‘Operation COVID Crackdown’ busts predators targeting kids home from school…
April 22, 2020
The investigation led to the arrest of suspects ranging in age from 20 to 74 and a combined 68 felonies, including solicitation of a minor and attempted indecent liberties, Fairfax County police said Tuesday.
California Gov Newsom: “Normal it will not be, at least until we have herd immunity and we have a vaccine,”…
April 22, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday implied local leaders in the state won’t be allowed to lift coronavirus stay-at-home orders yet as certain communities have expressed interest in easing restrictions and some protesters took to the streets last weekend demanding the reopening of the economy, according to reports.
Rich Americans Flee To Luxury ‘Doomsday Resort’ Shelters In New Zealand As Panic Grows…
April 22, 2020
“For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in the doomsday survival plans of wealthy Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyze the world,” writes Bloomberg.
Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited To Create A Mass Surveillance Network…
April 22, 2020
A perfect example of how the Feds view mass surveillance can best be summed up in the NSCAI presentation, "American companies have a lot to gain by adopting ideas from Chinese companies." Everyday, it seems Americans are being told we need more national surveillance programs to keep everyone safe. Our governments' obsession with monitoring everyone is only going to grow as the coronavirus grips the country...
Hundreds of Amazon workers to walk off jobs starting Tuesday…
April 22, 2020
The nationwide protest follows several strikes at facilities in the New York City borough of Staten Island, Chicago and Detroit where employees have tested positive to COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
SUNDANCE: Is Bill Barr’s Dept. of Justice currently engaged in an ongoing effort to cover up crimes in order to “preserve” government institutions?…
April 22, 2020
Sundance always comes through with great analysis and perspective. A must read.
Burglaries are in the rise in NYC but Cops’ hands are tied, because the suspects are being set free “immediately” after being arrested…
April 22, 2020
A total of 259 burglaries were reported between April 13 and April 19, this year in the city — up 36.3 percent from the 190 reported during that period last year, according to the latest NYPD stats... In addition, more than 1,500 inmates have been released from city jails amid the coronavirus crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office announced last week.
The Pentagon plans to reduce the number of the US aircraft carriers. And, with the money it saves, buy dozens of frigates and robotic corvettes…
April 22, 2020
China Is Waging A New Kind Of War Against The US…
April 22, 2020
From Beijing’s standpoint, given that the PRC economy was already in massive decline, it was critical that the economies of its strategic rivals should also be forced into decline.
Peter Thiel’s controversial Palantir is building a coronavirus tracking tool for the Trump admin…
April 22, 2020
Palantir is known best for its surveillance, predictive, and analytic work with the US government and state and local law enforcement, as well as services provided to the private sector in areas like finance and healthcare. It’s controversial in part because it has provided profiling tools to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and because it generally operates with extreme secrecy and with little oversight regarding the tools and data it provides to military operations, governments, and hedge funds.
MIT HAS TERMINATED a research collaboration with iFlytek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company accused of supplying technology for surveilling Muslims in China…
April 22, 2020
“We take very seriously concerns about national security and economic security threats from China and other countries, and human rights issues,” says Maria Zuber, vice president of research at MIT.
Barr says revelations from special review of origins of Russia probe ‘not imminent’…
April 22, 2020
Mr. Barr said he’ll update the public “as soon as we feel we have something that we are confident to tell the people about.”... Mr. Barr said he is very troubled by what the probe has uncovered so far. “I wouldn’t use the word shocked,” he said. “I’m very troubled by it, but you know, I think the reason that we have this investigation is because there are a lot of things that are unexplained. And I think we’re getting deeply into the situation, and we’ll be able to sort out exactly what happened.”