UKRAINE INC - Episode 03
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San Francisco Democrat Pushes To Restrict Gun Use By Security Guards
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston introduced new draft legislation earlier this week that would prevent security officers in the crime-ridden progressive metro area from using their firearms to protect property.
"We must amend local law to prohibit guards from drawing weapons just to protect property," Preston tweeted on Tuesday.
The Democratic Socialist's proposal follows an incident last month when a Walgreens security guard shot and killed suspected burglar Banko Brown.
Preston's ridiculous push to limit the ability of security guards to use firearms while on the job attracted criticism from the world's second-richest person, Elon Musk:
"It's bad enough already. If security guards can't protect stores, offices, homes or themselves from violent criminals, who would remain in San Francisco?"
Another tech entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale said, "SF leaders are basically openly inciting robbery. A security guard damn well can defend you and your property with a gun, in a free country."
Lonsdale said he's concerned about his "friends and colleagues" in this increasingly "lawless" city, adding, "I hope they succeed at voting out people like Preston."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-francisco-democrat-pushes-restrict-gun-use-security-guards
Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private
One Deep State is bad enough, but a renegade, predatory private-sector Deep State is intolerable.
In 2007, well before the term Deep State entered the common lexicon, I sketched the interconnected public-private pieces of the Deep State, which I termed the elite maintaining and extending global dominance. This diagram doesn't make all the connections or list all the consequential nodes of influence of course, but you get the idea: elected officials, i.e. "democracy," play a modest role in the entire structure, which displays remarkable continuity regardless of which politicians and parties are currently in power.
That's the whole idea, of course: continuity that can't be disrupted by an election.
What's changed is the emergence of a private-sector Deep Statea.k.a. Big Techthat has established unprecedented power outside the control of elected officials even as it continues to play ball with the traditional public-sector dominated Deep State of the alphabet federal agencies and informal public-private sector ties.
This private-sector Deep State is free to pursue its own agenda of information-gathering and selling, surveillance, influence and profit-maximizing monopolies while seeming to serve the traditional Deep State as information-collecting and censorship services.
What makes Big Tech a private-sector Deep State is that nobody outside the corporations knows precisely what's in their databases and algorithms or the extent of their capabilities. Sure, they share information with the traditional Deep State players, and censor whomever it's "suggested" they censor / shadow-ban, but that transfer isn't 100% of what Big Tech has in hand. All that transfer is just enough to appear to be playing ball so Big Tech can "suggest" OK, we've done our part, now leave us alone.
The problem with both Deep States is there is no recourse within the system for those censored / shadow-banned, those being tracked, those whose data is being siphoned off and sold to whomever offers a hefty sum of cash, and so on. The basic idea of the US Constitution is that every citizen has some recourse via the judicial or political systems should the state (government) or private entities overstep the boundaries established by the Constitution.
Citizens have no recourse against the predations of Big Tech or the traditional Deep State. Um, hello there, Big Tech, could you please share precisely how and when I've been shadow-banned, who else has copies of the data you've collected about me and how much you "earned" selling my data to third parties? What's actually in your AI tools? Does any public agency have any real oversight power over all the looting, pillaging and predation you're pursuing?
So sorry (heh), you agreed to our terms of service which grant us all the rights and our algorithms and databases are protected proprietary corporate property. So blow chow, pal, you have no recourse. We're a corporation, we have rights; you're only a citizen, you have none. You currently have permission to post photos of puppies and kittens, so just enjoy the photos of puppies and kittens and be happy you haven't yet been digitally erased entirely.
Um, hello there, Alphabet-Soup Agency, could I please have all the files you've assembled on me? Yes, there is a protocol for requesting information (the Freedom of Information Act FOIA), but there are exemptions and delays, so don't hold your breath.
Meanwhile, the nation careens into an era of Polycrisis, defined as a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part. This is of course a classic description of emergent systems, which display characteristics that differ from those generated by each individual component.
I've sketched out a few of these dynamics in the chart below of overlapping crises.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/05/our-two-deep-states-one-public-one.html
Egypt Rejects US Requests To Block Russian Military Flights
Washington is trying to pressure Egypt into closing its airspace for all Russian military flights, but the regional US ally isn't having it, which also awkwardly comes following a recent Pentagon leak showing Cairo planned to supply Moscow with rockets.
"Egypt has ignored U.S. requests to close its airspace to Russian military flights, American and Egyptian officials said, testing the limits of Washington’s ability to choke off Moscow’s supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive," The Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
"The U.S. and Ukraine persuaded countries including Turkey, Jordan and Iraq to cut access for at least some Russian military planes last year after the invasion of Ukraine, forcing Moscow’s aircraft to fly 2,000 extra miles and up to five hours further to reach strategic bases in Syria," the report continues.
Washington's concern is that Russia has likely been using Egyptian airspace to transport weapons from its arms depots elsewhere in the Middle East - for example in Syria where since 2015 it's had a significant military build-up, particularly focused along the coast.
Flight records cited in the WSJ report showed that at least seven such military flights which utilized this Syria route, before heading to Russia's Black Sea region.
Egypt over the past multiple decades has been just behind Israel as a top recipient of US foreign aid, to the tune of about $1.3 billion annually. In recent years Congress has made moves to withhold some of this if it doesn't better servce US interests. Washington has long propped up Egypt's military largely in order to keep the peace with Israel.
For example a State Department fact sheet has reviewed that "Since 1978, the United States has provided Egypt with over $50 billion in military and $30 billion in economic assistance."
Last month the Washington Post reported on a leaked slide which was part of the "Discord leaks" of Pentagon documents. The slide said that Sisi recently ordered production of up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-rejects-us-requests-block-russian-military-flights
Biden Takes Off to Rehoboth Beach for Another Vacation – Biden Has Spent 331 Days – 40% of His Presidency on Vacation with No Visitor Logs
Joe Biden on Saturday took off to his Rehoboth Beach compound after delivering a divisive commencement address at Howard University.
Joe Biden falsely claimed the most dangerous threat to the US is ‘white supremacy.’
Then he took off for another vacation.
Biden has spent 331 days – or 40% of his presidency – on vacation with no visitor logs.
Joe Biden barely made it up the stairs to Air Force One.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/watch-biden-takes-off-to-rehoboth-beach-for-another-vacation-biden-has-spent-331-days-40-of-his-presidency-on-vacation-with-no-visitor-logs/
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Footage taken by local residents confirms the destruction of a military facility with dozens of tons of ammunition near Khmelnytsky
Despite the fact that the SBU threatens with harsh measures all those Ukrainians who publish footage of arrivals or the consequences of arrivals at military facilities, such photos and videos still appear in Ukrainian public pages and on social media pages. In the afternoon, new evidence emerged of the consequences of the defeat of one of the enemy targets near Khmelnitsky.
Initially, it was reported that a kamikaze drone of the RF Armed Forces hit a fuel storage facility, but then evidence of a powerful detonation at the facility began to be published.
The detonation, which lasted several minutes, as well as the comments of local residents filming the explosions near Khmelnytsky from a distance, indicate that a large ammunition depot and a storage place for military equipment with a storage of fuel and lubricants for it were hit.
The comment of the one who recorded the explosions at the facility in Khmelnytsky on a mobile phone camera says that a few seconds after the start of burning, fragments began to scatter.
The height of the column of smoke and fire was several hundred meters.
It is known that the object, which was struck this morning, was completely destroyed. Together with him, the unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, which was engaged in the protection of the object, ceased to exist.
It was from the scattering of fragments and the blast wave that followed from the rupture of several tens of tons of ammunition that damage was recorded in the private sector. Recall that Ukrainian propaganda initially tried to pass off the damage in Khmelnitsky as a Russian strike on “civilian objects”.
https://en.topwar.ru/216951-snjatye-mestnye-zhiteljami-kadry-podtverzhdajut-unichtozhenie-voennogo-obekta-s-desjatkami-tonn-boepripasov-bliz-hmelnickogo.html
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Judge orders FDA to accelerate release of Covid-19 vaccine trial Data From 23 years to just 2
"The Court must ensure that the fullest possible disclosure of the information sought is timely provided — as 'stale information is of little value,'" Judge Pittman wrote.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been ordered by a federal judge in Texas to greatly accelerate the process of making the vaccine trial data public that it relied on to license Covid-19 vaccines.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman opened his order with the phrase, "Democracy dies behind closed doors," an apparent reference to the Washington Post slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness."
He wants all related documents to both Moderna's vaccine for adults and Pfizer's vaccine for children to be made public by mid-2025 — a little over two years from now — as opposed to the FDA's plan of taking 23.5 years to release it all. That is about 10 times faster than the FDA intended to produce the documents, according to The Epoch Times.
The ruling was made in a case in which the plaintiffs, the parents of a child injured by a Covid-19 vaccine, filed a lawsuit against the FDA.
The FDA had argued it would be "impractical" to release the documents at a pace faster than their estimate of 1,000 to 16,000 pages per month, of the estimated 4.8 million pages, which would have taken at least 23.5 years.
The lawyers representing the plaintiffs, Siri and Glimstad, called the decision "another blow for transparency and accountability," which builds on a January 2022 court order, also by Judge Pittman, targeting Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine data for those aged 16 and older. In that order, Pittman required Pfizer to produce the documents at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, which was much faster than the 75 years that Pfizer was seeking.
"That production should be completed in a few more months," Aaron Siri of the plaintiff's law firm said in a statement, referring to the Pfizer data.
Judge Pittman's latest order requires the FDA to produce all of its data on Pfizer's vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds and Moderna's vaccine for adults by June 30, 2025.
While the judge acknowledged that the court is aware of the FDA's limited resources dedicated to freedom of information requests (FOIA), he stated that "the number of resources an agency dedicates to such requests does not dictate the bounds of an individual's FOIA rights."
"Instead, the Court must ensure that the fullest possible disclosure of the information sought is timely provided — as 'stale information is of little value,'" Pittman wrote.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-orders-fda-accelerate-release-covid-19-vaccine-trial-data-23-years-just
Our Response to Covid Was ‘A Massive Overreaction’ | Peter Costello
Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving federal treasurer, predicts that Australia's response to Covid 19, when seen with hindsight in decades to come, will be considered draconian. Conditions the public were subjected to, Peter argues, were unnecessary given the middling severity of the virus.
https://youtu.be/pZYAkXSPzMk