Blog Heap of Links for the day 3 June 2016

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Wars and Rumors

…Erdogan’s Turkey. A homicide bomber killed five and caused extensive damage to the world’s oldest church.… The church, also known as Idto d’Yoldath-Aloho, in the mountainous Tur Abdin region near the Syrian border, is considered the heartland of Syrian Orthodox Christianity.…

11:49am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Big Brother

Mordor Eye

…Nearly 250 million video surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the world, and chances are you’ve been seen by several of them today.… Soon anybody with a high-resolution camera and the right software will be able to determine your identity. That’s because several technologies are converging to make this accessible. Recognition algorithms have become far more accurate, the devices we carry can process huge amounts of data, and there’s massive databases of faces now available on social media that are tied to our real names.…

11:08am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Mass Media is Dead

Days after Katie Couric apologetically admitted misrepresenting pro-gun voices via the insertion of a pause in Under the Gun, director Stephanie Soechtig took a different tack and said she stands by the pause.

In fact, Soechtig suggested the pause is only getting coverage because the NRA fixated on it.…

Wile E. NRA, Super Genius
10:55pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW
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US Military

The last four soldiers still missing after a truck carrying a dozen troops was washed from a flooded low-water cross at Fort Hood were found dead Friday, bringing the death toll from the accident to nine.…

(Citing Yahoo News)
11:42pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

…Five soldiers were killed, three others injured and four were missing after a US Army truck was swept from a low-water crossing and overturned in a swollen creek at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday.…

As Vic says, "Something about this poses a lot of questions to me."
10:25am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Patriotism

US Flag

…A Rhode Island city official called the city’s firefighters “terrorists” and compared them to ISIS for putting an American flag on their firetruck. The firefighters say they have been told to remove the flag by city officials.…

(Citing Daily Caller)
11:31pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Japan: Father ' very sorry' as son found after week's disappearance…
Officials say 499 Islamic extremists pose threat in Germany…
Oil slides as US rig count rises, economy concerns…

News headline links
11:46pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Twitchy: #PPSellsBabyParts Scandal Gets Even More Disgusting…
Shark Tank: Debbie Wassermann Schultz Has A Weed Problem…
The Jawa Report: TRIGGER WARNING – Feminist Rage Compilation…

News & views links
11:38pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Obamacare’s 13th Co-Op Is Closing. Why More Could Follow…
Thanks to EPA and Army Corps of Engineers, American farmers are a newly endangered species…
Majority of Fortune 500 CEOs Prefer Clinton over Trump…

News and views links
11:52am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A Muslim immigrant to Australia named Aladdin Sisalem is unhappy about a headline that appeared in a newspaper, so he is taking the paper to court. The offending headline in The Herald Sun read “Islam Must Change”, and Mr. Sisalem insists that these words violate Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal will hear the case.

In other news, in the town of Lawrenceville, Georgia, a woman wearing a burka (name: Aisha Ibrahim) was arrested after she allegedly assaulted a homeowner and members of his family using an American flag pulled off the family’s mailbox.…

News headline links and summaries
11:45am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW
Nightmouse

Iran gloats: Obama “surrendered” to us…
Americans Can’t Be Trusted to Control Salt, So Obama Will Do It for Us…
Facebook is testing out a new AI that will read everything you post…

News summaries and links
11:18am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Ft. Hood flooding tragedy…
Blue Angel pilot killed in crash…
Thunderbird fighter crashes, pilot unhurt …

Really wasn't a good day for our military at home
10:40am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1888 the poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was published in The San Francisco Examiner. A Disney short animation for the poem was released in 1946 and made this poem even more popular.…

Vic's back from his brief break
10:23am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

Sportsmanship

Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.

Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.…

11:57pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW

US Election 2016

…Hillary Clinton said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “set a very bad example” and “created an environment” of violence that influenced the anti-Trump mob that attacked Trump supporters leaving a rally last night in California.…

Wile E. Trump, Super Genius
10:53pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW
Hillary

…“I will say this, Hillary Clinton has got to go to jail,” Trump told his supporters… “Folks, honestly, she’s guilty as hell.”

11:23am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 3 :MW