Over a million Florida ex-convicts can begin registering to vote

US state voted in November to restore voting rights to most ex-convicts who have served all terms of their sentence.

The voting rights of many Florida ex-convicts were restored on Tuesday, and some are celebrating by registering on the first day they become eligible.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/million-florida-convicts-registering-vote-190108191727261.html

Democrats In Talks To Block All Legislation Until Government Reopens

CNN reports Senate Democrats may block any legislation unrelated to the government shutdown until the government reopens. They have reportedly decided to block a Syria sanctions bill when it appears for a vote Tuesday.

Democrats are scheduled to discuss at their weekly policy lunch Wednesday if they will extend the blocking tactic to all legislation. A senior Democratic aide said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “has notified the (Democratic) caucus that he will vote against proceeding to S.1 because Senate Republicans should instead bring to the floor the House-passed bills to reopen the government.”

https://www.thelibertyeagle.com/democrats-in-talks-to-block-all-legislation-until-government-reopens/

Companies argue against proposal not to house separated kids

An activist shareholder wants to pre-emptively block the nation's two largest private detention companies from housing immigrant children separated from their parents, but the companies don't want the proposal to go to a vote.

Tennessee-based CoreCivic and Florida-based GEO Group both say they have no intention of housing separated immigrant children or their parents, but the companies are fighting an attempt to require them to adopt policies to that effect.

Alex Friedmann, associate director of the Human Rights Defense Center, has submitted shareholder resolutions on the subject for a vote at the companies' annual meetings. Both companies have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to exclude the resolutions from shareholders packets sent ahead of their annual meetings, meaning there would be no vote.

After a global uproar last summer, President Trump scrapped his administration's policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/companies-argue-proposal-house-separated-kids-60241142

Coast Guard seizes 7 kilos of cocaine off coast of Dania Beach

DANIA BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - An illegal drug shipment was stopped at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Seven kilos of cocaine were seized from a fishing boat off the coast of Dania Beach, Tuesday.

Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations helped interdict the boat carrying a suspected smuggler and two migrants.

Everyone on board the boat was taken into custody.

https://wsvn.com/news/local/coast-guard-seizes-7-kilos-of-cocaine-off-coast-of-dania-beach/

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'DNA' technology now aiding in identifying stolen items

Kit provides enough gel to mark about 100 items

With more than 5 million thefts occurring nationally each year, even when law enforcement recovers stolen items, it’s still difficult for them to determine who the owner is.

One company has come up with a way to solve that problem: "DNA" for your property, and it’s microscopic.

Here’s the deal: You get a kit from ProTech DNA that comes with a personal PIN and an adhesive gel that has microscopic dots. You can rub a small amount of the gel on literally any item you own.

Should law enforcement track down your stolen item, they’ll be able to identify your personal PIN with a UV light and special camera.

Your PIN, which is added into the company’s database, produces your email and phone number for police.

Though the company was founded about eight years ago, the technology has become widespread in the last couple of years. The company now has nearly 5,000 police departments and counting on board, adding about 1,000 more each month.

https://www.news4jax.com/tech/-dna-technology-now-aiding-in-identifying-stolen-items

The entire reason government wants to TRACK all firearms is so tyrants can CONFISCATE them in the near future

The American Left has its dander up again over guns and is picking a new fight with a class of firearms that not only aren’t part of any major crime problem, but which have been around for years and no one seemed to mind or notice.

As noted by Bearing Arms, ever since the Trump administration decided to abandon the government’s case against Defense Distributed, an online open-source hardware organization that has developed schematics of firearms in CAD files that can be downloaded and used in 3D printing, Lefty Democrats have declared war on them.

The next skirmish is set to begin in Maryland, where ruling Democrats are looking to ban these so-called “untraceable guns.”

https://www.liberty.news/2019-01-02-government-wants-to-track-firearms-so-tyrants-can-confiscate.html

How China Might Repel the US Intellectual Property Trade Offensive

Intellectual property violations may be, in some sense, the WMD of the U.S.-China trade war

So how does China fight back against the U.S. trade offensive on the IP front?

https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/how-china-might-repel-the-us-intellectual-property-trade-offensive/

Exclusive: New documents link Huawei to suspected front companies in Iran, Syria

LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The U.S. case against the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who was arrested in Canada last month, centers on the company’s suspected ties to two obscure companies. One is a telecom equipment seller that operated in Tehran; the other is that firm’s owner, a holding company registered in Mauritius.

U.S. authorities allege CFO Meng Wanzhou deceived international banks into clearing transactions with Iran by claiming the two companies were independent of Huawei, when in fact Huawei controlled them. Huawei has maintained the two are independent: equipment seller Skycom Tech Co Ltd and shell company Canicula Holdings Ltd.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-exclusive/exclusive-new-documents-link-huawei-to-suspected-front-companies-in-iran-syria-idUSKCN1P21MH?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29