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Unemployment “Cure,” High-Capacity Block, Bobbies Surrender, Fighting-Age Migrants, Pig Heart Life

FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR Presents

FIA WEEKDAY

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays 8am eastern time).

For in-depth reporting on today’s news, consider supporting the Freedomist by subscribing to receive our monthly newsletter, FIA Monthly (formerly McAlvany Intelligence Advisor). Subscribe here.

(News recap from 3p September 24 to 3p September 25)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “1 Corinthians 13:6

Unemployment “Cure,” High-Capacity Block, Bobbies Surrender, Fighting-Age Migrants, Pig Heart Life

UNEMPLOYMENT “CURE,” HIGH-CAPACITY BLOCK, BOBBIES SURRENDER, FIGHTING-AGE MIGRANTS, PIG HEART LIFE

ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist-shared links are NOT endorsements

TOP STORIES

FED CHAIR WANTS YOU TO LOSE YOUR JOB, FOR THE GOOD OF THE ECONOMY – The good of the whole overrides the needs of the individual, which is a very Communist idea, and one America’s Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell seems to share. He got into a bit of hot water when he exclaimed more people need to lose their jobs before they can cool down inflation.

He didn’t get into hot water because of wishing Americans lose their jobs to save Joe Biden’s job by lowering inflation, he got into hot water because he suggested things were beyond his control in making that happen. He then assured his de facto Communist critics that causing Americans to lose their jobs for the good of the whole has ALWAYS been the “primary objective” of the Fed that he controls. They call this a “soft landing,” which doesn’t feel so soft for the Americans that will be thrown out of work thanks to his direct efforts to sabotage our jobs market.

CALIFORNIA “HIGH CAPACITY” MAGAZINE BAN STRUCK DOWN BY FEDERAL JUDGE – A law that was created through a proposition that was supported by 63 percent of the population of California in 2016 limited the amount of rounds your gun magazines can hold. The High Capacity Magazine law was shut down by Federal District Judge Roger Benitez, who cited recent Supreme Court Rulings as a justification for doing so.

He said in his ruling, “The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution ‘guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation… This case is about a California state law that makes it a crime to keep and bear common firearm magazines typically possessed for lawful purposes. Based on the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment, this law is clearly unconstitutional. The detachable firearm magazine solved a problem with historic firearms: running out of ammunition and having to slowly reload a gun. When more ammunition is needed in case of confrontation, a larger the magazine is required.”

AFTER COP CHARGED WITH MURDER, LONDON POLICE TURN IN THEIR GUNS – London Police turned in their guns after one of their own was charged with murder after a bullet he fired struck and killed a black man named Chris Kaba, who was 24. The move has left the London authorities scrambling for alternatives, which includes deploying the military. A police spokesperson said of the use of the military, “This is an emergency situation that would only be used in special circumstances and where an appropriate policing response would not be available.”

EUROPE’S “MIGRANTS” ARE 92 PERCENT FIGHTING-AGE MEN – Frontex, the EU’s border and coastal agency released a report on the migrant wave currently overrunning Europe, revealing 8 percent of the “migrants” were women, the rest, 92 percent, we can presume are young men, making the migrant wave seem more like a deliberate invasion. The report itself claimed the identity of the 92 percent was “unavailable,” but anecdotal evidence makes it clear who these 92 percent really are.

MAN GETS PIG HEART AND LIVES – Doctors in Maryland have successfully transplanted a pig heart to a human, and the human lived. The human in question is Lawrence Faucett, 58, who is reporting to be doing well, even making jokes according to the doctors taking care of him. One of the doctors, Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, said of the successful surgery, “It’s just an amazing feeling to see this pig heart work in a human….We don’t want to predict anything. We will take every day as a victory and move forward.”

Dr. Bartley Griffith, another one of the doctors who took part in the surgery, perhaps summed it best when he said, “You know, I just keep shaking my head, how am I talking to someone who has a pig heart?”

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values.

Newsom Vetoes Bill on Parental Support of Child’s Gender Identity in Custody Cases – www.nytimes.com

America’s New Climate Corps Will Need to be a Lot Bigger – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

Research Ties GOP Misinformation Rise to Perception Shift – www.miragenews.com

Modi’s party behind most hate speech against Muslims in India, report says – www.trtworld.com

Republican hardliners threaten to trigger a US government shutdown | U.S. – english.elpais.com

Donald Trump’s ‘Extremist’ Gaslighting Exposed In Damning Montage – www.huffpost.com

Trump Demands All Senate Democrats Resign Because Menendez Was Indicted – www.politicususa.com

Buttigieg On Trump’s Disabled Vet Slam: ‘Latest In A Pattern Of Outrageous Attacks’ – crooksandliars.com

Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events – www.pressdemocrat.com

We’re Living in a Kevin McCarthy Doom Loop – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

Editorial: Goodbye to cash bail. L.A. is moving to a better approach to pretrial justice – www.latimes.com

‘Latest in a pattern of outrageous attacks’: Buttigieg on Trump – CNN

Assault weapon mass shootings on the rise in Texas – Axios – www.axios.com

Jeff Duncan splits with wife after ‘MULTIPLE affairs’ despite South Carolina GOP congressman selling himself as pro-family values and ‘traditional marriage’ – www.dailymail.co.uk

Brooklyn library’s Drag Story Hour moved after bomb threat – www.losangelesblade.com

“We Ain’t Going Nowhere:” Pride Center Faces Bomb Threat During Pride Week – www.newhavenarts.org

Forget Bud Light (they won’t): boycott crowd has a new enemy – TheStreet – www.thestreet.com

Democracy is winning, but there’s work to do – www.sandiegouniontribune.com

This week in (actual) fake news – www.dailykos.com

‘Climate villain’: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt | Rupert Murdoch – amp.theguardian.com

Racism adds to demands on Black mothers – www.futurity.org

Wisconsin’s Republicans scrambling to protect their extreme and ridiculous gerrymander – www.dailykos.com

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

BIDEN BORDER POLICY DESTROYING AMERICAN CITIES – As the Biden administration continues to allow our American borders to remain wide open to anyone who wants to enter our country, the numbers show record illegal immigration is happening, and the cities are being overwhelmed because of it. 11,000 “Immigrants” have entered just the state of Arizona in the last week alone, with no signs of the flow slowing down.

HOLLYWOOD STRIKE MIGHT BE OVER – The LA Times is reporting that the Hollywood Writers’ strike may be coming to an end as both sides have come to a tentative 3-year agreement. The strike is nearly 5 months old and is the longest ever faced by Hollywood.

more:

Contempt of court warning on Russell Brand coverage ‘worrying and unnecessary’ – The Telegraph UK

Canadian Parliament’s Standing Ovation for Nazi SS Veteran Leads Liberal Leader To Apologize – freebeacon.com

India Canada News Updates: Consular services for Indian nationals in Canada will continue, says Consulate General of India in Toronto – economictimes.indiatimes.com

Politico hammered with fact check after Trudeau, Zelenskyy give standing ovation to a Nazi – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Dem Texas Mayor Says City Is at ‘Breaking Point’ as Migrants Flood Across Border – freebeacon.com

Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand – thegrayzone.com

Mass shootings in California have increased since 2020 – Axios – www.axios.com

Your Prime Video subscription is about to get more expensive, as Amazon reveals new fee – www.mirror.co.uk

This Week on Crypto Twitter: 11,000 Venezuelan Soldiers Bring Down Jailhouse Bitcoin Mining Operation – decrypt.co

Dozens protest plan to turn former NYC college dorm into migrant shelter – nypost.com

3 accused in (Whitmer) kidnapping plot to face trial – www.fox17online.com

Your Evening Briefing: UAW Scores Early Victory in Big Three-Face Off – Bloomberg – www.bloomberg.com

More than 88,000 Texans may now be at risk after data breach – www.kens5.com

The IRS Is Rolling Out Plans to Issue Tax Refunds More Quickly – www.fool.com

White-Owned Landscaping Companies Challenge Houston’s Racial Minority Preference in City Contracts – legalinsurrection.com

Barrie wanted to ban donations to homeless people on its property. Advocates are sending the plan to the UN – www.cbc.ca

Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope – www.nytimes.com

North Korean opera stars are giving concerts to encourage farmers to finish this year’s harvest – www.upi.com

Benton County residents receive a stunning notification regarding property values | News – www.nbcrightnow.com

Revolutionary AI Set To Predict Your Future Health With a Single Click – scitechdaily.com

Toddler, 2 adults fatally shot in Florida during argument over dog sale – japantoday.com

Officers Kill 13-Ft. Alligator After Human Body’s Spotted In Its Jaws – theshaderoom.com

Where Americans now stand on US support – www.usatoday.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

POLAND WALKS BACK UKRAINE ARMS DECLARATION – After Ukraine sued Poland for boycotting its grain, Poland responded by declaring they would not be sending any more arms to Ukraine. Now the President, Andrzej Duda, walked that back saying Poland would not supply new arms as it had done, but will continue to supply older arms, and would allow its soil to be used to transfer arms from other nations to Ukraine.

FRANCE DECLARES THE END OF MILITARY PRESENCE IN NIGER – France has announced plans to remove the remaining 1,500 troops in Niger following the coup and an order by the junta in charge to leave. French PM Macron said, “France has decided to bring back its ambassador, and in the coming hours our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France. And we will put an end to our military cooperation with the Niger authorities”.

more:

Russia-Ukraine war live news: Hungary threatens to pull support for Kyiv – Al Jazeera English – www.aljazeera.com

Canadians in India urged to ‘remain vigilant’ amid calls for protests – globalnews.ca

Mali junta says it expects delay to February elections – thewest.com.au

21 People Killed in Somalia Bombing as Defense Secretary Austin Praises Fight Against al-Shabab – Democracy Now! – www.democracynow.org

Inside Russia’s Post-Prighozin Plans in Africa – CNN One Thing – www.cnn.com

Curfew imposed by Russian-installed head of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region – www.nbcnews.com

Belarus is ready to interact with Polish military to ensure regional security – eng.belta.by

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Says Manipulation of Coming Elections by Military Is ‘Absolutely Absurd’ – Military.com

How (UK) Labour Went From Mao’s Little Red Book to a Big Business Love In – www.washingtonpost.com

Khalistani Pannun plans ‘democratic republic of Urduistan’ to separate Kashmir – www.siasat.com

8 officials arrested after (Libya) flood disaster – DW – 09/25/2023 – amp.dw.com

Kosovo police kill at least 3 armed attackers during hours-long standoff – ktvz.com

Egypt sets a presidential election for December with el-Sissi likely to stay in power until 2030 – WPRI.com – www.wpri.com

Russia’s Putin May Get a New Friend in Europe After Slovakia’s Election – www.bloomberg.com

U.S. will establish diplomatic ties with the Cook Islands and Niue as Biden prepares to host Pacific summit – www.pbs.org

Biden welcomes Pacific leaders to Washington summit snubbed by Solomon Islands – www.stuff.co.nz

U.S. envoy’s Gwadar tour shows Pakistan’s evolving China strategy – asia.nikkei.com

IMF and Sri Lankan President set to finalize economic reform … – Investing.com – www.investing.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

NEWSOME VETOES BILL FORCING PARENTS TO TRANSITION KIDS OR LOSE THEM – California Governor Gavin Newsome surprised everyone by vetoing a bill that would have empowered the state to take children from parents who refuse to allow their children to go through “gender affirming treatment, “ meaning physical and chemical castration and mutilation to entertain the delusion that a child born one sex can decide to be another.

The move could be seen as the decision of a shrewd politician who recognizes that implementing this law will destroy the trans ideology movement once and for all. The moment the state takes kids from parents over trans ideology, the rainbow fascists have lost.

DEMOCRAT MAYOR SENDS MIGRANTS TO DNC-RUN CITIES – The Mayor of El Paso, Texas, Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, is sending chartered buses filled with migrants that have been dumped into his city by our own government. He’s sending them to Democrat-run cities like New York, Chicago, and Denver. The Mayor said his city is at a breaking point, that they hve no choice but to send the migrants to cities that have pledged to take care of them. He said “I think it’s really important to note that we have a broken immigration system. It’s the same thing over and over again.”

more:

Biden approval rating flashes warnings in two new polls – Axios – www.axios.com

Only Friendly Journalists for Joe Biden: Strategy or Protection? – loyalconservatives.com

Trump takes huge double-digit lead against Biden in new poll – americanmilitarynews.com

Trump Makes Demand of DeSantis In Bid to Unify GOP Ahead of 2024 – conservativebrief.com

AOC joins calls for Bob Menendez to resign from Senate over corruption charges | New Jersey – amp.theguardian.com

Fulton County Judge Reveals How Dangerous This Prosecution Is – thefederalist.com

The media’s coddling of John Fetterman looks pretty embarrassing right about now – thehill.com

DOJ Says It Will Allow Four Key Officials To Testify About The Hunter Biden Case – dailycaller.com

Big GOP donors hoped for an alternative to Trump. Now some are giving up. – www.politico.com

Will the auto workers’ strike jeopardise Joe Biden’s manufacturing boom? – www.economist.com

Looming government shutdown threatens military pay and defense work in Hampton Roads – The Virginian-Pilot – www.pilotonline.com

Democrats embrace Biden’s upcoming visit to Michigan picket lines – www.washingtonpost.com

‘Focused on serving everyday Texans’: US Senate Candidate Thierry Tchenko addresses key issues facing Texas | KTAB – www.bigcountryhomepage.com

Veteran Air Force pilot seeking to oust vulnerable Dem senator says nation must abandon ‘wrong leaders’ – news.yahoo.com

US urged to withhold military aid to Egypt in wake of Bob Menendez charges | US foreign policy – amp.theguardian.com

EDITOR’S CHOICE (Tues & Fri)

CNN DECLARES “OUTDATED” CONSTITUTION IS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC– CNN was doing a segment on legal “sholars,” aka DNC-CCP operatives, who were claiming that the U.S. Constitution is an outmoded document that is now getting in the way of democracy, the DNC-CCP’s favorite fetish that is never actually described. The lower text on the show, the chyron, said “SCHOLARS WARN OUTDATED CONSTITUTION HAS PUT DEMOCRACY AT RISK.”

If you understand “Democracy” to be Socialism with woketarian characteristics (modelled after China’s version of “socialism with Chinese characteristics”), then you’d have to agree with these treasonous “scholars” and the news station, CNN, that is pushing this violent agitprop as a direct assault on our republic.

DNC ELITES CREATE FOR-PROFIT TOOL DESIGNED TO CANCEL POLITICAL OPPOSITION ON SOCIAL MEDIA – Ad Fontes Media, a for-profit company that gets paid by social media to recommend “dangerous” content is really just a DNC-CCP weapon intended to give cover and legitimacy to DNC-CCP-controlled social media platforms for cancelling people and content that dares question the official narrative of the anti-American party. Investigators at Media Research Center (MRC) exposed the organization’s corrupt intentions and functions.

more:

Ukraine operations won’t be hit by likely U.S. government shutdown: Pentagon – National – globalnews.ca

City of Chicago Denies Request for Records on How $57M Was Spent on Migrant Shelter Staffing | The Gateway Pundit – www.thegatewaypundit.com

Feds urged by Biden to widen use of “social cost” on climate change – Axios – www.axios.com

Friday briefing: After Rishi Sunak’s U-turns, can Britain call itself a world leader on net zero? | – www.theguardian.com

Biden says guns are ‘number 1 killer of children’ in US as he unveils violence prevention office – as it happened | US gun control – amp.theguardian.com

NYC schools to introduce AI-powered teaching assistant into classrooms, despite concerns of tech’s left-leaning bias – www.theblaze.com

We Know Exactly What ‘De-Development’ Means › American Greatness – amgreatness.com

Marquette highlights professor who wants to ‘rupture anti-blackness’ in mathematics – www.thecollegefix.com

All the Lonely People: The Atomized Generation – www.madinamerica.com

Virginia Universities’ DEI Offices Show How the Left Infiltrates America – www.dailysignal.com

Pope Francis Says Europe Doesn’t Have a Migrant Emergency – time.com

Biden’s Green New Deal is a government subsidy for the Left – www.washingtonexaminer.com

St. Louis leaders pitch homeless Bill of Rights – www.stltoday.com

Washington gun-rights group says it has been illegally targeted by Bob Ferguson – www.chronline.com

No more oil, gas and coal. Two nation-states join growing bloc of countries calling for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty – financialpost.com

San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center running out of space amid flood of arrivals | San Antonio News | San Antonio – www.sacurrent.com

California Turns on Its Homeless Population – www.newsweek.com

Reporter’s Daughter Arrested After Going Nuclear on Orem Mayor David Young – www.thedailybeast.com

Michigan’s top court won’t revive Flint water charges against 7 key figures – milawyersweekly.com

Opinion | How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary – www.nytimes.com

Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is ‘complete nonsense’ – fortune.com

Unraveling the controversial effect of Covid-19 on college students’ performance – www.nature.com

SCI-TECH (Tues & Fri)

ROBOT EEL MIGHT CLEAN YOUR ARTERIES SOON – Scientists at the Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems out of Stuttgart, Germany are building a micro-device that will effectively look like a robot eel small enough to travel through a human’s arteries and veins, giving “eyes” to surgeons or actually cleaning out blockages by releasing targeted medicines.

LIGHT-ALTERED MOLECULES TO BE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NEW NANO-MACHINES – Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and Tampere University in Finland have discovered a way to manipulate molecules called azobenzene using ultraviolet light will lead to the creation of new “minuscule machines.”

These machines can be used for medical purposes, as well as to create new drugs customized to specific needs with more precision than is possible today. The discovery can be used in nanotechnology, data storage, and precise drug delivery.

more:

Can AI help us speak to animals? Part one – www.ft.com

Graphene membranes improve fuel cell efficiency by blocking fuel crossover – www.nanowerk.com

DNA movable-type system paves the way for sustainable data storage technology – techxplore.com

California Startup Hopes to Harvest Desalinated Drinking Water from the Ocean Floor – news.slashdot.org

Dementia link between brushing your teeth and brain decline revealed by scientists – www.mirror.co.uk

Artificial intelligence could be future of cancer care – www.1news.co.nz

Border surveillance drones to be provided to U.S. by Red Cat – militaryembedded.com

These brainless jellyfish use their eyes and bundles of nerves to learn – www.sciencenews.org

How brain implants are treating depression – www.sciencenews.org

How Ultra-Pure Cables Can Unlock Secrets of Physics – scitechdaily.com

Big pharma can’t get enough of one class of cancer drugs – www.economist.com

Ransomware group claims to have breached “all of Sony’s networks” and is selling the data – www.techspot.com

How Bats Evolved to Avoid Cancer – www.laboratoryequipment.com

Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a rival to ChatGPT developer OpenAI – www.cnbc.com

Fruit flies offer clues to how brains make reward-based decisions – www.sciencedaily.com

Futuristic 55m Eco-explorer Unveiled by Dynamiq – yachtharbour.com

Pre-Incan mummies found in Peru by gas workers – cosmosmagazine.com

Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. – 1 Chronicles 12:32

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Pron For Kids Cop, Treason Pays Bidens, China Spies for Junta, Europe is Over, Biden on the Picket Line

FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR Presents

FIA WEEKDAY

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays 8am eastern time).

For in-depth reporting on today’s news, consider supporting the Freedomist by subscribing to receive our monthly newsletter, FIA Monthly (formerly McAlvany Intelligence Advisor). Subscribe here.

(News recap from 3p September 22 to 3p September 24)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “1 Corinthians 13:6

Pron For Kids Cop, Treason Pays Bidens, China Spies for Junta, Europe is Over, Biden on the Picket Line

Pron For Kids Cop, Treason Pays Bidens, China Spies for Junta, Europe is Over, Biden on the Picket Line

ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist-shared links are NOT endorsements

TOP STORIES

BIDEN APPOINTS “MONITOR” TO KEEP PORN IN CHILDREN’S LIBRARIES – The Biden Administration has appointed the author of “Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession”, Matt Nosanchuk, to monitor public schools that dare remove pornographic books from public school children’s libraries. Biden said of the appointment of Nosanchuk to a wholly made-up position with no constitutional authority, “LGBTQ Americans, especially children: You’re loved, you’re heard and this administration has your back, I mean it,” Biden said during a press conference. “ Heterosexual children and parents, however, are not loved.

HOUSE GOP PUTS A NUMBER TO THE BIDEN FAMILY PAY-FOR-PLAY FORTUNE, $50 MILLION PLUS – A spokesperson for the House GOP speaking to Fox News, Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) said of the ongoing Biden pay-for-play investigation, “Based on the evidence I’ve seen so far, I think the number is going to be north of $50 million that we’re talking about here.”

CHINA TO HELP MYANMAR SPY ON LIBERTY FIGHTERS – The Myanmar Junta’s immigration minister Myint Kyaing journeyed to Beijing to work out a plan that will see China lend its technical know-how and resources to effectively spy on those fighting against the illegal junta. The move is sure to end any pretense from the groups fighting the Junta that China can be a trusted friend after they hopefully overthrow the junta.

EU CITIZENS DEMAND CENSORSHIP, PLEASE – A survey from Bertelsmann Stiftung claims 85 percent of Europeans want some form of censorship by the government and corporations to protect them from “misinformation.” If true, the poll reveals Europe as a viable civilization is over.

BIDEN TO WALK UAW PICKET LINE AS AUTOWORKER STRIKES EXPAND – President Joe Biden announced plans to travel to Michigan, a day before Trump’s scheduled talk, to join the UAW on the picket lines as the autoworkers strike expands to 38 more plants nationwide.

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values.

Further | Save Us From Christian the Hugging, Soul-Damaging Lion and Other Evils – www.commondreams.org

Menendez Indictment Appears to Undercut Claims of ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice’ – news.yahoo.com

The Wild Allegations Against Bob Menendez – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

McCarthy gives in to right flank on spending cuts, but they still deliver a defeat as shutdown looms – yourvalley.net

This Is What It’s Like Going To The Gynaecologist When You’re Black, Trans And In Texas – www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Argentina’s Extreme Presidential Front-Runner Shocks The Country – www.gfmag.com

California seals its reputation as a climate juggernaut with a wave of legislation and head-turning lawsuit – amp.cnn.com

McCarthy all but hands the gavel to Gaetz – www.dailykos.com

House GOP sinks their own spending bill, Dems object to anti-LGBTQ riders House GOP sinks their own spending bill, Dems object to anti-LGBTQ riders – www.washingtonblade.com

DeSantis Administration Recommends Against Boosters, Right as Florida Tops Nation for COVID Hospitalizations – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

LGBTQ community offers emotional support for youth after protests over education policies – www.cbc.ca

Oops! GOP Rep. Forced To Admit ‘Unserious’ COVID Almost Killed Him – crooksandliars.com

Right-wing sheriffs group gaining acceptance around the country – ktar.com

California is suing clinics over ‘abortion pill reversal’ claims | Ap – www.thederrick.com

How to recognize the new climate change denial, explained by a climate scientist – www.vox.com

Far-right conspiracy theorist Charlie Kirk’s “warm welcome” at Northern Arizona University proves the kids are alright – boingboing.net

ProPublica: Clarence Thomas attended Koch network donor events – KTEN – www.kten.com

Climate Change Is the Fight of Our Lifetime—It’s Time We Spent Our Money Like We Knew That – www.truthdig.com

Jean-Pierre Cuts Off Doocy After He Asks About the Border Crisis – legalinsurrection.com

Eric Swalwell Exposes The Cowardice Of Jim Jordan – www.politicususa.com

Working-class internationalism must be the answer to war – Communist Party USA – www.cpusa.org

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

NEW POLL SHOWS AMERICANS BELIEVE BIDEN TRADES INFLUENCE FOR CASH WITH FOREIGN AGENTS – A Yahoo New/YouGov survey shows a plurality of Americans now believe the Biden family is trading influence for cash to foreign powers like China. 48 percent believe Biden is a criminal and a traitor while 31 percent deny it and 21 percent said they were “not sure.”

NEBRASKA BLOOD BANK JOINS OTHERS IN ALLOWING BLOOD DONATIONS FROM HOMOSEXUALS – The Nebraska Blood Bank is changing its blood donor screening process to allow gay men to donate blood. The question of sexual orientation will be completely removed from the screening questionnaire.

more:

Tropical Storm Philippe forecast to strengthen; Atlantic system may become tropical depression – Sun Sentinel – www.sun-sentinel.com

Sen. Bob Menendez allegedly had a stash of gold bars. That’s become a trend – ktvz.com

Top Democrats in NJ turn on Sen. Menendez after corruption charge – nj1015.com

Playbook: Democrats put Menendez in a political vise – www.politico.com

Biden Botches LL Cool J’s Name, Calls Him ‘Boy’ at Congressional Black Caucus Event – RedState – redstate.com

Sam Bankman-Fried bid’s for jail release denied by appeals court – www.moneyweb.co.za

Group accused of voter intimidation told to cease-and-desist by NY Attorney General – www.northcountrypublicradio.org

As migrants overwhelm Texas city, others wait in Mexico to enter U.S. – www.staradvertiser.com

The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke – www.mintpressnews.com

15 Killed in Truck Bombing in Central Somalia – www.voanews.com

5 Dead After Freight Train Rams SUV At Rail Crossing In Florida – www.ndtv.com

2 Santa Rosa teens arrested early Friday after tip about planned shooting at Montgomery High School – www.cbsnews.com

Horror moment groom is shot dead by stray bullet as gun-wielding guest fires shots into the air at wedding celebration – www.thesun.co.uk

Urgent warning to parents as AI-generated ‘deepfake’ nude pics of dozens of girls shared around schools sparking outrage – www.thesun.co.uk

An Ohio Town Struggles Between Biden’s Clean Energy Agenda and Union Support – www.nytimes.com

City of Oberlin, Ohio EPA investigating unusual taste and odor in drinking water – www.cleveland19.com

NYC protestors block migrants, shout ‘You’re not welcome’ – americanmilitarynews.com

Brooklyn apartment fire that injured 5 may have been caused by lithium-ion battery – abc7ny.com

Mayor Adams hit with another fine for rat infestation at his Brooklyn rowhouse – www.nydailynews.com

Garland Silent on Youngkin Pardon for Dad Upset Over Daughter’s Rape – www.dailysignal.com

How Dave Portnoy Reacted to a NYT Reporter Roaming Around His Pizza Festival – townhall.com

Homeowners were having issues with hot water tank before deadly blast in Pennsylvania, officials say – www.sandiegouniontribune.com

‘Helpless Creatures’: Owner Returns From Vacation To Find Dead Dog After Sitter Allegedly Didn’t Feed It For 10 Days – dailycaller.com

Anger As Zimbabwean Doctor Dies Waiting For Ambulance – www.thezimbabwean.co

Watch: Kid goes viral fixing cars in a junkyard. – www.louderwithcrowder.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

ARMENIANS LOOK TO LEAVE KARABAKH AS SEPARATISTS DISARM – As Armenians at home protest against a government that allowed the Nagorno-Karabakh region to effectively fall to rival Azerbaijan, it appears Armenians in the region are preparing to evacuate, fearing the disarmament of the separatists that once protected them will lead to their extermination.

AUSTRALIANS PREPARE TO VOTE ON WHETHER TO EMPOWER A MINORITY RACE TO RULE OVER THEM – The so-called Voice of Parliament vote is coming up October 14, with factions vying to win votes over in an effort to determine if Australian law will be subject to a race of people’s approval. The measure, on its face, is racist in nature unless you buy the lie that racism can only happen when it’s done by the white “devil.”

more:

Find out how to vote for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament 2023 referendum from overseas – www.sbs.com.au

Joe Biden raised Canadian Sikh separatist’s murder with Modi at G20: Media | Politics News – www.aljazeera.com

UPDATE: India stops issuing visas to all Canadians, everywhere, as murder-allegations row escalates – www.news24.com

What’s behind ‘mounting tensions’ in the Indian diaspora in Canada? – National – globalnews.ca

Crown prince confirms Saudi Arabia will seek nuclear arsenal if Iran develops one | Saudi Arabia – amp.theguardian.com

US DoD replenishes Saudi Arabia with spares and parts for land vehicles – www.army-technology.com

US DoD expands domestic munitions production and infrastructure – www.army-technology.com

Thousands Of Russians In Latvia To Be Told To Leave – www.rferl.org

Biden Promised Zelensky Long-Range ATACMS Missiles: Report – www.breitbart.com

Zelensky and Trudeau greet former Nazi unit fighter – AP photo — RT World News – www.rt.com

Haiti’s government to oversee canal project that prompted Dominican Republic to close all borders – www.washingtontimes.com

Brazil Court Rules for Indigenous Land Rights in Key Case – www.voanews.com

Illegal Migration to Greece Surges, Sparking Measures to Shield Borders – www.voanews.com

Italian PM admits she hoped to do ‘better’ on migration – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Ethiopian Opposition parties say ruling regime betrayed trust, hope of the people – borkena.com – borkena.com

Russia-Ukraine war live: strike on Russian Black Sea fleet HQ killed nine and injured senior officers, Ukraine claims | Ukraine – www.theguardian.com

Russia-Ukraine war live: Peace plan, grain deal ‘not realistic’ – Lavrov | Russia-Ukraine war News – www.aljazeera.com

Iraq’s top court dissolves Kurdish provincial… – Rudaw Media Network – www.rudaw.net

Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India – www.wired.com

Pakistan: Islamabad High Court fixes date for Imran Khan’s bail plea hearing in cipher case – m.timesofindia.com

Libya flood disaster displaced over 43,000 people: IOM – mb.com.ph

North Korea ‘mobilizes’ students to fight yearly ‘corn battle’ – americanmilitarynews.com

Lebanese army arrests 1,000 Syrians attempting to enter Lebanon – www.newarab.com

Brazil’s Bolsonaro denies proposing coup to military leaders – abcnews.go.com

Ukraine Russia war: Kyiv launches second strike on Crimea as Zelensky warned by Polish PM – www.independent.co.uk

Cracks in Western wall of support for Ukraine emerge as Eastern Europe and US head toward elections – abcnews.go.com

South Korea, Japan and US vow ‘new era’ – americanmilitarynews.com

South Korea Seeks New Trilateral Summit With China and Japan – time.com

US, Vietnam coast guard cooperation grows tighter after Biden visit – www.stripes.com

India Passes Landmark Law Giving Women Quota in Parliament – www.voanews.com

The mysterious Nijjar affair and the blowback India might face – www.nationalheraldindia.com

Greece to revisit 2016 EU-Turkey migration pact – www.newarab.com

The last Jew of Yemen is being tortured by the Houthis and must be saved – www.jpost.com

For Israeli protesters in NYC, Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit is a chance to ‘constantly be in his face’ – www.jta.org

Moldova will uphold deal with Gazprom to prevent crises, minister says – www.reuters.com

Iranian activists across Europe are targets of threats and harassment | Iran – amp.theguardian.com

How is Iran’s growing paranoia affect its relations with Azerbaijan? – moderndiplomacy.eu

Amnesty International pushes regime change in Eritrea with dubious, unverifiable report – thegrayzone.com

Iran’s Quds force chief in Syria to oversee joint drill – amp.france24.com

India By Any Other Name? Christians Braced for ‘Bharat’ or…… | News & Reporting – www.christianitytoday.com

India criticizes inefficiency of UN Security Council – www.plenglish.com

US starts applying visa restrictions ahead of Bangladesh polls – www.dhakatribune.com

Egypt, Jordan and Iraq FMs discuss economic, political ties  – www.arabnews.com

Israeli military raid kills 2 Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel says its troops came under fire – abcnews.go.com

Iran Says 28 Linked To IS Arrested For Planning To Attack Tehran – www.ndtv.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

LATEST ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL SHOWS BIDEN 9 POINTS BEHIND TRUMP –  A new ABC News/ Washington Post poll reveals that in a head-to-head matchup between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee (aka Joe Biden) stands at 42 percent to Trump’s 51 percent. The poll also shows the “President” is also far less trust on critical issues like the economy than Trump is.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR INDICTED FOR BRIBERY – Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has officially been indicted for the second time for alleged bribery charges. The FBI noted that a search of the Senator’s house revealed he had $100,000 in cash and $480,000 in gold bars on hand. Menendez has been the one holdup not allowing Turkey to purchase F-35s from the U.S., making him a Democrat target the DOJ was willing to pursue. This had led to Democrats turning on him.

more:

Biden names Harris to lead first federal gun violence prevention office | Biden administration – amp.theguardian.com

Shutdown inches closer as U.S. House GOP fails to pass defense bill, lawmakers exit D.C. • Missouri Independent – missouriindependent.com

Supreme Court extends pause on order curbing Biden officials’ social media contacts – www.nbcnews.com

The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship” and free speech online – Vox.com

Trump, NY attorney general to argue over scope of looming fraud trial – www.reuters.com

Pro-Trump lawyer Chesebro seeks to bar emails in Georgia election case – www.cnbc.com

Democrat Senators Openly Rebel Against Chuck Schumer’s Fetterman-Inspired Dress Code Change – legalinsurrection.com

With House Republicans In Turmoil, Colleagues Implore GOP Holdouts Not To Shut Down Government – www.huffpost.com

Biden warns against shutdown, makes case for second term with VP at Congressional Black Caucus dinner – www.cbsnews.com

Senate Confirms Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Amid GOPer’s Military Promotions Hold – www.huffpost.com

Julie Su’s Status as Acting Labor Secretary Is Legal, GAO Says – news.bloomberglaw.com

CNN Poll: Biden holds commanding lead in New Hampshire Democratic primary – Erie News Now – www.erienewsnow.com

State ordered to release documents in Whitmer kidnap plot case – www.woodtv.com

GOP senator says Garland’s responses on Hunter Biden probe ‘insulting’ – thehill.com

Noem Supports Mitchell’s Plan to Bribe People to Move to Town – Dakota Free Press – dakotafreepress.com

Johnson County voting equipment passes test, despite hiccups – dailyjournal.net

McCarthy Backtracks on Promise to Strip Ukraine Funding from Spending Bill – townhall.com

CBP Orders Agents From Ports of Entry to Assist Border Patrol – RedState – redstate.com

Federal court weighs DeSantis congressional redistricting plan – www.tallahassee.com

FINANCE (Mon & Thurs)

EIGHT MAJOR BANKS OPEN TO LAWSUITS BY U.S. CITIES OVER BOND PURCHASES – U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan has ruled that Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada and Wells Fargo can face lawsuits from U.S. cities over accusation of collusion between them to raise rates on 12,000 variable rate demand obligations from 2008 to 2016. The banks were seeking to force cities to sue over every instance, but the Judge ruled they can sue them once for all accusations of collusion.

FEDERAL RESERVE DECLINES TO RAISE INTEREST RATES…. THIS TIME – The Federal Reserve is expected to announce this Wednesday that interest rates will remain unchanged. According to insiders present at the meeting that decided what will be announced Wednesday, they concluded they will neither raise or lower interest rates…. for now.

more:

Amazon to hire 250,000 logistics workers for holidays, boost hourly wages | Business – www.dailyitem.com

Russia’s Diesel Ban Threatens to Roil Global Markets—If It Lasts – www.bqprime.com

Train and Tube strikes September and October 2023: Dates and services affected – www.telegraph.co.uk

94% of U.S. consumers still worried about the cost of food – www.freshplaza.com

Banking regulator Sam Woods: ‘This is the most intense period since the 2008 financial crisis’ | Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) – amp.theguardian.com

Selling ABC Poses Billion-Dollar Dilemma for Disney and ESPN – frontofficesports.com

95% of NFTs May Now Be Worthless – news.slashdot.org

Argentina Debates BRICS Invitation – foreignpolicy.com

Michael Bloomberg Lays Out His Succession Plan – observer.com

French Drillers May Have Stumbled Upon a Mammoth Hydrogen Deposit – news.slashdot.org

The Quest for Lithium Deposits Hits a Potential Jackpot – www.discovermagazine.com

Even the Fed is cutting jobs — for the first time in a decade – amp.cnn.com

Yen under pressure as US Treasury yields push over-decade peaks – www.reuters.com

HKEX chairwoman Laura Cha pledges tighter ESG information disclosure standards, while providing easier access to capital for green tech firms to help boost China’s carbon neutrality goal – amp.scmp.com

Mexican employers announce initiative to offer jobs to migrants – mexiconewsdaily.com

McDonald’s to raise royalty fees for new franchised restaurants – www.cnbc.com

Singapore is now the world’s freest economy, displacing Hong Kong – www.cnbc.com

Governments Start Calling For Price Controls – Rationing And CBDCs Come Next – alt-market.us

EU Hits Intel With $400 Million Antitrust Fine In Long-Running … – Barchart – www.barchart.com

CULTURE (Mon & Thurs)

DISNEY PRETENDS TO WAVE WHITE FLAG IN CULTURE WARS – Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger is working hard to turn around the fortunes of a collapsing Disney as he claims the company is out of the culture war business. He hopes to “quiet the noise” on the culture wars because it turns out it’s bad for business.

Americans are rightly skeptical of such declarations, which seem more about securing investment in the company to raise the stock price than being a sincere change of heart for choosing to champion child grooming and destroying classic Ips pushing the rainbow fascist agenda.

WOMAN MURDERS, SETS 29-WEEK-OLD GIRL ON FIRE, GETS 2-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE – In April 2022, Jessica Burgess, 41, gave her teenage daughter, Celese Burgess, abortion pills after her daughter complained, saying she can’t wait to get the “thing” out of her body. After the murdered child exited the teenager’s body, the mother and the daughter set the child on fire and dumped her remains in a field.

For all that, the mother was sentenced to 2 years in prison, a sentence that shows how depraved our culture has become that they imagine any animal that treats their own children like this is NOT a critical threat to every neighbor that might someday get in their way of living the life of non-consequentiality reprobate minds such as these seek to live.

more:

Faculty union: UArizona nursing students should ask 3-year-olds about ‘gender identity’ – www.thecollegefix.com

Appeals Court Denies Emergency Petition to Get Pro-Life Advocate Convicted of Rescuing Babies Out of Prison – www.lifenews.com

Biden’s Choices: Is the Problem Cross-dresser Sam Brinton — or a Society That Exalts Sin? – thenewamerican.com

California teacher, hockey coach sentenced to 16 years in prison in ‘Mr. Pickles’ child sex abuse case – www.theblaze.com

Delaware County Council passes anti-hate resolution – www.delcotimes.com

Same-sex marriage is banned on the Navajo Nation. That could soon change – AppleValleyNewsNow.com – www.applevalleynewsnow.com

Judge temporarily blocks Republican-backed overhaul of Ohio’s education system following lawsuit – www.wfmj.com

Nebraska Mom Who Gave Teen Daughter Abortion Pills Gets Two Years in Prison – NEWSnet – www.newsnetmedia.com

At Mackinac, Michigan GOP chair tells critics to ‘pound sand’ – www.freep.com

Lacey NJ school board votes to end state policy on trans students – nj1015.com

Joe Biden is Forcing Americans to Fund Abortion Travel for Abortions Up to Birth – www.lifenews.com

Turkey condemns ‘attacks’ against Quran in Netherlands – www.siasat.com

More NC families would qualify for private school vouchers under massive program in state budget – www.wral.com

2023 ‘Best Opportunity’ for Texas to Pass School Choice – www.dailysignal.com

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Blob Makes Thought, Pritzker’s CCP Battery Maker, SBF’s DNC Dark Money Scheme, Poland Nixes Ukraine, America’s AI Drone Army

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FIA WEEKDAY

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
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(News recap from 3p September 20 to 3p September 21)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “1 Corinthians 13:6

Chrisitan and Father of the Scientific Methody

BLOB MAKES THOUGHT, PRITZKER’S CCP BATTERY MAKER, SBF’S DNC DARK MONEY SCHEME, POLAND NIXES UKRAINE, AMERICA’S AI DRONE ARMY

ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist-shared links are NOT endorsements

TOP STORIES

Scientists Discover the Most Primitive Form of “Thought-Making” Cells

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE MOST PRIMITIVE FORM OF “THOUGHT-MAKING” CELLS – A primitive animal called a placozoan may contain the secrets of the fundamental building blocks of thought-making cells. The animal is blob-like in appearance and is composed of only 50,000 cells, compared to 30 trillion cells humans are comprised of. But the blob placozoan has one similarity with humans, they have cells capable of sharing messages with one another, the fundamental building blocks of “thought producing” cells.

From elpias.com: The researchers care for thousands of placozoans in their laboratory in the Center for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona. According to their calculations, multicellular animals emerged about 850 million years ago. Soon afterward, around 800 million years ago, the paths of the families that gave rise to placozoans and humans diverged. “People have a tendency to see living fossils in nature. We don’t know if our common ancestor looked like a placozoan, but some aspects of its biology were already there,” says Sebé Pedrós, a 37-year-old biologist from the Spanish town of Lleida. GO DEEPER

ED.NOTE: The full version of this article is a Christian apologetic in defense of deriving wisdom from above (from God as manifest in His Word) as opposed to the wisdom these researchers are led by, wisdom from below, which is no wisdom at all.

ILLINOIS GOVERNOR DOES SECRET DEAL WITH CCP, SETTING UP BATTERY COMPANY IN STATE – The Chinese Communist Party-owned Gotion, a battery manufacturing company, did a secret deal with the Billionaire anti-American radical far left governor J.B. Pritzker that allowed them to set up a factory in a community that wants nothing to do with them. That community is Manteno, Illinois, and the residents are angry at the governor for allowing this sedition to take place on their lands.

Daily Caller talked to some of the residents after the done deal was announced by the treasonous governor on September 8. One resident, Darrel Bruck Jr, Told Daily Caller “There was absolutely no public participation or notification that this was going [on],” Darrel Bruck Jr., a longtime resident of Manteno who runs an informational group called “Outrage of Kankakee County. There were probably 200 people [at the announcement], but the public was not invited. It was strictly for local politicians, the mayor, some local people who owned land who will make a lot of money off strip malls and such.” GO DEEPER

LAWSUIT AGAINST SBF’S PARENTS EXPOSES DNC DARK MONEY MACHINE WORTH BILLIONS – The lawsuit against FTX founder and crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, Allen Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried reveal a massive dark money network that saw FTX siphon billions of scammed dollars to DNC-CCP organizations and PACs, and his parents might have been the ones pushing it the whole time. GO DEEPER

POLAND SUSPENDS WEAPONS DELIVERY TO UKRAINE AFTER GRAIN LAWSUIT FILED – After the Ukrainian government sued Poland over its refusal to sell its agricultural products in its country, Poland made a stunning announcement. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview on Polsat TV, “We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons.” NATO can continue to transfer arms through Poland to Ukraine, but Poland won’t be contributing to the arsenal anymore.

PENTAGON ANNOUNCES NEW MILITARY UPGRADE STRATEGY CALLED REPLICATOR – The U.S. Department of Defense revealed a new strategy to meet the rising threat from China called Replicator, which will see the military work on developing AI-assisted drone swarms that can be rapidly produced, hoping to outproduce a military that has a major troop advantage over America.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the new initiative, saying “Replicator is meant to help us overcome the PRC’s biggest advantage, which is mass. More ships. More missiles. More people…. To stay ahead, we’re going to create a new state of the art — just as America has before — leveraging attritable, autonomous systems in all domains — which are less expensive, put fewer people in the line of fire, and can be changed, updated, or improved with substantially shorter lead times.

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values.

We’re going to need a bigger NATO — but especially a better NATO – thehill.com

Adam Schiff Exposes Jim Jordan In Front Of The World – www.politicususa.com

Jim Jordan Goes Off The Rails With Merrick Garland At Hearing – crooksandliars.com

Rep Swalwell Skewers GOP Committee Chair Jim Jordan for Hypocritical Attack on Merrick Garland – www.dailykos.com

Myths and facts: Fox News spreads misinformation about Viktor Shokin and Joe Biden – www.mediamatters.org

The Christian right unveiled a terrifying wishlist for Trump – www.msnbc.com

An appeal to racists: Aggressive attacks by Trump follow a well-worn strategy against legal opponents – www.milwaukeeindependent.com

Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

Donald Trump Resurrects His Cruel Idea For Stopping Migrants At The Border – ca.style.yahoo.com

Humanity has ‘opened gates to hell’ by letting climate crisis worsen, UN secretary warns | United Nations – amp.theguardian.com

Millions of federal workers’ paychecks would be on hold in a shutdown – Oregon Capital Chronicle – oregoncapitalchronicle.com

‘Abortion tourism’: A tidy phrase for punching down at desperate people – www.washingtonpost.com

Pentagon Launches Outreach to LGBTQ Troops Removed Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ – www.outsmartmagazine.com

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved? | Documentary – amp.theguardian.com

How a conservative Supreme Court turned back decades of Civil Rights precedents in a single year – www.milwaukeeindependent.com

Elon Musk’s Antisemitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather – www.theatlantic.com

Twitter Continues to Show Ads on Russell Brand Posts After Musk Support – www.vice.com

Congressman attacks military racial, gender quotas – americanmilitarynews.com

Antisemitism is an ancient hatred, merely its expression changes – www.jpost.com

X scores the lowest among all social media in combating climate disinformation, study finds – www.theverge.com

Opinion: Hunter Biden is hardly the first ne’er-do-well presidential son – KAKE – www.kake.com

Why is Georgia prosecuting leftwing activists with the same law as Trump? | ‘Cop City’ – amp.theguardian.com

Oakland NAACP has been ‘hijacked’ for conservative causes, say some Black community leaders – oaklandside.org

FEMA Needs More Money to Keep Up with Disasters. Instead It Faces a Potential Government Shutdown – www.scientificamerican.com

Dem thrashes GOP candidate in local election some media treated like a close thing – boingboing.net

How Capitalism Is Helping Fuel Our Mental Health Crisis – www.madinamerica.com

Wayzata white supremacists draw attention to hate in Minnesota – minnesotareformer.com

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

GARLAND EVADES HOUSE GRILLING BY REPEATING “INTERNAL DELIBERATIONS” CLAUSE – Lawfare Assassin-in-Chief Merrick Garland, aka the Attorney General of the DOJ, went before a House Oversight committee and defended the integrity of the DOJ’s commitment to “Rule of Law” while evading every meaningful question using the phrase “Internal Deliberations,” which was used to avoid having to answer hard questions. To the charge that Weiss is “slow-walking” the Biden probe, Garland responded with “I’m not going to get into the internal deliberations.”

RUPERT MURDOCK ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT – Rupert Murdoch has announced plans to step down as Fox and News Corp Chairman. He plans on handing over the reins of his media empire to his son Lachlan Murdoch.

more:

Tropical Storm Warning Issued For Parts Of The East Coast – Weather Underground – www.wunderground.com

In House Hearing, Garland Defends Justice Department’s Hunter Biden Inquiry – www.nytimes.com

Another migrant surge as border agents are overwhelmed and under-staffed – fox28savannah.com

65% of Americans are ‘exhausted’ by politics – www.dailykos.com

Dec. 11 trial date set for America’s mayor in defamation lawsuit – www.atlantanewsfirst.com

Free COVID Tests to Return Across U.S. Starting Sept. 25 – hudsonvalleypost.com

State regulators could approve coal plant settlement, sending $115M back to New Mexicans, + More – www.kunm.org

Garland’s Memory Fails Him: What’s He Hiding in the Hunter Biden Saga? – loyalconservatives.com

Convicted murderer Billy Chemirmir killed in prison by his cellmate, officials say | Ap – www.thederrick.com

Top Chinese official has American child in US after affair: Report – americanmilitarynews.com

U.S. Military Barracks Are Depressing Hellholes, Watchdog Finds – www.vice.com

2nd Circ. Rejects Claim Bloomberg Campaign Shirked Pay – www.law360.com

Google sued after man died in bridge accident while following map directions – fortune.com

US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth – futurism.com

Chief Pelletier to Maui Police Commission: ‘We saved lives’ : Maui Now – mauinow.com

The International Criminal Court In The Hague Says It Has Been Hacked – yro.slashdot.org

Officers praised for their courage as Maui Police Commission briefed for first time on devastating wildfires – www.hawaiinewsnow.com

Activists accuse state of exploiting wildfire crisis to weaken water protections – www.hawaiinewsnow.com

HS Band Director ‘Baffled’ After Police Tased Him In Front Of Kids – theshaderoom.com

Woman Dies After Crashing Into Brentwood Target | St. Louis Metro News | St. Louis – www.riverfronttimes.com

Watch: This news report covering the missing F-35 is the greatest reaction to anything ever – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says – abcnews.go.com

Opioid overdose reversal drugs are now available over-the-counter in Alaska – alaskapublic.org

Federal judge who refuses to retire at 96 suspended for ‘misconduct’ – www.washingtonpost.com

Fishmongers found a rare blue lobster. Instead of selling it, they found a place it could live a happy life – www.cbsnews.com

Stephen Fry rushed to hospital after falling off stage at The O2 – uk.sports.yahoo.com

A Scientist Helped to Launch Ancient Human Fossils Into Space, and His Colleagues Aren’t Happy – www.discovermagazine.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

ARMENIANS CALL FOR PM TO RESIGN AFTER CAPITULATION TO AZERBAIJAN – The Armenian capital, Yerevan, was filled with protestors after Armenia’s Prime Minister announced a cease-fire with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Opposition politician Avetik Chalabyan spoke to the protestors, saying, “Russia washed its hands in Artsakh, our authorities have renounced Artsakh, The enemy is at our doorstep. We must change authorities to change national policy,”

Meanwhile the Kremlin has ordered all its media and lawmakers to put the blame on Armenia for the latest conflict, indicating Russia is no longer the protector of the Armenian people, and apparently the Armenian people noticed.

SAUDIS, ISRAELIS HOPE TO HAVE FULLY NORMALIZED RELATIONS, WITH NUKES BEING THE ONE STICKING POINT – After the Saudis signaled that their ability to get their own nuclear weapons was a requirement for the House of Saud to establish fully normalized relations with Irael, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering conceding and supporting the Saudis getting access to the enriched uranium needed for them to build their own bomb.

more:

WHO welcomes historic commitment by world leaders for greater collaboration, governance and investment to prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics – World – reliefweb.int

Russia temporarily bans fuel exports to most countries in response to shortages – www.reuters.com

Russian War Report: Black Sea military operations approach NATO countries’ waters – www.atlanticcouncil.org

China, Russia vow deeper coordination ahead of Putin visit | Ap – www.thederrick.com

Biden’s UN speech barely mentioned Russia and China. That’s no coincidence | Foreign policy – amp.theguardian.com

‘Have credible information’: Canada PM Trudeau wants India to cooperate in probe of Sikh leader’s murder – www.businesstoday.in

Germany opposes Ukraine’s UN proposal — RT World News – www.rt.com

Net zero changes can win Tories next election, says Jacob Rees-Mogg – www.telegraph.co.uk

Myanmar Junta Continues Tightening the Screws on Its Economic Team – www.irrawaddy.com

Syrian President Arrives in China on First Visit since the Beginning of War in Syria – english.aawsat.com

Marshall Islands says US must address nuclear legacy for deal on future ties – finance.yahoo.com

Deposed Nigerien president petitions West African regional court to order his release, reinstatement – abcnews.go.com

Paraguayan lawmaker ready for war with Argentina — MercoPress – en.mercopress.com

Abbas accuses Israel of ‘entrenching apartheid,’ digging tunnels under Al-Aqsa Mosque – www.timesofisrael.com

Sudan Enters 6th Month of War: ‘The Situation There Is Very Dire’ – www.cbn.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

TUBERVILLE WINS, AS MUCH AS HE CAN – Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has forced Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer to have to confirm each new military leader appointment through the full Senate after refusing to remove his blocks in committee over the military’s decision to support abortion in word and policy. While Shumer will get some appointments through going this route, he won’t be able to get to many appointees before the next term expires.

Senator Tuberville said of the move, “My hold is still in place. The hold will remain in place as long as the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy remains in place. If the Pentagon lifts the policy, then I will lift my hold. It’s as easy as that.”

PA GOVERNOR DECLARES VOTER REGISTRATION IS AUTOMATIC – If you live in Pennsylvania, you are now automatically registered to vote, even if you don’t want to be, thanks to an edict by Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

more:

US House moves ahead with defense policy bill, ‘culture wars’ fight ahead – finance.yahoo.com

US Senate moves forward with military nominations despite abortion protest | Military News – www.aljazeera.com

Trump says if elected again he will send troops to US-Mexico border – finance.yahoo.com

Kari Lake reportedly to mount Senate bid – www.theblaze.com

Team Biden Bribes States with $400 Million to Adopt Senseless, “Climate-Crisis”-Inspired Building Codes – legalinsurrection.com

WATCH: NBC’s Guthrie Hammers Blinken on Giving Iran Billions, More Ukraine Funding – www.newsbusters.org

Polls show DeSantis losing ground with moderate Republicans – www.nbcnews.com

DeSantis falls to fifth in New Hampshire poll in latest campaign reverse | Ron DeSantis – amp.theguardian.com

McCarthy projects optimism on averting a government shutdown: ‘The game is not over’ | News – www.wxow.com

JD Vance Blames Biden for ‘Politicized’ Military, Supports Tuberville’s Stand – www.dailysignal.com

GOP senators issue letter to Schumer about dress code – www.theblaze.com

GOP senators flipped on Paxton impeachment because they were short on votes – www.texastribune.org

Ohio Redistricting Commission Selects GOP Working Map, Sets Public Hearings | Ohio News | Cleveland – www.clevescene.com

Voting rights advocates sound alarm on Alabama defying SCOTUS decision – www.the-independent.com

EDITOR’S CHOICE (Tues & Fri)

BIDEN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO BUILD 20K CLIMATE ACTIVIST ARMY ON YOUR DIME – The White House decided to illegally bypass congress and announce the creation of a 20K Climate Activist army called American Climate Corps to “tackle the climate crisis.”

From the White House website: The American Climate Corps will focus on equity and environmental justice – prioritizing communities traditionally left behind, including energy communities that powered our nation for generations, leveraging the talents of all members of our society, and prioritizing projects that help meet the Administration’s Justice40 goal

BIDEN CREATES GUN-CONFISCATION COORDINATION CENTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE – The Biden administration is going to create a “gun violence” office that will be manned by the usual far-left gun confiscation activists currently on the Soros-Bloomberg payrolls. The office is intended to help the anti-Americanists coordinate their agitprop and lawfare strategies to seek to destroy the 2nd Amendment in their mad dash to destroy the republic itself.

more:

Mayorkas announces DHS “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” and you won’t believe who is in it – HotAir – hotair.com

The FBI had so many people at the J6 riot they had to perform an “audit” – HotAir – hotair.com

Meet the Real Househusbands of the ‘Squad’ – freebeacon.com

Joe Biden Just Handed De Facto Amnesty to 472,000 Illegal Immigrants – RedState – redstate.com

Woke Hiring Isn’t Just Killing Competence, It Might Kill You – thefederalist.com

NYC to consider removing statues of George Washington, create reparations task force amid budget cuts – www.foxnews.com

Delaware Judge Greenlights Dominion’s Next Defamation Suit, This Time Against NewsMax – RedState – redstate.com

Economists: Suing energy companies for concealing climate change would correct market, help society – ohiocapitaljournal.com

America’s children are under attack at school – www.americanthinker.com

Signers of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Land Government Jobs › American Greatness – amgreatness.com

Many Americans Feels the Justice Department Has Become the KGB – townhall.com

Biden Administration Policies Replace Equal Opportunity with Equity & Discrimination – americafirstpolicy.com

Illinois Becomes The First State To Abolish Cash Bail Completely – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners – finance.yahoo.com

Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners – finance.yahoo.com

The United States Convenes Country Representatives and Other Stakeholders to Promote Inclusive and Rights-Respecting Digital Policy – www.state.gov

How ‘Special’ Counsel David Weiss Handed Hunter Biden a Second Amendment Defense – www.nationalreview.com

University Faces Civil Rights Complaint For Race-Based Scholarship Programs – dailycaller.com

SpaceX says US case alleging anti-immigrant bias is unconstitutional – www.reuters.com

Meta tells court AI software does not violate author copyrights – www.reuters.com

CU Boulder requires candidates for conservative professorship to submit DEI statement – www.thecollegefix.com

Mexican cartels are about fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds | Mexico – amp.theguardian.com

Eastern Michigan University invests in AI-enhanced campus security to prevent gun violence – www.wemu.org

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SCI-TECH (Tues & Fri)

DID PHYSICISTS SOLVE THE COLD PROBLEM IN QUANTUM COMPUTING? – Researchers from the University of Texas claim to have broken the temperature barrier in quantum computing with a new magnetic material that can produce the necessary conditions for quantum computing to take place without needing sub-zero temperatures to do so. Breaking the temperature barrier means reducing the space and capital needed to build commercially viable quantum computers.

NEW MANUFACTURED BACTERIAL CELLS COULD BE BIOMEDICAL VEHICLES – Magnetic Bacteria could become micro-vehicles in the body that deliver targeted medicines in precise ways. A research team from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, have created magnetic bacteria that are harmonious with human cells, making them effective delivery vehicles for micro-biomedical treatments.

Study author Dr. Marina Dziuba said, “According to the current state of research, they are well compatible with human cells. This opens up new perspectives for a variety of biomedical applications—for example, for microrobot-controlled transport of active pharmaceutical ingredients, for magnetic imaging techniques, or even for optimizations of hyperthermia cancer therapy.”

more:

Scientists discover strange ‘mathematical pattern’ in the human body – www.indy100.com

Growth Factor-Loaded Microparticles Enhance 3D Bioprinted Muscle – www.medgadget.com

Robot diplomacy: How AI could usher in a new era of world peace – thehill.com

DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease – www.technologyreview.com

Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Terabytes of Internal Sensitive Data – yro.slashdot.org

Tiny bubbles could reveal immune cell secrets and improve treatments – phys.org

Why Root Crops Are the Future of Food Security in Africa – World – reliefweb.int

Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying – futurism.com

Possible New Human Species Found through 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone Fossil – www.scientificamerican.com

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement – www.cbsnews.com

Team develops laser-based ice-core sampling for studying climate change – phys.org

Researchers’ analysis of perching birds points to new answers in evolutionary diversification – phys.org

OpenAI Brings ChatGPT and Dall-E Together for Next-Gen Image Creation – www.cnet.com

RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species – www.sciencedaily.com

Brain Circuit Discovered That Explains Why Infant Cries Prompt Milk Release – scitechdaily.com

US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone reaches initial operational capability – defence-blog.com

Cybertruck May Stall Before Rolling Out in Mass – gritdaily.com

Someone’s used A.I. to create fake Iron Maiden covers – www.loudersound.com

This parasite makes ‘zombie ants’ – www.popsci.com

Scientists Discover New Species of Ancient Alligator – scitechdaily.com

Volvo is phasing out diesel cars in favor of an all-electric future – electrek.co

How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children – www.economist.com

Scientists unravel the chemical mechanism behind silica-coated nanodiamonds – phys.org

Introducing Magic: Analog Sky’s New 3D Printed Binoculars for Astronomy – www.universetoday.com

The rate at which large cosmic structures grow is slower than predicted – www.techexplorist.com

50 years ago, the quest for superheavy elements was just getting started – www.sciencenews.org

1400-year-old gold foil figures found in pagan temple – arkeonews.net

An Unexpected New Way To Recycle – Scientists Transform Plastic Waste Into Soap – scitechdaily.com

New findings suggest Moon may have less water than previously thought – www.sciencedaily.com

FIA FEATURE EXCERPT:

Building a Hope Exit: Enabling Technologies

By Paul Collier, Editor

INTRODUCTION

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”Romans 12:2

Welcome to this special installment of the Hope Exit series as we pause to take a high-altitude overview of our reality of power by looking at some key emerging technologies that can equip small-scale free associations to build their own stewarded versions of sustainable flourishing.

We are going to look at a few key emerging technologies that cover a number of our basic needs, including communications, food, and self-defense. We have yet to look at healthcare (that’s coming up next), but we’ll dip our toe in that need as well in this high-altitude overview.

We will begin our installment by looking at a high-level need that touches all other needs, research and development (R&D). It is a core need that is currently almost exclusively in the hands of the Egyptians (sticking with our Exodus-themed series), the powers that be that seek to keep us dependent on the products and services that come from that R&D.

Next, we will focus on a crucial element of effective, secured R&D: digital communication.

In order to get to the development part of our research, we need to be able to manufacture our ideas, so we will look at the emerging tech in 3D printing. Finally, we will take a peek at vertical farming, which could provide our medical, food, and even manufacturing resources.

In these times, the mind is being constantly bombarded with agit prop, shock and awe conditioning designed to cripple your renewing imagination. The first step to becoming an emerging tech steward is to not walk in the fear they want you to be governed by. The world as it is need not continue to be as it is, and the future need not be defined by the elite few who currently believe that future is inevitable. It is not. Technology is on your side if you can possess it for yourself. And the powers that be know this, which is why they are moving so aggressively to cripple our imaginations and our free associations. READ FULL ARTICLE

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Scientists Discover the Most Primitive Form of “Thought-Making” Cells

A primitive animal called a placozoan may contain the secrets of the fundamental building blocks of thought-making cells. The animal is blob-like in appearance and is composed of only 50,000 cells, compared to 30 trillion cells humans are comprised of. But the blob placozoan has one similarity with humans, they have cells capable of sharing messages with one another, the fundamental building blocks of “thought producing” cells.

From elpias.com: The researchers care for thousands of placozoans in their laboratory in the Center for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona. According to their calculations, multicellular animals emerged about 850 million years ago. Soon afterward, around 800 million years ago, the paths of the families that gave rise to placozoans and humans diverged. “People have a tendency to see living fossils in nature. We don’t know if our common ancestor looked like a placozoan, but some aspects of its biology were already there,” says Sebé Pedrós, a 37-year-old biologist from the Spanish town of Lleida. GO DEEPER

His team studied the four known species of placozoans cell by cell, including the first placozoan ever discovered, which was found in 1883 by the German zoologist Franz Eilhard Schulze in a seawater aquarium in Graz, Austria. Schulze baptized that mysterious creature Trichoplax adhaerens, from the Greek words thrix (hair) and plax (plate) and the Latin word adhaerens (adhering), which was given this name due to its tendency to stick to its substrate. In other words, its name could be roughly translated as “adhering hairy plate.” Placozoans are the simplest animals on the planet, barring Myxozoa, parasites with few cells that cannot live on their own.

In their research, Sebé Pedrós and his colleagues observed that placozoans are capable of coordinating their 50,000 cells thanks to the fact that some of them can send messages using molecules called neuropeptides, like the neurons in the human brain. “We have found a rudiment of certain aspects of our nervous system,” says the biologist. These secretory cells still lack the processes that transmit nerve impulses (axons) and the processes that receive them (dendrites) in human neurons.

This article starts off with this phrase, which led this writer to want to utilize this story, and another one related to it, to flush out the ramifications of pursuing understanding through the framework of the atheist materialist versus that of the biblically-centered Christian: Most religions across the world have a similar origin story, in which an almighty god creates mankind, out of nothing, with a fully functioning brain. But placozoans — a blob-like animal less than a millimeter in size that floats in seawater — suggest otherwise. They may go unnoticed, but they are extraordinary creatures.

From an atheist materialist perspective, you are seeing the evidence of the relationship that this blob creature, this placozoan, has with humans. We must have a common ancestor and at some time we split apart, with one branch leading to blobs and the other leading to humans. From a biblical perspective (the perspective this report seeks to emulate) we are seeing one of the ways in which God has created the fundamental building blocks of his biological creations.

Studying this organism can lead us to better understand human thought as a biological phenomenon, which can lead to more effective treatments for people who suffer a biological impediment to thought itself.

At the same time as this study was revealed, scitechdaily.com covered another study that theorized genes for thought (they use the phrase “learning and memory”) are 650 million years old. They theorize that the emergence of these types of genes led to the Cambrian Explosion, a period that saw an explosion of diverse organisms that still confounds evolutionary theory to this day (and which this new “theory” fails to adequately address).

From SciTech Daily: “This finding has profound implications on the evolutionary origin of complex behaviors such as those modulated by monoamines we observe in humans and other animals.”

The authors suggest that this new way to modulate neuronal circuits might have played a role in the Cambrian Explosion – known as the Big Bang – which gave rise to the largest diversification of life for most major animal groups alive today by providing flexibility of the neural circuits to facilitate the interaction with the environment.

Dr. Feuda added: “This discovery will open new important research avenues that will clarify the origin of complex behaviors and if the same neurons modulate reward, addiction, aggression, feeding, and sleep.”

In 1620, Francis Bacon published the workThe Great Instauration.” That book could be seen as the unintended starting point of the quest for man to make himself by deriving wisdom from below instead of from above. Bacon himself was no proponent of this materialist myth, the myth these researchers are mired in, rather, he recognized that the use of what is called “induction,” (deriving higher principles from lower ones, such as observing material and documenting your observations, which became the scientific method) can be a great tool for Christians to understand material being for the higher purpose of witnessing the glory of God to all creation by being a steward of material, by manipulating material for the glory of God. When it came to wisdom, Bacon was still using deduction, deriving particular truths, atomized truths if you will, from higher truths, the Word of God through which the nature and will of God is revealed through the Holy Spirit to all those who fear and love the Lord.

It was a Christian invention, the scientific method, derived to glorify God, but in the hands of these researchers, and others like them, it’s become a Satanic tool that seeks to glorify man by imagining he can derive his own wisdom (he can “know”, or define, Good and Evil for himself, he can define justice) from the stones, from the material alone.

So their research is about justifying their own depravity, rejecting the creator in exchange for a lie, rather than what Christian researchers would do, use this understanding of the basic building blocks of thought to create aid and comfort to creation for the purpose of glorifying the only living God, the God of Isaac and Jacob, the I Am tnat is Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Illinois Governor Does Secret Deal with CCP, Setting Up Battery Company in State

The Chinese Communist Party-owned Gotion, a battery manufacturing company, did a secret deal with the Billionaire anti-American radical far left governor J.B. Pritzker that allowed them to set up a factory in a community that wants nothing to do with them. That community is Manteno, Illinois, and the residents are angry at the governor for allowing this sedition to take place on their lands.

Daily Caller talked to some of the residents after the done deal was announced by the treasonous governor on September 8. One resident, Darrel Bruck Jr, Told Daily Caller “There was absolutely no public participation or notification that this was going [on],” Darrel Bruck Jr., a longtime resident of Manteno who runs an informational group called “Outrage of Kankakee County. There were probably 200 people [at the announcement], but the public was not invited. It was strictly for local politicians, the mayor, some local people who owned land who will make a lot of money off strip malls and such.”

Daily Caller connects this CCP-owned company to another anti-American extreme far left seditionist governor, Gretchen Whitmer, who has allowed the company to build plants in that state as well. From the Daily Caller: The Chinese parent company of Gotion Inc., which intends to build two electric battery plants in Michigan, established a joint venture company with a “Communist Chinese Military Company (CCMC) Subsidiary” in 2016, according to the framework agreement.

In 2016, Gotion High-Tech became the majority shareholder of Energine Guoxuan (Tangshan) New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., after entering into a Strategic Cooperative Framework Agreement with China Energine International (Holdings) Limited, according to an announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s issuer website and a 2016 interim report published by China Energine.

Republican State Representative John Moolenar (R) alerted the treasonous Governor to the company’s CCP ties, telling Daily Caller, “It is no surprise that Gotion High-Tech partnered with China Energine to develop products for China’s military. The finding that Gotion High-Tech has done business directly with China’s military is further proof that Gotion is not a good partner to build in Michigan.”

Like the Democrat Governor of Illinois, Whitmer sees no problem inviting the CCP onto American soil even as the CCP works to end our republic, testified even by our own military, which is busy retooling its whole military structure to meet the rising threat of an imperialist fascist regime.

Watching the DNC-CCP embrace the fascist CCP at home while larping at being anti-fascist on that same soil should tell you everything you need to know about the seditious nature of the leftism this Democratic Party has embraced and is now attempting to force on the American people, against their will, and in violation of our Rule of Law, our Constitution, and ESPECIALLY our Bill of Rights.

Lab Babies, Brain-Powered Computers, Woke Inc. War Chests, UK back to EU, Impeach Grisham

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays 8am eastern time).

 

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(News recap from 3p September 19 to 3p September 20)

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Lab Babies, Brain-Powered Computers, Woke Inc. War Chests, UK back to EU, Impeach Grisham

 

LAB BABIES, BRAIN-POWERED COMPUTERS, WOKE INC. WAR CHESTS, UK BACK TO EU, IMPEACH GRISHAM

 

ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist-shared links are NOT endorsements

TOP STORIES

Artificial Womb is Ready for Human Testing

ARTIFICIAL WOMB IS READY FOR HUMAN TESTING – Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are ready to test their artificial womb on humans. In 2017, the researchers used the artificial womb to help premature baby lambs grow to full gestation. Now, 6 years later, the researchers are ready to begin trials on humans. GO DEEPER

DO YOU WANT A BRAIN IMPLANT LINKING YOU TO THE INTERNET? – Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is ready to begin testing its product on humans after alleged burning through 1,500 test animals that all died as a  result of the implants (which the Department of Agriculture investigated, then later gave the company an exemption to continue the experiments). Musk claims the test animals, monkeys, were all terminally ill, which is why they were chosen.

The product is ostensibly designed to help people overcome neurological disorders, including to help paralyzed people one day eventually walk again (by controlling machines with their thoughts that would then move their limbs). The company is looking for humans that are either quadriplegic or are suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). GO DEEPER

CORPORATOCRACY BUILDS WAR CHEST TO PUSH GLOBAL “WOKE” CULT – Two major announcements happened this week that point to an overall shift among mega-corporations, especially of the international variety, as they announce incentives, well-funded incentives, to align with the U.N’s global “woke” agenda that hides behind innocuous words like equity, diversity, social justice, democracy, and racial justice. One is from Bank of America, who is going all in on “sustainable investments,” and another is from Citizens Financial Group, who plans on committing $50 billion to “ESG Financing.” GO DEEPER

LABOR PROMISES TO NUDGE UK BACK INTO EU ORBIT – After Labor Party Leader Kier Starmer suggested a Labor win would result in Britain drawing closer to the EU, an EU commission created a theoretical EU-lite scenario for the UK. The Labor Party is expected to win the upcoming election with the conservative party having no credibility even among actual British conservatives, who view the party as Labor-Lite, fully infected with the dark “woke” ideology of fear, hate, and fake hope that currently infects our own national parties in America.

NEW MEXICO REPUBLICANS SET TO FORCE DNC-CONTROLLED HOUSE TO VOTE ON IMPEACHING GRISHAM – The New Mexican House Republicans are set to file articles of impeachment against rogue Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) after she used a “healthcare emergency declaration” to suspend gun rights of Americans.

The Democrats control both the House and the Senate, as well as the governorship, so the Republicans hope to make visible to the public the DNC’s lack of will in defending our basic American constitutional rights from such naked tyrannical, treasonous action against the American people. This, in this writer’s opinion, is the best they can hope for, but hats off to them for trying, as they should.

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values.

Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War – LA Progressive – www.laprogressive.com

Defending the right ‘to talk drool in favor of a proletarian dictatorship’ — First Amendment News 395 – www.thefire.org

Michigan attorney general blames Gov. Whitmer kidnap trial acquittals on ‘right-leaning’ jurors – www.wymt.com

Elon Musk Was Asked About GOP Support, Gun Control By Larry David At A Wedding: ‘Do You Want To Murder Kids In Schools?’ – Endeavor Gr Hldgs (NYSE:EDR) – www.benzinga.com

X ranks last on climate change misinformation scorecard – thehill.com

The Support For Russell Brand Is An Insult To The Women Who Speak Up – www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

Tuberville’s Hold on Promotions Over Abortion Demoralizes US Military – www.bloomberg.com

3 Fake Electors Want Georgia Election Subversion Charges Against … – U.S. News & World Report – www.usnews.com

NARAL Pro-Choice America Responds to Ohio Supreme Court’s Reckless Decision to Allow Anti-Abortion Disinformation in Ballot Measure – www.prochoiceamerica.org

House Democrats introduce bill to undo Supreme Court’s gutting of Voting Rights Act – www.dailykos.com

Some Downstate counties struggled as bail reform took hold this week, one didn’t even try applying the new law – chicago.suntimes.com

‘Batman’ Expert Quits School Talks After Being Ordered Not To Say ‘Gay’ – www.huffpost.com

Must we change our language to reach climate change deniers? – Baptist News Global – baptistnews.com

Donald Trump, Notorious Bigot, Thinks His Legal Woes Are Endearing Him to Black Voters – www.vanityfair.com

How Does Ideology Lead to Violence? – www.psychologytoday.com

Introducing ‘The Gun Machine’, a podcast about how America was forged by the gun industry – www.wbur.org

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

PA STUDENTS REBEL AGAINST SCHOOL BOARD THAT VOTED TO ALLOW BOYS TO SHARE BATHROOMS WITH GIRLS – Hundreds of students in Pennsylvania’s Perkiomen Valley School District walked out on school this week after their school board rejected a proposed law by a vote of 5-4 that would prevent transgendered “girls” from using girls’ bathrooms. The walkout was organized by John Ott, who said of the walkouts, “Kids were upset. Girls- we wanted to protect them. They were upset. They didn’t want men in their bathrooms.”

CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF EXPOSES PELOSI LIES ABOUT JANUARY 6 – Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund testified before the House Oversight Committee that he had talked to Nancy Pelosi on January 6 at least 3 separate times to give her a sense of the troubles brewing that day, contradicting her statements that she did not talk to the Chief at all on January 6. He also testified he asked for the National Guard repeatedly that day but was led to believe it was Pelosi who was denying his request.

more:

US Capitol Police headquarters evacuated – americanmilitarynews.com

Disney HQ Reportedly Emergency Evacuated – insidethemagic.net

Video of Trans Jiu-Jitsu Competitor Dominating Female Opponent Causes Controversy – www.breitbart.com

Jesse Watters: Hunter Biden Has a Mugshot – Expected to Plead Not Guilty in Gun and Drug Charges (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit – www.thegatewaypundit.com

WRONG! CNN Reporter Claims Hunter Biden ‘Has Struggled’ to Sell His Crappy Paintings – www.newsbusters.org

Autopsy ‘did not suggest traumatic injury’ – www.bostonherald.com (news about fan who died at New England Patriots’ game)

Pilot of downed F-35 parachuted into residential backyard – www.marinecorpstimes.com

Ukraine’s American Trans Spox Picks A Fight With US Senator J.D. Vance – www.infowars.com

New report recommends limiting police pursuits to violent crimes … – Oil City Derrick – www.thederrick.com

Most US Adults Don’t Believe Benefits of AI Outweigh the Risks, New Survey Finds – news.slashdot.org

Maryland professor gets $600k grant to make math more ‘diverse’ and ‘equitable’ – www.thecollegefix.com

‘It scares the daylights out of me:’ Florida’s top firefighter fears more lithium-ion battery fires – www.clickorlando.com

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons – www.local10.com

Germans are baffled over the mystery of a highway serial sandwich thrower – www.euronews.com

18-year-old facing hate crime charges for alleged vandalism at Decorah church – www.kcrg.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

WHILE ARMENIA BURNS, RUSSIA FOLDS, AND THE U.S. VERBALLY “DEFENDS” – As Azerbaijan has launched its war of expansion to seize the Nagorno-Karabakh region that lies between Armenia and its western-most territory, Russia remains silent while the U.S. issues a verbal warning to the Azerbaijanis to stop their assault.

BREAKING: CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCED IN AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA CONFLICT – A ceasefire was announced after 32 Armenians were killed in the assault.

Hikmet Hajiyev, Foreign Policy Advisor to Azerbaijan’s President, said of the ceasefire: “Azerbaijan made its intention very clear that if they disarm or decided to disarm, and Azerbaijan is ready to halt this military engagement and to start immediate contacts with Karabakh Armenians – that we have on multiple occasions invited to Ağbulaq and some other the cities of Azerbaijan. And yesterday, presidential administration of Azerbaijan made a statement once again reiterating and our invitation to them to have this kind of context about an all elements reintegration.”

AMERICA DANCES BETWEEN CANADA AND INDIA OVER SIKH ASSASSINATION ROW – As Canada and India go to cold-war mode with one another after the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of being behind the assassination of Canadian Sikh political leader Hardeep Sing Nijjar, American finds itself trying to avoid talking about the matter altogether.

The only official White House reaction we’ve had so far is from White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson, who released this terse statement: “We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister Trudeau. We remain in regular contact with our Canadian partners. It is critical that Canada’s investigation proceed and the perpetrators be brought to justice.”

more:

In UN Address, Biden Calls for Adherence to Core Principles, Ongoing Aid to Ukraine – www.cbn.com

Zelensky proposes peace plan as he warns Putin could expand conflict | World | News – www.express.co.uk

Italy Passes Tougher Measures as African Migrants Swarm Mediterranean Island – legalinsurrection.com

Poland orders more coastal defense systems – defence-blog.com

First Ukraine Grain Ship Arrives in Romanian Waters Via New Black Sea Route – www.nytimes.com

Israeli UN Ambassador Slams ‘Exaggerated’ U.S. Criticism: State Department Thinks It Should ‘Educate’ Israel – Israel News – www.haaretz.com

UK intelligence spun 2013 Syria chemical attack, leaked docs show – thegrayzone.com

Brazil’s Lula warns Guatemala risks a ‘coup’, prompting rebuke at UN | Elections News – www.aljazeera.com

Nigeria : Tinubu’s tax task force swings into gear – www.africaintelligence.com

Activists condemn Unicef for working with junta on Myanmar aid – www.thetimes.co.uk

Rishi Sunak to give net zero speech as U-turn on key policies expected – UK politics live | Politics – amp.theguardian.com

Fear Of Mass Stabbing Sets Off Stampede On Seoul Subway, Police Arrests Suspect – www.koreaboo.com

Haftar’s sons rise in Libya’s east, bringing ‘corruption, death, destruction’ – www.france24.com

Lula struggles to revive Brazil’s ‘soft power’ amid U.S.-China tensions – japantoday.com

Saudis come to Calgary warning of the consequences of ditching oil – www.cbc.ca

Laos reports 1st monkeypox case-Xinhua – english.news.cn

Guyana takes united stand against Venezuela’s attempt to scare investors from new oil blocks – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana – demerarawaves.com

Japan’s Kishida, at UN, tries to get the global nuclear disarmament effort back on track – www.sandiegouniontribune.com

Junta plans major hike in annual licensing fees for gem traders  – myanmar-now.org

Colombia announces cease-fire with a group that split off from the FARC rebels – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A Moscow court declines to hear an appeal by jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich – abcnews.go.com

Tunisia Hit by Rare Nationwide Power Blackout – english.aawsat.com

Jordan’s King Abdullah says his country cannot host more Syrian refugees – www.thenationalnews.com

European Governments Shrinking Railways in Favour of Road-Building, Report Finds – tech.slashdot.org

Kyrgyz Official Ignites Controversy On Anniversary Of Deadly Clashes On Border With Tajikistan – www.rferl.org

Australia abandons efforts to eradicate deadly parasite varroa mite after 15 months – amp.abc.net.au

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

TRUMP INDICTMENTS NOT WEIGHING HIM DOWN IN POLLS – An Emerson College Poll shows Donald Trump has expanded his lead over the rest of the GOP field, leading second place DeSantis by 47 points, and in a dead heat with President Biden at 45-45.

BLOOMBERG HOPES $500 MILLION IS ENOUGH TO KILL AMERICAN COAL – Radical anti-Americanist billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the funder of the massive anti-gun group Everytown, is now pledging to use half a billion dollars to attempt to finish off the American coal industry, openly stating he is hoping to “finish the job on coal.”

more:

AG Merrick Garland tells House DOJ’s job is to uphold ‘rule of law’ – www.usatoday.com

WATCH: Rep. Thomas Massie Leaves Corrupt Merrick Garland Stuttering After Destroying Him for Coddling Ray Epps and Locking Up Innocent J6 Protesters | The Gateway Pundit – www.thegatewaypundit.com

After FBI Targeting, Merrick Garland Claims He Doesn’t Know What a Traditional Catholic Is – townhall.com

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood is a witness in Georgia election subversion case, district attorney says | National Politics – www.applevalleynewsnow.com

Biden Claims ‘Democracy Is At Stake’ While Preventing Democracy – thefederalist.com

Trump’s pro-life creds challenged; labeled ‘opportunist’ on abortion issue – afn.net

Donald Trump Called ‘A Coward’ After Skipping Second Republican Debate – okmagazine.com

Democrats Retain Narrow Control Of Pennsylvania House After Special Election – www.huffpost.com

US Government At Rising Risk Of Shutdown With Congress In Deadlock – www.ndtv.com

Laura Loomer claims GOP’s Stafford Jones used PACs to help Democrats – www.gainesville.com

DA Thien Ho Files Lawsuit Against City of Sacramento For ‘Exploding Homeless Camps’ – californiaglobe.com

GOP candidates use UAW strike as flashpoint in presidential race – midmichigannow.com

Fifty-one members of Congress want Biden to issue new executive order for a Civilian Climate Corps – www.dailykos.com

Blackstone CEO makes a bold prediction about the 2024 election – TheStreet – www.thestreet.com (ED.NOTE Someone unexpected to win and Biden won’t run is what he predicted)

Republicans advocate for missile systems for Ukraine – www.theblaze.com

Oregon Supreme Court hears plea for overburdened public defenders amid statewide shortage – katu.com

Lawmakers Give New Senate Dress Code a Dressing Down – www.nytimes.com

FINANCE (Mon & Thurs)

$188 BILLION FOREIGN CAPITAL FLEE CHINA SINCE 2021 – China’s losing foreign investors at an alarming rate, with foreign holdings of China’s equities and debt falling by 17 percent since December 2021, meaning a loss of $188.

SBF’S PARENTS SUED BY COMPANY HE, AND THEY, HELPED FOUND – FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency firm exposed of committing massive fraud that bankrupted thousands of clients, is suing the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the company. The lawsuit claims “As Bankman-Fried’s parents, Bankman and Fried exploited their access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves, directly and indirectly, by millions of dollars.”

ED.NOTE: There is another angle to this story that will be covered in tomorrow’s Weekday Report.

more:

UAW strike expands to Mercedes supplier in Alabama – thehill.com

Ford avoids Canada walkout as UAW prepares for more US auto strikes – ca.news.yahoo.com

US Government Closer to Shutdown as Debt Breaks $33 Trillion|News|teleSUR – www.telesurenglish.net

Treasury Yields at 16-Year High After US Debt Hits Record $33 Trillion – markets.businessinsider.com

A new Afro-Indian trade partnership is a huge opportunity for both – www.ft.com

Americans Living Under Poverty Level Skyrockets Under ‘Bidenomics’ – conservativebrief.com

Keeping Google’s search secrets protects its monopoly, DOJ argues in court – Ars Technica – arstechnica.com

Mayor Brandon Johnson OK with deal abolishing lower wage for tipped workers in Chicago – www.chicagotribune.com

California Governor to Sign Landmark Climate Disclosure Bill – www.nytimes.com

30-Year Mortgage Rates Jump by Double Digits – www.investopedia.com

The Fed’s surprise ally in the fight against inflation – www.politico.com

Why (Starbucks’) Howard Schultz’s departure could ‘open the door’ for expansion in China – finance.yahoo.com

Retail workers are fed up and quitting at record rates – financialpost.com

McDonald’s Slams New ‘Draconian’ California Minimum Wage Laws: “Devastating financial blow” – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Striking unions impacting the economy at a level not seen in decades – www.cnbc.com

The World Is Struggling to Make Enough Diesel – time.com

Disney’s Stock Falls After Company Announces Theme Park Investment – www.wsj.com

States sweeten their offers to chipmakers to outdo one other – alaskabeacon.com

Falling Household Income Numbers Show How ‘Bidenflation’ Has Hit Americans’ Wallets – thefederalist.com

Today’s news: Amazon to hire 6,000 workers in Canada – financialpost.com

Google Says Digital Ad Budgets Are Shifting to Amazon – www.bloomberg.com

CEO of America’s third biggest bank with 240,000 workers announces biggest shake-up in 20 years that will cut jobs – www.the-sun.com

Retailers like Target, Amazon, Macy’s looking for thousands of workers for holiday help – www.cbsnews.com

Chevron CEO Pushes Back on California’s Suit Against Big Oil – news.bloomberglaw.com

Exxon Is The Biggest Winner In Guyana’s Epic Oil Boom – oilprice.com

Banks scramble to find leaders equipped for today’s economic realities – www.cnn.com

With sights set on China, Japan to make deal with Canada on EV supply chains – www.cbc.ca

As America’s influence wanes, Asian economies are integrating – www.economist.com

Africa’s Newest Oil Jackpot Comes With a Corruption Curse – finance.yahoo.com

Israel’s economy expanded by 3.1% in second quarter of 2023 – www.jpost.com

Former WTO chief expects anti-dumping measures on Chinese EVs by EU regulators: report · TechNode – technode.com

CULTURE (Mon & Thurs)

PROGRESSIVE “CHURCH” USES AI TO WRITE “WORSHIP” SERVICE – As Progressive churches have left the soundness of scripture for their own itemized version of Christianity that defies Christ’s teachings, they’ve stepped up their game. Now, not only have they left the bible, they’ve entirely left humanity. A far-left “church” in Austin Texas recently conducted a 15-minute “Worship” service that was written by AI. The service was administered by “Pastor” Jay Cooper for the Methodist Violet Crown City Church.

He said of his effort, “ChatGPT kicked out about a 15-minute service, like a shotgun sermon, an outline. It’s very clear that a human element is still needed. I had to fill out the service with additional prompts and add a couple prompts to the sermon to kind of beef it up.”

BRITISH TEACHING NINE YEAR OLDS HOW TO MASTURBATE – School children in some British schools are currently being taught how to have anal sex and are given masturbation “homework” assignments they’re not allowed to share with their parents. They’re being taught these things through a program called “Relationships Education,” which became compulsory in British schools in 2020.

more:

Universities welcome students back with ‘Queering Menstruation,’ ‘Anal 101’ events – www.thecollegefix.com

Ukraine’s Trans ‘Spokesperson’ Lashes Out at J.D. Vance for Spreading ‘Gender Chaos’ – www.breitbart.com

Solidarity and prayer for the Jesuits in Nicaragua – www.jesuits.global

Kinder, gentler Taliban detain 18, including 1 American, for preaching Christianity in Afghanistan – HotAir – hotair.com

Police investigate multiple bomb threats at places of worship in New York – www.independent.co.uk

Red State AG Faces Misconduct Complaint Over Comments About Case Of 10-Year-Old Who Got An Abortion – dailycaller.com

Idaho middle school teacher gets 60 years for grooming, sexually abusing child in classroom – www.foxnews.com

Democratic rep demands Princeton pull anti-Israel book from classroom – www.thecollegefix.com

Epigenetics and evolution: ‘the significant biological puzzle’ of sexual orientation | Science – amp.theguardian.com

How Was the Bible Created? Filmmaker Explores Proof, Veracity of God’s Word – www.cbn.com

Bishop of Tyler points to exodus in German church in warnings ahead of Vatican conference – www.kltv.com

Pope To Defend Migrants In Marseille Trip – www.barrons.com

Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. – 1 Chronicles 12:32

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Artificial Womb is Ready for Human Testing

Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are ready to test their artificial womb on humans. In 2017, the researchers used the artificial womb to help premature baby lambs grow to full gestation. Now, 6 years later, the researchers are ready to begin trials on humans.

From scientificamerican.com:

In a natural womb, a fetus receives oxygen, nutrients, antibodies and hormonal signals and gets rid of waste through the placenta, a transient organ in which fetal blood interacts with maternal blood. Of these various roles, artificial-womb technology is most focused on providing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide, replacing the mechanical ventilators that are often used for neonates. These can damage fragile developing lungs that would otherwise still be filled with amniotic fluid.

The artificial womb “would bridge a baby born extremely premature through those days and weeks when they’re most at risk for lung and brain damage,” Werner says. The CHOP group has signalled that it would wean babies off its system after a few weeks, when their organs are more fully developed and their likelihood of healthy survival is higher.

The group’s system would work by placing extremely premature babies into what it calls a Biobag, filled with an electrolyte-laden fluid designed to mimic amniotic fluid. Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body. The fetal heart would still pump blood as it does in the natural womb.

The researchers have named their artificial womb, EXTEND, which stands for Extra-Uterine Environment for Newborn Development. The womb is NOT supposed to be a replacement for a human womb unless and until a newborn is less than 70 percent of the way to to full term. As a matter of fact, the womb wouldn’t, couldn’t fully gestate a human child from conception to birth.

A fetal surgeon at CHOP, Dr. Alan Flake, said of the experiment, “If it’s as successful as we think it can be, ultimately, the majority of pregnancies that are predicted at-risk for extreme prematurity would be delivered early onto our system rather than being delivered premature onto a ventilator.”

It appears that the team intentionally developed a womb that can never be used to gestate a human for a full pregnancy term, and thus they seem to wish to hope to avoid the ethical questions that might otherwise rise from such an experiment.

Still, the very creation of an artificial womb opens up many scientific ethical questions, such as “is it moral to “grow” humans in laboratories? It is only a matter of time, after all, until some research team decides to take what’s learned through EXTEND and seek to build an artificial womb that COULD allow scientists to “grow” humans in laboratories.

We have no idea just how important to the development of a human being it is to be gestated in the womb of another living human being. Beyond the basic biological needs and protections a womb provides, there may be other elements of gestation science might not ever be able to grasp (such as the “emotional” needs a mother might provide to the unborn child that a fake womb would never be able to duplicate).

The development of this technology COULD lead to more dangerous artificial wombs that COULD one day lead to humans being grown in labs, but it could also save the lives of thousands of premature babies per year in America alone.

It is probably only a matter of time before some state will allow experiments that lead to growing humans in labs, but, despite that, this particular development could be a game-changer for so many parents that might otherwise have lost their child, but now might have options to save their child’s life.

Do You Want a Brain Implant Linking You to the Internet?

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is ready to begin testing its product on humans after alleged burning through 1,500 test animals that all died as a  result of the implants (which the Department of Agriculture investigated, then later gave the company an exemption to continue the experiments). Musk claims the test animals, monkeys, were all terminally ill, which is why they were chosen.

The product is ostensibly designed to help people overcome neurological disorders, including to help paralyzed people one day eventually walk again (by controlling machines with their thoughts that would then move their limbs). The company is looking for humans that are either quadriplegic or are suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

The company’s blog said of the product, “The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) – a groundbreaking investigational medical device trial for our fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) – aims to evaluate the safety of our implant (N1) and surgical robot (R1) and assess the initial functionality of our BCI for enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.”

This product is designed to help people who have, for a variety of reasons, lost control of their muscles. The product will help them use thoughts to control computers which could control machines that could do anything from communicating with others to moving limbs. The study would last for 6 years.

More from the blog about the study intended to use humans, “During the study, the R1 Robot will be used to surgically place the N1 Implant’s ultra-fine and flexible threads in a region of the brain that controls movement intention. Once in place, the N1 Implant is cosmetically invisible and is intended to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes movement intention. The initial goal of our BCI is to grant people the ability to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.”

The device does connect to an external device, an app, so at the very least it connects to an intranet and could just as easily then be connected to an internet as well. It could also be used to let the user control computers with just a thought, so the mute might one day “speak”, or you might one day be able to play video games by “thinking,” giving you an advantage against the online normie gaming competitors that might be using their hands to play against you (which would be SOOOO 2023, amirite?).

Like our story on the artificial womb, we have a product that in and of itself could be a life-saving game changer for thousands of people, but it could also lead to devices that go far beyond aiding the paralyzed and neurologically damaged people to still be able to function as close to normal as possible, leading to all kinds of ethical and moral issues for society to wrestle over.

This writer is not in favor of the so-called singularity, where man and machine merge, but I am not opposed to using machines to augment human flourishing. Implanting your brain with a device that can be potentially hacked from the outside, however, seems to be loaded with risks this writer might be loathe to take. But if I were paralyzed, the risk might be outweighed by the potential increase in quality of life.

Would you, for instance, take the implant if it meant augmenting your intelligence and your drive so you can function like a driven genius, especially if everyone else around you was doing it? That might not be such an easy question to answer, but it’s one that might be worth asking now before we go too far down this brain implant path.

The dystopian nightmares that could flow from such devices might be great sci-fi movies, but they also might just be nightmares for a world living out the consequences on humanity such devices might create.

China Hearts Taliban, Google Freedom, Azerbaijan Attacks, Dude Where’s My F-35, Setting the Impeachment Date

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
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China Hearts Taliban, Google Freedom, Azerbaijan Attacks, Dude Where’s My F-35, Setting the Impeachment Date

China Hearts Taliban, Google Freedom, Azerbaijan Attacks, Dude Where’s My F-35, Setting the Impeachment Date

ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist-shared links are NOT endorsements

TOP STORIES

China Embraces Taliban, Encourages World to do the Same

CHINA EMBRACES TALIBAN, ENCOURAGES WORLD TO DO THE SAME – The Taliban welcomes China’s new ambassador, calling the decision by China to have an ambassador that recognizes the brutal raping and murdering regime (which is just one of the many things the two fascistic nations have in common with one another) further proof that the rest of the world needs to follow suit, the rest of the world needs to develop normal relations with the theocracy of hate and fear (something they share in common with America’s DNC-CCP). GO DEEPER

NEW GOOGLE TOOL COULD EMPOWER CENSORSHIP-RESISTANCE NETWORKS – A Google Team called Jigsaw has created a new software developer kit (SDK) that they allege will enable groups of people to create censorship-free digital networks they can use to communicate with each other even in the face of government oppression.

The tool was created in response to the crackdown on protestors and protest organizations by Iran. The fact that the tool was designed by a team working for a company who pushes the DNC-CCP narrative and oppresses users who too impactfully contradict that narrative is a bit of actual irony, but we liberty-lovers will take it and apply it in ways this team probably would never imagine, or support. GO DEEPER

ANOTHER WAR THREATENED AS AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA HEATS UP AGAIN – Azerbaijan announced Tuesday it had begun an “anti-terrorist operation” in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, The assault came after Azerbaijan’s defense minister accused terrorists in the region of killing six Azerbaijani soldiers through land mines. The ministry released a statement, claiming “Localized anti-terrorist measures have been launched in the region.” They added they will be using “high precision weapons on the front line and in depth as part of the operations.”  GO DEEPER

MARINES LOSE F-35, SHUT DOWN ALL FLIGHTS, FIND WRECKAGE IN DESERT – The U.S. Military lost an F-35 Fighter Jet over the skies of South Carolina, which resulted in all flight operations being halted for 24 hours. The jet went missing after a pilot ejected safely out of it, leading to an internet-assisted search that finally led to the location of the wreckage which was also in South Carolina.

U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE SETS DATE FOR BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING – The U.S. House Oversight Committee has announced September 28 as the opening of the Biden Impeachment Inquiry process. A spokesperson said, “The hearing will focus on constitutional and legal questions surrounding the President’s involvement in corruption and abuse of public office.”

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agit prop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agit prop intended to undermine American liberty values.

Hard-right politics grow across the globe – Axios – www.axios.com

USW condemns attacks on 2SLGBTQIA+ community – www.usw.ca

UAW Rips Trump Ahead Of Speech To Fake Autoworkers – www.politicususa.com

Arizona Man Charged Over Jan 6, Was Falsely Accused Of Being FBI Agent – www.barrons.com

VILE! Leftist Media Blame Conservatives for ‘Stoking’ Racial Hatred – www.newsbusters.org

If Biden is re-elected, “We will have saved American democracy” – HotAir – hotair.com

NBC Hypes Abortions Resuming in Wisconsin Due to Activist Court – www.newsbusters.org

Zelensky says Russians let Putin grow into a second Hitler, only the world can stop him now – www.reddit.com

Court “expert” couldn’t name any medications for blocking puberty – www.losangelesblade.com

Adam Schiff Says Trump’s Interviews Are Music To Jack Smith And Fani Willis’s Ears – www.politicususa.com

Critics question the price of freedom after 5 Americans are freed from Iran in controversial prisoner swap deal – midmichigannow.com

Judge Blocks California Law Meant to Protect Children’s Online Safety – U.S. News & World Report – www.usnews.com

Is Thomas Sowell a Legendary “Maverick” Intellectual or a Pseudo-Scholarly Propagandist? Current Affairs – www.currentaffairs.org

Majority of firearm owners with teens store guns unsafely – www.futurity.org

People call out Home Depot over anti-LGBTQ+ rally planned outside Ontario store – www.blogto.com

Conservatives Want to Use Trump 2.0 to Decimate the Deep State. History Says Not So Fast. – www.politico.com

Indiana Republican AG faces professional ethics charges related to his efforts to punish doctor who provided abortion services to 10-year-old rape victim | National Politics – www.applevalleynewsnow.com

Many Workers Leaving States That Pass Anti-LGBTQ Laws – www.shrm.org

TRENDING (Mon-Fri)

UAW SETS NEW POST-DEADLINE DEADLINE – The United Auto Workers has left the big three auto makers go the limited “Stand Down” strikes happening right now could escalate dramatically if they do not see a significant development in talks by the end of this week, Friday.

IS A NATIONAL HEALTHCARE STRIKE BREWING? – Kaiser Permanente employees from the Maryland region have voted to authorize a strike following the national office voted to authorize a strike on September 30 if a new contract is not agreed on. The Union represents 85,000 employees nationwide.

more:

YouTube suspends Russell Brand from advert income – www.bbc.co.uk

Musk says Twitter, now X, is moving to monthly subscriptions – www.cnbc.com

American prisoners freed by Iran land in US after swap deal – www.reuters.com

New England Patriots fan dies after being punched at game – www.nydailynews.com

Students Lack of Basic Knowledge of US History and Civics Remains a National Embarrassment | American Enterprise Institute – www.aei.org

‘However long it takes,’ longtime Ford worker says of the UAW strike | Michigan News | Detroit – www.metrotimes.com

UAW Striker Snubs Trump’s Upcoming Speech to Union Members: ‘He Didn’t Support Us Back When He Was President’ – www.mediaite.com

Rudy Giuliani’s former attorneys sue him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees – krdo.com

Federal agents shoot and paralyze man, family suing for $50 million – www.kivitv.com

Fentanyl found in NYC day care where child died – www.ctvnews.ca

Congress must act now to prevent another baby formula shortage – thehill.com

International spat erupts over ‘alien bodies’ amid claims they were STOLEN – www.mirror.co.uk

Moment swimmers save stranded seven-foot shark after it washes up on busy beach – www.mirror.co.uk

Tunisia’s President Saied claims ‘Zionist influence’ evident in naming of Storm Daniel – www.thenationalnews.com

‘Big Brother’ host was ‘stabbed in the back’ on daytime talk show … – msnNOW – www.msn.com

UAW Bashes Trump Ahead of Michigan Speech – Rolling Stone – www.rollingstone.com

Child killed by vehicle while riding toy car in Marshall – www.kltv.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

AFTER CANADIAN SIKH POLITICIAN KILLED, TRUDEAU BLAMES INDIA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set off a firestorm when he accused the Indian government of murdering Canadian Sikh politician Hardeep Singh Nijjar. He said he had “credible” information that “agents of the Indian government” were part of the plot that led to Nijjar’s murder.  He said this in the Canadian Commons.

As a result, India has asked Canada’s top diplomat to leave their country and Canada issued a travel warning to Canadians to be wary of going to India as it is unsafe for Canadians there.

TURKEY SIGNALS ABRUPT TURN FROM EUROPE – Turkey has made three moves that makes one wonder if the nation is suddenly deciding to abandon the European orbit. First, Erdogan declared he could “part ways with EU” and abandon their membership bid, then they seem to be waffling on confirming Sweden’s NATO membership, and finally they have been found to be purchasing coal from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, from the Russians. GO DEEPER

more:

Biden’s U.N. sales pitch: His America is a partner – www.washingtonpost.com

Burkina Approves Law For Sending Troops To Post-coup Niger – www.barrons.com

Biden condemns African military coups, backs ECOWAS – punchng.com

Iran’s President Denies Sending Drones and Other Weapons to Russia  – english.aawsat.com

Kim tells Putin that Russia has North Korea’s ‘full and unconditional support’ – americanmilitarynews.com

  1. Korea constructs high-voltage fences in low population areas around Pyongyang – www.dailynk.com

Russia, China’s Top Diplomats Meet In Moscow, Discuss Ukraine War, US – www.ndtv.com

Poland’s ruling party under pressure over broadening visa scandal – www.ft.com

Germany Seeks Answers From Poland In A Visa Fraud Scandal … – Barchart – www.barchart.com

German liberals reject migration help for Italy – EURACTIV.com – www.euractiv.com

Myanmar Junta Hosts China’s Envoy for Talks on Closer Ties – www.irrawaddy.com

Demonstrators rally in Guatemala to defend presidential election results | Elections News – www.aljazeera.com

US calls for end to ‘intimidation efforts’ in Guatemala ahead of presidential transition – www.reuters.com

EU warns Kosovo, Serbia of repercussions if normalisation deal not implemented – EURACTIV.com – www.euractiv.com

Iraqi FM tells Iran threats of violence are unacceptable, calls for meeting with Kuwait on waterways dispute – www.arabnews.com

UK Labour leader Keir Starmer says he’ll seek closer ties with the EU if he wins the next election | Ap – www.thederrick.com

What Wagner’s post-Prigozhin future looks like on the ground in the Central African Republic – krdo.com

Sudan: Ukraine’s special services ‘likely’ behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces, a Ukrainian military source says – amp.cnn.com

Australia boosts maritime surveillance with drones, aircraft upgrades – www.reuters.com

Saudi Arabia defends oil supply cuts as prices hit fresh high – www.telegraph.co.uk

Protesters in Derna accuse Libyan authorities of inaction after deadly floods – www.euronews.com

Sadiq Khan says hundreds of thousands spent on anti-Ulez Twitter manipulation | Sadiq Khan – amp.theguardian.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

IS THE LEFT USING THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FUNDING TO ADVANCE ITS POLITICAL AGENDA? – The House Committee on Oversight and reform is holding a hearing on third-party-litigation funding, the funding of lawsuits by large contributors not connected to the case.

From marcellusdrilling.com: It is the practice of a party with no direct stake in a lawsuit funding the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s lawyers as they pursue litigation. Example: billionaires like Michael Bloomberg and Big Green groups (funded in part by foreign countries like China and Russia) paying for lawyers for smaller green groups and mom-and-pop plaintiffs to repeatedly sue the oil and gas industry to block drilling and pipelines, or to force a change in regulations. GO DEEPER

HAWAII SUPER PAC EXPLOITS TRAGIC FIRE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR DNC GROUPS, POLITICIANS – A Hawaii Super PAC for Disaster Relief for Maui appears to be nothing more than a slush fund for Democratic organizations and political leaders. The Super PAC is led by Hawaii state representative Kaniela Ing (D). It was billed as raising money to support the “relief, recovery, and rebuilding” of Lahaina.

It also added, “The fund is to do immediate relief that’s oriented towards long-term action, which includes government accountability, includes engaging with the government to have the best possible response for the community in Lahaina. And also may include engaging in elections, to ensure that there is representation that will act on behalf of the community and not corporate and out of state interest.”

more:

A plan to take Trump off the California ballot – www.politico.com

UPDATE 1-Trump to skip next Republican debate, give speech to auto workers – finance.yahoo.com

Donald Trump is testing the resilience of Iowa’s evangelical voters – www.kake.com

Republicans to grill Garland on Hunter Biden’s ‘slow-walked’ inquiry: Jim Jordan – www.washingtonexaminer.com

Michigan Democrats urge Biden to beat Trump to UAW picket line – www.washingtonpost.com

House Speaker Calls For AG Oversight Of Maui Fires Fundraising – www.civilbeat.org

Arizonans might get chance to ditch historic system of electing public officials – azcapitoltimes.com

How Biden could double his approval rating – finance.yahoo.com

NJ Mayor Mohamed Khairullah, disinvited to White House, is suing – www.northjersey.com

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Defends His Controversial Bill Regulating Social Media for Kids. – slate.com

Mike Pence’s campaign continues its death spiral as he holds event in front of virtually nobody – www.queerty.com

Cisneros eyes open California seat for return to Congress | Ap – www.thederrick.com

“Overblown clickbait”: Gaetz slams report he’ll run for Florida governor – Axios – www.axios.com

CHINA WATCH (Weekly, Wednesdays)

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY GETS MILLIONS IN FUNDING FROM THE CCP – The British are learning that one of their top universities, Cambridge, has been taking funds from the Chinese Communist Party for four research projects that amount to more than $3 million dollars. The partnership was between the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Devices (BIACD) and Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE).

CHINA TO BUILD 328 FOOT TOWER IN SOUTH CHINA SEA – China is building a 328-foot watchtower that is intended to help protect Beijing’s “maritime rights,” according to state media. They claim, “The platform facilitates real-time, high-resolution three-dimensional observations of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere.” Of particular note is the tower’s large-scale “scanner” which, according to the state media report, will be the device that will protect China’s “maritime rights.”

more:

China’s new 10-dash line in the South China Sea: Implications for India – Observer Research Foundation – www.orfonline.org

WHO chief pushes China for ‘full access’ to determine COVID-19’s origins: Report – www.channelnewsasia.com

Chinese blockade of Taiwan would likely fail, Pentagon official says – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Putin and Xi to meet in Beijing in October, Russia says – www.channelnewsasia.com

Local Governments: Cops become new earners for struggling local governments in China – m.timesofindia.com

Chinese defence minister not seen in public in weeks | Illawarra Mercury – www.illawarramercury.com.au

Disney eyes licensed product growth in China – www.chinadaily.com.cn

China blocks Russia’s plot for home-made drones to boost war capabilities | World | News – www.express.co.uk

Chinese spy threat to U.S. CONGRESS: Capitol Hill warned to be on high alert after suspected Beijing espionage plot was uncovered in British parliament – www.dailymail.co.uk

China’s maritime militia has destroyed coral in Manila’s waters — BenarNews – www.benarnews.org

Was China’s ‘Spy Balloon’ Just Blown Off Course? – yro.slashdot.org

Among Uyghurs, China aims to ‘meld Islam with Confucianism’ – www.rfa.org

Chinese state media censors itself after highlighting poem about corrupt leaders | China – www.theguardian.com

Southeast Asia holds 1st joint naval exercise as Beijing increases assertiveness in South China Sea – www.foxnews.com

China blasts Germany after Baerbock calls Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’ – POLITICO – www.politico.eu

Chinese carmakers are under scrutiny in Europe – www.economist.com

TikTok rolls out e-commerce operation in the US despite political challenges · TechNode – technode.com

Military Exercises: China conducts major military exercises in Western Pacific – timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Chinese Navy’s semi submersible ship Yinmahu conducts 1st nighttime training – www.navyrecognition.com

‘He’s had a bad summer’: Xi faces calls to loosen grip as China’s crises mount | Xi Jinping – amp.theguardian.com

China poses threat to UK way of life, says Rishi Sunak – www.bbc.com

PEOPLE ADVANCE (Weekly, Wednesdays)

U.S. NAVY CANCELS DRAG QUEEN AD – Even as the Navy fails to meet is recruitment numbers, it thought it would be a good idea to try to win recruits with a drag queen sailor selling the service to Americans. Turns out it didn’t work, no one was happy, so the Navy buckled to the pressure.

WHITMER “KIDNAPPERS” ACQUITTED –  Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s alleged wanna-be kidnappers have now all been acquitted, with the last three being ruled on this week. Judge Charles Hamlyn informed the three defendants, “You gentlemen are free to leave.”

more:

Winnemucca braces for impact of massive Thacker Pass lithium mine – www.rgj.com

Federal appeals court opens way to block CA law on gun marketing to children – www.ksby.com

We built our own ISLAND floating on a river using old fishing kit – we grow our own food & build supplies ourselves – www.thesun.co.uk

‘Public Resource’ Wins 2012 Case. Judge Rules Posting Regulations Online is Fair Use – yro.slashdot.org

Ohio Launches Voter Data Sharing Pacts To Replace Leftist ERIC – thefederalist.com

School Board in California Votes to Allow Only State or U.S. Flag to be Flown Over School Buildings – legalinsurrection.com

Indigenous voice to parliament no campaign leading in every state, poll analysis shows | Indigenous voice to parliament – amp.theguardian.com

California school district ordered to reinstate Christian club – www.christianpost.com

Underground Youth Groups In Iran Survive Clampdown, Seek Regime’s Overthrow – www.iranintl.com

California Passes Strongest Right-to-Repair Bill Yet, Requiring 7 Years of Parts – yro.slashdot.org

ATF Backs Down in “Zero Tolerance” Lawsuit – thenewamerican.com

Appeals Court Upholds Public.Resource.Org’s Right to Post Public Laws and Regulations Online – www.eff.org

DVIDS – News – Immigrant Sailors celebrate citizenship during Constitution Week – www.dvidshub.net

Global saga of Afghan who fought alongside US troops ends with joyous asylum news – www.stripes.com

Law Firm Changes Diversity Award Criteria After Scrutiny – legalinsurrection.com

Pakistani electric mobility provider raises $1.2 million, launches indigenously developed electric bikes – www.arabnews.com

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China Embraces Taliban, Encourages World to do the Same

Ever since Biden’s catastrophic pullout from Afghanistan with no real plan, and no real effort to assure the Taliban didn’t get our military equipment, China has been stepping into the void, offering the Taliban legitimacy and world recognition.

Now, Taliban welcomes China’s new ambassador, calling the decision by China to have an ambassador that recognizes the brutal raping and murdering regime (which is just one of the many things the two fascistic nations have in common with one another) further proof that the rest of the world needs to follow suit, the rest of the world needs to develop normal relations with the theocracy of hate and fear (something they share in common with America’s DNC-CCP).

The Taliban’s chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told The Associated Press “It also signals to other countries to come forward and interact with the Islamic Emirate. We should establish good relations as a result of good interactions and, with good relations, we can solve all the problems that are in front of us or coming in the future.”

So far, China is the only country willing to recognize the cult-nation, which makes sense given the cult-like nature of its own nation, led, as it is, by the cult of personality wannabe Xi Jinping, a model of hope for the DNC-CCP who dreams one day of having their own cult of personality dictate to us Americans OUR terms of existence in the same way Xi does to his people, in the same way the Taliban does through its cult of personality “leader,” Muhammad (or at least their version of the child-marrying “prophet.”)

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