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How to spot fake Facebook profiles and protect yourself from hackers and snoopers

Geoffrey Grider
IWB
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

The next time you receive a friend request on Facebook, take a moment to review their information in the ABOUT section. Pay a visit to their FRIENDS list, and see how many friends you have in common. Look in the MORE section and see what their interests are.

Facebook has over 2 billion profiles, but many of them are nothing more than third-world hackers and government snoopers who want to be fake friends with you

Meet Mary Lambert, she lives in North Carolina. Mary just sent me a friend request, and wants to connect with me on Facebook. I get dozens of requests from such people, mostly women, who have profiles that look just like Mary's profile. I always click the DELETE REQUEST button, and then immediately click the MARK AS SPAM button, and Mary Lambert joins the others who have the same kind of profile.

You see, Mary Lambert is not a real person, at least not in the profile I see in front of me. Mary's profile is filled with red flags which identify it as coming from either hackers seeking access to my information, or from surveillance groups like the NSA or the FBI looking to monitor people.

Facebook touts stricter rules but allows CIA-linked Radio Liberty to promote illegal political ads

RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 09:45 UTC

Facebook now appears to watch RT's every step, but it has allowed the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to publish political ads targeting Americans, while introducing restrictions for other media.

The alarm over a federal-backed outlet targeting its Facebook ads at US audiences was sounded by the New York Times. The paper said that the move constituted a "potential violation" of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which protects Americans citizens from domestic propaganda.

It's illegal for federal-funded news organizations under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to promote their content in the US without a special request - and no such request was received by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) this time around.

Comment: Propaganda's bad...unless the CIA's doing it:

"Please stop America, you're scaring your children": Trans activists parental alienation myth produces victims of American political discourse

Lisa Marchiano
Quillette
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:18 UTC

When children and adolescents experience gender dysphoria, our aim should be to provide them with treatment of the highest standard of care. We should be attempting to provide assistance that will result in the best outcomes-in the short-term, as well as the long-term. Unfortunately, treatment of childhood dysphoria is an area not yet well understood. The extreme contentiousness around the topic means that research can be difficult to conduct and is often hampered by ideological agendas. (For example, see here.) Without a clear consensus among researchers about the best way to treat gender dysphoric children and teens, input from parents increases in importance when determining course of treatment, since it can be assumed that most parents know their children well and have their best interests at heart.

However, narratives promoted by activists and the media currently undermine the crucial parental role in diagnosing dysphoria and helping to determine the most appropriate treatment. Amid glowing media discussions of brave trans kids and their heroic, supportive parents hangs an ominous specter of ignorant, bigoted parents who coldly turn their child out, or cause him or her to endure torturous conversion therapy to eradicate transgender feelings. Tales of the former abound. These stories are told in detail and with soaring rhetoric. In contrast, the latter kind of parents are always darkly implied, but rarely discussed with specifics. Rather, their influence is frequently invoked to underscore the dangers of not immediately affirming a child's chosen gender.

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Google attempting to redefine truth through its biased algorithm

Kip Hansen
Watts Up With That
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:00 UTC

The world's most influential information-gateway - GOOGLE Search - has recently made the decision to abandon its long-standing primary corporate policies: 1) "Don't Be Evil" and 2) Provide internet search results based upon neutral algorithms, not human judgment; unbiased and objective.

Some may object to the charge that they have abandoned their oft-repeated mantra "Don't Be Evil" - but to be clear, this has always meant, as Eric Schmidt (Executive Director of Google at the time) stated in a Wired profile in 2003, "Evil," he said, "is what Sergey says is evil" (referring to Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google together with Larry Page).

As for the second point,

"As Stanford's Terry Winograd, Page and Brin's former professor and a consultant on Gmail, explains to Ken Auletta, "The idea that somebody at Google could know better than the consumer what's good for the consumer is not forbidden." He describes his former students' attitude as "a form of arrogance: 'We know better.'" .....

"[Larry] Page and [Sergey] Brin designed Google to avoid human judgment in rating the relevance of web pages. Recounting Google's original design, Steven Levy describes the founders' opinion that "having a human being determine the ratings was out of the question," not just because "it was inherently impractical," but also because "humans were unreliable. Only algorithms - well drawn, efficiently executed, and based on sound data - could deliver unbiased results."

- Alex White, in "Google.gov"

Comment: Google's hiring preferences reflect the companies twisted perception of reality:

The issue with reparations: The truth about Black American culture and the racial wealth gap

Coleman Hughes
Quillette
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:50 UTC

There is arguably no racial disparity more striking than the wealth gap. While the median white household earns just 65 percent more income than its black counterpart, its net worth is fully ten times as high. And, unlike income, which individuals earn in their own lifetimes, wealth accrues over generations, and whites are more than three times as likely as blacks to inherit money from their families. In the public debate on racial inequality, the wealth gap is among the sharpest arrows in the progressive quiver. When conservative commentators argue that America is a meritocracy, or that blacks lag due to cultural factors, progressives can retaliate with a single statistic that seems to prove the reality of white privilege beyond the possibility of doubt.

But statistics don't interpret themselves, and the wealth gap is no exception. A recent wave of scholarship-including Mehrsa Baradaran's The Color of Money, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law, and Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Case for Reparations"-has converged on the interpretation that the wealth gap is caused by two factors: slavery and racist New Deal policies.

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Media condemned Roseanne's racism, but now defends James Gunn's 'jokes' about child rape

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:24 UTC

The same mainstream media that openly condemned Roseanne's racist Tweets, has come to the defense of James Gunn over his "jokes" about raping children.

Conservative media pundit Mike Cernovich exposed Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn's history of making pedophilic tweets and "joking" about child rape, but rather than media outrage about Gunn's "jokes" involving sexually assaulting and raping children, the mainstream media circled the wagons to defend the Hollywood director.

After his extremely offensive tweets about pedophilia and rape became widely publicized, Gunn apologized, but was ultimately fired as director of Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Gunn released a statement Friday afternoon after Disney fired the director of the first two "Guardians" movies:

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Victims, fellow officer expose cop who raped multiple women on duty

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:58 UTC

A fellow officer is among the witnesses who have come forward to testify against a police officer who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women while on the job, and the police department's claim that the abuse was never reported is raising questions about whether a cover-up was attempted behind the scenes.

Officer Desmond Logan is being investigated after the sexual misconduct allegations against him allege that he brutally raped multiple women in the community he was supposed to be "protecting and serving."

The investigation began after Logan was accused of sexually assaulting a woman last month, and when police began looking into it, they found that there were allegations of a similar assault three years ago. According to a report from the Times Free Press, a current police officer and a separate source asserted that Logan was accused of raping a woman while on duty in 2015, and that "department leadership knew about that allegation."

Loose cannon: Runaway artillery gun hits taxi in Canada

RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:00 UTC

An investigation is underway in Canada after a runaway artillery gun detached itself from a military vehicle and rolled into afternoon traffic.

The incident occurred around 1 pm on Saturday in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, where witnesses saw two members of the Canadian Armed Forces unsuccessfully chase after the howitzer after it mysteriously detached from the military vehicle towing it, according to the Vancouver Sun.

Syrian refugees cling to life on Golan Heights as Assad's net tightens around Israeli-supported militants

The Guardian
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:05 UTC

© Atef Safadi/European Press Agency
Smoke rises as a result of Russian airstrikes on rebel positions on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

Thousands are trapped between the regime's missiles and minefields along the frontier with Israel

It's a regular stop for holidaymakers in Israel. American teenagers, some of them boys in sleeveless basketball tops, cluster on hilltop lookouts in the Golan Heights, a volcanic plateau captured from Syria half a century ago. Visitors ride quad bikes along dusty paths or spend the day touring the area's vineyards. Signs on the roads warn of the risks to tourists: "Caution - cyclists ahead."

For Syrians on the other side of a fortified perimeter fence, there are more pressing concerns. Thousands have gathered as close to the border as possible, gambling their lives on the assumption that Syrian government forces fighting rebels will not bring the battle too close to Israel.

Comment: If Israel claims the territory then why aren't they taking these people in? Apparently they view the responsibility the same way they view the West Bank and Gaza.

Rampaging tractor leads Denver police on a bizarre slow-speed pursuit

RT
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 09:08 UTC

Trained canines had to be used to stop a joyrider who had led Denver authorities on what could only be described as one of the slowest police chases in recent memory.

The incident in an area of downtown Denver resulted in damage to several vehicles and properties after a man drove a John Deere tractor erratically down streets and onto a sidewalk, according to WEWS.

Footage from an eyewitness shows the subsequent bizarre police chase, with at least four cruisers seen following the tractor down a busy Denver road at half-pace. The strangely low-octane pursuit lasted for approximately 30 minutes, Denver Police spokesperson Tyrone Campbell admitted at a press conference.

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Society's Child

How to spot fake Facebook profiles and protect yourself from hackers and snoopers

Facebook touts stricter rules but allows CIA-linked Radio Liberty to promote illegal political ads

"Please stop America, you're scaring your children": Trans activists parental alienation myth produces victims of American political discourse

Google attempting to redefine truth through its biased algorithm

The issue with reparations: The truth about Black American culture and the racial wealth gap

Media condemned Roseanne's racism, but now defends James Gunn's 'jokes' about child rape

Victims, fellow officer expose cop who raped multiple women on duty

Loose cannon: Runaway artillery gun hits taxi in Canada

Syrian refugees cling to life on Golan Heights as Assad's net tightens around Israeli-supported militants

Rampaging tractor leads Denver police on a bizarre slow-speed pursuit

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