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Something I’ve been saying for a while now on my science and tech podcast–Sovryn Tech–has finally been proven true: Alphabet/Google is only concerned with draining the very life out of you for its own financial and everlasting-gobbstopping data collection purposes.
Alright, fine, I’m only half-kidding.
But Alphabet/Google has filed a patent in the US for a “needle-less blood test” that is attached to–of all things–a smartwatch (most likely a la Android Wear only). There isn’t much in the way of specifics (a problem with the patent system–beyond the stupidity of intellectual property–is that you can be incredibly broad and get a patent, …read more

The period for Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to file for the Oklahoma primaries has opened. See this story. Candidates qualify by a filing fee of $2,500. The deadline is December 9. …read more

On December 7, Hillary Clinton submitted her Virginia ballot access petition. This story doesn’t say how many raw signatures were submitted, but perhaps the information will be available soon. The requirement is 5,000 signatures, due December 10. …read more

Los Angeles, CA — Thanks to Los Angeles’ finest, Walter DeLeon has lost a quarter of his skull, almost all his eyesight, the ability to walk, and his life is in shambles.
In June of this year, DeLeon, 49, was on his regular evening walk to a nearby park when LAPD Officer Cairo Palacios “feared for his life” and shot him in the head.
DeLeon was not armed, he did not attack the officer, nor did he say or do anything that would have been construed by a normal person to be aggressive behavior. However, the dastardly Palacios and his partner perceived …read more

Washington DC, – Congressman Stephen Lynch revealed in a recent interview on Boston Public Radio that there are 72 people on the US terror watchlist who currently have jobs with the Department Of Homeland Security.
Congressman Stephen Lynch stated in his recent interview that he backed a recent bill to change the screening process for refugees because he and other representatives did not trust the Department Of Homeland Security to be in charge of the operation. According to Lynch, an inspector general’s report conducted back in August showed that there were a large number of people on both the US terror …read more

CNN’s favorite “Mass Shooting Index” is designed to terrorize you Retweet
@DownsizeDC We must reveal what the media hides.
Today’s editorial, by Jim Babka, is designed to be sent to your “representatives” in Congress. You are encouraged to copy and paste this op-ed…

You’ve probably heard that San Bernardino was the 355th mass shooting of 2015.

People are being led to believe there’s a growing and frightening risk that they or someone they love will be caught in an incident like this. You need to know the rest of the story…

The most often used mass shootings number has a specific meaning. It means at …read more

On December 1, the Washington, D.C. city council unanimously approved resolution PR21-302. It says that the city will launch a public relations campaign to gain support for statehood. The resolution points out that the District of Columbia has a greater population than either Wyoming or Vermont. It says that D.C. has a greater gross domestic product (gdp) than fourteen states.
The Mayor is directed to set up a working group by January 1, 2016, that will attempt to collect 1,000,000 signatures. The petition will then be presented to Congress and to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, …read more

Alberta, CA — A.J. Daoust was minding his own business, hadn’t caused harm to anyone, and simply wanted a quick meal when he was targeted by Alberta’s finest as an easy mark for extortion.
As Daoust was waiting in line at a Tim Horton’s Drive-thru in Beaumont, he received a text message, naturally he replied. Sitting in a drive-thru and texting, even to the most staunch anti-distracted driving advocates, is considered entirely harmless as you are most likely stopped while doing so.
However, according to a Beaumont cop, Daoust was placing the entire planet in danger when he sent out that digital …read more

“WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
-Two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

The United States is dropping bombs faster than the military industrial complex can manufacture them. The spike in demand for weapons of war since the attacks in Paris have sent stock prices and arms sales through the roof.
Defense industry stocks this morning following Friday night’s attacks …read more

Sam Wang has this article about gerrymandering in the New York Times. He says there are several statistical methods that should allow anyone to measure when partisan gerrymandering is excessive. He hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will outlaw extreme partisan gerrymandering some day. …read more