Miscellaneous
Chinese Firms Snap Up U.S. Sites To Process Scrap (#GotBitcoin?)
Pellet, box makers buy and build plants to reconfigure waste too dirty for export to China. Chinese Firms Snap Up U.S. Sites To Process Scrap (#GotBitcoin?) Chinese companies are setting up shop in the U.S. to obtain the scrap paper and plastic their government has deemed too dirty to import.…
There Have Been 47,220 Gun Incidents In The U.S. In 2018 And Only 3.1% Involve The Defensive Use of Weapons (#GotBitcoin?)
As rich, advanced and accomplished as the country might be, the U.S. has somehow not been up to the task of coping with the plague of gun violence. There Have Been 47,220 Gun Incidents In The U.S. In 2018 And Only 3.1% Involve The Defensive Use of Weapons But as the…
Mobile Justice App. (#GotBitcoin?)
Cell phones are making it easier for the public to document arrests and other police actions, as seen in the police shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina, and the arrest of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Mobile Justice App. [caption id="attachment_4628" align="alignnone" width="960"] American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma spokesperson…
SpotCrime.com Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc
SpotCrime.com is a Baltimore-based company founded in October 2007 and privately owned by ReportSee, Inc. SpotCrime.com Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc It provides nationwide crime information about arrests, arsons, assaults, burglaries, robberies, shootings, thefts and vandalisms, on a Google map. SpotCrime will…
World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places (#GotBitcoin)
These places have all the visual splendor and historic appeal of the world’s most famous monuments. World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places. World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places (#GotBitcoin)Forget Machu Picchu: Eight Newly Accessible Wonders of the World: Newly-Discovered Places 1. The African Country of Gabon2.…
What A Recession Could Mean for Women’s Unemployment (#GotBitcoin?)
How would female job hunters fare in the next recession? Likely better than men, if history is any indication. What A Recession Could Mean for Women’s Unemployment While the unemployment rate for women has moved in tandem with that of men since the 1980s, there is one notable exception—during recessions. When…
China Acknowledges Re-Education Centers for Uighurs (#GotBitcoin?)
China has retroactively changed the law to legitimize its detention of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs amid an international outcry over human rights abuses against the ethnic minority. China Acknowledges Re-Education Centers for Uighurs (#GotBitcoin?) China has retroactively changed the law to legitimize its detention of hundreds of…
Hundreds of Police Killings Go Undocumented By Law Enforcement And FBI (#GotBitcoin)
When 24-year-old Albert Jermaine Payton wielded a knife in front of the police in this city’s southeast corner, officers opened fire and killed him. Hundreds of Police Killings Go Undocumented By Law Enforcement And FBI (#GotBitcoin) Yet according to national statistics intended to track police killings, Mr. Payton’s death in…
The FBI’s Crime Data: What Happens When States Don’t Fully Report (#GotBitcoin?)
Bureau’s decades-old method to account for missing data could use an upgrade, some experts say. The FBI’s Crime Data: What Happens When States Don’t Fully Report In any given year, more than 18,000 U.S. police agencies are asked to submit crime data to the FBI. But some don’t provide complete information…
New York Attorney General’s Probe Into Fake FCC Comments Deepens (#GotBitcoin)
Advocacy groups subpoenaed over comments posted to FCC from people who deny they made them. New York Attorney General’s Probe Into Fake FCC Comments Deepens (#GotBitcoin) The New York attorney general’s office has subpoenaed more than a dozen advocacy groups, lobbying firms and consultants as part of an investigation of…
Advertisers Allege Facebook Failed to Disclose Key Metric Error For More Than A Year (#GotBitcoin?)
Facebook knew of problems with how it measured viewership of video ads for more than a year before it revealed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed by advertisers. Advertisers Allege Facebook Failed to Disclose Key Metric Error For More Than A Year (#GotBitcoin?) The filing followed…
Warren Releases DNA Analysis Showing Evidence of Native American Heritage (#GotBitcoin?)
Democratic senator refutes President Trump’s assertion that she has been lying about family history. Warren Releases DNA Analysis Showing Evidence of Native American Heritage Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) released the results of a DNA analysis Monday indicating “strong evidence” she has Native American ancestry in a high-profile effort to refute…