https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/buyers-remorse-biden-approval-dives-nearly-half-dems-say-county-would

As President Biden's approval rating drops, a survey released Wednesday shows 46% of registered voters in his Democratic Party now believe the country would be in better shape had they elected Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as president.

Biden won the party's 2020 presidential nomination over Sanders – his closest rival in the primary, a Vermont Independent and democratic-socialist who ran on the Democratic ticket.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/saudi-billionaire-to-sell-stake-in-four-seasons-for-2-2-billion-1.1649343

(Bloomberg) – The investment firm of Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal plans to sell half its stake in Four Seasons Holding Co. to Bill Gates’s Cascade for $2.2 billion.

Kingdom Holding Co. will sell a 23.75% stake in Four Seasons for 8.29 billion riyals and will retain a 23.75% ownership. Cascade will increase its existing stake to 71.25% from 47.5%.

The deal is expected to close in January 2022.

https://www.firehouse.com/community-risk/news/21237378/investigators-seek-clues-in-slew-of-ca-brush-fires

Sep. 8—HEALDSBURG, CA — Posting colored flags on a charred hillside on the north side of this small Sonoma County city, Cal Fire investigator Jeremy Ward examined what clues the scorched earth and brush might show about a suspicious fire, just one of more than a dozen fires that briefly terrorized Healdsburg on Monday night.

All told, about 15 small fires ignited in less than two hours in an arch around the famous Wine Country town's western outskirts, drawing a cavalry of firefighters to douse the blaze and law enforcement officers to investigate what could possibly ignite so many fires in quick succession.

Just what Dr. Malone predicted

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?

Mu was first identified in Colombia in January 2021 and has since been reported in 39 countries. The World Health Organization labelled variant Mu, lineage B.1.621, as a variant of interest on August 30, 2021. The Mu variant is found to have key mutations linked to greater transmissibility and the potential to evade antibodies. More studies are needed to determine whether Mu variant is more contagious, more deadly or more resistant to vaccine and treatments than other COVID-19 strains.

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please stop bull shit republicans

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/08/president-trump-interview-with-dan-bongino-current-events-afghanistan-election-audits-wuhan-lab-leak-and-more/

President Trump called-in to Dan Bongino earlier today {Direct Rumble Link} to discuss current events, Afghanistan, the Wuhan lab leak, Anthony Fauci, the 2020 election issues and the future of MAGA. LISTEN:

Richard Grenell

@RichardGrenell

I’m outraged that

@StateDeptSpox

Ned Price didn’t point out that the Taliban doesn’t have a single gay person in the Cabinet either.

I mean, how can we Build Back Better without Kabul Pride?

https://www.rt.com/news/534257-facebook-whatsapp-moderators-read-messages/

“No one outside of this chat” can read their communications, and Zuckerberg himself telling the US Senate in 2018 that “We don’t see any of the content in WhatsApp.”

Allegedly, none of that is true. More than a thousand content moderators are employed at shared Facebook/WhatsApp offices in Austin, Texas, Dublin, Ireland, and Singapore to sift through messages reported by users and flagged by artificial intelligence.

When a user presses ‘report’ on a message, the message itself plus the preceding four messages in the chat are unscrambled and sent to one of these moderators for review. Moderators also examine messages picked out by artificial intelligence, based on unencrypted data collected by WhatsApp. The data collected by the app is extensive, and includes:

“The names and profile images of a user’s WhatsApp groups as well as their phone number, profile photo, status message, phone battery level, language and time zone, unique mobile phone ID and IP address, wireless signal strength and phone operating system, as a list of their electronic devices, any related Facebook and Instagram accounts, the last time they used the app and any previous history of violations.”

These moderators are not employees of WhatsApp or Facebook. Instead they are contractors working for $16.50 per hour, hired by consulting firm Accenture. These workers are bound to silence by nondisclosure agreements, and their hiring went unannounced by Facebook.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/chinese-state-media-label-george-soros-a-terrorist/

China’s mouthpiece Global Times has labeled Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros a “global economic terrorist” in a tit for tat exchange playing out in dueling op-eds that underscore the rising temperature in US-China relations.

The article, published on September 4 and without citing any evidence, accused the hedge fund manager and philanthropist of providing finance to Hong Kong’s jailed newspaper owner Jimmy Lai to support the city’s anti-Beijing protests in 2019.

Soon thereafter, Soros penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that said New York-based BlackRock’s recent 6.7 billion yuan (US$1 billion) mutual fund investment in China was a “tragic mistake” and would likely lose money for the asset manager’s clients. Soros wrote the BlackRock investment “imperils the national security interests of the US.”

He said indices, including MSCI’s ACWI, ESG Leaders Index and BlackRock’s ESG Aware, have “effectively forced hundreds of billions of dollars belonging to US investors into Chinese companies whose corporate governance does not meet the required standard — power and accountability is now exercised by one man (Xi) who is not accountable to any international authority.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78jwx/qanon-pastors-spreading-conspiracies-youtube

The uber-conspiracy theory QAnon, which has destroyed families and inspiredfollowers to commit political violence and even murder, is officially banned on YouTube. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist on the platform, and a VICE News investigation has found that evangelical leaders are successfully circumventing YouTube’s rules to spread QAnon conspiracies to millions of people. Indeed, through YouTube, QAnon conspiracies are becoming endemic in the most popular evangelical channels, even though they never mention QAnon at all.

The investigation was conducted in collaboration with data analysts at Pendulum, a data science company that uses machine-learning technology to track misinformation on YouTube. The researchers found at least 1,800 Christian evangelical channels that have posted at least one video with a signature QAnon phrase.

https://www.pendulum.company/

Pendulum is a trend forecasting tool that helps fashion businesses make informed product and sales decisions.

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-09-02

Research teams will work to develop automated tools to aid analysts in detecting, characterizing, and tracking geopolitical influence campaigns online

“The U.S. is engaged with its adversaries in an asymmetric, continual war of weaponized influence narratives,” said Brian Kettler, the Information Innovation Office (I2O) program manager leading INCAS. “The combination of connectivity and modern media has greatly amplified the potential effects of geopolitical influence campaigns on populations.

INCAS aims to provide analysts with the ability to detect, characterize, and track geopolitical influence campaigns across multiple languages and platforms with confidence. The program plans to take on this technical research challenge across five research areas. The first is focused on the development of tools that enable analysts to directly and automatically detect implicit and explicit indicators of geopolitical influence in multilingual online messaging. Research teams working in this technical area will be led by SIFT, Protagonist Technology, and University of Southern California ISI.

a second group of researchers will work to develop tools that dynamically segment the responding population and identify psychographic attributes relevant to geopolitical influence. Psychographic attributes, such as worldviews, morals, and values, are hypothesized to correlate more strongly with geopolitical influence response than the personality and demographic attributes used for marketing.

The third research area will focus on the development of analyst-guided influence campaign modeling tools that accelerate analysts’ ability to detect and link influence indicators and messaging with population response over time and across multiple platforms.

Under the fourth research area, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories was selected to develop a testbed as well as provide social media messaging and other data feeds that the research teams can use to develop and evaluate their INCAS tools.

Finally, University of Maryland ARLIS will work to design and conduct technology evaluations, develop ground truth evaluation data for program scenarios, manage a multidisciplinary group of subject matter experts, and support transition evaluation efforts under the fifth research area.

https://sputniknews.com/20210908/saudi-arabia-backs-full-declassification-of-us-911-docs-to-end-baseless-allegations-1088891150.html

Saudi Arabia Backs Full Declassification of US 9/11 Docs to 'End Baseless Allegations'

7 minutes ago

https://www.ibtimes.com/majority-americans-will-quit-if-forced-get-vaccinated-their-employer-poll-3291098

The majority of American employees may be resistant to the push from the Biden Administration for employers to mandate vaccinations for workers in the private sector, according to a new poll from the Washington Post-ABC News.

According to the poll, as many as 16% of unvaccinated workers said they would get the COVID shot if mandated by their employer, while 35% said they would request a medical or religious exemption, and 42% said they would quit their job.

When the respondents of the poll were asked if they weren’t given an exemption to elect out of the vaccination mandate, 18% said they would comply with the requirement, and a staggering 72% said they would quit their job.