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  • DNC Wants Facebook to Censor Trump [semi-satire]

    10/08/2019 9:09:55 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 2 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 6 Oct 2019 | John Semmens
    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has accused Facebook of allowing President Trump to "mislead the American people" and demanded that "action be taken to silence his propagation of lies." Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, Nick Clegg, said that "it is our policy to treat speech from politicians as newsworthy content that should, as a general rule, be seen and heard. In open democracies, voters rightly believe that, as a general rule, they should be able to judge what politicians say themselves." However, DNC CEO Seema Nanda complained that "Facebook has the means to protect people from being...
  • How I Got Kicked Out of a Facebook Group on Birth Control Side Effects

    10/06/2019 3:33:41 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 25 replies
    Natural Womanhood ^ | October 5, 2019 | Mike Gaskins
    Ever since I began my research on birth control side effects and health consequences for my book In the Name of the Pill, I have been shocked to learn how many women have not been properly warned about the real risks involved with taking factory-made steroids. A colleague of mine who I discuss these issues with said he often gets into discussions with women about these health risks, and I noticed that many of the conversations he was telling me about had happened online. So I couldn’t help but ask him, “How are you meeting so many women online?” He...
  • VIDEO: WARNING! Using the PBS App Can Suck Up Your Data

    10/05/2019 7:55:33 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | October 5, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEO My wifi data usage for September more than doubled. After an investigation, I traced it to the PBS app I downloaded to my Amazon Fire TV that month in order to watch the Country Music documentary. That PBS app was using more than all my other apps on Fire TV put together despite the fact I spent at least 10 times as long watching YouTube videos. So can any techie type out there explain WHY the PBS app used so much data? In fact, I suspect that the PBS app was using data even when I wasn't watching...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Friday 10/4/2019 Newsdump Friday

    10/04/2019 9:56:47 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 10/4/2019 | Nextrush/Self
    A federal court case about a Louisiana law that regulates abortion clinics and the doctors who perform abortions will be heard by the US Supreme Court...... The man behind the knife attack that killed four and wounded on at the Paris police headquarters Thursday had converted to Islam in 2008..... The "Wall Street Journal" reporting Friday increasing concern from US officials that Turkey will launch a major military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria.... "This has nothing to do with politics or a political campaign against the Bidens. This has to do with their corruption" In part that is one...
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook slams Trump’s immigration policy in Supreme Court filing

    10/02/2019 1:58:22 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 26 replies
    CNBC ^ | October 2, 2019 | Kif Leswing
    Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a filing to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the company disagrees with President Trump’s decision to terminate DACA, the Obama-era program that shields some immigrants without documentation from being deported. ″We are distressed at the prospect of ripping our DACA colleagues from the fabric of our company,” Cook and HR head Deidre O’Brien wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief. Apple said it employs 443 dreamers, or people that DACA protects from deportation. The Trump administration’s effort to undo DACA is part of a broader effort to restrict immigration, whether it’s through family separation at...
  • Kamala Harris Asked Twitter to Suspend Donald Trump. Here’s Why That Probably Won’t Happen

    10/02/2019 11:58:02 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 17 replies
    Fortune ^ | October 2, 2019 | Terry Collins
    California Senator Kamala Harris is again formally asking Twitter to suspend President Donald Trump's controversial Twitter account, but the social media platform may be reluctant to do so. In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the Democratic presidential candidate wrote on her campaign letterhead that the president's constant tweets attacking the whistleblower that ignited an impeachment inquiry violates Twitter's user agreement rules. Harris points out several tweets in the past week that appear to "target, harass, and attempt to out the whistleblower who set forth credible allegations that the President has abused his power by urging a foreign government...
  • 2020 Will Make 2016 Look Like a More Innocent Time

    09/30/2019 5:05:17 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 12 replies
    Splice Today ^ | September 30, 2019 | Crispin Sartwell
    There will be such an outpouring of sewage that no one stays clean. The 2020 election is going to be a real doozy. If you thought that the hacking, vicious memes, rumor-mongering, Russian interference and FBI blundering was bad last time, just wait. No matter who wins, the question of whether the outcome was fair or even accurate will arise, for partisans on the losing side and conspiracy theorists, but also for any reasonably objective person who’s watching. It’s likely, in other words, that the result of the 2020 election, particularly if it ends up close, will have little credibility....
  • Vanity - Breitbart: All Celebs All The Time

    09/29/2019 8:06:00 AM PDT · by RArtfulogerDodger · 12 replies
    Vanity | 9/29/2019 | Artful Dodger
    VANITY— . OPINION: Just an observation here: it seems to me, that BREITBART is now devoted to “celebrity ‘News’,” rather than the real news. All celebs all the time.... If I want to know what’s actually happening, the true news, I tune in here—to, FreeRepublic.Com .
  • 5 ways to build a million-dollar solo enterprise on a shoestring

    09/28/2019 4:18:00 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    CNBC ^ | September 28, 2019 | Elaine Pofeldt
    Rajesh Srivastava always loved trading stocks and options. When he found a way to turn that passion into a software that helps traders analyze and respond to the market, he started a one-man business around it in 2015. He eventually left behind his career working for technology firms to run his company, priceSeries, in Sunnyvale, California, which he launched for less than $1,000 to cover three used servers he purchased on eBay, along with memory and storage for the servers. He sells the software by monthly subscription to more than 2,000 customers a month, on average, and now has annual...
  • Gallup Poll: 69 Percent of Democrats Trust the Mass Media

    09/27/2019 4:21:54 PM PDT · by RArtfulogerDodger · 63 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9/27/19 | Katherine Rodriguez
    Unlike their Republican counterparts, Democrats have been mostly trusting of the media, with 69 percent of respondents who said they trust the media to report the news “fully, fairly, and accurately.” The survey mostly fell along partisan lines, creating a wide gap between those who trust and those who distrust the media. The latest poll is a four-percent decrease from the year before among every other group surveyed....
  • DJT 4D Chess, next level.

    09/26/2019 11:35:59 PM PDT · by rocknotsand · 21 replies
    vanity | vanity
    What does DJT know? Why is he questioning Crowdstrike? see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3781317 A FReeper post today on that article by DivineMomentsOfTruth, posted this: "The DNC had Crowdstrike investigate their alleged Russian hack, while telling the FBI to go away. What was the DNC hiding.. We’ve been asking this since it happened. President Trump wants the Ukrainians to investigate Crowdstrike.. THAT has the Democrats in a panic." Got me thinking. As a hypothetical, how much of recent history would be explained if Crowdstrike was a CIA company??? Not to involve Fusion GPS at all, just talking Crowdstrike. Hmmm. It would explain why...
  • President Clinton? Mariah Carey roasted for Trump-bashing photo op with Hillary & Bill

    09/26/2019 4:56:25 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 17 replies
    Stock News Brief ^ | September 26, 2019 | Ronald Lewis
    President Clinton? Mariah Carey roasted for Trump-bashing photo op with Hillary & Bill Mariah Carey has felt the wrath of Twitter after sharing photos she took with “President” Hillary Clinton and her husband. The singer was likely taking a swipe at Donald Trump but the Twitterati was not impressed. “An honor to meet President Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton!” Carey wrote, including two photographs she took with the former first couple. She also thanked the pair for “everything you have done and continue to do for our country.” The photo op was applauded by many of Carey’s...
  • Mitt Romney adviser sits on Burisma board of directors

    09/26/2019 6:26:48 AM PDT · by grey_whiskers · 52 replies
    American Thinker ^ | Sep 26 2019 | Thomas Lifson
    Well, this is certainly an odd coincidence! In fact, when you dig in, you find an amazing series of coincidences. If you believe in coincidences when the CIA is involved, that is. Mitt Romney’s national security advisor in his 2012 campaign -- a career CIA spook who rose to its top levels -- sits on the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that formerly paid Hunter Biden $50k a month despite his complete lack of credentials or qualifications. And it also an odd coincidence that Mitt has as CNN puts it “been a lone Republican voice expressing...
  • Need computer help, please.

    09/25/2019 7:02:53 PM PDT · by Zionist Conspirator · 120 replies
    Self | 9/25/'19 | Zionist Conspirator
    Dear friends: I'm having a computer problem I would like some advice/help on. Please be aware that this problem has been ongoing for several weeks, so please don't advise me to reboot or clear out the cache since I've done that several times and it makes no difference whatsoever. And please don't ask if my computer is plugged in or turned on. I don't understand why cruelly having fun at the expense of someone with an issue is so popular here. Daily Motion is an excellent site for watching old movies and TV shows that YouTube won't allow. I used...
  • Bette Midler Dragged for Filth After Calling on Beyonce Fans to Defeat Trump

    09/20/2019 3:46:09 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 29 replies
    EURWeb ^ | September 20, 2019 | Ny Magee
    *The BeyHive is calling on actress Bette Midler to fall back after she suggested Beyonce should help mobilize against President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential bid. However, her attempts to use the superstar’s fanbase for her political agenda quickly backfired. Taking to Twitter, the “Hocus Pocus” star urged Beyonce to call on her millions of followers to rock the vote in 2020. “Beyoncé has 133 million Instagram followers,” Midler tweeted. “More than double the people who voted for Trump. Wouldn’t it be amazing if the #BeyHive mobilized to defeat him? I also wouldn’t mind if a regular bee hive f****d his...
  • Apple taps recycled rare earth elements for iPhone parts

    09/19/2019 9:17:41 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 16 replies
    Reuters ^ | September 18, 2019 | Stephen Nellis
    Apple Inc’s new iPhones will use recycled rare earth elements in a key component, the company said on Wednesday. Apple said it will use recycled rare earths in its “Taptic Engine,” a part that lets iPhones mimic a physical button click despite being a flat pane of glass. The part is about one-quarter of the rare earth elements inside the iPhone models. Rare earths, a group of 17 specialized minerals, have become a flash point in trade tensions between the United States and China. The elements are used in weapons, consumer electronics and other goods. China dominates the processing of...
  • Simjacker Phone Hijack

    09/19/2019 2:00:01 PM PDT · by Windflier · 34 replies
    YouTube ^ | 17 September 2019 | TWiT Tech Podcast Network
    Introducing: “Simjacker” a new SIM card flaw, discovered being actively exploited in the wild, which allows attackers to hijack any phone just by sending it an SMS message. Security Now's Steve Gibson has all the details. Watch the full episode of Security Now: https://twit.tv/sn/732 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Steve Gibson
  • This Week in Jobs: Hiring bonanza edition (Pennsylvania)

    09/18/2019 4:15:40 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 1 replies
    Technical.ly ^ | September 17, 2019 | Abby Lee Mosconi
    The News Suburbanites, city commuters, anyone looking for a job, really — get your butts to NET/WORK Suburbs on Oct. 10. Hosted by Deacom in dreamy Chesterbrook, PA, NET/WORK will have all the makings of a great networking event slash job fair: food (for sustenance), bevs (for bravery) and arguably the most important element, companies looking to hire people. So, get those biz cards and Linkedin profiles ready, it’s NET/WORK time. Get your free tix here. D.C.-based Black Girl Ventures — an organization that creates opportunities for women entrepreneurs of color to access capital — is settin’ up shop right...
  • COBOL: Five little letters that if put on a CV would ensure stable income for a greybeard coder

    09/17/2019 2:54:12 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 110 replies
    The Register ^ | September 16, 2019 | Richard Speed
    COBOL is celebrating 60 years since its specifications were signed off. Darling of Y2K consultants, the language is rapidly approaching pensionable age, but many a greybeard owes their career to it. It arose from a desire to create a language that could straddle the computers of the era. Each manufacturer had its own way of working, which, while OK if a company always stuck with one maker, made portability of programs or skills a tad tricky. If only there was, say, a COmmon Business-Oriented Language? Wouldn't that be splendid? Mary Hawes, a programmer of Burroughs machines, put forward a proposal...
  • Is r/the_donald down ???

    09/16/2019 11:20:39 AM PDT · by bryan999 · 29 replies
    It hasn't updated in 42 minutes and I'm getting errors when attempting to post. The fact that it hasn't updated in that period of time is a bit troubling. I even tried with another account, no go... and the same posts are still at the top. Anyone else noticing this...?