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Domestic spy dream: 1.5 million UK homes to be powered by smart devices 'in the next 5 years'

Tricia Phillips
UK Mirror
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:24 UTC
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Almost 1.5million UK households plan to have their home controlled by smart devices in the next five years.

A further third plan to have their home part-controlled by smart technology using devices from home security to entertainment that can be managed remotely via their mobile phone, according to research by insurer Policy Expert.

Many homes are ahead of the tech trend with the average household already owning three smart devices, as 40% of people think these bits of clever kit they make their lives easier.

While 18% invest in gadgets to help them save money on their bills and 3% admit they purchase techie bits just to keep up with the Joneses.

The most popular devices are smart TVs, smart meters, home hubs (that allow you to connect and control multiple smart home devices via your broadband router), remote heating thermostats and smart speakers and smart lighting.

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Swedish microchipping photos flood social media and it's insane

Jim Satney
PrepForThat
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
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Swedish corporations are now implanting their workers with microchips. Employees are taking to social media and posting the surgical procedure photos.

Swedish medical staff surgically implants the chips into the area between the thumb and index finger. The goal is to offer Swedes more convenience in everyday life. Earlier this month, we reported that U.K. companies are beginning to ask that their employees be microchipped similar to the Swedes.

Many Swedish companies ask employees to voluntarily sign up for a microchip implant. And workers are accepting the offers and volunteering to have the procedures done. Of course, one must consider the ramifications of such "volunteer-based" microchipping. I'll get to that in a bit.

Comment: Given that people today are so willing to give up their privacy and their freedom of speech, is it any wonder they're so enthusiastically getting these devices implanted into themselves? For them, there are no repercussions. It's just 'cool'. The fact that this may one day become mandatory is terrifying.

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Fire

Video of tannerite explosion igniting Arizona Sawmill fire released by Forest Service

Anthony Victor Reyes
News 4 Tucson
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:15 UTC
AZ sawmill fire

More than 160 people were evacuated from different locations affected by the Sawmill Fire.
New video of the baby gender reveal party gone wrong on Arizona state land near the Santa Rita Mountains foothills has been released by the U.S. Forest Service.

Back in April, U.S. Border Patrol agent Dennis Dickey allegedly started the Sawmill Fire after he reportedly shot an explosive compound known as Tannerite. Dickey said the blaze, which burned nearly 47,000 state land for more than a week, was started at Dickey's baby's gender reveal party.

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Using a little boy as a weapon of war: Mom insists child is transgender, threatens father's custody rights for disagreeing

Walt Heyer
The Federalist
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
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Six-year-old James is caught in a gender identity nightmare. Under his mom's care in Dallas, Texas, James obediently lives as a trans girl named "Luna." But given the choice when he's with dad, he's all boy - his sex at birth.

In their divorce proceedings, the mother has charged the father with child abuse for not affirming James as transgender, has sought restraining orders against him, and is seeking to terminate his parental rights. She is also seeking to require him to pay for the child's visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight.

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Dollars

Fentanyl pipeline: Chinese drug traffickers laundered over $5B through Vancouver BC homes since 2012

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:45 UTC
Chinese money laundering Vancouver BC

Much of the B.C. real estate bubble can be explained as nothing more than the "layering" and "integration" aspect of a giant money laundering scheme involving billions of dollars of Chinese hot money and the criminals behind it.
A new "secret" police study has found that Chinese crime networks could have laundered over $1B through Vancouver homes in 2016 alone, and that a surge in the city's home prices are simultaneously tied to a surge in opioid deaths.

The report examined over 1,200 luxury real estate purchases in British Columbia's Lower Mainland during that year, and concluded that over 10% were tied to buyers with criminal records. Crucially 95% of those transactions could be definitively traced by police intelligence back to Chinese crime networks.
While the study only looked at property purchases in 2016, an analysis by Global News suggests the same extended crime network may have laundered about $5-billion in Vancouver-area homes since 2012. - Fentanyl: Making a Killing
Since 2016 we've chronicled the "dark side" behind the Vancouver real estate bubble, which it turns out has long been a bubbling melange of criminal Chinese oligarch "hot money", desperate to get parked offshore in any piece of real estate, but mostly in British Columbia regardless of price.

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Bizarro Earth

7 found dead at farm house in popular tourist region in Japan - Includes 5 family members

Justin McCurry
Guardian
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 02:46 UTC
Takachiho mass killing
© The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images
An aerial image shows the scene in the Japanese village of Takachiho, where seven people have died.
Residents of a remote village in south-western Japan are coming to terms with a gruesome mass murder after six people, including five members of the same family, were found dead inside a farmhouse.

Police said they later discovered the body of a seventh person who had jumped or fallen from a nearby bridge into a river in Takachiho, Miyazaki prefecture, a mountain village of 12,000 people and a popular tourist destination.

Investigators discovered the body of a woman outside the house and the bodies of five other people, including a young girl, inside, on Monday. Media reports said some of the victims appeared to have been stabbed.

Comment: The motivation and perpetrator of the killings remains to be seen, but what is clear is that people all over the planet, likely those most susceptible, are losing it: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Attention

Waitrose magazine's former editor who quit over 'killing vegans' remark claims vegans 'threatened to roast his baby and attack his wife'

Jacob Jarvis
Evening Standard
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:17 UTC
William Sitwell
© Dave Benett
William Sitwell stood down from his role after making the comment in an email.
A magazine editor who quit following a controversial "killing vegans" comment has said threats were made against his baby and wife amid the fierce backlash.

William Sitwell stepped down from his position at Waitrose magazine last month after his controversial reply to a freelancer's email suggesting a series on plant-based recipes.

The long-standing food writer sparked a swathe of vitriol when Selene Nelson shared his response which said: "How about a series on killing vegans, one by one."

Comment: As Sitwell says, one rarely sees a worse level of hate, vitriol and downright insane behavior than from the twisted mind of a vegan scorned. One theory is that it's due to the nutrient deficiencies, but it could just as easily be the consequences of being completely and utterly ideologically possessed.

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Bizarro Earth

Sticking to reality in a mad world

James Quinn
The Burning Platform
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
the scream


And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world

The haunting Gary Jules version of the Tears for Fears' Mad World speaks to me in these tumultuous mad times. It must speak to many others, as the music video has been viewed over 132 million times. The melancholy video is shot from the top of an urban school building in a decaying decrepit bleak neighborhood with school children creating various figures on the concrete pavement below. The camera pans slowly to Gary Jules singing on the rooftop and captures the concrete jungle of non-descript architecture, identical office towers, gray cookie cutter apartment complexes, and a world devoid of joy and vibrancy.

The song was influenced by Arthur Janov's theories in his book The Primal Scream. The chorus above about his "dreams of dying were the best he ever had" is representative of letting go of this mad world and being free of the monotony and release from the insanity of this world. Our ego fools us into thinking the madness of this world is actually normal. Day after day we live lives of quiet desperation. Despite all evidence our world is spinning out of control and the madness of the crowds is visible in financial markets, housing markets, politics, social justice, and social media, the level of normalcy bias among the populace has reached astounding levels, as we desperately try to convince ourselves everything will be alright. But it won't.

Comment: Whether because terms like 'mad world' just get heard more often because we live in the information age - or because more people are objectively observing that our world is indeed becoming madder (or both) is hard to say. But perhaps the following articles do give some credence to the fact that there are developments that do reflect and intensification of insanity world-wide.

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Book 2

Jewish leaders propose that new editions of the Bible and Koran contain trigger warnings underscoring anti-Semitic passages

James Wood
Daily Mail
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:38 UTC
Ariel Muzicant, Vice-President of the European Jewish Congress

Ariel Muzicant, Vice-President of the European Jewish Congress, and co-author of the new document holds it up, showing the title 'An End to Antisemitism! A Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism'
Jewish leaders are calling for new editions of the Bible and Koran to carry warning messages which highlight anti-Semitic passages in the holy texts.

The recommendations have been made in a new document called 'An End to Antisemitism! A Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism'.

It was produced following an international conference organised by the European Jewish Congress, at which academics gathered to discuss how prejudice and discrimination can be tackled.

Among the policies mentioned in the document was the idea of warning messages in holy texts, a topic discussed in a chapter entitled 'recommendations regarding Religious Groups and Institutions'.

The document reads: 'Translations of the New Testament, the Qur'an and other Christian or Muslim literatures need marginal glosses, and introductions that emphasize continuity with Jewish heritage of both Christianity and Islam and warn readers about antisemitic passages in them.
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Political Bias Charts by Industry based on 30 years of financial contributions data

Andy Kiersz and Hunter Walker
Business Insider
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
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Crowdpac, a non-partisan firm dedicated to political data analysis, used federal campaign contribution records dating back to 1980 in order to estimate where various officials and donors fall on the political spectrum. They scored individual donors as being more liberal or conservative based on what kinds of candidates they gave to.

The company's CEO and co-founder, Steve Hilton, told Business Insider this donation data "is the heart of the Crowdpac data model" because their "research shows that campaign contributions are the best predictor of how a candidate will behave in office."

Hilton also explained that the Crowdpac's main goal is to provide people "good objective, non-partisan information about the candidates on their ballot in a simple form that they can understand." The company believes this will help "boost the number of small donors and reduce the influence of big money in politics."
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