Washington Examiner fires reporters in apparent pivot toward more Trump-friendly coverage
WASHINGTON — The Washington Examiner fired at least two reporters on Friday, signaling a growing rightward shift at the conservative website and its companion magazine.
Clarity Media Group, which owns the Examiner, recently shuttered The Weekly Standard and terminated all staff.
https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-examiner-apparent-pivot-trump-friendly-coverage-fires-reporters-2019-2
Federal Jury Convicts Virginia Man of Producing Child Pornography
A federal jury found Logan Roy McCauley, 25, of Hamilton, Virginia, guilty today of producing child pornography.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia made the announcement after the verdict was accepted by Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III.
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, in November 2017, McCauley drove to West Virginia, picked up a minor he had met online, and drove the minor to his residence in Hamilton. Within hours of arriving, McCauley engaged in sexual intercourse with the minor for purposes of using a smartphone to record a portion of the sexual encounter. Soon after creating the video, McCauley sent an online message to another person admitting he had made the video that morning. The day after McCauley created the video, law enforcement arrived at McCauley’s residence. At this time, McCauley told law enforcement about the video, which was still on McCauley’s smart phone.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-jury-convicts-virginia-man-producing-child-pornography
You lose you Walkies Talkies
Privacy Battle Coming Over Home Security Cameras
Citizens and lawmakers have no clue about the risk of home security devices and privacy invasion. Who else has access without your knowledge? How do you know if you have been or are being hacked? The answer is that you don’t know. ⁃ TN Editor
Ding-dong, your doorbell is looking a bit creepy.
Ring video doorbells, Nest Hello and other connected security cameras are the fastest-growing home improvement gadgets since garage door openers. These cameras, often built into buzzers, alert your phone when someone is at your door and save footage online. Mine has helped me get deliveries and catch porch pirates stealing packages. Earlier this month, one caught a man licking a family’s doorbell for three hours.
What’s not to love? Invading people’s privacy – and Big Brother at our doorstep. It’s up to us to set the rules to avoid Big Doorbell.
We’re on a slippery slope. You’ve got a legal right to film in public places, including your entryway. There’s little agreement whether private cameras slash crime rates, yet police are setting up voluntary registries for private cameras in dozens of communities. Cities such as Washington, D.C., have begun paying up to $500 for cameras on private property. Detroit is going further: Its mayor wants to mandate security cameras at businesses open late, with a live feed going straight to police.
Meanwhile, Ring’s owner Amazon.com filed an eerily specific patent to put its controversial Rekognition facial-identification software into doorbells. The purpose: to automatically flag “suspicious” people. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all tech with the same critical eye.)
We should recognize this pattern: Tech that seems like an obvious good can develop darker dimensions as capabilities improve and data shifts into new hands. A terms-of-service update, a face-recognition upgrade or a hack could turn your doorbell into a privacy invasion you didn’t see coming.
Last month, Ring got caught allowing its team in Ukraine to view and annotate certain user videos; the company says it only looks at publicly shared videos and those from Ring owners who provide consent. Just last week, a California family’s Nest camera let a hacker take over and broadcast fake audio warnings about a missile attack, not to mention peer in on them, when they used a weak password
https://www.technocracy.news/privacy-battle-coming-over-home-security-cameras/
Now it makes sense: ‘Infanticide’ Va. Gov. Northam accepted nearly $2 million from Planned Parenthood
When Democrat pediatrician Ralph Northam decided to run for the governor of Virginia in 2017, he wasn’t going to be alone: Planned Parenthood pledged to accompany him on his journey.
“It’s really clear that Virginians want and need a fierce champion like Dr. Northam to stand up for them and to stand up for women’s health,” Jennifer Allen, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Virginia PAC and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, noted as she announced that abortion supporters would spend up to $3 million to elect Northam, who also served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, The Washington Post reported at the time.
True to her word, Planned Parenthood poured $1.99 million into Northam’s campaign, according to The Virginia Public Access Project, after praising the children’s doctor for taking “bold actions” to support abortion.
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/01/31/now-it-makes-sense-infanticide-va-gov-northam-accepted-nearly-2-million-from-planned-parenthood/
Cherokee Nation: Elizabeth Warren apologized for DNA test
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cherokee Nation says Sen. Elizabeth Warren has apologized for taking a DNA test to push back against President Donald Trump's taunts about her claim of Native American heritage.
Tribe spokeswoman Julie Hubbard said Friday that the Massachusetts Democrat and likely 2020 presidential contender had apologized "for causing confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and the harm that has resulted."
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Cherokee-Nation-Elizabeth-Warren-apologized-for-13581806.php
'2020 class warfare?': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left face off against billionaires in a fight to tax the rich
https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-left-fight-with-billionaires-tax-rich-2019-1
She should pay back all the money she fleeced from the country
Elizabeth Warren, Progressive Fraud
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/elizabeth-warren-native-american-heritage-harvard-fraud/
Closer Everyday
Revelation 13:15
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”
‘Self-Aware’ Autonomous Robot That Can Repair Itself
Hailed as a major scientific breakthrough, this robot mimics a newborn child in discovering its identity and how learn about and relate to its environment. The twist is that it can also repair itself if broken. Autonomous, self-learning robots are the reason that many experts are are warning about existential threats to mankind. ⁃ TN Editor
Scientists have created a self-aware robot capable of operating on its own without any instructions, in a major scientific breakthrough.
Engineers at Columbia University, in New York, have reached a pinnacle in robotics inventions, inventing a mechanical arm able to programme itself – even after it is malfunctioned.
Professor Hod Lipson, who leads the Creative Machines lab, where the research was carried out, likened the robotic arm to how a “newborn child” adapts to their environment and learns things on its own.
The group of scientists claimed this is the first time a robot has shown the ability to “imagine itself” and work out its purpose, figuring out how to operate without inbuilt mechanics. In the study, published in the journal Science Robotics, Prof Lipson said: “This is perhaps what a newborn child does in its crib, as it learns what it is.
“We conjecture that this advantage may have also been the evolutionary origin of self-awareness in humans.
https://www.technocracy.news/self-aware-autonomous-robot-that-can-repair-itself/
Authorities confiscate one million pills of Captagon
Homs, SANA_ Authorities on Friday seized a car loaded with about one million pills of Captagon on the international Damascus-Homs highway.
A source in the competent authorities in Homs said that a truck was seized and about one million pills of Captagon were hidden in secret cashes inside it were confiscated.
https://sana.sy/en/?p=157195
Exactly .. The Forbin Project
Another SJW coder in the making
UPDATE: Vianney St. Louis High School Teacher Resigns After Horrible Attacks on Covington High School Pro-Life Children
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/update-vianney-st-louis-high-school-teacher-resigns-after-horrible-attacks-on-covington-high-school-pro-life-children/