UNEXPECTEDLY: Soda Taxes Hit Poor the Most. “Taxes imposed by Democrats have made soda more expensive than beer.”

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via freebeacon: Taxes levied per ounce on sugary drinks by Democrats in Berkeley, Philadelphia, and Seattle are even more regressive, according to the study. The middle class would pay the most if Congress passed a nationwide soda tax, as two-thirds of its revenue would come from those earning between $20,000 and $100,000. If an excise tax … Read more

Obama DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson: I Freely Admit We Detained Children, “It Was Necessar

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THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Obama DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson ‘Freely Admits’ They Detained Children, Families: ‘We Believed It Was Necessary.’ Related item from Fareed Zakaria: Democrats may be walking into an immigration trap. According to a U.N. report, last year the United States became the world’s leading destination for asylum seekers, with a 44 percent increase … Read more

IBM’s Project Debator is an AI designed to debate humans by accessing insane amounts of “fact based” information online to form an argument. Human shills, meet your replacement.

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IBM is developing an AI which can debate humans with information stored in it’s memory. (apologies; headline says “online” and is incorrect, at least for now. ) Project Debater turned out to be a formidable opponent, scanning the hundreds of millions of newspaper and journal articles in its memory to quickly synthesize an argument on … Read more

Tim Canova: Democracies everywhere have banned electronic voting machines because they’re inherently vulnerable to hacking. Except in US, here it’s Black Box voting, cannot inspect the software, it’s “proprietary.”

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We need paper ballots counted by hand in public for transparency & Integrity. Democracies everywhere have banned electronic voting machines because they’re inherently vulnerable to hacking. Except in US, here it’s Black Box voting, cannot inspect the software, it’s “proprietary.” We need paper ballots counted by hand in public for transparency & Integrity. — Tim … Read more

Caught this on Twitter. As Orwellian as it gets. What happened to integrity, is this journalism?

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Blatant propaganda – Face recognition data can be prone to error, which can implicate people for crimes they haven’t committed. Facial recognition software is particularly bad at recognizing African Americans and other ethnic minorities, women, and young people, often misidentifying or failing to identify them, disparately impacting certain groups. Additionally, face recognition has been used … Read more

Macron calls for sanctions against EU states refusing migrants

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French president Emmanuel Macron said he favors imposing financial penalties on EU states that refuse to accept migrants, Macron Threatens Sanctions Against EU States That Turn Migrants Away According to the French president, financial sanctions should be introduced against EU members that refuse migrants who have proven asylum status. Speaking to reporters Saturday at a … Read more

Dear High School Graduates: the Status Quo “Solutions” Enrich the Few at Your Expense

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by Charles Hugh-Smith You deserve a realistic account of the economy you’re joining. Dear high school graduates: please glance at these charts before buying into the conventional life-course being promoted by the status quo. Here’s the summary: the status quo is pressuring you to accept its “solutions”: borrow mega-bucks to attend college, then buy a … Read more

1000s Of People In Sweden Are Willingly Microchipping Their Own Hands, And It Is Part Of The “Transhuman” Movement That Is Sweeping The Globe

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by Michael Snyder The future is coming, and it is going to look very strange. In the past, many authors had raised the possibility of tyrannical governments forcibly microchipping their own populations someday, but what if most of humanity actually embraces this new technology enthusiastically? Today, thousands of people in Sweden are eagerly having microchips … Read more

Things Just Went Nuclear In Our Trade War With China, And A Giant Shockwave Is About To Hit The U.S. Economy

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by Michael Snyder It is difficult to find the words to describe just how serious America’s trade war with China is becoming.  As you will see below, the two largest economies on the entire planet are on a self-destructive course that almost seems irreversible at this point.  The only way that this trade war is … Read more

5g will be absorbed into human skin and nervous system

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Ye_k_tj3E Higher-frequency EMFs, which include x-rays and gamma rays. These EMFs are in the ionizing radiation part of the electromagnetic spectrum and can damage DNA or cells directly. Low- to mid-frequency EMFs, which include static fields (electric or magnetic fields that do not vary with time), magnetic fields from electric power lines and appliances, radio … Read more