By Nicholas West

While I don’t subscribe to the idea that there are inherently bad breeds of dogs, Hollywood has done its best to create the Doberman as an iconically terrifying animal. Which makes it even stranger that the A.I. Robo-Dog, which already crosses the creepy line for most people, would be topped off by a 3D-printed Doberman head equipped with a neural network that can learn on its own...

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Purchase Greenland…why not? CNN anti-Trumpers react
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Ghislaine Maxwell spotted reading book about CIA operative deaths
Why do President Trump’s critics change his words?
If his actual words are so bad, why do they alter them?
Don Lemon allegation…just two drunk guys in a late-night bar?
President Trump accused Tlaib and Omar of racism, smart move?
A brain hack to deprogram bigotry via conversation
Has Tlaib and Omar’s gender and ethnicity HELPED them achieve?

LITTLE ST. JAMES, U.S. Virgin Islands (INTELLIHUB) — Drone footage posted to the Rusty Shackleford YouTube channel reveals the size and scope of a joint FBI-NYPD raid of Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James Island, a.k.a. “Orgy Island,” compound where the 66-year-old sex trafficker pimped out underage girls to rich powerful clients such as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and others.

In the video, investigators can be seen attempting to somewhat shield themselves from the drone which got in rather close at times.

A Republican congressional candidate in Georgia has dropped out of the congressional race after calling himself a "white nationalist."
Donnie Bolena, a longshot candidate running to challenge Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., said in a 22-minute long Facebook video that the local Fulton County Republican Party had pressured him to exit the race, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The parents of students enrolled at a Texas school are livid after learning that teachers are modifying the clothing of children who broke a strict dress code to adhere to its policy.

By Rezwan

On August 5, India’s BJP-led government revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution that gave special autonomy status to the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir dividing it into two union territories – Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Fearing unrest, protests, and opposition, the authorities put hundreds of political leaders and their aides under house arrest and suspended access to mobile, landline and internet networks...

By Arjun Walia

A new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has shown that multiple popular infant prescriptions are contaminated with aluminum. You may be asking how much aluminum, but the authors make it a point to stress that there are no safe amounts of aluminum levels that can be inside of a human body, let alone a newborn baby. That being said, the amounts found are listed within the abstract of the study...

By Dulce Ruby

“What we’ve found is that horses can not only read human facial expressions but they can also remember a person’s previous emotional state when they meet them later that day — and, crucially, that they adapt their behavior accordingly,” Karen McComb, a professor at the University of Sussex, said in a news release. “Essentially horses have a memory for emotion.”

Scientists have previously shown horses can recognize expressions, but the latest findings, published this week in the journal Current Biology, are the first to show the mammals can recall an expression linked with an individual’s face...

By Jamie Williams

The California Supreme Court just rejected the government’s attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, to submit to random searches of his electronic devices and social media accounts. The trial court had imposed the condition because the judge believed teenagers “typically will brag” about drug use on the Internet—even though there was no evidence that the minor in this case, Ricardo P., had ever used any electronic devices in connection with any drugs or illegal activity, let alone ever previously bragged about drug use online.

EFF and the ACLU filed an amicus brief in the case back in 2016, warning that the search condition imposed here was highly invasive, unconstitutional, and in violation of the California Supreme Court’s own standard...

Vice President Mike Pence faced calls to cancel his upcoming visit to Ireland after he confirmed the official trip on Twitter Thursday.

By Garfield Benjamin, Solent University

Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of the Tesla boss’s other companies, Neuralink, is developing a brain implant to connect people’s minds directly to a computer.

Musk admits that he takes inspiration from science fiction, and that he wants to make sure humans can “keep up” with artificial intelligence. He seems to have missed the part of sci-fi that acts as a warning for the implications of technology.

These mind-reading systems could affect our privacy, security, identity, equality and personal safety. Do we really want all that left to companies with philosophies such as that of Facebook’s former mantra, “move fast and break things”?...

By Aaron Kesel

In another Facebook scandal of the year, the company has been accused of paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services...

As we’ve come to expect, “RINOs” (Republicans in name only) like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are now eagerly pushing the so-called “red flag” laws that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to see implemented all across the country as an affront to the Second Amendment. But why is nothing being said about the role that psychiatric pharmaceuticals like SSRIs (selective serotonin reputake inhibitors) quite obviously play in America’s mass shootings?

Politicians told us to put up plastic signs that said “no guns allowed”. The results were horrible. -- Instead of making us safer as they promised, these “gun-free” zones left crowds of unarmed people at the mercy of mass murderers. Gun-control politicians aren’t criticized when their policies fail. Rather than fix their mistakes, they invent a new gun-control law. Criminals don’t follow gun laws, so these new laws are no more effective than the last ones. We’re rightfully disturbed when innocent people are slaughtered. Rather than fix their mistakes, Democrat politicians offered up human sacrifices so we’ll feel safer.

NORWAY’s local elections are less than a month away and a rule could see up to 350,000 immigrants legally vote in the Scandinavian country.

If you want a standalone office suite for your computer, LibreOffice may soon not just be your best choice, it will be close to your only PC-based choice.

By B.N. Frank

Never mind that WiFi exposure reduces impulse control, which can increase potential for violence.

Most are familiar with the saying – “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” Because of increased gun violence, many American law enforcement agencies have been asking that communities invest in expensive WiFi operating technology to be installed for deterring crime...

Experts agree that paper ballots are needed, but eight American states will use completely paperless machines in the 2020 elections.

Yes, most people want to live on a planet that is clean and less polluted, but they don’t want to pay reparations to the elite ruling glass, submitting to carbon taxes and geoengineering schemes that have unintended consequences. The real problem with the environment is the Hollywood A-listers who fly around the world pretending they can save the planet. Moreover, eliminating carbon from the atmosphere will have unintended consequences.

It’s easy to photograph a chunk of ice breaking off of Greenland in the summer months, but no one is under water during the winter documenting how the ice forms slowly along the bottom. It’s easy to cherry-pick temperature data during a warm front, as long as the data allows you to confirm a theory that will keep money rolling in to fund your “research.”

General Electric shares fell as much as 15% on Thursday after fraud investigator Harry Markopolos, who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, said GE was concealing deep financial problems.

In a 175-page report, Markopolos accused GE of hiding $38.1 billion in potential losses and asserted that the company's cash situation was far worse than it had disclosed.

'GE's true debt to equity ratio is 17:1, not 3:1, which will undermine its credit status,' Markopolos said in the report, which was commissioned by an undisclosed hedge fund that has taken short positions on GE stock.

The report says GE is insolvent and asserts that its industrial businesses have a working capital deficit of $20 billion.

The plunge in share prices wiped more than $10 billion off of GE's market capitalization in a matter of hours.