For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records — known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car — and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.

IDI, a year-old company in the so-called data-fusion business, is the first to centralize and weaponize all that information for its customers. The Boca Raton, Florida, company’s database service, idiCORE, combines public records with purchasing, demographic, and behavioral data. Chief Executive Officer Derek Dubner says the system isn’t waiting for requests from clients — it’s already built a profile on every American adult, including young people who wouldn’t be swept up in conventional databases, which only index transactions. “We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad,” he says.

Dubner declined to provide a demo of idiCORE or furnish the company’s report on me. But he says these personal profiles include all known addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses; every piece of property ever bought or sold, plus related mortgages; past and present vehicles owned; criminal citations, from speeding tickets on up; voter registration; hunting permits; and names and phone numbers of neighbors. The reports also include photos of cars taken by private companies using automated license plate readers — billions of snapshots tagged with GPS coordinates and time stamps to help PIs surveil people or bust alibis.

Trump has doubled-down, and just released the most brutal, serious statement of his campaign. He explained exactly why President Barack Obama will go into the history books as our worst President, ever:

As Donald Trump explained on his Facebook page:

“Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi. Then they put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons. Then they allowed dozens of veterans to die waiting for medical care that never came.

"Hillary Clinton put the whole country at risk with her illegal email server, deleted evidence of her crime, and lied repeatedly about her conduct which endangered us all. They released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another — like Sarah Root and Kate Steinle — and have repeatedly admitted migrants later implicated in terrorism.

They have produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression. They have shipped millions of our best jobs overseas to appease their global special interests. They have betrayed our security and our workers, and Hillary Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office.

She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives. Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores. We need change now.”

This is a powerful message from Trump, who is clearly still willing to fight for American greatness. The global elites can’t stand that he’s a billionaire who can’t be bought, which is why he’s able to speak the truth about Hillary Clinton and Obama. It is the most powerful argument that any candidate could make in 2016, and voters hear it loud-and-clear.

If Obama really believes those things are true, would he really just stand aside and hand the keys to the White House to Trump? Never before have I ever heard a sitting president claim that one of the major party candidates could not function as president. But that is what Obama has just done.

One document that I would refer you to is National Security Presidential Directive 51 which was put into effect during the Bush administration. It is all about “national continuity policy” and it defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the US population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions”.

In such a scenario, the president would have almost unlimited power, and he would wield enormously powerful executive orders such as this one. If there was a big enough emergency, the president would potentially be able to declare martial law, suspend elections and essentially become a dictator. Let us hope that we never see such a thing play out in the United States of America.

In his most recent attempt to warn his Western counterparts about the impending danger of a new nuclear arms race, Putin told the heads of large foreign companies and business associations that Russia is aware of the United States’ plans for nuclear hegemony. Under the guise of following an anti-nuclear weapons policy, the Obama administration has announced plans for a $1 trillion nuclear weapons plan, which — let’s face it — is targeted at Russia.

There is no winner in a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. This has been not only confirmed but repeatedly warned about by atomic scientists who — if we are being honest — are the people whose opinion on this topic should matter the most. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that NASA scientists want to colonize the moon by 2022 — we may have to if we don’t drastically alter the path we are on.

As Albert Einstein famously stated: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“… abortion saddens me, period, but it seems to be something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities especially as something that they should do,” Watson said. He pointed to Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger and her eugenic push to exterminate people she deemed “unfit.” Today, “it’s working,” Watson said.

“We sit here and talk about advancing the black agenda, whatever that means, we talk about our interests, and what’s important to us – like having political power and advancement and all those things – and then we are turning around and we are killing our children,” Watson continued. “And we are buying the lie that it’s our personal decision to make.”

Planned Parenthood videos, Watson wasn’t shy about speaking up for unborn babies either. He posted on his Facebook wall:

“As horrific as it is, the issue isn’t really the sale of human parts. It’s the legal practice that allows this to even be a possibility. Killing children and simply discarding the leftovers is not any more acceptable than profiting off of them.”

This fact is clearly illustrated by the following stories in this week’s edition relating to the near hysteria being created by politicians and media pundits over the threat of mosquitoes infecting humans with the Zika virus.

The most important thing to understand in this issue is that there is no credible evidence that the Zika virus is the cause of the birth defects attributed to it by the media. However, there is a huge fortune to be made in tax-funding projects to bio-engineer new strains of mosquitoes, to conduct massive spraying programs, to develop new vaccines, to pass new laws to regulate human activity, and to launch so-called public-awareness programs to sensitize us to the danger.

And that doesn’t include the payola that flows into the pockets of politicians and public-health officials who cooperate with the profitable scam. Think for a moment about previous health scares over the Bird Flu, the Swine Flu, and the Ebola virus – none of which had scientific validity but which handsomely benefitted the scaremongers. And now, here we go again with Zika. Unfortunately, PT Barnum may have been right.

Lavoie decided to hold off watering the fruit trees so he could quench the tomato and berry plants before they succumb to the heat. "We need some rain pretty quick," Lavoie said. "There is just some corn that won't make it. A lot of things we would like to give water to, we can't."

The dry blast in New Hampshire is being felt throughout the Northeast, from Maine to Pennsylvania, driven by a second year of below-average rainfall. Though not as dire as the West Coast drought of five-years running, the dry, hot weather has stressed farms and gardens, prompted water restrictions and bans in many towns and threatened to bring more wildfires than usual.

In the hardest hit areas of western New York, Massachusetts and southern parts of New Hampshire and Maine, it's been dryer than in a decade or more. And national weather experts predict the drought will persist at least through the end of October.

“The Office of Congressman Keith Ellison is looking for enthusiastic interns for our Washington and Minneapolis offices. We seek interns who are curious, hardworking, and passionate about serving Minnesota’s 5th district,” Ellison’s Congressional website states.

“While Congressman Ellison encourages all individuals to apply, applicants with strong ties to the Fifth District or Minnesota are preferred,” the page states before adding one final note: “People of color, LGBTQ individuals, women, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.”

The only people not possessing any of the “strongly encouraged” characteristics are white, straight, men without disabilities.

The board is now urging the reservoirs' owners to post voluntary warnings about eating the fish that are at the top of the food chain, such as bass. These fish tend to accumulate the most mercury, posing a particular risk to children and pregnant women. Even though the warnings are intended to help protect human life, those who depend on the income brought by tourists and sportsmen to the bodies of water in question are reluctant to post voluntary warnings and draw attention to the matter.

Big Bear Lake, which is nestled in the San Bernardino Mountains, welcomes millions of visitors each year for recreational activities that include not only fishing but also sailing and jet skiing. Some anglers believe that the bass are being unfairly singled out in an effort to protect the endangered and native species they consume. On the other hand, one real estate agent in Big Bear points out that mercury advisories could adversely affect property values, saying that he would not be opposed to getting rid of the bass altogether to skirt the problem.

It is believed the group are taking action as part of #BlackAugust, a campaign to raise awareness of racism. The entrance to the airport was blocked by the group who unfurled a giant banner saying Black Lives Matter. A group of protesters had earlier blocked the main road leading to Birmingham Airport and Black Lives Matter campaigners said further action was planned as traffic also ground to a halt in Nottingham as people lay on the tram tracks.

Around 205,400 passengers a day travel to Heathrow airport to jet off to destinations around the world. A Heathrow Airport spokesman: “Heathrow supports the right to peaceful protest within the law, but the safety and security of our passengers, aircraft and colleagues together with the smooth running of the operation is paramount.

"We are sorry to those passengers whose journeys are being disrupted and we are working with the authorities to resolve the issue.” A Metropolitan Police spokesman said they had arrested a number of people near Heathrow but the situation was ongoing.

1. Elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin, September 4 and 18

Germany is facing two key local elections at a time when the country is reeling from a horrifying week of bloody terror attacks, some of which were linked to recently arrived asylum seekers. Voters will go to the polls in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, on Germany's north coast, and in the capital Berlin and could give Angela Merkel a kicking over her open door immigration policy.

2. Parliamentary elections in Croatia, September 11

Croatians will head to the polls for the second time in less than a year after the country's fragile ruling coalition collapsed in June. One of the newest members of the bloc, having only joined the 28-nation bloc in 2013, the country is seen as one of the most immune to the growing eurosceptic tide sweeping the continent.

3. Regional elections in the Basque country, Spain, September 25

Basque separatists, who want to declare independence from Spain, are expected to sweep the board once more in their region's parliamentary elections at the end of September. The growth of separatist movements across Europe provides a massive headache for the EU, which may ultimately have to decide whether newly independent regions are eligible to join the Brussels club.

4. Referendum in Italy, October

Probably the biggest immediate crisis facing the EU is an upcoming referendum in Italy which will decide the fate of the country's prime minister Matteo Renzi. There are growing fears in Brussels that the Italian people, disenchanted with the EU following years of economic stagnation, could use the referendum to give the Government and Brussels a bloody nose.

5. Presidential election in Austria, October 2

In October, Austria will hold a re-run of the April presidential election, which was declared null and void over ballot counting irregularities after far-right candidate Norbert Hofer lost out by just a few hundred votes. Mr Hofer, the candidate for the anti-EU, anti-immigrant Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) currently holds a four point lead in the polls and could become the EU's first far-right leader.

6. Referendum in Hungary, October 2

Brussels could face a double dose of pain on the same day with voters in Hungary also set to go to the polls on October 2 for a controversial referendum on migration. Opinion polls show that the majority of voters will opt to reject the EU's relocation plan, sparking the possibility of yet another protracted legal battle between Brussels and one of its member states.

7. Regional elections in the Czech Republic, October

The Czech Republic is facing a slew of regional elections at a time when the position of the country's left-leaning Prime Minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, is becoming increasingly precarious. The Czech Republic has largely escaped the worst of the migrant crisis compared to neighbour Austria, but eurosceptic feeling is still growing in the central European country.

8. Parliamentary elections in Lithuania, October 9

Parliamentary elections in Lithuania may provide Brussels with some welcome good news, with broadly europhile parties expected to perform well.

9. Parliamentary elections in Romania, November or early December

Romanians are likely to vote for the resignation of the current technocratic Government, which was appointed in November 2015 and is led by former EU Commissioner Dacian Ciolo. The issues at stake are entirely domestic and not linked to Romania's EU or NATO memberships, but the election will still be watched closely for any indicators of eurosceptic sentiment.

Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen does not completely understand the recent uproar in Germany over the proposal to deploy Bundeswehr troops within the country. The constitution clearly allows for such action, she said during a visit to the Berlin-based "Command Center for Territorial Missions." Under the umbrella of "mutual assistance," German police can request assistance from the military for reasons including "large-scale terrorism."

More specifically, for "large-scale terrorism of catastrophic proportions," said von der Leyen, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). That is how it is described in the Bundeswehr's new "White Paper," she said, adding that in such cases there is no question that it is the police who take the lead role.

A German newspaper has quizzed various departments on how much taxpayers’ money they expect to spend on the excess of a million migrants who arrived in the country last year. Integration will be the government’s biggest outlay, accounting for two thirds of the total €30 billion figure. Teachers, day care centres, schools, language courses, and housing all come under this umbrella.

The Federation of German Towns and Municipalities estimate that the cost of providing these services to migrants will cost taxpayers €20 billion a year. It warned that by 2018 there would also be €2.6 billion additional costs for accommodation.