Archive for August, 2024
Chicago: City-Owned Grocery Stores
August 31st, 2024In related news: From Price Controls to Mass Starvation: As cities clear of food, you’d need police patrolling parking lots and armed escorts on delivery trucks — perhaps you could even have government-run groceries like Chicago just announced. Via: Chicago Tribune: Nearly a year after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration floated the possibility of opening a […]
Police Using Video from Tesla Vehicle Cameras in Investigations
August 31st, 2024Via: San Francisco Chronicle: In Oakland and beyond, police called to crime scenes are increasingly looking for more than shell casings and fingerprints. They’re scanning for Teslas parked nearby, hoping their unique outward-facing cameras captured key evidence. And, the Chronicle has found, they’re even resorting to obtaining warrants to tow the cars to ensure they […]
X Banned in Brazil
August 30th, 2024Via: The Verge: A judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of X after owner Elon Musk failed to designate a new legal representative for the country, according to reports from Bloomberg and local news outlet Poder360. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes told the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to limit access to X […]
$3,000 and a Toy: Novavax Dangles Incentives to Fill Clinical Trials on COVID Shots for Babies, Kids
August 30th, 2024Via: The Defender: Novavax is offering parents up to $3,000 to enroll their children in the vaccine maker’s Phase 2/3 COVID-19 vaccine trial for infants and children ages 6 months to 11 years. The offer also includes a stuffed animal for each child. The “Hummingbird” trial is testing two primary shots and a booster shot […]
Israel: ‘Humanitarian Pauses’ in Gaza Fighting for Children to be Vaccinated Against Polio
August 30th, 2024In other Israeli humanitarian news from Gaza: Israel’s Military Blew Up More Than 30 Water Wells in Gaza in July: Israel’s military blew up more than 30 water wells in Gaza this month, a municipality official and residents said, adding to the trauma of airstrikes that have turned much of the Palestinian enclave into a […]
Pentagon Approves Additional Support to Secret Service for Election Campaigns
August 30th, 2024Via: Reuters: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to provide the Secret Service with additional military support capabilities for presidential and vice presidential candidates for the upcoming election, the Pentagon and the Secret Service said separately on Thursday. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh did not provide details on the type of support that […]
Blacklisted News Closes Down
August 30th, 2024I read Blacklisted News most days for at least a decade. We often got links from each other. Doug is one of Cryptogon’s top financial contributors. (He never asked me to run that ad in the the rotation in the upper right corner of Cryptogon, by the way.) I wish Doug all the best with […]
Meanwhile, in Aurora, Colorado
August 29th, 2024Via: New York Post: A shocking video shows a crew of gun-wielding men storm through a Colorado apartment building reportedly overrun by a dangerous Venezuelan prison gang. The group of heavily armed men — including three armed with handguns and one with a rifle — enter the troubled apartment complex in the Denver suburb of […]
Police Priorities in Germany
August 28th, 2024Via: Modernity News:
CIA And FBI Spread Disinformation And Interfered In 2020 Presidential Election
August 28th, 2024Via: Michael Shellenberger: Many people saw the letter that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent to Rep. Jim Jordan earlier this week as old news. In 2022, Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Facebook had limited the spread of the New York Post story about the Hunter Biden laptop in response to information from the FBI. “The […]
