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US spy tech agency IARPA ‘MOVES’ to diagnose people’s neurological conditions from video clips

IARPA, the US spy tech agency, is working on how to diagnose various  neurological conditions by analyzing video clips of how people move. 

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Last April, the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced the launch of its Movement Observation and Video-based Evaluation System (MOVES) program aimed at diagnosing neurological  health conditions from open source video clips.

These neurological conditions include:

  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Huntington’s Disease
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  • Cerebellar Ataxia
  • Essential Tremor
  • Dystonia

Shakes, tics, tremors, gaits, jerks, imbalances, and difficulties in walking, talking, swallowing, and breathing are all to be analyzed and diagnosed from video clips that may not have great angles or resolution.

And the people in the videos may be wearing all types of clothing like winter jackets, tunics, kurtas, headwear, and camo that could obfuscate their neurological conditions.

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Elizabeth Warren Proves She Has No Idea How the Basic Concept of ‘Supply and Demand’ Works

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was recently mocked on CNBC for fearmongering over the economy and getting tons of stuff wrong in general.

This is what Warren does now. It is what she has done every single day since the 2024 election. she complains and fearmongers about Trump and doesn’t even seem to care if what she is saying is even remotely true.

Now she is showing the world that she has no idea how the simple concept of supply and demand works.

Townhall reports:

Elizabeth Warren Proves Once Again That She Has No Idea How Basic Economics Works

It’s a fairly good rule of thumb that if Elizabeth Warren is against something, it’s probably a good thing that you should support. Or, at the very least, it reveals just how ignorant she is about how our supply-and-demand economy actually works.

She’s now waging a war against “dynamic pricing,” which she claims is how “giant companies … squeeze you even more.”

Yes, when people want more ice cream in the summer, the demand goes up while supply usually stays the same. So prices will go up. Same thing with tea bags in the winter.

Consumers often accept dynamic pricing. Airline tickets, for example, vary by price based on the day of the week and the season. Hotel room prices are subject to dynamic pricing, too.

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FL DSA Candidate Angie Nixon Compares ICE Agents to ‘Modern-Day Slave Catchers,’ Calls Enforcement ‘State-Sanctioned Violence’

Florida Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon has repeatedly attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling its officers “THUGS” and “kidnappers,” comparing immigration detention facilities to a “modern day concentration camp,” and arguing that the agency should be abolished as she campaigns against incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL).

Nixon, a Florida state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has made abolishing ICE a central part of her immigration platform. In one post, she referred to ICE officers as “THUGS.” In another, she called abolishing ICE a “moral choice” and said the United States must stop funding an agency that “terrorizes our neighborhoods, acts like a rogue paramilitary force, and operates completely in the dark.”

Nixon described ICE enforcement as “state-sanctioned violence” and has characterized the agency as a “weaponized paramilitary force that is designed to terrorize.”

In a clip, Nixon referred to ICE officers as “kidnappers” while advocating that agents be unmasked. She has also compared immigration detention facilities to a “modern day concentration camp” — a characterization she later doubled down on — and compared ICE agents to modern-day slave catchers.

Nixon has even insinuated that ICE agents might be shot: “We are a stand your ground state…I am concerned that some ICE officials might be shot.” 

She has also argued that ICE officers would racially profile and fatally shoot black Americans and said she wants “bad actors” investigated, arrested, and jailed.

“We’re black. They gonna profile us, too. They can’t tell the difference between a black American that is a descendant of slaves here in this country or someone from Jamaica or Nigeria. They are going to racially profile us and they are going to escalate things and they are going to shoot and kill us,” Nixon said.

“And they are going to get away with it unless we send people like me to Washington, DC, who are going to scrutinize and launch investigations to go after bad actors. To arrest them and to put them in jail and to call for an end and an abolishment of ICE,” she continued.

“We don’t need ICE. ICE was designed — ICE came about after the towers went down, after September 11th, and it came about to evoke fear and to target and to profile the Muslim community. It has now morphed into this agency that goes after immigrants, that demonizes immigrants,” Nixon added.

Nixon has also said Republicans are “literally trying to kill us” while discussing ICE enforcement.

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Two New Studies Raise Alarm Over Potential COVID-19 “Vaccine” Contamination of the Blood Supply

A newly published two-part scientific study raises major alarms about an issue that has received remarkably little scrutiny: What happens when blood from COVID-19-vaccinated donors is transfused into another person?

Blood banks routinely screen donations for recognized infectious threats. Yet the current blood supply is not routinely screened for vaccine-derived mRNA, spike protein, plasmid DNA, amyloid, fibrin-microclot complexes, or other relevant vaccine-associated constituents.

Our newly published two-part series investigates this blind spot from two complementary directions. The two studies were authored by James A. Thorp, MD; Claire Rogers, MSPAS, PA-C; R. Clinton Ohlers, PhD; M. Nathaniel Mead, PhD; Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (myself); Kirstin Cosgrove, CCRA; Sierra Hamm, RN; David Speicher, PhD; and Steven Hatfill, MD, M Med.

Part I presents a retrospective, hypothesis-generating case series of nine individuals who had not received a COVID-19 vaccine and subsequently experienced serious medical events after receiving blood transfusions.

Reported complications included thromboembolic disease, progressive clotting disorders, myocarditis, pericardial disease, disseminated intravascular coagulation, multi-organ system failure, and death.

We concluded that these cases, together with the existing literature, raise sufficient concern to warrant direct investigation of whether biologically active vaccine-derived constituents may be present in donated blood:

This study suggests that blood donated by COVID-19-vaccinated individuals may contain biologically active vaccine-derived constituents that could cause adverse clinical outcomes. The case reports and cited studies identify questions that warrant further investigation. All the pathogenic components of the COVID-19 vaccine or byproducts from it, have been found in several studies to be circulating in the blood of vaccinated donors. Healthcare providers must honor the ethical principles of patient autonomy and non-maleficence and support patients’ requests for autologous and directed designated donor blood. Screening blood donations for the presence of spike protein, amyloid, fibrin-microclot complexes, vaccine-derived mRNA, and plasmid DNA using quantitative assays and PCR-based methods should be considered for further evaluation by relevant public health and regulatory authorities, including the CDC and FDA.

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$40tn debt: U.S. unhinged empire is a threat to world peace

The United States hit a dubious milestone this week, announcing that its national debt had exceeded $40 trillion. No other nation comes close to this level of absolute financial indebtedness.

This is not simply a matter of out-of-control financial bankruptcy. It is an ominous sign of an unhinged empire that is desperately trying to salvage its historic failure by scorched-earth tactics of endless war.

The world is being held hostage by a pathological system that is no longer tolerable for the sake of humanity, development and peace.

Perhaps of more significance than the total figure – astronomical though that is – is the accelerating pace of U.S. debt growth. Since 2016, the arrears have doubled, up from $20tn. Over the next decade, the U.S. national debt is predicted to climb to $64tn.

In the year 2000, the American account stood at a “mere” $6tn. The last quarter of a century has seen the arrears pile up from endless wars, reckless military spending, and massive tax cuts for the corporate elite. The debt has become irreversible under prevailing policies.

Servicing interest on the arrears now runs at $1tn a year and is one of the largest federal budget expenditures. This means that the United States is caught in a debt spiral from which it cannot extricate itself. It is digging a deeper and deeper hole.

There are profound implications for the United States as a society. As Robert Reich, a former Labour Secretary, noted, the servicing of runaway debt means less money for “schools, healthcare, roads and bridges and social safety nets.” The grim conclusion is that social inequality in the U.S. – already at record levels – will become even more destructive. That speaks of social immiseration and collapse.

There are also far-reaching detrimental impacts on the U.S. and global economy. Even mainstream commentators warn of a historic fiscal crisis pending for the United States from soaring interest rates and hyperinflation. That, in turn, will be transmitted to the rest of the world, especially those countries with large holdings of American debt.

But the exceptional U.S. financial mess is not just a matter of economics. It is an urgent issue of global peace and security.

There are several causes of mounting American debt. However, the main driver, by far, is that nation’s relentless warmongering and militarism, as economist Jeffrey Sachs and other commentators have long contended. It is systemic and chronic.

This year saw the United States celebrate its 250th anniversary since its founding as a modern state. For most of its history, about 95 per cent of the 250 years, the United States has been at war, either through conquest or subterfuge, according to its own Congressional records and eminent historians like David Vine.

No other modern nation comes close to this bellicose conduct, and that is a reason why no other nation comes close to the level of financial debt of the U.S.

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US Set to Impose 50% Tariffs on $20 billion Worth of Canadian Products

The United States is set to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products early Saturday after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic allies.

President Donald Trump’s import taxes will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.

“Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week. Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement read to reporters on a press call shortly before midnight.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded, “Last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”

Carney said his government would announce additional support for Canadian workers and businesses in the coming days.

Greer said the U.S. offer was “forward-looking” and included “a historic economic and national security partnership.”

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DOJ Opens Path For Some To Restore Gun Rights

Attorney General Todd Blanche has kicked off a new federal path for certain people who lost their gun rights to ask for them back. The move gives applicants a formal way to argue that their circumstances have changed and that they no longer pose a threat to the public.

Under the final rule, the bar is not low. People seeking relief have to explain why they were prohibited in the first place and show that restoring those rights would not put anyone at risk. In other words, this is not a shortcut, and it is not meant for anyone still tied to dangerous behavior.

Blanche framed the policy as a basic constitutional correction. “The Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and the federal government should not permanently deprive Americans of a constitutional right without regard to whether they pose a danger to public safety,” he said. “This rule establishes a rigorous, commonsense process that protects the public while giving deserving Americans a real path to restoration.”

The Justice Department said it will look at more than just the original prohibition. An applicant’s record, reputation and conduct after the disqualifying event will also matter, which gives the agency a wider lens for judging whether the person is truly fit to have those rights back.

There are still hard lines built into the rule. Violent felons, registered sex offenders, illegal immigrants and others who present an ongoing danger are presumed to be off-limits unless extraordinary circumstances exist. Even when relief is granted, it only affects federal firearms restrictions and does not wipe away any separate state-level limits.

That detail matters because the federal government is not the only player in the room. Someone who gets relief from Washington could still face restrictions under state law, which keeps the process narrower than a full clean slate.

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21-Year-Old Was Behind Fake Polling Firm Median Strategies

Twenty-one-year-old Rahil Prakash is the person who published a number of fake polls that entered the media ecosystem.

He says that he was inspired to create his phony polls after Michigan primary polls totally blew the Democrat race between Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, aka Abdul El-Sayed, and Haley Stevens. El-Sayed barely squeaked out a win when poll after poll showed him up by double digits.

“I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” he told the far-left Guardian. “And as it turned out, it could.”

Prakash created a website called Median Strategies and released bogus polls for the Democrat primary in the Wisconsin governor’s race, the Los Angeles mayoral race, and two statewide Nevada races.

“Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, touted Median polling data after it appeared to put her ahead of her election challenger by more than 10 percentage points,” the Guardian adds. “The poll was also cited by the California Post. A widely followed polling aggregator on X also shared the group’s Nevada poll[.]”

“[S]everal credible polling organizations did not aggregate Median polling because they could not verify its methodology.”

“Did I expect it to perhaps expedite in the way it did? Most definitely not. I did not expect the California political press to pick it up on their own,” said Prakash. “I’ll apologize straight out to the campaigns of Karen Bass, Nithya Raman and Francesca Hong for this,” the Guardian reported.

The fake Median poll put Francesca Hong up by 20 points. She lost by 0.5 points.

What’s so funny about this is that Median’s bogus poll was not the worst. Marquette, a so-called “legitimate” pollster, had Hong ahead by 22. PPP had her up by 18.

At least Median admits its polling is bogus. Fox News, Quinnipiac, and a number of others are equally bogus, as far as I can tell, but continue to be treated seriously. The whole field of polling is a joke.

Median snuck into the ecosystem because nobody really cares if polls are accurate; we all know they are not, so who cares? Had I seen the Median polls, I would have thought nothing of firing them off on social media. Polling no longer matters. It’s just content now, and anyone who takes polling seriously is a dumbass.

Polling is all about shaping public opinion, not reflecting it; it’s all about manipulating public opinion, not measuring it.

This guy did us a favor. He further damaged the credibility of polling and of the media. That’s a wonderful thing as far as I’m concerned.

Fake polls. Media polls. Potato-potahhhtow.

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California City Council Candidate ARRESTED on Five Felony Counts — Prosecutors Say She Listed a Cocktail Lounge as Her Home

Another election-fraud scandal has erupted in deep-blue California.

Desiree Lynch, a Democrat-aligned candidate for the Stockton City Council, was arrested Wednesday following a public-corruption investigation and charged with five felonies involving alleged perjury, false voter registration, and fraudulent candidate paperwork.

Although Stockton’s municipal elections are officially nonpartisan, Lynch’s campaign has leaned unmistakably to the left.

Her campaign website warns that “fairness, decency, freedom, and justice” are supposedly “under attack at the federal level” — an apparent swipe at President Donald Trump and his administration. Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee also publicly endorsed her campaign.

According to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office, Lynch allegedly registered to vote and filed to run for the District 5 council seat using addresses where she did not live.

And one of the alleged “home” addresses was a cocktail lounge.

Prosecutors say Lynch used two Stockton addresses to manufacture residency inside District 5:

  • Harry’s Cocktail Lounge at 407 E. Charter Way, also known as East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; and
  • Doyle Garden Apartments at 625 E. Oak Street.

Investigators determined that Lynch was actually living in Lodi and North Stockton, including an area located in Stockton City Council District 1, not District 5, according to the DA’s office.

The criminal complaint contains three perjury counts under California Penal Code Section 118(a), one count of causing, procuring, or allowing false voter registration under Elections Code Section 18100(a), and one count of filing a false nomination or declaration of candidacy under Elections Code Section 18203.

The alleged offenses span from November 10, 2025, through August 17, 2026.

The charges are:

  • Count 1: Perjury on or about November 10, 2025;
  • Count 2: Perjury on or about February 5, 2026;
  • Count 3: Perjury on or about March 2, 2026;
  • Count 4: Causing, procuring, or allowing false voter registration from approximately November 10, 2025, through August 17, 2026; and
  • Count 5: Filing a false nomination or declaration of candidacy during that same period.

The arrest followed a six-week investigation by the District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigations. The probe began after the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office referred the matter following the June primary election.

Lynch finished second in that primary, receiving 1,054 votes, or 30.59 percent, and advanced to the November runoff against incumbent Councilman Brando Villapudua, who received 1,173 votes, or 34.04 percent.

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Justice Gillian Roberts cuts violent sex offender’s sentence over looming deportation

An Ontario judge reduced the prison sentence of a permanent resident convicted of a violent sexual assault, ruling that his near-certain deportation would make his punishment more severe.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts sentenced 31-year-old Sergio Reyes Loor to four years in prison for sexual assault causing bodily harm, despite finding that five years would otherwise have been a fit sentence.

“The conviction will have devastating immigration consequences, making any punishment I impose more severe than it otherwise would be,” Roberts wrote. “As a result, I decrease the sentence to four years.”

Reyes Loor, an Ecuadorian permanent resident who first came to Canada in 2015, was convicted after Roberts found he sexually assaulted a severely intoxicated woman at his Toronto apartment in April 2023.

The woman remembered only fragments of the assault. Roberts found beyond a reasonable doubt that Reyes Loor knew she was too intoxicated to consent.

The injuries were severe.

“She was bruised all over, and the skin of her genitals torn,” Roberts wrote. The judge found Reyes Loor had taken advantage of the woman’s condition to “violently sexually assault her,” adding that he bit her, did not use a condom and caused significant physical and psychological injuries.

The Crown sought five years in prison. According to Roberts, defence counsel also agreed five years would be appropriate based on the facts as she found them, although counsel disputed those findings and launched what Roberts described as a “shockingly sexist and misogynistic attack on the complainant.”

Reyes Loor maintains his innocence and has no previous criminal record.

His lawyer told the court that if the conviction stands, Reyes Loor will lose his permanent resident status and be deported.

Roberts acknowledged that the seriousness of the crime meant a sentence avoiding immigration consequences was out of the question. However, she concluded that deportation itself should still be treated as a collateral consequence when determining a proportionate sentence.

“The circumstances of this case are far too serious to impose a sentence that will not have immigration consequences,” Roberts wrote.

Nonetheless, she reduced the sentence by one year, saying the “near certain immigration consequences” would make Reyes Loor’s punishment harsher than it otherwise would have been.

Under federal immigration law, permanent residents convicted of serious criminality can be found inadmissible to Canada and removed from the country.

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