This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops: Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals…
July 13, 2019
Palantir is one of the most significant and secretive companies in big data analysis. The company acts as an information management service for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, corporations like JP Morgan and Airbus, and dozens of other local, state, and federal agencies. It’s been described by scholars as a “secondary surveillance network,” since it extensively catalogs and maps interpersonal relationships between individuals, even those who aren't suspected of a crime.
Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir. But few people outside the company and its customers know how its software works or what its specific capabilities and user interfaces are...
India to Attempt First Moon Landing…
July 13, 2019
The mission, Chandrayaan-2, which means "moon vehicle" in Sanskrit, will send a rover to collect samples from the surface of the moon and monitor seismic activity. The first generation of India's moon mission sent a different spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, orbiting around the moon in 2008, but it did not land.
According to the Department of Space in India's Space Research Organization, the country would be the first to reach the lunar south pole, which is believed to host reservoirs of ice. It is also the destination of the U.S.'s Artemis mission to the moon in 2024...
Colion Noir explains how the point of disarmnament is so the government can control citizens…
July 13, 2019
North Carolina Is Eyeing a Hyperloop One System for the Research Triangle – The Hyperloop One system utilizes electric propulsion and electromagnetic levitation in a vacuum-like tunnel to run pods at estimated top speeds of 670 miles per hour…
July 13, 2019
Archinaut snags $73 million in NASA funding to 3D-print giant spacecraft parts in orbit…
July 13, 2019
A project to 3D-print bulky components in space rather than bring them up there has collected a $73.7 million contract from NASA to demonstrate the technique in space. Archinaut, a mission now several years in development from Made In Space, could launch as soon as 2022.
The problem at hand is this: If you want a spacecraft to have solar arrays 60 feet long, you need to bring 60 feet of structure for those arrays to attach to — they can’t just flap around like ribbons. But where do you stash a 60-foot pole, or two 30-foot ones, or even 10 six-foot ones when you only have a few cubic feet of space to put them in? It gets real complicated real fast to take items with even a single large dimension into space.
Archinaut’s solution is simple. Why not just take the material for that long component into space and print it out on the spot? There’s no more compact way to keep the material than as a brick of solid matter...
UN Launches All-out War on Free Speech…
July 13, 2019
This was evident with regard to the UN Global Compact on Migration, in which it was explicitly stated that public funding to "media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants" should be stopped.
In contrast to the UN Global Migration compact, the UN's action plan against hate speech does contain a definition of what the UN considers to be "hate" and it happens to be the broadest and vaguest of definitions possible: "Any kind of communication in speech, writing or behaviour, that attacks or uses pejorative or discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of who they are, in other words, based on their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, colour, descent, gender or other identity factor". With a definition as broad as this, all speech could be labelled "hate".
The new action plan plays straight into the OIC's decades-long attempts to ban criticism of Islam as 'hate speech'. In the wake of the launch of Guterres' action plan, Pakistan has already presented a six-point plan "to address the new manifestations of racism and faith-based hatred, especially Islamophobia" at the United Nations headquarters. The presentation was organized by Pakistan along with Turkey, the Holy See and the UN....
“Your Comments Are DISGUSTING!” – Former Border Patrol Chief Tom Homan EXPLODES at Hearing — Goes Off on Unhinged Democrat…
July 13, 2019
Harley Davidson Unveils “LiveWire” Electric Motorcycle That Goes 0-60 In 3 Seconds…
July 13, 2019
at 140 miles of city driving on a single charge, you'll still need to hook it up to a charger once in a while. To help you save on electricity fees, Harley is offering free charging for US customers.
You'll get two years of free juice at ChargePoint stations at participating Harley dealers for two years...
US charges Chinese software engineer Xudong Yao with stealing trade secrets from former American employer…
July 13, 2019
The latest addition means that half of the FBI’s most wanted counterintelligence list are now accused of economic espionage for China.
Presidio County in Texas Declares Itself “Second Amendment Sanctuary”…
July 13, 2019
“We have people in Washington trying to abolish the Second Amendment and take our rights away,” Dominguez said. Citizens erupted in applause at the conclusion of the sheriff’s speech. Teresa Beckmeyer of Gun Owners of America attended the meeting. “It’s great to see so many people standing up for their constitutional rights,” she said after the resolution passed. Beckmeyer also commended the commissioners court and the sheriff for their actions and for standing up on record...
Homeowner with AR-15 Repels Four Armed Intrusion Suspects, Killing Two…
July 13, 2019
The Ocala Star Banner reports that four suspects allegedly targeted the home. Two of the suspects, 22-year-old Nigel Doyle and 21-year-old Keith Jackson Jr, were killed when the homeowner opened fire. Guns were found near the bodies of both men.
Two other suspects, 19-year-old Robert John Hamilton and 22-year-old Seth Adam Rodriguez, were apprehended by responding deputies. Rodriguez was “arrested on charges of murder and home invasion robbery with a firearm. Hamilton faces home invasion robbery with a firearm.”...
An ‘EpiPen’ for spinal cord injuries, an injection of nanoparticles that can prevent the body’s immune system from overreacting to trauma, potentially preventing some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis, has been demonstrated successfully in mice, without the side effects of steroids…
July 13, 2019
County clerk sues Cuomo over illegal immigrants driver’s license law…
July 13, 2019
The case, which was filed in US Western District court in Buffalo, lists Cuomo, state Attorney General Letitia James and Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Mark Schroeder as defendants.
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Kearns, a Democrat, claims he’s caught between a rock and a hard place. He argued that the Green Light Law puts him in direct conflict with federal immigration law, but also puts his job at risk as Cuomo has the power to remove him from his position.
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Kearns argues that the law is unconstitutional and forces him to conceal records and information from federal authorities.
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Cuomo, James and Schroeder have 21 days to respond to the summons to appear in court...Trump Goes There! Calls Out Ilhan Omar’s Shady Marriage – ‘If Even Half the Stuff They Say About Omar Are True, She Shouldn’t Even be in Office’…
July 13, 2019
President Trump: "I'm looking at this Omar from Minnesota. And if one half of the things they're saying about her are true she shouldn't even be in office." https://t.co/BHwZzgXp1E pic.twitter.com/hHeBAX0lqD
— The Hill (@thehill) July 12, 2019
Dunkin’ Donuts Is Reportedly Suing Franchisees Who Employ Illegals. More than 30 stores have already been taken to court…
July 13, 2019
Most recently, Dunkin' filed a suit just last month against Thomas Sheehan and Kenneth Larson, a pair that owns nine Dunkin' locations across Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. After a two-year tax review, they claimed Sheehan and Larson were keeping outdated records of their employees, and that it wasn't verified if they were legal to work in the United States.
Per VICE, Dunkin' was particularly focused on the lack of employees' mandatory I-9o forms, as that, in their mind, equates to both a violation of immigration laws as well as their own franchising agreement. They sought to have all nine of the aforementioned locations shut down entirely...