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WASHINGTON—Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed how they could tweak the company’s search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, according to internal company emails. The email traffic, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, shows that employees proposed ways to “leverage” search functions and take steps to counter what they considered to be “islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms ‘Islam’, ‘Muslim’, ’Iran’, etc.” and “prejudiced, algorithmically biased search results from search terms `Mexico’, `Hispanic’, `Latino’, etc.”

Catholics around the world need to know that the Vatican communications machine is still doing its best to manipulate the results of the Synod on the Family. As can be seen from the link here and below to the relevant page on the Vatican website, all the preliminary and more liberal documents of the Synod are up there in multiple languages, while the only one that matters de jure - the final and official relatio which did not even propose - much less approve - Communion for divorced-and remarrieds or "welcome" for homosexuals and their "gifts", is posted only in...

For all those who believed that it was only JP Morgan who is manipulating the Brent-WTI spread, we regretfully have to inform you that the squid is once again front and center, having now been caught red-handed by none other than the ICE exchange, aka the home of Brent trading. From a just disclosed complaint: "On 28 January 2011 the Exchange’s monitoring detected six notable “price spikes” in the April11 Brent/WTI spread, between 14:26 hours and 14:31 hours UK time. These were investigated and found to be the result of a limit order and several large market orders placed in...

A Chinese national who is believed to have manipulated her fingerprints to slip past Japan's fingerprint identification system has been arrested for violating the Immigration Control Law, the Metropolitan Police Department's Organized Crime Control Bureau announced on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the holding company run by billionaire Warren Buffett, said on Saturday that quarterly profit surged 40 percent, helped by a $1.63 billion gain on a successful bet the U.S. dollar would fall. For the year, profit fell 10 percent. Buffett, in his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders, said he increased his stake in foreign currency contracts, and wants to deploy more of Berkshire's $43.4 billion of cash. Fourth-quarter net income for the Omaha, Nebraska-based company rose to $3.34 billion, or $2,172 per Class A share, from $2.39 billion, or $1,553 per share, a...

Freepers, I just received this from a friend of mine, and I think it is SO important to be aware of this sort of thing. The "kiddie" stations are now doing their best to indoctrinate our children while we aren't looking. Read on, and pass it on to your friends, family, neighbors.*************************************Hi good friends I have never sent an e-mail like this, but I just had to. Those of you who have children or grandchildren MUST hear this. All of you have a sphere of influence that goes wide so PLEASE do something about this e-mail and expose this attack...

By ELIZABETH WOLFE, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Forget about soccer moms. The prized voter of next year's presidential election could be single women, according to a new study. But they need to get to the polls. Using census and other voting data analyzed by two Democratic polling firms , the study released Tuesday found there would have been 6 million more ballots to count in 2000 if single women had voted at the same rate as their married counterparts. The study, the first phase of a project designed to help get single women to the polls, showed that they...

It is becoming increasingly clear that the mainstream press have become 'information brokers' who present very specific information in a manor which meets a very specific agenda. "Baghdad Bob" serves as an example even a casual viewer can understand of the crucial role control of the news media and the dissemination of propaganda plays in the ability to gain and maintain control of an entire nation. Yet here in the US, where we treasure our heritage of a free press, we've have hardly seemed to notice that ownership of vast media entities has been consolidated into the hands of just...