Month: July 2019

Google pays $13 million to settle Street View scandal in which its cars and trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal information from tens of millions of people all over the world

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/google-finds-cheap-way-out-of-multibillion-dollar-wi-spy-suit?srnd=premium Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case ever and threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages. The settlement would close the books on a scandal that was touched off by trucks used by Google … Read more

In June 1993, 4000 people specifically skilled in transcendental meditation were brought to Washington DC to meditate for peace. Violent crime went down so much the chance it was random was 2 in a billion.

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by Playaguy This National Demonstration Project to Reduce Violent Crime and Improve Governmental Effectiveness brought approximately 4,000 participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs to the United States national capital from June 7 to July 30, 1993. A 27-member independent Project Review Board consisting of sociologists and criminologists from leading universities, representatives from the … Read more

IT’S DEJA ‘BAM ALL OVER AGAIN! Biden won’t promise Americans they’ll keep their doctor under his healthcare plan.

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via washingtonexaminer: LAS VEGAS — Joe Biden struggled to answer whether he could promise the American people that they could keep their doctors under his healthcare proposal. “Well look, I can’t promise — I can promise them that if in fact the private insurance they have is kept by their company, they keep whoever that plan allows,” … Read more

JOEL KOTKIN: The Tech Oligarchs Are Going to Destroy Democracy — Unless We Stop Them

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Once, the big tech firms embodied American exceptionalism and aspiration. Today, they are strangling these ideals. Government: do something. “Whom do the oligarchs’ wish to destroy? Of course, Donald Trump, whom they find understandably offensive, but who also owes little or nothing to them.” Plus: John D. Rockefeller tried to control energy distribution through his Standard … Read more

Remember, Trump Is Supposed To Be The Angry, Irrational One: Video Goes Viral Of Rep. Tlaib Losing It At 2016 Trump Event: ‘you Guys Are Crazy!’

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https://twitter.com/NewsChute/status/1152675252901752832 “Overnight, this video has gone viral on Twitter. The reason, of course, is that it proves once and for all that Tlaib truly is nothing more or less than a radical left-wing activist, fueled by hatred and anger for those who dare disagree with her. . . . That’s bad enough as it is, … Read more

Buried lede: socialist discovers how economics works. Or as Karol Markowicz tweets, “Bernie raising his staff’s pay but cutting their hours sums up life under socialism much better than I ever could.”

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#FIGHTFOR15: Bernie Sanders Is Finally Guaranteeing His Workers $15/Hr Minimum Wage…By Cutting Hours. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Bernie Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage, prompting mockery Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced this weekend he will cut staffers’ hours so that they can effectively be paid … Read more

IT’S COME TO THIS: Braintree [Massachusetts] Police: ‘Hold Off’ On Crime This Weekend Due To ‘Extreme Heat.’

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BRAINTREE (CBS) — The Braintree Police Department had some fun explaining to residents that they should “hold off” on any crimes they are planning this weekend. In a Facebook post, they wrote, “Folks. Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday.” They said doing so … Read more

Is Digital Bling Propping up China’s Stock Market?

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Tencent is a giant. Its stock, after plunging 50% in 2018, was a big winner earlier this year. Now the uptrend is broken. Revenue is primarily from mobile video game microtransactions, and warning signs are emerging. By Adam H. Williams, Senior Associate at E911-LBS, LBSglobe.com, for WOLF STREET: Tencent is one of the top ten companies by stock … Read more

President Eisenhower Is Rolling In His Grave: Military/Industrial Complex Lobbyist Takes Over The Pentagon

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Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Mark Esper is expected to be confirmed in coming days as the new US Secretary of Defense. His appointment is awaiting final Congressional approval after customary hearings this week before senators. The 55-year-old nominee put forward by President Trump was previously a decorated Lieutenant Colonel and has served in government office … Read more

Come And See The Violence Inherent In The Leftism

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Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul: Sen. Paul suffered six broken ribs and damaged lungs after Rene Boucher, his neighbor, tackled him from behind in 2017. Paul also endured pneumonia following the attack. The Senator successfully sued Boucher, earning more than half million dollars as a result. Then again, according to LuPone, maybe … Read more

California Is Launching a Creepy “Cradle to Career” Data System to Track EVERYTHING About Children

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by Daisy Luther Just in case we haven’t provided you with enough creepy dystopian news lately, the nation’s leader in Creepy Dystopia, California, has a brand new program. The “Cradle to Career Data System” will study and document everything about a child born in the state. But don’t worry, it’s for your children’s own good. … Read more

Big Tech Claims It’s Not Choking Competitors, but Data Suggests Otherwise

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via adweek: Some of the biggest household names in tech—Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon—faced the ire of lawmakers and regulators in Washington, D.C. earlier this week during the largest antitrust hearing in decades. Questions focused on market power and accused the companies of various practices—from buying out smaller firms to reshaping algorithms—that leave other tech and … Read more