From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to ‘Cover-Up’? Agencies Hid 2018 Pitch to Fund Chimeric Coronavirus
April 15th, 2024Via: Just the News:
More than a dozen federal agencies asked to fund the creation of a “novel chimeric SARS-CoV spike protein” with a highly infectious furin cleavage site, two years before COVID-19 emerged, seem likely to follow the “I don’t recall” playbook of the federal government’s record-setting pensioner under congressional scrutiny.
The onetime lab-leak “conspiracy” has come full circle with the revelation that 15 federal agencies, from the National Institutes of Health to three Cabinet-level departments and multiple components, could have warned the public as early as 2018 of the research planned by China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, its nonprofit conduit for federal funding.
The Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), part of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases led by Anthony Fauci for four decades, was even listed as a “partner” for the WIV project known as DEFUSE, for which EcoHealth President Peter Daszak sought funding at an interagency pitch day for the Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats program.
That’s all according to the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, who asked the 15 agency heads in separate letters Tuesday for more information by April 23 on their “knowledge and involvement” with DEFUSE and PREEMPT.
FBI Launches Criminal Probe Into Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Focus On Crew
April 15th, 2024Also the FBI:
Via: Daily Mail:
The FBI has launched a criminal probe into the Baltimore bridge collapse that killed six construction workers.
Agents will investigate whether the 22-strong crew of the Dali knew it had serious systemic issues before they left the Maryland port on March 26.
Tesla Lays Off ‘More Than 10%’ of Its Global Workforce
April 15th, 2024Via: Electrek:
Tesla has announced layoffs of “more than 10%” of its global workforce in an internal company-wide email.
Johnson, Trump Announce Election Integrity Bill To Require Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
April 15th, 2024Definitely. Make sure non-citizens aren’t voting in federal elections. Great!
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) April 15, 2024
But unless the voting machine issue is dealt with, it’s all just pissing in the wind.
Here is the only type of electronic voting system that should be allowed:
– Open source hardware and software.
– Cryptographic process generates one unique ballot for each verified eligible voter; only on election day, only at a polling place.
– Hard copy of unique filled-in ballot generated for voting officials and voter while votes are added to public blockchain.
– The rest of the details don’t matter because no major political party in the U.S. wants to eliminate vote fraud.
But, by all means, keep foreigners from voting on voting machines running closed source hardware and software (which could be doing anything), if it makes you feel better.
Via: Epoch Times:
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and former President Donald Trump are urging support for a bill aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting in federal elections.
At a Friday, April 12, press conference at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence, the Republican leaders announced the bill as part of larger efforts to bolster election integrity.
“What we’re going to do is introduce legislation to require that every single person who registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they are an American citizen first,” Mr. Johnson said.
Though some jurisdictions allow noncitizens to participate in local elections, it is illegal for them to vote in all state and federal elections. However, the United States’ federal voter registration form does not require documentary proof of citizenship, and states’ efforts to impose such a requirement have been challenged by the Biden administration.
The new legislation, the speaker said, would establish new safeguards to ensure only citizens can vote. The provisions would require states to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls and would provide them with access to Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration databases to help them do so.
“Congress has this responsibility. We cannot wait for widespread fraud to occur … especially when the threat of fraud is growing with every single illegal immigrant that crosses that border,” the speaker said.
He added that he expected the bill to receive widespread Republican support while also forcing Democrats to go on record with where they stand.
Related: The U.S. Inability To Count Votes Is A National Disgrace. And Dangerous.
IRAN ATTACKS ISRAEL WITH DRONE AND MISSILE BARRAGE
April 13th, 2024Via: The Warzone:
Iranian authorities have announced that they have launched a large number of missiles and drones from their territory at targets in Israel. Israeli officials subsequently confirmed their claim. The attack is in retaliation for an Israeli strike on a consular building right next to the Iranian Embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus on April 1.
More: IDF Planning “Significant Response” Against Iran As Explosions Ring Out Across Israel
Live: Sky News, Al Jazeera
26 Barges Break Loose and Float Down Ohio River
April 13th, 2024Via: NBC:
Twenty-six barges loaded mostly with dry cargo broke loose from a Pittsburgh marina late Friday night and floated uncontrollably down the Ohio River, causing extensive damage to neighboring docks according to officials.
The barges, which broke away from a vessel at mile marker one, have all been accounted for, but caused a substantial amount of damage to Peggy’s Marina. A spokesperson for the U.S. coastguard said 23 of the barges were loaded with non-hazardous dry cargo like coal, and three were empty.
Iran Seizes Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz After Threats to Close Waterway
April 13th, 2024Months ago, I called these low probability scenarios:
1) If the Strait of Hormuz somehow winds up closed/blocked.
2) If Saudi Aramco’s deep water port at Ras Tanura somehow winds up closed/destroyed.
And now…
Via: Reuters:
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, days after Tehran said it could close the crucial shipping route and warned it would retaliate for an Israeli strike on its Syria consulate.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that a Guards helicopter had boarded and taken into Iranian waters the Portuguese flagged MSC Aries, saying it was linked to Israel.
18 Wheeler Truck ‘Intentionally’ Plows Into Texas Department Of Safety Building
April 12th, 2024Update: License Application Was Denied
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Via: ZeroHedge:
The Texas Department of Public Safety reports on X that a large tractor-trailer crashed into one of its buildings in the city of Brenham, located in east-central Texas in Washington County.
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Local media outlet 12NewsNow said, “Washington County Sheriff’s Office believes this may have been intentional.”
Iran Says If U.S. ‘Interferes’ In Retaliation On Israel, American Bases Will Be Struck
April 12th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
Israeli hospitals have been put on a high state of alert by the home command, awaiting an ‘imminent’ Iranian retaliation attack. Iran has also reportedly put the United States on notice…
Three U.S. Officials told Axios : Iran has sent a message to the U.S. through several Arab countries, that if they interfere in Iran’s response against Israel, U.S. bases in the region will be struck.
Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies in Gaza
April 12th, 2024Via: The Libertarian Institute:
The Israeli military has employed yet another AI-based system to select bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine has revealed. The new system has generated sweeping kill lists condemning tens of thousands of Palestinians, part of the IDF’s growing dependence on AI to plan lethal strikes.
Citing six Israeli intelligence officers, the Tel Aviv-based magazine said the previously undisclosed AI system, dubbed ‘Lavender,’ has played a “central role in the unprecedented bombing” of Gaza since last October, with the military effectively treating its output “as if it were a human decision.”
“Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets,” the outlet reported, adding that “during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender, which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants—and their homes—for possible air strikes.”
However, while thousands have been killed in the resulting air raids, the majority were “women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting,” the officers told the magazine, noting that Israeli field commanders often rely on the AI system without consulting more substantial intelligence.
