Facebook: Information of 'Up to 87 Million People' Was 'Improperly Shared' with Cambridge Analytica | Breitbart

Facebook: Information of 'Up to 87 Million People' Was 'Improperly Shared' with Cambridge Analytica | Breitbart:

"Facebook has claimed the information of “up to 87 million” users was “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica.
The company made the announcement in a blog post, Wednesday, where they also discussed changes to the platform which would restrict the use of user data.
“In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the US — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” declared Facebook."

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Obama State Dept used taxpayer dollars to fund George Soros group's political activities in Albania, watchdog group says | Fox News

Obama State Dept used taxpayer dollars to fund George Soros group's political activities in Albania, watchdog group says | Fox News:
"The Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayer funds to a group backed by billionaire George Soros to fund left-wing activities in Albania, a conservative watchdog group says...
The new documents show USAID funds were sent through the agency’s Civil Society Project to back Soros’ left-wing "East West Management Institute" through USAID's "Justice for All" campaign. USAID provided $8.8 million in 2016 to that campaign. 
The Justice for All Project was designed to strengthen the effectiveness and transparency of the courts in Albania...
Judicial Watch said ,though, that money was used specifically to give the Albanian socialist government greater control of the judiciary system. 
“The Obama administration quietly spent at least $9 million in U.S. taxpayers’ dollars in direct collusion with left-wing billionaire George Soros’ backing of a socialist government in Albania,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement Wednesday.
“It is particularly outrageous that the State Department allowed the Soros operation to help direct taxpayer funds to other groups.”...
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Governors could be powerless to deny Trump troop request | Fox News

Governors could be powerless to deny Trump troop request | Fox News:
"SALEM, Ore. –  President Donald Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to the border with Mexico has drawn resistance from some governors, most of them Democrats, but they could be powerless to deny the commander in chief's request for soldiers.
Governors have some leeway to say no presidents, but depending on which federal law Trump uses to order the deployment, the matter could be out of the governors' hands.
The statute known as "Title 10 duty status" establishes that National Guard personnel operate under the president's control and receive federal pay and benefits. 
It also forbids them from performing tasks of civilian law enforcement unless explicitly authorized, according to the Congressional Research Service..."

Don Rosenberg works to overturn California sanctuary law SB54 after son killed by immigrant - Washington Times

Don Rosenberg works to overturn California sanctuary law SB54 after son killed by immigrant - Washington Times:

"A man whose son was killed by an immigrant said Wednesday that he and other advocates will mount a drive to try to overturn California’s sanctuary law, putting the question directly to voters in a ballot initiative that, if it succeeds, would force police to share information with federal deportation authorities.
Don Rosenberg said they hope to file their initiative later this week, kicking off a six-month drive to get enough signatures, which could send the matter to voters in 2019 or 2020.
“This will be David versus Goliath. We’re clearly David on this side. But there are millions of Davids here,” Mr. Rosenberg said.
It’s the latest move in what has become a high-stakes battle over SB54, the state law that severely limits state and local police and sheriff’s departments in their ability to communicate or work with the Department of Homeland Security."

Top 20% of Americans Will Pay 87% of Income Tax - WSJ

Top 20% of Americans Will Pay 87% of Income Tax - WSJ:
"Households with $150,000 or more in income make up 52% of total income nationally but pay large portion of total taxes
One of the least discussed parts of America’s income tax is how progressiv

e it is, and the tax overhaul didn’t change that fact.
The results show how steeply progressive the U.S. income tax remains.
For 2018, households in the top 20% will have income of about $150,000 or more and 52% of total income, about the same as in 2017.
But they will pay about 87% of income taxes, up from about 84% last year.
By contrast, the lower 60% of households, who have income up to about $86,000, receive about 27% of income.
As a group, this tier will pay no net federal income tax in 2018 vs. 2% of it last year..."

My 72-Hour Safari in Clinton Country - POLITICO Magazine

My 72-Hour Safari in Clinton Country - POLITICO Magazine:
"In a recent March morning, as a nor’easter walloped an idyllic Brooklyn street with snow, members of the Park Slope Food Coop ambled inside, shopping for bargains on broccolini and organic wheatgrass.
I was here under somewhat false pretenses, as a reporter from out of state to tour the co-op—the truth, but not the whole truth.
At the door, a young blond woman told me I wasn’t welcome to roam a single organic-mango punctuated aisle unless under the supervision of a co-op member.
She instructed me to take an elevator upstairs, where I would find a customer service desk.
There, I met several members.
I told them I had traveled here to take the political temperature of Clinton Country. 
This place, I explained, seemed to be the epicenter of liberal consensus.
The Park Slope Food Coop—a 17,000-member-owned and operated food store with a vaguely communist-sounding name...
...One member I met estimated that, during the 2016 primary, 60 percent of the co-op’s members threw their support to Clinton and the other 40 percent supported Bernie Sanders.
Not to mention that the co-op is situated in one of the toniest parts of Brooklyn, the site of Clinton’s campaign headquarters, and a borough that she won by 61 percent.
Inside, I met Elie Venezky, a 45-year math educator and entrepreneur who described himself as “upper middle class.”
Venezky was here to put in his monthly 2 hours and 45 minutes in exchange for the privilege of accessing some of the city’s cheapest food prices. For the first few minutes of his shift, the Clinton voter laid out a relatively straightforward, if improbable, way Donald Trump could gain his support.
“If he came out in tears and admitted his whole life was a lie, and that he’s changing all of his policies, and that he’s going to fight for the people, and that maybe Putin isn’t such a great guy, sure, he could win me over that way,” the card-carrying member of the coastal elite told me.
“But the chances of that happening are pretty slim.”...
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FBI showdown over Trump data - Washington Times

FBI showdown over Trump data - Washington Times:

"The FBI is refusing to disclose additional information about its decision to begin investigating then-candidate Donald Trump in July 2016, prompting Rep. Devin Nunes to threaten a showdown in federal court.
Mr. Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence, sent a letter to the Justice Department saying the FBI will not un-redact internal electronic communications provided the panel on how the investigation got started. Mr. Nunes says the FBI has blacked out large portions of FBI electronic messages.
The FBI also is resisting Mr. Nunes’ demand to make documents available to lawmakers on the application for a court-approved wiretap on former Trump volunteer Carter Page."

Oikophobia on the rise after Trump win: Glenn Reynolds

Oikophobia on the rise after Trump win: Glenn Reynolds:
"Irrational fear of fellow countrymen is spreading among America's ruling class.
How crazy has the reaction to Trump’s impending presidency gotten?
So crazy that Democratic operatives are scared of plumbers, and I don’t mean the Watergate kind.
No, really. Ned Resnikoff, a “senior editor” at the  liberal website ThinkProgress, wrote on Facebook that he’d called a plumber to fix a clogged drain.
The plumber showed up, did the job and left, but Resnikoff was left shaken, though with a functioning drain.
Wrote Resnikoff, “He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional. 
But he was also a middle-aged white man with a Southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week’s news.”
This created fear: “While I had him in the apartment, I couldn’t stop thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home.”
When it was all over, Resnikoff reported that he was “rattled” at the thought that a Trump supporter might have been in his home. “I couldn’t shake the sense of potential danger.”..."
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Facebook asked hospitals to share patient data | TheHill

Facebook asked hospitals to share patient data | TheHill:
"Facebook asked hospitals for anonymized data about their patients for a proposed research project, CNBC reported on Thursday.
The social media platform reportedly intended to compare the data, which included prescription information and illnesses, with its own data that it collected from users, in order to flag users that may need hospital care..."
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6 Reasons Why The AR-15 Is Actually Ideal For Self-Defense

6 Reasons Why The AR-15 Is Actually Ideal For Self-Defense
"The AR-15 may well be the most vilified rifle in existence at the moment, possibly even more so than the Soviet-designed AK-47. 
This is especially true following several incidents where bad people did bad things with the rifle in question.

As per usual following such incidents, politicians begin clamoring for the rifle to be banned. 
They use all kinds of rhetoric to paint the firearm as some kind of evil murder-death-kill machine that serves no other purpose except to end lives. 
This usually comes from the same people who claim that the most recent gunman, armed with a Glock, didn’t have a semiautomatic weapon.

Yeah.

Anyway, many of these folks–including at least one former vice president of the United States–have said that all you need for self-defense in your home is a shotgun.

Unfortunately, this just isn’t the case. 

The AR-15 is a great weapon for self-defense, and there are a number of reasons why. 

What follows is one man’s thinking on why the AR-15 is great for home defense and, in a few cases, why it’s far superior to the shotgun...

1. It’s Lightweight

2. It’s Compact

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No, Hillary Clinton: It’s the Red States That Are Dynamic | The Heritage Foundation

No, Hillary Clinton: It’s the Red States That Are Dynamic | The Heritage Foundation:

"For at least the last two decades, most of the dynamism and growth — as measured by population movements, income growth and job creation — has been fleeing from the once economically dominant blue states that Clinton won and relocating to the red states that Trump won.
Here's the evidence. Of the 12 blue states that Hillary Clinton won by the largest margins — Hawaii, California, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Washington, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware — all but three of them lost residents through domestic migration (excluding immigration) over the last 10 years."

China Challenges The US Dollar By Launching Petro-Yuan: Dollar's Death Imminent?

China Challenges The US Dollar By Launching Petro-Yuan: Dollar's Death Imminent?:
"China is the world’s largest crude oil consumer, and its eyes are now on the rival United States’ currency, the dollar.  
The Chinese have effectively challenged the dollar’s dominance by launching the petro-yuan, leading some to believe the US dollar’s collapse is all but imminent.

According to the South China Morning Post, China’s state-run media outlet, trading of the new oil futures contracts for September settlement started on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange at 440.20 yuan ($69.70) per barrel. 
Some 18,540 lots have reportedly been sold and purchased so far. Concerns that the dollar’s glory days are over began last year.

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History for April 7

History for April 7 - On-This-Day.com
W.K. Kellogg 1860 - Industrialist in food manufacturing, most known for founding of the Kellogg Company, Walter Winchell 1897 - Vaudeville performer, journalist, radio commentator, Percy Faith 1908 - Orchestra leader, composer


James Garner (James Scott Bumgarner) 1928 - Actor ("Rockford Files", "Maverick"), Jackie Chan 1954 - Actor ("Rush Hour", "Rush Hour 2"), Russell Crowe 1964 - Actor ("A Beautiful Mind," "Gladiator")


1864 - The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California.


1940 - Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.


1945 - The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission.


1948 - The musical "South Pacific" by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway.


1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.


1963 - At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.


1970 - John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in "True Grit." He had been in over 200 films.

Christian privilege is the new white privilege – Glenn Beck

Christian privilege is the new white privilege – Glenn Beck:

"George Washington would be so proud.

The George Washington University, in our nation’s capital, has been molding minds for almost two centuries. It is one of the most prestigious and highest-ranked institutions in America. But every student who has graced the hallowed halls of GWU has come away with a deficiency in their expensive education. Until now."

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Minneapolis Schools Face $33M Deficit After City Paid $500M for NFL Stadium

Minneapolis Schools Face $33M Deficit After City Paid $500M for NFL Stadium:
"Teachers and staff of Minneapolis schools are expecting hundreds of layoffs due to a $33 million deficit only a few years after the city completed a taxpayer-funded $1.1 billion football stadium.

Minneapolis Public Schools — the state’s third largest district currently tasked with educating 36,000 young people — is expected to lay off 350-400 full time employees after last fall’s announcement that the education budget’s deficit had doubled for the following school year.
Teachers of many subjects are on the chopping block, including English and Math.
Social workers in charge of shepherding troubled students and security guards meant to provide protection during an event such as a mass shooting are also expected to be cut.
...Meanwhile, the taxpayer-funded US Bank Stadium hosted its first Super Bowl last month, with billionaire real estate tycoon and Vikings owner Zygi Wilf expected to reap $200 million from the new stadium each year in personal profits.
The city of Minneapolis budgeted a whopping $498 million of taxpayer money to aid in the construction of the stadium, as well as to the destruction of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which the new stadium replaced..."
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You’ve Been Hoodwinked. (Perhaps.) | Sharyl Attkisson

You’ve Been Hoodwinked. (Perhaps.) | Sharyl Attkisson:
"If you watched the mash-up of Sinclair station anchors reading their national promo and were convinced it was something evil and nefarious, you’ve been hoodwinked.

A few of you asked for my view on this continuing propaganda campaign put together by certain political interests and Sinclair’s competitors, as Sinclair seeks to close on a deal to buy Tribune companies.

Watch the Deadspin mashup of Sinclair station promos:

From what I can tell, this issue breaks down along ideological lines, and minds are not likely to be swayed. 
My friends on the far left are convinced that Sinclair anchors reading a national promo is Hitler-esque Orwellian brainwashing. 
My friends on the far right are happy and hopeful that Sinclair might, indeed, be pushing conservative views. 
Those in the middle don’t care or seem to think it’s much ado about nothing.

There’slegitimate debate to be heard on many topics surrounding media fairness and consolidation. 
It’s obviously perfectly fine for you to disagree, but I find nothing to argue with in the nonpartisan, national Sinclair promos at issue. 
(The text is printed at the end of this article. You can decide for yourself.) 
In fact, I’ve heard many conservatives and liberals alike make these same points: That we have a problem with one-sided, false and biased news; that some reporters are pushing agendas; and that untrue stories are being published without proper fact checks. 
These assertions are pretty indisputable, wherever you sit.

Read a local Sinclair anchor’s commentary on the issue

The promos go on to say that Sinclair stations are committed to factual reporting neither “left nor right.” 

The anchors were even instructed not to wear blue or red, lest the colors be incorrectly interpreted as politically-charged in today’s environment. 
Somehow, this was portrayed by leftists as “Turning news anchors into soldiers for Trump’s war on the media.” ...

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Franklin Graham puts bull’s-eye on Target’s open restrooms

Franklin Graham puts bull’s-eye on Target’s open restrooms:

"“Why is anyone shocked? Target prides itself in its policy that allows biological men to use women’s restrooms. On Sunday in one of their Chicago-area stores, a man entered the ladies restroom and exposed himself to a little girl who was at the store shopping with her mom,” wrote Graham, the CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief and development organization Samaritan’s Purse.
“Customers interviewed were right – it’s very sad. And it is so preventable. The American Family Association is calling for a boycott of Target stores – you can sign it at www.afa.net/target. Call the Target headquarters at 612-304-6073 and let them know that you think they should change their decision and make their restrooms safe again. And you can voice your concerns on the Target Facebook page.”"

Detroit Land Bank accused of not paying demolition contractors

Detroit Land Bank accused of not paying demolition contractors
"Up to $8.7 million in payments have been delayed because of alleged issues in the agency.
Demolition contractors who have been working on the blighted homes project in Detroit have not been paid by the Detroit Lank Band Authority (DLB), a report by the Detroit Free Press says. 
Up to $8.7 million has been delayed because of alleged issues stemming from within the agency.
Land bank officials rebuffed the claims in the report, but the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), with offices in Lansing and Detroit, said in a statement to the Free Press that the “backlog is currently in the DLB office in getting us invoices for review.”
The land bank is reimbursed by the state agency to pay contractors....
Detroit received $258 million in federal Hardest Hit Funds and has spent $144 million, the report says..."
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Howard students occupy admin building, demand disarming of police

Howard students occupy admin building, demand disarming of police

• Student protesters at Howard University have now been occupying an administration building for eight days following revelations that employees had stolen about $1 million in financial aid money.
• The students have issued a list of demands, calling on the university to disarm its campus police force and create a "grievance system" to report "sexist, classist, colorist, queerphobic, ableist, and xenophobic language."
• Student activists at Howard University are demanding that the school disarm its police force and create an “investigative body of students” to evaluate offensive language.

The demands come in the wake of a financial aid scandal that resulted in six employees being fired for allegedly pocketing about $1 million in excess tuition funds over a period of nine years.
"Currently, there is no effective system in place for students to report misconduct and harmful behavior, such as the use of sexist, classist, colorist, queerphobic, ableist, and xenophobic language..."
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Judicial Watch: State Department Records Show Obama Administration Helped Fund George Soros’ Left-Wing Political Activities in Albania - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: State Department Records Show Obama Administration Helped Fund George Soros’ Left-Wing Political Activities in Albania - Judicial Watch:

"Judicial Watch obtained 32 pages of records showing the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds to a group backed by billionaire George Soros, which used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania, including working with the country’s socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial “reform.” The records also detail how the Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding.

Older Americans Are Hooked On Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work | California Healthline

Older Americans Are Hooked On Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work | California Healthline
"When she was a young physician, Dr. Martha Gulati noticed that many of her mentors were prescribing vitamin E and folic acid to patients. 
Preliminary studiesin the early 1990s had linked both supplements to a lower risk of heart disease.

She urged her father to pop the pills as well: “Dad, you should be on these vitamins, because every cardiologist is taking them or putting their patients on [them],” recalled Gulati, now chief of cardiology for the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.

But just a few years later, she found herself reversing course, after rigorous clinical trials found neither vitamin E nor folic acid supplements did anything to protect the heart. 
Even worse, studies linked high-dose vitamin E to a higher risk of heart failure, prostate cancer and death from any cause.

“‘You might want to stop taking [these],’” Gulati told her father..."

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Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life | TED Talk

Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life | TED Talk:
"The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America.
Why?
According to psychologist Susan Pinker, it's not a sunny disposition or a low-fat, gluten-free diet that keeps the islanders healthy -- it's their emphasis on close personal relationships and face-to-face interactions.
Learn more about super longevity as Pinker explains what it takes to live to 100 and beyond."

#1 This day 1966-----Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul & Inspiration (1966)

CDC Study: Use of Firearms for Self-Defense is ‘Important Crime Deterrent’

CDC Study: Use of Firearms for Self-Defense is ‘Important Crime Deterrent’
(CNSNews.com) – “Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,”says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.
“Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies,” the CDC study, entitled “Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,” states.
The report, which notes that “ violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past five years,” also pointed out that “some firearm violence results in death, but most does not.”
In fact, the CDC report said, most incidents involving the discharge of firearms do not result in a fatality..."
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You won’t hear much about the YouTube attack because the suspect doesn’t fit the media narrative – Glenn Beck

You won’t hear much about the YouTube attack because the suspect doesn’t fit the media narrative – Glenn Beck:

"The blame-assigning and mud-slinging got more and more ridiculous as the rumors began to pile up. But here are the facts. The shooter was an Iranian woman who was irate at YouTube’s new content policies. After disappearing for two days, her father called the police to warn them that she might be on her way to YouTube. The police found her sleeping in her car but let her go.
How do I describe this woman? She’s a militant vegan, animal rights activist, bodybuilder and the creator of some of the most bizarre videos you’ve ever seen. In between wild rants in Farsi, she can be seen working out, dancing, cuddling with rabbits and chickens and then back to random militant vegan tirades."

Diversity unto Death - Literally :: SteynOnline

Diversity unto Death - Literally :: SteynOnline:
"...From my Sunday Telegraph column of January 5th 2003:
Meanwhile, America's traditionally high and England and Wales's traditionally low murder rates are remorselessly converging. 
In 1981, the US rate was nine times higher than the English.
By 1995, it was six times.
Last year, it was down to 3.5.
Given that US statistics, unlike the British ones, include manslaughter and other lesser charges, the real rate is much closer.
New York has just recorded the lowest murder rate since the 19th century.
I'll bet that in the next two years London's murder rate overtakes it.
I got a little ahead of my skis on that last line.
Nevertheless:
London's murder rate has overtaken New York City's numbers for the first time ever, according to a new report.
...What a positively Dickensian roll-call.
Of the three names a Londoner might have had at the time of, say, Darkest Hour, Lewis Blackman was a black man stabbed to death by six teenagers; Hannah Leonard was a middle-aged Irish lady also stabbed to death, by a couple from Kilburn; and Mark Smith apparently met his end at the hands of a woman "of no fixed abode".
At least eighty-five per cent of that grim toll would have been wholly unknown to pre-multicultural London, because neither perpetrators nor victims would have been residents of the United Kingdom.
If you were to say that on Twitter, Scotland Yard would stop investigating today's stabbing and investigate you instead. 
...To reprise my old line: In Britain everything is policed except crime. 
A great nation is dying in darkness..."
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