue reading “New FBI release on Clinton email probe refers to ‘Shadow Government’”

The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.   Continue reading “The Scam”

Jim Stone

FORTUNATELY ASSANGE LEFT A WAY TO CONFIRM IF IT IS OVER OR NOT – THE CHECKSUM KEYS. EVERYONE HAS THEM, AND IF THEY WORK, WHATEVER IS VERIFIED BY THEM IS LEGIT. Whatever happened – if he was poisoned, arrested, whatever – even if he pokes his head out the balcony window – there is a way to keep what is credible credible: Either the check sum keys work or they do not. That ought to end the rumors that “those who are saying he is arrested or dead are trolls” that is now taking off on the web. Continue reading “Assange updates”

The Federalist – by Nicole Russell

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, the second as farce. — Karl Marx

If anyone needed new evidence that millennials have been deprived of a basic education, a new survey provides it with findings about their high acceptance rates of mass-murder-enabling ideologies such as socialism and communism.
Continue reading “Survey Finds High Support For Communism Among Millennials”

The Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Moscow, Russia – Yesterday, Russia’s flagship, and only aircraft carrier — the Admiral Kuznetsov — left the port of Severomorsk en route to the eastern Mediterranean – off the Syrian coast, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The carrier will bolster the Russian anti-terror campaign in Syria and serve as a hedge against U.S. aggression, and is to be escorted by the battle cruiser Peter the Great, the Vice-Admiral Kulakov destroyer, the anti-submarine vessel Severomorsk, and four other naval vessels from Russia’s Northern fleet.   Continue reading “Putin Sends Aircraft Carrier Group to Mediterranean as Syrian Powderkeg Poised to Erupt”

Daisy Luther

There are so many things going on right now that I’d be writing feverishly all day long if I hoped to cover everything. So for now, while we have so many ominous world events in the quest for global dominance and this kerfuffle of an election going on, we’ll do a quick weekday round-up to keep you apprised of the most important news items. Welcome to the first edition of Headlines & Headlies.   Continue reading “Head Lines and Head Lies: Oct. 17, 2016”