Feds Still Refusing to Release Details of 2022 Raid on Area 51 Blogger
April 27th, 2024Via: KLAS:
Secret Service Agent Assigned to Kamala Harris Hospitalized After Exhibiting “Distressing Behavior”
April 26th, 2024Via: CBS:
A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris exhibited “distressing behavior” Monday morning at Joint Base Andrews and was hospitalized, authorities said. Harris was not present at the airbase at the time.
In a statement provided to CBS News, the U.S. Secret Service said that at about 9 a.m. local time Monday, the agent “began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing. The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned.”
Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish, was speaking incoherently and provoked another officer physically.
According to sources, the agent in question pushed the special agent in charge while they were near the lounge of Joint Base Andrews.
Harris was at the Naval Observatory at the time, USSS said, and the incident had “no impact on her departure from Joint Base Andrews.” Sources said it occurred about one hour before Harris arrived at the airbase for a flight to Wisconsin.
The agent was immediately handcuffed and detained by other Secret Service agents who intervened, sources said, and ambulances were called to the scene.
U.S. Births Slide To Lowest Level Since 1979
April 25th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
This leaves us with a new report from the US National Center for Health Statistics showing US births continued a multi-decade slide to levels not seen in more than four decades.
There were 3.59 million babies born in 2023, down 2% from 3.66 million recorded in 2022. This number is the lowest since 1979, when 3.4 million babies were born.
“People are making rather reasoned decisions about whether or not to have a child at all,” Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said, who was quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
Guzzo continued, “More often than not, I think what they’re deciding is, ‘Yes, I’d like to have children, but not yet.'”
America’s declining total fertility rate peaked at 3.75 births per woman after World War II and has since collapsed to about 1.617, well below the replacement rate of 2.1.
And Now… AI Assisted Police Reports
April 24th, 2024
Via: Forbes:
American cops are increasingly leaning on artificial intelligence to assist with policing, from AI models that analyze criminal patterns to drones that can fly themselves. Now, a GPT-4 powered AI can do one of their less appealing jobs: filing paperwork.
On Tuesday, Axon, the $22 billion police contractor best known for manufacturing the Taser electric weapon, launched a new tool called Draft One that it says can transcribe audio from body cameras and automatically turn it into a police report. Cops can then review the document to ensure accuracy, Axon CEO Rick Smith told Forbes. Axon claims one early tester of the tool, Fort Collins Colorado Police Department, has seen an 82% decrease in time spent writing reports. “If an officer spends half their day reporting, and we can cut that in half, we have an opportunity to potentially free up 25% of an officer’s time to be back out policing,” Smith said.
These reports, though, are often used as evidence in criminal trials, and critics are concerned that relying on AI could put people at risk by depending on language models that are known to “hallucinate,” or make things up, as well as display racial bias, either blatantly or unconsciously.
Ukraine Destroys Russian Oil Depots in Smolensk
April 24th, 2024This is 500km inside Russia. Does anyone know what sort of long range unmanned system Ukraine is using for these attacks?
I found this from 2023: Zelenskyy says Ukraine has developed a long-range weapon, a day after a strike deep inside Russia:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers (400 miles) away, in an apparent reference to the previous day’s strike on an airport in western Russia.
Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel the weapon was produced by Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries but gave no other details.
On Wednesday, a four-hour wave of drones that Moscow blamed on Ukraine hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, according to local reports.
The airport is in Russia’s Pskov region, about 700 kilometers (400 miles) north of the Ukrainian border.
Is this really a homegrown Ukrainian system? I hope so, because if NATO systems are blowing up oil infrastructure deep inside Russia…
Not good.
Via: Politico:
Ukrainian drones destroyed two fuel storages in Russia’s Smolensk region in the early hours of Wednesday, a Ukrainian law enforcement official familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
The attacks came despite public warnings from US officials that Kyiv’s attacks on Russian oil refineries risk destabilizing global markets, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urging the country to focus on military targets.
“The SBU [Security Service of Ukraine] continues to effectively destroy the military infrastructure and logistics that provide fuel to the Russian army in Ukraine. These objects are and will remain our legitimate targets,” the Ukrainian official said, on condition of anonymity.
The strikes on the two fuel storage and pumping bases in the Smolensk region, some 500 km from the border with Ukraine. The attacks on the facilities, owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft, resulted in the loss of 26,000 cubic meters of Russian fuel, the official said.
Biden: “Four More Years. Pause.”
April 24th, 2024NOW – Biden: "Four more years. Pause." pic.twitter.com/PW1HBgaCVu
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 24, 2024
Best And Worst States To Be A Gun Owner
April 24th, 2024This is from ammo.com:
#1 New Hampshire
#2 West Virginia
#3 Arkansas
#4 Montana
#5 Mississippi
#6 Missouri
#7 Oklahoma
#8 Texas
#9 South Dakota
#10 North Dakota
#1 Hawaii
#2 California
#3 New York
#4 Illinois
#5 New Jersey
#6 Connecticut
#7 Maryland
#8 Massachusetts
#9 Rhode Island
#10 Michigan
Cities’ “Doom Loops”
April 24th, 2024Via: Of Two Minds:
The context of the Doom Loop is the process and politics of this decay are the second-order results of central bank easy money (free fiat). That led to financialization becoming the city’s core function and the subsequent loss of the city’s previous mission. The people living in cities just haven’t gotten the message yet.
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This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home.
Nearsightedness Reaching Epidemic Levels
April 24th, 2024Via: Study Finds:
The two main factors identified as leading to increased myopia are increased reading and other activities that require focusing on an object close to one’s eyes and a reduction in time spent outdoors.
U.K.’s Only Munitions Factory Explodes, Just Days After U.S. Army Ammunition Factory Catches Fires in Scranton, PA
April 23rd, 2024Via: The Gateway Pundit:
The United Kingdom’s lone munitions filing factory exploded on Wednesday, just two days after a fire erupted at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported on April 15th, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP), the United States’ primary producer of 155mm artillery shell bodies, caught fire.
Just two days later, on April 17th, a section of the United Kingdom’s lone munition factory exploded after a single shell went off inside the factory.
The explosion occurred at the BAE Systems munitions factory in Glascoed, Wales.
BAE Systems is the biggest defense contractor in Europe and the 7th largest in the world.
The cause of the explosion at the munition factory is currently being investigated.
