In the late 1960’s, government bioweapons labs started injecting ticks with exotic diseases.
Soon, people nearby began to get those diseases. Now, tick-borne Lyme is endemic. Naturally the government has admitted nothing.
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RE COLLIN RUGG: NEW:Georgia Election Board dumbfounded after finding out that 3,000 ballots were scanned twice in the 2020 election recount in Fulton County
The board also revealed that 380,761 ballot images from machine count were “not available.”
Q: Does Fulton County know why there are not 380,761 ballot images from election day?
A: As with the investigators we have not been apprised of this allegation. This is the first I'm hearing about it.
General counsel for the secretary of state’s office Charlene McGowan confirmed that Fulton County broke the law in their recount.
“Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest in 2020.”
Despite this, the board refused to approve further investigation.
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Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names.
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, early Friday approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools.
The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War.
Mountain View High School will go back to the name Stonewall Jackson High School. Honey Run Elementary School will go back to the name Ashby-Lee Elementary School.
The board stripped their names after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, fueling a national racial reckoning. The calls for racial justice and equity inspired some communities to remove Confederate symbolism and statues of Confederate generals.
But in Shenandoah County, the conservative group Coalition for Better Schools petitioned school officials to reinstate the names of Jackson, Lee and Ashby. “We believe that revisiting this decision is essential to honor our community’s heritage and respect the wishes of the majority,” the coalition wrote in an April 3 letter to the board, according to a copy posted online.
The board considered a similar motion in 2022, but it failed because of a tie vote.
Four years ago, a previous incarnation of the board moved to change the names in a 5-1 vote, according to minutes from a meeting held July 9, 2020. The minutes say that the goal of the resolution was "condemning racism and affirming the division’s commitment to an inclusive school environment for all."
The current members said the 2020 board's decision was made hastily and without appropriate community input. About 80 people spoke Thursday before the board's vote — more than 50 of them against restoring the old names.
"I am a Black student, and if the names are restored, I would have to represent a man that fought for my ancestors to be slaves," one student said in a direct appeal to the board members, later adding: "I think it is unfair to me that restoring the names is up for discussion."
In the last decade, Confederate iconography has provoked intense sociopolitical divides across the nation.
https://www.notus.org/congress/tsa-facial-recognition-privacy-faa
After a Loss on FISA, Privacy-Minded Senators Find a New Target: Facial Recognition at Airports
After losing a fight on government surveillance in April, a left-right coalition of privacy hawks in the Senate is onto the next privacy battle: facial recognition technology in airports.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition technology are vastly different with completely unrelated goals. TSA emphasized to NOTUS that their facial recognition software is never used for surveillance or law enforcement and that it is optional for travelers.
But in Congress, the two have fallen under the same mantle, taken up by the emerging, informal caucus of civil libertarians increasingly skittish about the potential for government surveillance of private residents — for any purpose.
A group of 14 senators are leading the charge against the TSA expanding its facial recognition program. They had hoped their proposed legislation to curb the program would ride the must-pass Federal Aviation Authority bill. That didn’t happen.
“The potential for misuse of this technology extends far beyond airport security checkpoints,” wrote the senators, a coalition that ranges from hard-right conservatives like Mike Braun and Roger Marshall to outspoken progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. “Once Americans become accustomed to government facial recognition scans, it will be that much easier for the government to scan citizens’ faces everywhere.”
All but one in the group, Republican Sen. John Kennedy, also voted against reauthorizing FISA.
“Privacy does not sort people out by the traditional political affiliations and it does create some interesting and new partnerships,” Warren told NOTUS.
Kennedy framed the facial recognition program in the same vein as government surveillance.
“When we were going through this discussion of how to balance privacy and efficiency with FISA, we were only talking about thousands of people, now we’re talking about millions of people,” Kennedy told NOTUS. “TSA has this extraordinary power to collect all these biometrics on the American people.”
Currently, TSA uses facial recognition technology at about 80 airports and plans to expand to more than 400 over the next few years, according to the agency. A camera snaps a picture of the traveler and the technology compares it to their ID to verify their identity. TSA says the photos are not typically stored but can be kept “in a limited testing environment for evaluation of the effectiveness of the technology.”
TSA has also been testing out a facial matching program in which certain passengers wouldn’t need to present an ID at all, and the technology would instead compare in-person photos to images in a database. The senators’ proposal aims to block the expansion of both programs.
Outside lobbyists have also jumped into the debate. A group of free speech and digital rights groups signed a letter urging senators to pause TSA’s expansion of facial recognition technology — citing concerns about bias, accuracy and privacy — until “Congress can conduct meaningful oversight of the program.”
The U.S. Travel Association accused Congress of “threatening to create chaos at airports,” and asserted that pausing expansion of the program could “result in travelers waiting an additional 120 million hours in TSA lines each year.” (TSA’s web page on the technology says opting out “will not take longer.”)
On Thursday, the legislation was left out of the Senate’s FAA extension.
Kennedy, however, vowed that the fight wouldn’t end.
“This is the first step in what is likely to be a long saga,” Kennedy said. “We’ve exposed [TSA] and now they’re running around like a bunch of sprayed roaches.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/northern-lights-visible-us-where-solar-storm-rcna151643
Severe solar storm expected to supercharge northern lights on Friday
The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued its first "severe geomagnetic storm watch" since 2005. Auroras might be seen as far south as Alabama.
A severe solar storm is expected to supercharge the northern lights on Friday, with forecasts indicating that auroras could be seen as far south in the United States as Alabama.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center said Thursday that a series of solar flares and eruptions from the sun could trigger severe geomagnetic storms and “spectacular displays of aurora” on Earth from Friday evening through the weekend.
It was the first severe geomagnetic storm watch the agency has issued since 2005.
“We have a rare event on our hands,” said Shawn Dahl, a service coordinator at the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. "We're a little concerned. We haven't seen this in a long time."
Because strong geomagnetic storms have the power to disrupt communications and power grids on Earth, as well as satellites in space, Dahl said satellite and grid operators have been notified to prepare.
He said forecasters predict the storm could arrive as soon as about 8 p.m. ET on Friday.
AURORA DASHBOARD (EXPERIMENTAL): https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental