Covid Social Spying, Burisma Bribes, Liver Transplant Botting, F-16 Block
FIA WEEKDAY DIGEST – FRIDAY July 21, 2023
TOP STORIES
FEDS PAID LEFTIST ORGS TO TRACK CITIZENS’ COVID-19-RELATED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS – The National Science Foundation’s Division of Social and Economic Sciences gave a nearly $200K grant to Mississippi State University to create an AI-based database of citizens’ posts related to Covid-19. The program was called “RAPID: Analyses of Emotions Expressed in Social Media and Forums During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” GO DEEPER
FBI DOCUMENT FROM 2020 SHOWS STRONG EVIDENCE BIDENS TOOK BRIBES FROM BURISMA – A document released by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) suggests the Bidens were taking millions of dollars from the Ukrainian oil company Burisma Holdings to protect the company’s founder from being prosecuted by a Ukrainian Attorney General. Joe Biden admitted publicly to threatening to cut Ukraine off from loans if they didn’t fire the Attorney General.
This evidence came from a document called an FD-1023, which details a confidential FBI source referred to as CHS who reported having conversations with executives from Burisma Holdings. The informant claims to have conversation with board members that show they knew they had hired Hunter Biden specifically to get Joe Biden to use his influence to help them get gas contracts and, later, to protect them from a criminal investigation. GO DEEPER
FIRST ROBOT-RUN LIVER TRANSPLANT HAPPENED – Washington University of St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital performed the first successful liver transplant surgery primarily using robots to perform the operation. Dr. Adeel Khan was the lead surgeon on the team, which was executed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The surgery took about 8 hours to complete, which is within the average time humans conduct the surgery (6-10 hours) but was a lot less invasive, which will hopefully dramatically increase patient survivability after surgery. GO DEEPER
TURKEY STILL GETTING F-16 BLOCK FROM MENENDEZ – If Turkey thought their more aggressive Ukraine support and their U-turn on Sweden’s entry into NATO would get them long-wanted F-16s from the U.S., Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has something else to say about that. The Senator had hinted he might change his mind on the hold he is able to place on the sale as the sitting Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, but then stated he would continue to hold the sale. He stated, in response to Turkey now supporting Sweden, “I’ve always said that the ratification of Sweden, which should naturally occur, is not the sine qua non of why I would lift the hold on F-16s. There’s bigger issues than just that alone.”
SOMEONE JUST WON $1.8 BILLION POWERBALL JACKPOT – On July 19, 2023, someone purchased a Powerball Lottery ticket at Las Palmitas Mini Market in Downtown Los Angeles. That night, the winning numbers were announced, “7,10,11,13,24, and the Powerball, 24.” Those numbers matched the ticket sold at the mini market. It would turn out no one else had the numbers right, giving this single ticket-holder a prize of $1.08 billion. They could choose to get one lump sum for $558.1 million, netting perhaps $280 million, or get an annual annuity based on the full $1.8 billion.
TRENDING
GOP-LED HOUSE PASSES BILL PROTECTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM MIGRANT OCCUPATION – The Schools Not Shelters Act passed the U.S. House by a vote of 222-201, with all but four democrats failing to vote for a bill that would prevent public schools from being used as shelters for illegal aliens. The Democrats once again put their dark anti-American, anti-human ideology over the safety and well-being of our innocent children. The vote appears more symbol as substance as no one expects a DNC-controlled Senate and White House to protect children in this common-sense way.
NEW ZEALAND MASS SHOOTING BREAKS LEFT’S ANTIGUN NARRATIVE – A shooting just before the Women’s World Cup in Aukland, NZ has left 2 dead, 3 injured, with the shooter also being killed in a shootout with police that injured one officer. The shooter, Matu Tangi Matu Reid, 24, was on house arrest for domestic violence he was convicted of carrying out against his then-girlfriend. GO DEEPER
HOLLYWOOD SHUTS DOWN OVER AI, STREAMING RESIDUALS – After Hollywood writers struck and were given little to no care by the studios they walked away from, the actors have joined in, with much of the country celebrating the shutting down of an institution that has chosen to turn its platform into a weapon of war against the American republic herself.
Now that the actors have joined in, all projects have come to a halt, including promotions by actors of any film being released during the strike. The main points of contention seem to be over the use of AI to replace writers and actors and the residual pay actors and writers get from streaming services.
more:
Isolated Female Crocodile Gives Birth Without Mating: How Is This Possible? – Discover Magazine
Solar maximum is looming. What are the risks? – Cosmo Magazine
WORLD
THAILAND PARLIAMENT MEETS FOR SECOND ATTEMPT TO ELECT PM – After Pita Limjaroenrat, the opposition leader whose party won the election, was blocked from entering the parliament for the first vote for a new PM, tensions in the country escalated. Now, parliament is set to meet July 27. The question is whether Pita will be admitted to Parliament, currently still controlled by military-appointed members, and whether he can shore up enough votes to secure the top spot. His supporters are planning new rounds of protests throughout the country should he fail be chosen as he should be.
COLUMBIAN PLANE CRASH KILLS FIVE MEMBERS OF MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY – Five politicians from the Centro Democratico Party, the same party of former President Alvaro Uribe, were killed in a small plane crash in Central Columbia. The five killed were ex-senator Nohora Tovar, departmental lawmaker Dimas Berrero, aspirant governor Eliodoro Alvarez, and Villencia municipal councilor Oscar Rodriguez.
MYANMAR JUNTA BOMBS CHIN STATE VILLAGE – The Chinland Defense Force (CDF) is claiming Myanmar Junta forces launched an air assault against a village in Southern Kanpetlet Township, which is inside the breakaway state of Chin. The CDF stated, “On land, there were two confrontations in the morning. Later on, they attacked by using four jet fighters from which they fired their weapons at least 20 times.” It is unclear how many were either killed and/or injured.
more:
Russia’s Wagner mercenaries launch joint training with Belarusian military near – Washington Times
Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations – War on the Rocks
Honduras wants to build an island prison colony to lock up gangsters – wlrn.org
Cambodia: IPI condemns government blocking of news sites before general – ipi.media
Turkish Bayraktar drone sales to Kosovo spark anger in Serbia – Middle East Eye
DC
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FBI LIED TO SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP AUTHENTICITY – Testimony before the House Judiciary committee by Laura Dehmlow, section Chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) of the FBI exposes the agency’s complicity in burying a pre-2020-election story exposing a laptop of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, which contained numerous incriminating evidence of influence selling to foreign companies by the Biden family. She alleges the FBI knew from the start the laptop was legitimate but chose to remain silent when the DNC machine pushed forward the myth the laptop was a Russian hoax.
The House Judiciary GOP tweeted out “Testimony reveals the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, but when asked by a social media company about the laptop’s authenticity the FBI said ‘no further comment.’” GO DEEPER
DNC SEEKS TO CENSOR RFK JR. DURING HOUSE HEARING ON CENSORSHIP – Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-FL) showed the naked anti-American face of the DNC once again when she attempted to censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House hearing on government censorship of Americans. She said “I move that we move into executive session because Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable antisemitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last week.” The use of racist, bigoted fear-mongering to inspire Americans to surrender their freedoms or die was fully on display as Democrats nakedly demonstrated the anti-American values of the corrupted Democratic Party.
BIPARTISAN PRESS ACT PROMISES TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS’ SOURCES – A bipartisan bill was introduced by Senator Jamie Raskin (R-MD) and Kevin Kiley (R-CA) called “Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act.” The PRESS ACT’s bipartisan support should cause some to wonder what DNC journalists are being protected should a Republican take the White House ever again, in light of the way the DNC-controlled White House has abused the journalistic rights of Americans. Still, the bill could actually protect journalists from future DNC assaults as well.
more:
Biden to the Senate: So Su Me – wsj.com
Injunction blocking Florida law targeting drag shows applies to all venues, judge says – wtop.com
Americans Aren’t Buying ‘Bidenomics’ – The Fiscal Times
Dem Rep Accidentally Damages Biden’s Claim To Know Nothing About Hunter’s Business – Free Beacon
Montgomery County Council Passes 6% Cap On New Rent Increases – DCist
SCI-TECH
CCP DEVELOPS BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE THAT PROMISES “SINGULARITY” – Techspot shared news a new device that can be worn in the ear that is a more effective method of integrating a computer with the mind. The title of the article reads, “Scientists develop novel brain-computer interface that plugs into your ear canal.” The device was created in China. It’s called a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). The device could eventually augment memory, turn thoughts to text, and more. It could be used for “good” or for “ill,” such as helping you have better memory recall or conditioning your mind to believe false memories. GO DEEPER
ANOTHER CONTENDER COMES FORTH TO END THE DISEASE OF AGING – Researchers out of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new approach to potentially combat the disease of aging. Their findings were posted in the journal Aging. The scientists deployed six chemical cocktails known to have some anti-aging potential and tested them on rats and monkeys. Findings show the aging process was halted within four days of treatment. GO DEEPER
PULLING HYDROGEN OUT OF THE AIR HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER – Rice University engineers have developed a way to pull hydrogen out of the air at record levels of efficiency. They designed a device that utilized next-gen halide perovskite semiconductors and electrocatalysts.
“Using sunlight as an energy source to manufacture chemicals is one of the largest hurdles to a clean energy economy. Our goal is to build economically feasible platforms that can generate solar-derived fuels. Here, we designed a system that absorbs light and completes electrochemical water-splitting chemistry on its surface,” said Austin Fehr, one of the study’s lead authors.
more:
New wearable sensor sets record for solar power efficiency – Tech xplore
With the seeds now sown, will vertical farming take off in Venezuela? – Hortidaily
An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips – NY Times
Study rewrites 70-year-old story of life on Earth’s rise – Futurity
Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered – Scientific American
EDITOR’S CHOICE
VIETNAM SHOWS WORLD WHAT DNC LOGIC LEADS TO WHEN ORDERING SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROTECT THE “STATE” – Vietnam is ahead of the American DNC in terms of being able to strong-arm social media to protect them from dissenting views, and even more significantly, from having their lies exposed. They are now are ordering social media companies that service their country to use AI to assure that “misinformation” and news that is harmful to the state is not allowed to be posted, nor are the users allowed to continue to use the platforms.
DNC-MAJORITY FOURTH CIRCUIT RULES COLLEGES CAN FIRE PROFESSORS FOR CRITICIZING DIVERSITY PROGRAMS – A DNC-Majority Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that North Carolina State University could fire Professor Stephen Porter for openly calling into question the school’s anti-American revolutionary “diversity” programs.
The DNC-majority court ruled the school could fire the professor for being “uncollegial,” a standard that was invented out of their emotion-addled brains, not the constitution. The vote was 2-1, with the republican dissenting from the overtly unconstitutional ruling. GO DEEPER
LAWS PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM PREDATORY TRANS-ACTIVIST PARENTS CHASING THEM OUT OF RED STATES – The geographical dividing of the country continues as parents who insist on putting their underage children through chemical castration and bodily mutilation to treat a tragic mental illness, pack up their bags and head to DNC-controlled states that continue to allow children to be mutilated for the sake of the leftist anti-human cause. MPRNews chose to champion the “cause” of the trans-activist parents, revealing themselves to be one of the DNC agit prop organs.
more:
Senate Panel Attempts to Reduce DHS’ Domestic Intelligence Operations – American Greatness
‘Biblical manhood’ group responds to cancelation by Christian university – The College Fix
Massachusetts Parents Risk Losing Kids’ Vaccine Religious Exemption – Daily Signal
White House Imposing New Rules That Bars Access For Conservative Outlet – Conservative Brief
US EPA’s Environmental Justice Objectives on Trial – Lexology
BlackRock Forges a New Bond With Big Oil – NYTimes
Tunisia anti-fake news law criminalises free speech – Al Jazeera
