[Wall Street Journal] Commercial database that maps movements of millions of cellphones is deployed by immigration and border authorities.
WASHINGTON‐The Trump administration has bought access to a commercial database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones in America and is using it for immigration and border enforcement, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The location data is drawn from ordinary cellphone apps, including those for games, weather and e-commerce, for which the user has granted permission to log the phone’s location.
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A gunman who targeted a group of families gathered for a Mother’s Day celebration at a school in Brazil was fatally shot by an off-duty cop. Katia Sastre was praised by local officials for her bravery and was credited with saving the day.
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glad he died, should have put one in the back of his head.
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One sexy and lethal mom!
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Ms Sistre was Militar Policia for 21 years.
Many Brazilians want concealed carry so they convinced her to run for political office to push for that and she won with a huge margin.
Mothers and children continued to scatter because usually a second armed assailant is waiting off to one side to eliminate any resistabce to what the first assailent is doing. That is how the bad guys do things in Brazil.
[NYP] A Canadian man loathes his ex-wife so much, he set fire to more than $1 million to keep her from getting her hands on it, he told a judge.
Bruce McConville, 55, a businessman and failed mayoral candidate from Ottawa, said he sold several properties, then burned the cash.
“I find what you have done to be morally reprehensible,” said Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips, before jailing McConville for 30 days for failing to pay $300,000 in spousal and child support.
He also ordered McConville to pay his ex a $2,000-per-day fine.
[New York Post] Haunting drone footage shows the largely empty thoroughfares in the coronavirus epicenter city of Wuhan, a sprawling metropolis of 11 million residents that appears to have been transformed into a ghost town.
The video ‐ posted on Twitter by ABC News ‐ captures a variety of eerie scenes, including one bridge with a handful of vehicles, another that is devoid of traffic, a lone car on a six-lane highway and the airport at a standstill.
The Chinese government put the country’s fifth-largest city under lockdown on Jan. 23, halting all forms of public transportation three days before banning the use of non-essential vehicles in the downtown area.
The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei, the epicenter of the #coronavirus outbreak, has risen by 69 to 618 as of Thursday, according to Chinese state television.https://t.co/UK0hklPNvv
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This could be an indication of the local public health infrastructure being overwhelmed and thus many seriously ill patients being denied care.
If the numbers (including the leaked/rumored ones) are true this would indicate that hospital care drastically reduces fatality rates in serious cases.
OTOH without hospital care fatality rates seem to be disturbingly high.
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So the pedophiles in Washington can no longer corn hole gay raised Asian children or make them tea boys or they could catch cornholio virus! Corn in poop!
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[Bloomberg] Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to spin out and pursue a public offering of its its budding space-internet business Starlink, giving investors a chance to buy into one of the most promising operations within the closely held company.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has already launched more than 240 satellites to build out Starlink, which will start delivering internet services to customers from space this summer, President Gwynne Shotwell said Thursday at a private investor event hosted by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Miami.
“Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink is the right kind of business that we can go ahead and take public,” said Shotwell, SpaceX’s chief operating officer. “That particular piece is an element of the business that we are likely to spin out and go public.” StarLink
[Breitbart] Counties in Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina have declared Second Amendment sanctuary status this week as grassroots efforts to protect gun rights sweep the country.
The Daily Courier reports that over 200 people showed up to Arizona’s Yavapai County’s board meeting this week and the 2nd Amendment sanctuary resolution was passed.
News4Jax reports that Florida’s St. John’s County commissioners voted unanimously for a Second Amendment sanctuary resolution, bringing the number of 2A sanctuary counties in the Sunshine State to nearly 30. The St. John’s resolution means the county will not "enforce gun laws it feels are unconstitutional or violate the Second Amendment."
WFMY reports that North Carolina’s Rockingham County passed its resolution on Tuesday night. A "standing room only" crowd supporting the resolution filled the county commissioner meeting.
Over 100 local governments in Virginia have declared Second Amendment sanctuary status since Gov. Ralph Northam (D) intimated a war on guns in early November 2019. Nearly 70 counties in Illinois have declared Second Amendment sanctuary status as well.
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This village is on one of the branches of the Yukon River at its mouth in western alaska. There is a serious low in the area that’s been there for a week. Blizzard conditions and high winds. Kids did the right thing except going out in approaching weather.
About 5 years ago my oldest son was walking with his dog after a blizzard went through Kotzebue, his dog went to a seemingly wind blown jacket half buried on drifted snow. The dog went over and was seriously sniffing the jacket. My son came over to discover the body of a frozen teenaged girl. It is so easy to get disoriented in a blizzard. The winds will suck out one’s heat. Ma Nature can kill you without even blinking.
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[France24] Two die and around 20 others are thought to be trapped below ground in a mining accident in Zimbabwe. And the world's mining elite gather in Cape Town for a top flight industry conference. We hear more about the challenges facing a sector.
[DefenseOne] As Coronavirus Spreads, China’s Military Is Largely MIA
The PLA’s anemic participation is odd given its past performance, planning, and pronouncements.
As the 2019 novel coronavirus spread into a full-fledged epidemic, China’s government took an extraordinary series of responses, effectively quarantining some 50 million people in the Wuhan area. But even as the government (somewhat belatedly) sprung into action, its limited mobilization of Chinese military assets and personnel has been notable — both because militaries traditionally play significant roles in battling pandemics and Beijing has in recent years been at pains to trumpet its burgeoning military capability.
At a moment when hospitals across China are posting cries for supplies on social media, the anemic response by the People’s Liberation Army calls into question some of its most lauded capabilities: powerful logistics and mass military-civil contingency response mobilization.
Because pandemics stretch normal civilian capacity and require rapid response at scale, governments often mobilize military units to help with everything from health and food services to security and construction. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa, the U.S. military sent more than 4,000 troops, led by the 101st Airborne headquarters, who helped global and local health organizations with aid delivery, logistics, transportation and also built 17 hospitals each with 100 beds. Today, the U.S. military has already announced plans to provide quarantine housing for as many as 1,000 people coming from areas where there has been a coronavirus outbreak.
Yet the first group of PLA medical units began to arrive in Wuhan only on Jan. 24, nearly a month after the virus began to spread. They arrived in relatively small numbers: three medical teams were reported to have been sent from Shanghai, Chongqing and Xi’an, totaling 450 personnel. The subsequent lack of any major following deployment was striking, especially as needs ranged from supply to construction, such that regime officials even turned to making false claims of building hospitals in record time.
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...There's also the fact because Xi is like every other Communist dictator - he needs his military, but he sure as Shanghai don't trust 'em. Things start breaking down, and it's going to be awfully tempting for anybody with a bit of warlord in him.
Mike
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One reason not to mobilize is to try and keep a lid on the story. A big troop movement would be news and rumors.
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So they decided not to charge themselves tariffs on all the sky and pork from all the farm land they own in the United States awesome ! Show them who is boss are we under a trillion yet with the debt laws to China ? Are they still guarding all of their infrastructure minerals has and oil in the middle East and africa?? Awesome one for the win column!
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Feb. 06, 2020 - 3:27 - Professional football player Jarred Evans has been quarantined at a U.S. military base for eight days since arriving in California.
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To Skidmark:
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Website have ways to get around it. Why don't you tell us how to disable websites that purposely code to get around web browser configs, smart guy. Or you could ask your mother.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth likely picked up in January, with unseasonably mild temperatures seen boosting hiring in the weather-sensitive sectors, indicating the economy will probably continue to grow moderately despite a deepening slump in business investment.
Nov employment revised up 2k
Dec employment revised up 5k
also continued wage growth
average work week basically no change
and amazingly (and in a separate report from a different govt agency, the inflation rate is still about 2% and intrabank lending rate still below 5%
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AND--best part--the increase in labor force participation. The economy is so good that people who haven't even been looking for work for some time now figure that they can find it. Great, great news!!!
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[Campus Reporm] Yet another university medical research professor has been charged for alleged ties to Chinese efforts to steal American research.
Just a week after Harvard University chemistry chairman Charles Lieber was indicted for allegedly lying about his ties to China, specifically a technology university in the heart of coronavirus hub city Wuhan, court records allege that another professor lied about ties to China.
Newly-unearthed court records reveal that Emory University neuroscientist Xiojiang Li was fired in late 2019 after being charged with lying about his own ties to China. Li was part of the same Chinese program as Lieber.
The “Thousand Talents” plan recruits American academics to collaborate with Chinese universities.
A 2019 senate report called the Thousand Talents program an inherent violation of “U.S. standards of research integrity” noting that its practices “place members in compromising legal and ethical positions, and undermine fundamental U.S. scientific norms of transparency, reciprocity, and integrity.”
While Emory fired both Li and his wife, he was the only individual named in the court documents, which alleges that he was simultaneously receiving salaries from both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Emory University while purporting to only be working for Emory.
Li expressed indignance that the university chose to cut ties with him after his lies were revealed, claiming that he was “shocked” that the school would fire a “tenured professor” in what he called “such an unusual and abrupt fashion.
Both Li and his wife worked at the university for more than two decades, studying Huntington’s disease.
In December, a Harvard medical researcher was caught trying to smuggle vials of cancer cells back to china in a sock.
[Politico] The Yang campaign insists it had planned to reduce the size of his organization after Iowa. The official wouldn’t specify the number of people who were fired, but the fired staffers said it was in the dozens. According to FEC reports released last week, the Yang campaign had more than 230 people on staff.
"As part of our original plans following the Iowa caucuses, we are winding down our Iowa operations and restructuring to compete as the New Hampshire primary approaches," campaign manager Zach Graumann said in a statement to POLITICO. "These actions are a natural evolution of the campaign post-Iowa, same as other campaigns have undertaken, and Andrew Yang is going to keep fighting for the voices of the more than 400,000 supporters who have donated to the campaign and placed a stake in the future of our country."
The campaign also disputed that the national political and policy directors were "senior" staffers, despite their titles. Spokesman SY Lee said both directors did research and wrote first drafts because they "were not good enough" to have decision-making responsibilities.
"Titles mean different things in different organizations," Lee said.
Former campaign employees who were granted anonymity to speak candidly said many people expected staffing changes after New Hampshire, not Iowa.
One Yang staffer who was cut loose after his Iowa campaign was dumbfounded by the lack of communication.
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There can be only one. And whoever he is, he’ll need trained staff... and who else will there be available other than the staff cast off by the losers of this particularly amusing race?
A man has been charged after a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped on the premises of the American embassy in India’s capital New Delhi, according to the police.https://t.co/duHOsschGi
[JPost] - The spread of and fear generated by the coronavirus has led extremists to promote conspiracy theories and share their antisemitic views, the Anti-Defamation League said. Surprise meter
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...In addition, extremists are using the coronavirus spread to advance their antisemitic theories that Jews are responsible for creating the virus and are spreading it to increase their control or profiting from it.
Meanwhile, users on mainstream platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit are circulating conspiracy theories. One says that coverage of the coronavirus is a hoax and distraction designed to frighten the public. Another says its impact is far worse than authorities want people to think.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Not particularly new technology. 
[NYP] A Canadian man loathes his ex-wife so much, he set fire to more than $1 million to keep her from getting her hands on it, he told a judge.
[DefenseOne] As Coronavirus Spreads, China’s Military Is Largely MIA
[Campus Reporm] Yet another university medical research professor has been charged for alleged ties to Chinese efforts to steal American research. 
[JPost] - The spread of and fear generated by the coronavirus has led extremists to promote conspiracy theories and share their antisemitic views, the Anti-Defamation League said.
