Daily Mail: Evacuations ordered as 'fast-moving' wildfire erupts in wealthy Hamptons enclave.
A state of emergency has been declared in New York after several wildfires set the Hamptons ablaze with residents have been forced to flee the area.
Saw the below of Elon's rebranding Twitter's symbol to an X, ditching the Blue Bird, but don't have Twit so can't dig deeper there. Can't find much searching other than wild conspiracy theories (and readers know I don't go there) floating around that Elon is/isn't a Freemason.
Found this on "a message board" last night:
It must be true!
NOTHING will happen.
Unless...it's our Cat Overlords a'comin for us...we're doomed...
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A Win is a Win. I'll take it.
Bloooger. Doing their best to keep the NWO, the Elitists and WEF alive and well. While going after a blog that, on a good day, gets maybe 800-1,000 hits/day.
Way to go Gooolag/Blooger...keep sucking that Globalist C*ck!
A 40th gathering in Connecticut has been dubbed 'party zero' after guests became infected and spread coronavirus across several states and the around the world.Some infected individual at the party double-dipped...
About 50 guests reportedly gathered on March 5 at a home in the wealthy suburb of Westport for a lavish buffet and celebration.
After the event, roughly half of those at the party became infected with the disease, then transmitted it to other states and the rest of the world.
According to the New York Times, guests left that evening for Johannesburg, New York City, other parts of Connecticut and the wider US.
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On the day of the party Connecticut did not have a single recorded case of coronavirus, but as of today 10 people in the state have died with 415 infections.
More than 50 people currently are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Connecticut.
In Westport state officials say there have been 74 cases of infection.
The upmarket enclave remains the Connecticut community with the highest number of infections.
Lidingö, a tony area whose residents include ABBA and other celebrities, has become the first in Stockholm to ban begging. Seemingly flying in the face of the Swedish identity, the move, passed by one vote, has divided the city.We can't have the Elite Well-Heeled Society feeling unsafe and insecure by the presence of beggars.
With its elite residents including ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, Lidingö is only the seventh municipality in all of Sweden to ban begging, and the idea still makes many Swedes uncomfortable.
In a country whose very identity is tied up with its robust universal welfare state and which for years had what was considered Europe’s most welcoming attitude to outsiders, the decision came as a bit of shock. Some outraged locals have called it a violation of human rights. Others, however, said it’s necessary to keep the well-heeled residents safe.
“The begging is a big problem and makes many Lidingö people feel insecure,” Daniel Källenfors, chairman of the municipal council, told Dagens Nyheter on Monday, after the measure was passed.
Opponents of the ban say it merely pushes the problem into other municipalities and scoff at the idea that moneyed locals feel threatened by beggars. “I have not so far found any Lidingö residents who say they are insecure,” Patrik Buddgård of the Center Party told DN. His party joined the Liberals to oppose the ban, which squeaked by with a vote of 26 for to 25 against.
“I’m afraid of this development,” Anna Larsdotter Persson, who watched the vote from the audience, told Mitti.se, adding that she “does not buy” the idea that the ban will improve the lives of beggars and believes it is a “populist policy” masquerading as something else.
“I have never been so ashamed of Lidingö as I am now,” Anita Dorazio, a representative for the Stockholm Asylum Committee and refugee advocate, told the outlet.
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...[T]he beggars, in many cases that attracted publicity, are not locals. Six Bulgarians were arrested in December for trafficking nine of their countrymen to southern Sweden and forcing them to beg. The victims, including a pregnant woman who miscarried after she was assaulted by the traffickers, were fined, beaten, or starved by their “employers” if they did not bring in enough cash, according to Växjö District Court’s ruling.
Nor are beggars the only ones feeling the chill as the famously welcoming Swedish attitude begins to curdle after years of abuse. Faced with the reality that over 418,431 asylum-seekers – and a total of 920,206 immigrants – have made their way to Sweden since the Syrian war kicked the migrant crisis into high gear, Sweden, with a population of less than 10 million, has belatedly realized that being a migration capital of Europe isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Bengtsfors, a municipality in southern Sweden, was forced to beg the government for economic help earlier this year after taking in more migrants than it could afford.
Posted on 30 April 2019 at 18:58 GMT
The Socialist Party in England and Wales is a section of the CWI (Committee for a Workers' International) - which has sent out this May Day message.
The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) sends revolutionary May Day greetings to all workers and oppressed people fighting against capitalism worldwide.
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Capitalism means no stability for anyone and a life of toil and deprivation for the overwhelming majority.
In a new interview, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has issued a stern warning to major tech firms.Read more at the EFF: CDA 230 The Most Important Law Protecting the Internet.
Pelosi has prepared to do away with Section 230.
Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, [CDA] the most important law protecting freedom of expression and innovation on the internet, states:
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
In short, this law protects online intermediaries – i.e., Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, etc. – from being held legally responsible for what users say and do. Section 230 also protects ISPs and online services that publish third-party content, including bloggers that host comments on their sites.
Calling the law “a gift” to tech firms, Pelosi hinted that House Democrats will likely remove the immunity provided by Section 230.
“It’s a gift to them and I don’t think that they’re treating it with the respect that they should, and so I think that that could be a question mark and in jeopardy…
“I do think that for the privilege of 230, there has to be a bigger sense of responsibility on it. And, it’s not out of the question that that could be removed," [said Pelosi].
According to research by Accenture and the Stevens Institute of Technology, as many as 23 million fully automated vehicles will cruise on U.S. streets by 2035. As a result, insurers could see losses as great as $25 billion. Even worse, a report by KPMG puts expected losses by 2050 at $137 billion.- - -
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According to a survey by AAA, 63 percent of U.S. drivers are afraid to ride in a self-driving vehicle. The rate of fearful drivers was 78 percent last year.
Researchers at Internet watchdog group Citizen Lab orchestrated the sting after they grew suspicious of a man calling himself Michael Lambert who contacted Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton to request a lunch meeting at a New York hotel. The suspicions were fueled by an earlier meeting in December, in which a man masquerading as a socially conscious investor named Gary Bowman grilled a different Citizen Lab researcher about work the watchdog did exposing NSO Group, the Israeli exploit seller.
- - -[Russian] military forces have also been testing the feasibility of having AI-powered wingmen fly alongside Russian fighter pilots, executing commands issued by the human pilot an inaugurating a scary new chapter in aerial military combat.
The Hyperledger Grid project, as it's called, will initially offer businesses modular software and smart contract components to address problems such as tracking and tracing shipped goods, electronic certifications and bill of lading exchange.- - -
"Supply chain is one of the most promising areas for blockchain use cases, and implementation of many of these use cases can benefit from capabilities which can be provided by a shared platform," the Linux Foundation said earlier this week.
If the predictions of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff prove to be true, [AI] will one day become a new human right.- - -
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According to Benioff, AI is going to become a service which everyone will need. Countries and companies alike will be "smarter," "healthier," and "richer" if they have AI, whereas those without will be "weaker and poorer, less educated and sicker," the publication reports.
In addition, those with artificial intelligence capabilities will have the most advanced warfare capabilities, the executive says, and as we know, military power is often linked to resource gain.
Despite the fact that the company’s founder and president is a former officer in China’s People’s Liberation Army and the company remains heavily funded by the Chinese government, there’s also no public, direct evidence that Huawei is using its equipment to spy on network traffic inside the U.S. or any other country. In any case, Huawei can’t prove a negative, so all it can do is allow governments to assess its devices — which has so far found some issues but nothing conclusive to tie it to Chinese espionage actors.- - -
That’s the crux of the argument: nobody thinks Huawei is spying now. To get caught would be too dangerous. But nobody knows that it won’t spy in the future.
The UN’s Agenda 21 and 2030 Agenda are personified by this propaganda: “walking comes first, bicycles and scooters second and public transport third. Cars should only come in fourth place.” That’s right, you can walk wherever you need to go. ⁃ TN Editor
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[W]e will see a transition to the shared economy. In the future, we will not own cars. Judged by efficiency, it is nonsense. Up to ten people can share one vehicle.
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Are consumers ready to accept that car ownership doesn’t make sense?
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In the future, car ownership could end up being only reserved for super-luxury vehicles and super-rich people. But considering efficiency, it is definitely not the way to go. Transport networks will be optimised, emissions will be cut down.
An arsonist broke into the homeowner's ute before 8am, reversed it into the side of the Belah Street home in Ashmore, set the vehicle alight and the fire spread to the house.
The 46-year-old male resident was not home at the time.
- - -A 2017 fire in California that killed 22 people and destroyed more than 5,600 structures was caused by a private electrical system adjacent to a home, California fire officials said Thursday, CNN reported.
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The Tubbs Fire started in Sonoma County on Oct. 8, 2017, burning 36,807 acres and destroying 5,636 structures, Cal Fire said.
Ocasio-Cortez did not indicate which translation of the Bible she was using or provide links to the passages she cited.No...no she didn't. We couldn't expect her to accurately quote the Bible, should we? The Memes...oh how we'll be treated to the Memes!
In addition to having employed numerous Clinton and Obama staffers, Harris has also been busy privately courting their old donors. Notably, while she has been courting Clinton’s biggest and most influential donors during a series of private luncheons and meetings in the Hamptons, Harris’ fledgling campaign has been eager to portray her as a “crowd-funded” candidate. Indeed, when one visits Harris’ campaign website, a banner immediately appears that reads “Alert! Kamala refuses to accept donations from corporate PACS! Add your donation here.”- - -
Happiness was, for eight years, also known as Hope and Change.[Carl] Cederstrom, who is also the author of the book "The Happiness Fantasy", warned that the focus by employers on their staff's wellbeing allows them to "achieve more control over employees".
"Now even in work places where people work for the minimum wage they are expected to be happy," he said.
He said that many elites harbour a "naive illusion" that poverty can be resolved through personal fulfilment [sic] schemes.
"Happiness is such a vague idea that it is easily exploited."
The shade Cuomo chose was a putrid pink that could be called Luciferian pink, a color that comes with an acrid odor of sulphur [sic].- - -
Despite warnings that a 37-year-old ape might die if transferred to an Ohio zoo, a federal judge said Thursday he can only settle matters of law, not what’s best for the well-being of the late Koko the gorilla’s longtime friend Ndume.Another reason we need gorillas as judges.
“I’m not the sterling professor of gorilla care,” U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said in court Thursday. “I’m a judge. I have to look at the contractual terms and see if the risks are so great as to defeat the contractual purpose.”
