There's A Fight Brewing Between The NYPD And Silicon Valley

Big data helped New York's cops bust Bobby Shmurda. But as the NYPD's contract with tech giant Palantir comes to an end, things could get messy.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/theres-a-fight-brewing-between-the-nypd-and-silicon-valley?utm_term=.lwgRbR4V3#.bbolklrx6?source=Snapzu

Trump: US patience with the North Korean regime 'is over'

President Donald Trump, speaking alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in, declared Friday US patience with the North Korean regime "is over." "The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed," Trump said in a statement from the Rose Garden. "And, frankly, that patience is over."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/trump-moon-jae-in-rose-garden/index.html?source=Snapzu

NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard

A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/29/nyt-finally-retracts-russia-gate-canard/?source=Snapzu

'Performance-enhancing' drug that cost Lance Armstrong his seven Tour de France titles doesn't work, study concludes

EPO, a supposedly performance-enhancing drug infamously used by cyclist Lance Armstrong before he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, does not actually work, according to a new scientific study. Even though it was once one of the drugs of choice of athletes prepared to cheat and risk blood clots, strokes and other potentially fatal health problems, little scientific testing has been done to support the claims made about it.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/performance-enhancing-drug-epo-lance-armstrong-tour-de-france-seven-titles-not-work-study-a7816181.html?source=Snapzu

Indiana mom sentenced to 130-years for smothering her 2 children

A judge has ordered an Indiana woman who confessed to fatally smothering her two children to undergo mental health treatment before she goes to prison. An Elkhart County judge ordered a 130-year sentence Thursday for 30-year-old Amber Pasztor of Fort Wayne. Pasztor admits to killing 7-year-old Lilliana Hernandez and 6-year-old Rene Pasztor. She pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two murder counts.
Read more: http://www.wdrb.com/story/35779710/indiana-mom-sentenced-to-130-years-for-smothering-her-2-children?source=Snapzu

Since no one is really working on Friday afternoons, some employers just say go home

Some workplaces have not only embraced the summer doldrums, they've turned those agonizingly slow Friday afternoons into a cheap perk dubbed the "summer Friday." A number of employers, acutely aware of the fact that workers are daydreaming of being anywhere but at the office, let them take the day off or leave early on Friday afternoons in an effort to boost morale and productivity.
Read more: http://www.kgw.com/news/nation-world/since-no-one-is-really-working-on-friday-afternoons-some-employers-just-say-go-home/453294449?source=Snapzu

The Early 1900s Movement to Build Schools Without Walls

Take that, tuberculosis!
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/open-air-schools-tuberculosis-movement-1900s?source=Snapzu

The Rise of the Thought Leader

Writing in one of Mussolini’s prisons in the 1930s, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci jotted down the fragments that would become his theory of intellectuals. New classes, like the European bourgeoisie after the Industrial Revolution, he proposed, brought with them their own set of thinkers, which he called “organic intellectuals”—theorists, technicians, and administrators, who became their “functionaries” in a new society.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual?source=Snapzu

1 in 5 L.A. community college students is homeless, survey finds

One in every 5 of the Los Angeles Community College District’s 230,000 students is homeless, and nearly two-thirds can’t afford to eat properly, according to a new survey commissioned by the system’s board of trustees. The study looked at students with unstable housing and ”food insecurity,” which is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as lacking enough to eat to sustain an active, healthy life.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-community-college-20170628-story.html?source=Snapzu

Venus Williams ‘at fault in fatal car crash’

VENUS Williams has broken her silence about the fatal car crash that killed a 78-year-old man in Florida. Police told TMZ Sports the tennis superstar was at fault for the accident, which occurred earlier this month. Speaking through her lawyer on Friday (AEST), the 37-year-old attempted to explain her side of the story.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/venus-williams-at-fault-in-fatal-car-crash-police-say/news-story/1c2325733912db48480698c64579ee99?source=Snapzu

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams pleads guilty in his federal corruption trial

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams abruptly resigned his office and agreed to plead guilty Thursday in a surprise move that ended a federal bribery trial that had dragged messy details about his personal life into the open, and had cast a deepening shadow over the final days of his once-promising political career.
Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/philly-da-seth-williams-xxxxxxxx-20170629.html?source=Snapzu

Saudi Arabia is trying to turn Qatar into a vassal state

If Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman can rush into a hopeless war with the Houthis of Yemen, why shouldn’t he threaten the body politic of Qatar? By Robert Fisk.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/saudi-arabia-al-jazeera-qatar-into-a-vassal-state-a7808936.html?source=Snapzu

How do drugs affect the brain?

Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives. But most of us don’t know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we physically feel, think, and even behave? Sara Garofalo explains how different drugs alter the communication between cells in the brain.
Read more: https://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/how-do-drugs-affect-the-brain?source=Snapzu

Corbyn did the right thing when he chose Glastonbury over Armed Forces Day events

Jeremy Corbyn has been slammed in the right-wing press for choosing to appear at Glastonbury rather than Armed Forces Day events. Nothing sums up more neatly than this the longstanding preoccupation of our country’s majority right-wing press with Corbyn’s refusal to sanction war and violence. And nothing sums up better how out-of-kilter that thinking is. By Lee Williams.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-glastonbury-stage-what-happened-armed-forces-day-events-troops-brexit-a7808421.html?source=Snapzu

Judge blocks California's high-capacity magazine ban

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law set to take effect Saturday that would have barred gun owners from possessing high-capacity ammunition magazines. The judge ruled that the ban approved by the Legislature and voters last year takes away gun owners’ Second Amendment rights and amounts to the government taking people’s private property without compensation.
Read more: https://apnews.com/9b92b4952e524027bbd7dd86c9545053?source=Snapzu

In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store

For a summer exhibition titled “99 Cents or Less,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has begun to resemble a dollar shop. By Chris Hampton.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/arts/design/museum-of-contemporary-art-detroit-99-cents-or-less.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/arts?source=Snapzu

The iPhone killed my inner nerd

When I was a teenager, this time of year would be insufferable. My bedroom would be nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit without air conditioning, but it wasn’t even particularly hot outside. I had at least five tower PCs running inside my bedroom, all contributing a lot of heat to my tiny little room. Each performed its own role in my home network, with a file server, domain server, Exchange server, and media center PC among them. All of those tower PCs are now inside my pocket, thanks to the iPhone.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15892222/i-miss-the-days-of-hacking-things-before-the-iphone-first-click?source=Snapzu

Five Eyes Unlimited

What A Global Anti-Encryption Regime Could Look Like. By Danny O’Brien, EFF.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/five-eyes-unlimited?source=Snapzu

Corporate Media Always Wants More War

Jimmy Dore interviews Norman Solomon on his recent article, “Russiagate: When Progressives Sound Like Demagogues.”
Read more: https://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/corporate-media-always-wants-more-war?source=Snapzu

The Highest Form of Disagreement

The best way to argue is to take on your opponents’ strongest arguments, not their weakest ones. By Conor Friedersdorf.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-highest-form-of-disagreement/531597/?source=Snapzu

One’s Self-Washed Drawers: Ida John

Bohemia was never a safe country for women. If they didn’t all die of consumption in a garret, many of them might as well have done. In the 1890s, when the ‘new woman’ sprang, as Max Beerbohm put it, ‘fully armed from Ibsen’s brain’, their cases tended to follow a pattern. Attracted by the idea of freedom from social and sexual convention and the chance to live among artists, even to be artists, they found themselves not in a new world but in a mirror image of the old, with as many constraints and fewer comforts.
Read more: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n13/rosemary-hill/ones-self-washed-drawers?source=Snapzu

Trump’s crackdown on immigration is terrible news for anyone who eats food

And it’s particularly bad news for farmers. By Tom Philpott.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/immigration-farm-workers-employment-trump/?source=Snapzu

This is how Brexit, immigration and housing sparked Britain’s political revolution

Britain is experiencing profound political changes, going by the outcome of the general election, but new trends are shadowy, developing below the surface. It may be that Labour’s relative success – achieved amid confident predictions by pundits of annihilating defeat – stemmed from a last-minute change of direction by voters, or simply because pollsters vastly underestimated the turnout of pro-Labour younger voters. By Patrick Cockburn.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-political-revolution-brexit-immigration-housing-change-general-election-2017-canterbury-a7812516.html?source=Snapzu

Iraq declares end of caliphate after capture historic Mosul mosque

After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque in Mosul from where Islamic State proclaimed its self-styled caliphate three years ago, the Iraqi military said. Iraqi authorities expect the long battle for Mosul to end in the coming days as the remaining Islamic State fighters are now bottled up in just a handful of neighborhoods of the Old City.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-mosul-idUSKBN19K0YZ?il=0?source=Snapzu

Five Eyes and the encryption enigma

By weakening encryption - by requiring encryption providers to afford backdoors to governments - we open the way to criminality.
Read more: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/five-eyes-and-encryption-enigma?source=Snapzu

Emmanuel Macron’s new tech visa will make France an unlikely laboratory for globalization

Emmanuel Macron wants France to become a country of startups, and not just for French founders. That’s why the newly elected president is talking up a new tech visa intended to make it easier for fast-growing companies to hire foreign talent and for entrepreneurs to set up shop in France.
Read more: https://qz.com/1016742/emmanuel-macrons-new-tech-visa-is-designed-to-make-france-more-friendly-for-startups-than-the-us-or-uk?source=Snapzu

Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble

When the British left 20 years ago, Hong Kong was seen as a rare blend of East and West that China might seek to emulate. Now, increasingly, it’s a cautionary tale.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html?source=Snapzu

Trump Doesn't Seem to Know Anything About Health Care: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Republicans frantically working behind closed doors to win enough votes for their Senate health care bill and how President Trump is complicating their efforts.
Read more: https://snapzu.com/Chubros/trump-doesnt-seem-to-know-anything-about-health-care-a-closer-look?source=Snapzu

The NRA finds new ways to stoke the fires of the culture war

As Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum noted, the NRA has clearly evolved from being an organization interested in the rights of gun owners, and become “a purveyor of wholesale culture war zealotry.” This video is powerful evidence of this: NRA members aren’t told to worry about legislation; they’re told to direct their fears at “comedy shows” and liberals who “terrorize the law-abiding.” At the root of NRA propaganda in recent years is an unhealthy dose of paranoia and cultural resentment, and the byproduct is bizarre videos like the one the group released this week.
Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-nra-finds-new-ways-stoke-the-fires-the-culture-war?cid=sm_fb_maddow?source=Snapzu

''Welfare Reform'' Is Pushing Women Into Unwaged Work -- It's Time to Change That

Welfare reform briefly became a hot topic on the campaign trail last year when Hillary Clinton was criticized for supporting the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, signed into law with great fanfare by President Bill Clinton, who famously declared that the law would "end welfare as we know it." The law did precisely that, turning the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant, which came along with stringent requirements for the people, most of them women, who received it. Since that time, extreme poverty has spiked in the country, and the sha
Read more: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41100-welfare-reform-is-pushing-women-into-unwaged-work-it-s-time-to-change-that?source=Snapzu

‘A great victory’: Ireland’s parliament bans onshore fracking

Ireland is to ban onshore fracking, making it one of a few countries to prohibit the gas extraction method in an effort to preserve the environment. The Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016 will be signed into law by President Michael D. Higgins, after it passed in the Seanad (Senate) on Wednesday, following its passing in the Dail (Parliament) in May.
Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/394513-ireland-bans-onshore-fracking/?source=Snapzu

How Will We Stop Hackers From Invading Our Brains Once We’re Cyborgs?

Rapid developments in brain-machine interfacing and neuroprosthetics are revolutionizing the way we treat paralyzed people, but the same technologies could eventually be put to more generalized use—a development that’ll turn many of us into veritable cyborgs.
Read more: http://gizmodo.com/how-will-we-stop-hackers-from-invading-our-brains-once-1796520628?source=Snapzu

Iran Confirms Death of ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi

An Iranian official has confirmed that the ISIS terrorist group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is ‘definitely’ dead. Representative of Iran’s Leader in IRGC Quds Force, Ali Shirazi, said on Thursday ‘the death of this terrorist [al-Baghdadi] is certain’. Last Thursday, Russia’s deputy foreign minister had declared that it is highly likely al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, was killed in a Russian airstrike near Raqqa, Syria, on May 28.
Read more: http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/iran-confirms-death-of-isis-leader-al-baghdadi/?source=Snapzu

Trump to visit France on Bastille Day

President Donald Trump will travel to France next month to attend the Bastille Day celebration in Paris and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, the White House said Wednesday. Trump accepted the invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders met for the first time during Trump's overseas trip in May, just weeks after Macron's election victory.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-accepts-invitation-visit-france-bastille-day/story?id=48327287?source=Snapzu

NASA Invites Public to Celebrate 100 Years of Aerospace Breakthroughs

NASA invites the public to three days of discussion and storytelling with notable aerospace experts to mark the 100th anniversary of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Portions of the event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-public-to-celebrate-100-years-of-aerospace-breakthroughs?source=Snapzu

Trump's Russia lawyer faces conflict-of-interest questions over $296m Kushner deal

The lawyer privately advising Donald Trump on the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election is head of a law firm that was involved in the sale of a prestigious piece of New York real estate to Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, in a deal that could fall under the spotlight of the same inquiry.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/29/donald-trump-russia-lawyer-marc-kasowitz-jared-kushner?source=Snapzu

"Microsoft" Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged

Those shameless scammers that cold-call people pretending to be from Microsoft and demanding money after walking users through supposed problems with their computers? They're going down, it seems, with four people arrested in the UK for enabling the rip-off.
Read more: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/microsoft-scam-callers-arrested-after-years-of-terrorising-the-technically-challenged/?source=Snapzu

Turkey jails more journalists than any other nation. Those in detention are all terrorists, Erdogan says.

Turkey has arrested about 150 journalists since last year's failed military coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The country is now the world's leading jailer of journalists. But as trials begin, Erdogan is insisting that none of these editors and reporters are being tried for their professional work. They're all terrorists, he says.
Read more: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-06-28/turkey-jails-more-journalists-any-other-nation-those-detention-are-all-terrorists?source=Snapzu

ABC, meat producer settle in $1.9B 'pink slime' libel suit

ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the American network over its reports on a lean, finely textured beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime." The terms of the settlement are confidential. Dakota Dunes-based Beef...
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/abc-settlement-reached-pink-slime-defamation-lawsuit-48325389?source=Snapzu

Every Single Building Tested After Grenfell Tower Has Failed Cladding Safety Checks

Jeremy Corbyn blamed austerity measures for a lack of building inspections that helped lead to the disastrous fire at the tower block in London.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/every-single-building-tested-after-grenfell-tower-has?source=Snapzu

3,000-year-old textiles are earliest evidence of chemical dyeing in the Levant

Tel Aviv University archaeologists have revealed that cloth samples found in the Israeli desert present the earliest evidence of plant-based textile dyeing in the region. They were found at a large-scale copper smelting site and a nearby temple in the copper ore district of Timna in Israel's Arava desert and are estimated to date from the 13th-10th centuries BCE.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-year-old-textiles-earliest-evidence-chemical.html?source=Snapzu

Who Stopped California's Single-Payer Plan?

Single payer in California faces a political obstacle, not an economic one. By Jason Rhode.
Read more: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/who-stopped-californias-single-payer-plan.html?source=Snapzu

Five Things That Democrats Do Constantly, Yet Accuse Others Of Doing

If there’s anything more hypocritical than the lying warmongers at the New York Times running a full-page list of the lies Trump has told since taking office, it’s the foam-brained establishment Democrats who still read that awful propaganda rag. By Caitlin Johnstone.
Read more: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/5-things-that-democrats-do-constantly-yet-accuse-others-of-doing-69899ab32cd8?source=Snapzu

FBI agent pleads not guilty to lying about shooting at rancher in Oregon standoff

An FBI agent pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of lying about firing two shots at Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed standoff at a wildlife refuge in Oregon last year. W. Joseph Astarita, stone-faced and wearing a dark-gray pinstriped suit, entered the plea in a two-minute arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Janice M. Stewart. Stewart ordered that he remain free pending trial.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fbi-oregon-shooting-20170628-story.html?source=Snapzu

Don’t Give Congressmen a Housing Subsidy. Make Them Live in Dorms.

On Tuesday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz said that members of Congress ought to get a housing stipend along with their salaries.
Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/28/don_t_give_congressmen_a_housing_subsidy_make_them_live_in_dorms.html?source=Snapzu

Mysterious stealth gaming startup Wonder announces $14 million in funding

Ah, another day, another stealth mobile gaming startup getting funded by Shakira. LA-based Wonder announced today that it has closed a Series A round of funding led by Grishin Robotics and TCL Communication Holdings Ltd.; Wonder announced they had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in July of last year, but we now know that they have raised about $14 million in funding to date.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/mysterious-stealth-gaming-startup-wonder-announces-14-million-in-funding/?ncid=rss?source=Snapzu

Qatar sanctions likely to become permanent: UAE

Sanctions imposed on Qatar this month are looking increasingly likely to become permanent as the deadline to meet a set of demands laid out by its Gulf neighbors fast approaches, according to the BBC. The small peninsular nation has been told it must stop funding terrorism — which it denies — downgrade ties with Iran, and shutdown its news organization Al Jazeera, or face permanent isolation.
Read more: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1121101/middle-east?source=Snapzu

Trump moves to withdraw US water protection

US President Donald Trump has taken action to reverse an Obama-era rule that protects water from pollution nationwide. The rule has been a thorn in the side of industry - now, it could be scrapped.
Read more: http://dw.com/en/trump-moves-to-withdraw-us-water-protection/a-39456451?source=Snapzu

I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone

As a former intelligence soldier who now sells drones for a living, I can tell you that this problem is bigger than almost anyone realizes. By Brett Velicovich.
Read more: http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/06/i-could-kill-you-consumer-drone/139012/?oref=d-topstory?source=Snapzu

Woman fatally shoots boyfriend in YouTube stunt

A Minnesota woman killed her boyfriend Monday by shooting at a book he was holding over his chest, in a YouTube video stunt gone wrong.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/us/fatal-youtube-stunt/index.html?source=Snapzu