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R.I.P. iTunes. Apple is phasing out its content download and streaming service, Bloomberg reports. CEO Tim Cook will unveil a spread of new features geared to move the company’s focus away from the iPhone starting Monday at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

With its launching of Roo, Planned Parenthood “is harnessing the power of the digital world to purposely circumvent parents and steer children towards deceptive and harmful practices.” Planned Parenthood’s perversions and new tactics to target children seem to never end. I’m certain that the new laws in Alabama have enraged the abortion giant. So, the powers that be decided to target young children with smutty, inappropriate sexual advice, using an AI phone app called “Roo.” What does Roo talk about? Roo will discuss anything about sex with your children. Children are told by the chatbot that sexual activity is perfectly...

I meant to post something last night, really, but we had a crisis involving the home cooling system suddenly not working and endangering my 89-year old mother (who has a history of heart failure). Thank G-d it's fixed now, but I realize just a prolonged power outage at the wrong time of year could be fatal. Anyway, yes, today is my 20th anniversary as Free Republic's you-know-what in the punch bowl, as well as its most grumpy and offensive member. I first signed up to defend Israel from the freaking NAZIS who were infesting the site back then. Eventually I...

Breaking News: The Twitter account of the "For Britain" Party in the UK suspeneded early Friday morning UK time. The page had linked to a video of the speech by For Britain leader Anne Marie Waters in support of Tommy Robinson.... A superseding federal indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Thursday for violating the Espionage Act. 17 new charges involving receiving classified information and publishing it..... In Portland, Oregon US District Judge Anna J. Brown ordering one of the Oregon Standoff protesters of 2016 to get a federal ID and file a federal income tax form.... The US State Department...

What Is It & How Does It Work? As the name states, a sand 3D printer uses a working medium of sand-like materials, including actual silica sand, ceramics, or even metal particles. The technology is binder jetting, which uses a binder polymer to bind the particles together into a physical 3D model. This can be used to produce finished products or molds for an alternative material to be poured into. The history of sand 3D printing begins in the late 1990s with a German company, Generis, and with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the United States. Generis focused on...

For all their hollow declarations that they are “pro-science”, the left continually demonstrates that they only accept “science” that affirms their own radical science-defying ideology. This is never truer when applied to the increasingly fascistic and dominant “gender ideology.” If you are a college professor and would like to lose your job, your tenure, your credibility, and even your access to social media, go ahead and present your clinical findings that contradict social justice warrior talking points. Ray Blanchard, the groundbreaking psychologist who helped craft the diagnostic and treatment procedures for clinicians dealing with transgenderism, was blocked on Twitter this...

"The US strongly condemns Maduro's move to block the National Assembly from its constitutionally-protected legislative duty" That tweet Tuesday evening from US National Security Adviser John Bolton after the Venezuelan police and security forces of the Nicolas Maduro regime blocked legislators of the National Assembly from entering their building to meet..... "There won't be any war. The Iranian nation has chosen the path of resistance" Those the words of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei..... The US State Department has ordered non-essential personnel to leave Iraq..... Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed attacks on vital Saudi facilities and Saudi...

"the world's watching" Tommy Robinson Speaks Outside Old Bailey In London 5/14/2019 A crowd now gathered outside the Old Bailey in London as of 1 pm local time (8 am Eastern US).... Its all because Tommy Robinson has been again summoned to face the revised version of charges against him for contempt. Robinson was arrested outside a courthouse in Leeds, England last May 25th, summarily tried an sent to prison. It happened as he was live streaming coverage of a child sex abuse trial involving a large number of victims with more than two dozen defendants. It was a case...

Presidential candidate Cory Booker characterized his colleague and 2020 opponent Elizabeth Warren’s proposals to break up tech giants as “a Donald Trump thing to say" and called for a “president that's going to enforce antitrust laws.” “I don’t think that a president should be running around pointing at companies and saying ‘breaking them up’ without any kind of process,” Booker, D-N.J., said in an interview Saturday on ABC News’ “This Week.” Booker said that he believes instead of calling for companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google to be broken up, there should be a process to address corporate consolidation, declaring...

When the head of Twitter's public policy department told the Senate he'd do more on conservative censorship, making it worse wasn't what most leaders had in mind! Unfortunately, that's exactly what seems to be happening -- to pro-lifers, Trump supporters, and even popular parody accounts. Three weeks ago, Carlos Monje Jr. was apologetic for the mistakes Twitter had made. A month later, he has a lot more to be sorry for. Their stories are different, but several victims of Twitter's bias have one thing in common: no one explained why. Mike Morrisson, who's been running a popular "AOC Press" account...

Come October, the largest 3D printer in the world will be installed at the University of Maine in Orono. One of its first uses will be to print a boat mold that boat builders can use. The substance behind the 3D printing operation will be a wood-based plastic developed at UMaine. The boat mold is one of the first objectives of a new, bio-based 3D printing program that’s a collaboration between the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The hope is that the initiative could make 3D printing more...

<p>A restaurant in Buellton used a profane anti-Trump hashtag in a recent Facebook post, which is generating a lot of reaction.</p> <p>Industrial Eats is known for its pizza, sandwiches, and variety of small plates.</p> <p>The restaurant posts a lot of food pictures, but a recent post used an anti-Trump hashtag.</p>

VIDEO I HATE vertical videos! It is soooo easy to CORRECTLY record videos by holding your cell phone horizontally. This video is a public service announcement to NOT ruin your treasured memories by recording them in the horrible vertical mode.

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...