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Post by nautonnier on Dec 18, 2018 19:59:36 GMT
"Professor of cyber security Kevin Curran says that Google now has “God-like” power which has been weaponized for political purposes. Responding to a story about how Google considered banning Breitbart from its lucrative ad network for vague, unspecified “hate speech,” Curran, professor of cyber security at the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment at Ulster University, warned that the Silicon Valley giant is out of control. “The newly released leaked emails, which demonstrate Google employees plotting to ban Breitbart from Google AdSense, show again the God-like power companies like Google have in modern life,” said Curran. “Here we have a company with employees who’d seen to remove the ads from a company, which relies on the dominant search engine of the Internet,” Curran told Sputnik. “Removal from the search ad market on Google would severely damage their business. It seems that Google employees were seeking to weaponize Google search for left-wing political purposes.”"www.infowars.com/professor-god-like-google-has-been-weaponized-for-political-purposes/
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Post by Ratty on Dec 18, 2018 23:54:35 GMT
Do I start digging myself a hole, Code? I need an interpretation .... Well it said we could and should do better. That's a relief .... 'The Silo'
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 19, 2018 10:02:03 GMT
Well it said we could and should do better. That's a relief .... 'The Silo'
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 19, 2018 11:25:33 GMT
While everyone is being cheerful.... "Why the global day of reckoning is set to create the perfect Brexit Storm EXPLOSIVE: THE DEVELOPING GLOBAL DISASTER THAT MAKES A WATERTIGHT CASE FOR HARD BREXIT
We have all (myself included) been overly obsessed with the Brexit “process” over the past year. It’s time intelligent Brits and commercial opinion leaders focused on the disastrous global economic picture….and woke up to the last thing we should be on March 30th 2019: members of the European Union. Sometimes, the radical view is the responsible one. We are approaching one of those moments in history." hat4uk.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/explosive-the-developing-global-disaster-that-makes-a-watertight-case-for-hard-brexit/
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Post by Ratty on Dec 19, 2018 23:02:02 GMT
If there is someone here who understands the US health system, is Branco making a fair comment? " Federal Judge Reed O’Connor rules Obamacare unconstitutional since there is no longer a mandate to buy it."
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Post by Ratty on Dec 19, 2018 23:29:04 GMT
Code, if you can remember On the Beach, I'm surprised you can see to type with those arthritic fingers. Ava Gardner (allegedly) described Melbourne as the perfect place to film the end of the world. In 1959, nothing opened after midday on Saturday and re-opened on Monday. You couldn't buy a drink after 6:00pm. The excerpts from The Hollow Men, printed as an epigraph to Shute's novel have stuck in my memory: In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.Apparently, mutually assured destruction is a better way to go than Furnace Earth. That's really cheered me up ......
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 19, 2018 23:33:28 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Dec 20, 2018 0:07:14 GMT
Oh joy!
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 22, 2018 11:02:49 GMT
The global backdrop from The Pointman
"Patently, his work experience there is not helping him out with scaling up to running something as big as the EU, and the strain is beginning to tell on the poor fellow. His breakfast appears to consist of Kellogg’s corn flakes and three stiff Scotches, so the common wisdom runs that if you want to get any sense out of him, you better do it in the morning, because he’s usually wasted after lunch. He recently shuffled up onto a podium wearing one black and one brown shoe. The cover story is that it’s caused by sciatica of all things, but after his latest performance at an EU summit of ruffling a woman’s tresses as a greeting, blocking the lens of a camera filming him and throwing his papers from the speaker’s lectern onto the floor beside him before tossing back a glass of something transparent, it’s obvious he’s drunk again. The fact that he’s still in place is a sad comment on the sinecure-like status of a senior EU appointment."thepointman.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/some-geopolitical-thoughts-on-what-to-watch-for-in-2019/
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 23, 2018 9:44:28 GMT
Interesting duplicity. Current Republican speaker of Congress and the Republican 'leader' of the Senate, are attempting to time out the wall funding and the Democrats who were strongly for a wall are now against a wall (literally)
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 23, 2018 10:00:56 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Dec 23, 2018 13:19:28 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 23, 2018 16:33:21 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Dec 23, 2018 21:19:12 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 26, 2018 21:11:15 GMT
"The Supreme Court has finally taken interest in the Russia witch-hunt and blocked a subpoena issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a contempt order Sunday night, marking the first time the Supreme Court has intervened in the Mueller inquiry.
Very little is known of the case, which reached the justices on Saturday, because the matter has proceeded through the federal courts under seal, meaning strict confidentiality prevails over every detail.
The scant facts which are available about the case are these: a grand jury issued a subpoena to an unnamed company owned by a foreign government some time during the summer of 2018. That firm, referred to in court filings as “the corporation” has been fighting the subpoena in federal court since August."50statereport.com/supreme-court-blocks-mueller-subpoena/Curiouser and Curiouser
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