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Governments are pushing the public to switch to smart vehicles to reduce fossil fuel consumption, but there is also a second motive – surveillance. This September, Ford filed a new patent to eavesdrop on riders. They plan to share this information with third-parties to personalize the advertisements riders hear. Ford will also take the driver’s destination into consideration to determine location-specific advertisements and suggestions. The technology will factor in the weather, traffic, and all external sensors to fine tune when and what to market to passengers. Advertisements are perhaps the least ominous use of voice data based on the plans...

1 in 3 Minneapolis Public Housing residents are Somalis... Glass ceilings get broken, then wallets get stolen. Only in America? No. Only in Gov. Walz’s Minnesota. But first, let’s pause to celebrate the incredible historic moment of the first Somali refugee to run a public housing agency. Sharmarke Issa was confirmed by the Minneapolis City Council to chair Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). Issa is the first immigrant and first East African to serve as chair of the MPHA Board of Commissioners. “Having grown up in in Minneapolis public housing after coming to our city as a refugee, Sharmarke’s story...

Hillary Clinton has long been one of the most anti-free speech figures in American politics, including calling upon European officials to force Elon Musk to censor American citizens under the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). She is now suggesting the arrest of Americans who spread what she considers disinformation. It is a crushingly ironic moment since it was her campaign that funded the infamous Steele dossier and spread false stories of Russian collusion during her presidential campaign. Presumably, that disinformation would not be treated as criminal viewpoints. Speaking on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show this week, Clinton was asked about...

This is openly totalitarian. If we don’t resist this, we’re done: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible.” ... Kamala Harris literally said they will be doing a gun confiscation. What’s it going to take for everyone to realize these people are straight up communists and they are coming for our guns, our free speech and all our constitutional rights. Democrats are domestic terrorists.

Is it true that Kamala Harris’s earrings at the debate were clip-on earbuds? ... And whatabout the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and geese? Could be, but the most important thing is Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Rule 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." ... But I have more serious things to discuss today, given that our wise leaders are talking about sending long-range missiles to Ukraine. ... The truth is Washington wants to take up Zelensky's proposals for deep strikes on Russian territory because Ukraine is losing the war and could be defeated even before the...

It’s a good thing their numbers are thriving. After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets done, polar bear safaris may be Canada’s only growth industry.. Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2019. I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzes the latest data and reviews the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving. Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university. However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true. The polar bear, the iconic image of the climate...

The radical Cornell University prof who lauded the Hamas terror attack on Israel as “exhilarating” and “energizing” dodged any punishment and is now back teaching at the upstate Ivy League school. Shamed history Professor Russell Rickford was out for the past year on “voluntary leave” after widespread public outcry when he was recorded at an off-campus anti-Israel rally cheering Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. ““It was exhilarating, it was energizing ….I was exhilarated,” Rickford said at the time — before apologizing for applauding the mass murder of innocent civilians. ... Rickford is now teaching at least...

The US is on a highway to hell! The US Federal government just hit a dubious landmark — $1.6 TRILLION in interest payments expected by year end. It is already at $1.2 TRILLION. ... Biden/Harris’s spending spree (which Harris wants to continue). ... Interest payments will crowd out other expenditures, like Social Security, Defense and Medicare. ... Eternal deficits are not sustainable, especially since much of government spending rerpresents payoffs to political donors. Interest on the federal debt this FY is equal to about half of all personal income taxes collected – we’re a nation of debt slaves. ... Yes,...

'There still remains significant gaps in our national security screening regime for land purchases,' lawmakers say.. China and other foreign adversaries are still permitted to purchase U.S. land near sensitive Coast Guard facilities, ports, and Energy Department labs, exposing national security gaps that lawmakers say enable hostile regimes to conduct espionage operations on American soil. The Treasury Department's Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the central body responsible for approving land sales to foreign entities, moved to "significantly expand" its jurisdiction in July, allowing it to review real estate transactions near 50 military and other sensitive sites....

one wonders how President Trump and those who love him have managed to cope.... there is no telling what might happen to the United States of America if deranged and homicidal anti-Trump lunatics ever get their way... former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told host Maria Bartiromo that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, who tried to assassinate president at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, might have used “inside information” from a “3rd party” to determine Trump’s whereabouts. I want to know how that person knew to be there, at that golf hole, at that time, that...

Things are getting curiouser and curiouser as more information comes out about Ryan Wesley Routh, the unhinged Kamala fan who got all too close to assassinating Donald Trump on Sunday. First, he didn't like Trump. At all. Judging by his tweet history, he voted for Trump in 2016, but at some point became disillusioned and, clearly, violent. A truck in the driveway of his home in Hawaii is bedecked with a "Biden-Harris" campaign sticker, so his allegiances had clearly changed. He had turned on Trump way before he set up his sniper's nest near that golf course in Florida. Second,...

The United Nations frenziedly condemned a new Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike as one of Israel’s “dramatic violations of international humanitarian law.” The problem is that the UN workers killed were also Hamas terrorists. The UN and many other organizations ... are not telling you is that Hamas jihadis have long used schools and other “civilian” buildings in Gaza as terrorist bases and that the “aid workers” almost always turn out to be active terrorists. That appears to be the case once again with the IDF strike this week, where at least three UNRWA “workers” killed were Hamas jihadis. UNRWA...

The White House Office of Management and Budget has said that the Biden administration is opposed to the bill introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., to clamp down on the sale of U.S. farmland to China and other “adversaries.” The bill passed the House this week. A companion bill has been introduced in the Senate. The Biden administration is opposed to the bill introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., to clamp down on the sale of U.S. farmland to China and other “adversaries.”

Legislation has lots of support, but it may not make it to the House floor this Congressional session A Republican-backed bill seeking to rein in progressive ideology in medical schools has garnered plenty of support among conservatives, as well as an active lobbying campaign, but its path to success is foggy. Among hurdles it faces is opposition among the medical establishment as time runs down on the current House session with the looming November election. Rep. Greg Murphy, a North Carolina Republican and a doctor, introduced the House bill in March. Senate Republicans soon followed with a companion measure. It...

Forget about the ducks and geese disappearing from public parks. In this beleaguered city, residents say the biggest problem, by far, is that wild-driving Haitian migrants — unfamiliar with US road laws — are turning the streets into combat zones. And the result can be deadly. The family of Springfield grandma Kathy Heaton experienced this firsthand on Dec. 1 — a day after her 71st birthday — when a Haitian migrant ran her down while she was collecting her garbage cans. And the driver got off scot-free. ... Kathy was struck so violently that both her socks were left behind...

back in 2010 when Obama effectively killed NASA. Obama canceled NASA’s mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research and instead redirected NASA to “engage with Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.” Fast forward to today. NASA is a failed joke. Well done Democrats!. Elon Musk has taken up the mantle and done us proud. Musk is a great American hero. ... Jared Isaacman has become the first private citizen to spacewalk ... While NASA is busy with pronouns, this is what the private sector...

Unsustainable. The country is going bankrupt. Trump is the only path forward. CBO: Federal Interest Payments Now Exceed Defense Spending... Federal Debt: The Ticking Bomb in Your Wallet.. Grab your pay stub .. and see how much you paid in federal income tax…over 75% of that was effectively your contribution to interest on the debt .. This is where our federal government is today. It has spent so much more than it has taken in that it has racked up a $35 trillion debt. ... over 75% of that was effectively your contribution to interest on the debt last month....

The California Democrat, locked in a tight House race with Republican incumbent Ken Calvert, has repeatedly helped dealers caught peddling thousands of meth doses avoid life sentences... When Democrat California congressional candidate Will Rollins boasts of having taken on "the Sinaloa cartel to stop drug trafficking" during his time as a federal prosecutor, it may be instructive to consider the case of one central California drug dealer named Rodney Michael Haskins. In 2010, Haskins threw a wooden desk at a woman, knocking her to the floor and breaking the desk. He held her by the arms and slammed her body...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris repeatedly say they want to help the poor and middle classes but their policies, which caused inflation to soar, have absolutely destroyed the dollar’s purchasing power. People can no longer afford to patronize the establishments they’ve always patronized, because they are living paycheck-to-paycheck, have already depleted their savings, and have run up credit card debt to unsustainable levels—and these chains are falling like dominos. Now, Big Lots is the latest casualty, and preparing for bankruptcy: ... Dollar Tree and Dollar General are also facing significant headwinds. ... Inflation has significantly risen because of direct actions...

Two Delta Airlines planes have collided on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia. Two Delta Airlines aircraft were involved in a collision on the taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. ... The shocking incident occurred at the United States’ “busiest airport,” according to stratosjets.com, with photographed images displaying the back end of the Louisiana-bound flight bent at a 90 degree angle. The dramatic crash occurred after Delta Air Lines Flight 295 Airbus A350 was taxiing for departure to Tokyo, Japan, hitting the tail of an Endeavor Air Flight DL5526 going to Lafayette, Louisiana. The report...