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Facial recognition software results in wrongful arrest of pregnant Detroit mother
Porcha Woodruff, 32, has since filed a lawsuit against the city and the detective whose use of the software and subsequent actions led to her spending a day in jail.
According to NBC News, Woodruff was preparing her two children for school on the morning of February 16 when she opened the door to find six police officers waiting to arrest her in connection with the robbery and carjacking that had taken place less than a month earlier.
Given the fact that she was weeks away from giving birth, Woodruff originally thought the police were joking, but when it became clear that they were not, she cooperated and was taken away.
The victim of the January 29 robbery and carjacking alleged that the acts had been perpetrated by a man, with the assistance of a woman he has slept with earlier.
Kayleigh McEnany questions DOJ’s independence after New York Times reveals Biden’s wish for AG to prosecute Trump just prior to multiple indictments
McEnany said the article was absent any “assertion that Biden told this to Merrick Garland—but somehow this ended up on the pages of the New York Times.”
The article was published on March 31, coming after Trump was indicted for the first time by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on charges of “falsifying business records.”
Hillary Clinton faced the same charge for classifying as legal fees monies paid to her attorneys that were used to fund the creation of the now-debunked Steele Dossier, which she used to try to implicate Trump in a Russia collusion election scheme in 2016.
For this, she was fined $8,000. Trump faces multiple decades in prison.
In the months that followed the Manhattan indictment, two federal indictments were dropped against Trump. Trump has pled not guilty to all charges.
“So my question if I’m a reporter, and back when I was press secretary I used to give the press assignments… I would have assigned the press, pursue this lead. This is your own reporting. This is the New York Times who loves to brag when their reporting is right,” she said.
McEnany urged members of the press who will be part of the gaggle aboard Air Force One this afternoon to ask “is this truly [Joe Biden’s] view, and was this ever communicated to Merrick Garland?”
Judge orders Catherine Herridge to reveal sources for stories on FBI, Chinese American scientist
The order last week from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington D.C. comes after scientist Yanping Chen filed a lawsuit against the FBI, claiming that the agency violated the privacy act by improperly leaking information about her.
While working at Fox News in 2017, Herridge used a confidential source or sources to obtain material about the federal counterintelligence probe of Chen.
The Fox series focused on Chen, who was associated with China’s People’s Liberation Army and is president of the taxpayer-funded University of Management and Technology in Rosslyn, Va. Chen’s husband, J. Davidson Frame, is dean of the university.
The FBI raided the school twice in 2012, but even after the raids, it still received more than $6 million from the Defense Department.
The Censors’ Henchmen
Journalists including Michael Shellenberger have exposed what they dub the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” a tangled web of the world’s most powerful government agencies, NGOs, and private corporations that work together to stifle unapproved narratives.
The henchmen who implement this system receive little publicity.
Few Americans study Albert Burleson, Woodrow Wilson’s Postmaster General who intercepted mail that the White House deemed subversive. Frank Wisner’s name is absent from history books despite overseeing Operation Mockingbird, a CIA program to infiltrate, influence, and control American media outlets.
Likewise, today’s public is generally unfamiliar with their information czars, the government officials charged with carrying out assaults on the First Amendment. Like soldiers in The Sopranos, they demand compliance with threats of retribution from their boss.
Thanks to the Facebook Files and Missouri v. Biden, we now have a better understanding of the individuals behind the censorship regime. Rob Flaherty exemplifies the arrogance inherent to the assault on the First Amendment.
FBI is Accused Of Lying Under Oath About Knowledge of Hunter Biden Laptop and Talks With Facebook
In a striking revelation, evidence suggests that Elvis Chan, a San Francisco-based FBI special agent, made false statements under oath regarding his interactions with major tech firms related to the reporting of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive in the run-up to the 2020 election. This revelation is according to allegations following information gleaned from internal Facebook documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.
In October 2020, The New York Post released explosive reports detailing purported involvement by the President’s son, Hunter Biden, in international business transactions with his father, Joe Biden.
The subsequent discussions and correspondence between Chan and Facebook concerning these revelations have come into stark focus.
In one interaction dated October 15, 2020, a Facebook employee detailed their conversation with Chan during which the employee recalled Chan suggesting he was familiar with the Hunter’s laptop FBI investigation, referencing a dearth of evidence pointing to foreign interference in the situation.
Thwarted School Shooting Media Won’t Talk About Shows Protective Measures Benefits, with Dana Loesch
Megyn Kelly is joined by Dana Loesch, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “The Dana Show,” to discuss the thwarted school shooting in Memphis, how the protective measures at the school worked, why the media refuses to cover the story, and more.
REPORT: Another weekend of crime and violence in America | National Report
On Monday’s “National Report,” after a weekend of violence in America, including a riot in New York City, it is clear that most Americans have had enough of rising crime rate. NEWSMAX’s John Bachman reports.
Gas Prices Spike Almost 30 Cents In Just A Month, Posing Potential Headache For Biden
The surging gas prices have brought prices up to an average level not seen since October 2022, according to AAA, and the rising prices may pose a political problem for Biden as the 2024 election cycle ramps up.
While gas prices are high on average this August, they are still lower than they were this time in August 2022, when Americans were paying just under $4.07 per gallon at the pump after the average price reached an all-time high of just over $5.01 per gallon in June 2022, according to AAA.
In the first week of August 2020, around five months before Biden took office, the national average price hovered around $2.18 per gallon, according to AAA.
July’s price jump may intensify as planned OPEC+ production cuts, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, take hold in international markets. Summer temperatures also contribute to increased energy demand, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Nature’s Proximal Origin Paper Was a Work of ‘Fraud and Scientific Misconduct,’ Say Scientists Demanding a Retraction
A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
The paper, whose authors included immunology and microbiology professor Kristian G. Andersen, declared that evidence clearly showed that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate from a laboratory.
Yet a trove of recently published documents reveal that Andersen and his co-authors believed that the lab leak scenario was not just possible, but likely.
“[The] main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario,” Andersen said to his colleagues, according to a report from Public, which published a series of Slack messages between the authors.
Pfizer buckles under pressure during heated hearing, admits the unthinkable about the jab…
There is so much controversy, coverup, and conspiracy surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. So much that sometimes it’s hard to keep up with what’s fact or fiction. But one hearing that was recently held down under in Australia might be the key to unlocking many of the mysteries about the jab.
We’re learning that many elites took a different “jab” than the rest of us.
That’s the bombshell that came out of a heated hearing where Aussie senators grilled Pfizer employees who eventually admitted that they took a “special” batch of the vaccine that was not available to the rest of the public.
World News:
Ukraine Again Asks U.S. For Long-Range Missiles After Russian Attacks Kill Civilians
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he requested long-range missiles from the United States during a phone call on August 7 with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The request came as five people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and after Ukrainian officials said that at least three people had been killed in the latest Russian assaults that targeted the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions.
Ukraine has previously requested Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) from the United States and other Western partners.
Washington thus far has refrained from providing the weapons for fear Kyiv may use them to target military objects inside Russia.
The ATACMs could strike Russian arms depots and other equipment up to 300 kilometers away, weakening Moscow’s ability to supply its troops at the front lines.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the missiles would be used to reduce Russia’s ability to target cities.
At Least Four Killed After Building Collapses In Tehran
Four people, including two police officers, have been killed and at least 11 others injured when several buildings collapsed in the Iranian capital, Tehran, local media reported on August 7.
The police officers were securing the planned demolition on August 6 of “unauthorized buildings” in the city’s southwest, ISNA news agency said that day, reporting at least three deaths in the incident.
Rescue operations were under way to find others who may be trapped under the rubble, ISNA and the Tasnim news agency reported.
Two Civilians Killed In Suicide Car Bombing In Pakistan
Officials say that two civilians were killed in a suicide car bombing that targeted a security patrol in North Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.
A security official told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity that the attackers’ explosives-laden car collided with a vehicle of the security forces, triggering a blast.
The official said the vehicle of the security forces was bulletproof and the soldiers were not harmed in the attack.
Two passersby — a husband and wife — were killed in the attack.
Belarus begins military drills near its border with Poland and Lithuania as tensions heighten
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus began military exercises Monday near its border with Poland and Lithuania, a move coming with tensions already heightened with the two NATO members over Russia-linked Wagner mercenaries moving to Belarus after their short-lived mutiny in Russia.
Both Poland and Lithuania have increased border security since thousands of Wagner fighters arrived in Russian-allied Belarus under a deal that ended their armed rebellion in late June and allowed them and their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to avoid criminal charges.
Leaders of the two NATO nations have said they are braced for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in a sensitive area where both countries border Belarus as well as the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
They commented early in August after two Belarusian helicopters flew briefly at low altitude into Polish air space. Belarusian authorities denied their helicopters entered Poland.
Iranian targets struck near Damascus; Thousands of US Marines deploy in Mideast TV7Israel News 07.08
1) An Israeli Tel Aviv municipal workers sustained fatal wounds in yet another terror attack, claimed by the Iranian-proxy Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
2) At least four Syrians troops were killed and a dozen others were sustained wounds, in an alleged Israeli bombardment on Iranian targets near Damascus.
3) Thousands of U.S. Marines and other forces arrive in the Middle East amid rising tensions versus the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Over 3,000 U.S. sailors and Marines arrive in Red Sea amid Iran tensions
Over 3,000 U.S. sailors and Marines arrive in the Red Sea amid Iran tensions, in a deployment that adds to a growing U.S. military buildup in tense Gulf waterways
52 Injured As Migrants Clash At Eritrean Cultural Festival In Sweden
Chaos ensued at the festival held in the Järvafältet in Stockholm as protesters stormed the festival and clashed with the event’s organizers, who they accuse of being a propaganda outlet for the Eritrean government.
Around 1,000 demonstrators stormed through police barriers and began tearing down festival tents, torching vehicles, and attacking organizers with wooden sticks.
Eight people were hospitalized with serious injuries, while one person was arrested on suspicion of arson, local media reported.
North Korean hackers ‘breach top Russian missile maker’
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government – which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus – secretly installed stealthy digital back doors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.
Reuters could not determine whether any data was taken during the intrusion or what information may have been viewed. In the months following the digital break-in Pyongyang announced several developments in its banned ballistic missile programme but it is not clear if this was related to the breach.
Experts say the incident shows how the isolated country will even target its allies, such as Russia, in a bid to acquire critical technologies.
16 dead, dozens missing in shipwrecks off Tunisia, Western Sahara
Much of the North African coast has become a major gateway for irregular migrants and asylum seekers primarily from other parts of the continent, attempting perilous voyages in the hopes of a better life.
Local court spokesman Faouzi Masmoudi told AFP that at least 11 migrants died in a shipwreck off the coast of Sfax.
Another 44 are missing while two others were rescued from the boat that had 57 people on board, all of them from sub-Saharan African countries, Masmoudi added.
Survivors of the sinking, near Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, said the makeshift boat had departed over the weekend from a beach north of the coastal city of Sfax.
British government moves asylum-seekers to a barge moored off England’s coast
London: A small group of asylum-seekers was moved onto a barge moored in southern England as the UK government tries to cut the cost of sheltering people seeking protection in the country.
Fifteen people were transferred to the Bibby Stockholm, a floating hostel that will ultimately house up to 500 men, on Monday, London-time, from other sites around the country, according to Cheryl Avery, director for asylum accommodation for the Home Office.
More were expected to arrive later as authorities seek to reduce the number of asylum-seekers housed in expensive hotel rooms that were requisitioned on an emergency basis as the number of arrivals has surged in recent years.
China TV Documentary Showcases Army’s Ability to Attack Taiwan
China has released a new documentary about the army’s preparation to attack Taiwan and showcasing soldiers pledging to give up their lives if needed as Beijing continues to ramp up its rhetoric against the self-ruled island.
“Chasing Dreams,” an eight-part docuseries aired by state broadcaster CCTV earlier this week to mark the People Liberation Army’s 96th anniversary, features military drills and testimonials by dozens of soldiers, of which several express their willingness to die in a potential attack against Taiwan.
Politics:
Democrats propose 1000% tax on ‘assault weapons,’ high-capacity magazines
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., introduced the legislation Friday along with 24 other House Democrats. Beyer had introduced legislation on the same idea last year with 41 cosponsors, and even with a Democratic-controlled House, the bill remained stuck in committee.
It is unclear whether the new bill is the same as the one from 2022, as the text of the new legislation was not published as of Monday.
The new bill, HR 5135, is titled, “To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an additional 1,000 percent excise tax on the sale of large capacity ammunition feeding devices and semiautomatic assault weapons, and for other purposes.”
An AR-15, the bestselling U.S. rifle according to NPR, can cost between $400 for a basic model to more than $2000 for a higher-end model. The new tax proposal would increase those prices to a range of $4,000 to $20,000.
Bidens are going to have to answer some questions: Jason Miller and Devin Nunes | John Bachman Now
On Monday’s “John Bachman Now,” Trump advisor Jason Miller and Devin Nunes of Truth Social comment on the aftermath of the Devon Archer testimony.
New report reveals Trump’s ‘secret weapon’
Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba joined ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss Trump’s latest indictment, a potential additional indictment from Fulton County, Georgia, and demands for the judge presiding over the Jan. 6 case to be recused.
Silk Road Paved with Cash: Court records confirm millions flowed to Biden family from China
The records confirm reporting from investigative author Peter Schweizer’s book “Red Handed,” Just the News stories and investigations by Congress that date to 2020 when Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed bank transfers from Beijing to Biden accounts.
Lawmakers told Just the News last week that the size of the payments from communist China and Joe Biden’s efforts to conceal them raise larger questions about whether such monies to his family caused the president to take actions like refusing to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon or shuttering the FBI’s main Chinese counter-intelligence program rooting out spies in U.S. academia.
The revelations raise questions whether Biden “would be sympathetic to the concerns of other nations or individuals based on previous relationships,” said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Penn., a member of the House Oversight Committee investigating the Biden family’s finances, “And whether that is generally viewed as being compromised.
Commentary:
RFK, Jr., on the Ukraine and the Plot To Smear Him
The news media controlled by the neocon elite want to destroy RFK, Jr. He tells the truth about the war in the Ukraine, which threatens to incinerate mankind.
Even worse, from their point of view, he is popular and has a good chance to beat brain-dead Biden for the Democratic nomination.
That would ruin their plans for world domination through unleashing wars against Russia and China.
Let’s look at what he says about the Ukraine war. Julia Hill, writing in The Hill, June 28, 2023, tells the story:
Glaring Consequences of Criminal Behavior and Progressive Politics, with Dana Loesch
Megyn Kelly is joined by Dana Loesch, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “The Dana Show,” to discuss one shop employee in California who may be prosecuted for protecting his store from someone robbing it again, the consequences of criminal behavior and progressive politics, and more.
Oh SH*T, So THIS Is The REAL Reason They’re Charging Him AGAIN!
As Donald Trump is charged with three conspiracies related to the 2020 election, is he right that his continued indictments are politically motivated?
Would prosecuting him be a grave violation of the First Amendment?
And as Joe Biden himself faces accusations about his family business, how good is all of this for the country?
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