Over $500k Seized by CBP at the San Juan Seaport and Airport in two separate incidents…
April 3, 2019
...Rudi Alfonso Hernandez-Simon, 52, a citizen of the Dominican Republic failed to declare accurately having in his possession a total of $353,372. Mr. Hernandez-Simon, who also had a carry-on bag and one (1) backpack, declared to be transporting approximately $1,600.
...The driver, a legal permanent resident with citizenship from the Dominican Republic, declared being in possession of $4,000. A CBP K-9 discovered thirteen (13) packages of US currency concealed under the carpet, between the driver and passenger seats, totaling $214,037.Rep. Schiff doubles down again on Trump collusion, calls president’s behavior ‘deeply unpatriotic and corrupt’
April 3, 2019
“There is plenty of evidence of collusion and corrupt co-mingling of work between the Trump campaign and the Russians,” Schiff said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday. “But I fully accept that as a prosecutor that he couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that crime.”
If he has evidence but did not submit it for the Mueller report, that is obstruction of justice.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit with FEC complaint for alleged ‘subsidy scheme’…
April 3, 2019
The complaint named Ocasio-Cortez, Chakrabarti (now her chief of staff), the Justice Democrats PAC, the Brand New Congress PAC and Brand New Congress LLC as the overlapping entities that aimed to “subsidize cheap assistance for Ocasio-Cortez and other candidates at rates far below market value.”
Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake reveals threats he received while in office: ‘Take him and his family out’…
April 3, 2019
Blevins, of Chicago, pleaded guilty last month to a retaliation charge for leaving a threatening voice mail for Flake. Authorities, though, had declined to provide the victim’s name. Blevins acknowledged that he left the threatening voice message on Sept. 17, saying, “I am tired of him interrupting our president, and I am coming down there to take him and his family out.”
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That’s only one of several threats,” Flake said...Flake told The Guardian that an “unidentified man carrying a rifle scope” went to three places in Arizona that are associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Flake, himself, is a Mormon... “Threats where they list my kids and their addresses, links to beheading videos,” Flake said...Ratings for CNN and MSNBC continuing to crash, as viewers migrate to Fox News prime time…
April 3, 2019
What makes this especially painful for Maddow, who rode the hoax to become the top-rated host in all of cable news at times, is that the ratings decline actually got worse after the exposure of the hoax first broke... Meanwhile, things are, if anything, even worse at CNN...
Preet Bharara reveals identity of official with whom he discussed secretly taping Trump…
April 3, 2019
The former top prosecutor said he discussed taping Trump with his deputy Joon Kim when the president requested to speak with Bharara, who had jurisdiction over the Trump Organization and other parts of the president’s business affairs. “We thought about and then rejected the possibility of recording the president, because we thought that's a bridge too far,” Bharara said. “But, we did think about it.” There were no open cases against Trump at the time,...
Ancient teeth found in China that don’t fit neatly in the existing human family tree…
April 3, 2019
Now, a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution takes a fresh look at these ancient teeth, using modern methods to examine the curious remains. The new analysis excludes the possibility that the teeth could come from Homo erectus or the more advanced Neanderthals, but the elusive owner remains unknown.
“It’s strange. We don’t know where to put it,” says study author Song Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing...
Noble’s tomb found in Egypt. Dates back to early pharaohs (2388-2356 B.C.). Photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on 2nd of April 2019…
April 3, 2019
Gun that Van Gogh killed himself with goes up for sale…
April 3, 2019
Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in the same field where the troubled Dutch painter is thought to have fatally wounded himself 75 years before, the gun has already been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Billed by Auction Art as "the most famous weapon in the history of art", the 7 mm Lefaucheux revolver is expected to go for up to 60,000 euros ($67,000) when it is sold on June 19...
Chicago elects Lori Lightfoot as first gay and first black female mayor in city’s history…
April 3, 2019
With votes in 95% of precincts counted, Lightfoot had 73.7% of the vote and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle 26.3%... Lightfoot will succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who announced in September that he would not seek a third term in office.
Watch Migrants Violently Shove Crying Children Through Arizona Border Fence…
April 3, 2019
Vice President Pence Delivers Remarks at NATO Engages: The Alliance At 70…
April 3, 2019
Even if you missed out on the Concorde, you may soon get a chance to fly in a supersonic airliner…
April 3, 2019
More than a decade after the supersonic passenger aircraft landed for the last time, a new class of faster-than-sound planes prepares for liftoff... The J85 is GE’s workhorse military turbojet. Three of them will power Boom’s XB-1, a one-third-scale demonstration model of the $200 million, 55-seat carbon-fiber airliner the company hopes to see streaking across the sky at twice the speed of sound by 2025. It would be difficult to overstate the challenges Boom faces as it chases this goal and all the ways its plan could go wrong... Boom still has a long way to go though. Developing a new airliner takes years in a process often rife with delays, overruns, and missteps even before regulators dig into things like manufacturing and flight-safety procedures...
Verizon begins deploying its 5G mobile network in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis…
April 3, 2019
Verizon today announced that it has officially deployed its 5G mobile service in certain parts of Chicago and Minneapolis, which are the first two of 30 cities where it plans to bring its 5G wireless network this year. The surprise launch is one week earlier than the date the company initially announced, with the company noting that customers can expect average download speeds of 450 Mbps, and peak speeds could reach “nearly 1 Gbps.”
House panel approves subpoena for Mueller report…
April 3, 2019
In a party-line vote, the committee voted 24-17 to approve a resolution authorizing subpoenas for Mueller’s report, including accompanying exhibits and other attachments, as well as its underlying evidence. The resolution also authorizes the committee's Democratic chairman to subpoena testimony related to the special counsel's report. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he would give Attorney General William Barr time to produce the final, unredacted report to Congress before issuing the subpoena; however he did not provide a timeline on when that would happen.
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The resolution allows Nadler to send subpoenas at his discretion to former White House aides Reince Priebus, Stephen Bannon and Hope Hicks, as well as ex-White House counsel Donald McGahn and his former deputy, Ann Donaldson.FTC hits predatory scientific publisher with a $50 million fine. Conduct egregious enough that a judge doesn’t even wait for a trial…
April 3, 2019
It used to be that publishing a scientific journal was a significant undertaking, requiring infrastructures for peer review, printing, and distribution, and the costs were often defrayed by charging authors for the honor of publishing. Now, it's possible to simply convert submissions to PDFs and throw them online. With those barriers gone, science quickly became plagued by predatory publishers who decided to eliminate peer review as well. Instead, they simply published anything from people who have the money to cover the publication fees.
Facebook is asking some new users for their email passwords and appears to be harvesting their contacts without consent…
April 3, 2019
- The move has alarmed security experts, who warn it could encourage users to engage in "risky" behaviour and increase their chances of being hacked.
- The social network also appears to be accessing these users' contacts without asking for permission.
- The company now says it is discontinuing this login tool, though it didn't give a timeframe.
Reuters Claims John Bolton Derailed Trump’s North Korea Negotiations…
April 3, 2019
Journalists Lesley Wroughton and David Brunnstrom detailed how the negotiations began to unravel:
U.S. President Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that included a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States.
ZeroHedge summed up the nature of this failed deal:
Trump surprised Kim by demanding complete, unilateral disarmament in exchange for a flimsy promise to lift economic sanctions sometime in the future. Naturally, Kim rejected the offer.
This deal featured a previous pattern of negotiations employed by John Bolton in the past
How does Reuters know that this isn't a negotiation tactic? Fake news? BigLeaguePolitics swallowed this up like it's something. This actually sounds like the Trump admin leaked to Reuters to get them to report on this in a specific manner. It is a psyop to display to foreign countries an atmosphere of spontaneity and unpredictability.
The Newest AI-Enabled Weapon: ‘Deep-Faking’ Photos of the Earth…
April 3, 2019
Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos.
Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos.Airbnb Under Fire For Disturbing Hidden Camera Incidents…
April 3, 2019
Travelers staying in Airbnb rentals might want to think twice before traipsing around naked in somebody else's rental property. according to The Atlantic. In fact, one might want to check the bathroom fixtures for little black dots that look out of place... "There have been super terrible examples of privacy violations by AirBnB hosts, e.g., people have found cameras hidden in alarm clocks in their bedrooms," says Jeff Bigham - a Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor who found undisclosed cameras in his rental. "I feel like our experience is in some ways more insidious. If you find a truly hidden camera in your bedroom or bathroom, Airbnb will support you. If you find an undisclosed camera in the private living room, Airbnb will not support you."...