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The Federal Bureau of Investigations aims to acquire access to a “social media early alerting tool” that will help insiders proactively and reactively monitor how terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations and other domestic threats use networking platforms to further their illegal efforts, according to a request for proposal amended this week. “With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will allow the FBI to identify relevant information from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other Social media...

We are the middle children of history with no purpose or place. Our generation has no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives… We have been raised by television to believe that we’ll be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars – but we won’t… And we’re very, very pissed off. With the release of David Fincher’s Fight Club in the aftermath of the Columbine high school killings, fears about representational violence resounded in the popular press. This response was not surprising in that Fight Club tells the story of an unnamed...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - They’re members of a prestigious academic panel with top-secret clearances who’ve advised the Pentagon on some of America’s most vexing national security issues since the Cold War. Over 60 years, they’ve won 11 Nobel prizes and conducted hundreds of government studies. The advisory group, known as Jason, is a team of some 60 of America’s top physicists and scientists who spend each summer in La Jolla, California, conducting studies commissioned by the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies. On March 28, Trump appointee Michael Griffin – the Pentagon’s chief technology officer – unexpectedly moved to terminate...

<p>49 Mass Shootings in just 215 days! It's on the internet, so it must be true. Not so fast.</p> <p>The database is poorly sourced and uses this definition of "mass shooting": 4 or more victims injured or killed excluding the subject/suspect/perpetrator, one location.</p>

The Donald from Reddit is looking for a new home. Reddit Censorship I just thought it was interesting. Perhaps there could be a connection? https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/clwpgo/i_think_its_time_for_a_dedicated_forum_site_for_t/

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin is a false teacher, must be rebuked by all faithful Catholics August 2, 2019 (Catholic Family News) — Every year on the Third Sunday after Pentecost, which fell on June 30 this year, the faithful who attend the traditional Roman Mass hear a powerful duo of readings from Holy Scripture. The Epistle, 1 Peter 5:6–11, focuses our attention on the reality of spiritual warfare, with the Prince of the Apostles exhorting us, "Be sober and watch, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye,...

The 48-year-old Finn just won this year’s Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. He crossed a duct-tape ribbon Friday after running more than 60 miles on each of 48 consecutive days around the same half-mile course in the Jamaica Hills neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. ...6 a.m., when the race begins and often works past midnight, when the race ends for the day. One shoe expert replaces the heel with rubber implants, which cuts expenses for the runners who can burn through up to 20 pairs of expensive shoes during the race... It’s about the joy of transcending your limits and applying that...

ShareTweetFlip Big League Politics can report that Connor Betts, the alleged mass shooter who killed at least 9 people in an entertainment district of Dayton, Ohio earlier today was a registered Democrat who has voted in 7 previous elections, including two Democratic Primaries. Betts was killed during the altercation with police. Betts was a registered Democrat who, according to information made public by the state of Ohio, voted in two elections. He allegedly murdered 9 people, including his sister Megan Betts, earlier today in Dayton, Ohio. Fox News reports: Dayton Deputy Director and Assistant Chief of Police Lt. Col. Matt...

Booker and Beto O'Rourke both cited the president's rhetoric and stoking of racial division in the wake of the Texas shooting. Sen. Cory Booker placed blame on President Donald Trump and his racist rhetoric for a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that left at least 20 people dead. The shooting is being investigated as an act of domestic terror and a hate crime after officials said that they believed, but have not confirmed, a manifesto filled with anti-immigrant and white supremacist language was posted online and written by the gunman. “I think, at the end of the day, especially...

Responding off the cuff.

Connor Betts, the Dayton, Ohio mass shooter, was a self-described “leftist,” who wrote that he would happily vote for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, praised Satan, was upset about the 2016 presidential election results, and added, “I want socialism, and i’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.” Betts’ Twitter profile read, “he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.” One tweet on his page read, “Off to Midnight Mass. At least the songs are good. #athiestsonchristmas.” The page handle? I am the spookster. On one selfie, he...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A young gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season Saturday, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured. ~snip~ Adriana Quezada, 39, said she was in the women’s clothing section of Walmart with her two children when she heard gunfire. “But I thought they were hits, like roof construction,” she said of the shots. Her 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son threw themselves to the ground, then ran out of the store through an emergency exit. They were not hurt,...

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow. Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread: http://kallmansalley.com/

Male academics, who comprise less than 10 percent of North American archaeologists, write the vast majority of the field's high impact, peer-reviewed literature. That's according to a new study in American Antiquity by Washington State University archaeologists Tiffany Fulkerson and Shannon Tushingham. The two scientists set out to determine how a rapidly evolving demographic and professional landscape is influencing the production and dissemination of knowledge in American archaeology. They found that women, who now make up half of all archaeologists in North America, and professionals working outside of a university setting, who account for 90 percent of the total workforce,...

Just tuned in raw satellite news feed of a lectern with the seal of the House Of Representatives of the United States on a Houston Street... and nearby are cue cards with the outlines of a bunch of different Semi- auto rifles, and magazines. I wonder if one of their congresscritters is fixin to give a speech of which guns he or she is going to ban. Oh and now there is a big photo of a bunch of ‘hispanic’ kids saying ‘We are humans.”. And now the culprit arrives: It is Sheila Jackass Lee. Shoulda known it would be...

Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has blocked migrant ships from docking in Italy as his government cracks down on mass-migration into the country.Salvini declared that ships will only be approved for docking if all of the occupants onboard have been relocated elsewhere in Europe first.Italy's leader was responding to an incident where a group of migrants was picked up by an Italian fishing boat named the Accursio Giarrantano, according to an Il Giornale report.

With Anduril, he’d port those innovations (from VR computer games) over into the defense sector, fusing affordable hardware and machine learning to create a border and battlefield surveillance suite that the federal government couldn’t resist... Luckey leaned into the #MAGA-friendly ideology—donating big money to pro-Trump outfits, and meeting with Trump cabinet officials, all while his company quietly picks up military contracts and expands its work with border patrol... In 2017, Luckey worked with Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) on cost estimates for legislation to push a virtual border wall into consideration... (On Thursday, the 41-year-old tech-savvy Congressman announced that he would...

not scrubbed yet....he didn't use his name so it would be hard to track down....it is a bunch of retweets but buried in it are selfies that look like the shooter..

While doing some work outside I got to thinking. I've had a S&W 40 (since '93) for a long long time. Got my CCP a few months after moving here (Texas) back on '06. So I'm thinking, I walk the mall 5 days a week. Got to do something physical so I can watch all the TV I want. Maybe, maybe I might think about carrying considering current events. First of all, how would one carry an S&W 40 concealed??? Some kind of a fanny pack or what? Thought I might ask here. But then I thought,,,,,,,,,,,,, I may have...

There’s a meme floating around that’s less about trying to be funny and more about being informatively mimetic. It’s an image featuring an ominous image of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the words “Don’t let Russia Interfere in 2020” next to the image with the hashtag #DemandVoterID at the bottom. This image has been accompanied by tweets with matching phrases and the hashtag, and people have been getting their accounts locked. The hashtag is designed to raise awareness about vote restrictions in 2020 for only those with a registered voter identification card, you can see what the meme looks like...