…Microsoft loves having multiple names for features and policies. Whether they call them ‘beacons’ or ‘telemetry’ the fact is Windows 10 allows Microsoft to collect information ranging from your keystrokes and voice data to the contents of your email, all in the name of “improving the user experience.” Some will argue that Microsoft can be trusted to never use this data against its customers. How many conservatives would choose to trust Microsoft? It is practically a “if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from them looking” argument. Most of this invasive data gathering can be turned off, and savvy users have already done so. Are you confident that you’ve stopped all thirty of Microsoft’s privacy invasions? And even if you did, the jokes on you, Windows 10 sends information home to Redmond anyways…’
There’s an answer to these totalitarian greedheads – and it’s not Apple, because they’re headed in the same direction.
LINUX MINT
It’s free, powerful and private.

Obama: Last Year in Office Will Be One of ‘Sustained Attention’ to Gun Control
Buy and hide guns and ammunition.
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2,098 Syrian Muslim Refugees Allowed Into USA — Only 53 Christians
Well of course – Hussein O has to please his muslim handlers, after all.
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Trump: I Will Build ‘a Big Beautiful Safe Zone’ in Syria for Refugees
Doable. Affordable. And much, much too sensible.
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Eastern Europe Rising:
Czechs showing the way. May the uprising spread….
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Anonymous Just Took Down Thousands of ISIS Twitter Accounts
Hackers doing what Western governments apparently cannot….

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

The war on boys: ‘ New Barbie Ad Features Young Boy Playing with Doll’

Revolt: 22 Sitting GOP Governors Rebel Against President Obama Over Syrian Refugees
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STATES TELL OBAMA: WE WON’T TAKE THEM
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Yes, There Is A Muslim Fifth Column In The West, And It’s Time To Get Real About It
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Poll: 52% Believe Accepting Refugees Makes America Less Safe
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I’m a Gay Man and Mass Muslim Immigration Terrifies Me
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Obama: ‘Shameful,’ Un-American Not to Take More Muslim ‘Refugees’
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Breitbart
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‘..The official said the administration is “steadfastly committed” to the president’s plan despite recent statements from governors…’

‘Khaled Saadi is tortured by his sisters’ deaths at the Paris cafe where he worked, where gunmen opened fire…’

Stuff “news” NZ

Paris          Nobody says it better.

Arrogant Aussies? is the headline.
Good sportsmanship matters, but so – at this level – does a single-minded determination to win.. The recent tendency of Kiwi cricketers to rush in and shake the hand of opposition batsmen when they score a century smacks more of pc schoolyard “niceness” than genuine sportsmanship.
What next, re-jigging the rules so there are no winners and losers?
To be fair, this may have more to do with the media’s tendency to talk up trans-Tasman rivalry than any sentiment on the part of Kiwi fans, but there are enough deadheads and clowns on social media who are ready to run with it and abuse Australians as a result.

and this journo, at least, gets it:
‘…there has been much written and spoken since the bloody horrors of Friday night about how, in the fight against evil, it is peace, love and understanding that will win. How, in the battle against men with guns, grenades and suicide vests, it is the simple courage of people standing together that will ultimately triumph.
Those platitudes might sound great, they feel very nice to say and they are certainly reassuring to hear and read.
After all, we were all raised on fairy tales that told us, again and again, that in the end it is good that will overcome evil every time.
There is just one crucial problem: none of it is true.
….So, unless we are all happy to sign up to radical Islam right now, with every heretic and infidel executed on sight, every man forced to take up arms, every woman enslaved, every homosexual stoned to death and every nine-year-old girl at risk of rape, in a terrifying return to the Dark Ages, we have a choice to make.
That choice is stark: kill or be killed. So which one is it going to be?…’

As is any other politician making the same claim:

  ‘Theresa May: Syrian refugees will be thoroughly screened
Home Secretary Theresa May says border checks will be increased in light of the Paris terror attacks, but states that refugees are already thoroughly screened..’