Blog Heap of Links for the day 10 June 2016

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Wars and Rumors

ISIS Spammed With Mountains Of Porn In Enormous Cyber Attack On Terror Group… unclear who’s behind the cyber attack, but hacking group Anonymous declared war on ISIS last year.…

Cites Daily Star (UK)
12:24pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

WW2 - still with us

More than 16,000 items belonging to victims of Nazi death camp, Auschwitz were recently rediscovered in Poland.

Their whereabouts have been known since 1967, but shortly thereafter, communist upheaval stalled the recovery of these long-lost possessions.…

12:26pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Okla Flag

…politically liberal outlets take a dim view of conservative states like Oklahoma. To act as though liberal publications are otherwise poised to praise Oklahoma is like expecting vegetarians to endorse heaping servings of red meat. It's not going to happen.…

12:28pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

…TWA 800 was destroyed twenty years ago this July off the coast of Long Island. Mike Wire was one of the 258 FBI witnesses who reported an apparent missile strike. …the CIA and FBI collaborated to discredit the eyewitnesses and advance an exploding fuel tank theory. Wire’s case is just one shocking example out of many.…

12:25pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW
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Feeding Ourselves

…Eat less on a weekly basis. How much you eat under your BMR will determine how fast you will lose fat…

Details, details.
1:21pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

It's All in Your Mind

…American Journal of Political Science… published a finding much beloved of liberals a few years back that purported to find scientific evidence that conservatives are more likely to exhibit traits associated with psychoticism, such as authoritarianism and tough-mindedness, and that the supposed “authoritarian” personality of conservatives might even have a genetic basis (and therefore be treatable someday?).…

The authors regret that there is an error… The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed.…

A slight error. Just a little bit off.
1:16pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

Animal Culture

…A Canadian Lowe's store recently hired a man who was having difficulty finding a job because of a brain injury and a support dog.… "A recent hire is a gentleman that was having difficulty finding employment because of a brain injury and a support dog. So we did what Lowe's does best: we hired him and outfitted Blue, our customer service canine, with his very own vest!"…

12:22pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Students at Yale have submitted a petition to the university administration demanding that white male writers be dropped from the curriculum. They want the course on “Major English Poets” to be removed from the catalog, on the grounds that it is hostile to women, minorities, and the differently-gendered.

In other news, in a video showing the destruction of an ancient Babylonian temple in Iraq, the Islamic State also promised to destroy the pyramids at Giza, with Allah’s help.…

News links and summaries
12:34pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

Don’t Hand The Internet Over To The U.N.…
Student may be punished for insulting vegetarian…
In our brave, new world, the proper use of English is now a microagression…

News headline links
12:32pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

Israel closes border for all Palestinians after Tel Aviv shooting…
Bangladesh arrests 900 in crackdown on Islamist militants…
Hindu monastery worker hacked to death in Bangladesh…

News headline links
12:31pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW
Nightmouse

MSNBC Slams Israel’s ‘Extreme Right-Wing’ Government in Wake of Terror Attack…
Hillary: ‘Trump is to blame for violence’…
Egypt dismisses Daesh threats, says pyramids are secure…

News links with summaries
11:31am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

Obama meets with A.G. after endorsing Hillary. Guess there won't be any indictment coming…
Obama wants huge oil/gas tax…
CA bill is threatening faith-based schools…

Documenting the continuing deterioration of a once-great nation.
9:18am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1854 the first class of United States Naval Academy students graduated.

Vic starts his report a half-hour early. Just to mess with everybody's heads.
8:54am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

Proof Positive: For Democrats Are Dark and Full of Error…
American Thinker: What The CIA Did To Mike Wire, TWA 800 Witness #571…
Mark Steyn: Snowflakes On The Rampage…

News and blog links
2:15am CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW

US Election 2016

Google

Earlier this week, we reported on accusations that Google is in cahoots with the Clinton campaign. Now, an explosive video from SourceFed claims that the company – which holds a virtual monopoly on search – is actively altering search recommendations in favour of the presumptive Democratic nominee.…

12:40pm CDT Fri 2016 Jun 10 :MW