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Elizabeth Warren's proposal checks off all the Lefty boxes - Glenn Beck

Elizabeth Warren's proposal checks off all the Lefty boxes - Glenn Beck:

One thing standing in Warren's way of achieving her dream however, is a trait she shares with many of her cronies on the far Left – a sixth sense for very bad government ideas. Last week, she put forward a bill called the "Accountable Capitalism Act" that would create an "Office of United States Corporations." That's the first thing they teach you in Leftist school – how to add unnecessary layers of government bureaucracy.

Beware!!-----[H]ardOCP: 30 Minutes of Internet Access Costs Vacationing Family $13,470

[H]ardOCP: 30 Minutes of Internet Access Costs Vacationing Family $13,470
30 Minutes of Internet Access Costs Vacationing Family $13,470

A San Jose, California family learned the hard way that airplane mode does not shut off the internet to a cellphone. As their flight crossed over Vietnam, the family's son Nicholas Chung was playing chess offline with airplane mode enabled. Little did he know that apps are still allowed internet access in airplane mode and he inadvertently racked up a $13,470 bill in 30 minutes. T-Mobile offered the family a steal of a deal when they lowered the bill to only $3,800 but the Chung family wasn't buying it. They contacted their local news station and 7 On Your Side convinced T-Mobile to shred the bill.

However, when ABC7 looked into the matter, we found that many mobile apps that don't require an internet connection still use data. Users may not even realize it, but the apps operate in the background, silently gobbling data for purposes such as updating software, refreshing social media, and sending ads . Nicholas realized his chess game is one of those apps that run data in the background, which likely explains the huge bill.

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History for August 29

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Locke 1632, Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809, Ingrid Bergman 1915


John McCain 1936 - Prisoner of war in Vietnam from October 1967-1973, U.S. Senater from Arizona, U.S. Presidential nominee, Robin Leach 1941 - Television host ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"), Michael Joseph Jackson 1958


1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.


1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.

Pentagon Whistleblower Says FBI's Russia Probe Was "All a Set-Up"

Pentagon Whistleblower Says FBI's Russia Probe Was "All a Set-Up":

In what should have been the biggest story of the day, new documents from a Pentagon whistleblower show that the FBI / Russia probe was a set up from the beginning:

DACA Recipient Arrested for Alleged Human Smuggling in Texas

DACA Recipient Arrested for Alleged Human Smuggling in Texas:

Agents assigned to the Laredo Sector arrested a former recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on charges of human smuggling after a call for assistance from Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers.

The way we were-----Alive And Kicking - Tighter, Tighter (1970)

Boob-tube-----Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Presidential Hopeful: Ronald Re...

Why Are We in Media Hell? | Klavan On The Culture

Why Are We in Media Hell? | Klavan On The Culture
"...Nowadays, watching the news, and reading social media, I feel a bit like Tony Soprano myself. 
A story breaks — a prominent person dies or there's a mass shooting, for instance — and the exact same reactions appear on news media discussion panels and social media as the last time such a story occurred. 
Then these reactions fade away as we grow weary of hearing about the event. 
Then a similar event occurs and we all become embroiled in the exact same conversation. 
We never learn. 
We never change. 
We just do it again and again and again.
...Likewise with a shooting like the one in Jacksonville, Florida. 
We get a few minutes of thoughts and prayers (a completely appropriate response to a tragic situation over which you have no control and in which you had no involvement). 
Then the screaming starts over the Second Amendment. 
The nation's media can't even give the families of the dead one lousy day to grieve in peace before they are at each other's throats.
Then the screaming fades. 
The news and social media move on. 
Until the next time, when it all starts again.
We're in Hell..."
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Paris Participants Dropping Like Flies | The Freedom Pub

Paris Participants Dropping Like Flies | The Freedom Pub:
"It seem’s politicians around the globe are wising up to what President Donald Trump always knew: The Paris climate agreement isn’t worth the hundreds of pages it is written on.
Brazil’s legal frontrunner for the country’s presidency,  Jair Bolsonaro, says he wants to follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead and take Brazil out of the Paris Agreement if he wins the October election.
At his campaign launch and during subsequent interviews, Bolsonaro has repeatedly said he would withdraw from the Paris pact..."
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Google-Facebook 'can shift 12 million votes this election' - WND

Google-Facebook 'can shift 12 million votes this election' - WND:

Epstein, who says he is not a “conservative,” found that conservative content is singled out by Google and Facebook for restrictive dissemination.
“More conservative material is being suppressed than other material, but believe it or not, there are all kinds of suppression occurring.”
All this leads to a big question, Epstein says: “Who on earth gave these companies – and it’s primarily, as we know, two or three companies: Google, Facebook, and Twitter – who on earth gave … the executives at these companies the power to decide what 2.5 billion people around the world get to see or don’t see?”