Biden Goes Off The Rails At G20 Press Conference In Vietnam, “I Don’t Know About You, But I’m Going To Go To Bed”
September 11th, 2023Via: Sky:
Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees
September 10th, 2023They have an unthinkable surveillance capability that includes all of your email, web, purchasing and telephone activity. And, if I’m right, they’re keeping track of where you are and where you’ve been.
*snort*
Via: Vice:
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an invasive, AI-powered monitoring tool to screen travelers, including U.S. citizens, refugees, and people seeking asylum, which can in some cases link their social media posts to their Social Security number and location data, according to an internal CBP document obtained by Motherboard.
The news provides much more detail on how CBP deploys a tool sold widely across the U.S. government. Called Babel X, the system lets a user input a piece of information about a target—their name, email address, or telephone number—and receive a bevy of data in return, according to the document. Results can include their social media posts, linked IP address, employment history, and unique advertising identifiers associated with their mobile phone. The monitoring can apply to U.S. persons, including citizens and permanent residents, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, according to the document.
German Circus Replaces Live Animals with Holograms
September 10th, 2023Via: AFP:
The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place.
As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the circus are there — except one. The live animals have been replaced by holograms.
Due to concerns over animal welfare, Germany’s Roncalli circus stopped using lions and elephants in its shows in 1991.
But it went further in 2018 and completely removed live animals from its programme.
“It is no longer appropriate for Roncalli to show real animals in the ring,” circus boss Patrick Philadelphia, 49, told AFP.
JFK Assassination: Former Secret Service Agent Claims He Found The Magic Bullet In Limo, Placed It On Stretcher
September 10th, 2023Former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, found the Magic Bullet on the top of the back seat of the limo?
Undercharged round???
Mmm hmm.
Nealy 60 years after the JFK assassination, we now have Magic Bullet 2.0.
Can anyone explain to me how the possibly “undercharged” Magic Bullet 2.0 managed to hit the target at all if the person firing the rifle dialed in DOPE for a standard velocity round?
Not only did the “undercharged” Magic Bullet 2.0 have enough velocity to hit the target using DOPE for a standard round, but it then, “Dislodged from a shallow wound in the president’s back, falling back onto the limousine seat.”
If you’re not familiar with shooting high powered rifles, run this scenario past someone who is and note the response.
It will go something like, “No way.”
Personal experience: I’ve probably shot something like 15,000 centerfire rifle cartridges in my life, mostly 5.56, 7.62×51 and 7.62×39. Also, some larger stuff, .300 Winmag, .338, etc. How many of those do you think were “Undercharged”?
None. Zero. Zilch.
I had a few bad primers (under a handful) fail to fire in all of that time. I mostly fired old, cheap military surplus ammo and most of that was not made in the U.S. I don’t think I ever had a U.S. manufactured centerfire rifle round (Winchester, Federal, Remington, etc.) fail to fire.
How many “undercharged” centerfire rifle cartridges have you encountered in your decades of shooting?
Imagine the odds, on the big day almost 60 years ago… A defective cartridge? Tell me another one.
Someone, somewhere might try to sell you on squib loads to explain this. I’m just here to tell you, in over forty years of shooting, it hasn’t happened to me, or any of my friends. (Somewhere on this site you can read about my wife’s cousin trying to kill a pig with a wet .22. That doesn’t count, because first, that’s rimfire, which is less reliable than centerfire and, second, it was wet.)
Via: Daily Mail:
Landis, who in 1963 was a young Secret Service agent assigned to protect First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy, said that in the chaos following the shooting, he picked up a nearly pristine bullet sitting on the top of the back seat of the open limousine.
It was just behind where Kennedy was sitting when he was killed, he says. Landis says he took the projectile and placed it on the president’s hospital stretcher to preserve it for the autopsy investigators.
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Now, Landis says that he believes the bullet he retrieved from the limo may have been undercharged, and dislodged from a shallow wound in the president’s back, falling back onto the limousine seat when the fatal shot struck his head.
He theorizes that, after he placed the bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher, it may have fallen onto Connally’s stretcher when they were jostled together.
It’s also possible that the hospital staffer who found the bullet and handed it over to the Secret Service misidentified which stretcher it was from, or that his account was mangled by investigators.
The bullet, which had been fired but was nearly fully intact, was positively matched to Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano through ballistics analysis.
Lithium Discovery in U.S. Volcano Could be Biggest Deposit Ever Found
September 9th, 2023Via: Chemistry World:
A world-beating deposit of lithium along the Nevada–Oregon border could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new analysis.
An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian salt flat, previously considered the largest deposit in the world.
New Mexico Governor Suspends Right of People to Carry Guns in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County for 30 Days
September 9th, 2023An emergency public health order…
Via: Fox:
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s controversial comments in defense of a temporary gun ban, prompted fierce backlash on social media.
The Democrat issued an emergency public health order on Friday, suspending the right to carry guns in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding Bernalillo County for at least 30 days following the shooting deaths of three children in the area.
Local law enforcement officials expressed concerns that the governor’s order violated Second Amendment rights. The governor acknowledged the ban may face legal challenges and addressed these concerns during a press conference.
After a reporter questioned if Grisham was upholding her oath to the Constitution, she argued no Constitutional rights were fixed, including her oath.
More: New Mexico Governor Suspends Constitutional Gun Rights For Law-Abiding Citizens In Albuquerque
Government Gave Millions to American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to Promote COVID-19 Vaccines to Pregnant Women
September 9th, 2023Via: Epoch Times:
The premier professional membership organization for obstetricians and gynecologists accepted $11.8 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promote COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant women, despite the exclusion of pregnant women from clinical trials and regulatory data showing the vaccine had not been tested for safety during pregnancy.
The Race Is On To Deploy Killer Robots For Future U.S.-China War
September 8th, 2023Via: Reuters:
“There is a lot of warfare that is dull, dirty and dangerous. It is a lot better to do that with a machine.”
Gavin Newsom Says He’s Not Running In 2024, Kamala ‘Natural Successor’ To Biden
September 8th, 2023He’s too busy wrecking California.
Gavin Newsom says he will not be running for President in 2024
The only people I’ve heard say they think he was going to run are Republicans
pic.twitter.com/gLByYqPuYb— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) September 8, 2023
Google Bakes a User-Tracking Ad Platform Directly Into Chrome, Generates a “Topic” List It Shares with Advertisers
September 7th, 2023And Chrome is the most popular browser in the world by a large margin.
Via: ArsTechnica:
Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.
Google seemingly knows this won’t be popular. Unlike the glitzy front-page Google blog post that the redesign got, the big ad platform launch announcement is tucked away on the privacysandbox.com page. The blog post says the ad platform is hitting “general availability” today, meaning it has rolled out to most Chrome users. This has been a long time coming, with the APIs rolling out about a month ago and a million incremental steps in the beta and dev builds, but now the deed is finally done.
