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Woke up this morning to find out that Firefox just disabled Dissenter along with a few other web-add-ons in my browser... for "Security" reasons... Isn't it always the same... they Sacrifice OUR RIGHT to free speech using the excuse of an Security Update...

Free speech took a whacking Thursday as Facebook cited its policies against “dangerous individuals and organizations” to ban such figures as Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos and several other extremists from the site. They were purged from Facebook-owned Instagram, and their affiliated fan pages will also be shuttered in what the Wall Street Journal called the company’s “most sweeping” action “yet against online provocateurs.” Facebook was within its rights to evict the accounts, even if they’ve done nothing criminal. It’s Facebook’s house, after all, and because the government isn’t involved it’s not a First Amendment issue. But...

A Facebook crack down Thursday permanently banning a large number of people deemed "dangerous individuals" including activists-personalities like..... "I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for journalism that has won many awards and protected many people" Those words spoken by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange via video link during his first extradition hearing.... In Venezuela, two more protesters reported dead Thursday... Was there an attempt by 30 some protesters to attack a Paris hospital on May Day?..... One civilian death and four injuries reported in the government controlled part of northern Syria Thursday following a rocket barrage from the...

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night suggested that if the Justice Department was going to let Russia get away with interfering in the 2016 presidential election, it might be OK if one of the 2020 Democratic candidates enlisted China for help. The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate offered a seemingly tongue-in-cheek hypothetical to Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show. “Imagine, Rachel, that you had one of the Democratic nominees for 2020 on your show, and that person said, you know, the only other adversary of ours who is anywhere near as good as the Russians is China,” Clinton told Maddow. “So why...

15 bodies found after Sri Lankan police engaged in a gun battle in the eastern part of the country with Islamic State terrorist suspects..... A Russian woman accused of being a spy who targeted the National Rifle Association was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday..... Some French reporters in trouble for "compromising national secrets". That's because they revealed information on French weapons being used in the Saudi-led war against Shia Muslim Houthi rebels in Yemen..... Week 24 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday following President Emmanuel Macron's Thursday announcement of measures seen as a response to the...

"From the data, we can conclude that the Google search results were favoring liberal website. It is also possible to conclude that DuckDuckGo results have a greater political variety compared to Google."

In Brooklyn, New York a judge dismissing a court challenge to mandatory measles vaccinations in neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. There's been a large measles outbreak in the New York area..... The big Newsdump event of the week Thursday with release of a redacted report of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller into matters related to President Trump..... Protest bans in Paris for Yellow Vests demonstrations Saturday with Notre-Dame Cathedral added.... In France Thursday a day to honor firefighters who fought Monday night's blaze at the Notre-Dame Cathedral.... Was the fire at Notre-Dame something other than an accident?..... In Northern Ireland...

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...