Gun store owners: Facebook is messing with us

CBS12 gets answers for firearms dealers and gun store owners claiming social media giant Facebook is banning them as users.

This week, two different gun store owners told CBS12 the same story: after the Orlando terror attack, they were personally suspended from Facebook and their business pages were suddenly unpublished.

Andy Hallinan, the owner of Florida Gun Supply in Inverness, Florida, first made headlines for turning his gun store into a “Muslim-free” zone.

He told us that, this week, he experienced problems on Facebook.

“I woke up this morning to my phone just lighting up. People couldn’t access my Facebook page,” said Hallinan.

http://cbs12.com/news/local/gun-store-owners-facebook-is-messing-with-us

FACEBOOK SUSPENDS OUTSPOKEN FLORIDA GUN SHOPS AFTER ORLANDO ATTACK

Speaking to CBS12’s Kathleen Walter, “Florida Gun Supply” owner Andy Hallinan says Facebook removed his page Tuesday for allegedly engaging in “unauthorized sales of firearms.”

“I woke up this morning to my phone just lighting up. People couldn’t access my Facebook page,” Hallinan told CBS12. “I got phone calls from other gun shops.”

Steve Champion, owner of American “Gun and Pawn,” also had his account suspended over alleged violations regarding “unauthorized” firearm sales.

“I pulled (Facebook) up, and it says, ‘We unpublished your page,’” Champion similarly told CBS12.

According to Hallinan, who once called his gun shop a “Muslim-free” zone, the move by Facebook seems to be in response to both shops’ political speech – not to false claims about their business.

http://www.infowars.com/facebook-suspends-outspoken-florida-gun-shops-after-orlando-attack/

New Report: FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos

Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos than we ever thought. And the Bureau has been hiding this fact from the public—in flagrant violation of federal law and agency policy—for years.

According to the GAO Report, FBI’s Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) Services unit not only has access to FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) face recognition database of nearly 30 million civil and criminal mug shot photos, it also has access to the State Department’s Visa and Passport databases, the Defense Department’s biometric database, and the drivers license databases of at least 16 states. Totaling 411.9 million images, this is an unprecedented number of photographs, most of which are of Americans and foreigners who have committed no crimes.

The FBI has done little to make sure that its search results (which the Bureau calls “investigative leads”) do not include photos of innocent people, according to the report. The FBI has conducted only very limited testing to ensure the accuracy of NGI’s face recognition capabilities. And it has not taken any steps to determine whether the face recognition systems of its external partners—states and other federal agencies—are sufficiently accurate to prevent innocent people from being identified as criminal suspects. As we know from previous research, face recognition is notoriously inaccurate across the board and may also misidentify African Americans and ethnic minorities, young people, and women at higher rates than whites, older people, and men, respectively.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/fbi-can-search-400-million-face-recognition-photos

GEORGE P. BUSH: A BUSH CAN SURVIVE IN TRUMP POLITICAL WORLD

George P. Bush was talking about his future political plans – and how Donald Trump wouldn’t reshape them – when two women approached, giddy with excitement.

They wanted pictures with a man whose photogenic smile once landed him on People magazine’s most-eligible bachelors list. Up close, though, they saw something unexpected.

“You look like your dad,” Ruth Ann Pratt, a retired college math teacher from Lake Jackson, near Houston, finally exclaimed. “You turn slightly to the side, and you ARE your dad.”

Bush only smiled. These days, being associated with his father, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, may not be such a great thing.

Eighteen months after he was elected Texas land commissioner and a few weeks past his 40th birthday, Bush is quietly continuing his family’s legacy. The grandson of one former president and nephew of another, he remains a rising star in America’s largest conservative state and is keeping alive the possibility that a political dynasty declared dead by many when his dad flamed out of the presidential race could yet again return to national prominence.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_GEORGE_P_BUSH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-21-02-40-13

GEORGE P. BUSH: A BUSH CAN SURVIVE IN TRUMP POLITICAL WORLD

They wanted pictures with a man whose photogenic smile once landed him on People magazine’s most-eligible bachelors list. Up close, though, they saw something unexpected.

“You look like your dad,” Ruth Ann Pratt, a retired college math teacher from Lake Jackson, near Houston, finally exclaimed. “You turn slightly to the side, and you ARE your dad.”

http://www.infowars.com/george-p-bush-a-bush-can-survive-in-trump-political-world/

 

WHITE PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE’ BERNIE SANDERS MEME CONTEST WINNER

Infowars is proud to announce the winner of our flash Bernie Sanders meme contest, which aimed to highlight the absurdity of the socialist Democrat candidate’s comments that “white people don’t know what it’s like to be poor.”

http://www.infowars.com/white-people-dont-know-what-its-like-bernie-sanders-meme-contest-winner/

As states’ work mandates kick in, tens of thousands of people lose food stamps

many as 1 million Americans will stop receiving food stamps this year, the consequence of a controversial work mandate that took effect this week in 21 states as the economy improves.

The revival of the mandate, which was hotly debated when adopted in the 1990s, is reigniting a discussion among policymakers and advocates for the poor about the fairness and wisdom of the social safety net in the new U.S. economy.

The requirement, which generally stipulates that participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) who do not have children or a disability must find a job within three months of receiving the benefit and work an average of 20 hours a week, was suspended in most states following the mortgage crisis amid widespread unemployment. Now, as jobs have returned, the work mandate was automatically reinstated in many states at the beginning of this year, and the three-month allowance for finding a job ended April 1.

Even where unemployment remains relatively high, some governors have brought back the requirement, saying it encourages people to rejoin the workforce.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-food-stamps-work-mandate-20160402-story.html

New Jersey Lawmaker: Punish People for Texting While Walking

Jared Schumacher is among the hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who routinely use electronic devices to text, listen to music or do other tasks as they walk outdoors.

But if a “distracted walking” measure recently proposed by a state assemblywoman eventually becomes law, the Trenton man and others like him could be facing fines or even jail time.

“I admit that I’m usually listening to music, talking on my phone or texting while I’m walking around,” the 20-year-old said while responding to a text as he walked along a street in the state capital last weekend. “I’ve never hurt myself, but I’ve seen people walk into poles or trip over a big crack in the sidewalk.”

Experts say distracted walking is a growing problem around the globe, as people of all ages become more dependent on electronic devices for personal and professional matters.

They also note pedestrian deaths have been rising in recent years. Eleven percent of all fatalities in 2005 involved pedestrians, but that number rose to 15 percent in 2014.

The rise in deaths coincides with states introducing bills that target pedestrians and/or bicyclists. For instance, a bill pending in Hawaii would fine someone $250 if he or she crossed the street with an electronic device. In recent years, similar bills have failed in states including Arkansas, Illinois, Nevada and New York.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/concerns-distracted-walking-grow-injuries-mount-37948798

 

TUCSON COP: ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS “MOST HATEFUL PEOPLE I’VE EVER SEEN”

Tatum said he wanted to personally attend the event in order to get a first hand experience of what it was all about instead of relying on media perception.

Describing what he saw as “very very shocking,” Tatum said anti-Trump protesters were “verbally violent,” swearing and yelling at people who were attending the rally.

Speaking about the Trump supporters, Tatum said, “everybody seemed to be peaceful, there wasn’t a lot of hatred and maliciousness going on,” and that Trump supporters were not lashing out at protesters.

Challenging the media narrative that Trump is ‘inciting violence’ against protesters, Tatum said he heard an announcement before the event which told attendees not to become involved in altercations with protesters who were being unruly.

http://www.infowars.com/tucson-cop-anti-trump-protesters-most-hateful-people-ive-ever-seen/

Young people prefer an Internet connection to daylight

I know this because I’ve just read the results of a survey that asked young British people to name the five most important things that ensured their quality of life.

As The Huffington Post reported, their first choice was freedom of speech.

This is odd, as in Britain it’s far easier for rich people to sue people who say things they don’t like than it is in, say, the US.

What you might find most moving, however, is that 69 percent of these 2,465 youths picked an Internet connection as an essential, whereas only 64 percent chose daylight.

http://www.cnet.com/news/young-people-prefer-an-internet-connection-to-daylight/