The New Way Forward Act
February 7th, 2020Via: Fox:
The bill would entirely remake our immigration system, with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move here, and settle here permanently, with impunity.
You may think we’re exaggerating for effect. We’re not – not even a little.
The New Way Forward act is the most radical single piece of legislation we’ve seen proposed in this country. It makes the Green New Deal look like the status quo.
A document produced by Democrats to promote the bill says: “Convictions … should not lead to deportation.”
Keep in mind, we’re not talking about convictions for double parking. The bill targets felony convictions – serious crimes that send you to prison for years. A press release from Rep., Jesus Garcia, D-Ill., is explicit about this.
Garcia brags that the bill will break the “prison to deportation pipeline.” How does the bill do that? Under current U.S. law, legal U.S. immigrants can be deported if they commit an “aggravated felony” or a “crime of moral turpitude” – that is, a vile, depraved act, like molesting a child. Under the New Way Forward Act, “crimes of moral turpitude” are eliminated entirely as a justification for deportation. And the category of “aggravated felony” gets circumscribed too.
The Army Wants Technology that Can See Through Walls—and Identify People on the Other Side
February 6th, 2020Via: Nextgov:
People can’t see through walls but the Army wants to pioneer next-level technology that will help soldiers do exactly that—with the added bonus of instantaneously offering advanced, penetrating insights that go far beyond what meets the eye.
According to a recent request for information, the Army is accepting white papers to identify commercially available technologies that could help spur its development of a “sense through the wall system.” In the Army’s ideal world, that system would distinguish for soldiers exactly what—and precisely who—is on the other side of the solid structures before them.
“The intent of this market survey is to identify potential man-portable systems that give the Soldier the ability to detect, identify, and monitor persons, animals, and materials behind multi-leveled obstruction(s) from a long standoff range,” officials wrote in the special notice. “The sensor system will also be able to map the structure and detect hidden rooms, passages, alcoves, caches, etc. including those underground.”
The Myth Of Incompetence: DNC Scandals Are A Feature, Not A Bug
February 6th, 2020Via: Medium – Caitlin Johnstone:
The Iowa caucus scandal has continued to get more egregious by the hour, with new revelations routinely pouring in about extremely suspicious manipulations taking place which all just so happen to disadvantage the campaign of Bernie Sanders in the first Democratic electoral contest of 2020.
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I keep seeing the word “incompetence” thrown around. “Gosh these Democratic Party leaders are so incompetent!”, they say. “How can anyone be so bad at their job?”
Well, they are not bad at their job. They are very, very good at their job. It’s just that their job isn’t what most people assume it is.
Their job is not to win elections and garner public support, their job is to ensure the perpetuation of the status quo which rewards them so handsomely for their malignant behavior. Toward this end they are not incompetent at all. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re doing it well.
They are extremely competent. Depraved, certainly. Sociopathic, possibly. But not incompetent.
Tencent May Have Accidentally Leaked Real Data on Wuhan Virus Deaths
February 6th, 2020It continues to be very difficult to ascertain what’s actually happening in China.
I’ve been trying to find confirmation of this story: Epoch Times: Funeral Home Worker in Wuhan: We Are Working 24/7 to Cremate Bodies.
Of all of the videos I’ve seen, this one is the most worrying. It appears to have been taken inside a hospital and shows several full body bags in close proximity to patients. I haven’t seen that before.
Live shot at a hospital in Wuhan on Feb.4
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Also, there is no isolation in the mass quarantine facilities.
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Via: Taiwan News:
As many experts question the veracity of China’s statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend seems to have inadvertently released what is potentially the actual number of infections and deaths, which were astronomically higher than official figures, but are eerily in line with predictions from a respected scientific journal.
As early as Jan. 26, netizens were reporting that Tencent, on its webpage titled “Epidemic Situation Tracker” was briefly showing data on the novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) in China that was much higher than official estimates, before suddenly switching to lower numbers. Taiwanese netizen Hiroki Lo that day reported that Tencent and NetEase were both posting “unmodified statistics,” before switching to official numbers in short order.
On late Saturday evening (Feb. 1), the Tencent webpage showed confirmed cases of the Wuhan virus in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time. It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure.
The number of cured cases was only 269, well below the official number that day of 300. Most ominously, the death toll listed was 24,589, vastly higher than the 300 officially listed that day.
Inside a U.S. Evacuation Flight from #Wuhan
February 6th, 2020Via: Janis Mackey Frayer:
Inside a US evacuation flight from #Wuhan: hazmat suits, Ghostbusters masks, megaphones, forms & a heads up for Americans it’ll ‘get really weird’ when they land. Final US airlifts tonight as #coronavirus cases rise to 28k+ in #China; 563 have died. @NBCNews (video Jacob Wilson) pic.twitter.com/CJZ5i6ALQg
— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisfrayer) February 6, 2020
7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Store At North Texas Headquarters
February 6th, 2020Via: CBS:
A new 700-square foot 7-Eleven store has opened in Texas, but this one doesn’t have a human cashier.
The pilot store, at 7-Eleven headquarters in Irving, uses a mixture of algorithms and predictive technology to separate individual customers and their purchases from others in the store.
The concept location offers some of the most popular products sold at traditional 7-Eleven stores, including drinks, snacks, groceries, and non-food items.
Related: Japanese Robot Could Call Last Orders on Human Bartenders
Texas: Homeless Camp the Size of Three Football Fields Catches Fire
February 6th, 2020Via: Fox:
A fire broke out at a large homeless camp below the eastbound frontage road of Anderson Lane, between IH-35 and Cameron Road Monday morning.
“We come down here for medical calls a lot. We always feared there being a fire — well there was a fire. Upon arrival there were no residents of the camp that we had to deal with and rescue.” explained Battalion Chief Matthew Cox, of the Austin Fire Department.
Cox, said firefighters were worried about spaces, small fires — and possibly, people they could not reach in the catacomb like camp.
“It is definitely a very unsafe situation for our firefighters as they’re gonna have to dig through this stuff for hours.” he said.
The camp spans roughly three football fields. Cox described, “couches, tv’s, propane tanks, padlocked areas, mattresses, trash and literally hundreds of needles.”
It is an entire system of underground homes. Many, containing stove tops, refrigerators, bunk beds — all built into the overpass.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Mystery Bank Came Alive After His Death
February 5th, 2020Via: The New York Times:
In the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender, he closed his money management firm and started a business to develop algorithms and mine DNA and financial databases.
Then he set up a bank.
In a banking license application reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. Epstein described himself as one of the investing world’s “pioneers” and said he wanted to pursue the “dynamic discipline of international banking.”
Officials in the Virgin Islands, the United States territory where Mr. Epstein set up most of his businesses, approved a license for him in 2014 to run one of the territory’s first international banking entities, a specialized bank that can do business only with offshore clients. The approval was unusual, given Mr. Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.
The bank, Southern Country International, renewed its license for each of the next five years, but it’s unclear whether it conducted any business or had any customers. Mr. Epstein, who died while in federal custody last summer following his arrest on sex trafficking charges, does not appear to have done any marketing for the bank or hired much staff.
The bank was created under a territorial law that lacked many of the oversight requirements banks are usually subject to, and its regulatory file is largely empty. A lawyer for Mr. Epstein told officials in the Virgin Islands in 2018 that Southern Country had not commenced operations. And regulators in the territory said they did not exercise oversight of the bank because it did not appear to be doing any business.
And yet, after Mr. Epstein’s death, his estate transferred more than $12 million to Southern Country, according to court documents.
SriLankan Airlines Pilots & Cabin Crew Who Flew Sri Lankan Students Out of Wuhan, China
February 5th, 2020Compare the SriLankan Airlines employees’ protective gear to the drivers of the four “Horseman” buses in Britain.
SriLankan Airlines profoundly thanks its patriotic pilots & cabin crew who braved risk of Coronavirus & volunteered for mercy flight to bring back Sri Lankan students from Wuhan, China, supported by staff of many departments, on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s instruction. pic.twitter.com/vl5Qq1lRnW
— SriLankan Airlines (@flysrilankan) February 1, 2020
Trump 2020 State of the Union Speech: “America’s Manifest Destiny in the Stars”
February 5th, 2020I listened to this State of the Union speech the same way I’ve listened to others; teetering between yawning inattention and eye-rolling.
It’s difficult to turn off my internal monologue:
“Oh for fuck’s sake, how do people put up with this?”
“This is giving me a lobotomy.”
“Is that witch Pelosi going to have a grand mal seizure?”
“We deserve the zombie apocalypse we’re in.”
Etc. etc.
So, as the nonsense spewed out as usual, I heard Trump utter the following phrase, “America’s manifest destiny in the stars.”
Via: Time:
In reaffirming our heritage as a free Nation, we must remember that America has always been a frontier nation. Now we must embrace the next frontier, America’s manifest destiny in the stars. I am asking the Congress to fully fund the Artemis program to ensure that the next man and the first woman on the moon will be American astronauts — using this as a launching pad to ensure that America is the first nation to plant its flag on Mars.
Related: What the Hell Is China Doing on the Dark Side of the Moon?
