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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by UK police and is expected to be turned over to US authorities in the near future. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton professed herself “pleased that this international villain will finally get what he deserves for saddling the world with Donald Trump as the US president. His role in invading my privacy and publishing emails that I went to great efforts to conceal sabotaged my assured election as the 45th president of the United States.” Clinton predicted that Assange’s claim that “the ruled have a right to know what their governments are doing...

President Donald Trump said Friday the United States should not nationalize its 5G network and said private companies should move quickly to deploy the faster next-generation network. “In the United States our approach is private-sector driven and private-sector led. The government doesn’t have to spend lots of money,” Trump said. “Leading through the government, it won’t be nearly as good, nearly as fast.” The White House mulled the idea of nationalizing the 5G network for more than a year. In March Politico reported that Trump’s reelection campaign supported a government role in managing the 5G networks even as White House...

In the brouhaha of his arrest, will Time get to tell the tawdry tale? Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has done far worse to Julian Assange than what the UK police did when they yanked him out of his Ecuadorian Embassy hideaway of seven years yesterday. Without proof of any kind, without a trial, Clinton has accused the organization Assange founded of playing “a dangerous role” in her 2016 electoral defeat.

Julian Assange arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Thursday...... The 'no one is above the law' talking point repeated by British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking to the House of Commons. The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, says the British government should oppose Assange's extradition to the United States..... Eucadorian authorities have arrested a man described as being "close" to Assange.... A reporter for British activist Tommy Robinson's "TR.NEWS" website detained at Los Angeles International Airport....... Trump tweeting in part that its: "Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom" Public opinion...

It's a strange feeling to share this aspect of my life. I'm taking a break to go back to school, but here's a peek into the part of my life I've kept hidden from the internet for many years. I was asked if I wanted to film my last mission and use it as an opportunity to explain "Multi-Domain Operations" to the public. After much consideration, I decided that this topic (especially the cyber-domain issue) was important and chose to help inform the public. My mission was to participate in a missile and torpedo engagement exercise at Pacific Missile Range...

A FREAKY trend that has taken YouTube by storm involves guzzling huge volumes of food in front of total strangers. Known as mukbang videos, the viral clips show young women and men scoffing enormous meals in front of hoards of people online. Mukbanging is a strange trend that's sweeping YouTube Some make millions from their channels and are regularly branded a "sexy turn on" by their fans. Originating in South Korea, mukbang (pronounced "mook-bong") involves watching people binge eat via a YouTube live stream. The phrase comes from combining the Korean words for eating (muok-da) and broadcast (bang song). Mukbang...

REVIEW It took this channel just FOUR DAYS, from March 27 when it qualified for YPP review until March 31 when it was approved as a YouTube Partner!!! I was absolutely STUNNED that it happened so quickly. In this video I review a few things I did that might have helped to speed up the review process. I hope this helps those of you out there awaiting YPP review.

Federal prosecutors filed charges Monday against a woman carrying Chinese passports whom they allege illegally entered President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in late March. The woman, Yujing Zhang, initially gained access to the property on March 30 through a miscommunication with members of Mar-a-Lago security, according to the complaint. Trump was staying at Mar-a-Lago on that date, though he was not on the property at the time Zhang's alleged visit occurred. After she was detained, US Secret Service agents searched multiple electronic devices she was carrying, including four cell phones, a laptop computer, an external "hard drive type"...

A private investigator for Amazon and "Washington Post" owner Jeff Bezos says that Saudi Arabia hacked into Bezos's phone and accessed his data...... North Korea says a raid on its embassy in Madrid, Spain was a "grave terrorist attack"..... In Malaysia, A Vietnamese woman accused of spraying the nerve agent VX onto the face of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's half brother Kim Jong-nam has entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge..... German police released 11 men who were arrested in pre-dawn raids early Saturday morning...... He's a comedian who's portrayed the President of Ukraine, but now Volodymyr Zelenskiy...

I feel like I am beating a dead horse because I am. Facebook is in one hell of a mess. It never was a good platform for me and many others that I know. That's because it is always censoring those who are of a conservative bent and is constantly changing its algorithms on what it will or will not publish. Add to this the fact that Facebook is spying on you through some major loophole in the privacy law to the point of following you around the Internet and dishing up ads based on what it sees you searching...

VIDEO After the euphoria of my DUmmie FUnnies channel bursting through the 1000 subs count this morning, I realized there was still the YPP review process it has to go through. From what I have read and heard, although this review is supposed to take only about a month, it often goes for much longer. Therefore I have made a suggestion in this video on how to speed up the process. Basically it is that YouTube should tap into a very available pool of volunteers to quickly move the review process along. This would both lower the heavy review work...

Well, I just deleted my Twitter and Instagram accounts. Never got a single bite on Instagram so that one I'm not concerned about. Twitter, however, finally crossed the line when they made it impossible to block their advertising and suggestions they lined both sides of the posting column with and when they chased the creator of "Hide Twitter Guff" into hiding I finally said enough is enough and pulled my account. I'll miss that one because of the weather updates I would get. I still got Facebook for the time being, mostly because I admin a weather group for the...

Less than a year after raising $20.5 million, OJO Labs is at it again with a $45 million Series C. LiveOak Venture Partners, Realogy Holdings Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada, and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures participated in the round, which will be largely used for expanding its data science, engineering and product teams, as well as for product development. Founded four years ago, OJO Labs developed an AI chatbot named “OJO” that serves as an assistant in the home-buying process. The more users conversationally engage with OJO, the better it becomes at understanding user intent and preferences to deliver personal...

Google on Tuesday posted two dozen new jobs for Stadia, the company’s multimillion-dollar bet on the future of Internet-based video gaming. The new roles span the globe, as Google looks for people with game industry experience in Mountain View, Canada, Germany, Taiwan and Japan. One job listing, for a game producer in Mountain View, asked for applicants with a minimum of five years experience working on shipped video game titles and a “passion for games, an understanding of the industry and the knowledge of what makes great interactive entertainment.” Stadia is a new service that allows anyone to play graphics-intensive...

Several websites including Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak, and others have been blocked in Australia and New Zealand in direct contravention to civil liberties that citizens are supposed to have. The biggest of these internet providers, Telstra, has published a blog post defending their censorship action – even acknowledging that free speech has been sacrificed by company decision:

Regardless of migration plans, Facebook users need to rethink connections to a social media Leviathan with shadowy connections to the Deep State, or to the censors who support Americans in name only. Facebook users need to vacate this online version Throughout 2018, social media giants came under serious scrutiny from the federal government. It was a different Administration, and in the aftermath of the data breach of sensitive personal information off of Facebook via Cambridge Analytica as a way of profiling and cataloguing political preferences of American voters, a substantial number of citizens became suspicious of Facebook’s purpose. Since last...

At the top of the newsdump. The Wikileaks source, Chelsea Manning, has been jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury... In Venezuela the massive power outage affecting most of the country continued into its second day Friday afternoon with at least one death in Caracas attributed to it..... In Algeria Friday what are called the largest protests yet against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.... When it comes to Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May is saying "lets get it done"..... Turkey's Defense Minister says Turkish troops are now patrolling in Idlib province in northern Syria..... The satellite images from North...

At the top of the news from the UK....Tommy Robinson's "contempt of court" case for reporting outside a grooming gang trial involving Muslim defendants will go to trial on March 22nd..... Living proof of Venezuela's serious problems Thursday with a nationwide power outage.... A weekend of Yellow Vests rallies starting today in France. Its Week 17 of the Yellow Vests protests. A call for a weekend long presence at the Champs-de-Mars near the Eiffel Tower starting this evening..... Some 36 nations led by Iceland including the 28 European Union nations have condemned Saudi Arabia for the killing of Saudi journalist...

(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS) When a senior judge was given the case against Tommy Robinson for reporting on a live video stream outside a child sex abuse (grooming) trial involving Muslim defendants in Leeds, England last May it was obvious the government had special plans. Now they have decided to try Tommy Robinson for comtempt of court on Friday March 22nd in the midst of the heated debate over Brexit. Are they interested in stirring up anger and or violence at this critical juncture days before the March 29th Brexit deadline? Also in the mix a ban on discussing the case....

A raging Nicolas Maduro calling on his supporters to come out after two days of massive protest across Venezuela for Interim President Juan Guaido.... Two French prison guards stabbed during a conjugal visit to a jihadist and seriously wounded. Authorities calling it a "terrorist attack"...... Police in London investigating three packages said to contain explosives. They arrived at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and Waterloo Station..... And the big story in the mainstream media this morning is vague and indefinite information regarding satellite imagery from North Korea. Pictures of a rocket testing facility where construction is said to be underway,...